Dr Yanchen Zheng
BSc, MSc, PhD
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Current positions
Research Associate
School of Geographical Sciences
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Research interests
My main research interests include large sample hydrological data analysis, understanding and predicting extreme hydrological events in changing environments, developing flood estimation methods for ungauged catchments, hydrological process modelling.
Previous PhD work focused on constructing a flexible event runoff coefficients estimation framework, which have been verified over GB catchments, can be used for various regions and lay foundation for flood estimation in ungauged catchments. I am currently working on integrating groundwater model into a hydrological model. The main aim is to assess the impacts of human-water interactions on hydrological drought using the coupled surface-subsurface model.
In addition, I’m currently involved in projects on (1) the planning phase of flood and drought research infrastructure in the UK and (2) the phase 3 of National System Simulation Modelling (NSSM) Project funded by Ofwat. I’m working with colleagues from University of Oxford, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), British Geological Survey (BGS) and Environment Agency (EA).
Publications
Selected publications
03/01/2023A Framework for Estimating the Probability Distribution of Event Runoff Coefficient in Ungauged Catchments
Water Resources Research
Controls on the spatial and temporal patterns of rainfall‐runoff event characteristics ‐ a large sample of catchments across Great Britain
Water Resources Research
Recent publications
03/01/2023A Framework for Estimating the Probability Distribution of Event Runoff Coefficient in Ungauged Catchments
Water Resources Research
Considering flood scaling property in multi-objective calibration of the SWAT model: a case study in Zijinguan watershed, Northern China
Natural Hazards
Controls on the spatial and temporal patterns of rainfall‐runoff event characteristics ‐ a large sample of catchments across Great Britain
Water Resources Research
When good signatures go bad
Hydrological Processes
Event-based and continous flood modeling in Zijinguan watershed, Northern China
Natural Hazards