Hydroclimate Extremes Lab

Sun Yat-sen University
Advancing Hydroclimate Science for a Resilient Future

Research Directions

Our research focuses on understanding, predicting, and assessing hydroclimate extremes in a warming climate. We combine climate observations, model simulations, hydrological modelling, machine learning, and probabilistic risk analysis to study floods, droughts, heatwaves, and compound water-related hazards.

Compound Events

We are interested in how and why compound events, including concurrent droughts and heatwaves as well as dry-wet abrupt alternation, are changing and affecting our society in a warming climate.

Climate Extremes and Inequality

Multivate Assessment of Hydrologic Extremes

We investigate how floods and droughts are changing under climate change. Our work aims to quantify their frequency, intensity, spatial patterns, and socioeconomic impacts, with a focus on risk assessment and future projections.

Risk assessment of extreme hydroclimatic events

Hydrological Forecasting

We develop data-driven and process-based approaches for hydrological forecasting across river basins and larger spatial scales. This work integrates climate information, hydrological models, river-network data, and machine learning methods to improve prediction of water-related hazards.

Hydrological forecasting framework