Hu Zhiyuan is a Professor and Master's Supervisor at the College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University. His research interests primarily include numerical model development and application, aerosol transport and its impacts on weather and climate, and causation and attribution analysis of extreme weather, climate, and pollution events. He has published more than 40 SCI-indexed papers in journals such as Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Remote Sensing of Environment, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, and Geophysical Research Letters. He was selected as an Early-Career Fellow of the global young scientist program under Future Earth in 2022, and received the Second Prize of Gansu Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award in 2023. He serves as an Editorial Board Member of Environmental Research Communications, a Young Editorial Board Member of The Innovation Geoscience, Science Bulletin, and Chinese Science Bulletin (科学通报), and a Guest Editor for Remote Sensing and Environmental Research Communications. He has led 2 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and 1 General Program funded by the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province.
Email: huzhiyuan@lzu.edu.cn
Mailing Address: No. 222 Tianshui South Road, Chengguan District, Lanzhou, Gansu Province 730000, China.
Education:
2006.09-2010.06 B.S., College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University (Supervisor: Prof. Huang Jianping)
2010.09-2016.06 Ph.D., College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University (Supervisor: Prof. Huang Jianping)
Working Experience:
2013.09-2015.10 Visiting Scholar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), USA
2016.10-2019.11 Postdoctoral Researcher, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University (Supervisors: Prof. Ma Jianmin and Prof. Huang Jianping)
2019.12-2023.05 Associate Research Fellow, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University (Collaborating Supervisor: Prof. Dong Wenjie)
2023.06-2026.01 Associate Professor, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University
2026.02-Present Professor, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University
Research Interests:
Regional atmospheric numerical model development and application
Aerosol transport and its impacts on weather and climate
The mechanisms and attribution analysis of extreme weather, climate, and pollution events
Representative publications (* indicates corresponding author):
1. Pan, Hongzi, Hu, Zhiyuan*, Feng, Taichen, Huang, Zhongwei, Liu, Qiantao, and Feng, Guolin, 2025, Distribution characteristics and air-quality effect of intercontinental, transport dust: An unexpected dust storm case study in China, Atmospheric Environment, 350(2025) 121177.
2. Feng, Taichen, Yuan, Tiangang, Hu, Zhiyuan*, Xie, Tiejun, Lai, Shen, Dong, Wenjie, andHuang, Jianping, 2024. The combined impacts of aerosols and urbanization on a high threated extreme precipitation event in Beijing, China, Advances in Climate Change Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accre.2024.09.006.
3. Fabien Idrissa, Nkurunziza, Zhao, Chun*, Hu, Zhiyuan*, Feng, Jiawang, Du, Qiuyan, 2024. Long-range transport impact of a severe dust storm over the Yangtze River Basin region and its modeling sensitivity to dust emission scheme, Atmospheric Research, 310 (2024) 107612. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2024.107612.
4. Gong, Hainan, Ma, Kangjie, Hu, Zhiyuan*, Dong, Zizhen, Ma, Yuanyuan, Chen, Wen, Wu, Renguang, and Wang, Lin*, 2024. Attribution of the August 2022 Extreme Heatwave in Southern China: Role of Dynamical and Thermodynamical Processes, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., E193–E199. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0175.1.
5. Ma, Qianrong, Lei, Hongjia, Feng, Taichen, Hu, Rui, Niu, Miaomiao, Hu, Zhiyuan*, and Feng, Guolin, 2023. Impact of spring Tibetan Plateau snow cover on extreme precipitation in Pakistan in July and August 2022, Atmospheric Research, 295(2023),107007. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2023.107007.
6. Feng, Taichen, Yuan, Tiangang, Cao, Jiahui, Wang, Zhikuan, Zhi, Rong, Hu, Zhiyuan*, and Huang, Jianping, 2023. The Influence of dust on extreme precipitation at a large city in North China, Science of the Total Environment, 901 (2023) 165890. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165890.
7. Hu, Zhiyuan, Ma, Yuanyuan, Jin, Qinjian, Idrissa, Fabien Idrissa, Huang, Jianping*, and Dong, Wenjie, 2023. Attribution of the March 2021 exceptional dust storm in North China, The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, E749–E755. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0151.1.
8. Ma, Yuanyuan, Hu, Zhiyuan*, Li, Chao, Feng, Taichen, Meng, Xianhong, and Dong, Wenjie, 2023. Anthropogenic Climate Change Enhances the July 2021 Super-Heavy Rainfall Event in Central China, The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 104(4), E736–E741. doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0141.1.
9. Hu, Zhiyuan, Zhao, Chun*, Leung, Lai-Ruby*, Du, Qiuyan, Ma, Yuanyuan, Hagos, Samson, Qian, Yun, and Dong, Wenjie, 2022b. Characterizing the impact of atmospheric rivers on aerosols in the western U.S., Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2021GL096421. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL096421.
10. Hu, Zhiyuan, Jin, Qinjian*, Ma, Yuanyuan, Ji, Zhenming, Zhu, Xian, and Dong, Wenjie, 2022a. How Does COVID-19 Lockdown Impact Air Quality in India?. Remote Sensing, 14, 1869. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14081869.
11. Liu, Qiantao, Huang, Zhongwei*, Hu, Zhiyuan*, Dong, Qingqing, Li, Shuting, 2022. Long-range transport and evolution of Saharan dust over East Asia from 2007 to 2020. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127, e2022JD036974. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD036974.
12. Ma, Yuanyuan, Hu, Zhiyuan*, Meng, Xianhong, Liu, Fei, and Dong, Wenjie, 2022. Was the Record‐Breaking Mei-yu of 2020 Enhanced by Regional Climate Change?. The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102(1): S67-S73. ？doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0187.1.
13. Chen, Bin, Huang, Yue, Huang, Jianping, Dong, Li, Guan, Xiaodan, Ge, Jinming, and Hu, Zhiyuan*, 2021. Using lidar and historical similar meteorological fields to evaluate the impact of anthropogenic control on dust weather during COVID-19, Frontiers in Environmental Science, 9:806094. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2021.806094.
14. Ma, Yuanyuan, Hu, Zhiyuan*., Xie, Qian, Meng, Xianhong*, Zhao, Lin, and Dong, Wenjie, 2021. Convection-permitting modeling over the Tibetan Plateau improves the simulation of Meiyu Rainfall during the 2011 Yangtze Plain flood, Atmospheric Research, 265 (2022) 105907. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2021.105907.
15. Hu, Zhiyuan, Jin, Qinjian*, Ma, Yuanyuan, Pu, Bing, Ji, Zhenming, Wang, Yonghong, and Dong, Wenjie, 2021b. Temporal evolution of aerosols and their extreme events in polluted Asian regions during Terra's 20-year observations, Remote Sensing of Environment, 263, 112541. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112541.
16. Hu, Zhiyuan, Li, Haiyan, Liu, Jiawei, Qiao, Shaobo*, Wang, Dongqian, Freychet, Nicolas, Tett, Simon, Dong, Buwen, Lott, Fraser, Li, Qingxiang, and Dong, Wenjie, 2021a. Was the Extended Rainy Winter 2018/19 over the Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River Driven by Anthropogenic Forcing? The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102(1):S67-S73. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0127.1.
17. Yang, Lili, Hu, Zhiyuan*., Huang, Zhongwei, Wang, Lina, Han, Wenyu, Yang, Yanping, Tao, Huijie, and Wang, Jing, 2021. Detection of a Dust Storm in 2020 by a Multi-Observation Platform over the Northwest China, Remote Sensing, 13, 1056. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13061056.
18. Hu, Zhiyuan, Huang, Jianping*, Zhao, Chun, Jin, Qinjian, Ma, Yuanyuan, and Yang, Ben, 2020. Modeling dust sources, transport, and radiative effects at different altitudes over the Tibetan Plateau, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 20, 1507–1529. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-1507-2020.
19. Hu, Zhiyuan, Huang, Jianping*, Zhao, Chun, Ma, Yuanyuan, Jin, Qinjian, Qian, Yun, Leung, Lai-Ruby, Bi, Jianrong, and Ma, Jianmin, 2019b. Trans-Pacific transport and evolution of aerosols: spatiotemporal characteristics and source contributions, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19, 12709–12730. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-12709-2019.
20. Hu, Zhiyuan, Huang, Jianping*, Zhao, Chun, Bi, Jianrong, Jin, Qinjian, Qian, Yun, Leung, Lai-Ruby, Feng, Taichen, Chen, Siyu, andMa, Jianmin, 2019a. Modeling the contributions of Northern Hemisphere dust sources to dust outflow from East Asia, Atmospheric Environment, 202, 234–243. ？https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.01.022.
21. Hu, Zhiyuan, Zhao, Chun*, Huang, Jianping, Leung, Lai-Ruby, Qian, Yun, Yu, Hongbin, Huang, Lei, and Kalashnikova, ？Olga V., 2016. Trans-Pacific transport and evolution of aerosols: evaluation of quasi-global WRF-Chem simulation with multiple observations, Geoscientific Model Development, 9, 1725–1746. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-1725-2016.
22. Hu, Zhiyuan, Bi, Jianrong, Huang, Jianping, Shi, Jinsen, and Liu, Yuzhi, An Inversion Algorithm of Columnar Water Vapor Amount Derived from Sun-Sky Radiometer, Plateau Meteorology, 33(1), 232–240, 2014 (in Chinese).
