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Lu Zhang is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science, with substantial contributions to subfields such as global and planetary change, water science and technology, soil science, atmospheric science, and ecology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including hydrology and watershed management studies, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, flood risk assessment and management, climate variability and models, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, hydrology and drought analysis, and soil erosion and sediment transport.

Lu Zhang has published extensively in several academic venues, reflecting a focus on environmental and hydrological sciences. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (23 publications)
  • Journal of Hydrology (19 publications)
  • The Science of The Total Environment (11 publications)
  • Water (10 publications)
  • Water Resources Research (7 publications)

Examples of recent papers authored or coauthored by Lu Zhang are:

  • Evapotranspiration on a greening Earth, 2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Regionalization of hydrological modeling for predicting streamflow in ungauged catchments: A comprehensive review, 2020, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water
  • Impacts of climate change and reservoir operation on streamflow and flood characteristics in the Lancang-Mekong River Basin, 2020, Journal of Hydrology
  • Reconciling disagreement on global river flood changes in a warming climate, 2022, Nature Climate Change
  • Riverine transport and water-sediment exchange of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) along the middle-lower Yangtze River, China, 2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials

Frequent collaborators working alongside Lu Zhang include:

  • Lei Cheng (30 joint publications)
  • Pan Liu (24 joint publications)
  • Shujing Qin (19 joint publications)
  • Huimin Zhang (13 joint publications)
  • Hualiang Liang (12 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • Response of mean annual evapotranspiration to vegetation changes at catchment scale

    L. Zhang;W. R. Dawes;G. R. Walker

  • A review of paired catchment studies for determining changes in water yield resulting from alterations in vegetation

    Alice E. Brown;Lu Zhang;Thomas A. McMahon;Andrew W. Western

  • A rational function approach for estimating mean annual evapotranspiration

    L. Zhang;K. Hickel;W. R. Dawes;F. H. S. Chiew

  • Global impacts of conversions from natural to agricultural ecosystems on water resources: Quantity versus quality

    Bridget R. Scanlon;Ian Jolly;Marios Sophocleous;Lu Zhang

  • Effects of limited irrigation on yield and water use efficiency of winter wheat in the Loess Plateau of China

    Shaozhong Kang;Shaozhong Kang;Lu Zhang;Yinli Liang;Xiaotao Hu

  • Downward approach to hydrological prediction

    Murugesu Sivapalan;Günter Blöschl;Lu Zhang;Rob Vertessy

  • Water balance modeling over variable time scales based on the Budyko framework – Model development and testing

    Lu Zhang;Nick Potter;Klaus Hickel;Yongqiang Zhang

  • Responses of streamflow to climate and land surface change in the headwaters of the Yellow River Basin

    Hongxing Zheng;Lu Zhang;Ruirui Zhu;Changming Liu

  • Responses of streamflow to changes in climate and land use/cover in the Loess Plateau, China

    Xiaoping Zhang;Lu Zhang;Jing Zhao;Paul Rustomji

  • Analysis of impacts of climate variability and human activity on streamflow for a river basin in arid region of northwest China

    Zhenmei Ma;Shaozhong Kang;Lu Zhang;Ling Tong

  • Assessing the impact of climate variability and human activities on streamflow from the Wuding River basin in China

    Li-Juan Li;Lu Zhang;Hao Wang;Juan Wang

  • Evapotranspiration on a greening Earth

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  • Vegetation control on water and energy balance within the Budyko framework

    Dan Li;Ming Pan;Zhentao Cong;Lu Zhang

  • Estimating the sensitivity of mean annual runoff to climate change using selected hydrological models

    Roger N. Jones;Francis H.S. Chiew;Walter C. Boughton;Lu Zhang

  • Improving water use efficiency of irrigated crops in the North China Plain : measurements and modelling

    Huixiao Wang;Lu Zhang;W.R Dawes;Changming Liu

  • Predicting the effect of vegetation changes on catchment average water balance

    L. Zhang;W.R. Dawes;G.R. Walker

  • Local and global factors controlling water‐energy balances within the Budyko framework

    Xianli Xu;Wen Liu;Bridget R. Scanlon;Lu Zhang

  • Intensified soil acidification from chemical N fertilization and prevention by manure in an 18-year field experiment in the red soil of southern China

    Zejiang Cai;Boren Wang;Minggang Xu;Huimin Zhang

  • Yield sustainability, soil organic carbon sequestration and nutrients balance under long-term combined application of manure and inorganic fertilizers in acidic paddy soil

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  • Comparison of interpolation methods for depth to groundwater and its temporal and spatial variations in the Minqin oasis of northwest China

    Yue Sun;Shaozhong Kang;Fusheng Li;Lu Zhang

  • Developing a decision support tool for China's re-vegetation program: Simulating regional impacts of afforestation on average annual streamflow in the Loess Plateau

    Tim R. McVicar;LingTao Li;Tom G. Van Niel;Lu Zhang

  • Regionalization of hydrological modeling for predicting streamflow in ungauged catchments: A comprehensive review

    Yuhan Guo;Yongqiang Zhang;Lu Zhang;Zhonggen Wang

  • Comparison of three evapotranspiration models to Bowen ratio-energy balance method for a vineyard in an arid desert region of northwest China

    Baozhong Zhang;Shaozhong Kang;Fusheng Li;Lu Zhang

  • Modelling hydrological response to different land‐use and climate change scenarios in the Zamu River basin of northwest China

    Sufen Wang;Shaozhong Kang;Lu Zhang;Fusheng Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Shaozhong Kang
Shaozhong Kang China Agricultural University
Francis H. S. Chiew
Francis H. S. Chiew Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Lei Cheng
Lei Cheng Wuhan University
Warrick Dawes
Warrick Dawes Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Yongqiang Zhang
Yongqiang Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Fusheng Li
Fusheng Li Guangxi University
Sien Li
Sien Li China Agricultural University
Andrew W. Western
Andrew W. Western University of Melbourne
Ying-Ping Wang
Ying-Ping Wang Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Tim R. McVicar
Tim R. McVicar Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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