Researcher Portfolio
Zhao, Fang
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Researcher Profile
Position: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Researcher ID: https://publications.pik-potsdam.de/cone/persons/resource/fangzhao
Publications
: Zhao, F., Nie, N., Liu, Y., Yi, C., Guillaumot, L., Wada, Y., Burek, P., Smilovic, M., Frieler, K., Büchner, M., Schewe, J., & Gosling, S. N. (2025). Benefits of Calibrating a Global Hydrological Model for Regional Analyses of Flood and Drought Projections: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Basin. Water Resources Research, 61(3): e2024WR037153. doi:10.1029/2024WR037153. [PubMan] : Zhao, F., Lange, S., Goswami, B., & Frieler, K. (2024). Frequency Bias Causes Overestimation of Climate Change Impacts on Global Flood Occurrence. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(16): e2024GL108855. doi:10.1029/2024GL108855. [PubMan] : Golub, M., Thiery, W., Marcé, R., Pierson, D., Vanderkelen, I., Mercado, D., Woolway, R. I., Grant, L., Jennings, E., Schewe, J., Zhao, F., Frieler, K., Mengel, M., Bogomolov, V. Y., Bouffard, D., Couture, R.-M., Debolskiy, A. V., Droppers, B., Gal, G., Guo, M., Janssen, A. B. G., Kirillin, G., Ladwig, R., Magee, M., Moore, T., Perroud, M., Piccolroaz, S., Raaman Vinnaa, L., Schmid, M., Shatwell, T., Stepanenko, V. M., Tan, Z., Yao, H., Adrian, R., Allan, M., Anneville, O., Arvola, L., Atkins, K., Boegman, L., Carey, C., Christianson, K., de Eyto, E., DeGasperi, C., Grechushnikova, M., Hejzlar, J., Joehnk, K., Jones, I. D., Laas, A., Mackay, E. B., Mammarella, I., Markensten, H., McBride, C., Özkundakci, D., Potes, M., Rinke, K., Robertson, D., Rusak, J., Salgado, R., van den Linden, L., Verburg, P., Wain, D., Ward, N. K., Wollrab, S., & Zdorovennova, G. (2022). A framework for ensemble modelling of climate change impacts on lakes worldwide: the ISIMIP Lake Sector. Geoscientific Model Development, 15(11), 4597-4623. doi:10.5194/gmd-15-4597-2022. [PubMan] : Grant, L., Vanderkelen, I., Gudmundsson, L., Tan, Z., Perroud, M., Stepanenko, V. M., Debolskiy, A. V., Droppers, B., Janssen, A. B. G., Woolway, R. I., Choulga, M., Balsamo, G., Kirillin, G., Schewe, J., Zhao, F., Vega del Valle, I., Golub, M., Pierson, D., Marcé, R., Seneviratne, S. I., & Thiery, W. (2021). Attribution of global lake systems change to anthropogenic forcing. Nature Geoscience, 14(11), 849-854. doi:10.1038/s41561-021-00833-x. [PubMan] : Thiery, B. W., Lange, S., Rogelj, J., Schleussner, C.-F., Gudmundsson, L., Seneviratne, S. I., Andrijevic, M., Frieler, K., Emanuel, K., Geiger, T., Bresch, D. N., Zhao, F., Willner, S., Büchner, M., Volkholz, J., Bauer, N., Chang, J., Ciais, P., Dury, M., François, L., Grillakis, M., Gosling, S. N., Hanasaki, N., Hickler, T., Huber, V., Ito, A., Jägermeyr, J., Khabarov, N., Koutroulis, A., Liu, W., Lutz, W., Mengel, M., Müller, C., Ostberg, S., Reyer, C. P. O., Stacke, T., & Wada, Y. (2021). Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes. Science, 374(6564), 158-160. doi:10.1126/science.abi7339. [PubMan] : Gudmundsson, L., Boulange, J., Do, H. X., Gosling, S. N., Grillakis, M. G., Koutroulis, A. G., Leonard, M., Liu, J., Müller Schmied, H., Papadimitriou, L., Pokhrel, Y., Seneviratne, S. I., Satoh, Y., Thiery, W., Westra, S., Zhang, X., & Zhao, F. (2021). Globally observed trends in mean and extreme river flow attributed to climate change. Science, 371(6534), 1159-1162. doi:10.1126/science.aba3996. [PubMan] : Burek, P., Satoh, Y., Kahil, T., Tang, T., Greve, P., Smilovic, M., Guillaumot, L., Zhao, F., & Wada, Y. (2020). Development of the Community Water Model (CWatM v1.04) – a high-resolution hydrological model for global and regional assessment of integrated water resources management. Geoscientific Model Development, 13(7), 3267-3298. doi:10.5194/gmd-13-3267-2020. [PubMan] : Chen, J., Zhao, F., Zeng, N., & Oda, T. (2020). Comparing a global high-resolution downscaled fossil fuel CO2 emission dataset to local inventory-based estimates over 14 global cities. Carbon Balance and Management, 15: 9. doi:10.1186/s13021-020-00146-3. [PubMan] : Do, H. X., Zhao, F., Westra, S., Leonard, M., Gudmundsson, L., Boulange, J. E. S., Chang, J., Ciais, P., Gerten, D., Gosling, S. N., Müller Schmied, H., Stacke, T., Telteu, C.-E., & Wada, Y. (2020). Historical and future changes in global flood magnitude – evidence from a model–observation investigation. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 24(3), 1543-1564. doi:10.5194/hess-24-1543-2020. [PubMan] : Pan, S., Yang, J., Tian, H., Shi, H., Chang, J., Ciais, P., Francois, L., Frieler, K., Fu, B., Hickler, T., Ito, A., Nishina, K., Ostberg, S., Reyer, C. P. O., Schaphoff, S., Steinkamp, J., & Zhao, F. (2020). Climate Extreme Versus Carbon Extreme: Responses of Terrestrial Carbon Fluxes to Temperature and Precipitation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 125(4): e2019JG005252. doi:10.1029/2019JG005252. [PubMan] : Jia, B., Cai, X., Zhao, F., Liu, J., Chen, S., Luo, X., Xie, Z., & Xu, J. (2020). Potential future changes of terrestrial water storage based on climate projections by ensemble model simulations. Advances in Water Resources, 142: 103635. doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2020.103635. [PubMan] : Veldkamp, T. I. E., Zhao, F., Ward, P. J., Moel, H. d., Aerts, J. C. J. H., Müller Schmied, H., Portmann, F. T., Masaki, Y., Pokhrel, Y., Liu, X., Satoh, Y., Gerten, D., Gosling, S. N., Zaherpour, J., & Wada, Y. (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. [PubMan] : Willner, S., Levermann, A., Zhao, F., & Frieler, K. (2018). Adaptation required to preserve future high-end river flood risk at present levels. Science Advances, 4(1): eaao1914. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aao1914. [PubMan] : Dottori, F., Szewczyk, W., Ciscar, J.-C., Zhao, F., Alfieri, L., Hirabayashi, Y., Bianchi, A., Mongelli, I., Frieler, K., Betts, R. A., & Feyen, L. (2018). Human and economic losses from river flooding with anthropogenic warming [Data set]. [PubMan] : Dottori, F., Szewczyk, W., Ciscar, J.-C., Zhao, F., Alfieri, L., Hirabayashi, Y., Bianchi, A., Mongelli, I., Frieler, K., Betts, R. A., & Feyen, L. (2018). Increased human and economic losses from river flooding with anthropogenic warming. Nature Climate Change, 8(9), 781-786. doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0257-z. [PubMan] : Frieler, K., Lange, S., Piontek, F., Reyer, C. P. O., Schewe, J., Warszawski, L., Zhao, F., Chini, L., Denvil, S., Emanuel, K., Geiger, T., Halladay, K., Hurtt, G., Mengel, M., Murakami, D., Ostberg, S., Popp, A., Riva, R., Stevanović, M., Suzuki, T., Volkholz, J., Burke, E., Ciais, P., Ebi, K., Eddy, T. D., Elliott, J., Galbraith, E., Gosling, S. N., Hattermann, F. F., Hickler, T., Hinkel, J., Hof, C., Huber, V., Jägermeyr, J., Krysanova, V., Marcé, R., Müller Schmied, H., Mouratiadou, I., Pierson, D., Tittensor, D. P., Vautard, R., Vliet, M. v., Biber, M. F., Betts, R. A., Bodirsky, B. L., Deryng, D., Frolking, S., Jones, C. D., Lotze, H. K., Lotze-Campen, H., Sahajpal, R., Thonicke, K., Tian, H., & Yamagata, Y. (2017). Assessing the impacts of 1.5 °C global warming - simulation protocol of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP2b). Geoscientific Model Development, 10(12), 4321-4345. doi:10.5194/gmd-10-4321-2017. [PubMan] : Ito, A., Nishina, K., Reyer, C. P. O., Francois, L., Henrot, A.-J., Munhoven, G., Jacquemin, I., Tian, H., Yang, J., Pan, S., Morfopoulos, C., Betts, R., Hickler, T., Steinkamp, J., Ostberg, S., Schaphoff, S., Ciais, P., Chang, J., Rafique, R., Zeng, N., & Zhao, F. (2017). Photosynthetic productivity and its efficiencies in ISIMIP2a biome models: benchmarking for impact assessment studies. Environmental Research Letters, 12(8): 85001. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aa7a19. [PubMan] : Gosling, S., Müller Schmied, H., Betts, R., Chang, J., Ciais, P., Dankers, R., Döll, P., Eisner, S., Flörke, M., Gerten, D., Grillakis, M., Hanasaki, N., Hagemann, S., Huang, M., Huang, Z., Jerez, S., Kim, H., Koutroulis, A., Leng, G., Liu, X., Masaki, Y., Montavez, P., Morfopoulos, C., Oki, T., Papadimitriou, L., Pokhrel, Y., Portmann, F. T., Orth, R., Ostberg, S., Satoh, Y., Seneviratne, S., Sommer, P., Stacke, T., Tang, Q., Tsanis, I., Wada, Y., Zhou, T., Büchner, M., Schewe, J., & Zhao, F. (2017). ISIMIP2a Simulation Data from Water (global) Sector. [PubMan] : Han, P., Zeng, N., Zhao, F., & Lin, X. (2017). Estimating global cropland production from 1961 to 2010. Earth System Dynamics, 8(3), 875-887. doi:10.5194/esd-8-875-2017. [PubMan] : Chen, M., Rafique, R., Asrar, G. R., Bond-Lamberty, B., Ciais, P., Zhao, F., Reyer, C. P. O., Ostberg, S., Chang, J., Ito, A., Yang, J., Zeng, N., Kalnay, E., West, T., Leng, G., Francois, L., Munhoven, G., Henrot, A., Tian, H., Pan, S., Nishina, K., Viovy, N., Morfopoulos, C., Betts, R., Schaphoff, S., Steinkamp, J., & Hickler, T. (2017). Regional contribution to variability and trends of global gross primary productivity. Environmental Research Letters, 12(10): 105005. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aa8978. [PubMan] : Zhao, F., Veldkamp, T., Frieler, K., Schewe, J., Ostberg, S., Willner, S., Schauberger, B., Gosling, S., Müller Schmied, H., Portmann, F., Leng, G., Huang, M., Liu, X., Tang, Q., Hanasaki, N., Biemans, H., Gerten, D., Satoh, Y., Pokhrel, Y., Stacke, T., Ciais, P., Ducharne, A., Guimberteau, M., Wada, Y., Kim, H., & Yamazaki, D. (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. [PubMan] : Rafique, R., Zhao, F., de Jong, R., Zeng, N., & Asrar, G. R. (2016). Global and regional variability and change in terrestrial ecosystems net primary production and NDVI: A model-data comparison. Remote Sensing, 8(3): 177. doi:10.3390/rs8030177. [PubMan] : Li, Y., Zhao, M., Mildrexler, D. J., Motesharrei, S., Mu, Q., Kalnay, E., Zhao, F., Li, S., & Wang, K. (2016). Potential and Actual impacts of deforestation and afforestation on land surface temperature. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 121(24), 14372-14386. doi:10.1002/2016JD024969. [PubMan] : Zhao, F., Zeng, N., Asrar, G., Friedlingstein, P., Ito, A., Jain, A., Kalnay, E., Kato, E., Koven, C. D., Poulter, B., Rafique, R., Sitch, S., Shu, S., Stocker, B., Viovy, N., Wiltshire, A., & Zaehle, S. (2016). Role of CO2, climate and land use in regulating the seasonal amplitude increase of carbon fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems: a multimodel analysis. Biogeosciences, 13(17), 5121-5137. doi:10.5194/bg-13-5121-2016. 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