Faculty Profiles - CHENG Tat Fan Franklin | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Tat Fan Franklin CHENG
鄭達勳

PhD in Civil Engineering
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2022

Research Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

(852) 2358 7152
fandycheng@ust.hk
Room 2200A
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Research Interest Publications Projects Teaching Assignment

Research Interest

Climate change and variability
Atmospheric science
Global water cycle
Hydrometeorological extremes
Subseasonal prediction and services

Publications

All Years 18 2026 1 2025 1 2024 1 2023 3 2022 5 2021 5 2020 2

2026 1

The "last-mile efforts" of subseasonal prediction and services for climate resilience and sustainability: review and outlook

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
Yang, Jing; Lu, Mengqian; Liu, Anling; Cheng, Tat Fan; Pan, Yuxian; Gao, Miaoni; Dai, Lun; Li, Shentong; Deng, Wen; Feng, Xinyao; Zhang, Shiyu; Tang, Lu; Zhang, Lujia; Li, Han; Zhu, Tao; Bao, Qing; Robertson, Andrew W.; Lee, Tsz Cheung; Vitart, Frederic; Liang, Ping; Jian, Jun; Pan, Linlin; Lall, Upmanu; New, Stacey; Wang, Lei; Yao, Qichao; Jia, Xiaolong; Liang, Xi; Su, Yaochi
Article

2025 1

Shifts in MJO behavior enhance predictability of subseasonal precipitation whiplashes

Nature Communications, v. 16, (1), p. 1-13, article number 3978
CHENG, Tat Fan; Wang, Bin; Liu, Fei; Chen, Guosen; Lu, Mengqian
Article

2024 1

Relationship between Tropical Diabatic Heating and Atmospheric Rivers under the Indian summer monsoon system

Paper presented at International Atmospheric Rivers Conference (IARC 2024)
Cheng, Tat Fan; Lu, Mengqian; Song, Yurong; Zhao, Yang
Conference paper

2023 3

Does the Indian Monsoon Have Subseasonal Features?

Paper presented at Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 20th Annual Meeting (AOGS2023)
Cheng, Tat Fan; Dai, Lun; Wang, Bin; Lu, Mengqian
Conference paper

Improved understanding of the East Asian Monsoon rainbands and dynamics via Lagrangian moisture tracking and atmospheric rivers analysis

Paper presented at European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU2023)
Cheng, Tat Fan; Dai, Lun; Lu, Mengqian
Conference paper

Updated Understanding of Continental Precipitation Recycling Using Global 3-D Lagrangian Tracking

Paper presented at European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU2023)
Cheng, Tat Fan; Lu, Mengqian
Conference paper

2022 5

A 20-year Climatology of Mesoscale Convective Systems in Eastern China: How They are Shaped by the Large-scale Monsoon Cycle and the Implications

Paper presented at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (AGU 2022)
Cheng, Tat Fan; Dai, Lun; Dong, Qizhen; Lu, Mengqian
Conference paper

General Properties of Tropical Cyclone Stalling in the Western North Pacific and Insights into the Causes

Paper presented at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (AGU 2023)
Cheng, Tat Fan; Lu, Mengqian; Zhang, Lujia
Conference paper

How Will Anthropogenic Warming Shape the East Asian Monsoon Cycle?

Paper presented at Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 19th Annual Meeting, AOGS 2022
Cheng, Tat Fan; Dai, Lun; Lu, Mengqian
Conference paper

The East Asian-Indian-Australian Tri-monsoon Nexus and its Linkage with ENSO

Paper presented at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (AGU 2022)
Cheng, Tat Fan; Wang, Bin; Dai, Lun; Lu, Mengqian
Conference paper

Understanding Moisture Sources and Pathways for East Asian Summer Monsoon Rain Belts and Governing Weather Regimes in a Fortnight

Paper presented at Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 19th Annual Meeting, AOGS 2022
Cheng, Tat Fan; Dai, Lun; Lu, Mengqian
Conference paper

2021 5

Define East Asian monsoon annual cycle via a self‐organizing map‐based approach

Geophysical Research Letters, v. 48, (1), January 2021, article number e2020GL089542
Dai, Lun; Cheng, Tat Fan; Lu, Mengqian
Article

Future subseasonal to seasonal (S2S) stages of the East Asia monsoon annual cycle: a stretched rainy season and a “dry-get-wetter” paradigm

Paper presented at AGU Fall Meeting 2021
Cheng, Tat Fan; Dai, Lun; Lu, Mengqian
Conference paper

Global moisture hotspots for terrestrial precipitation: the variabilities and possible linkages to climatic events and human activities

Paper presented at European Geophysical Union (EGU) General Assembly 2021, EGU21
Cheng, Tat Fan; Dai, Lun; Lu, Mengqian
Conference paper

Is 2020 super Meiyu a result of changing annual cycle of East Asian monsoon?

Paper presented at European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2021, EGU21
Cheng, Tat Fan; Dai, Lun; Lu, Mengqian; Pan, Mengxin
Conference paper

Moisture Source Hotspots for Terrestrial Precipitation: the Linkages to Natural Variability and Present-day Global Warming

Paper presented at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2021
Cheng, Tat Fan; Lu, Mengqian
Conference paper

2020 2

Source-receptor network, governing circulations and predictability of monsoon rain belt events in the mid-lower Yangtze River basin

Paper presented at American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2020
Cheng, Tat Fan; Dai, Lun; Lu, Mengqian
Conference paper

Subseasonal to Seasonal Potential Predictability of the East Asian Monsoon Onsets

Paper presented at American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2020
Cheng, Tat Fan; Dai, Lun; Lu, Mengqian
Conference paper

Article 1

The "last-mile efforts" of subseasonal prediction and services for climate resilience and sustainability: review and outlook

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
Yang, Jing; Lu, Mengqian; Liu, Anling; Cheng, Tat Fan; Pan, Yuxian; Gao, Miaoni; Dai, Lun; Li, Shentong; Deng, Wen; Feng, Xinyao; Zhang, Shiyu; Tang, Lu; Zhang, Lujia; Li, Han; Zhu, Tao; Bao, Qing; Robertson, Andrew W.; Lee, Tsz Cheung; Vitart, Frederic; Liang, Ping; Jian, Jun; Pan, Linlin; Lall, Upmanu; New, Stacey; Wang, Lei; Yao, Qichao; Jia, Xiaolong; Liang, Xi; Su, Yaochi

Article 1

Shifts in MJO behavior enhance predictability of subseasonal precipitation whiplashes

Nature Communications, v. 16, (1), p. 1-13, article number 3978
CHENG, Tat Fan; Wang, Bin; Liu, Fei; Chen, Guosen; Lu, Mengqian

Conference paper 1

Relationship between Tropical Diabatic Heating and Atmospheric Rivers under the Indian summer monsoon system

Paper presented at International Atmospheric Rivers Conference (IARC 2024)
Cheng, Tat Fan; Lu, Mengqian; Song, Yurong; Zhao, Yang

Conference paper 3

Does the Indian Monsoon Have Subseasonal Features?

Paper presented at Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 20th Annual Meeting (AOGS2023)
Cheng, Tat Fan; Dai, Lun; Wang, Bin; Lu, Mengqian

Improved understanding of the East Asian Monsoon rainbands and dynamics via Lagrangian moisture tracking and atmospheric rivers analysis

Paper presented at European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU2023)
Cheng, Tat Fan; Dai, Lun; Lu, Mengqian

Updated Understanding of Continental Precipitation Recycling Using Global 3-D Lagrangian Tracking

Paper presented at European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU2023)
Cheng, Tat Fan; Lu, Mengqian

Conference paper 5

A 20-year Climatology of Mesoscale Convective Systems in Eastern China: How They are Shaped by the Large-scale Monsoon Cycle and the Implications

Paper presented at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (AGU 2022)
Cheng, Tat Fan; Dai, Lun; Dong, Qizhen; Lu, Mengqian

General Properties of Tropical Cyclone Stalling in the Western North Pacific and Insights into the Causes

Paper presented at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (AGU 2023)
Cheng, Tat Fan; Lu, Mengqian; Zhang, Lujia

How Will Anthropogenic Warming Shape the East Asian Monsoon Cycle?

Paper presented at Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 19th Annual Meeting, AOGS 2022
Cheng, Tat Fan; Dai, Lun; Lu, Mengqian

The East Asian-Indian-Australian Tri-monsoon Nexus and its Linkage with ENSO

Paper presented at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (AGU 2022)
Cheng, Tat Fan; Wang, Bin; Dai, Lun; Lu, Mengqian

Understanding Moisture Sources and Pathways for East Asian Summer Monsoon Rain Belts and Governing Weather Regimes in a Fortnight

Paper presented at Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 19th Annual Meeting, AOGS 2022
Cheng, Tat Fan; Dai, Lun; Lu, Mengqian

Article 1

Define East Asian monsoon annual cycle via a self‐organizing map‐based approach

Geophysical Research Letters, v. 48, (1), January 2021, article number e2020GL089542
Dai, Lun; Cheng, Tat Fan; Lu, Mengqian

Conference paper 4

Future subseasonal to seasonal (S2S) stages of the East Asia monsoon annual cycle: a stretched rainy season and a “dry-get-wetter” paradigm

Paper presented at AGU Fall Meeting 2021
Cheng, Tat Fan; Dai, Lun; Lu, Mengqian

Global moisture hotspots for terrestrial precipitation: the variabilities and possible linkages to climatic events and human activities

Paper presented at European Geophysical Union (EGU) General Assembly 2021, EGU21
Cheng, Tat Fan; Dai, Lun; Lu, Mengqian

Is 2020 super Meiyu a result of changing annual cycle of East Asian monsoon?

Paper presented at European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2021, EGU21
Cheng, Tat Fan; Dai, Lun; Lu, Mengqian; Pan, Mengxin

Moisture Source Hotspots for Terrestrial Precipitation: the Linkages to Natural Variability and Present-day Global Warming

Paper presented at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2021
Cheng, Tat Fan; Lu, Mengqian

Conference paper 2

Source-receptor network, governing circulations and predictability of monsoon rain belt events in the mid-lower Yangtze River basin

Paper presented at American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2020
Cheng, Tat Fan; Dai, Lun; Lu, Mengqian

Subseasonal to Seasonal Potential Predictability of the East Asian Monsoon Onsets

Paper presented at American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2020
Cheng, Tat Fan; Dai, Lun; Lu, Mengqian

2020 2

Source-receptor network, governing circulations and predictability of monsoon rain belt events in the mid-lower Yangtze River basin

Paper presented at American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2020
Cheng, Tat Fan; Dai, Lun; Lu, Mengqian
Conference paper

Subseasonal to Seasonal Potential Predictability of the East Asian Monsoon Onsets

Paper presented at American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2020
Cheng, Tat Fan; Dai, Lun; Lu, Mengqian
Conference paper

Teaching Assignment

2026-27 Fall 0 2025-26 Summer 0 2025-26 Spring 1 2025-26 Winter 0 2025-26 Fall 1 2024-25 Summer 0

CIVL5510

Hydroclimate Data Analysis and Modelling

CIVL3510

Hydrosystems Engineering

No Teaching Assignments

Projects

From January 2024 to December 2026

All Projects 2

No Projects.
Tracking the Origin of the Changing Water Cycle over Asian Water Tower from Past to Future Climates

透過水循環溯源探索亞洲水塔從過去到未來的氣候變化原因 Participating

RGC - General Research Fund
Project Team (HKUST)
LU Mengqian (Lead)

CHENG Tat Fan Franklin
2025 -
Climate, Weather and Water Forum (CWWF) 2025 Participating

Croucher Foundation
Project Team (HKUST)
LU Mengqian (Lead)

CHENG Tat Fan Franklin

DAI Lun

GHIDAOUI Mohamed Salah
2025 - 2025

Research Interest

Publications

2026 1

2025 1

2024 1

2023 3

2022 5

2021 5

2020 2

Article 1

Article 1

Conference paper 1

Conference paper 3

Conference paper 5

Article 1

Conference paper 4

Conference paper 2

2020 2

Teaching Assignment

Projects

From January 2024 to December 2026

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