2004-10--2007-09 PhD: Tokyo University, Civil Engineering Department
2002-09--2004-07 Master's: Tsinghua University, Institute of Hydrology and Water Resources
1998-09--2002-07 Bachelor's: Tsinghua University, Department of Hydraulic Engineering
2015-04~present, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor
2014-01~present, Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, CAS, Distinguished Researcher
2011-08~present, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, Researcher
2010-12~2011-08, University of Tokyo, Associate Professor
2010-04~2010-11, University of Tokyo, Assistant Professor
2008-04~2010-03, University of Tokyo, Special Research Fellow
2007-10~2008-03, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Special Research Fellow
2016: Excellent Final Assessment by the Chinese Academy of Sciences
2016: National Excellent Science and Technology Worker
2015: National Top Young Talent
2013: National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars
2004-2007: MEXT Scholarship, Japan
Research
Distributed land surface hydrological models (including cold region hydrological processes) Integrated water resource management (short-term flood forecasting, drought monitoring and seasonal forecasting, optimization of reservoir operations)
Quantitative Drought Monitoring in a Typical Cold River Basin over Tibetan Plateau: an integration of meteorological, agricultural and hydrological droughts, Godfrey Ouma Makokha, Lei Wang*, Jing Zhou, Xiuping Li, Aihui Wang, Guangpeng Wang, David Kuria, 2016
Improving Snow Process Modeling with Satellite-Based Estimation of Near-Surface-Air-Temperature Lapse Rate, Lei Wang*, Litao Sun, Maheswor Shrestha, Xiuping Li, Wenbin Liu, Jing Zhou, Kun Yang, Hui Lu, Deliang Chen, 2016
Spatiotemporal variations of actual evapotranspiration over the Lake Selin Co and surrounding small lakes (Tibetan Plateau) during 2003–2012, Jing Zhou*, Lei Wang, Yinsheng Zhang, Yanhong Guo, Dan He, 2016
Development of an enthalpy-based frozen soil model and its validation in a cold region in China, Huiyi Bao*, Toshio Koike, Kun Yang, Lei Wang, Maheswor Shrestha, Peter Lawford, 2016
Elevation-dependent reductions in wind speed over and around the Tibetan Plateau, X. Guo, L. Wang*, L. Tian, X.P. Li, 2016
A worldwide evaluation of basin-scale evapotranspiration estimates against the water balance method, Wenbin Liu, Lei Wang*, Jing Zhou, Yanzhong Li, Fubao Sun, Guobin Fu, Xiuping Li, Yanfang Sang, 2016
Estimating continental river basin discharges using multiple remote sensing data sets, Sichangi W. Arthur, Lei Wang*, Kun Yang, Deliang Chen, Zhongjing Wang, Xiuping Li, Jing Zhou, Wenbin Liu, David Kuria, 2016
Summer rainfall over the southwestern Tibetan Plateau controlled by deep convection over the Indian subcontinent, Dong, W., Y. Lin*, J. Wright, Y. Ming, Y. Xie, B. Wang, Y. Luo, W. Huang, J. Huang, L. Wang, L. Tian, Y. Peng, F. Xu, 2016
Validation of the Global Land Data Assimilation System based on measurements of soil temperature profiles, L. Wang*, X.P. Li*, Y. Chen, K. Yang, D. Chen, J. Zhou, W. Liu, J. Qi, and J. Huang, 2016
Spatio-temporal variability of vertical gradients of major meteorological observations around the Tibetan Plateau, X. Guo, L. Wang, L. Tian, 2015
Large-scale circulation classification and its links to observed precipitation in the eastern and central Tibetan Plateau, W. Liu*, L. Wang, D. Chen, K. Tu, C. Ruan, Z. Hu, 2015
Exploring the water storage changes in the largest lake (Selin Co) over the Tibetan Plateau during 2003–2012 from a basin-wide hydrological modeling, Zhou, J., L. Wang*, Y. Zhang, Y. Guo, X. Li, and W. Liu, 2015
Integrated simulation of snow and glacier melt in water and energy balance-based, distributed hydrological modeling framework at Hunza River Basin of Pakistan Karakoram region, Shrestha, M., T. Koike, Y. Hirabayashi, Y. Xue, L. Wang, G. Rasul, and B. Ahmad, 2015
Multicriteria evaluation of discharge simulation in Dynamic Global Vegetation Models, Hui Yang, Shilong Piao, Zhenzhong Zeng, Philippe Ciais, Yi Yin, Pierre Friedlingstein, Stephen Sitch, Anders Ahlstrom, Matthieu Guimberteau, Chris Huntingford, Sam Levis, Peter E. Levy, Mengtian Huang, Yue Li, Xiran Li, Mark R Lomas, Philippe Peylin, Ben Poulter, Nicolas Viovy, Soenke Zaehle, Ning Zeng, Fang Zhao, and Lei Wang, 2015
Quantitative assessment of climate and human impacts on surface water resources in a typical semi-arid watershed in the middle reaches of the Yellow River from 1985 to 2006, Z. Hu*, L. Wang, Z. Wang, Y. Hong, and H. Zheng, 2015
Projecting the future climate impacts on streamflow in Tangwang River basin (China) using a rainfall generator and two hydrological models, W. Liu*, A. Zhang, L. Wang, G. Fu, D. Chen, C. Liu, and T. Cai, 2015
Seasonal evapotranspiration changes (1983-2006) of four large basins on the Tibetan Plateau, X.-P. Li*, L. Wang, D.-L. Chen, K. Yang, A. Wang, 2014
Optimizing multidam releases in large river basins by combining distributed hydrological inflow predictions with rolling-horizon decision making, *Wang, L., T. Koike, M. Ikeda, C.T. Nyunt, D.N. Tinh, O. Saavedra, T.V. Sap, L.C. Nguyen, K. Tamagawa, and T. Ohta, 2014
The dependence of precipitation types on surface elevation and meteorological conditions and its parameterization, Ding B., K. Yang, J. Qin, L. Wang, Y. Chen, and X. He, 2014
Toward a satellite-based observation of atmospheric heat source over land, Yang, K.*, H. Wu, Y. Chen, J. Qin, and L. Wang, 2014
Correcting basin-scale snowfall in a mountainous basin using a distributed snowmelt model and remote sensing data, Shrestha, M., T. Koike, Y. Hirabayashi, Y. Xue, L. Wang, G. Rasul, and B. Ahmad, 2014
Modeling the land surface water and energy cycles of a mesoscale watershed in the central Tibetan Plateau during summer with a distributed hydrological model, B.-L. Xue, L. Wang*, K. Yang, L. Tian, J. Qin, Y. Chen, L. Zhao, Y. Ma, T. Koike, Z. Hu, and X.-P. Li, 2013
Near-surface air temperature lapse rates in the mainland China during 1962-2011, X.-P. Li, L. Wang*, D.-L. Chen, K. Yang, B.-L. Xue, and L.-T. Sun, 2013
Evaluation of evapotranspiration estimates for two river basins in Tibetan Plateau by a water balance method, B.-L. Xue, L. Wang*, X.-P. Li, K. Yang, D.-L. Chen, and L.-T. Sun, 2013
Coupling of a simultaneous heat and water model with a distributed hydrological model and evaluation of the combined model in a cold region watershed, Y. Zhang*, G. Cheng, X. Li, X. Han, L. Wang, H. Li, X. Chang, G.N. Flerchinger, 2013
Use of integrated observations to improve 0-36h flood forecasting: development and application of a coupled atmosphere-hydrology system in the Nanpan River Basin, China, L. Wang*, T. Koike, M. Wang, J. Liu, J. Sun, H. Lu, H. Tsusui, K. Tamagawa, and X. Xu, 2012
Ensemble hydrological prediction based real-time optimization of multi-objective
