INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL PAPER(more than 200 peer reviewed international journal papers. Google scholar: 20,516 citations, H-index 79; Web of Science: 18,237 citations, H-index 75)
2025
1. Xiong Jinghua, Yang Yuting, Yang Long, Yang Dawen. Asymmetric shifts in precipitation due to urbanization across global cities. Nature Communications, 16(1)(2025), 5802.
2. Wu Xutong, Yan Zihan, Yang Haiyan, Wang Shuai, Zhang Haoyu, Shen Yilin, Song Shuang, Liu Yanxu, Guo Ying, Yang Dawen, Fu Bojie. Ecological restoration in the Yellow River Basin enhances hydropower potential. Nature Communications, 16(1)(2025), 2566.
3. Wu Chuandong, Liu Hu, Wei Lemin, Yu Yang, Zhao Wenzhi, Guo Li, He Zhibin, Yetemen Omer, Yang Dawen. Diverse vegetation responses to solar farm installation are also driven by climate change. Communications Earth & Environment, 6(1)(2025), 118.
4. Wei Yanqi, Li Haichao, Zhou Yuliang, Commey Nii Amarquaye, Zhu Zhenduo, Ishidaira Hiroshi, Jiang Zijian, Yang Dawen. Flood vulnerability assessment of urban agglomeration under the background of urban expansion. Journal of Hydrology, 662(2025), 133962.
5. Liu Ziwei, Yang Yuting, Han Juntai, Guo Yuhan, Yang Dawen. Transitioning Climate Control on Snow and Streamflow Dynamics Over the Past 70 Years. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(6)(2025), e2024GL114381.
6. Li Leifang, Wang Taihua, Yang Jingjing, Yang Haiyan, Tang Lihua, Yang Dawen. Revealing the Long-Term Catchment-Scale Carbon Budget Dynamics on the Permafrost-Dominated Eastern Tibetan Plateau. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 39(11)(2025), e2025GB008743.
7. Li Ge, Wu Jinfeng, Cong Zhentao, Yang Dawen. Impact of extreme storms on the effect of soil and water conservation measures. Journal of Hydrology, 659(2025), 133290.
8. Guo Yuhan, Yang Yuting, Yang Dawen, Zhang Lu, Zheng Hongxing, Xiong Jinghua, Ruan Fangzheng, Han Juntai, Liu Ziwei. Warming leads to both earlier and later snowmelt floods over the past 70 years. Nature Communications, 16(1)(2025), 3663.
9. Guo Shuitao, Yao Yingying, Ji Qiang, Jin Huijun, Wang Taihua, Lancia Michele, Meng Xianhong, Zheng Chunmiao, Yang Dawen. Groundwater depletion intensified by irrigation and afforestation in the Yellow River Basin: A spatiotemporal analysis using GRACE and well monitoring data with implications for sustainable management. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 59(2025), 102324.
10. Fang Pei, Wang Taihua, Yang Dawen, Tang Lihua, Yang Yuting. Substantial increases in compound climate extremes and associated socio-economic exposure across China under future climate change. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 8(1)(2025), 17.
2024
11. Cheng Han, Wang Taihua, Yang Dawen. Quantifying the Regulation Capacity of the Three Gorges Reservoir on Extreme Hydrological Events and Its Impact on Flow Regime in a Changing Climate. Water Resources Research, 60(6)(2024), e2023WR036329.
12. Han Juntai, Liu Ziwei, Woods Ross, McVicar Tim R., Yang Dawen, Wang Taihua, Hou Ying, Guo Yuhan, Li Changming, Yang Yuting. Streamflow Seasonality in a Snow-Dwindling World. Nature, 629(8014)(2024), 1075–1081.
13. Li Leifang, Chen Lei, Chen Shibo, Zhang Yuhan, Xu Yanzhe, Zhi Xiaosha, Meng Xinyi, Shen Zhenyao, Liu Yong, Yang Dawen, Tang Lihua. The Cumulative Effects of Cascade Reservoirs Control Nitrogen and Phosphorus Flux: Based on Biogeochemical Processes. Water Research, 252 (2024), 121177.
14. Li Yibo, Cong Zhentao, Yang Dawen. The Ecohydrological Response to Soil Moisture Based on the Distributed Hydrological Assimilation Model in the Mountain Region. Ecohydrology, 17(1)(2024), e2606.
15. Tan Xingyan, Jia Yangwen, Yang Dawen, Niu Cunwen, Hao Chunfeng. Impact Ways and Their Contributions to Vegetation-Induced Runoff Changes in the Loess Plateau. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 51(2024), 101630.
16. Yan Zihan, Wang Taihua, Ma Teng, Yang Dawen. Water-Carbon-Sediment Synergies and Trade-Offs: Multi-Faceted Impacts of Large-Scale Ecological Restoration in the Middle Yellow River Basin. Journal of Hydrology, 634 (2024), 131099.
17. Yang Haiyan, Wang Taihua, Yang Dawen, Yan Zihan, Wu Jinfeng, Lei Huimin. Runoff and Sediment Effect of the Soil-Water Conservation Measures in a Typical River Basin of the Loess Plateau. Catena, 243 (2024), 108218.
18. Zhao Baoxu, Wang Taihua, Yang Dawen, Yang Shuyu, Yang Cheng, Santisirisomboon Jerasorn. Derivation of Flood Elasticity under Climate and Forest Change for a Tropical Monsoon Basin of Thailand. Journal of Hydrology, 637 (2024), 131420.
2023
1. Yang Yuting, Michael L. Roderick, Hui Guo, Diego G. Miralles, Lu Zhang, Simone Fatichi, Luo Xiangzhong, Zhang Yongqiang, Tim R. McVicar, Tu Zhuoyi, Trevor F. Keenan, Joshua B. Fisher, Gan Rong, Zhang Xuanze, Piao Shilong, Zhang Baoqing, Yang Dawen. Evapotranspiration on a greening Earth. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 4(9)(2023), 626-641.
2. Wang Taihua, Yang Dawen, Yang Yuting, Zheng Guanheng, Jin Huijun, Li Xin, Tandong Yao, Cheng Guodong. Pervasive permafrost thaw exacerbates future risk of water shortage across the Tibetan Plateau. Earth's Future, 11(10)(2023), e2022EF003463.
3. Xu Yang, Yang Dawen, Tang Lihua, Qiao Zixu, Ma Long, Chen Min. Evaluating main drivers of terrestrial water storage depletion in the agro-pastoral ecotone of northern China. Journal of Hydrology, 626 (2023), 130242.
4. Wu Jinfeng, João Pedro Nunes, Jantiene EM Baartman, Yang Dawen. Disentangling the impacts of meteorological variability and human induced changes on hydrological responses and erosion in a hilly-gully watershed of the Chinese Loess Plateau. Catena, 233 (2023), 107478.
5. Yan Zihan, Lei Huimin, Gao Haidong, Ma Teng, Yang Haiyan, Yang Dawen. Simulating the hydrological impacts of intensive soil and water conservation measures in the Yellow River basin using a distributed physically-based model. Journal of Hydrology, 625 (2023), 129936.
6. Yang Jingjing, Wang Taihua, Yang Dawen. Divergent responses of permafrost degradation to precipitation increases at different seasons on the eastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau based on modeling approach. Environmental Research Letters, 18(9)(2023), 094038.
7. Li Xiangmin, Wang Taihua, Zhou Ziyi, Su Jiaping, Yang Dawen. Seasonal characteristics and spatio-temporal variations of the extreme precipitation-air temperature relationship across China. Environmental Research Letters, 18(5)(2023), 054022.
8. Qiao Zixu, Ma Long, Xu Yang, Yang Dawen, Liu Tingxi, Sun Bolin. Runoff change and attribution analysis in a semiarid mountainous basin. Ecological Engineering, 195(2023), 107075.
9. Liu Ziwei, Yang Hanbo, Wang Taihua, Yang Dawen. Estimating the annual runoff frequency distribution based on climatic conditions and catchment characteristics: A case study across China. International Soil and Water Conservation Research, 11(3)(2023), 470-481.
10. Li Jiaxian, Zhang Shulei, Omarjan Obulkasim, Lu Xingjie, Wei Zhongwang, Yuan Hua, Li Lu, Zeng Jianxin, Yang Dawen, Dai Yongjiu. Impact of Reservoirs on Local Precipitation-Temperature Coupling Relationships. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(14)(2023), e2023GL103453.
11. Wang Taihua, Yang Dawen, Yang Yuting, Zheng Guanheng, Jin Huijun, Li Xin, Yao Tandong, Cheng Guodong. Unsustainable water supply from thawing permafrost on the Tibetan Plateau in a changing climate. Science Bulletin, 68(11)(2023), 1105-1108.
12. Tan Xingyan, Jia Yangwen, Yang Dawen, Niu Cunwen, Hao Chunfeng. Turning points in the impact of earlier green-up on evapotranspiration and gross primary productivity in a semi-arid grassland watershed. Journal of Hydrology, 616(2023), 128755.
13. Wang Siru, Wang Ai, Yang Dawen, Gu Yicheng, Tang Lihua, Sun Xiaomin. Understanding the spatiotemporal variability in nonpoint source nutrient loads and its effect on water quality in the upper Xin’an river basin, Eastern China. Journal of Hydrology, 621(2023), 129582.
14. Yang Jingjing, Wang Taihua, Yang Dawen, Yang Yuting. Insights into runoff changes in the source region of Yellow River under frozen ground degradation. Journal of Hydrology, 617(2023), 128892.
15. Yang Shuyu, Zhao Baoxu, Yang Dawen, Wang Taihua, Yang Yuting, Ma Teng, Santisirisomboon Jerasorn. Future changes in water resources, floods and droughts under the joint impact of climate and land-use changes in the Chao Phraya basin, Thailand. Journal of Hydrology, 620(2023), 129454.
16. Zhao Baoxu, Wang Taihua, Yang Dawen, Yang Shuyu, Lu Weiwei, Santisirisomboon Jerasorn. The impacts of climatic and land surface characteristics on the storm-flood relationship in a tropical monsoon basin of Thailand. Journal of Hydrology, 616(2023), 128809.
17. Li Xiangmin, Wang Taihua, Zhou Ziyi, Su Jiaping, Yang Dawen. Seasonal characteristics and spatio-temporal variations of the extreme precipitation-air temperature relationship across China. Environmental Research Letters, 18(5)(2023), 054022.
2022
1. Li Ping, Yang Dawen, Chaubey Indrajeet, Su Xiaoling, Jiang Yanan. Evolution of the freshwater provisioning services under climate change and vegetation restoration influences. Ecological Indicators, 143(2022), 109362.
2. Wang Taihua, Yang Dawen, Zheng Guanheng, Shi Ruijie. Possible negative effects of earlier thaw onset and longer thaw duration on vegetation greenness over the Tibetan Plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 326(2022), 109192.
3. Shi Ruijie, Wang Taihua, Yang Dawen, Yang Yuting. Streamflow decline threatens water security in the upper Yangtze river. Journal of Hydrology, 606(2022), 127448.
4. Wang Taihua, Shi Ruijie, Yang Dawen, Yang Shuyu, Fang Beijing. Future changes in annual runoff and hydroclimatic extremes in the upper Yangtze River Basin. Journal of Hydrology, 615(2022), 128738.
5. Zhao Baoxu, Lei Huimin, Yang Dawen, Yang Shuyu, Santisirisomboon Jerasorn. Runoff and sediment response to deforestation in a large Southeast Asian monsoon watershed. Journal of Hydrology, 606(2022), 127432.
6. Chang Yiming, Lei Huimin, Zhou Feng, Yang Dawen. Spatial and temporal variations of rainfall erosivity in the middle Yellow River Basin based on hourly rainfall data. Catena, 216(2022), 106406.
7. Rao Pinzeng, Wang Siru, Wang Ai, Yang Dawen, Tang Lihua. Spatiotemporal characteristics of nonpoint source nutrient loads and their impact on river water quality in Yancheng city, China, simulated by an improved export coefficient model coupled with grid-based runoff calculations. Ecological Indicators, 142(2022), 109188.
8. Xie Zongxu, Yang Hanbo, Lv Huafang, Lei Huimin, Yang Dawen. Long-term observed evapotranspiration and its variation caused by anthropogenic controls in an ecofragile region. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 335(2022), 108008.
9. Shen Jiaju, Yang Hanbo, Li Sien, Liu Ziwei, Cao Yongqiang, Yang Dawen. Revisiting the Pan Evaporation Trend in China During 1988–2017. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127(12)(2022), e2022JD036489.
10. Li Xin, Cheng Guodong, Fu Bojie, Xia Jun, Zhang Ling, Yang Dawen, Zheng Chunmiao, Liu Shaomin, Li Xiubin, Song Changqing, Kang Shaozhong, Li Xiaoyan, Che Tao, Zheng Yi, Zhou Yanzhao, Wang Haibo, Ran Youhua. Linking critical zone with watershed science: The example of the Heihe River basin. Earth's Future, 10(11)(2022), e2022EF002966.
11. Li Changming, Yang Hanbo, Yang Wencong, Liu Ziwei, Jia Yao, Li Sien, Yang Dawen. Error characterization of global land evapotranspiration products: Collocation-based approach. Journal of Hydrology, 612(2022), 128102.
12. Zhang Shulei, Zhou Liming, Zhang Lu, Yang Yuting, Wei Zhongwang, Zhou Sha, Yang Dawen, Yang Xiaofan, Wu Xiuchen, Zhang Yongqiang, Li Xiaoyan, Dai Yongjiu. Reconciling disagreement on global river flood changes in a warming climate. Nature Climate Change, 12(2022), 1160-1167.
13. Yang Wencong, Yang Hanbo, Li Changming, Wang Taihua, Liu Ziwei, Hu Qingfang, Yang Dawen. Long-term reconstruction of satellite-based precipitation, soil moisture, and snow water equivalent in China. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 26(24)(2022), 6427-6441.
2021
1. Yang Dawen, Yang Yuting, Xia Jun. Hydrological cycle and water resources in a changing world: A review. Geography and Sustainability, 2(2)(2021), 115-122.
2. Liu Xiao, Yang Dawen. Irrigation schedule analysis and optimization under the different combination of P and ET0 using a spatially distributed crop model. Agricultural Water Management, 256(2021), 107084.
3. Li Yuheng, Wang Taihua, Yang Dawen, Tang Lihua, Yang Kun, Liu Zhiwu. Linkage between anomalies of pre-summer frozen soil thawing over Tibetan Plateau and summer precipitation in East Asia. Environmental Research Letters, 16(2021), 114030.
4. Yang Yuting, McVicar Tim R, Yang Dawen, Zhang Yongqiang, Piao Shilong, Peng Shushi, Beck Hylke. Low and contrasting impacts of vegetation CO2 fertilization on global terrestrial runoff over 1982–2010: accounting for aboveground and belowground vegetation–CO2 effects. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25(6)(2021), 3411-3427.
5. Yang Yuting, Roderick Michael, Yang Dawen, Wang Zhengrong, Ruan Fangzheng, McVicar Tim, Zhang Shulei, Beck Hylke. Streamflow stationarity in a changing world. Environmental Research Letters, 16(6)(2021), 064096.
6. Yang Wencong, Yang Hanbo, Yang Dawen, Hou Aizhong. Causal effects of dams and land cover changes on flood changes in mainland China. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25(5)(2021), 2705-2720.
7. Zhang Cicheng, Yang Yuting, Yang Dawen, Wu Xiuchen. Multidimensional assessment of global dryland changes under future warming in climate projections. Journal of Hydrology, 592(2021), 125618.
8. Li Xin, Zhang Ling, Zheng Yi, Yang Dawen, Wu Feng, Tian Yong, Han Feng, Gao Bing, Li Hongyi, Zhang Yanlin, Ge Yingchun, Cheng Guodong, Fu Bojie, Xia Jun, Song Changqing, Zheng Chunmiao. Novel hybrid coupling of ecohydrology and socioeconomy at river basin scale: A watershed system model for the Heihe River basin. Environmental Modelling & Software, 141(2021), 105058.
9. Pang Xinxin, Lei Huimin, Cong Zhentao, Yang Hanbo, Duan Limin, Yang Dawen. Long term variation of evapotranspiration and water balance based on upscaling eddy covariance observations over the temperate semi-arid grassland of China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 308(2021), 108566.
2020
1. Wang Ai, Yang Dawen, Tang Lihua. Spatiotemporal variation in nitrogen loads and their impacts on river water quality in the upper Yangtze River basin. Journal of Hydrology, 590(2020), 125487.
2. Wang Taihua, Yang Dawen, Yang Yuting, Piao Shilong, Li Xin, Cheng Guodong, Fu Bojie. Permafrost thawing puts the frozen carbon at risk over the Tibetan Plateau. Science Advances, 6(19)(2020), eaaz3513.
3. Yang Shuyu, Yang Dawen, Chen Jinsong, Santisirisomboon Jerasorn, Lu Weiwei, Zhao Baoxu. A physical process and machine learning combined hydrological model for daily streamflow simulations of large watersheds with limited observation data. Journal of Hydrology, 590(2020), 125206.
4. Lin Xiaodan, Yu Shen, Yang Dawen, Hutchins Michael, Ding Jing, Hong Bing, Chen Peiji, Liu Xun. Discriminating surface soil inorganic nitrogen cycling under various land uses in a watershed with simulations of energy balanced temperature and slope introduced moisture. Journal of Hydrology, 587(2020), 124950.
5. Lu Bingjun, Lei Huimin, Yang Dawen, Fu Xudong. Separating the effects of revegetation and sediment-trapping dams construction on runoff and its application to a semi-arid watershed of the Loess Plateau. Ecological Engineering, 158(2020), 106043.
6. Luo Yuyan, Yang Yuting, Yang Dawen, Zhang Shulei. Quantifying the impact of vegetation changes on global terrestrial runoff using the Budyko framework. Journal of Hydrology, 590(2020), 125389.
7. Shi Ruijie, Yang Hanbo, Yang Dawen. Spatiotemporal variations in frozen ground and their impacts on hydrological components in the source region of the Yangtze River. Journal of Hydrology, 590(2020), 125237.
8. Yang Wencong, Yang Hanbo, Yang Dawen. Classifying floods by quantifying driver contributions in the Eastern Monsoon Region of China. Journal of Hydrology, 585(2020), 124767.
9. Zhang Cicheng, Yang Yuting, Yang Dawen, Wang Zhengrong, Wu Xiuchen, Zhang Shulei, Zhang Wenjie. Vegetation response to elevated CO2 slows down the eastward movement of the 100th meridian. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(16)(2020), e2020GL089681.
10. Zhang Quan, Lei Huimin, Yang Dawen, Xiong Lihua, Liu Pan, Fang Beijing. Decadal variation in CO2 fluxes and its budget in a wheat and maize rotation cropland over the North China Plain. Biogeosciences, 17(8)(2020), 2245-2262.
11. Zheng Guanheng, Yang Yuting, Yang Dawen, Dafflon Baptiste, Yi Yonghong, Chen Deliang, Gao Bing, Wang Taihua, Shi Ruijie, Wu Qingbai. Remote sensing spatiotemporal patterns of frozen soil and the environmental controls over the Tibetan Plateau during 2002–2016. Remote Sensing of Environment, 247(2020), 111927.
12. Fang Beijing, Lei Huimin, Zhang Yucui, Quan Quan, Yang Dawen. Spatio-temporal patterns of evapotranspiration based on upscaling eddy covariance measurements in the dryland of the North China Plain. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 281(2020), 107844.
13. Han Juntai, Yang Yuting, Roderick Michael, McVicar Tim, Yang Dawen, Zhang Shulei, Beck Hylke. Assessing the steady-state assumption in water balance calculation across global catchments. Water Resources Research, 56(7)(2020), e2020WR027392.
14. Lu Weiwei, Lei Huimin, Yang Wencong, Yang Jingjing, Yang Dawen. Comparison of floods driven by tropical cyclones and monsoons in the southeastern coastal region of China. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 21(7)(2020), 1589-1603.
15. Yang Yuting, Zhang Shulei, Roderick Michael, McVicar Tim, Yang Dawen, Liu Wenbin, Li Xiaoyan. Comparing PDSI drought assessments using the traditional offline approach with direct climate model outputs. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 24(6)(2020), 2921-2930.
16. Zhang Shulei, Yang Yuting, McVicar Tim, Zhang Lu, Yang Dawen, Li Xiaoyan. A proportionality-based multi-scale catchment water balance model and its global verification. Journal of Hydrology, 582(2020), 124446.