中文
Lei Zhong

Professor

Email: zhonglei@ustc.edu.cn

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 ZHONG Lei（仲雷） 

Associate Professor of Atmospheric Physics

Department of Geophysics and Planetary Science and Technology

School of Earth and Space Sciences

University of Science and Technology of China

Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China

Tel: +86-551-

Fax:+86-551-

E-mail: zhonglei@ustc.edu.cn


Research fields

Land-atmosphere interaction, application of satellite remote sensing and atmospheric boundary layer processes


Education

Sep. 2004 — Jan. 2008 Graduate study for doctor’s degree at Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences


Sep. 2001— Jul. 2004 Graduate study for master’s degree at Anhui Normal University


Sep. 1997 — Jul. 2001 Undergraduate study at Anhui Normal University


Employment

Jan. 2016- present: Professor at School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China.


Sep. 2010- Dec. 2015: Associate professor at School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China.


Apr. 2008 — Apr. 2010: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Institute of Tibetan   Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences.


Jun. 2009 — Sep. 2009: University of Twente


Dec. 2006 — Apr. 2007: University of Twente



Major publications

（1） Zhong, L.*, Huang, Z., Ma, Y., Fu, Y., Chen, M., Ma, M., & Zheng, J. (2020). Assessments of WRF land surface models in precipitation simulation over the Tibetan Plateau. Earth and Space Science, DOI: 10.1029/2020EA001565.

（2） Ge, N., Zhong, L.*, Ma, Y., Fu, Y., Zou, M., Cheng, M., Wang, X., & Huang, Z. (2020). Estimations of land surface characteristic parameters and turbulent heat fluxes over the Tibetan Plateau based on FY-4A/AGRI data. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, DOI:10.1007/s00376-020-0169-5.

（3） Xu, K., Zhong, L.*, Ma, Y., Zou, M., & Huang, Z. (2020). A study on the water vapor transport trend and water vapor source of the Tibetan Plateau. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 140(3-4): 1031-1042.

（4） Fu Yunfei, Yaomin Ma, Lei Zhong, Yuanjian Yang, Xueliang Guo, Chenghai Wang, Xiaofeng Xu, Kun Yang, Xiangde Xu, Liping Liu, Guangzhou Fan, Yueqing Li, DonghaiWang,, (2020). Land Surface Processes and Summer Cloud-Precipitation Characteristics in the Tibetan Plateau and Their Effects on Downstream Weather: A Review and Perspective, National Science Review，nwz226, https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwz226.

（5） Zhong, L.*, Zou, M., Ma, Y., Huang, Z., Xu, K., Wang, X., Ge, N., & Cheng, M. ( 2019). Estimation of downwelling shortwave and longwave radiation in the Tibetan Plateau under all-sky conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124(21): 11086-11102. 

（6） Zhong, L.*, Ma, Y., Hu, Z., Fu, Y., Hu, Y., Wang, X., Cheng, M., & Ge, N. (2019). Estimation of hourly land surface heat fluxes over the Tibetan Plateau by the combined use of geostationary and polar orbiting satellites. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 19: 5529-5541. 

（7） Zhong, L.*, Ma, Y., Xue, Y., & Piao, S. (2019) Climate change trends and impacts on vegetation greening over the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 124: 7540-7552. 

（8） Zhong, L.*, Xu, K., Ma, Y., Huang, Z., Wang, X., & Ge, N. (2019). Evapotranspiration estimation using surface energy balance system model: a case study in the Nagqu river basin. Atmosphere. 10(5), 268. DOI:10.3390/atmos10050268. 

（9） Ge, N., Zhong, L.*, Ma, Y., Cheng, M., Wang, X., Zou, M., & Huang, Z. (2019) Estimation of land surface heat fluxes based on Landsat 7 ETM+ data and field measurements over the northern Tibetan Plateau. Remote Sensing. 11(24), 2899. 

（10） Cheng, M., Zhong, L.*, Ma, Y., Zou, M., Ge, N., Wang, X., & Hu, Y. (2019) A study on the assessment of multis-source satellite soil moisture products and reanalysis data for the Tibetan Plateau. Remote Sensing. 11(10), 1196. 

（11） Wang, Y.P., Li, R*., Min, Q, Fu, Y, Wang, Y., Zhong, L., and Fu, Y.-Y., 2019: A Three-source Satellite Algorithm for Retrieving All-sky Evapotranspiration Rate using Combined Optical and Microwave Vegetation Index at Twenty AsiaFlux Sites, Remote Sensing of Environment, 235, 111463, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111463

（12） Wang, R; Xian, T; Wang, MX; Chen, FJ ; Yang, YJ; Zhang, XD ; Li, R; Zhong, L; Zhao, C ; Fu, YF, 2019: Relationship between Extreme Precipitation and Temperature in Two Different Regions: The Tibetan Plateau and Middle-East China, Journal of Meteorological Research, 33(5), 870-884.

（13） Zou, M., Zhong, L.*, Ma, Y., Hu, Y., Huang, Z., Xu, K., & Feng, L. (2018) Comparison of two satellite-based evapotranspiration models of the Nagqu River Basin of the Tibetan Plateau, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123, 3961-3975. 

（14） Hu, Y., Zhong, L.*, Ma, Y., Zou, M., Xu, K., Huang, Z., & Feng, L., (2018) Estimation of the land surface temperature over the Tibetan Plateau by using Chinese FY-2C geostationary satellite data, Sensors, 18, 376, DOI:10.3390/s18020376. 

（15） Zou, M., Zhong, L.*, Ma, Y., & Feng, L., (2018) Estimation of actual evapotranspiration in the Nagqu river basin of the Tibetan Plateau, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 132(3-4): 1039-1047. 

（16） Yunfei Fu, Xiao Pan, Tao Xian, Guosheng Liu, Lei Zhong, Qi Liu, Rui Li, Yu Wang, Ming Ma，2018：Precipitation characteristics over the steep slope of the Himalayas in rainy season observed by TRMM PR and VIRS，Climate Dynamics，1-19，https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-017-3992-3

（17） Ma Yaoming, W.Ma, L.Zhong, Z.Hu, M.Li, Z.Zhu, C.Han, B.Wang, X.Liu, 2017, Monitoring and Modeling the Tibetan Plateau’s climate system and its impact on East Asia, Scientific Reports, 7: 44574 , doi:10.1038/srep44574.

（18） Fu Yunfei, Chen Fengjiao, Liu Guosheng, Y. Yang, R. Yuan, R. Li, Q. Liu, Y. Wang, L. Zhong, L. Sun, 2016. Recent Trends of Summer Convective and Stratiform Precipitation in Mid-Eastern China, Scientific Reports, 6: 33044, doi:10.1038/srep33044.

（19） Zhong, L.* , Y. Ma, Y. Fu, X. Pan, W. Hu, Z. Su, M.S. Salama and L. Feng, 2014, Assessment of soil water deficit for the middle reaches of Yarlung-Zangbo River from optical and passive microwave images, Remote Sensing of Environment, 142: DOI:10.1016/j.rse.2013.11.008. 

（20） Ma, Y.，Z. Zhu，L. Zhong，B. Wang，C. Han，Z. Wang，Y. Wang，L. Lu，P. Amatya，W. Ma，Z. Hu，2014，Combining MODIS, AVHRR and in situ data for evapotranspiration estimation over heterogeneous landscape of the Tibetan Plateau，Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics，14（3）：1507-1515.

（21） Ma, Y., C. Han, L. Zhong, B. Wang, Z. Zhu, Y. Wang, L. Zhang, C. Meng, C. Xu, P. M. Amatya, 2013, Using MODIS and AVHRR data to determine regional surface heating field and heat flux distribution over heterogeneous landscape of the Tibetan Plateau, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, DOI: 10.1007/s00704-013-1035-5. 

（22） Zhong, L. *, Y. Ma, W. Ma, Y. Fu, Z. Su, M.S. Salama, D. Chu and C. Bianba, 2012, Remote sensing of land surface parameters in the middle reaches of Yarlung Zangbo River and its two tributaries from AVHRR and MODIS data, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 90(C): 75-86.

（23） Ma, Y., L. Zhong, Y. Wang, Z. Su, 2012, Using NOAA/AVHRR data to determine regional net radiation and soil heat fluxes over the heterogeneous landscape of the Tibetan Plateau, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 33(15): 4784-4795. 

（24） Ma, Y., B. Wang, L. Zhong and W. Ma, The regional surface heating field over the heterogeneous landscape of the Tibetan Plateau using MODIS and in-situ data, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 2012, 29(1): 47-53.

（25） Mhd., S., R. Van, L. Zhong, Y. Ma, M. Ofwono, Z. Su, 2012, Decadal variations of land surface temperature anomalies observed over the Tibetan Plateau by the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) from 1987 to 2008, Climatic Change, 114(3-4): 769-781. 

（26） Li, M., Y. Ma, L. Zhong,2012, The turbulence characteristics of the atmospheric surface layer on the north slope of Mt. Everest region in the spring of 2005,Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 90C: 185-193.

（27） Zhong, L. *, Z. Su, Y. Ma, M.S. Salama and J.A. Sobrino, 2011, Accelerated Changes of Environmental Conditions on the Tibetan Plateau Caused by Climate Change, Journal of Climate, 24(24): 6540-6550.

（28） Ma, Y., L. Zhong, B. Wang, W. Ma, X. Chen and M. Li, 2011, Determination of land surface heat fluxes over heterogeneous landscape of the Tibetan Plateau by using the MODIS and in situ data, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, DOI:10.5194/acp-11-10461-2011.

（29） Ma, Y., Y. Wang, L. Zhong, R. Wu and S. Wang, 2011, The Characteristics of Atmospheric Turbulence and Radiation Energy Transfer and the Structure of Atmospheric Boundary Layer over the Northern Slope Area of Himalaya, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 89A: 345-353.

（30） Zhong, L. *, Y. Ma, M.S. Salama, and Z. Su, 2010, Assessment of vegetation dynamics and their response to variations in precipitation and temperature in the Tibetan Plateau, Climatic Change, 103: 519-535.

（31） Zhong, L. *, Y. Ma, Z. Su, and M.S. Salama, 2010, Estimation of land surface temperature over the Tibetan Plateau using AVHRR and MODIS data, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 27(5): 1110-1118.

（32） Zhong, L. *, Y. Ma, Z. Su, W. Ma, and Y. Lv, 2009, Land-atmosphere energy transfer and surface boundary layer characteristics in the Rongbu valley on the northern slope of Mt. Everest, Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 41(3): 396-405.



Honors and Awards

1. In 2017, he won the Wang Kuancheng Education Award of University of Science and Technology of China


2. In 2017, he won the Excellent head teacher of University of science and technology of China in 2017.


3. In 2015, he was supported by the Excellent Youth Science Foundation of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.


4. In 2013, he won the second prize of Anhui Natural Science excellent academic paper.