Prof. Dr. Yixing Yin                      

E-mail: yinyx@nuist.edu.cn

Address: School of Hydrology and Water Resources, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China

Researc fields: extreme precipitation; climate change; flood and drought; water cycle

Education

09/2006- 06/2010  Ph. D. in Physical Geography,  Nanjing University. 

Working Experience

07/2022-Present    Professor in Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

07/2014- 06/2022    Associated Professor in Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology 

06 /2010-06/2014    Lecturer in Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

Academic Research Experience

09/2017-08/2018    Visiting scholar Research in the relationship between extreme precipitation and East Asian summer

   monsoon in the Yangzte-Huai River basin. Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, China meteorological

   administration

07/2013-06/2014   Visiting scholar Research in precipitation concentration and climatic teleconnections. Department of

   Geosciences, Oslo University, Norway

01/2013- 12/2016   Postdoctoral research fellow in extreme precipitation modelling. Nanjing University of Information

   Science and Technology

Selected publications:

Xiaolei Chai, Yixing Yin*, Shanlei Sun, Liman Cui, Ziyue Xue, Yuqing Jiang,Wenxu Zhu. Changes of Compound Droughts and Heatwaves Events and Their Driving Factors in the Jianghuai Region, China. International Journal of Climatology, 2026, 46(5): e70271

Liu Shuang, Chen Ying, Yin Yixing*, Gu Qiang, Long Xiaojun, Li Yanzhong, Yu Wenjun, Huang Pengnian.The frequency, intensity, and alternation timing of dry-wet abrupt alternation events and the possible correlation with the summer rain belt/season in China. Atmospheric Research, 2025, 326: 108263

Gu Qiang, Yin Yixing*, Dai Shibao, Liu Shuang, Sun Shanlei, Long Xiaojun, Deng Peng, Li Yanzhong, Yu Wenjun. Synergistic impacts of Atlantic multidecadal oscillation and Indian Ocean Dipole on the decadal intensification of the warm season heatwaves in China. Atmospheric Research, 2025, 326: 108322

Mengyang Liu, Yixing Yin, Peng Zhang*, Xieyao Ma, Yuanyuan Mao, Shibao Dai.Water-energy characteristics of the warming and drying trends in the eastern China. Journal of Hydrology, 2025, 661(A): 133515

Yuqing Jiang, Yixing Yin*, Wentian Li, Shibao Dai, Xiaojun Long, Yang Jiao. Weather pattern classification of regional extreme precipitation events and their formation mechanisms in the Yangtze-Huai Region, China. Climate Dynamics, 2025, 63(1): 39

Rui Zou, Xiaojun Wang, Yixing Yin *, Xieyao Ma, Xiuqin Yang, Pengnian Huang, Irfan Ullah. Comparing spatio-temporal propagation patterns of hydrological and meteorological droughts: Insights from SWAT modelling in the poyang lake basin. Catena, 2024, 243: 108183

Nan Qiao, Yixing Yin*, Peng Zhang, Yuanyuan Mao, Mi Zhang, Ying Chen. Trend, driving factors, and temperature‑humidity relationship of the extreme compound hot and humd events in South China. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2024

Ziyue Xue, Ying Chen, Yixing Yin*, Weilin Chen, Yang Jiao, Peng Deng, Shibao Dai. Spatio-temporal characteristics and driving factors of flash drought in northern China from 1978 to 2020. Global and Planetary Change, 2024, 232, 104326

Rui Zou, Yixing Yin*, Xiaojun Wang, Zengxin Zhang, Xieyao Ma, Mengyang Liu, Irfan Ullah. Characteristics and propagation of meteorological and hydrological droughts in eastern Gansu, a typical semi-arid region, China. International Journal of Climatology, 2023, 43(12): 5327-5347

Zuo Wen, Rong Yu, Panmao Zhai, Yixing Yin*, Laurent Z.X. Li. The evolution process of a prolonged compound drought and hot extreme event in Southwest China during the 2019 pre-monsoon season. Atmospheric Research, 2023(283), 106551

Mengyang Liu, Yixing Yin*, Xiaojun Wang, Xieyao Ma, Ying Chen, Weilin Chen. More frequent,longlasting,extreme and postponed compound drought and hot events in eastern China. Journal of Hydrology, 2022, 614, 128499

Liu Mengyang, Ma Xieyao, Yin Yixing*, Zhang Zengxin, Yin Jun, Ullah I, Arshad M. Non-stationary frequency analysis of extreme streamflow disturbance in a typical ecological function reserve of China under a changing climate. Ecohydrology. 2021

Yixing Yin*, Hang Ke, Yaodan Tu, Xiaojun Wang, Ying Chen, Shixing Jiao. Changes of summer meteorological drought and their relationship with the dry and wet circulation patterns in the Huai River basin, China.Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 2024, 52, 101710

 Yixing Yin*, Haishan Chen, Guojie Wang, Wucheng Xu, Shenmin Wang, Wenjun Yu. Characteristics of the precipitation concentration and their relationship with the precipitation structure: A case study in the Huai River basin, China. Atmospheric Research, 2021, 253: 105484

 Yixing Yin*, Cui Han, Guanyin Yang, Yihan Huang, Mengyang Liu. Changes in the summer extreme precipitation in the Jianghuai plum rain area and their relationship with the intensity anomalies of the south Asian high. Atmospheric Research, 2020, 236, 104793

Yixing Yin, Lijuan Zhang, Xiaojun Wang, Wucheng Xu, Wenjun Yu, Ye Zhu. Meteorological Drought Changes and Related Circulation Characteristics in Yulin City of the Northern Shaanxi from 1961 to 2015. Atmosphere, 2020, 11(11), 1196

Yixing Yin, Haishan Chen*, Panmao Zhai, Chong-Yu Xu, Hedi Ma.  Characteristics of     summer extreme precipitation in the Huai River basin  and their relationship with East Asia summer monsoon during 1960 to  2014. International Journal of Climatology, 2019, 39(3): 1555-1570

Yixing Yin *, Xing Pan, Xiuqin Yang, Xiaojun Wang, Guojie  Wang, Shanlei Sun. Spatio-temporal changes and frequency analysis of multi-day extreme precipitation in the Huai River basin during 1960 to  2014. Advances in Meteorology , Article ID 6324878, 2019

Yixing Yin, Chong-Yu Xu*, Haishan Chen, Lu Li, Hongliang Xu, Hong Li,Sharad K Jain.  Trend and concentration characteristics of precipitation and related  climatic teleconnections from 1982 to 2010 in the Beas River basin,  India, Global and Planetary Change, 145: 116-129, 2016.

Yin Yixing *, Chen Ying,  Yu Shutong, Xu Wucheng, Wang Wen, Xu Youpeng. Maximum water level of  Hongze Lake and its relationship with natural changes and human  activities from 1736 to 2005. Quaternary International, 304: 85-94, 2013 

 Yin Yixing, Chen Haishan, Xu Chong-Yu*, Xu Wucheng, Chen Changchun,  Sun Shanlei. Spatio-temporal characteristics of the extreme  precipitation by L-moments-based index-flood method in the Yangtze River  Delta region, China. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 124(3):  1005-1022, 2016

Yin Yixing*, Xu Youpeng, Chen Ying. Relationship between the changes  of river-lake networks and water levels in the typical regions of the  Taihu Lake basin. Chinese  Geographical Sciences, 22(6):673-682, 2012 

Yin Yixing*, Xu Youpeng, Chen Ying. Relationship between  flood/drought and ENSO in the Taihu Lake basin from 1857 to 2003.  Quaternary International, 208 (1-2): 93-101, 2009