Rong Lu

Department of Atmospheric Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
405 Hilgard Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90095-1565
Tel: (310) 206-2710
Fax: (310) 206-5219
E-mail: rlu@ucla.edu

Education and Employment

  • B.S., Nanjing University, China, Meteorology, 1984.
  • M.S., Nanjing University, China, Atmospheric Sciences, 1987.
  • Assistant Researcher, Shanghai Typhoon Institute, China, 1988 - 1990.
  • Research Assistant, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, UCLA, 1990-1994.
  • M.S., UCLA, Atmospheric Sciences, 1992.
  • Ph. D., UCLA, Atmospheric Sciences, 1994.
  • Research Associate, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, UCLA, 1994 - 1997.
  • Assistant Researcher, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, UCLA, 1997 - present.

    • Scientific Background

    R. Lu has strong experience in numerical modeling of atmospheric dynamics, boundary layer physics, flow over complex terrain, tracer transport and dispersion, and tropospheric and air pollution chemistry. In 1988, he constructed a three-dimensional mesoscale numerical weather prediction model for typhoon (tropical cyclone) and mesoscale weather system prediction. The model is a hydrostatic, sigma-coordinate code that can treat complex terrain effects and the principal boundary layer physics and precipitation processes. From 1988 to 1990, he worked as a assistant researcher in the Shanghai Typhoon Institute, Shanghai, China and established a mesoscale numerical weather prediction system for the Shanghai Regional Meteorological Center, which is based on his original model. The model has been operational since May, 1988.

    Since 1990, he has been pursuing a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences at UCLA. He studied meteorological dynamics, tracer transport and dispersion, and air pollution chemical transformations on urban and regional scales. An integrated air pollution modeling system (the SMOG model) has been developed and used successful in simulating surface air pollutant concentrations and elevated pollution layers observed over the Los Angeles basin. Lu has constructed detailed mechanisms for the formation of these pollution layers in the basin. He is currently involved in projects focused on air quality over urban and regional scales, global tropospheric chemistry, and an Earth System Model. He has also coupled the atmospheric chemical transport model (ACTM) with UCLA AGCM and incorporated a cumulus convective transport parameterization into the ACTM

    Professional Affiliations, Activities, and Awards

  • Jacob Bjerknes Memorial Award for Outstanding Research, UCLA, 1992.
  • Graduate Fellowship Award, Center for Pacific Rim Studies, UCLA, 1993.
  • Conference Travel/Research Award, Graduate Division, UCLA, 1993.
  • Member of American Geophysical Union, 1991 to present.
  • Participant, American Geophysical Union annual meeting, since 1991.
  • Participant, Southern California Air Quality Study, Los Angeles, CA, July, 1991.
  • Participant, Air Pollution '93, Monterey, Mexico, February 23-25, 1993.
  • Participant, WCRP Workshop on parameterization of sub-grid scale tracer transport, Virginia Beach, VA, Nov. 30 - Dec., 3, 1993.
  • Participant, Regional photochemical measurement and modeling study, San Diego, CA, Nov. 8- 12, 1993
  • Participant, UNAM-CRAY Supercomputing Conference, Mexico City, June 21-24, 1995.
  • Participant, IUGG XXI General Assembly, Boulder, Colorado, July 2-14, 1995.
  • Participant, Mexico City Air Pollution Workshop, Dallas, Texas, August 8-10, 1995.
  • Participant, The thirteenth informal symposium on kinetic and photochemical processes in the atmosphere, Pasadena, California, January 16, 1996.
  • Participant, Symposium on general circulation model development: past, present, and future, Los Angeles, California, January 20-22, 1998.

    • Publications

  • Lu, R., R. P. Turco, An integrated air pollution modeling system: Application to the Los Angeles Basin, Numerical Simulations in the Environmental and Earth Sciences. Cambridge University Press. p116-125, 1997.
  • Lu, R., R. P. Turco, and M. Z. Jacobson, 1997: An Integrated Air Pollution Modeling System for Urban and Regional Scale: 1: Model Formulation and Numerics. J. Geophys. Res., 102, 6063-6079.
  • Lu, R., R. P. Turco, and M. Z. Jacobson, 1997: An Integrated Air Pollution Modeling System for Urban and Regional Scale: 2: Evaluation of Model Performance Using SCAQS data. J. Geophys. Res., 102, 6081-6098.
  • Lu, R., R. P. Turco and C. R. Mechoso, 1997: A new coupled UCLA ACTM/AGCM: Simulations of tropospheric constituents (abstract). EOS Trans. AGU, 78(17), Spring meeting suppl., page 95.
  • Lu, R. X. Zhao and R. P. Turco, 1996: Tropospheric chemical tracer simulations using the coupled UCLA ACTM/AGCM (abstract). EOS Trans. AGU, 77(45), Fall meeting suppl.
  • Lu, R., R. P. Turco, 1996: Modeling Three-dimensional Ozone Distributions Over the Los Angeles Basin. Atmos. Environ., 30, 4155-4176.
  • Lu, R. and R. P. Turco, 1995: Modeling of Air Pollutant Transport in the Valley of Mexico City (abstract). EOS Trans. AGU, 76(46), Fall meeting suppl., page 71.
  • Lu, R., 1994: Development of an Integrated Air Pollution Modeling System and Simulations of Ozone Distributions Over the Los Angeles Basin. Ph. D dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 1994.
  • Lu, R. and R. P. Turco, 1994: Air pollution transport in a coastal environment: Part I: two- dimensional simulation of sea-breeze and mountain effects. J. Atmos. Sci. Vol. 51, No. 15, pages 2285-2308.
  • Lu, R. and R. P. Turco, 1994: Air pollution transport in a coastal environment: Part II: three- dimensional simulations over the Los Angeles basin.. Atmospheric Environment, 29B, 1499- 1518.
  • Lu, R. and R. P. Turco, 1994: Three-dimensional ozone distributions over the Los Angeles basin (abstract). EOS Trans. AGU, 75(16), Spring meeting suppl., page 87.
  • Lu, R., R. P. Turco and M. Jacobson, 1994: Evaluation of an integrated air pollution modeling system using SCAQS data (abstract). EOS Trans. AGU, 75(44), Fall meeting suppl., page 136.
  • Lu, R., R. P. Turco, and M. Z. Jacobson, 1994: Transport and dispersion of aerosols over Southern California. Fourth International Aerosol Conference, August 29-September 2, 1994, Los Angeles, CA.
  • Lu, R. and R. P. Turco, 1993: Numerical investigations of the formation of elevated pollution layers over the Los Angeles Basin. Air Pollution 93. Computational Mechanics Publications. p165-172.
  • Lu, R., R. Turco and M. Z. Jacobson, 1993: Modeling of elevated ozone layers over Southern California. Regional Photochemical Measurement & Modeling Studies Conference, November 8- 12, 1993, San Diego, CA.
  • Lu, R., and R. Turco, 1993: Boundary layer evolution and pollutant transport in a mountainous coastal environment. WCRP Workshop on Parameterization of Sub-grid Scale Tracer Transport, Nov. 30 - Dec. 3, 1993, Virginia Beach, VA.
  • Lu, R. and R. P. Turco, 1992: Numerical simulations of tracer transport in a coastal environment (abstract). EOS Trans. AGU, 73(43), Fall meeting suppl., page 76.
  • Lu, R., and R. P. Turco, 1992: Numerical investigations of the formation of elevated pollution layers over the Los Angeles Basin (abstract). EOS Trans. AGU, 73, Spring suppl., p. 74.
  • Lu, R. and R. P. Turco, 1991: Boundary layer dynamics for Los Angeles basin air pollution modeling (abstract). EOS Trans. AGU, 72(44), Fall meeting suppl., page 103.
  • Lu, R. and Z. Cheng, 1989: A preliminary forecasting test for a six-layer fine-mesh mesoscale numerical model. J. Nanjing Inst. Meteor., 12, 81-86.
  • Lu, R., 1988: The design and development of a three-dimensional fine-mesh limited area model for typhoon and mesoscale system prediction. M.S. thesis, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
  • Elliott, S., D. R. Blake, F. S. Rowland, R. Lu, et. al, 1997: Ventilation of liquefied petroleum gas components from the Valley of Mexico. J. Geophys. Res., 102, 21197-21207.
  • Jacobson, M. Z., R. P. Turco, R. Lu, and O. B. Toon, 1994: Development and application of a new air pollution modeling system. Part I: Gas-phase simulations. Atmos. Environ. 28A, 273- 284.
  • Jacobson, M. Z., R. P. Turco, R. Lu, and O. B. Toon, 1994: Simulating an air pollution episode with a gas, aerosol, transport, and radiation modeling system (abstract). EOS Trans. AGU, 75(16), Spring suppl., p. 87.
  • Jacobson, M. Z., R. P. Turco and R. Lu, 1994: Simulating the sensitivity of trace gas concentration to hydrocarbon emissions (abstract). EOS Trans. AGU, 75, Fall suppl., p. 145.

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