Dr. Tianyi Zhang
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Acadmy of Sciences
Email: zhangty@mail.iap.ac.cn
Address: No. 40 Hua Yan Li Street, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Postcode: 100029
Research Interests
Dr. Tianyi Zhang is a senior scientist and professor at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics in China. His research is centered on crop forecasting under the influence of long-term climate change and short-term weather extremes, as well as adaptation strategies. He also conducts analysis from crop genotype to phenotype, develops crop models, and manages, processes, and visualizes big data to address issues across various disciplines. His career goal is to offer innovative insights and modeling tools to comprehend the impact of biotic and abiotic stresses, thereby enhancing the sustainability of agricultural systems in the face of global environmental changes.
Collaboration
2024-present, Sustainability Standards Research Center, Central University of Finance and Economiucs. China
2018-present, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia
2010-present, Center for International Climate and Environmental Resaearch-Oslo, Norway
2013-2015, Kansas State University, USA
2008-present, International Rice Research Institute
Education
2006.9–2009.7 | Ph.D. in Meteorology
| Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, |
2004.9–2006.7 | Master in Agricultural Meteorology | Department of Meteorology |
2000.9– 2004.7 | BSc in Meteorology | Department of Meteorology |
Experience
Work Experience
2024.1-present | Professor | Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, |
2024.1 – present | External Expert | Sustainability Standards Research Center, Central University of Finance and Economics |
2023.10-2023.11 | Visiting Scholar
| Agriculture and Food Division, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia |
2019.10-2019.11 | Visiting Scholar
| Agriculture and Food Division, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia |
2019.5-2019.6 | Visiting Scholar | Center for international Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo, Norway |
2019.4 | Visiting Scholar | Crop and Environmental Sciences Division International Rice Research Institute, Philippines |
2018.10-2018.12 | Visiting Scholar
| Agriculture and Food, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia |
2013.5-2024.1 | Associate Professor | Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, |
2013.10–2015.10 | Research Associate | Department of Agronomy Kansas State University, |
2009.7–2013.5 | Assistant Professor | Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, |
2011.7–2011.8 | Visiting Scholar | Center for international Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo, Norway |
2010.9–2009.10 | Visiting Scholar (de Wit Scholarship) | Centre for Crop Systems Analyses, Wageningen University, |
2008.10–2009.4 | Visiting Scholar | Rice and Climate Change Consortium International Rice Research Institute, Philippines |
Honors & Distinctions
l Zhang, T., 2023. Technology Innovation Award at Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
l Yang, X., Liu, Z., Jiang, S., Cao, T., Yang, N., Zhao, J., Wu, W., Yang, P., Wang, L., Dong, Z., Liang, J., Zhang, T., Zhao, C., Feng, L., Zhang, L. 2022. Drought and chilling for maize and rice in Northeast China and technologies. Technological Improvement Award of Ministry of Education PRC.
l Yang, X., Liu, Z., Zhang, T., Yang, P., Chen, F., Wu, W., Wang, J., Liu, Y. 2019. Impact and adaptation of climate change on agriculture in China. Natural Sciences Award of Ministry of Education PRC.
l Zhang, T. 2018. Youth innovation promotion. Chinese Academy of Sciences.
l Zhang, T., 2012. Scientific paper of Liangzhi Gao, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Publications
Zhang, T., Xie, Z., Zhou, J., Feng, H., Zhang, T. 2024. Temperature impacts on cotton yield superposed by effects on plant growth and verticillium wilt infection in China. International Journal of Biometeorology. 68, 199-209
Guo, S., Zhao, J., Zhao, C., Guo, E., Liu, Z., Harrison, M., Liu, K., Zhang, T., Yang, X. 2024. Adapting crop land-use in line with a changing climate improves productivity, prosperity and reduces greenhouse gas emissions. Agricultural Systems, 217, 103905.
He, Y., Xiong, W., Hu, P., Huang, D., Feurtado, J., Zhang, T., Hao, C., DePauw, R., Zheng, B., Hoogenboom, G., Dixon, L., Wang, H., Challinor, A., 2024. Climate change enhances stability of wheat-lowering-date. Science of the Total Environment. 917 170305.
Ma, H., Zhu, X., Cao, T., Li, S., Guo, E., Shi, Y., Guan, K., Li, E., Sun, R., Wang, X., Li, T., Zhang, T., Yang, X. 2023. Responses of rice cultivars with different cold tolerance to chilling in booting and flowering stages: An experiment in Northeast China. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science. 209, 864-875.
Zhan, P., Zhu, W., Zhang, T., Li, Na. 2023. Regional inequalities of future climate change impact on rice (Oryza sativa L.) yield in China. Science of the Total Environment. 898, 165495
Zhang W., Zhang, T., Yang, X. 2023. 1 km-resolution gridded dataset of phosphorus rate for rice wheat and maize in China over 2004–2016. Scientific Data, 10, 363.
Dong, X., Zhang, T., Yang, X., Li, T. 2023. Breeding priorities for rice adaptation to climate change in Northeast China. Climatic Change, 176, 75.
Dong, X., Zhang, T., Yang, X., Li, T., Li, X. 2023. Rice yield benefits from historical climate warming to be negated by extreme heat in Northeast China. International Journal of Biometeorology. 67, 835-846.
Zhang, W., Zhang, T., Yang, X. 2023. CN- N: A gridded dataset of nitrogen rate for rice, wheat and maize in China developed using the county- level nitrogen statistics. Geoscience Data Journal. In press.
Li, K., Zheng, F., Cheng, L., Zhang, T., Zhu, J. 2023. Record-breaking global temperature and crises with strong El Nino in 2023-2024. Innovation Geoscience. 1, 100030.
Shi, Y., Wang, L., Jiang, S., Guo, E., Li, T., Zhou, L., Zhang, W., Ma, H., Guan, K., Li, E., Zhang, T., Yang, X. 2023. An experimental study on the effects of intermittent chilling at different growth stages on rice yield in Northeast China. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science. 209, 317-329.
Zhang, T., He, Y., DePauw, R., Jin, Z., Garvin, D., Yue, X, Anderson, W., Li, T., Dong, X., Zhang, T., Yang, X. 2022. Climate change may outpace current wheat breeding yield improvements in North America. Nature Communications. 13, 5591.
Zhang, T., van der Wiel, K., Wei, T., Screen, J., Yue, X., Zheng, B., Selten, F., Bintanja, R., Anderson, W., Blackport, R., Glomsrød, S., Liu, Y., Cui, X., Yang, X., 2022. Increased wheat price spikes and larger economic inequality with 2oC global warming, One Earth. 5, 907–916.
Xu, J., Dong, X., Zhang, T., Liu, J., Tao, S. 2022. Mitigation of air pollution impacts on rice yields in China by sector. Environmental Research Letters. 17, 054037
Shi, Y., Guo, E., Cheng, X., Wang, L., Jiang, S., Yang, X., Ma, H., Zhang, T., Li, T., Yang, X. 2022. Effect of chilling at different growth stage on rice photosynthesis, plant growth and yield. Environmental and Experimental Botany. 203, 105045.
Feng, Z., Xu, Y., Dai, L., Kobayashi, K., Zhang, T., Agathokleous, E., Mukherjee, A., Agrawal, M., Calatayud, V., Yue, X. 2022. Ozone pollution threatens the production of major staple crops in Asia. Nature Food. 3, 47–56.
Guo, E., Wang, L., Jiang, S., Xiang, H., Shi, Y., Chen, Y., Cheng, X., Wang, X., Zhang, T., Wang, L., Feng, Y., Lai, Y., Li, T., Yang, X. 2022. Impacts of chilling at the tillering phases on rice growth and grain yield in Northeast China. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science. 00. 1–13.
Shi, Y., Guo, E., Wang, L., Li, T., Jiang, S., Xiang, H., Zhang, T., Cheng, X., Zhu, X., Zhou, L., Ma, H., Yang, X. 2022. Effects of chilling at the booting and flowering stages on rice phenology and yield: A case study in Northeast China. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science. 208. 197–208.
Zhang, T., Guo, E., Shi, Y., Xue, C., Zhu, X., Dong, X., Li, T., Wang, L., Jiang, S., Xiang, H., Wang, L., Feng, Y., Lai, Y., Cao, T., Li, S., Ma, S., Ma, H., Zhou, L., Wang, X., Yang, X. 2021. Modelling the advancement of chilling tolerance breeding in Northeast China. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science. 207, 984–994.
Zhang, T., Yue, X., Unger, N., Feng, Z., Zheng, B., Li, T., Lei, Y., Zhou, H., Dong, X., Liu, Y., Zhu, J., Yang, X. 2021. Modelling the joint impacts of ozone and aerosols on crop yield in China: An air pollution policy scenario analysis. Atmospheric Environments. 247, 118216.
Vogel, J., Rivoire, P., Deidda, C., Rahimi, L., Sauter, C., Tschumi, E., van der Wiel, K., Zhang, T., Zscheischler, J. 2021. Identifying meteorological drivers of extreme impacts: an application to simulated crop yields. Earth System Dynamics. 12, 151–172.
Bevacqua, E., De Michele, C., Manning, C., Couasnon, A., Ribeiro, A., Ramos, A., Vignotto, E., Bastos, A., Blesic, S., Durante, F., Hillier, J., Oliveira, S., Pinto, J., Ragno, E., Rivoire, P., Saunders, K., van der Wiel, K., Wu, W., Zhang , T. Zscheischler, J. 2021. Guidelines for studying diverse types of compound weather and climate events. Earth’ Future, 9, e2021EF002340.
Jabbi, F., Li, Y., Zhang, T., Wang, B., Hassan, W., You, S. 2021. Impacts of temperature trends and SPEI on yields of major cereal crops in the Gambia. Sustainability. 13, 12480.
Daloz, A., Rydsaa, J., Hodnebrog, O., Silmann, J., van Oort, B., Mohr, C., Agrawal, M., Emberson, L., Stordal, F., Zhang, T. 2021. Direct and indirect impacts of climate change on wheat yield in the Indo-Gangetic plain in India. Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 4, 100132.
Yu, H., Wu, D., Piao, X., Zhang, T., Yan, Y., Tian, Y., Li, Q., Cui, X. 2021. Reduced impacts of heat extremes from limiting global warming to under 1.5oC or 2oC over Mediterranean regions. Environmental Research Letters. 16, 014034
Yue, X., Zhang, T., Shao, C.,2021. Afforestation increases ecosystem productivity and carbon storage in China during 2000s. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.296, 108227
Zhou, T., Yue, X., Lei, Y., Zhang, T., Tian, C., Ma, Y., Cao, Y. 2021. Responses of gross primary productivity to diffuse radiation at global FLUXNET sites. Atmospheric Environment. 244, 117905.
Guo, E., Yang, X., Li, T., Zhang, T., Wilson, L., Wang, X., Zheng, D., Yang, Y., 2021. Does ENSO strongly affect rice yield and water application in Northeast China. Agricultural Water Management. 245, 106605
Zhang, T., Guo, E, Yang, X, Li, T., Wang, L., Jiang, S., Xiang, H., Wang, L., Feng, Y., Lai, Y. 2020. Separate parameterization of pre- and post-flowering phases as a solution to minimize simulation bias trends in rice phenology with climate warming. Field Crops Research, 245, 107672.
Yue, X., Liao, H., Wang, H., Zhang, T., Unger, N., Sitch, S., Feng, Z., Yang, J. 2020. Pathway dependence of ecosystem responses in China to 1.5oC global warming. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 20, 2353–2366.
Wei, T., Zhang, T., Cui, X., Glomsrød, S., Liu, Y. 2019. Potential influence of climate change on grain self‐sufficiency at the country level considering adaptation measures. Earth's Future, 7. 1152–1166.
Zhang, T., Mahmood, R, Lin, X., Pielke, R., 2019. Irrigation impacts on minimum and maximum surface moist enthalphy in the Central Great Plains of the USA. Weather and Climate Extreme, 23, 100197
Zhan, P., Zhu, W., Zhang, T., Cui, X., Li, N. 2019. Impacts of sulfate geoengineering on rice yield in China: Results from a multimodel ensemble. Earth’s Future 7, 395–410.
Sun, S., Yang, X., Lin, X., Zhao, J., Liu, Z., Zhang, T., Xie, W. 2019. Seasonal variability in potential and actual yields of winter wheat in China. Field Crops Research. 240, 1–11.
Ling, X., Zhang, T., Deng, N., Yuan, S., Yuan, G., He, W., Cui, K., Nie, L., Peng, S., Li, T., Huang, J. 2019. Modelling rice growth and grain yield in rice ratooning production system. Field Crops Research, 241, 107574.
Zhang, T., Yue X, Li, T, Unger N., X, Yang, 2018, Climate effects of stringent air pollution controls mitigate future maize losses in China. Environmental Research Letters. 13, 124011
Wang, X., Li, T., Yang, X., Zhang, T. Liu, Z. et al. 2018. Rice yield potential, gaps and constraints during the past three decades in a climate-changing Northeast China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 259, 173–183.
Zhang, T., Li, T., Yue, X., Yang, X. 2017. Impacts of aerosol pollutant mitigation on lowland rice yields in China. Environmental Research Letters, 12, 104003
Zhang, T., Wang, J., Teng, Y. 2017. Adaptive Effectiveness of Irrigated Area Expansion in Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change on Crop Yields in Northern China. Sustainability, 9, 851
Wei, T., Zhang, T., Bruin K., Glomrod, S., Shi, Q. 2017. Extreme weather impacts on maize yield: The case of Shanxi Province in China. Sustainability, 9, 1–12
Wei, T., Glomrod, S., Zhang, T. 2017. Extreme weather, food security and the capacity to adapt- the case of crops in China, Food Security, 9, 523–535.
Zhang, T., Li, T., Yang, X., Simelton E. 2016. Model biases in rice phenology under warmer climates. Scientific Reports, 6, 27355
Zhang, T., Yang, X. 2016. Mapping Chinese rice suitability to climate change, Journal of Agricultural Science, 8, 33–48
Zhang, T, Lin X., 2016 Assessing future drought impacts on yields based on historical irrigation reaction to drought for four major crops in Kansas,Science of the Total Environment, 550, 851–860
Zhang, T, Lin X., Rogers, D, Lamm, F. 2015. Adaptation of irrigation infrastructure on irrigation demands under future drought in the United States,Earth Interactions, 19, 1–16
Zhang, T., Lin, X., Sassenrath, G. 2015. Current irrigation practices in the central United States reduce drought and extreme heat impacts for maize and soybean but not for wheat. Science of the Total Environment, 508, 331–342.
Zhang, T., Wang, H. 2015. Trend patterns of vegetative coverage and their underlying causes in the deserts of Northwest China over 1982 – 2008, PloS one, 10, e0126044.
Zhang, T., Yang, X., Wang, H., Li, Y., Ye, Q. 2014. Climatic and technological ceilings for Chinese rice stagnation based on yield gaps and yield trend pattern analysis. Global Chang Biology, 20, 1289–1298.
Wei, T., Cherry, T., Glomrod, S., Zhang, T. 2014. Climate change impacts on crop yield: Evidence from China, Science of the Total Environment, 499, 133–140.
Li, K., Yang, X., Liu, Z., Zhang, T. Lu, S. Liu, Y. 2014. Low yield gap of winter wheat in the North China Plain. European Journal of Agronomy 59, 1–12.
Zhang, T., Huang, Y., Yang, X. 2013. Climate warming over the past three decades has shortened rice growth duration in China and cultivar shifts have further accelerated the process for late rice. Global Chang Biology, 19, 563–570
Zhang, T., Huang,Y. 2013. Estimating the impacts of warming trends on wheat and maize in China from 1980 to 2008 based on county level data. International Journal of Climatology. 33, 699–708.
Zhang, T., Simelton, E., Huang, Y., Shi, Y. 2013. A Bayesian assessment of the current irrigation water supplies capacity under projected droughts for the 2030s in China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 178, 56–65.
Zhang, T., Huang, Y. 2012. Impacts of climate change and interannual variability on cereal crops in China from 1980 to 2008. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 92, 1643–1652.
Van Oort, P., Zhang, T., de Vries, M., Heinemann, A., Meinke, H. 2011. Correlation between temperature and phenology error in rice (Oryza sativa L.). Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 151, 1545–1555.
Zhang, T., Zhu, J., Wassmann, R. 2010. Responses of rice yields to recent climate change in China: An empirical assessment based on long-term observations at different spatial scales (1981–2005). Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 150, 1128–1137.
Piao, S., Ciais, P., Huang, Y., Shen, Z., Peng, S., Li, J., Zhou, L., Liu, H., Ma, Y., Ding, Y., Friedlingstein, P., Liu, C., Tan, K., Yu, Y., Zhang, T., Fang, J., The impacts of climate change on water resources and agriculture in China, Nature, 2010, 467, 43–51
Zhang, T., Zhu, J., Yang, X. 2008. Non-stationary thermal time accumulation reduces the predictability of climate change effects on agriculture. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 148: 1412–1418
Zhang, T. , Zhu, J., Yang, X., Zhang, X. 2008. Correlation changes between rice yields in North and Northwest China and ENSO from 1960 to 2004. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 148, 1021–1033.
Xue, C., Yang, X., Bouman, B.A.M., Deng, W., Zhang, Q. Yan, W., Zhang, T., Rouzi, A., Wang, H. 2008. Optimizing yield, water requirements, and water productivity of aerobic rice for the North China Plain. Irrigation Science, 26: 459–474.
Xue, C., Yang, X., Deng, W., Zhang, T., Yan, W., Xiong, W., Zhang, Q., Rouzi, A., Zhao, J., Yang, J., Bouman, B. 2007. Yield potential and water requirement of aerobic rice in Beijing analyzed by ORYZA2000 model. Acta Agronomica Sinica, 33, 625-631.
Yang, X., Bouman, B., Zhang, Q., Xue, C., Zhang, T., Xu, J., Xu, J., Wang, P., Wang, H., 2006. Crop coefficient of aerobic rice in North China. Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering, 22, 37-41
Data Products
Zhang, T., Zhang, W, Yang, X. 2023. CN-P (version 1): a crop-specific, 1 km-resolution phosphorus rate data product in China over 2004–2016 (Version 1). Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7460564.
Zhang, T., Zhang, W, Yang, X. 2023. CN-N (version 1): a crop-specific, 1 km-resolution nitrogen rate data product in China over 2004–2016 (Version 1). Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7196777
News and Reports
Cell Press:
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/961592
JPI-Belmont:
https://jpi-climate.eu/news/climate-change-likely-to-raise-wheat-prices-in-food-insecure-regions-and-exacerbate-economic-inequality/
European Commission:
https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/442076-how-will-climate-change-affect-the-yield-and-price-of-wheat
COSMOS:
https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/climate/food-supply-chain/
Xinhua:
https://english.news.cn/20220823/7fa43cd573d642e8b05533d36bf35a8a/c.html
Straits Times:
ScienceDaily:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220819112523.htm
Phys.org:
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-climate-steeper-wheat-price-spikes.html
Earth.com:
https://www.earth.com/news/wheat-prices-will-spike-as-climate-changes/
Nature World News:
https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/52677/20220822/climate-change-affect-wheat-prices-food-insecure-regions-cause-economic.htm
Baking Business:
https://www.bakingbusiness.com/articles/57087-climate-change-to-impact-wheat-in-developing-countries-more
Tasting Table:
https://www.tastingtable.com/975530/new-study-shows-uneven-way-climate-change-may-affect-wheat-prices/
Scientific America (in Arabic):
https://www.scientificamerican.com/arabic/articles/news/warming-increases-wheat-price/
SiNC.es (in Spanish):
https://www.agenciasinc.es/Noticias/El-bajo-rendimiento-del-trigo-en-paises-del-sur-aumentara-la-inseguridad-alimentaria-y-la-desigualdad
GreenReport.it (in Italian)
https://greenreport.it/news/clima/il-cambiamento-climatico-il-prezzo-del-grano-e-la-disuguaglianza-economica/
China Central Television (in Chinese):
https://content-static.cctvnews.cctv.com/snow-book/index.html?toc_style_id=feeds_default&share_to=wechat&item_id=14468915404278354934&track_id=BBCD5FE9-13A7-42C4-AD66-5F8C9A8635C0_682828767585
Guangming Daily (in Chinese):
https://app.gmdaily.cn/as/opened/n/c61765bd742a403392ca9fb7e6a52dc8
Wenhui Po (in Chinese):
http://wenhui.whb.cn/zhuzhanapp/kjwz/20220822/482114.html
China Youth News (in Chinese):
https://s.cyol.com/articles/2022-08/24/content_r2avl8S3.html?gid=2V1Qqd1E
Science and Technology Daily (in Chinese):
http://digitalpaper.stdaily.com/http_www.kjrb.com/kjrb/html/2022-08/23/content_540555.htm?div=-1
People's Daily Online (in Chinese):
http://finance.people.com.cn/n1/2022/0822/c1004-32508218.html
China News (in Chinese):
https://m.chinanews.com/wap/detail/chs/zw/9833757.shtml
China Environmental News (in Chinese):
https://res.cenews.com.cn/h5/news.html?id=1001274
EurekAlert:
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/967315
China News:
https://m.chinanews.com/wap/detail/chs/zw/9864849.shtml
China Environmental News (in Chinese):
https://res.cenews.com.cn/h5/news.html?id=1008649
China Youth News (in Chinese):
https://s.cyol.com/articles/2022-10/09/content_1VGBE4sl.html?gid=2V1Qqd1E
Phys.org:
https://phys.org/news/2012-04-rainfall-greater-threat-china-agriculture.html
CCTV:
https://news.cctv.com/2017/02/20/ARTIRerZnazjWCoq3rZBCobh170220.shtml