个人简介 / About Chen

杨晨，副教授，博士生导师 / Chen Yang, PhD, Associate Professor

国家海外高层次青年人才计划入选者 / NSFC early career award

研究方向 ParFlow集成水文模型研发; 地下水与陆气交互作用研究

本人招收1-2名博士后，1名2026年秋季入学博士生，欢迎咨询报考！

 

News and Announcements

  • 03/2025, a deep learning surrogate model was built for CONCN modeling platform [link]
  • 02/2025, ParFlow CONCN modeling platform was accepted for publication in HESS
  • 02/2025, ParFlow-NASA LIS (land information system) was published in JAMES [link]
  • 01/2025, our Nature Water paper (continental particle tracking) was published online
  • 12/2024, Chuke Chen, student mentored at SUSTech, was elected Tsinghua Shuimu Scholar
  • 11/2024, our ParFlow modeling platform from bedrock to canopy top got funded by NSFC
  • 11/2024, CoLM and ParFlow have been preliminarily coupled [link]

 

微信公众号 / Wechat Official Account

 

研究兴趣 / Research Interests

• Terrestrial water cycle: interactions between groundwater and the land/atmosphere system

• Surface water-variably saturated 3D groundwater integrated hydrologic modeling

• Coupling integrated hydrologic model with land surface models

• Massively parallel computing with hybrid architectures: OpenMP, MPI, and CUDA

• Spatiotemporal scaling effects of biogeochemical reactions in reactive transport modeling

• Stochastic theories and their applications in hydrology

 

个人网站 / Personal Website

https://aureliayang.github.io/

 

联系方式 / Contact Chen

电子邮箱 / Email：yangch329@mail.sysu.edu.cn

办公地点 / Office：中山大学珠海校区海琴2号A536-4

 

工作经历 / Professional Experience

06/2024至今，副教授，中山大学，大气科学学院 

Associate Professor, Sun Yat-sen University, School of Atmospheric Sciences

09/2020–05/2024，副研究员，美国普林斯顿大学，土木与环境工程系 

Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

12/2018–02/2020，助理研究员，南方科技大学，环境科学与工程学院 

Research Associate, Southern University of Science and Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering

10/2015–11/2018，博士后研究员，中国地质大学（武汉），环境学院 

Postdoctoral Researcher, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), School of Environmental Studies

 

教育经历 / Education

09/2015，博士，南京大学，水文学及水资源 

PhD, Nanjing University, Hydrology and Water Resources

06/2010，学士，中国地质大学（武汉），水文与水资源工程 

BE, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering

 

访问经历 / Visiting Experience

12/2019–08/2020，美国科罗拉多矿业学院 / Colorado School of Mines

04/2019–11/2019，美国休斯敦大学 / University of Houston

11/2015–04/2017，美国太平洋西北国家实验室 / Pacific Northwest National Lab

 

代表性文章 / Selected Papers

(student author#)

Submitted

  • Yang C*, Sun AQ#, Zhang SP, Dai YJ, Kollet SJ, Maxwell RM, 2025. Twenty years of trials and insights: Bridging legacy and next generation in ParFlow and land surface model coupling. Submitted to Geoscientific Model Development.

Published

  • Yang C*, Jia ZT, Xu WJ#, Wei ZW, Zhang XL, Zou YG, Mcdonnell JJ, Condon LE, Dai YJ, Maxwell RM, 2025. CONCN: A high-resolution, integrated surface water-groundwater ParFlow modeling platform of continental China [link]. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 29(9): 220-2218.
  • Yang C*, Condon LE, Maxwell RM, 2025. Unraveling groundwater-stream connections over the continental United States [link]. Nature Water, 3, 70-79.
  • Yang C*, Tijerina-Kreuzer DT, Tran HV, Condon LE, Maxwell RM, 2023. A high-resolution, 3D groundwater-surface water simulation of the contiguous US: Advances in the integrated ParFlow CONUS 2.0 modeling platform. Journal of Hydrology, 626: 130294.
  • Yang C*, Maxwell RM, McDonnell JJ, Yang XF, Tijerina-Kreuzer DT, 2023. The role of topography in controlling evapotranspiration age. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128(18): e2023JD039228.
  • Yang C*, Ponder CG, Wang B, Tran HV, Zhang J, Swilley JS, Condon LE, Maxwell RM, 2023. Accelerating the Lagrangian particle tracking in hydrology to continental-scale. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 15(5): e2022MS003507.
  • Yang C*, Maxwell RM, Valent RA, 2022. Accelerating the Lagrangian simulation of water ages on distributed, multi-GPU platforms: The importance of dynamic load balancing. Computers & Geosciences, 166: 105189.
  • Yang C, Zhang Y-K, Liang XY, Olschanowsky C, Yang XF, Maxwell RM, 2021. Accelerating the Lagrangian particle tracking of residence time distributions and source water mixing towards large scales. Computers & Geosciences, 151: 104760.
  • Yang C, Li HY, Fang YL, Cui CX, Wang TY, Zheng CM, Leung LR, Maxwell RM, Zhang Y-K, Yang XF, 2020. Effects of groundwater pumping on ground surface temperature: A regional modeling study in the North China Plain. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125(9): e2019JD031764.
  • Yang C, Zhang Y-K, Liu YY, Yang XF, Liu CX, 2018. Model-Based Analysis of the Effects of Dam-Induced River Water and Groundwater Interactions on Hydro-Biogeochemical Transformation of Redox Sensitive Contaminants in a Hyporheic Zone. Water Resources Research, 54(9): 5973-5985.
  • Yang C, Zhang Y-K, Liang XY, 2018. Analysis of temporal variation and scaling of hydrological variables based on a numerical model of the Sagehen Creek watershed. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 32(2): 357-368.