Surface hydrology, Climate change, land cover change, hydrometeorology

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Aug. 1999 - Sep. 2005, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA, PhD

Sep. 1993 - Sep. 1996, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, Jiangsu, China, Ms.

Sep. 1988 - Jul. 1993, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, Jiangsu, China, Bachelor

Sep. 2010 - present, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor

Feb. 2010 - Aug. 2010, Australia CSIRO, Research Scientist

May 2009 - Dec. 2009, University of Victoria, Canada, post-doc

Oct. 2005 - Apr. 2009, Unversity of Washington at Seattle, USA, post-doc

Jul. 1996 - Aug. 1999, Qinghai Meteorological Bureau, engineer

Currently teaching Global Change, Chapter 5 Hydrological Cycle under Global Change for international students

1. Ni Li, Lan Cuo, Yongxin Zhang, Jin Ding, 2024. The synthesis of potential factors contributing to the asynchronous warming between air and shallow ground since the 2000s on the Tibetan Plateau, Geoderma, 441,116753.

2. 兰措，2024，气候变化背景下陆面模式研究进展及不足—青藏高原的水文、植被和土壤模拟，地球科学进展，39，46-55

3. Zhe Liu, Ninglian Wang, Lan Cuo, Liqiao Liang, 2023, Characteristics and attribution of spatiotemporal changes in Qilian Mountains’ runoff over the past six decades, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmosphere, 128, e2023JD039176. https://doi. org/10.1029/2023JD039176

4. Lan Cuo, Haoqiang Zhao, Yongxin Zhang, Ning Li, Liqiao Liang, Zhe Liu, Jin Ding, Fuxin Zhu, 2023. Spatiotemporally heterogeneous soil thermohydraulic processes in the frozen soil of the Tibetan Plateau, Geoderma, 438, 116634

5. Rongjun Wang, Yongjian Ding, Donghui Shangguan, Lan Cuo, et al., 2023. Projections of glacier peak water and its timing in the Sanjiangyuan on the Tibetan Plateau, 45(4),101313.

6. Amirkhamza Murodov, Lan Cuo, Ning Li, Davlatkhudzha Murodov, Mei Hou, and Gulfam Hussain, 2023, Extreme Hydro-meteorological conditions and changes in the Amu Darya River Basin in Central Asia, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 24,315-334, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-22-0025.1

7. Mei Hou, Lan Cuo, Amirkhamza Murodov, Jin Ding, Yi Luo, Tie Liu, Xi Chen, 2023, Streamflow Composition and the Contradicting Impacts of Anthropogenic Activities and Climatic Change on Streamflow in the Amu Darya Basin, Central Asia, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 24,185-201, DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-22-0040.1

8. Zhe Liu, Lan Cuo, Ning Sun, 2023, Tracking snowmelt during hydrological surface processes using a distributed hydrological model in a mesoscale basin on the Tibetan Plateau, Journal of Hydrology, 616, 128796

9. Lan Cuo, Yongxin Zhang, Ning Li, 2022. Historical and Future Vegetation Changes in the Degraded Frozen Soil and the Entire Tibetan Plateau and Climate Drivers, Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, 127, e2022JG006987, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JG006987

10. Arati Poudel, Lan Cuo, Ayush Raj Gyawali, Ning Li, 2022. Spatiotemporal patterns of Hydro-meteorological Extremes over 1986-2015 in Nepal. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 23, 573-596,  https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-21-0122.1

11. 刘哲，兰措，2022.青海北川河流域径流变化的机理研究—给予模型和统计两种方法，地理科学进展，41(2):304-315.

12. 李昌隆，兰措，格桑央培，孙祖刚，尹正宇.2022.西藏旁多水利枢纽工程对拉萨河径流情势变化的影响.中国农村水利水电 ，8:41-49， https://kns.cnki.net/kcms/detail/42.1419.TV.20220311.1540.026.html

13. Liqiao Liang, Lan Cuo, Qing Liu, 2022. The role of the snow ratio in mass balance change under a warming climate for the Dongkemadi Glacier, Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Climate, 35,3833-3844.

14. Lei Wang, Tandong Yao, Chenhao Chai, Lan Cuo, Fengge Su, et al., 2021. TP-River monitoring and quantifying total river runoff from the Third Pole, Bulletin of American Meteorological Society, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0207.1

15. 32. Ning Li, Lan Cuo, Yongxin Zhang, 2021. On the freeze-thaw cycles of shallow soil and connnections with environmental factors over the Tibetan Plateau, Climate Dynamics, 57 (11-12), 3183-3206

16. Jing Ding, Lan Cuo, Yongxin Zhang, Cunjie Zhang, Liqiao Liang, Zhe Liu, 2021. Annual and seasonal precipitation and their extrems over the Tibetan Plateau and its surroundings in 1963-3015, Atmosphere, 12,620. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12050620

17. Jing Ding, Lan Cuo, Yongxin Zhang, Cunjie Zhang, 2021. Varied spatiotemporal changes in wind speed over the Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding in the past decades, International Journal of Climatology, 41 (13), 5956-5976

18. Lan Cuo, Yongxin Zhang, Xu-Ri, Bingrong Zhou, 2021. Decadal change and inter-annual variability of net primary productivity on the Tibetan Plateau, Climate Dynamics, 56 (5-6) , pp.1837-1857

19. Giri Kattel, Jessica Reeves, Andrew Western, Wenjing Zhang, Wei Jing, Suzanne McGowan, Lan Cuo, et al., 2020. Healthy waterways and ecologically sustainable cities in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration (northern China): Challenges and future directions, WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-WATER, e1500, DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1500

20. Liqiao Liang, Lan Cuo, Qiang Liu, 2020. Long-Term Temporal Scale-Dependent Warming Effects on the Mass Balance in the Dongkemadi Glacier, Tibetan Plateau, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmosphere, 125, e2020JD033105. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD033105

21. Manqing Shao; Gang Zhao; Shih-Chieh Kao; Lan Cuo; Cheryl Rankin; Huilin Gao, 2020. Quantifying the Effects of Urbanization on Floods in a Changing Environment to Promote Water Security — A Case Study of Two Adjacent Basins in Texas. Journal Of Hydrology, 589,125154,

22. Zhe Liu, Lan Cuo, Qijiang Li, et al. 2020. Impacts of Climate Change and Land Use/Cover Change on Streamflow in Beichuan River Basin in Qinghai Province, China, Water, 12, 1198; doi:10.3390/w12041198

23. Lan Cuo, Yongxin Zhang, Yongqiu Wu, Mei Hou, 2020. Desertification affecting the Tibetan Plateau between 1971-2015: viewed from a climate perspective. Land Degradation & Development, 31 (15), pp.1956-1968, DOI: 10.1002/ldr.3575.

24. Arati Poudel, Lan Cuo, Jin Ding, Ayush Raj Gyawali, 2020. Spatio-temporal variability of the annual and monthly extreme temperature indices in Nepal. International Journal of Climatology. 40 (11), pp.4956-4977

25. 汤秋鸿，兰措，苏凤阁，刘星才等，2019. 青藏高原河川径流变化及其影响研究进展，科学通报，64, 2807-2821. Tang, Q., Lan Cuo, Fengge Su, Xingcai Liu, et al. 2019. Streamflow change on the Tibetan Plateau and its impacts. Chinese Science Bulletin-Chinese, 64, 2807-2821.

26. Liqiao Liang, Lan Cuo, Qiang Liu, 2019, Mass balance variation and associative climate drivers for the Dongkemadi Glacier in the central Tibetan Plateau, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmosphere, 124, 10,814-10,825, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD030615

27. Lan Cuo, 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, Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 25, 100625.

28. Jin Ding, 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.

29. Liqiao Liang, Lan Cuo, Qiang Liu, 2018. The energy and mass balance of a continental glacier: Dongkemadi Glacier in central Tibetan Plateau, 2018, Scientific Reports, 8,12788.

30.  Fuxin Zhu, 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

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

32. Gang Li, Hui Lin, Lan Cuo, Andrew Hooper, Qinghua Ye, 2017. A decreasing gradient of mass balance from Tarim edge to Karakoram during 2010-2014 by means of bistatic InSAR observation, Scientific Reports, 7, 6712.

33. Gang Zhao, Huilin Gao, Lan Cuo,  2016. Effects of Urbanization and Climate Change on Peak Flows over the San  Antonio River Basin, Texas. Journal of Hydrometeorology,  10.1175/JHM-D-15-0216

34. Guoshuai Zhang, Shichang Kang, Lan Cuo,  Bin Qu, 2016. Modeling hydrological process in a glacier basin on the  central Tibetan Plateau with a Distributed Hydrology Soil Vegetation  Model: Application of DHSVM at a glaicer basin, Journal of Geophysical  Research Atmospheres 08/2016; DOI:10.1002/2016JD025434.

35. Lan Cuo,  Yongxin Zhang, Shilong Piao, and Yanhong Gao, 2016, Simulated annual  changes in plant functional types and their responses to climate change  on the northern Tibetan Plateau, Biogeosciences, 13, 3533-3548.

36. Renhe Zhang, Fengge Su, Zhihong Jiang, Xuejie Gao, Donglin Guo, Jian Ni, Qinglong You, Lan Cuo,  Botao Zhou. 2015. An overview of projected climate and environmental  changes across the Tibetan Plateau in the 21st century (in Chinese).  Chinese Science Bulletin, 60: 3036–3047, doi: 10.1360/N972014-01296

37. Lan Cuo,  2016. 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). 

38. Lan Cuo,  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

39. Tangguang Gao, Shichang Kang, Lan Cuo,  Tingjun Zhang, Guoshuai Zhang, Yulan Zhang, Mika Sillanpaa, 2015.  Simulation and analysis of glacier runoff and mass balance in the Nam Co  basin, southern Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Glaciology, 61 (227),  doi:10.3189/2015JoG14J170.

40. Yanhong Gao, Ruby L. Leung, Yongxin Zhang, Lan Cuo,  2015. Changes in moisture flux over the Tibetan Plateau during  1979-2011: insights from a high-resolution simulation. Journal of  Climate, 28(10), 4185-4197. Doi:http/dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00581.1

41. Lan Cuo,  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.

42. Yanhong Gao, Lan Cuo,  Yongxin Zhang, 2014, Changes in Moisture Flux over the Tibetan Plateau  during 1979-2011 and Possible Mechanisms, Journal of Climate, 27,  1876-1893, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00321.1

43. Lan Cuo,  Yongxin Zhang, Yanhong Gao, Zhenchun Hao, 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.

44. LiQiao Liang, LiJuan Li, ChangMing Liu, Lan Cuo, 2013，Climate  Change in the Tibetan Plateau Three Rivers Source 1 Region: 1960–2009.  International Journal of Climatology, 33(13), 2900-2916

45. Fengge Su, Xiaolan Duan, Deliang Chen, Zhenchun Hao and Lan Cuo, 2013, Evaluation of the Global Climate Models in the CMIP5 over the Tibetan Plateau, Journal of Climate, 26(10),3187-3208.

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

47. Tangguang Gao, Shichang Kang, Peter Krause, Lan Cuo,  Santoch Nepal, 2012. A test of J2000 model in a glacierized catchment  in the central Tibetan Plateau, Environmental Earth Sciences, 65,  1651-1659.

48. Lan Cuo,  Thomas C. Pagano, Q.J. Wang, 2011. A Review of Quantitative  Precipitation Forecasts and Their Use In Short- to Medium-Range  Streamflow Forecasting, Journal of Hydrometeorology 12, 713-728.

49. Lan Cuo,  Thomas W. Giambelluca, Alan D. Ziegler, 2011. Lumped parameter  sensitivity analysis of a distributed hydrological model within tropical  and temperate catchments. Hydrological Processes , 25, 2405-2421.

50. Lan Cuo,  Tazebe K. Beyene, Nathalie Voisin, Fengge Su, Dennis P. Lettenmaier,  Marina Alberti, Jeffrey E. Richey, 2011. Mid-21st century climate and  land cover change effects on the hydrology of the Puget Sound basin,  Washington, Hydrological Processes，25(11),1729-1753.DOI:10.1002/hyp7932.

51. Marketa M Elsner, 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.

52. Julie A. Vano, Nathalie Voisin , Lan Cuo,  Alan F. Hamlet, Marketa McGuire Elsner, Richard N. Palmer, Austin  Polebitski, and Dennis P. Lettenmaier, 2010, Climate change impacts on  water management in the Puget Sound region, Washington, USA, Climatic  Change, 102: 261-286. DOI 10.1007/s10584-010-9846-1.

53. Lan Cuo,  John Vogler and Jefferson M. Fox, 2010.Topographic normalization for  improving vegetation classification in a mountainous watershed in  Northern Thailand. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 31(11):  3037-3050. DOI:10.1080/01431160903154333

54. Lan Cuo,  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.

55. Joeseph H. Casola, Lan Cuo,  Ben Livneh, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Philip W. Mote, and John, M.  Wallace, 2009. Assessing the Impacts of Global warming on snowpack of  the Washington Cascades. Journal of Climate, 22: 2758-2772. DOI:  10.1175/2008JCLI2612.1.

56. Lan Cuo,  Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Pascal Storck, and Matthew Wiley, 2008.  Hydrological Prediction for urban watersheds with the distributed  hydrology-soil-vegetation model. Hydrological Processes, 22:4205-4213.  DOI:10.1002/hyp.7023.

57. Lan Cuo  and Thomas W. Giambelluca, Alan D. Ziegler, Michael Nullet, 2008. The  roles of roads and agricultural land use in altering hydrological  processes in Nam Mae Rim watershed, northern Thailand. Hydrological  Processes, 22:4339-4354. DOI:10.1002/hyp.7039.

58. Lan Cuo,  Thomas. W. Giambelluca, Alan D. Ziegler, and Michael A. Nullet, 2006.  Use of the distributed hydrology soil vegetation model to study road  effects on hydrological processes in Pang Khum experimental watershed in  northern Thailand, Forest Ecology and Management, 224:81-94.  DOI:10.1016/j.foreco.2005.12.009.

Department of Geography, UCLA, USA

RAL, NCAR, USA

BOM, Australia

已指导学生

朱陵晶  博士研究生  070602-大气物理学与大气环境  

朱付欣  博士研究生  070501-自然地理学  

刘哲  博士研究生  070501-自然地理学  

丁劲  博士研究生  070501-自然地理学  

赵浩强  硕士研究生  070501-自然地理学  

李宁  博士研究生  070501-自然地理学  

侯梅  博士研究生  070501-自然地理学  

李昌隆  硕士研究生  070501-自然地理学  

现指导学生

李轩  博士研究生  070501-自然地理学  

张雪峰  硕士研究生  070501-自然地理学  

  (1)   The CAS excellent Hundred Talent nominee, 2016

  (2） Excellent Youth award by the China Society on Tibetan Plateau,  2015

（3） US National Center for Atmospheric Research visitor travel fund, 2014