A5009173637- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Groundwater and Watershed Analysis
- Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes
- Climate variability and models
- Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies
- Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Catalysis for Biomass Conversion
- Climate change and permafrost
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
- Biodiesel Production and Applications
- Water resources management and optimization
- Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
- Hydrological Forecasting Using AI
- Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Lignin and Wood Chemistry
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Water Quality Monitoring Technologies
Kansas State University
2016-2025
Wuhan University
2024-2025
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2023-2025
Southwest Forestry University
2020-2024
Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
2021-2024
Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection
2024
National Research Council
2024
Sinopec (China)
2022-2023
Fudan University
2022
University of Oklahoma
2022
Climate change and human activities increasingly threaten lakes that store 87% of Earth’s liquid surface fresh water. Yet, recent trends drivers lake volume remain largely unknown globally. Here, we analyze the 1972 largest global using three decades satellite observations, climate data, hydrologic models, finding statistically significant storage declines for 53% these water bodies over period 1992–2020. The net loss in natural is attributable to warming, increasing evaporative demand,...
Abstract. Dams and reservoirs are among the most widespread human-made infrastructures on Earth. Despite their societal environmental significance, spatial inventories of dams reservoirs, even for large ones, insufficient. A dilemma existing georeferenced dam datasets is polarized focus either quantity coverage (e.g., GlObal geOreferenced Database Dams, GOODD) or detailed attributes a limited region GRanD (Global Reservoir Dam database) national inventories). One comprehensive datasets,...
Abstract. With rapid population growth and socioeconomic development over the last century, a great number of dams/reservoirs have been constructed globally to meet various needs. China has strong economical societal demands for constructing dams reservoirs. The official statistics reported more than 98 000 in China, including nearly 40 % world's largest dams. Despite availability several global-scale dam/reservoir databases (e.g., Global Reservoir Dam database (GRanD), GlObal geOreferenced...
Abstract Rivers are among the most diverse, dynamic, and productive ecosystems on Earth. River flow regimes constantly changing, but characterizing understanding such changes have been challenging from a long-term global perspective. By analyzing water extent variations observed four-decade Landsat imagery, we here provide attribution of recent in river regime to morphological dynamics (e.g., channel shifting anabranching), expansion induced by new dams, hydrological signals widening...
Abstract The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission will vastly expand measurements of global rivers, providing critical new data sets for both gaged ungaged basins. SWOT discharge products (available approximately 1 year after launch) provide all river that reaches wider than 100 m. In this paper, we describe how produced archived by the US French space agencies be computed from water surface elevation, width, slope ancillary data, along with expected accuracy. We present first...
Abstract. This paper describes the rationale and protocol of first component third simulation round Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP3a, http://www.isimip.org, last access: 2 November 2023) associated set climate-related direct human forcing data (CRF DHF, respectively). The observation-based forcings for time include high-resolution observational climate derived by orographic downscaling, monthly to hourly coastal water levels, wind fields with historical tropical...
Lakes on the Tibetan Plateau are expanding rapidly in response to climate change. The potential impact local environment if lake expansion continues remains uncertain. Here we integrate field surveys, remote sensing observations and numerical modelling assess future changes surface area, water level volume. We also ensuing risks critical infrastructure, human settlements key ecosystem components. Our results suggest that by 2100, even under a low-emissions scenario, area of endorheic lakes...
Abstract Lakes are among the most prevalent and predominant water repositories on Earth's land surface. A primary objective of Surface Water Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission is to monitor surface elevation, area, storage change in lakes globally. To meet this objective, prior information lakes, such as locations benchmark extents, required organize SWOT's KaRIn observations for computing lake variation over time. Here, we present SWOT Prior Lake Database (PLD) fulfill requirement....
Changes in the Yangtze River level induced by large-scale human water regulation have profound implications on inundation dynamics of surrounding lakes/wetlands and integrity related ecosystems. Using situ measurements hydrological simulation, this study reveals an altered regime downstream from Three Gorges Dam (TGD) to estuary East China Sea as a combined result (i) TGD's flow (ii) channel erosion due reduced sediment load. During average annual cycle regular control 2009–2012, variations...
Alpine lakes in the interior of Tibet, endorheic Changtang Plateau (CP), serve as 'sentinels' regional climate change. Recent studies indicated that accelerated change has driven a widespread area expansion across CP, but comprehensive and accurate quantifications their storage changes are hitherto rare. This study integrated optical imagery digital elevation models to uncover fine spatial details lake water (LWS) CP at an annual timescale after new millennium (from 2002–2015). Validated by...
Surface water, which is changing constantly, a crucial component in the global water cycle, as it greatly affects flux between land and atmosphere through evaporation. However, influences of surface area on budget have largely been neglected. Here we estimate an extra 30.38 ± 15.51 km3/year omitted evaporation calculation caused by net increase periods 1984-1999 2000-2015. Our at similar magnitude to recent average annual change evapotranspiration assuming stationary area. It also comparable...
Abstract The ubiquitous lakes across China's Yangtze Plain (YP) are indispensable freshwater resources sustaining ecosystems and socioeconomics for nearly half a billion people. Our recent survey revealed widespread net decline in the total YP lake inundation area during 2000–2011 (a cumulative decrease of ∼10%), yet its mechanism remained contentious. Here we uncover impacts climate variability anthropogenic activities including (i) flow sediment alterations by Three Gorges Dam (TGD) (ii)...
Abstract Lake water storage changes are important factors that influence the climate, hydrological cycle, and environments. However, long‐term estimation of global lake is challenging because historical in‐situ observations worldwide rarely available. Benefiting from laser altimeter ICESat ICESat‐2, we comprehensively assessed level volume in natural lakes larger than 10 km 2 during 2003–2020. The 6,567 observable by ICESat/ICESat‐2, which account for ∼94% total volume, showed a increase...
Abstract Long-term, continuous, and real-time streamflow records are essential for understanding managing freshwater resources. However, we find that 37% of publicly available global gauge ( N = 45 837) discontinuous 77% do not contain data. Historical periods social upheaval associated with declines in data availability. Using river width observations from Landsat Sentinel-2 satellites, fill missing at 2168 locations worldwide more than 275 000 daily discharge estimates. This task is...