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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Ximing Cai is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and engineering, with significant contributions in water science and technology as well as ocean engineering. The scientist's work also extends into global and planetary change, industrial and manufacturing engineering, and environmental engineering.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Water resources management and optimization
  • Hydrology and watershed management studies
  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus studies
  • Flood risk assessment and management
  • Reservoir engineering and simulation methods
  • Soil and water nutrient dynamics
  • Climate variability and models

Key recent publications by Ximing Cai include:

  • "Drought Propagation in Contiguous U.S. Watersheds: A Process-Based Understanding of the Role of Climate and Watershed Properties," 2020, Water Resources Research
  • "Redefining marginal land for bioenergy crop production," 2021, GCB Bioenergy
  • "Development of reservoir operation functions in SWAT+ for national environmental assessments," 2020, Journal of Hydrology
  • "Quantifying Water Scarcity in Northern China Within the Context of Climatic and Societal Changes and South-to-North Water Diversion," 2020, Earth's Future
  • "Estimating lake temperature profile and evaporation losses by leveraging MODIS LST data," 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment

Ximing Cai frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Qiankun Zhao
  • Andrea Castelletti
  • Pan Yang
  • Petra Döll
  • Juliane Mai

The scientist has published extensively in several notable academic venues, such as:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Advances in Water Resources

Ximing Cai was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2019.

Best Publications

  • World Water And Food To 2025: Dealing With Scarcity

    Mark W. Rosegrant;Ximing Cai;Sarah A. Cline

  • Land Availability for Biofuel Production

    Ximing Cai;Xiao Zhang;Dingbao Wang

  • Integrated economic-hydrologic water modeling at the basin scale: the Maipo river basin

    Mark Rosegrant;Claudia Ringler;Daene C. McKinney;Ximing Cai

  • Integrated Hydrologic-Agronomic-Economic Model for River Basin Management

    Ximing Cai;Daene C. McKinney;Leon S. Lasdon

  • Global water outlook to 2025: averting an impending crisis.

    Mark W. Rosegrant;Ximing Cai;Sarah A. Cline

  • Solving nonlinear water management models using a combined genetic algorithm and linear programming approach

    Ximing Cai;Daene C McKinney;Leon S Lasdon

  • Sustainability analysis for irrigation water management in the Aral Sea region

    Ximing Cai;Daene C McKinney;Mark W Rosegrant

  • The future of water resources systems analysis: Toward a scientific framework for sustainable water management

    Casey M. Brown;Jay R. Lund;Ximing Cai;Patrick M. Reed

  • Reducing Food Loss and Waste to Enhance Food Security and Environmental Sustainability.

    Majid Shafiee-Jood;Ximing Cai

  • Understanding and managing the food-energy-water nexus – opportunities for water resources research

    Ximing Cai;Kevin Wallington;Majid Shafiee-Jood;Landon Marston

  • Global water outlook to 2025

    Mark Rosegrant;Ximing Cai;Sarah A. Cline

  • Hydrological Cycle in the Heihe River Basin and Its Implication for Water Resource Management in Endorheic Basins

    Xin Li;Guodong Cheng;Guodong Cheng;Yingchun Ge;Hongyi Li

  • Understanding the Role of Climate Characteristics in Drought Propagation

    Tushar Apurv;Murugesu Sivapalan;Ximing Cai

  • Water stress, water transfer and social equity in Northern China--implications for policy reforms.

    Ximing Cai

  • Hydrology: The interdisciplinary science of water

    Richard M. Vogel;Richard M. Vogel;Upmanu Lall;Ximing Cai;Balaji Rajagopalan

  • Does international cereal trade save water?: the impact of virtual water trade on global water use

    Charlotte de Fraiture;X Cai;Upali Amarasinghe;Mark Rosegrant

  • The role of rainfed agriculture in the future of global food production

    Mark W. Rosegrant;Ximing Cai;Sarah A. Cline;Naoko Nakagawa

  • A framework for sustainability analysis in water resources management and application to the Syr Darya Basin

    Ximing Cai;Daene C. McKinney;Leon S. Lasdon

  • Linking GIS and water resources management models: an object-oriented method

    Daene C. McKinney;Ximing Cai

  • Climate change impact on meteorological, agricultural, and hydrological drought in central Illinois

    Dingbao Wang;Dingbao Wang;Mohamad Hejazi;Mohamad Hejazi;Ximing Cai;Albert J. Valocchi

  • Water. Global Water Outlook to 2025: Averting an Impending Crisis

    Mark W. Rosegrant;Ximing Cai;Sarah A. Cline

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark W. Rosegrant
Mark W. Rosegrant International Food Policy Research Institute
Dingbao Wang
Dingbao Wang University of Central Florida
Claudia Ringler
Claudia Ringler International Food Policy Research Institute
Mohamad Hejazi
Mohamad Hejazi Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Daene C. McKinney
Daene C. McKinney The University of Texas at Austin
Pan Liu
Pan Liu Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Harihar Rajaram
Harihar Rajaram Johns Hopkins University
Albert J. Valocchi
Albert J. Valocchi University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Leon S. Lasdon
Leon S. Lasdon The University of Texas at Austin
Madhu Khanna
Madhu Khanna University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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