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Lan Cuo

Postdoctoral Researcher
lancuo@hydro.washington.edu
206.685.1796


Education

Ph.D. University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA, 2005.

M.S. Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, Jiangsu, P.R. China, 1996.


Professional Appointments

October 2005 - present: Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington at Seattle, Washington.

August 2003 - September 2005: Graduate assistant at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii.

July 1996 - July 1999: Research associate at the Remote Sensing Center, Qinghai Meteorological Bureau, Qinghai P.R. China.

Current Projects

  1. Study retrospective, current and future land cover change effects on hydrology in Puget Sound, Washington.
  2. Study climate change (mainly temperature change) effects on hydrology in Puget Sound, Washington.

Main Publications

Lan Cuo, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Marina Alberti and Jeffrey E. Richey. 2008 Effects of a century of land cover and climate change on the hydrology of Puget Sound basin Hydrological Processes (accepted).

Lan Cuo, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Bernt V. Mattheussen, Pascal Storck, Matthew Wiley, 2008. Hydrological prediction for urban watersheds with the Distributed Hydrology-Soil-Vegetation Model , Hydrological Processes DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7023.

Lan Cuo, Thomas. W. Giambelluca, Alan D. Ziegler, and Michael A. Nullet, 2006. Use of the distributed hydrology soil vegetation model to study road effects on hydrological processes in Pang Khum experimental watershed, northern Thailand , Forest Ecology and Management. 224, pp.81-94

Lan Cuo, Thomas W. Giambelluca, Alan D. Zielger and Michael A. Nullet, 2008. The roles of roads and agricultural land use in altering hydrological processes in Nam Mae Rim Watershed, Northern Thailand, Hydrological Processes DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7039

Lan Cuo, John Vogler, and Jefferson Fox, 2008, Topographic normalization for improving vegetation classification in a mountainous watershed in Northern Thailand. International Journal of Remote Sensing (accepted).

Joeseph H. Casola, Lan Cuo, Ben Livneh, Dennis P.Lettenmaier, M. Stoelinga, Philip W. Mote and John M. Wallace, 2008. Assessing the impacts of global warming on snowpack of the Washington Cascades, Journal of climate (accepted).

Main Presentations

Lan Cuo, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Eric P. Salathe, Jeffrey Richey and Marina Alberti, 2008. UW Water Center Conference, Seattle, WA. Streamflow change due to land cover and climate change in the Puget Sound, Washington Poster presentation

Cuo, L., D.P. Lettenmaier and E.P. Salathe Jr, AGU Fall Meeting, Dec, 2007,San Fransicso, CA Streamflow change due to land cover and climate change in the Puget Sound, Washington Oral presentation.

Lan Cuo, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Marina Alberti, and Jeffrey Richey, Land Cover Change and Climate Change Effects on Streamflow in PugetSound Basin, Washington, Climate Impact Group Weekly Seminar, Seattle, Washington, March, 2007,

Lan Cuo, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Marina Alberti, and Jeffrey Richey, Land Cover Change and Climate Change Effects on Streamflow in Puget Sound Basin, Washington, 2007 Georgia Basin Puget Sound Research Conference, Vancouver, BC Canada, March, 2007,

Lan Cuo, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Marina Alberti, and Jeffrey Richey, Land Cover Change Effects on Streamflow in Puget Sound Basin, Washington, oral pre sentation, the Annual American Geophysical Union Conference, San Francisco, CA, December 2006,

Lan Cuo, Thomas W. Giambelluca, Alan D. Ziegler, Mike A. Nullet, Using Distributed-Hydrology-Soil-Vegetation Model to Study Road Effects on Streamflow and Soil Moisture, oral presentation, the Annual American Geophysical Union Conference, San Francisco, CA, December 2003,

Lan Cuo, Thomas W. Giambelluca, Alan D. Ziegler, Mike A. Nullet, Using Distributed-Hydrology-Soil-Vegetation Model to Simulate Net Radiation, Soil Moisture, Streamflow in Pang Khum Experimental Watershed, in Northern Thailand, poster, the Annual American Geophysical Union Conference, San Francisco, CA, December 2001.

Lan Cuo, Yongxin Zhang, 1998, Monitoring and analyzing haze over Xining City in winter using NOAA-12 AVHRR remote sensing images, Meteorological Monthly, Vol. 24(6), pp.26-28.(In Chinese)

Lan Cuo, 1998, Using NOAA satellite data to retrieve land surface temperature and analysis of the relationship between NOAA-12 AVHRR brightness temperatures and snow depth, Memoirs of the Northwestern China remote sensing conference, Xining City, Qinghai Province, P.R.China. (In Chinese)

Current Research

DHSVM Administration: Test Sites


University of Washington Hydrology Group
Wilson Ceramic Laboratory
Box 352700
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-2700

hydro@hydro.washington.edu
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