Research Interest :

· Interactions between ocean, atmosphere and land in hydrological cycle

· Global changes and hydrological cycle

· Hydrological cycle and relevant effects on ecological system

Featured Funded Projects :

· Prediction of Disaster Risk under different warming scenarios. China National Key R & D Program (Grant no. 2019YFA0606900), PI, 8.8 million RMB, 2019-2024.

· Environmental safety and secondary risk control during the major epidemic situation, National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 52091540), PI, 19.96 million RMB, 2021-2025

· Fluvial Hydrological Cycle and Evolutions of Water Resources. National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of China (Grant No.: 51425903), PI, 4.4 million, 2015-2019.

· Pollution control technologies of organic contaminants with high concern, National High Technology Program (Grant No. 2013AA06A3050, PI, 14.14 million RMB, 2013-2015

· Formation mechanism and control technology of UP-POPs in the municipal waste incineration, Key Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, PI, 2 million RMB, 2009-2012

Featured Publications :

· Zhang, Q., Shen, Z., Pokhrel, Y., Farinotti, D., Singh, V.P., Xu, C.-Y., Wu, W., Wang, G. Oceanic climate changes threaten the sustainability of Asia’s water tower. Nature, 2023, 615: 87-93.

· Shen, Z.,Zhang, Q., Singh, V.P., Pokhrel, Y., Li, J., Xu, C.-Y., Wu, W. Drying in the low-latitude Atlantic Ocean attributed to terrestrial water storage depletion across Eurasia. Nature Communication, 2022, 13: 1849.

· Zhang, Q., Shi, R., Singh, V.P., Xu, C.-Y., Yu, H., Fan, K., Wu, Z. Droughts aross China: drought factors, prediction and impacts. Science of the Total Environment, 2021, 803: 150018.

· Yu, H.,Zhang, Q., Xu, C.-Y., Du, J., Sun, P., Hu, P. Modified Palmer Drought Severity Index: model improvement and application. Environment International, 2019, 130: 104951.

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