Xingcai Liu

Associate Professor
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
11A, Datun Road, Chaoyang District
Beijing 100101, China
Email:xingcailiu{at}igsnrr.ac.cn

Education

2008-2011: PhD, College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University
2005-2008: MS, School of Geographic and Ocean Sciences, Nanjing University
2001-2005: BE, Dept. of Ecology and Environmental Science, Inner Mongolia University

Professional positions

2019/12-Now: Associate Professor at Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS
2011/7-2019/11: Assistant Professor at Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS
2018/3-2019/3: Visiting scientist at Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG/ETH）, Switzerland

Research Interests

Hydrology, Climate change

Publications

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Liu, X., Tang, Q., Liu, W., Veldkamp, T.I.E., Boulange, J., Liu, J., Wada, Y., Huang, Z. and Yang, H., 2019, A spatially explicit assessment of growing water stress in China from the past to the future. Earth's Future, 7, doi: 10.1029/2019ef001181. (Featured Cover Article)

Gebremeskel Haile, G., Tang, Q., Sun, S., Huang, Z., Zhang, X., Liu, X., 2019, Droughts in East Africa: Causes, impacts and resilience. Earth-Science Reviews, 193, 146-161, doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.04.015.

Tang, Q., Liu, X., Li, Z., Yun, X., Zhang, X., Yu, Q., Li, J., Zhang, Y., Cui, H., Sun, S., Zhang, C., Tang, Y., Leng, G., 2019, Integrated water systems model for terrestrial water cycle simulation, Advances in Earth Science, 34(2), 115-123, doi: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2019.02.0115.(in Chinese)

Liu, X., Liu, W., Yang, H., Tang, Q., Flörke, M., Masaki, Y., Müller Schmied, H., Ostberg, S., Pokhrel, Y., Satoh, Y., and Wada, Y., 2019, Multimodel assessments of human and climate impacts on mean annual streamflow in China, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 23(3), 1245-1261, doi: 10.5194/hess-23-1245-2019.

Liu, X., Tang, Q., Liu, W., Yang, H., Groisman, P. Y., Leng, G., Ciais, P., Zhang, X., and Sun, S., 2019, The asymmetric impact of abundant preceding rainfall on heat stress in low latitudes, Environmental Research Letters, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab018a.

Liu, W., Yang, H., Tang, Q. and Liu, X., 2019, Understanding the Water–Food–Energy Nexus for Supporting Sustainable Food Production and Conserving Hydropower Potential in China. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 7(50), doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2019.00050.

Huang, Z., Tang, Q., Lo, M.-H., Liu, X., Lu, H., Zhang, X., and Leng, G., 2019, The influence of groundwater representation on hydrological simulation and its assessment using satellite-based water storage variation, Hydrological Processes, doi: doi:10.1002/hyp.13393.

Zaherpour, J., Mount, N., Gosling, S. N., Dankers, R., Stephanie, E., Gerten, D., Liu, X., Masaki, Y., Müller Schmied, H., Tang, Q., and Wada, Y., 2019, Exploring the value of machine learning for weighted multi-model combination of an ensemble of global hydrological models, Environmental Modelling & Software, doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2019.01.003.

Zhang, C., Tang, Q., Chen, D., Ent, R. J. v. d., Liu, X., Li, W., and Haile, G. G., 2019, Moisture source changes contributed to different precipitation changes over the northern and southern Tibetan Plateau, Journal of Hydrometeorology, doi: 10.1175/jhm-d-18-0094.1.

Attarod, P., Tang, Q., Van Stan II, J-T., Liu, X., 2018, National assessment of throughfall sensitivity to changes in storm magnitude for the forests of Iran, Forest Systems, 27(3), e019, doi: 10.5424/fs/2018273-13857.

Wartenburger, R., Seneviratne, S. I., Hirschi, M., Chang, J., Ciais, P., Deryng, D., Elliott, J., Folberth, C., Gosling, S. N., Gudmundsson, L., Henrot, A., Hickler, T., Ito, A., Khabarov, N., Kim, H., Leng, G., Liu, J., Liu, X., Masaki, Y., Morfopoulos, C., Müller, C., Hannes Müller, S., Nishina, K., Orth, R., Pokhrel, Y. N., Pugh, T., Satoh, Y., Schaphoff, S., Schmid, E., Sheffield, J., Stacke, T., Steinkamp, J., Tang, Q., Thiery, W., Wada, Y., Wang, X., Weedon, G. P., Yang, H., and Zhou, T. (2018), Evapotranspiration simulations in ISIMIP2a - Evaluation of spatio-temporal characteristics with a comprehensive ensemble of independent datasets, Environmental Research Letters, 13(7), 075001, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aac4bb.

Veldkamp, T. I. E., Zhao, F., Ward, P. J., Moel, H. d., Aerts, J. C. J. H., Schmied, H. M., Portmann, F. T., Masaki, Y., Pokhrel, Y., Liu, X., Satoh, Y., Gerten, D., Gosling, S. N., Zaherpour, J., and Wada, Y. (2018), Human impact parameterizations in global hydrological models improve estimates of monthly discharges and hydrological extremes: a multi-model validation study, Environmental Research Letters, 13(5), 055008, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aab96f.

Liu, X.，Tang, Q.，Yin, Y., Xu, X., 2018. Regionalization of Integrated Environmental Risk of China Under Future Climate Change. Scientia Geographica Sinica, 38(4), 636-644, doi: 10.13249/j.cnki.sgs.2018.04.018. (in Chinese)

Liu, X., Tang, Q., Zhang, X., and Sun, S., 2018. Projected Changes in High Temperature Extremes and Heat Stress in China. Journal of Meteorological Research, 32(3), 351–366, doi: 10.1007/s13351-018-7120-z.

Zhang, X., Tang, Q., Liu, X., Leng, G. and Di, C., 2018, Nonlinearity of runoff response to global mean temperature change over major global river basins, Geophysical Research Letters, 45(12), 6109-6116， doi: 10.1029/2018GL078646.

Liu, X., Tang, Q., Zhang, X., Groisman, P., Sun, S., Lu, H., and Li, Z., 2017. Spatially distinct effects of preceding precipitation on heat stress over Eastern China. Environmental Research Letters, 12(11), 115010, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa88f8.

Zhang, C., Tang, Q., Chen, D., Li, L., Liu, X., and Cui, H., 2017. Tracing changes in atmospheric moisture supply to the drying Southwest China, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 17, 10383-10393, doi: 10.5194/acp-17-10383-2017.

Zhao, F., Veldkamp, T. E., Frieler, K., Schewe, J., Ostberg, S., Willner, S., Schauberger, B., Gosling, S. N., Schmied, H. M., Portmann, F. T., Leng, G., Huang, M., Liu, X., Tang, Q., Hanasaki, N., Biemans, H., Gerten, D., Satoh, Y., Pokhrel, Y., Stacke, T., Ciais, P., Chang, J., Ducharne, A., Guimberteau, M., Wada, Y., Kim, Y., Yamazaki, D., 2017. The critical role of the routing scheme in simulating peak river discharge in global hydrological models, Environmental Research Letter, 12(7), 075003, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa7250.

Huang, L., Li, Z., Tang, Q., Zhang, X., Liu, X., and Cui, H., 2017. Evaluation of satellite-based evapotranspiration estimates in China. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 11(2), 026019, doi: 10.1117/1.JRS.11.026019.

Liu, X., Tang, Q., Cui, H., Mu, M., Gerten, D., Gosling, S., Masaki, Y., Satoh, Y., and Wada, Y., 2017. Multimodel uncertainty changes in simulated river flows induced by human impact parameterizations. Environmental Research Letters, 12(2), 025009, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa5a3a.

Yin, Y., Tang, Q., Liu, X., and Zhang, X., 2017. Water scarcity under various socio-economic pathways and its potential effects on food production in the Yellow River Basin. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, accepted.

Liu, W., Antonelli, M., Liu, X., Yang, H., 2017. Towards improvement of grey water footprint assessment: With an illustration for global maize cultivation, Journal of Cleaner Production, accepted.

Zhang, X., Tang, Q., Liu, X., Leng, G., and Li, Z., 2017. Soil moisture drought monitoring and forecasting using satellite and climate model data over southwestern China. Journal of Hydrometeorology,18(6), 5-23, doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-16-0045.1.

Liu, X., Tang, Q., Voisin, N., and Cui, H., 2016. Projected impacts of climate change on hydropower potential in China, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 20(8), 3343-3359, doi: 10.5194/hess-20-3343-2016.

Tang, Q., Zhang, X., Duan, Q., Huang, S., Yuan, X., Cui, H., Li, Z., and Liu, X., 2016. Hydrological monitoring and seasonal forecasting: Progress and perspectives. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 26(7), 904-920, doi: 10.1007/s11442-016-1306-z.

Yin, Y., Tang, Q., Wang, L., and Liu, X., 2016. Risk and contributing factors of ecosystem shifts over naturally vegetated land under climate change in China, Scientific Reports, 6, 20905, doi: 10.1038/srep20905.

Tang, Q., Huang Z., Liu X., Han S., Leng, G., Zhang, X., Mu, M., 2015. Impacts of human water use on the large-scale terrestrial water cycle. Advances in Earth Science, 30(10): 1091-1099, doi: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2015.10.1091. (in Chinese)

Yu, S., Xu, Z., Liu, X., Dou, T., Xu, C., 2015. Identifying and validating freshwater ecoregions in Jinan City, China. Journal of Hydrology, 528, 763-772, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.07.010.

Yin, Y., Tang, Q., and Liu, X., 2015. A multi-model analysis of change in potential yield of major crops in China under climate change. Earth System Dynamics, 6, 45-59, doi:10.5194/esd-6-45-2015.

Liu, G., Tang, Q., Liu, X., Dai, J., Zhang, X., Ge, Q., and Tang, Y., 2014. Spatiotemporal analysis of ground-based woody plant leafing in response to temperature in temperate eastern China. International Journal of Biometeorology, 58(7):1583-1592, doi: 10.1007/s00484-013-0762-8.

Liu, X., Zhang, X.-J., Tang, Q., and Zhang, X.-Z., 2014. Effects of surface wind speed decline on modeled hydrological conditions in China. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 18, 2803-2813, doi:10.5194/hess-18-2803-2014.

Schewe, J., Heinke, J., Gerten, D., Haddeland, I., Arnell, N. W ., Clark, D. B., Rutger, D., Eisner, S., Fekete, B. M., Colón-González, F. J., Gosling, S. N., Kim, H., Liu, X., Masaki, Y., Portmann, F. T., Satoh, Y., Stacke, T., Tang, Q., Wada, Y., Wisser, D., Albrecht, T., Frieler, K., Piontek, F., Warszawski, L., and Kabat, P., 2014. Multimodel assessment of water scarcity under climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences of the United States of America, 111, 9, 3245-3250, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1222460110.

Davie, J. C. S., Falloon, P. D., Kahana, R., Dankers, R., Betts, R., Portmann, F. T., Wisser, D., Clark, D. B., Ito, A., Masaki, Y., Nishina, K., Fekete, B., Tessler, Z., Wada, Y., Liu, X., Tang, Q., Hagemann, S., Stacke, T., Pavlick, R., Schaphoff, S., Gosling, S. N., Franssen, W., and Arnell. N., 2013. Comparing projections of future changes in runoff from hydrological and biome models in ISI-MIP. Earth System Dynamics, 4, 359-374, doi: 10.5194/esd-4-359-2013.

Liu, X., Xu, Z., and Yu, R., 2012. Spatiotemporal variability of drought and the potential climatological forcing factors in Liao River basin. Hydrological Processes, 26, 1, 1-14, doi: 10.1002/hyp.8104.

Liu, X., Xu, Z., and Yu, R., 2011. Trend of climate variability in China during the past decades. Climatic Change, 109, 3-4, 503-516, doi: 10.1007/s10584-011-0097-6.

Liu, X., Xu, Z., Zhang, S., and Xu., H., 2012. Scale analysis of environmental factors and its linkage with size of hierarchical aquatic ecoregion: A case study in the Liao River basin. Acta Ecologica Sinica, 32,11, 3613-3620. (in Chinese)

Liu, X., Xu, Z., and Xu, C., A Framework for Aquatic Ecoregion Zoning. Acta Ecologica Sinica. 2010, 30, 17, 4804-4814. (in Chinese)