Pro. Dr. Hongkai Gao

Review Editor of Frontier in Earth Sciences

Guest Editor of Advances in Meteorology

Reviewer of Hydrological and Earth System Sciences, Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydrology, Journal of Hydrometeorology, Hydrological Processes, Journal of Glaciology, Journal of Climatology, Journal of Water and Climate, Hydrology Research, Marine Pollution Bulletin, Mountain Research and Development, Land Degradation & Development, Remote Sensing, Sustainability, Global and Planetary Change, Hydrology, Frontiers in Earth Science

catchment hydrology; ecohydrology; glacier and snow hydrology; urban hydrology

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5 representative publications:

 Gao, H.*, Fenicia, F., and Savenije, H. H. G.: HESS Opinions: Are soils overrated in hydrology?, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 27, 2607–2620, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-2607-2023, 2023.

Gao, H.*, Hrachowitz, M., Schymanski, S. J., Fenicia, F., Sriwongsitanon, N., and Savenije, H. H. G.: Climate controls how ecosystems size the root zone storage capacity at catchment scale, Geophysical Research Letters, 10.1002/2014GL061668, 2014.

Gao, H.*, Birkel, C., Hrachowitz, M., Tetzlaff, D., Soulsby, C. & H.H.G. Savenije. A simple topography-driven and calibration-free runoff generation model. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2019

Gao, H.*, Hrachowitz, M., Fenicia, F., Gharari, S., and Savenije, H. H. G.: Testing the realism of a topography-driven model (flex-topo) in the nested catchments of the upper Heihe, china, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 18, 1895-1915, 10.5194/hess-18-1895-2014, 2014.

Gao, H.*, Hrachowitz, M., Sriwongsitanon, N., Fenicia, F., Gharari, S., and Savenije, H. H. G.: Accounting for the influence of vegetation and landscape improves model transferability in a tropical savannah region, 2016. DOI: 2016WR019574 Water Resources Research.

2023

Gao, H.*, Fenicia, F., and Savenije, H. H. G.: HESS Opinions: Are soils overrated in hydrology?, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 27, 2607–2620, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-2607-2023, 2023.

Gao, H., Qu, W., Ren, Z.*, Zhang, B., Liu, J., Duan, Z. Fish communities and diversity in river ecosystems on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau revealed by environmental DNA(eDNA) method. Ecological Indicators, 2023

Mohammadi, B. †, Gao, H., Feng, Z. †, Pilesjö, P., Cheraghalizadeh, M., Duan, Z. Simulating glacier mass balance and its contribution to runoff in Northern Sweden. Journal of Hydrology 620 (2023) 129404

Lin, J., Bryan, B.A., Zhou, X., Lin, P., Do, H.X., Gao, L., Gu, X., Liu, Z., Wan, L., Tong, S., Huang, J., Wang, Q., Zhang, Y., Gao, H., Yin, J., Chen, Z., Duan, W., Xie, Z., Cui, T., Liu, J., Li, M., Li, X., Xu, Z., Guo, F., Shu, L., Li, B., Zhang, J., Zhang, P., Fan, B., Wang, Y., Zhang, Y., Huang, J., Li, X., Cai, Y.*, Yang, Z. Making China’s water data accessible, usable and shareable. Nature Water 1, 328–335 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-023-00039-y

Shao, W., Li, M. Su, Y.*, Gao, H., Vlček, L. A modified Jarvis model to improve the expressing of stomatal response in a beech forest. Hydrological Processes, 37(8), 2023, e14955

Okwir, G. †, Kumar, S., Pramod, K.S., Gao, H., Njau, K.N. Conceptualization of groundwater-surface water interaction with evidence from environmental isotopes and hydrogeochemistry in lake Babati Basin in Northern Tanzania. Groundwater for Sustainable Development 21 (2023) 100940

高红凯*，刘俊国，高光耀，夏军. 水源涵养功能概念的生态和水文视角辨析. 地理学报，78 (1): 139-148, 2023

张博美†，高红凯*，魏江峰. 全球空中水资源管理潜力的关键区识别与源汇分析. 科学通报, 2023

倪静雯，高红凯*，秦延华，张文鑫，何天豪，雍磊磊，冯紫荆. 天山典型流域水文多要素模拟与气候变化影响预估. 冰川冻土, 2023

2022

Gao, H.*, Han, C., Chen, R., Feng, Z. †, Wang, K., Fenicia, F., and Savenije, H. (2022): Frozen soil hydrological modeling for a mountainous catchment northeast of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 26, 4187–4208, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-4187-2022.

Chen, X., Wang, S. †, Gao, H.*, Shen, C., Huang, J., Liu, M., Li, Z., Zheng, L., Li, Q., Qi, H. (2022): Comparison of deep learning models and a typical process-based model in glacio-hydrology simulations. Journal of Hydrology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.128562

Ren, Z., Gao, H.* (2022) Abundant and rare soil fungi exhibit distinct succession patterns in the forefield of Dongkemadi glacier on the central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Science of the Total Environment. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154563

Chen, X., Huang, J., Wang, S., Zhou, G., Gao, H.*, Liu, M., Yuan, Y., Zheng, L., Li, Q., Qi, H. (2022) A New Rainfall-Runoff Model Using Improved LSTM with Attentive Long and Short Lag-Time. Water, 14(5), 697; https://doi.org/10.3390/w14050697

Ren, Z.*, Gao, H.*, Luo, W., Elser, J. (2022) Bacterial communities in surface and basal ice of a glacier terminus in the headwaters of Yangtze River on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Environmental Microbiome,

Ren, Z., Gao, H.*, Luo, W., Elser, J. (2022) C:N:P stoichiometry in six distinct habitats of a glacier terminus in the source area of the Yangtze River. Biogeochemistry, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-022-00893-0

Chen, X., Huang, J., Wang, S., Zhou, G., Gao, H.*, Liu, M., Yuan, Y., Zheng, L., Li, L., Qi, H. (2022) New Rainfall-Runoff Model Using Improved LSTM with Attentive Long and Short Lag-time. Water, 1547776

Dong, J.*, Crow, W.T., Chen, X., Tangdamrongsub, N., Gao, M., Sun, S., Qiu, J., Wei, L., Gao, H., Duan, Z. Statistical uncertainty analysis-based precipitation merging (SUPER): A new framework for improved global precipitation estimation. Remote Sensing of Environment 283 (2022) 113299

Okwir, G., Kumar, S.P. Gao, H., Selemani, J.R., Njau, K.N. Multi-variate regression analysis of lake level variability: A case of semi-closed, shallow rift valley lake in Northern Tanzania. Environmental Challenges (2022) 7, 100533

Okwir, G., Komakech, H.C., Kumar, S.P. Gao, H., Njau, K.N. Mapping groundwater in ungauged lake basin in Tanzania: A comparison between two topography based methods. Groundwater for Sustainable Development (2022) 16, 100697

Li Y, Su F*, Tang Q, Gao H, Yan D, Peng H, Xiao S. 2022. Contributions of moisture sources to precipitation in the major drainage basins in the Tibetan Plateau. Science China Earth Sciences, 65(6): 1088–1103, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-021-9890-6

Dong, N.*, Wei, J., Yang, M., Yan, D., Yang, C., Gao, H., et al. (2022). Model estimates of China's terrestrial water storage variation due to reservoir operation. Water Resources Research, 58, e2021WR031787. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR031787

Li, H., Gao, H., Zhou, Y., Storteig, I., Nie, L., Sælthun, N., Xu, C. (2022). Urban Flood Modeling of a Partially Separated and Combined Drainage System in the Grefsen Basin in Oslo, Norway. Journal of Water Management Modeling. DOI: 10.14796/JWMM.C480

Mi, J. Zhang, M., Zhu, Z., Vuik, V., Wen, J., Gao, H., Bouma, T. (2022) Morphological wave attenuation of the nature-based flood defense: A case study from Chongming Dongtan Shoal, China. Science of the Total Environment. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154813

冯紫荆†，何天豪†，汪少勇†，何晓波*，高红凯*. 反照率对冬克玛底冰川径流及物质平衡模拟影响研究. 冰川冻土, 2022，44（3）：1053-1062.

璩伟卿†，张博美†，黄雪†，任泽*，高红凯*. 基于16S rRNA测序技术的青藏高原河流细菌群落多样性. 环境科学, 2022, DOI:10.13227/j.hjkx

李颖, 苏凤阁*, 汤秋鸿, 高红凯, 严登华, 彭辉, 肖尚斌. 2022. 青藏高原主要流域的降水水汽来源. 中国科学: 地球科学, 52(7): 1328–1344, doi:10.1360/SSTe-2021-0217

2021

Gao, H., Feng, Z. †, Zhang, T., Wang, Y., He, X., Li, H., Pan, X., Ren, Z., Chen, X.*, Zhang, W., Duan, Z. (2021) Assessing glacier retreat and its impact on water resources in a headwater of Yangtze River based on CMIP6 projections. Science of the Total Environment. 765, 142774

Gao H*, Wang J. †, Yang Y, Pan X, Ding Y* and Duan Z (2021) Permafrost Hydrology of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: A Review of Processes and Modeling. Front. Earth Sci. 8:576838. doi: 10.3389/feart.2020.576838

Wang, J. †, Gao, H.*, Liu, M. et al. Parameter regionalization of the FLEX-Global hydrological model. Sci. China Earth Sci. (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-020-9706-3

Duan, Z., Duggan, E., Chen, C., Gao, H.*, Dong, J., Liu, J. Comparison of Traditional Method and Triple Collocation Analysis for Evaluation of Multiple Gridded Precipitation Products across Germany. Journal of Hydrometeorology, (2021), 22, 2983- 2999, DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-21-0049.1

Liu, S., Wang, X.*, Zhang, L., Kong, W., Gao, H., Xiao, C. Effect of glaciers on the annual catchment water balance within Budyko framework. Advances in Climate Change Research, (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accre.2021.10.004

Zhao, C., Gao, H., Yao, S.*, Zhou, J. Analysis of Maximum and Minimum Temperature in Qilian Mountainous, Northwest China. IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science 693 (2021) 012060

Pan, X., Han, Y., Chun, K. P., Zhang, J., Ma, D., Gao, H. (2021) On the laboratory calibration of dielectric permittivity models for agricultural soils: Effect of systematic porosity variation. Vadose Zone Journal, https://doi.org/10.1002/vzj2.20096

奚巧娟†,  钟华, 王涛, 何天豪†, 高红凯* , 夏军, L. Wang-Erlandsson, 汤秋鸿, 刘俊国. 中国主要流域灰-绿-蓝蓄水能力时空演变. 科学通报, 2021, 66

王璟京†，高红凯*，刘敏，丁永建，王雁，赵舫，夏军. 参数区域化在全球水文模型FLEX-Global中的应用. 中国科学：地球科学

何天豪†, 高红凯*, 李向应, 韩添丁, 贺志华, 张志才, 段峥, 刘敏*, 丁永建. 水稳定同位素示踪的冰川流域水文模拟及不确定性研究. 冰川冻土. 2021, 43(4): 1130–1143

张博美†，高红凯*，佘敦先，邵伟, 夏军. 以地形为基础的HSC产流模型在辽西半干旱丘陵流域的适用性．南水北调与水利科技（中英文），2021, 19(6):1072-1082.

2020

Gao, H., Dong, J., Chen, X.*, Cai, H., Liu, Z., Jin, Z., Mao, D., Yang, Z., Duan, Z.* (2020). Stepwise modeling and the importance of internal variables validation to test model realism in a data scarce glacier basin. Journal of Hydrology. 591, 125457

Gao, H., Feng, Z.†, Zhang, T., Wang, Y., He, X., Li, H., Pan, X., Ren, Z., Chen, X.*, Zhang, W., Duan, Z. (2020) Assessing glacier retreat and its impact on water resources in a headwater of Yangtze River based on CMIP6 projections. Science of the Total Environment. (online)

Gao, H., Wang, J.†, Yang, Y., Pan, X., Ding, Y.*, Duan, Z. (2020). Permafrost hydrology of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: A review of processes and modeling. Frontiers in Earth Science (accepted)

Gao, H.*, Zhao, F. (2020) A review of global hydrological models: the opportunities, challenges and outlook. Journal of Glaciology and Geocryology, 42 (1), 224-233

Chen, X., Huang, J., Han, Z., Gao, H.*, Liu, M., Li, Z., Liu, X., Li, Q., Qi, H., Huang, Y. (2020). The importance of short lag-time in the runoff forecasting model based on long short-term memory. Journal of Hydrology, 589, 125359.

Wang, J.†, Gao, H.*, Liu, M., Ding, Y., Wang, Y., Zhao, F., Xia, J. (2020) Using parameter regionalization to improve FLEX-Global hydrological model performance. Scientia Sinica Terrae (accepted)

Sun, G.*, Gao, H., Hao, L. (2020) Comments on “Large-scale afforestation significantly increases permanent surface water in China's vegetation restoration regions” by Zeng, Y., Yang, X., Fang, N., & Shi, Z. (2020). Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 290, 108001

Pan, X., Han, Y., Chun, K.P., Zhang, J.*, Ma, D., Gao, H. On the Laboratory Calibration of Dielectric Permittivity Models for Agricultural Soils: Effect of Systematic Porosity Variation. Vadose Zone Journal,DOI: 10.1002/vzj2.20096

Lan, Z., Li, Y., Shao, R., Chen, X., Lin, K., Cheng, L., Gao, H., Liu, Z.* (2020) Vegetation controls on surface energy partitioning and water budget over China. Journal of Hydrology, 125646

Li, H., Gao, H., Zhou, Y., Xu, C-Y.*, Ortega, R.Z.M., Sælthun, N.R. (2020) Usage of SIMWE model to model urban overland flood a case study in Oslo. Hydrology Research, doi: 10.2166/nh.2020.068

Zhang, J.*, Wang, Y., Gao, H., Zuo, Z., Yang, S., Cai, C. (2020) Different strategies in biomass allocation across elevation in two Gentiana plants on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, China. Journal of Mountain Science (accepted)

Zhang, M., Yang, H.†, Tang, Q., Cai, H., Zhu, Z., Feng, A., Luo, M., Gao, H., Tian, X. Impacts of secondary and quarter-diurnal tidal species on backwater hydrodynamics in tidal rivers, Advances in Water Resources, 143, 2020, 103660

2019

Gao, H.*, Birkel, C., Hrachowitz, M., Tetzlaff, D., Soulsby, C. & H.H.G. Savenije (2019). A simple topography-driven and calibration-free runoff generation module. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 23, 787-809. DOI: 10.5194/hess-23-787-2019 (Highlight Paper)

Ren, Z., Gao H.* (2019) Ecological networks of bacterial and fungal communities in shrinking glacier-fed streams in Central Asia, PeerJ.7:e7715. doi: 10.7717/peerj.7715

Duan, Z., Tuo, Y., Liu, J.*, Gao, H.*, Song, X., Zhang, Z., Yang, L. & D. F. Mekonnen (2019) Hydrological evaluation of open-access precipitation and air temperature datasets using SWAT in a poorly gauged basin in Ethiopia. Journal of Hydrology. 569, 612-626, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.12.026

Zhao, Q., Ding, Y., Wang, J., Gao, H., Zhang, S., Zhao, C., Xu, J., Han, H., Shangguan, D. (2019) Projecting climate change impacts on hydrological processes on the Tibetan Plateau with model calibration against the Glacier Inventory Data and observed streamflow, Journal of Hydrology

2018

Gao, H., Sabo, J. L., Chen, X.*, Liu, Z., Yang, Z., Ren, Z. & L. Min* (2018) Landscape heterogeneity and hydrological processes: A review of landscape-based hydrological models. Landscape Ecology. DOI: 10.1007/s10980-018-0690-4

Gao, H., Li, H.*, Duan, Z., Ren, Z., Meng, X. & Pan, X. (2018). Modelling glacier variation and its impact on water resource in the Urumqi No1 Glacier in Central Asia. Science of The Total Environment. 644, 1160–1170, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.07.004

Duan, Z., Gao, H.*, Ke, C (2018). Estimation of lake outflow from the poorly gauged Lake Tana (Ethiopia) using satellite remote sensing and a simple water balance equation. Remote Sensing. 2018, 10, 1060; doi:10.3390/rs10071060

Duan, Z., Chen, Q., Chen, C., Liu, J., Gao, H., Song, X. & M. Wei (2018)Spatiotemporal analysis of nonlinear trends in precipitation over Germany during 1951‐2013 from multiple observation‐based gridded products. International Journal of Climatology, doi: 10.1002/joc.5939

Liu, Z., Cheng, L., Hao, Z., Li, J., Thorstensen, A. & H.Gao (2018). A Framework for Exploring Joint Effects of Conditional Factors on Compound Floods. Water Resources Research. DOI: 10.1002/2017WR021662

Zhang, R., Liu, J., Gao, H. & G. Mao (2018). Can multi-objective calibration of streamflow guarantee better hydrological model accuracy? Hydrology Research, DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2018.131

Zhang, R., Gao, H., Liu, J., & Y. Tian (2018) The Influence of Different Objective Functions on Hydrological Model Performance. China Rural Water and Hydropower 4: 106-111

Mao, D., Wang, Z., Yang, H., Li, H., Thompson, J. R., Li, L., Song, K., Chen, B., Gao, H. & J. Wu (2018). Impacts of climate change on Tibetan Lakes: patterns and processes. Remote Sensing 10(3), 358.

2017

Gao, H.*, Ding, Y., Zhao, Q., Hrachowitz, M. & H.H.G. Savenije (2017). The importance of aspect for modelling the hydrological response in a glacier catchment in Central Asia. Hydrological Processes 31(16): 2842–2859.

Gao, H., Duan, Z. & H. Cai (2017). Understand the impacts of landscape features on the shape of storage capacity curve and its influence on flood. Hydrology Research, DOI: 10.2166/nh.2017.245

Ren, Z., Gao, H.*, Elser, J. & Q. Zhao (2017). Microbial functional genes elucidate environmental drivers of biofilm metabolism in glacier-fed streams. Scientific Reports 7: 12668.

Ren, Z., Gao, H.* & J. Elser (2017). Longitudinal variation of microbial communities in benthic biofilms and association with hydrological and physicochemical conditions in glacier-fed streams. Freshwater Science. 36(3): 479-490.

Duan, Z., Gao, H. & M. L. Tan (2017). Extreme Precipitation and Floods: Monitoring, Modelling, and Forecasting. Advanced in Meteorology. DOI:10.1155/2017/9350369.

2016

Gao, H.*, Hrachowitz, M., Sriwongsitanon, N., Fenicia, F., Gharari, S. & H.H.G. Savenije (2016). Accounting for the influence of vegetation and landscape improves model transferability in a tropical savannah region. Water Resources Research 52 (10): 7999-8022.

Gao, H., Han, T.*, Zhao, Q. & L. Liu (2016). Use of auxiliary data of topography, snow and ice to improve model performance in a glacier dominated catchment in Central Asia. Hydrology Research 48(5): 1418-1437.

Sriwongsitanon, N., Gao, H., Savenije, H.H.G., Maekan, E., Saengsawang, S. & S. Thianpopirug (2016). Comparing the Normalized Difference Infrared Index (NDII) with root zone storage in a lumped conceptual model. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 20 (8): 3361–3377.

Wang-Erlandsson, L., Bastiaanssen, W.G.M., Gao, H., Jägermeyr, J., Senay, G.B., van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Guerschman, J.P., Keys, P.W., Gordon, L.J. & H.H.G. Savenije (2016). Global root zone storage capacity from satellite-based evaporation. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 20 (4): 1459–1481.

Zhu, G.F., He, Y.Q., Qin, D.H., Gao, H., Pu, T., Chen, D.D. & K. Wang (2016). The impacts of climate change on hydrology in a typical glacier region—A case study in Hailuo Creek watershed of Mt. Gongga in China. Sciences in Cold and Arid Regions 8(3): 0227–0240.

Before 2015

Liu, Y., Lu, M., Huo, X., Hao, Y., Gao, H., Liu, Y., Fan, Y., Cui, Y. & F. Metivier (2015). A Bayesian analysis of Generalized Pareto Distribution of runoff minima. Hydrological Processes 30(3): 424-432.

Gao, H.*, Hrachowitz, M., Schymanski, S. J., Fenicia, F., Sriwongsitanon, N. & H.H.G. Savenije (2014). Climate controls how ecosystems size the root zone storage capacity at catchment scale. Geophysical Research Letters 41(22): 7916-7923.

Gao, H.*, Hrachowitz, M., Fenicia, F., Gharari, S. & H.H.G. Savenije (2014). Testing the realism of a topography-driven model (FLEX-Topo) in the nested catchments of the upper Heihe, China. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 18: 1895-1915.

Gao, H.*, He, X., Ye, B. & J. Pu (2012). Modeling the runoff and glacier mass balance in a small watershed on the central Tibetan plateau, china, from 1955 to 2008. Hydrological Processes 26(11): 1593-1603.

Gao, H.*, He, X., Ye, B. & X. Gao (2011), The simulation of HBV hydrology model in the Dongkemadi River Basin, Headwater of the Yangtze River. Journal of Glaciology and Geocryology 33(1): 171-181.

Gharari, S., Hrachowitz, M., Fenicia, F., Gao, H. & H. H. G. Savenije (2014). Using expert knowledge to increase realism in environmental system models can dramatically reduce the need for calibration. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 18(12): 4839-4859.

Yang, M., Ye, B., Peng, P., Han, T., Gao, H., Cui, Y., Wang, J. & M. Gao (2012), HBV model glacier runoff degree-day factor glacier area change glacier volume change, Journal of Glaciology and Geocryology 34(1): 130-138.

Gao, X., Ye, B., Zhang, S. & H. Gao (2011), Recent changes of glacier runoff in the Hexi Inland River Basin.Advances in Water Science 22(3): 344-350.