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38
Citations
4475
World Ranking
8719
National Ranking
770

Overview

Weili Duan is affiliated with the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography in China. Their research predominantly focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions in the subfields of global and planetary change, atmospheric science, water science and technology, environmental engineering, and ocean engineering.

The scientist's work covers a broad spectrum of topics, including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Hydrology and watershed management studies
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Hydrology and drought analysis
  • Flood risk assessment and management
  • Water-energy-food nexus studies
  • Climate change and permafrost

Among Weili Duan's recent publications are several papers that illustrate their research interests and collaborations. These include:

  • "Comprehensive evaluation and sustainable development of water-energy-food-ecology systems in Central Asia," 2022, published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • "Global energy use and carbon emissions from irrigated agriculture," 2024, published in Nature Communications
  • "Rapidly declining surface and terrestrial water resources in Central Asia driven by socio-economic and climatic changes," 2021, published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Impact of temporal rainfall patterns on flash floods in Hue City, Vietnam," 2020, published in Journal of Flood Risk Management
  • "Sustainable water management for cross-border resources: The Balkhash Lake Basin of Central Asia, 1931-2015," 2020, published in Journal of Cleaner Production

Weili Duan frequently publishes in venues such as the Journal of Hydrology, Remote Sensing, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and The Science of The Total Environment.

Collaborative efforts are evident through regular coauthorships with several researchers, including Yaning Chen, Gonghuan Fang, Shan Zou, Zhi Li, and Jingxiu Qin.

Best Publications

  • Water Quality Assessment and Pollution Source Identification of the Eastern Poyang Lake Basin Using Multivariate Statistical Methods

    Weili Duan;Bin He;Daniel Nover;Guishan Yang

  • Floods and associated socioeconomic damages in China over the last century

    Weili Duan;Bin He;Daniel Nover;Jingli Fan

  • The situation of hazardous chemical accidents in China between 2000 and 2006.

    Weili Duan;Guohua Chen;Qing Ye;Qingguang Chen

  • Spatial and temporal trends in estimates of nutrient and suspended sediment loads in the Ishikari River, Japan, 1985 to 2010.

    Weili Duan;Kaoru Takara;Bin He;Pingping Luo

  • Changes in temporal inequality of precipitation extremes over China due to anthropogenic forcings

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  • Hydrological Stream Flow Modelling for Calibration and Uncertainty Analysis Using SWAT Model in the Xedone River Basin, Lao PDR

    Bounhieng Vilaysane;Kaoru Takara;Pingping Luo;Inthavy Akkharath

  • Evaluation and Future Projection of Chinese Precipitation Extremes Using Large Ensemble High-Resolution Climate Simulations

    Weili Duan;Naota Hanasaki;Hideo Shiogama;Yaning Chen

  • Historical assessment of Chinese and Japanese flood management policies and implications for managing future floods

    Pingping Luo;Pingping Luo;Pingping Luo;Bin He;Kaoru Takara;Yin E. Xiong

  • Rapidly declining surface and terrestrial water resources in Central Asia driven by socio-economic and climatic changes

    Wenjing Huang;Weili Duan;Yaning Chen

  • Changes of precipitation amounts and extremes over Japan between 1901 and 2012 and their connection to climate indices

    Weili Duan;Bin He;Kaoru Takara;Pingping Luo;Pingping Luo

  • Identification of long-term trends and seasonality in high-frequency water quality data from the Yangtze River basin, China.

    Weili Duan;Bin He;Yaning Chen;Shan Zou;Shan Zou

  • Sustainable water management for cross-border resources: The Balkhash Lake Basin of Central Asia, 1931–2015

    Weili Duan;Shan Zou;Yaning Chen;Daniel Nover

  • Impact of temporal rainfall patterns on flash floods in Hue City, Vietnam

    Dengrui Mu;Pingping Luo;Jiqiang Lyu;Meimei Zhou

  • Agricultural water demands in Central Asia under 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C global warming

    Zhi Li;Gonghuan Fang;Yaning Chen;Weili Duan

  • Managing the water-climate- food nexus for sustainable development in Turkmenistan

    Weili Duan;Yaning Chen;Shan Zou;Daniel Nover

  • Detecting the Causal Effect of Soil Moisture on Precipitation Using Convergent Cross Mapping

    Yunqian Wang;Jing Yang;Jing Yang;Yaning Chen;Philippe De Maeyer

  • Recent Advancement in Remote Sensing Technology for Hydrology Analysis and Water Resources Management

    Weili Duan;Shreedhar Maskey;Pedro Luiz Borges Chaffe;Pingping Luo

  • An integrated assessment of runoff dynamics in the Amu Darya River Basin: Confronting climate change and multiple human activities, 1960–2017

    Yanan Hu;Weili Duan;Yaning Chen;Shan Zou

  • Spatiotemporal evaluation of water quality incidents in Japan between 1996 and 2007

    Weili Duan;Bin He;Kaoru Takara;Pingping Luo

  • Human and Natural Impacts on the Water Resources in the Syr Darya River Basin, Central Asia

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  • Exploring sustainable solutions for the water environment in Chinese and Southeast Asian cities

    Pingping Luo;Yong Mu;Shuangtao Wang;Wei Zhu

  • Impact assessment of rainfall scenarios and land-use change on hydrologic response using synthetic Area IDF curves

    P. Luo;P. Luo;P. Luo;Apip;B. He;W. Duan

Frequent Co-Authors

Kaoru Takara
Kaoru Takara Kyoto University
Yaning Chen
Yaning Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Joshua H. Viers
Joshua H. Viers University of California, Merced
Swadhin K. Behera
Swadhin K. Behera Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Kensuke Fukushi
Kensuke Fukushi University of Tokyo
Botao Zhou
Botao Zhou Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Toshio Yamagata
Toshio Yamagata Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Wenbin Liu
Wenbin Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hideo Shiogama
Hideo Shiogama National Institute for Environmental Studies
Hong Wang
Hong Wang Northeastern University

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