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Name   Cuo Lan Home Page     
Highest Education      Ph.D Office      Building 3, Courtyard 16, Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
Phone      010-84097091 Zip Code      100101
Fax      010-8409 7079 Email      lancuo@itpcas.ac.cn

Education and Appointments：
Education 
Ph.D. University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA, 2005
M. S. Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, China, 1996
B. S. Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, 1993
Appointments
Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, 2010- on going
Professor, University of Chinese Academy of Science, 2015 – on going
Research Scientist, Commonwealth Science and Research Organization, Australia, 2010
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington at Seattle, 2005-2009

Research Interest：
Surface hydrology, Climatology, Ecology
Public Services：
Editorial board member: MDPI Water;Senior editorial board member: Nature Scientific Reports

Honors：

2020, Member of excellent teaching group, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

2015, Excellent Youth Scientist Award, China Tibetan Plateau Research Association

2014, US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Early Career Scientist Assembly Visitor Funds
Selected Publications：

1. Cuo, L*., Yongxin Zhang, Yongqiu Wu, Mei Hou, 2020. Desertification over the Tibetan Plateau during 1971-2015 from a climate perspective. Land Degradation & Development, DOI: 10.1002/ldr.3575. 

2. Cuo, L.,* Ning Li, Zhe Liu, Jin Ding, Liqiao Liang, Yongxin Zhang, Tongliang Gong, 2019, Warming and human activities induced changes in the Yarlung Tsangpo basin of the Tibetan plateau and their influences on streamflow, 2019. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 25, 100625. 

3. Ding, L., Lan Cuo*, Yongxin Zhang, Fuxin Zhu, 2018, Monthly and annual temperature extremes and their changes on the Tibetan Plateau and its surroundings during 1963-2015, Scientific Reports,  8, 11860. 

4. Zhu, F., Lan Cuo*, Yongxin Zhang, Jing-Jia Luo, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Yumei Lin, Zhe Liu, 2018, Spatiotemporal variations of annual shallow soil temperature on the Tibetan Plateau during 1983–2013, Climate Dynamics, 51,2209-2227 

5. Cuo, L.*, Yongxin Zhang, 2017, Spatial patterns of wet season precipitation vertical gradients on the Tibetan Plateau and the surroundings, Scientific Reports, 7, 5057. 

6. Cuo, L.*, 2016. Chapter 6 Land use/cover change impacts on hydrology in large river basins: a review, in Terrestrial Water Cycle and Climate Change: Natural and Human-Induced Impacts. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Geophysical Monograph Series, (eds Q. Tang and T. Oki). John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 

7. Cuo, L.*, Yongxin Zhang, Theodore J. Bohn, Lin Zhao, Jialuo Li, Qiming Liu, Bingrong Zhou, 2015. Frozen soil degradation and its effects on surface hydrology in the northern Tibetan Plateau, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmosphere, 120(6)， 8276-8298，doi:10.1002/2015JD023193 

8. Cuo, L.*, Yongxin Zhang, Fuxin Zhu, Liqiao Liang, 2014. Characteristics and changes of streamflow on the Tibetan Plateau: A review. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 2, 49-68. 

9. Cuo, L.*, Yongxin Zhang, Yanhong Gao, Zhenchun Hao, and Luosang Cairang, 2013, The impacts of climate change and land cover transition on the hydrology in the upper Yellow River Basin, China, Journal of Hydrology, 502, 37-52. 

10. Cuo, L.*, Yongxin Zhang, Qingchun Wang, Leilei Zhang, Bingrong Zhou, Zhenchun Hao, Fengge Su, 2013, Climate change in the northern Tibetan Plateau during 1957-2009: spatial patterns and possible mechanisms, Journal of Climate, 26 (1), pp. 85-109, doi: http:/dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00738.1. 

11. Cuo, L. Thomas C. Pagano*, Q.J. Wang, 2011. A Review of Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts and Their Use In Up To Medium-Range Streamflow Forecasting, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 12(5): 713-728, DOI:10.1175/2011JHM1347.1. 

12. Elsner, M.M.*, Lan Cuo, Nathalie Voisin, Jeffrey S Deems, Alan F Hamlet, Dennis P Lettenmaier, Julie A Vano, Kristian EB Mickelson, Se Yeun Lee, 2010. Implications of 21st Century climate change for the hydrology of Washington State, Climatic Change, 102: 225-260. DOI 10.1007/s10584-010-9855-0. 

13. Cuo, L., Dennis P. Lettenmaier*, Marina Alberti, and Jeffrey Richey, 2009. Effects of a century of land cover and climate change on hydrology in Puget Sound, Washington. Hydrological Processes, 23; 907-933. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7228. 

Supported Projects：

1.MDIP Water special issue,https://www.mdpi.com/journal/water/special_issues/glacier_climate_snow.Accepting Manuscripts Now!

2.2012-2015, Chinese Academy of Sciences fund, Tibetan Plateau surface hydrological processes observation and modeling, PI.

3.2012-2016, by Chinese National Science Foundation, Energy balance on the glacier surface and its impacts on the hydrological processes in glacier watersheds, sub-task investigator.

4.2013-2017, Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China, Desertification and its response to the climate change over the Tibetan Plateau, sub-task investigator.

5.2016-2019, Chinese National Natural Science Foundation, Deconvolving the climate change and land cover change impacts on the streamflow in the northeastern TibetanPlateau, PI.

6.2018-2023, CAS International Collaboration Office Key Project, Pan-Third Pole Environment and Its Co-development with the Silk Road, sub-task investigator.

7.2018-2021, Chinese National Science Foundation, Glacier, Frozen soil and vegetation co-variation and its impact on streamflow in the Yaluzangbu River basin under the global warming, sub-task investigator.

8.2018-2022, Chinese Academy of Sciences Strategic and Priority Program, Grant No. Y8Xd03302, Pan-Third Pole Environmental Change and Green Silk Road, sub-task investigator.