Conference Agenda 2026

Opening address

President Haishan Chen
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

Unveiling of the “Joint Research Centre on Climate Change Response and Sustainable Development”

Distinguished leaders and guests
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology & University of Birmingham

Group photo

A Generalized Resource‐Constrained Framework for Estimating Ecosystem Water and Carbon Fluxes

Prof. Lu Zhang
Wuhan University

Australia's Murray-Darling Basin Plan: Achievements, Challenges and the Future

Prof. Quanjun Wang
Hohai University

Application of VIC model in China: long-term hydrological data simulation and flooding prediction

Prof. Aihui Wang
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Coordinated allocation of multiple water sources and water-adaptive regulation under a changing environment (in Chinese)

Prof. Xiaojun Wang
Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute

Impacts of different types of compound heat–drought events on agricultural drought (in Chinese)

Prof. Zengchao Hao
Beijing Normal University

Reverse fusion of multi-source hydrometeorological data and long-sequence spatiotemporal reconstruction (in Chinese)

Prof. Liujun Zhu
Hohai University

High-frequency monitoring of surface water bodies and evaporation estimation on the Loess Plateau (in Chinese)

Assoc. Prof. Xianhong Xie
Beijing Normal University

Statistical post-processing of precipitation forecasts accounting for spatiotemporal structure (in Chinese)

Assoc. Prof. Yuan Li
Hohai University

Hydrological process simulation and water security risk identification in transboundary rivers (in Chinese)

Assoc. Prof. Kai Ma
Yunnan University

Land–atmosphere coupling in compound humid-heat events: A case study of the middle and lower Yangtze River basin (in Chinese)

Prof. Jiangfeng Wei
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

Divergent hydroclimatic hazards reshape SDG achievements across the Asian Water Tower

Asst. Prof. Rashid Mahmood
Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand

Simulation and prediction of irrigated agricultural returns under drought (in Chinese)

Assoc. Prof. Shulei Zhang
Sun Yat-sen University

Progress in the second-phase development of the intelligent forecasting module of the Anlan System drought task force (in Chinese)

Assoc. Prof. Zhenchen Liu
Hohai University

Hydroclimatic extremes reshape the timing and cost-effectiveness of variable renewable energy deployment in the Lower Mekong Basin

Assoc. Prof. Jingkai Xie
Hohai University

Nonstationary drought propagation and dynamic thresholds in the Dongting Lake basin under a changing environment (in Chinese)

Assoc. Prof. Tao Peng
China Three Gorges University

Multi-source satellite remote sensing observations of large-scale surface water dynamics (in Chinese)

Prof. Zhenzhong Zeng
Southern University of Science and Technology

Cumulative thermal effects of giant cascade reservoir operations (in Chinese)

Prof. Meixiu Yu
Hohai University

Forty years of full-depth temperature profiles reveal the formation mechanism of metalimnetic heatwaves in a stratified reservoir (in Chinese)

Assoc. Prof. Chenxi Mi
Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Responses of water and carbon fluxes to natural stress and anthropogenic restoration (in Chinese)

Lect. Yi Liu
Guangxi University

Observation-constrained attribution of vegetation effects on soil moisture dynamics using explainable ML

Assoc. Prof. Miao Zhang
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

Improving land surface hydrological simulation with remote sensing vegetation and radiation data: From improved evapotranspiration partitioning to continental-scale hydrological response (in Chinese)

Dr. Dawei Peng
Tsinghua University

An economic approach to optimal allocation of irrigation water in groundwater overexploitation areas (in Chinese)

Assoc. Prof. Xueliang Zhang
China Agricultural University

Multi-dimensional coordinated optimal allocation of complex water resource systems considering reclaimed water (in Chinese)

Lect. Jing Liu
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

Water cycle observation, modeling, and prediction (in Chinese)

Prof. Dawen Yang
Tsinghua University

Mitigating water conflicts through multi-parametric water quality sensor networks and advanced adaptive modelling

Prof. Stefan Krause
University of Birmingham

Cascading hydroclimatic extremes: from drought propagation to compound drought-heat events to riverine heatwaves

Prof. David M. Hannah
University of Birmingham

Trends in runoff and sediment evolution in the Yellow River and coping strategies (in Chinese)

Prof. Guoqing Wang
Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute

Characteristics of water–sediment evolution and changes in their relationship in the upper and middle reaches of the Yellow River (in Chinese)

Prof. Yunfei Gao
Yellow River Basin Soil and Water Conservation Ecological Environment Monitoring Center

Research progress on intelligent simulation methods for flooding processes (in Chinese)

Prof. Jingming Hou
Xi’an University of Technology

A hydrodynamic model engine for Digital Twin Water Networks and its applications (in Chinese)

Prof. Dong Xu
Hohai University

Research on the Scouring and Silting Evolution Patterns of Poyang Lake under Continuous Mainstream Scouring and the Effects of Flood-Drought Regulation

Snr Eng. Chaofan Lyu
Changjiang River Scientific Research Institute, Changjiang Water Resources Commission

Flood simulation and exposure analysis of watershed–city–community systems under different urban development patterns (in Chinese)

Assoc. Prof. Ming Zhong
Sun Yat-sen University

Dual degradation risk assessment of permafrost degradation and topsoil thinning in the Songhua River basin of the black soil region under future warming and wetting (in Chinese)

Dr. Beibei Ding
Tsinghua University

Sediment yield and source evolution in small watersheds of the Loess Plateau and implications for rainstorm risk control (in Chinese)

Dr. Chengbo Shu
Northwest A&F University

Digital Twin Water Networks and the national water network dispatching system (in Chinese)

Prof. Yuntao Ye
China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research

Large language models empowering hydrological model parameter calibration (in Chinese)

Assoc. Prof. Xiongpeng Tang
Beijing Normal University

Building a “water flow engine” for flood simulation in the CoLM land surface model: Efficient numerical solution of the two-dimensional shallow water equations (in Chinese)

Dr. Pan Zhang
Sun Yat-sen University

An unstructured Voronoi mesh framework for large scale hydrologic and land surface models

Assoc. Prof. Chang Liao
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Sensitivity analysis and optimization of water and carbon flux parameters in land surface models under remote sensing–physics–intelligence integration (in Chinese)

Assoc. Prof. Heng Wang
Northwest University

RIEMS-Hydro: A Process-Based End-to-End Differentiable Distributed Hydrological Model from Precipitation to River Discharge and Stage

Snr Eng. Hui Zheng
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Development and evaluation of a GRACE terrestrial water storage data assimilation system based on the Noah-MP multi-physics ensemble (in Chinese)

Asst. Res. Wenli Fei
Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Multi-layer soil moisture estimation and AI assimilation based on physics-constrained deep learning (in Chinese)

Dr. Tuantuan Zhang
Xi’an University of Technology

Satellite–gauge precipitation information fusion for real-time monitoring (in Chinese)

Lingjie Li
Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute

Modeling and application of skin effects in well tests for confined aquifers (in Chinese)

Chen Wang
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

How credible are precipitation estimates for trend analysis? A trend-capturing skill framework and its application to the Yangtze River Basin

Zhehui Shen
Nanjing Forestry University

Impacts of flood generation processes on socioeconomic losses (in Chinese)

Jiarui Yu
Beijing Normal University

External moisture deficit amplifies drought risk in China (in Chinese)

Gang Wang
Beijing Normal University (Zhuhai)

Urban resilience assessment of typhoon disaster chains in Fujian Province (in Chinese)

Xiaoliu Yang
Tsinghua University

Warming and atmospheric drying amplify soil-moisture control on terrestrial energy partitioning

Enze Song
Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Responses of vegetation greenness to soil and atmospheric drought across multiple timescales (in Chinese)

Zijun Wang
Wuhan University

Assessment of the ecological water replenishment water–food nexus in groundwater-overexploited agricultural areas of the North China Plain based on an improved SWAT model (in Chinese)

Jiayao Zhu
China Agricultural University

Uncertainty in runoff routing structure during daily-to-hourly scale conversion and its impact on design flood peaks (in Chinese)

Tiexiang Wang
East China Normal University

Multi-pathway accounting and terrain effects reshaping greenhouse gas assessment of hydropower (in Chinese)

Xudong Zhou
Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute

A flood forecasting method coupling the CE-QUAL-W2 and SI-LA-PINN models (in Chinese)

Mingrui Shi
Yangzhou University

Spatial organization of anomalous precipitation over northern Jiangsu shaped by large-scale circulation (in Chinese)

Ying Xu
Yangzhou University

Application of acoustic tomography to monitoring at the Datong hydrological station on the Yangtze River (in Chinese)

Shixiong Hu
Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources

Statistical post-processing of precipitation forecasts based on generative AI models (in Chinese)

Wentao Li
Hohai University

Large-sample watershed hydrological simulation based on AI and satellite precipitation data (in Chinese)

Zixuan Huang
Wuhan University

Aquifer freshwater storage and extraction for water resource security (in Chinese)

Hongkai Li
Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo

Simulation of ecological water replenishment regulation for a shallow lake wetland in Jilin Jiashutai Lake adapted to the Siberian crane (in Chinese)

Fenjie Shang
Ningxia University (China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research)

Anthropogenic warming reshapes the seasonal timing of global river runoff (in Chinese)

Yijia Ren
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Constraining key hydrological fluxes in ungauged regions (in Chinese)

Xiangyong Lei
Fujian Normal University

Catchment hydrologic function is widely time-variant.

Ying Yan
Tsinghua University

Lake warming on the Tibetan Plateau and lake–atmosphere heatwave responses (in Chinese)

Yuanlin Qiu
Wuhan University

Upstream evaporative moisture sources anchor strong persistent heavy precipitation events over southeastern Tibetan plateau

Ruiyu Zhao
Tsinghua University

Subseasonal-to-seasonal basin runoff and flood forecasting combining hydrological and statistical models (in Chinese)

Lingfeng Li
Guangdong Climate Center

Sentinel-1 soil moisture retrieval with machine learning in heterogeneous environments: Spatial differences from model selection to feature contribution (in Chinese)

Yuzhu Wang
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

Impacts of climate change on water and carbon fluxes of typical vegetation in the Yellow River basin (in Chinese)

Fei Gao
Northwest A&F University

Reconstruction of hydrological model response mechanisms and evaluation systems based on dynamic catchment characteristics (in Chinese)

Tian Lan
Chang’an University

How do watersheds respond to change? A large-sample study from rainfall–runoff to water quality (in Chinese)

Assoc. Prof. Danlu Guo
Australian National University

Development, Evaluation, and Applications of Long-term Multiple Spatial Scale Hourly Precipitation Datasets in China

Prof. Youlong Xia
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

“CYWater Young Scientist Outstanding Presentation Award” ceremony

Award presenter

Closing address

Prof. Qiuhong Tang
Tsinghua University