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Hong Yang is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology in Switzerland. Their research primarily centers on environmental science, with a substantial focus on subfields such as global and planetary change, water science and technology, environmental engineering, atmospheric science, and epidemiology.

Their research topics cover a variety of areas including hydrology and watershed management studies, flood risk assessment and management, environmental impact and sustainability, water-energy-food nexus studies, water resources management and optimization, magnesium alloys and their properties and applications, as well as hydrology and drought analysis.

Hong Yang has contributed to multiple notable recent papers, including:

  • "Global Agricultural Water Scarcity Assessment Incorporating Blue and Green Water Availability Under Future Climate Change," 2022, Earth's Future
  • "Projecting Exposure to Extreme Climate Impact Events Across Six Event Categories and Three Spatial Scales," 2020, Earth's Future
  • "The impact of land urbanization on carbon dioxide emissions in the Yangtze River Delta, China: A multiscale perspective," 2021, Cities
  • "Analysis of thin-section CT in patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) after hospital discharge," 2020, Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology
  • "Time-lag effects of climatic change and drought on vegetation dynamics in an alpine river basin of the Tibet Plateau, China," 2021, Journal of Hydrology

The scientist's frequent co-authors include Junguo Liu, Depeng Zuo, Zongxue Xu, Wenfeng Liu, and Lance E. Rodewald.

Hong Yang has published extensively in several journals, with frequent publication venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Journal of Alloys and Compounds
  • China CDC Weekly
  • Research Square

Best Publications

  • Assessing agricultural risks of climate change in the 21st century in a global gridded crop model intercomparison

    Cynthia Rosenzweig;Joshua Elliott;Joshua Elliott;Delphine Deryng;Alex C. Ruane;Alex C. Ruane

  • A continental-scale hydrology and water quality model for Europe: Calibration and uncertainty of a high-resolution large-scale SWAT model

    K.C. Abbaspour;E. Rouholahnejad;S. Vaghefi;R. Srinivasan

  • Water scarcity assessments in the past, present, and future

    Junguo Liu;Hong Yang;Hong Yang;Simon N. Gosling;Matti Kummu

  • Comparing uncertainty analysis techniques for a SWAT application to the Chaohe Basin in China

    Jing Yang;Peter Reichert;K.C. Abbaspour;Jun Xia

  • Assessing the impact of climate change on water resources in Iran

    Karim C. Abbaspour;Monireh Faramarzi;Samaneh Seyed Ghasemi;Hong Yang

  • A high-resolution assessment on global nitrogen flows in cropland

    Junguo Liu;Liangzhi You;Manouchehr Amini;Michael Obersteiner

  • GEPIC – modelling wheat yield and crop water productivity with high resolution on a global scale

    Junguo Liu;Jimmy R. Williams;Alexander J.B. Zehnder;Hong Yang

  • Cultivated land and food supply in China.

    Hong Yang;Xiubin Li

  • Estimation of freshwater availability in the West African sub-continent using the SWAT hydrologic model

    Jürgen Schuol;Karim C. Abbaspour;Raghavan Srinivasan;Hong Yang

  • Modeling blue and green water availability in Africa

    Jiirgen Schuol;Jiirgen Schuol;Karim C. Abbaspour;Hong Yang;Raghavan Srinivasan

  • Statistical Modeling of Global Geogenic Arsenic Contamination in Groundwater

    Manouchehr Amini;Karim C. Abbaspour;Michael Berg;Lenny Winkel

  • Water conservancy projects in China: Achievements, challenges and way forward

    Junguo Liu;Junguo Liu;Chuanfu Zang;Shiying Tian;Jianguo Liu

  • Modelling blue and green water resources availability in Iran

    Monireh Faramarzi;Karim C. Abbaspour;Rainer Schulin;Hong Yang

  • Virtual water trade: an assessment of water use efficiency in the international food trade

    H. Yang;L. Wang;K. C. Abbaspour;A. J. B. Zehnder

  • Global consumptive water use for crop production: The importance of green water and virtual water

    Junguo Liu;Junguo Liu;Alexander J. B. Zehnder;Hong Yang

  • A Water Resources Threshold and Its Implications for Food Security

    Hong Yang;Peter Reichert;Karim C. Abbaspour;Alexander J. B. Zehnder

  • Water scarcity, pricing mechanism and institutional reform in northern China irrigated agriculture

    Hong Yang;Xiaohe James Zhang;Alexander J. B. Zehnder

  • Global Gridded Crop Model evaluation: benchmarking, skills, deficiencies and implications

    Christoph Müller;Joshua Elliott;Joshua Elliott;James Chryssanthacopoulos;James Chryssanthacopoulos;Almut Arneth

  • Assessing water scarcity by simultaneously considering environmental flow requirements, water quantity, and water quality

    Junguo Liu;Qingying Liu;Hong Yang;Hong Yang

  • A spatially explicit assessment of current and future hotspots of hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa in the context of global change

    Junguo Liu;Steffen Fritz;C.F.A. van Wesenbeeck;Michael Fuchs

  • Modeling impacts of climate change on freshwater availability in Africa

    Monireh Faramarzi;Karim C. Abbaspour;Saeid Ashraf Vaghefi;Saeid Ashraf Vaghefi;Mohammad Reza Farzaneh

  • Hydrological modelling of the Chaohe Basin in China: Statistical model formulation and Bayesian inference

    Jing Yang;Peter Reichert;Karim C. Abbaspour;Hong Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Karim C. Abbaspour
Karim C. Abbaspour Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Junguo Liu
Junguo Liu North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power
Christian Folberth
Christian Folberth International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Thomas A. M. Pugh
Thomas A. M. Pugh University of Birmingham
Joshua Elliott
Joshua Elliott University of Chicago
Xuhui Wang
Xuhui Wang Peking University
Delphine Deryng
Delphine Deryng Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Alex C. Ruane
Alex C. Ruane Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Alexander J. B. Zehnder
Alexander J. B. Zehnder Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Nikolay Khabarov
Nikolay Khabarov International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

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