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Name   Xiuping Li Home Page     
Highest Education      Office      Building 3, No. 16, Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
Phone      Zip Code      100101
Fax      Email      lixiuping@itpcas.ac.cn

Education and Appointments：

Education

Ph.D. in Meteorlology, Institute of Atmospheric Physica, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China, 2005
M. S. in Meteorlology, Nanjing University of Information Science&Technology, China, 2002
B. S. in Meteorlology, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, China, 1998
Appointments 
2019.01-present Associate Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, China
2012-07-2018.12 Assistant Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, China
2010.07-2012.06 Postdoctoral Researcher, College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, China
2007.09-2009.11 Visiting Scholar, Department of Geography, Michigan State University, USA

Research Interest：
Research Interests:
(1) Water balance (precipitation, evapotranspiration, runoff, terrestrial water storage) over the Third Pole region;
(2) Elevation dependence of meteorological variables including air temperature, precipitation, evapotranspiration, wind speed, radiation;
(3) Influence of climate change and Indian monsoon on precpitation over the Third Pole region;
(4) Assessment and projection of global climate model;
(5) Large-scale precipitation and recycled precipitation.
Research Fields: Hydrometeorology and climatology over the Third Pole region
Public Services：
 

Honors：

Selected Publications：

Publications in the recent 5 years (2016-2020) (* corresponding author; # joint first authors; Including books and book chapters)

Part 1: 5 representative publications  

1. Baoyi Hu, Lei Wang*, Xiuping Li, Jing Zhou, Yun Pan (2020), Divergent changes in terrestrial water storage across global arid and humid basins. Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091069. 

2. Yuanwei Wang, Lei Wang*, Xiuping Li, Jing Zhou, ZHidan Hu (2020), An integration of gauge, satellite, and reanalysis precipitation datasets for the largest river basin of the Tibetan Plateau. Earth System Science Data, 12, 1789-1803. 

3. Sadia Bibi, Lei Wang*, Xiuping Li, Jing Zhou, Deliang Chen, Tandong Yao (2018), Climatic and associated cryospheric, biosheric, and hydrological changes on the Tibetan Plateau: a review. International Journal of Climatology, doi:10.1002/joc.5411. 

4. Xiuping Li*, Lei Wang, Xiaoyu Guo and Deliang Chen (2017), Does summer precipitation trend over and around the Tibetan Plateau depend on elevation? International Journal of Climatology, doi: 10.1002/joc.4978. 

5. Lei Wang*, Xiuping Li*, Yingying Chen, Kun Yang, Deliang Chen, Jing Zhou, Wenbin Liu, Jia Qi, and Jiangbin Huang (2016), Validation of the global land data assimilation system based on measurements of soil temperature profiles. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 218-219, 288-297. 

Part 2: all other publications (exclude part 1) 

1. Lei Song, Lei Wang*, Xiuping Li, Jing Zhou, Dongliang Luo, Huijun Jin, Jia Qi, Tian Zeng, Yuanyuan Yin (2020), Improving permafrost physics in a distributed cryosphere-hydrology model and its evaluations at the Upper Yellow River Basin. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125, e2020JD032916. 

2. Tian Zeng, Lei Wang*, Xiuping Li, Lei Song, Xiaotao Zhang, Jing Zhou, Bing Gao, Ruishun Liu (2020), A New and Simplified Approach for Estimating the Daily River Discharge of the Tibetan Plateau Using Satellite Precipitation: An Initial Study on the Upper Brahmaputra River. Remote Sensing, 12(13), 2103. 

3. Mulugeta Genanu Kebede, Lei Wang*, Kun Yang, Deliang Chen, Xiuping Li, Tian Zeng, Zhidan Hu (2020), Discharge Estimates for Ungauged Rivers Flowing over Complex High-Mountainous Regions based Solely on Remote Sensing-Derived Datasets. Remote Sensing, 12(7), 1064: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12071064 . 

4. Xiaoyang Zhong, Lei Wang*, Jing Zhou, Xiuping Li, Jia Qi, Lei Song, Yuanwei Wang (2020), Precipitation Dominates Long-Term Water Storage Changes in Nam Co Lake (Tibetan Plateau) Accompanied by Intensified Cryosphere Melts Revealed by a Basin-Wide Hydrological Modelling. Remote Sensing, 12(12), 1926, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12121926 . 

5. Dibit Aryal, Lei Wang*, Tirthal Raj Adhikari, Jing Zhou, Xiuping Li, Maheswor Shrestha, Yuanwei Wang, Deliang Chen (2020). Model-Based Flood Hazard Mapping on the Southern Slope of Himalaya.Water,12(2), 540, https://doi.org/10.3390/w12020540. 

6. Xinfeng Fan, Mei Han*, Lei Wang, Xiuping Li, Jing Zhou (2020). Analysis of water quality change and its driving factors of the Xiaoqing River estuary in recent ten years (in Chinese with English abstract). Environmental Science, 41(4), 1619-1628, doi:10.13227/j.hjkx.201909074. 

7. Mulugeta Genanu Kebede, Lei Wang*, Xiuping Li, Zhidan Hu (2019), Remote sensing-based river discharge estimation for a small river flowing over the high mountain regions of the Tibetan Plateau. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 41(9), https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2019.1701213. 

8. Sadia Bibi, Lei Wang*, Xiuping Li, Xiaotao Zhang, Deliang Chen (2019), Response of Groundwater Storage and Recharge in the Qaidam Basin (Tibetan Plateau) to Climate Variations from 2002 to 2016. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124(17-18): 9918–9934. 

9. Jia Qi, Lei Wang*, Jing Zhou, Lei Song, Xiuping Li, Tian Zeng (2019), Coupled Snow and Frozen Ground Physics Improves Cold Region Hydrological Simulations: An Evaluation at the Upper Yangtze River Basin (Tibetan Plateau). Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124(33), 12985-13004. 

10. Renjie Mao, Lei Wang*, Jing Zhou, Xiuping Li, Jia Qi, Xiaotao Zhang (2019), Evaluation of Various Precipitation Products Using Ground-Based Discharge Observation at the Nujiang River Basin, China. Water, 11(11), 2308-2326. 

11. Lei Wang*, A.W. Sichangi, Tian Zeng, Xiuping Li, Zhidan Hu, M. Genanu (2019), New methods designed to estimate the daily discharges of rivers in the Tibetan Plateau. Science Bulletin, 64, 418-421.  

12. Hao Li, Liu Liu*, Xingcai Liu, Xiuping Li, Zongxue Xu (2019), Greening Implication Inferred from Vegetation Dynamics Interacted with Climate Change and Human Activities over the Southeast Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Remote Sensing, 11(20), 2421; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11202421. 

13. Yuanwei Wang, Lei Wang*, Xiuping Li, Deliang Chen (2018), Temporal and spatial changes in estimated near-surface air temperature lapse rates on Tibetan Plateau. International Journal of Climatology, doi:10.1002/joc.5471. 

14. Lei Wang, Jing Zhou, Jia Qi, Litao Sun, Kun Yang, Lide Tian, Yanluan Lin, Wenbin Liu, Maheswor Shrestha, Yongkang Xue, Toshio Koike, Yaoming Ma, Xiuping Li, Yingying Chen, Deliang Chen, Shilong Piao, Hui Lu (2017), Development of a land surface model with coupled snow and frozen soil physics. Water Resources Research, 53, 5085-5103, doi:10.1002/2017WR020451. 

15. Pin Liu, Zongxue Xu*, Xiuping Li (2017), Projection of climate changes scenarios in different temperature zones in the Eastern Monsoon Region, China. Water, 9(305), doi:10.3390/w9050305. 

16. Xiaoyu Guo, Lei Wang*, LideTian, Xiuping Li (2017), Elevation-dependent reductions in wind speed over and around the Tibetan Plateau. International Journal of Climatology, doi: 10.1002/joc.4727. 

17. Godfrey Ouma Makokha, Lei Wang*, Jing Zhou, Xiuping Li, Aihui Wang, Guangpeng Wang, David Kuria (2016), Quantitative Drought Monitoring in a Typical Cold River Basin over Tibetan Plateau: an integration of meteorological, agricultural and hydrological droughts, Journal of Hydrology,  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.10.050. 

18. Lei Wang*, Litao Sun, Maheswor Shrestha, Xiuping Li, Wenbin Liu, Jing Zhou, Kun Yang, Hui Lu, Deliang Chen (2016), Improving Snow Process Modeling with Satellite-Based Estimation of Near-Surface-Air-Temperature Lapse Rate, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, doi: 10.1002/2016JD025506. 

19. Wenbin Liu, Lei Wang*, Jing Zhou, Yanzhong Li, Fubao Sun, Guobin Fu, Xiuping Li, Yanfang Sang (2016), A worldwide evaluation of basin-scale evapotranspiration estimates against the water balance method. Journal of Hydrology, 538, 82-95, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.04.006. 

20. Arthur W. Sichangi, Lei Wang*, Kun Yang, Deliang Chen, Zhongjing Wang, Xiuping Li, Jing Zhou, Wenbin Liu, David Kuria (2016), Estimating continental river basin discharges using multiple remote sensing data sets. Remote Sensing of Environment, 179:36-53. 

Supported Projects：

1.  国家自然科学基金重大研究计划重点支持项目：变化环境下的雅鲁藏布江流域径流响应与水文过程演变机理研究（2017–2020），子课题负责人 

2.  国家自然科学基金青年科学基金项目：青藏高原典型湖泊水量平衡的长期交化模似研究（2015–2017），主持