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Yongqiang Zhang is a researcher affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China, specializing in environmental science with a significant body of work related to hydrology and water management. Their research covers various subfields including global and planetary change, water science and technology, atmospheric science, environmental engineering, and ecology.

The scientist's work spans multiple topics, notably:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Climate Variability and Models
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Cryospheric Studies and Observations
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

Yongqiang Zhang has contributed significantly to prominent journals and publication venues, including:

  • Journal of Hydrology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Water Resources Research
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Remote Sensing of Environment

Recent notable publications include:

  • Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation, 2020, Science Advances
  • 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
  • Increasing Tibetan Plateau terrestrial evapotranspiration primarily driven by precipitation, 2022, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Assessing the Impacts of Vegetation Greenness Change on Evapotranspiration and Water Yield in China, 2020, Water Resources Research

The researcher frequently collaborates with others in the field, with leading co-authors including Ning Ma, Xuanze Zhang, Jing Tian, Dongdong Kong, and Zhenwu Xu. These collaborations indicate active engagement in joint research efforts within the environmental and hydrological sciences community.

Best Publications

  • Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective

    Günter Blöschl;Marc F.P. Bierkens;Antonio Chambel;Christophe Cudennec

  • Coupled estimation of 500 m and 8-day resolution global evapotranspiration and gross primary production in 2002-2017

    Yongqiang Zhang;Yongqiang Zhang;Dongdong Kong;Rong Gan;Rong Gan;Francis H.S. Chiew

  • Determination of daily evaporation and evapotranspiration of winter wheat and maize by large-scale weighing lysimeter and micro-lysimeter

    Changming Liu;Xiying Zhang;Yongqiang Zhang

  • Multi-decadal trends in global terrestrial evapotranspiration and its components

    Yongqiang Zhang;Jorge L. Peña-Arancibia;Tim R. McVicar;Tim R. McVicar;Francis H. S. Chiew

  • A simple surface conductance model to estimate regional evaporation using MODIS leaf area index and the Penman‐Monteith equation

    Ray Leuning;Y. Q. Zhang;Amelie Rajaud;Helen Cleugh

  • Effects of irrigation on water balance, yield and WUE of winter wheat in the North China Plain

    Hong-Yong Sun;Chang-Ming Liu;Xi-Ying Zhang;Yan-Jun Shen

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

    Lu Zhang;Nick Potter;Klaus Hickel;Yongqiang Zhang

  • Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation.

    Xu Lian;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Laurent Z. X. Li;Yue Li

  • Evapotranspiration on a greening Earth

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  • Effect of soil water deficit on evapotranspiration, crop yield, and water use efficiency in the North China Plain

    Yongqiang Zhang;Eloise Kendy;Yu Qiang;Liu Changming

  • Trends in pan evaporation and reference and actual evapotranspiration across the Tibetan Plateau

    Yongqiang Zhang;Changming Liu;Yanhong Tang;Yonghui Yang

  • Benchmark products for land evapotranspiration: LandFlux-EVAL multi-data set synthesis

    Brigitte Mueller;Martin Hirschi;Carlos Jimenez;Philippe Ciais

  • Evaluation of global observations-based evapotranspiration datasets and IPCC AR4 simulations

    Brigitte Mueller;S. I. Seneviratne;C. Jimenez;T. Corti

  • Effect of precipitation change on water balance and WUE of the winter wheat–summer maize rotation in the North China Plain

    Hongyong Sun;Yanjun Shen;Qiang Yu;Gerald N. Flerchinger

  • Partitioning global land evapotranspiration using CMIP5 models constrained by observations

    Xu Lian;Shilong Piao;Chris Huntingford;Yue Li

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

    Yuhan Guo;Yongqiang Zhang;Lu Zhang;Zhonggen Wang

  • Recent increases in terrestrial carbon uptake at little cost to the water cycle

    Lei Cheng;Lu Zhang;Ying Ping Wang;Josep Gili Canadell

  • Relative merits of different methods for runoff predictions in ungauged catchments

    Yongqiang Zhang;Francis H. S. Chiew

  • A soil-water-balance approach to quantify groundwater recharge from irrigated cropland in the North China Plain

    Eloise Kendy;Pierre Gérard-Marchant;M. Todd Walter;Yongqiang Zhang

  • Groundwater recharge from irrigated cropland in the North China Plain: case study of Luancheng County, Hebei Province, 1949-2000

    Eloise Kendy;Yongqiang Zhang;Changming Liu;Jinxia Wang

  • Increasing Tibetan Plateau terrestrial evapotranspiration primarily driven by precipitation

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  • Using long-term water balances to parameterize surface conductances and calculate evaporation at 0.05° spatial resolution

    Youngqiang Zhang;Ray Leuning;Lindsay Beaumont Hutley;Jason Beringer

Frequent Co-Authors

Francis H. S. Chiew
Francis H. S. Chiew Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Changming Liu
Changming Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jai Vaze
Jai Vaze Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Neil R. Viney
Neil R. Viney Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Tim R. McVicar
Tim R. McVicar Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Lu Zhang
Lu Zhang Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Yanjun Shen
Yanjun Shen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yonghui Yang
Yonghui Yang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yuting Yang
Yuting Yang Tsinghua University
Ying-Ping Wang
Ying-Ping Wang Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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