General
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

Experience

   
Work Experience
2019/12-Now: Associate 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

2011/7-2019/11: Assistant Professor at Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS

Publications

1. Kidane Welde Reda, Xingcai Liu*, Qiuhong Tang*, Q. (2022). Intra-Annual Variation of High and Low-Flow Extremes Associated With Land Use and Climate Change in the Upper Tekeze of the Nile River Basin. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127(8), e2021JD036325. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD036325

2. Kidane Welde Reda, Xingcai Liu*, Gebremedhin Gebremeskel Haile, Siao Sun, Qiuhong Tang. (2022). Hydrological evaluation of satellite and reanalysis-based rainfall estimates over the Upper Tekeze Basin, Ethiopia. Hydrology Research, nh2022131. https://doi.org/10.2166/nh.2022.131

3. Wenfeng Liu, Xingcai Liu, Hong Yang, Philippe Ciais, Yoshihide Wada. (2022). Global Water Scarcity Assessment Incorporating Green Water in Crop Production. Water Resources Research, 58(1), e2020WR028570. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR028570

4. Xingcai Liu*, Wenfeng Liu, Liu Liu, Qiuhong Tang, Junguo Liu, Hong Yang* (2021) Environmental flow requirements largely reshape global surface water scarcity assessment. Environmental Research Letters, 16(10), 104029. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac27cb.

5. Xingcai Liu, Qiuhong Tang*, Seyed-Mohammad Hosseini-Moghari, Xiaogang Shi, Min-Hui Lo, Bridget R. Scanlon. (2021) GRACE Satellites Enable Long-Lead Forecasts of Mountain Contributions to Streamflow in the Low-Flow Season. Remote Sensing, 13(10), 1993. doi: 10.3390/rs13101993.

6. Xingcai Liu*, Zhe Li, and Pedram Attarod. (2021). Editorial: Understanding Hydrological Extremes and their Impact in a Changing Climate: Observations, Modeling and Attribution. Frontiers in Earth Science, 8: 632186, doi: 10.3389/feart.2020.632186.

7. Kidane Welde Reda, Xingcai Liu*, Qiuhong Tang, Tesfay Gebretsadkan Gebremicaelc. (2021) Evaluation of Global Gridded Precipitation and Temperature Datasets against Gauged Observations over the Upper Tekeze River Basin. Journal of Meteorological Research, 35(4), 673–689. doi: /10.1007/s13351-021-0199-7.

8. 李卓群, 刘星才*. (2021). 1961-2019年辽宁省高温天气变化特征. 应用生态学报, 32(11), 4059–4067, doi: 10.13287/j.1001-9332.202111.038.

9. 王鑫茹, 崔惠娟, 刘亚平, 刘星才. (2021). 基于熵理论流量历时曲线的生态流量变化分析——以1961~2012年黄河流域径流为例. 人民长江, 52(03), 58–65.

10. Zhongwei Huang, Xingcai Liu, Siao Sun, Yin Tang, Xing Yuan, Qiuhong Tang* (2021). Global assessment of future sectoral water scarcity under adaptive inner-basin water allocation measures. Science of The Total Environment, 783, 146973, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146973

11. Zhongwei Huang, Xing Yuan*, Xingcai Liu. (2021). The key drivers for the changes in global water scarcity: Water withdrawal versus water availability. Journal of Hydrology, 601, 126658, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126658.

12. Jiali Xin, Xiaoyu Sun, Liu Liu*, Hao Li, Xingcai Liu, Xiuping Li, Lei Cheng, Zongxue Xu (2021). Quantifying the contribution of climate and underlying surface changes to alpine runoff alterations associated with glacier melting. Hydrological Processes, 35(3), e14069, doi: 10.1002/hyp.14069.

13. Camelia-Eliza Telteu*, Hannes Müller Schmied, Wim Thiery, Guoyong Leng, Peter Burek, Xingcai Liu, et al. (2021). Understanding each other’s models: an introduction and a standard representation of 16 global water models to support intercomparison, improvement, and communication. Geoscientific Model Development, 14(6), 3843–3878, doi: 10.5194/gmd-14-3843-2021.

14. Hao Li, Liu Liu*, Akash Koppa, Baoying Shan, Xingcai Liu, Xiuping Li, Qiankun Niu, Lei Cheng, Diego Miralles (2021). Vegetation greening concurs with increases in dry season water yield over the Upper Brahmaputra River basin. Journal of Hydrology, 603, 126981, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126981

15. Pedram Attarod*, Qiuhong Tang, Thomas Grant Pypker, Xingcai Liu, Vilma Bayramzadeh. (2021). Potential impact of climate change on throughfall in afforestation areas located in arid and semi-arid environments. Arid Land Research and Management, 35(1), 104–119. https://doi.org/10.1080/15324982.2020.1804010

16. 运晓博, 汤秋鸿*, 徐锡蒙, 周园园, 刘星才, 王杰, 孙思奥. (2020). 气候变化对澜湄流域上下游水资源合作潜力的影响. 气候变化研究进展, 16(5), 555–563, doi: 10.12006/j.issn.1673-1719.2020.008

17. Liu, Wenfeng*, Philippe Ciais, Xingcai Liu, Hong Yang, Arjen Y. Hoekstra, Qiuhong Tang, Xuhui Wang, Xiaodong Li, Lei Cheng. (2020). Global Phosphorus Losses from Croplands under Future Precipitation Scenarios. Environmental Science & Technology, 54(22), 14761–14771, doi: 10.1021/acs.est.0c03978

18. Xiaobo Yun, Qiuhong Tang*, Jie Wang, Xingcai Liu, Yongqiang Zhang, Hui Lu, Yueling Wang, Lu Zhang和Deliang Chen (2020). Impacts of climate change and reservoir operation on streamflow and flood characteristics in the Lancang-Mekong River Basin. Journal of Hydrology, 590, 125472, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125472.

19. Gebremeskel Haile, G., Qiuhong Tang*, Seyed-Mohammad Hosseini-Moghari, Xingcai Liu, Gebremicael, T. G., Guoyong Leng, et al. (2020). Projected impacts of climate change on drought patterns over East Africa. Earth’s Future, 8(7): e2020EF001502, doi: 10.1029/2020EF001502

20. Qinghuan Zhang, Qiuhong Tang*, Xingcai Liu, Seyed-Mohammad Hosseini-Moghari, Pedram Attarod. (2020). Improving Princeton Forcing Dataset over Iran Using the Delta-Ratio Method. Water, 12(3), 630, doi: 10.3390/w12030630.

21. Xingcai Liu*, 2020, Reductions in labor capacity from intensified heat stress in China under future climate change. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(4): 1278, doi: 10.3390/ijerph17041278.

22. Gebremedhin Gebremeskel Haile, Qiuhong Tang*, Wenhong Li, Xingcai Liu, Xuejun Zhang, 2020, Drought: Progress in broadening its understanding. WIREs Water, 7(2): e1407, doi: 10.1002/wat2.1407.

23. 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, doi: 10.3390/rs11202421.

24. Hao Li, Liu Liu*, Baoying Shan, Zhicheng Xu, Qiankun Niu, Lei Cheng, Xingcai Liu, Zongxue Xu, 2019, Spatiotemporal Variation of Drought and Associated Multi-Scale Response to Climate Change over the Yarlung Zangbo River Basin of Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, China, Remote Sensing, 11(13), 1596, doi: 10.3390/rs11131596.

25. 汤秋鸿*, 兰措, 苏凤阁, 刘星才, 孙赫, 丁劲, 王磊, 冷国勇, 张永强, 桑燕芳, 方海燕, 张士锋, 韩冬梅, 刘小莽, 贺莉, 徐锡蒙, 唐寅, Deliang Chen, 2019, 青藏高原河川径流变化及其影响研究进展. 科学通报 64 (27):2807-2821, doi: 10.1360/TB-2019-0141.

26. Xingcai Liu*, Qiuhong Tang*, Wenfeng Liu, Ted I.E. Veldkamp, Boulange Julien, Junguo Liu, Wada Yoshihide, Hong Yang, 2019, A spatially explicit assessment of growing water stress in China from the past to the future, Earth’s Future, 7(9): 1027-1043, doi: 10.1029/2019ef001181. (封面文章)

27. Gebremedhin Gebremeskel Haile, Qiuhong Tang*, Siao Sun, Zhongwei Huang, Xuejun Zhang, Xingcai Liu, 2019, Droughts in East Africa: Causes, impacts and resilience. Earth-Science Reviews, 193, 146–161, doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.04.015.

28. Wenfeng Liu, Hong Yang, Qiuhong Tang, Xingcai Liu*, 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. (通讯作者)

29. Xingcai Liu, Wenfeng Liu, Hong Yang, Qiuhong Tang*, Martina Flörke, Yoshimitsu Masaki, Hannes Müller Schmied, Sebastian Ostberg, Yadu Pokhrel, Yusuke Satoh, Yoshihide Wada, 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.

30. Xingcai Liu, Qiuhong Tang*, Wenfeng Liu, Hong Yang, Pavel Ya Groisman, Guoyong Leng, Philippe Ciais, Xuejun Zhang, Siao Sun, 2019, The asymmetric impact of abundant preceding rainfall on heat stress in low latitudes, Environmental Research Letters, 14(4), 044010, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab018a.

31. 汤秋鸿*, 刘星才, 李哲, 运晓博, 张学君, 于强, 李俊, 张永勇, 崔惠娟, 孙思奥, 张弛, 唐寅,冷国勇, 2019, 陆地水循环过程的综合集成与模拟. 地球科学进展, 34(2), 115-123, doi: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2019.02.0115.

32. Jamal Zaherpour*, Nick Mount, Simon N. Gosling, Rutger Dankers, Stephanie, Eisner, Dieter Gerten, Xingcai Liu, Yoshimitsu Masaki, Müller Schmied, Hannes, Qiuhong Tang, Yoshihide Wada, 2019, Exploring the value of machine learning for weighted multi-model combination of an ensemble of global hydrological models, Environmental Modelling & Software, 114, 112-128, doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2019.01.003.

33. Zhongwei Huang, Qiuhong Tang*, Min-Hui Lo, Xingcai Liu, Hui Lu, Xuejun Zhang, Guoyong Leng, 2019, The influence of groundwater representation on hydrological simulation and its assessment using satellite-based water storage variation, Hydrological Processes, 33(8), 1218-1230, doi:10.1002/hyp.13393.

34. Chi Zhang, Qiuhong Tang*, Deliang Chen, Ruud J. van der Ent, Xingcai Liu, Wenhong Li, Gebremedhin Gebremeskel Haile, 2019, Moisture source changes contributed to different precipitation changes over the northern and southern Tibetan Plateau, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 20(2): 217-229, doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-18-0094.1.

35. Xingcai Liu, Qiuhong Tang*, Xuejun Zhang, Siao Sun, 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.

36. 刘星才, 汤秋鸿*, 尹圆圆, 徐新创, 2018. 气候变化下中国未来综合环境风险区划研究. 地理科学, 38(4), 636-644, doi: 10.13249/j.cnki.sgs.2018.04.018.

37. 汤秋鸿*, 张学君, 戚友存, 陈少辉, 贾国强, 穆梦斐, 杨杰, 杨其全, 黄昕, 运晓博, 刘星才, 黄忠伟, 唐寅, 2018, 遥感陆地水循环的进展与展望, 武汉大学学报·信息科学版, 43(12), 1872-1884, doi:10.13203/j.whugis20180174.

38. Pedram Attarod*, Qiuhong Tang, John Van Stan Ii, Xingcai Liu, 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.

39. Xuejun Zhang, Qiuhong Tang*, Xingcai Liu, Guoyong Leng, Chongli Di, 2018, Nonlinearity of Runoff Response to Global Mean Temperature Change Over Major Global River Basins, Geophysical Research Letters, 45(12), 6109-6116, doi: doi:10.1029/2018GL078646.

40. Richard Wartenburger*, Sonia Isabelle Seneviratne, Martin Hirschi, Jinfeng Chang, Philippe Ciais, Delphine Deryng, Joshua Elliott, Christian Folberth, Simon N. Gosling, Lukas Gudmundsson, Alexandra Henrot, Thomas Hickler, Akihiko Ito, Nikolai Khabarov, Hyungjun Kim, Guoyong Leng, Junguo Liu, Xingcai Liu, Yoshimitsu Masaki, Catherine Morfopoulos, Christoph Müller, Schmied Hannes Müller, Kazuya Nishina, Rene Orth, Yadu N. Pokhrel, Thomas Pugh, Yusuke Satoh, Sibyll Schaphoff, Erwin Schmid, Justin Sheffield, Tobias Stacke, Joerg Steinkamp, Qiuhong Tang, Wim Thiery, Yoshihide Wada, Xuhui Wang, Graham Peter Weedon, Hong Yang, and Tian Zhou, 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.

41. Ted I. E. Veldkamp*, Fang Zhao, Philip J. Ward, H. de Moel, Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts, Hannes Müller Schmied, F. T. Portmann, Yoshimitsu Masaki, Yadu Pokhrel, Xingcai Liu, Yusuke Satoh, Dieter Gerten, Simon N. Gosling, Jamal Zaherpour, and Yoshihide Wada, 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.

42. Xingcai Liu, Qiuhong Tang*, Huijuan Cui, Mengfei Mu, Dieter Gerten, Simon Gosling, Yoshimitsu Masaki, Yusuke Satoh, and Yoshihide Wada, 2017a. Multimodel uncertainty changes in simulated river flows induced by human impact parameterizations. Environmental Research Letters, 12(2), 025009, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa5a3a.

43. Xingcai Liu, Qiuhong Tang*, Xuejun Zhang, Pavel Groisman, Siao Sun, Hui Lu, and Zhe Li, 2017b. Spatially distinct effects of preceding precipitation on heat stress over Eastern China. Environmental Research Letters, 12(11), 115010, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa88f8.

44. Xuejun Zhang, Qiuhong Tang*, Guoyong Leng, Xingcai Liu, Zhe Li, Zhongwei Huang, 2017. On the dominant factor controlling seasonal hydrological forecast skill in China, Water, 9(11): 902, doi: 10.3390/w9110902. 

45. Chi Zhang, Qiuhong Tang*, Deliang Chen, Laifang Li, Xingcai Liu, and Huijuan Cui, 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.

46. Fang Zhao*, Ted I. E. Veldkamp, Katja Frieler, Jacob Schewe, Sebastian Ostberg, Sven Willner, Bernhard Schauberger, Simon N. Gosling, Hannes Müller Schmied, Felix T. Portmann, Guoyong Leng, Maoyi Huang, Xingcai Liu, Qiuhong Tang, Naota Hanasaki, Hester Biemans, Dieter Gerten, Yusuke Satoh, Yadu Pokhrel, Tobias Stacke, Philippe Ciais, Jinfeng Chang, Agnes Ducharne, Matthieu Guimberteau, Yoshihide Wada, Hyungjun Kim, and Dai Yamazaki, 2017. The critical role of the routing scheme in simulating peak river discharge in global hydrological models, Environmental Research Letters, 12(7), 075003, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa7250.

47. Lei Huang, Zhe Li, Qiuhong Tang*, Xuejun Zhang, Xingcai Liu, Huijuan Cui, 2017. Evaluation of satellite-based evapotranspiration estimates in China. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 11(2), 026019, doi: 10.1117/1.JRS.11.026019.

48. Yuanyuan Yin, Qiuhong Tang*, Xingcai Liu, and Xuejun Zhang, 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, 21(2), 791-804, doi: 10.5194/hess-21-791-2017.

49. Wenfeng Liu, Marta Antonelli, Xingcai Liu, Hong Yang*, 2017. Towards improvement of grey water footprint assessment: With an illustration for global maize cultivation, Journal of Cleaner Production, 147, 1-9, doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.01.072.

50. Xuejun Zhang, Qiuhong Tang, Xingcai Liu, Guoyong Leng, and Zhe Li, 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.

51. Xingcai Liu, Qiuhong Tang*, Nathalie Voisin, and Huijuan Cui, 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.

52. Qiuhong Tang*, Xuejun Zhang, Qingyun Duan, Shifeng Huang, Xing Yuan, Huijuan Cui, Zhe Li, and Xingcai Liu, 2016. Hydrological monitoring and seasonal forecasting: Progress and perspectives. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 26(7), 904-920, doi: 10.1007/s11442-016-1306-z.

53. Yuanyuan Yin, Qiuhong Tang*, Lixin Wang, and Xingcai Liu, 2016, Risk and contributing factors of ecosystem shifts over naturally vegetated land under climate change in China, Scientific Reports, doi: 10.1038/srep20905.

54. 汤秋鸿*, 黄忠伟, 刘星才, 韩松俊, 冷国勇, 张学君, 穆梦斐, 2015. 人类用水活动对大尺度陆地水循环的影响. 地球科学进展, 30(10): 1091-1099.

55. 徐宗学*, 刘星才, 李艳利, 2015. 流域一、二级水生态分区技术及在辽河流域的应用, 水利水电科技进展, 35(5): 176-180.

56. Songyan Yu, Zongxue Xu*, Xingcai Liu, Tongwen Dou, Chen Xu, 2015. Identifying and validating freshwater ecoregions in Jinan City, China. Journal of Hydrology, 528, 763-772, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.07.010.

57. Yuanyuan Yin, Qiuhong Tang*, and Xingcai Liu, 2015. A multi-model analysis of change in potential yield of major crops in China under climate change. Earth System Dynamics, 6(1), 45-59, doi:10.5194/esd-6-45-2015.

58. Xingcai Liu, Xuejun Zhang, Qiuhong Tang*, and Xuezhen Zhang, 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.

59. Guohua Liu, Qiuhong Tang*, Xingcai Liu, Junhu Dai, Xuezhen Zhang, Quansheng Ge, and Yin Tang. 2014. Spatiotemporal analysis of ground-based woody plant leafing in response to temperature in temperate eastern China. International Journal of Biometeorology, 15(2): 251–263, doi:10.1007/s00484-013-0762-8.

60. Jacob Schewe*, Jens Heinke, Dieter Gerten, Ingjerd Haddeland, Nigel W Arnell, Douglas B Clark, Rutger Dankers, Stephanie Eisner, Balazs M Fekete, Felipe J Colon-Gonzalez, Simon N Gosling, Hyungjun Kim, Xingcai Liu, Yoshimitsu Masaki, Felix T Portmann, Yusuke Satoh, Tobias Stacke, Qiuhong Tang, Yoshihide Wada, Dominik Wisser, Torsten Albrecht, Katja Frieler, Franziska Piontek, Lila Warszawski, and Pavel Kabat, 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.

61. J. C. S. Davie*, P. D. Falloon, R. Kahana, R. Dankers, R. Betts, F. T. Portmann, D. Wisser, D. B. Clark, A. Ito, Y. Masaki, K. Nishina, B. Fekete, Z. Tessler, Y. Wada, X. Liu, Q. Tang, S. Hagemann, T. Stacke, R. Pavlick, S. Schaphoff, S. N. Gosling, W. Franssen, N. Arnell, 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.


Research Interests

Climate change

Hydrological modeling

Students

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