The changing water cycle on land

Yingping Wang

CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere

Bio: Dr Ying-Ping Wang is a chief research scientist in CSIRO, an adjunct professor of the University of New South Wales, an editor-in-chief of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology and an associate editor of Global Biogeochemical Cycles. He leads the development of the Australian community land surface model (CABLE) that has become a key component of the Australian earth system model. He has published over 180 papers, including 20 papers in Science, PNAS, Nature and Nature family journals, and 12 book chapters. He is a Clarivate highly cited researcher in cross field (2018, 2019). His research interests include global land modelling, global biogeochemical cycles, land use change, nutrient limitation, model-data fusion and model benchmarking.

Talk summary: Over the last 150 years, land hydrological cycle has undergone significant changes. However estimated changes of different component fluxes and soil water storage, and the causes for those changes vary significantly among different studies. For example, contribution of precipitation, land use change or increasing CO₂ all has been attributed as the dominant cause for the increasing runoff over the last three decades. This talk will present those diverging results and argue for a more integrated approach to study water cycle at regional or global scale.

Venue: A901, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Science

Time: 3:00-5:00pm 11 January 2020

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