Qiuhong Tang

Research Associate
Department of Civil and Environment Engineering
Box 352700
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-2700
Email: qiuhonghydro.washington.edu
(O)206.685.3202
(C)206.697.1981

News

Special Issue in International Journal of Remote Sensing (IJRS) - Call for Papers
Title: Satellite-Based Observations of Large-Scale Terrestrial Water Cycle
Guest Editors: Qiuhong Tang (U Washington), Michael Durand (Ohio State U), Dennis P. Lettenmaier (U Washington)
Editor of IJRS: Yang Hong (U Oklahoma)
Editor-in-Chief of IJRS: Giles Foody (U Nottingham)
First Manuscript Submission Possible: May 1, 2009
Deadline of Manuscript Submission: June 1, 2009

Links

Distributed Biosphere-Hydrological Model System:
http://hydro.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/DBH/

NASA Remote Sensing Data Assimilation & Seasonal Climate Forecasts

Evapotranspiration Estimation Using Remote Sensing

Washington Agricultural Monitoring (WAAM)

Education

Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Sep 2006 The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Thesis: A Distributed Biosphere-Hydrological Model for Continental Scale River Basin

M.E. in Hydrology and Water Resources, Jul 2003 Institute of Hydrology and Water Resources, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Thesis title: A Study of Dissipative Hydrological Model for Arid Plain Oasis

B.E. in Hydraulic Engineering, Jul 2001, Hydraulic and Hydropower Engineering Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Professional Activities

Chair convener of AGU fall meeting 2008, session H37: Remote Sensing and Modeling of Land Surface Hydrological Processes
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Chair of AGU fall meeting 2008, session H31I, H41B, H43G.

Reviewer for international journals: Journal of Hydrometeorology , Journal of Climate , Journal of Geophysical Research , Water Resources Research , Advances in Water Resources , Sensors , International Journal of Remote Sensing , Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering - ASCE , Hydrological Research Letters - JSHWR

Main Publications

Peer-reviewed Papers

Tang, Q., and D. P. Lettenmaier, 2009. Use of satellite snow-cover data for streamflow prediction in the Feather River Basin, California. International Journal of Remote Sensing, (accepted).

Tang, Q., H. Gao, P. Yeh, T. Oki, F. Su, and D. P. Lettenmaier, 2009. Dynamics of terrestrial water storage change from satellite and surface observations and modeling. Journal of Hydrometeorology, (in press) doi:10.1175/2009JHM1152.1.

Tang, Q., H. Gao, H. Lu and D. P. Lettenmaier, 2009. Remote sensing: hydrology. Progress in Physical Geography, 33(4) 490-509. doi:10.1177/0309133309346650.

Tang, Q., E. A. Rosenberg, and D. P. Lettenmaier, 2009. Use of satellite data to assess the impacts of irrigation withdrawals on Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 13, 617-627.

Tang, Q., S. Peterson, R. Cuenca, Y. Hagimoto and D. P. Lettenmaier, 2009. Satellite-based near-real-time estimation of irrigated crop water consumption. Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, D05114, doi: 10.1029/2008JD010854.

Tang, Q., A.W. Wood, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2009. Real-time precipitation estimation based on index station percentiles., Journal of Hydrometeorology, 10, 266-277. DOI: 10.1175/2008JHM1017.1.

Tang, Q., Oki, T., Kanae, S., Hu, H., 2008. Hydrological Cycles Change in the Yellow River Basin During the Last Half of the 20th Century., Journal of Climate. 21(8), 1790–1806. DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1854.1.

Tang, Q., Oki, T., Kanae, S., Hu, H., 2007. The influence of precipitation variability and partial irrigation within grid cells on a hydrological simulation. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 8, 499-512. DOI: 10.1175/JHM589.1.

Tang, Q., Oki, T., 2007. Daily NDVI relationship to cloud cover. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 46, 377-387. DOI: 10.1175/JAM2468.1.

Tang, Q., Hu, H., Oki, T., 2007. Groundwater recharge and discharge in a hyperarid alluvial plain (Akesu, Taklimakan Desert, China), Hydrological Processes, 21, 1345-1353. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6307.

Tang, Q., Oki, T., Kanae, S., Hu, H., 2008. A spatial analysis of hydro-climatic and vegetation condition trends in the Yellow River Basin. Hydrological Processes, 22, 451-458. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6624.

Tang, Q., Hu, H., Oki, T., Tian, F., 2007. Water balance within intensively cultivated alluvial plain in an arid environment. Water Resources Management, 21, 1703-1715. DOI: 10.1007/s11269-006-9121-4.

Tang, Q., Oki, T., Kanae, S., 2006. A distributed biosphere hydrological model (DBHM) for large river basin. Annual Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, JSCE 50, 37-42 [Science Links Japan].

Tang, Q., Hu, H., and Oki, T., Hydrological processes within an intensively cultivated alluvial plain in an arid environment, Sustainability of Groundwater Resources and its Indicators (Pro-ceedings of symposium S3 held during the Seventh IAHS Scientific Assembly at Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, April 2005). IAHS Publ. 302, 2006.

Tang, Q., Tian, F., and Hu, H., Runoff-evaporation hydrological model for arid plain oasis II: the model application, Shuikexue Jinzhan/Advances in Water Science, 15 (2): 146-150, 2004. (in Chinese with English abstract)

Hu, H., Tang, Q., Lei, Z., and Yang, S., Runoff-evaporation hydrological model for arid plain oasis I: the model structure, Shuikexue Jinzhan/Advances in Water Science, 15 (2): 140-145, 2004. (in Chinese with English abstract)

Chapter in Book

Tang, Q., H. Hu and F. Tian, 2009. Effects of Irrigated Agriculture on Hydrological Regime in an Arid Environment. Chapter in Book Environmental Impact Assessments, Nova Science Publishers, pp 493. ISBN: 978-1-60692-667-3 .

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