Speaker：Prof. Jie Chen, Wuhan University

Topic：Progress and challenge in statistically downscaling climate model outputs

Time：AM 8:30, Dec.16, 2016

Place：The Lecture Hall, 2nd floor, Main Building, ISWC

A Brief Introduction to the Speaker:

Dr. Jie Chen is a professor and Ph.D. supervisor at Wuhan University. He was selected as one member of the Thousand Youth Talents Plan from the Organization Department of CCP Central Committee. Dr. Chen obtained his bachelor and master degrees from Northwest A&F University in 2005 and 2008, respectively, and obtained a Ph.D. degree from University of Quebec in 2011. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at University of Quebec between 2011 and 2015. He is a professor at Wuhan University since February, 2016.  

Dr. Chen’s research focuses on quantifying the spatial-temporal evolution of hydrology in a changing climate. He made great achievements in terms of the stochastic weather generation, statistical downscaling and uncertainty quantification in the field of hydrological climate change impact studies. Four technical models consisting of single-site, multi-site stochastic weather generators, statistical downscaling model and ensemble streamflow forecast system have been developed to bridge the gap between climate model outputs and data requirement of hydrological models. 

Dr. Chen published 34 articles in Science Citation Index (SCI) journals, such as Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydrology and Climate Dynamics, in which 24 articles was published as the first author. The number of others’ citation in total is more than 300 with two articles was cited by the Fifth Assessment Report of IPCC and one article was considered as the ESI high cited publication. Dr. Chen is hosting or investigating several research projects, such as the Project for the Thousand Youth Talents, Project for high-level researchers at Wuhan University and the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China. He awarded the Canada Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal in 2011 and the best Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Quebec in 2012.

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