Qiuhong Tang

Ph.D, professor, Director, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Research interests: Hydrometeorology, Global Change, Hydrology and Water Resources, Remote Sensing Hydrology

Email: tangqh@igsnrr.ac.cn          

Personal website: http://people.ucas.ac.cn/~tangqh

Brief Introduction about main academic achievements and key publications

Dr. Qiuhong Tang is a Professor at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Director of the Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include land surface modeling, climate change, remote sensing hydrology, and integrated water management. Dr. Tang got his Bachelor (2001) and Master degree (2003) from Tsinghua University, China, and received a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (2006) at The University of Tokyo, Japan. He worked as a research associate on remote sensing hydrology in the University of Washington from 2006 to 2010. He has published over 150 papers in peer-reviewed academic journals including Nature Climate Change, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Water Resources Research, Environmental Science & Technology, Landslides. He is editor of American Geophysical Union (AGU) book entitled “Terrestrial Water Cycle and Climate Change: Natural and Human‐Induced Impacts”. He is associate editor of Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, Journal of Hydrometeorology, and Journal of Geographical Sciences.

Key Publications

1.Tang, Q., Zhang, X., and Francis, J. A., 2014. Extreme summer weather in northern mid-latitudes linked to a vanishing cryosphere. Nature Climate Change, 4, 45-50.

2.Tang, Q., Zhang, X., Yang, X., and Francis, J. A., 2013. Cold winter extremes in northern continents linked to Arctic sea ice loss. Environmental Research Letters, 8, 014036.

3.Tang, Q., and Leng, G., 2013. Changes in cloud cover, precipitation, and summer temperature in North America from 1982 to 2009. Journal of Climate, 26, 1733-1744, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00225.1.

4.Tang, Q., and Lettenmaier, D. P., 2012. 21st century runoff sensitivities of major global river basins. Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L06403, doi:10.1029/2011GL050834.

5.Tang, Q., Leng, G., and Groisman, P. Y., 2012. European hot summers associated with a reduction of cloudiness. Journal of Climate, 25, 3637-3644, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00040.1.