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Yechao Yan   Associate professor

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Educational Background:Ph.D in Geographic Information System, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2007M.Sc in Human Geography, Shandong Normal University, 2004B.Sc in Geography, Qufu Normal University, 2001Visiting Scholor, Texas A&M University, USA, Sep. 2019 - Aug. 2020Visiting Scholor, George Mason University, USA, Sep. 2015 - Mar. 2016Visiti...More

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Educational Background:

  • Ph.D in Geographic Information System, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2007

  • M.Sc in Human Geography, Shandong Normal University, 2004

  • B.Sc in Geography, Qufu Normal University, 2001

  • Visiting Scholor,  Texas A&M University, USA, Sep. 2019 - Aug. 2020

  • Visiting Scholor,  George Mason University, USA, Sep.  2015 - Mar. 2016

  • Visiting Scholor,  George Mason University, USA, Sep.  2010 - Mar. 2011



Research Interests:

  • Climate Change impacts and GIS Applications

  • Human Thermal Comfort Assessment

  • Human Thermal Stress under Climate Change



Teaching:

  • Cartography

  • English for GIS

  • Thematic Map Design and Compilation



Grants:

  • PI: Uncertainty Analysis on Spatial Data of Rainfall Erosivity. Funded by National Science Foundation of China. January 2010 to December 2012, RMB 200,000

  • Co-PI: Data Mining on Spatial-temporal Evolution Characteristics of Climatic Disasters in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Funded by National Science Foundation of China. January 2013 to December 2016, RMB 750,000

  • Co-PI: Modeling Gully Density in Black Soil Region Based on Remote Sensing and GIS. Funded by National Science Foundation of China. January 2008 to December 2010, RMB 350,000



Services to the Academic Community:

  • Editorial Board Member for Scientific Data

  • Anonymous Reviewer for the following journals: Environmental Research Letters, Science of the Total Environment, PLOS ONE



Recent Publications:

  • Yue Shuping, Yan Yechao, Zhang Shuwen, et al. Changes in Climate Factors andTheir Impacts on Wind Erosion Climatic Erosivity in Farming-pastoral Zone of Northern China,Chinese Geographical Science, 2022, 32(4): 665-675

  • Safi Ullah, Qinglong You, Guojie Wang, Waheed Ullah, D A Sachindra, Yechao Yan, Asher Samuel Bhatti, Adnan Abbas, Mushtaq Ahmad Jan. Characteristics of human thermal stress in South Asia during 1981–2019, Environmental Research Letters, 2022, 17(10): 104018

  • Yechao Yan, Yangyang Xu, Shuping Yue. A high-spatial-resolution dataset of human thermal stress indices over South and East Asia[J]. Scientific Data, 2021, 8: 229. Reported by China Meteorological Administration at: https://www.cma.gov.cn/2011xwzx/2011xqxkj/2011xkjdt/202111/t20211123_4265808.html

  • Yue Shuping, Yang Ruixin, Yan Yechao, et al. Spatial andtemporal variations of wind erosion climatic erosivity in the farming-pastoral zone of Northern China, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2019, 135(3-4): 1339-1348

  • 岳书平, 闫业超, 张树文, 等. 基于ERA5-LAND的中国东北地区近地表土壤冻融状态时空变化特征, 地理学报, 2021, 76(11): 2765-2779

  • Yechao Yan, Dandan Wang, Shuping Yue, et al. Trends in summer air temperature and vapor pressure and their impacts on thermal comfort in China, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2019, 138(3-4): 1445-1456

  • Yechao Yan, John Qu, Xianjun Hao, Shuping Yue. Characterizing spatial-temporal changes of heat waves in China using center of gravity analysis, Physical Geography, 2017, 38(4): 379-391

  • 闫业超, 岳书平. 专题地图设计与编制实习教程. 北京: 测绘出版社 (ISBN: 9787503043659), 2021.