Yonghui Lei received the Ph.D. degree in meteorology from the Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, U.K., in 2008. She was an Associate Researcher with Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. Her research interests include the water cycle, land–atmosphere interaction and climate change. 

Atmospheric science

[1] Lei, Y., Li, R., Letu, H., Shi, J., 2023: Seasonal variations of recharge-storage-runoff process over the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 24(10), 1619-1633, DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-23-0045.1

[2] Lei, Y., Pan, J., Xiong, C., Jiang, L., Shi, J., 2022: Snow depth and snow cover over the Tibetan Plateau observed from space in against ERA5: matters of scale. Climate Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-022-06376-0

[3] Lei, Y., Shi, J., Xiong, C., Ji, D., 2021: Tracking the atmospheric-terrestrial water cycle over the Tibetan Plateau based on ERA5 and GRACE. Journal of Climate, DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0692.1.

[4] Lei, Y. , H. Letu, H. Shang, J. Shi, 2020: Cloud cover over the Tibetan Plateau and eastern China: a comparison of ERA5 and ERA-Interim with satellite observations, Climate Dynamics, 54(5), 2941-2957.

[5] Lei, Y., Brian Hoskins, Julia Slingo, 2014: Natural variability of summer rainfall over China in HadCM3, Climate Dynamics, 42, 417-432, doi: 10.1007/s00382-013-1726-8

[6] Lei, Y., Brian Hoskins, Julia Slingo, 2011: Exploring the Interplay between Natural Decadal Variability and Anthropogenic Climate Change in Summer Rainfall over China. Part I: Observational Evidence. J. Climate, 24, 4584–4599. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2010JCLI3794.1

[7] Lei, Y., and Duan Anmin, 2011: Prolonged episode and drought over China. Int. J. Climatol., 31, 1831-1840, DOI: 10.1002/joc.2197