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Overview

Zengchao Hao is affiliated with Beijing Normal University in China and specializes in environmental science with a focus on global and planetary change. Their work spans several interconnected subfields, including ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, atmospheric science, water science and technology, and ecology.

The research topics addressed by Zengchao Hao cover a broad spectrum related to climate and hydrology. These include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Hydrology and drought analysis
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Hydrology and watershed management studies
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Meteorological phenomena and simulations
  • Flood risk assessment and management

The scientist has contributed to various publication venues, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of their research. Frequent venues for publications include:

  • Journal of Hydrology
  • International Journal of Climatology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Agricultural Water Management
  • Environmental Research Letters

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Zengchao Hao are:

  • Compound droughts and hot extremes: Characteristics, drivers, changes, and impacts (2022, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • Drought propagation under global warming: Characteristics, approaches, processes, and controlling factors (2022, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Agricultural drought prediction in China based on drought propagation and large-scale drivers (2021, Agricultural Water Management)
  • Characterization of agricultural drought propagation over China based on bivariate probabilistic quantification (2021, Journal of Hydrology)
  • Evaluation of severity changes of compound dry and hot events in China based on a multivariate multi-index approach (2020, Journal of Hydrology)

Zengchao Hao collaborates frequently with a number of co-authors who often appear in related research, including Xuan Zhang, Fanghua Hao, Sifang Feng, Yu Zhang, and Vijay P. Singh.

Best Publications

  • Multivariate Standardized Drought Index: A parametric multi-index model

    Zengchao Hao;Amir AghaKouchak

  • Global integrated drought monitoring and prediction system.

    Zengchao Hao;Amir AghaKouchak;Navid Nakhjiri;Alireza Farahmand

  • Drought characterization from a multivariate perspective: A review

    Zengchao Hao;Vijay P. Singh

  • Seasonal Drought Prediction: Advances, Challenges, and Future Prospects

    Zengchao Hao;Vijay P. Singh;Youlong Xia

  • Drought propagation under global warming: Characteristics, approaches, processes, and controlling factors.

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  • A Nonparametric Multivariate Multi-Index Drought Monitoring Framework

    Zengchao Hao;Amir AghaKouchak

  • Changes in concurrent monthly precipitation and temperature extremes

    Zengchao Hao;Amir AghaKouchak;Thomas J Phillips

  • Compound droughts and hot extremes: Characteristics, drivers, changes, and impacts

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  • Propagation from meteorological drought to hydrological drought under the impact of human activities: A case study in northern China

    Yang Xu;Xuan Zhang;Xiao Wang;Zengchao Hao

  • Changes in the severity of compound drought and hot extremes over global land areas

    Zengchao Hao;Fanghua Hao;Vijay P Singh;Xuan Zhang

  • Combined impacts of land use and soil property changes on soil erosion in a mollisol area under long-term agricultural development.

    Wei Ouyang;Yuyang Wu;Zengchao Hao;Qi Zhang

  • An Overview of Drought Monitoring and Prediction Systems at Regional and Global Scales

    Zengchao Hao;Xing Yuan;Youlong Xia;Fanghua Hao

  • Agricultural drought prediction in China based on drought propagation and large-scale drivers

    Yu Zhang;Zengchao Hao;Sifang Feng;Xuan Zhang

  • Characterization of agricultural drought propagation over China based on bivariate probabilistic quantification

    Yang Xu;Xuan Zhang;Zengchao Hao;Vijay P. Singh

  • Compound Extremes in Hydroclimatology: A Review

    Zengchao Hao;Vijay P. Singh;Fanghua Hao

  • Variations of compound precipitation and temperature extremes in China during 1961-2014.

    Xinying Wu;Zengchao Hao;Fanghua Hao;Xuan Zhang

  • Probabilistic evaluation of the impact of compound dry-hot events on global maize yields

    Sifang Feng;Zengchao Hao;Xuan Zhang;Fanghua Hao

  • Review of dependence modeling in hydrology and water resources

    Zengchao Hao;Vijay P. Singh

  • Evaluation of severity changes of compound dry and hot events in China based on a multivariate multi-index approach

    Xinying Wu;Zengchao Hao;Xuan Zhang;Chong Li

  • High Sensitivity of Compound Drought and Heatwave Events to Global Warming in the Future

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  • An integrated package for drought monitoring, prediction and analysis to aid drought modeling and assessment

    Zengchao Hao;Fanghua Hao;Vijay P. Singh;Wei Ouyang

  • Modeling multisite streamflow dependence with maximum entropy copula

    Z. Hao;Vijay P. Singh

  • A Framework for Exploring Joint Effects of Conditional Factors on Compound Floods

    Zhiyong Liu;Zhiyong Liu;Linyin Cheng;Zengchao Hao;Jingjing Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Fanghua Hao
Fanghua Hao Beijing Normal University
Vijay P. Singh
Vijay P. Singh Texas A&M University
Wei Ouyang
Wei Ouyang Beijing Normal University
Youlong Xia
Youlong Xia M-Systems
Yang Hong
Yang Hong University of Oklahoma
Ke Zhang
Ke Zhang Hohai University
Amir AghaKouchak
Amir AghaKouchak University of California, Irvine
Chunye Lin
Chunye Lin Beijing Normal University
Qiuhong Tang
Qiuhong Tang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Emmanouil N. Anagnostou
Emmanouil N. Anagnostou University of Connecticut

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