Qiao Liang, Associate Professor at the College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, completed postdoctoral research at Fudan University in July 2025, obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Fudan University in 2022, received his M.S. from Lanzhou University in 2019, and earned his B.S. from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology in 2012. His research focuses on the climatic effects of soil moisture, the impact of land-atmosphere coupling on global climate change, and extreme weather and climate events. He has published 10 papers as first author or corresponding author (including in Nature Communications, Science Bulletin, Journal of Climate, Climate Dynamics), serves as a reviewer for international journals such as Communications Earth and Environment, Journal of Climate, Climate Dynamics, Journal of Geophysical Research, and International Journal of Climatology, and has been honored with both the Shanghai Super Postdoctoral Fellow and Fudan University Super Postdoctoral Fellow awards.
Email: qliang@lzu.edu.cn
Research Interests: Land-atmosphere coupling, Soil moisture, Climate change
Education:
Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science (2019–2022), Fudan University
M.S. in Meteorology (2016–2019), Lanzhou University
B.S. in Atmospheric Science (2008–2012), Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST)
Research Experience:
Associate Professor (2025–Present), Lanzhou University
Postdoctoral Researcher (2022–2025), Fudan University
Engineer (2017–2019), Gansu Provincial Meteorological Bureau
Assistant Engineer (2012–2017), Gansu Provincial Meteorological Bureau
Funded Projects:
1. NSFC General Program: Research on the Feedback Effects and Mechanisms of VegetationDynamics on Climate under the Background of Northwest Warming andwetting (Grant No. 42675021), 2027–2030, Principal Investigator, ¥500,000.
2. Joint Open Research Grant of the Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disasters, Ministry of Education, and the Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters (Grant No. KLME202605), June 2026 – May 2028, Principal Investigator.
3. NSFC Youth Program: Role and mechanisms of land-atmosphere coupling in advancing heatwaves over mid-latitude Northern Hemisphere (No. 42405021), 2025.01–2027.12, ¥300,000.
4. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation: Land-atmosphere coupling effects on mitigating extreme heat under greenhouse gas reduction: Mechanisms and implications (No. 2024M750494), 2024, ¥80,000.
5. Arid Meteorology Research Fund: Formation and dissipation processes of deep atmospheric boundary layers in extreme arid regions (No. IAM201709), 2017.01–2019.12, ¥20,000.
Awards & Honors:
1. Invited Speaker at the sub？forum of the 11th Youth Geoscience Forum, organized by the Youth Geoscience Forum Committee, 2026
2. Excellent Paper Award at the Cross？Strait Youth Academic Symposium on Atmospheric Sciences and the Graduate Student Forum on Atmospheric Sciences, organized by the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2025.
3. Shanghai "Super Postdoctoral Fellow" Incentive Program (Shanghai Municipal Government, 2023)
4. Fudan University "Super Postdoctoral Fellow" (Fudan University, 2023)
5. Outstanding Graduate (Fudan University, 2022)
6. National Scholarship (Fudan University, 2021)
7. Outstanding Graduate Thesis Award (Key Lab of Meteorological Disaster, NUIST, 2020)
8. First Prize, Scientific Research & Technology Development Award (Gansu Meteorological Bureau, 2018): "Evolution of atmospheric water resources and aridification trends in semi-arid Northern China under climate warming"
9. Second Prize, Meteorological Science & Technology Award (Gansu Meteorological Bureau, 2017): "Province-wide implementation of county-level forecast and warning operational systems in Gansu"
10. Outstanding Presentation, 34th Annual Meeting of Chinese Meteorological Society (2017): "Structural changes in the atmospheric boundary layer across the monsoon transition zone"
11. Outstanding Operational Staff in Meteorological Information Network (Gansu Meteorological Bureau, 2015)
12. Gansu Provincial "Technical Expert" (Gansu Federation of Trade Unions, 2014)
Published Papers:
1. Qiao Liang, Zuo Zhiyan, Zhang Renhe, Piao Shilong, Xiao Dong, and Zhang Kaiwen. (2023), Soil moisture–atmosphere coupling accelerates global warming [J], Nature communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40641-y.
2. Liang Qiao; Zhiyan Zuo; Renhe Zhang; Wei Mei; Deliang Chen; Meiyu Chang; Kaiwen Zhang; Extreme Dry-Hot in North America and Europe: The Amplified Role of Warming-Enhanced Land-Air Coupling, National Science Review, 2025, 12(11).
3. Zuo Zhiyan, Qiao Liang (共同一作), Zhang Renhe, Chen Deliang, Piao Shilong, Xiao Dong, and Zhang Kaiwen. (2024), Importance of soil moisture conservation in mitigating climate change [J], Science Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2024.02.033.
4. Qiao Liang, Zuo Zhiyan, and Xiao Dong. (2022), Evaluation of Soil Moisture in CMIP6 Simulations[J], Journal of Climate. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0827.1.
5. Qiao Liang, Zuo Zhiyan, Xiao Dong. Bu Lulei, and Zhang Kaiwen. (2022), Variations in Eurasian surface air temperature over multiple timescales and their possible causes[J]. International Journal of Climatology. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7504.
6. Qiao Liang, Zuo Zhiyan, Xiao Dong, and Bu Lulei. (2021), Detection, Attribution, and Future Response of Global Soil Moisture in Summer [J]. Frontiers in Earth Science. 9:745185. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.745185.
7. Jin Hongmei, Qiao Liang*, Wang Suichan, Kong Lingwang, Zhang Jin.(2024), Performance evaluation of surface air temperature simulated by the Beijing Climate Central Climate Model based on the climate complexity[J]. Climate Dynamics. 62, 4331–4342 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-024-07137-x.
8. Jin Hongmei, Wang Suichan, Yan Pengcheng, Qiao Liang*, Sun Linhua, and Zhang Ling (2022) Spatial and temporal characteristics of surface solar radiation in China and its influencing factors. Front. Environ. Sci. 10:916748. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.916748.
9. Xiao Xiao, Qinglong You , Ziyi Cai, Hans W. Chen, Zheng Jin, Zhiyan Zuo, Liang Qiao, Deliang Chen, Shichang Kang, Jian Peng, Alexander V. Chernokulsky, Renhe Zhang (2026). Soil moisture–atmosphere coupling intensifies wildfires in Siberia in 2021. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 389: 111437.
10. Wang Huan, Zuo Zhiyan, Qiao Liang, et al. Frequency of the winter temperature extremes over Siberia dominated by the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. npj Clim Atmos Sci 5, 84 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-022-00307-w.
11. YiNuo Wang, ZhiYan Zuo, Liang Qiao, KaiWen Zhang, MeiYu Chang, Dong Xiao, ZouXing Lin, Huan Wang, Amplification effect of intra-seasonal variability of soil moisture on heat extremes over Eurasia. Advances in Climate Change Research15(1): 1-8, 2024.
12. Chang Meiyu, Zuo Zhiyan, Qiao Liang, and Zhang Kaiwen. Land-atmosphere feedbacks weaken the risks of precipitation extremes over Australia in a warming climate. Advances In Climate Change Research, 15(4), pp. 859-868, 2024.
13. Zhang, K., Zuo, Z., Zhang, R., Xiao, D., Qiao, L. (2022). Constrained emergence of air temperature change signal in northern‐central india from background variations. Geophysical Research Letters(10), 49.
14. Zheng J., Zuo Z., Lin Z., Xiao D, Qiao L. (2022) Linkage of the surface air temperature over Tibetan Plateau and Northeast hemisphere in winter at interannual timescale. Atmospheric Research., 274. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2022.106229.
15. Zouxing Lin, Zhiyan Zuo, Renhe Zhang, Dong Xiao, Qinglong You, Liang Qiao, 2022: Persistence of Soil Enthalpy Drives the Winter and Summer Climate Connection in the Tibetan Plateau. Geophysical Research Letters. 49, e2022GL098503. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL098503.
16. Lin, Z., Z. Zuo, H. Wang, Q. You, D. Xiao, K. Zhang, and L. Qiao, 2023: Role of Winter Soil Moisture in Subsequent Summer Thermal Anomalies on the Tibetan Plateau. J. Climate, 36, 4739–4753, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0905.1.
17. Lulei Bu, Zhiyan Zuo, Deliang Chen, Kaiwen Zhang & Liang Qiao. Upstream Evaporation is the Key to Extreme Summertime Heat Stress in North China. Earth Systems and Environment, 8, 437–447 (2024).
18. Huan Wang, Zhiyan Zuo, Renhe Zhang, Li Peng, Kaiwen Zhang, Deliang Chen, Dong Xiao, Qinglong You, Guokun Dai, Ruonan Zhang, Haijun Yang, Xiaodan Chen, Zouxing Lin, Peiqiang Xu & Liang Qiao. Thermodynamic effect dictates influence of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation on Eurasia winter temperature. npj Clim Atmos Sci 7, 151 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-024-00686-2.
19. Kaiwen Zhang, Yingxu Zhan, Zhiyan Zuo, Lulei Bu, Meiyu Chang, Liang Qiao. Land-air coupling exacerbates the future risk of concurrent daytime-nighttime hot extremes. Science China-Earth Sciences. 68(4), pp. 1261-1273. 20.
20. Qiang Zhang, Rong Wang, Ping Yue, Hongyu Li, Sheng Wang, Jian Zeng, Liang Zhang, Zesu Yang, Suping Wang, Jie Zhang, Liang Qiao, Hongli Zhang, Xueyuan Ren, Lu Zhang, Yulong Ren, Yanying Li, Jianshun Wang. Recent advances and future research directions in the study of land-atmosphere interaction in northern China since the beginning of the 21st century. . Science China-Earth Sciences. 68(6), pp. 1821-1852. 2025.
