Wengui Liang
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences
Office: 2103 ECE Building
Email: wengui.liang@lsu.edu
Degrees
Ph.D.: State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2023
Master's Degree: M.S., Peking University, 2017
Bachelor's Degree: B.A., Peking University, 2014
Research Interests
Extreme precipitation, climate extremes, climate dynamics, hydrological cycle, atmospheric general circulation
Classes Taught
OCS 4111 Atmospheric Thermodynamics
OCS 2111 Introduction to Coding for Coastal Sciences
Recent Publications
Liang, W., Zhao, M., Tan, Z., Knutson, T., Dong, W., & Zhang, B. (2026). Confronting historical precipitation trends in models with observations: Forced signal and atmospheric internal variability. Geophysical Research Letters, 53(3), e2025GL118712.
Liang, W., Zhao, M., Tan, Z., Knutson, T., Dong, W., & Zhang, B. (2024). The direct radiative effect of CO2 increase on summer precipitation in North America. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(14), e2024GL109202.
Liang, W., & Zhang, M. (2022). Future Changes of the Eddy Moisture Convergence in Winter Over Coastal Lands in Eastern North America and East Asia. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127(17), e2022JD037149.
Liang, W., & Zhang, M. (2022). Transient Precipitation Increase During Winter in the Eastern North America. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(6), e2022GL098188.
Liang, W., & Zhang, M. (2022). Increasing future precipitation in the southwestern US in the summer and its contrasting mechanism with decreasing precipitation in the spring. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(2), e2021GL096283.
Liang, W., & Zhang, M. (2021). Summer and winter precipitation in East Asia scale with global warming at different rates. Communications Earth & Environment, 2(1), 1-8.
Liang, W. & Wen, X. (2016). An Overview of Paleo-AO/NAO Studies (in Chinese). Advances in Earth Science, 31(11): 1137-1150