Research

Research Interests

  • Regional climate change
  • Climate extreme events
  • Synoptic climatology
  • Land-atmosphere interaction
  • Large-scale climate dynamics
  • Statistical and dynamical downscaling

Selected recent research projects

  • Leading project "Climate change and its impacts on hydrology and water resources in the Yangtze and Mekong River basins", supported by the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT) (CH2019-8377, 2020-2023).
  • Leading project "Convective permitted modeling to reveal the impact of changes in lakes and wetlands on extreme precipitation over the Third Pole Region", supported by the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC 2021/5-155: 2021).
  • Participating in WCRP-CORDEX Flagship Pilot Study (FPS) "High resolution climate modelling with a focus on mesoscale convective systems and associated precipitation over the Third Pole region" (CORDEX-FPS: CPTP, 2020-2024)
  • Co-leading project "High resolution climate modelling with a focus on convection and associated precipitation over the Third Pole region", supported by the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC 2021/1-9: 2021).
  • Participating in project "S-CMIP: Swedish climate research and contributions to the sixth International Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) - phase 6 (2020)", supported by the Swedish National Supercomputer Centre (SNIC: 2021/1-15: 2021).
  • Participating in project "MERGE - ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system" (2010-).

Selected past research projects

  • Co-led project “A polit project to test a data assimilation system for a regional reanalysis for the Third Pole region” supported by the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC 2018/3-536: 2018-2019).
  • Participat in project "S-CMIP: Swedish climate research and contributions to the sixth International Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) - phase 5 (2019)" supported by the Swedish National Supercomputer Centre ( SNIC: 2018/2-11).
  • Participat in project "S-CMIP: Swedish climate research and contributions to the sixth International Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) - phase 4 (2018)" supported by the Swedish National Supercomputer Centre ( SNIC: 2017/12-12).
  • Participat in project "S-CMIP: Swedish climate research and contributions to the sixth International Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) - phase 3 (2017)" supported by the Swedish National Supercomputer Centre ( SNIC: 2016/34-21).
  • Co-led Joint China-Sweden Mobility Programme: "Impact of climate change on water balance on The Third Pole Region". (STINT: 2016-2018).
  • Participat in project "Drained peat soils, development of specific greenhouse gas emission factors - aimed for mitigation and policy". supported by Swedish Research Council (Formas: 2016-2018).
  • Led project "Droughts and wildfires in Sweden: past variation and future projection" (Swedish title: Torka och skogsbränder i Sverige - tidigare variation och framtida projektion, project site in Swedish), supported by Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB: Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap) (2015-2017).
  • Participat in project "Korea-Sweden Collaborative Research Programme on climate change", supported by Swedish Research Council (VR: 2015-2017).
  • Co-led project "Vegetation-feedback effect in the high-latitudes under climate warming - Impact on regional climate through atmospheric circulation (VFEH)", supported by the PRACE 3rd Implementation Project (PRACE-3IP: 2014-2015).
  • Participant in Korea Meteorological Administration Research and Development Program "Development and validation of snow initialization method of dynamic seasonal prediction system for winter and spring" (2012-2015).
  • Participant in project "Trend analysis of Hadley Cell and the spatial-temporal variation of the local circulationn", supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC: 2012-2014)
  • Participant in subproject "Atmosphere-land coupling simulation of water cycle in Haihe River basin under global climate change" of National Program on Key Basic Research Project (973 Program) "Simulation and prediction of water cycle and its associated processes in the Haihe River Basin, China" (2006-2010).