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Guoyong Leng is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research primarily spans the domains of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, contributing extensively across related subfields.

The scientist's work covers notable subfields including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Plant Science

Leng's research topics focus on various aspects of climate and hydrological sciences, specifically:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Cryospheric studies and observations

Several papers authored or co-authored by Leng demonstrate engagement with climate and drought-related topics, including:

  • Predicting spatial and temporal variability in crop yields: an inter-comparison of machine learning, regression and process-based models, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Projected Impacts of Climate Change on Drought Patterns Over East Africa, 2020, Earth s Future
  • Propagation thresholds of meteorological drought for triggering hydrological drought at various levels, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Assessing agricultural drought risk and its dynamic evolution characteristics, 2020, Agricultural Water Management
  • Quantitative contribution of climate change and human activities to vegetation cover variations based on GA-SVM model, 2020, Journal of Hydrology

The Chinese Academy of Sciences scientist has published extensively in several venues with notable frequency, among them:

  • Journal of Hydrology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Atmospheric Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Collaboration features prominently in Leng's research, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Shengzhi Huang
  • Jian Peng
  • Qiang Huang
  • Hao Wang

Best Publications

  • Crop yield sensitivity of global major agricultural countries to droughts and the projected changes in the future.

    Guoyong Leng;Jim Hall

  • Climate change impacts on meteorological, agricultural and hydrological droughts in China

    Guoyong Leng;Qiuhong Tang;Scott Rayburg

  • The propagation from meteorological to hydrological drought and its potential influence factors

    Shengzhi Huang;Pei Li;Qiang Huang;Guoyong Leng

  • Comparison of urbanization and climate change impacts on urban flood volumes: Importance of urban planning and drainage adaptation.

    Qianqian Zhou;Guoyong Leng;Jiongheng Su;Yi Ren

  • Projected Impacts of Climate Change on Drought Patterns Over East Africa

    Gebremedhin Gebremeskel Haile;Qiuhong Tang;Seyed-Mohammad Hosseini-Moghari;Xingcai Liu

  • Propagation thresholds of meteorological drought for triggering hydrological drought at various levels

    Yi Guo;Shengzhi Huang;Qiang Huang;Guoyong Leng

  • Probabilistic assessment of remote sensing-based terrestrial vegetation vulnerability to drought stress of the Loess Plateau in China

    Wei Fang;Shengzhi Huang;Qiang Huang;Guohe Huang

  • Cross‐scale intercomparison of climate change impacts simulated by regional and global hydrological models in eleven large river basins

    Fred Hattermann;V. Krysanova;Simon N. Gosling;Rutger Dankers

  • Reconstruction of global gridded monthly sectoral water withdrawals for 1971–2010 and analysis of their spatiotemporal patterns

    Zhongwei Huang;Zhongwei Huang;Mohamad Hejazi;Mohamad Hejazi;Xinya Li;Qiuhong Tang

  • Assessing agricultural drought risk and its dynamic evolution characteristics

    Meng Dai;Shengzhi Huang;Qiang Huang;Guoyong Leng

  • Propagation dynamics from meteorological to groundwater drought and their possible influence factors

    Zhiming Han;Shengzhi Huang;Qiang Huang;Guoyong Leng

  • Integrated index for drought assessment based on variable fuzzy set theory: A case study in the Yellow River basin, China

    Shengzhi Huang;Jianxia Chang;Guoyong Leng;Qiang Huang

  • The critical role of the routing scheme in simulating peak river discharge in global hydrological models

    Fang Zhao;Ted I. E. Veldkamp;Katja Frieler;Jacob Schewe

  • The response of agricultural drought to meteorological drought and the influencing factors: A case study in the Wei River Basin, China

    Shengzhi Huang;Qiang Huang;Jianxia Chang;Guoyong Leng

  • Worldwide evaluation of mean and extreme runoff from six global-scale hydrological models that account for human impacts

    Jamal Zaherpour;Simon N Gosling;Nick Mount;Hannes Müller Schmied

  • Predicting spatial and temporal variability in crop yields: an inter-comparison of machine learning, regression and process-based models.

    Guoyong Leng;Guoyong Leng;James W Hall

  • Crop yield response to climate change varies with crop spatial distribution pattern.

    Guoyong Leng;Maoyi Huang

  • Quantitative contribution of climate change and human activities to vegetation cover variations based on GA-SVM model

    Shengzhi Huang;Xudong Zheng;Lan Ma;Hao Wang

  • Modeling the Effects of Groundwater-Fed Irrigation on Terrestrial Hydrology over the Conterminous United States

    Guoyong Leng;Maoyi Huang;Qiuhong Tang;Huilin Gao

  • Time-lagged response of vegetation dynamics to climatic and teleconnection factors

    Jing Zhao;Shengzhi Huang;Qiang Huang;Hao Wang

  • Linkages between hydrological drought, climate indices and human activities: a case study in the Columbia River basin

    Shengzhi Huang;Qiang Huang;Jianxia Chang;Guoyong Leng

  • Modeling the Effects of Irrigation on Land Surface Fluxes and States over the Conterminous United States: Sensitivity to Input Data and Model Parameters

    Guoyong Leng;Guoyong Leng;Maoyi Huang;Qiuhong Tang;William J. Sacks

Frequent Co-Authors

Qiuhong Tang
Qiuhong Tang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Maoyi Huang
Maoyi Huang Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Hao Wang
Hao Wang Swinburne University of Technology
Xuesong Zhang
Xuesong Zhang Agricultural Research Service
Yoshihide Wada
Yoshihide Wada King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Simon N. Gosling
Simon N. Gosling University of Nottingham
Jinfeng Chang
Jinfeng Chang Zhejiang University
Yadu Pokhrel
Yadu Pokhrel Michigan State University
Dieter Gerten
Dieter Gerten Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Lai-yung Ruby Leung
Lai-yung Ruby Leung Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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