Welcome to i-Ecoclimatology Lab
Decoding the intricate interactions between ecosystems, water cycles, and climate to advance impact assessment and global mitigation strategies.
Our Research
Our research encompasses three core pillars: water cycle-climate interactions, ecosystem-climate interactions, and climate impacts & mitigation. By integrating Earth system models such as CESM and WRF, spatial multi-source data, and attribution analysis, we aim to uncover complex climate feedbacks and develop method-driven, actionable mitigation strategies.
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View All Events →Global drought shows no detectable recent acceleration under climate warming
Using 11 global SPEI datasets built from six PET methods, the team shows that reported global drying is largely driven by the choice of evapotranspiration formulation, and that no statistically significant recent acceleration of global drought is detectable during 1981–2024.
Tsinghua SIGS team led by Yuanchao Fan advances research on global warming and deadly heat stress
This study provides the first global-scale quantitative assessment of how outdoor humid heat, solar radiation, and physiological factors drive heat stress, revealing that previous research has severely underestimated the outdoor health risks of global warming.
Deadly heat coming for healthy people — Harvard research
Venturing outdoors during heatwaves may become deadly for millions of people in a world only slightly warmer than today's, according to new research published in Communications Earth & Environment.