黄泽勤 ☕️
黄泽勤 Zeqin Huang
(He/him)

PhD candidate

About Me

I am currently a PhD student at Sun Yat-sen University,concurrently pursuing joint training at the University of Tokyo funded by the CSC scholarship. I collectively receive supervision from Prof. Bingjun Liu and Prof. Xuezhi Tan at SYSU, and Prof. Taikan OKI at UTokyo. I am particularly interested in atmospheric dynamics of climate extremes and the interaction between dynamics and thermodynamics.
My current research focuses on decomposing the physical processes and tracking the sources of climate extremes, including extreme precipitation, droughts, wildfires, and heatwaves, using time series and data analyses, artificial intelligence, and climate model simulations. I am also interested in understanding how these extremes affect the ecology, human, and socioeconomic systems in the present and future.

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Interests
  • Climate Change
  • Extreme event attribution
  • Hydrology
  • Artificial Intelligence
Education
  • PhD Hydraulic Engineering

    Sun Yat-sen University & The University of Tokyo (Jointly-trained PhD student)

  • MEng Hydraulic Engineering

    Sun Yat-sen University

  • BSc Hydraulic and Hydropower Engineering

    South China University of Technology

📚 My Research

I am particularly interested in multi-disciplinary climate change fields. My research topics aim to understand the role of water and the associated hydrological processes in regulating global environmental changes in the present and future. While much of my research focuses on the physical mechanisms in climate extremes, e.g., extreme precipitation, heatwaves, floods, and wildfires, I am also interested in how these extremes affect the ecology, human, and socioeconomic systems.

Besides the traditional analyzing methods, I am very enthusiastic about using the knowledge of artificial intelligence approaches to comprehend the causes and consequences of these hydrological extremes.

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Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
(2024). Acid rain prediction in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area using an explainable machine learning framework. Atmospheric Pollution Research.
(2023). Thermodynamically enhanced precipitation extremes due to counterbalancing influences of anthropogenic greenhouse gases and aerosols. Nature Water.
Co-author Publications
(2026). Biophysical factors and management practices are key to shaping forest resilience. Nature Communications.
(2025). Disparities in urban vegetation degradation and heat exposure during drought periods in U.S. cities. npj Urban Sustainability.
(2025). Dynamic development of global contiguous flash droughts: from an event-based spatiotemporal perspective. Journal of Hydrology.
(2025). Impacts of anthropogenic climate change and vegetation variations on global changes in baseflow and stormflow. Water Resources Research.
(2025). Intensifying hydroclimate whiplash from a 3D perspective. Water Resources Research.
(2024). Synoptic Circulation Forcing of Large-Scale Extreme Precipitation Events Over Southeastern China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
(2023). Increasing global precipitation whiplash due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Nature Communications.
(2022). Detection and attribution of the decreasing precipitation and extreme drought 2020 in southeastern China. Journal of Hydrology.
(2021). Duration–severity–area characteristics of drought events in eastern China determined using a three-dimensional clustering method. International Journal of Climatology.
DOI
(2019). Effects of large-scale climate anomalies on crop reference evapotranspiration in the main grain-production area of China. International Journal of Climatology.
(2019). Characteristics and circulation background of extreme precipitation over East China. Natural Hazards.
DOI
Conference and Workshop Presentations

Vanishing Misty Rain of Jiangnan:A Changing Hydroclimate Volatility Perspective

HGSL seminar @UTokyo

The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan June 5, 2025 - June 5, 2025
Oral

Relative Contributions of Large-scale Atmospheric Circulation Dynamics and Anthropogenic Warming to the Unprecedented 2022 Yangtze River Basin Heatwave

The 21th Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS 2024)

Pyeongchang, Gangwon-do, South Korea June 22, 2024 - June 29, 2024
Poster

大气环流和人类活动对 2022 年长江流域热浪事件的相对贡献分析

The 4th Hydro90 Young Scholars Symposium on Hydrology

Online June 2, 2024 - June 2, 2024
Oral

大气环流和人类活动对 2022 年长江流域热浪事件的相对贡献分析

The 9th Youth Geosciences Forum

Xiamen, China May 17, 2024 - May 20, 2024
Oral

Long-Term Changes, Synoptic Behaviors, and Future Projections of Large-Scale Anomalous Precipitation Events in China Detected by a Deep Learning Autoencoder

The 20th Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS 2023)

Sigapore July 30, 2023 - August 4, 2023
Oral

Long-Term Changes, Synoptic Behaviors, and Future Projections of Large-Scale Anomalous Precipitation Events in China Detected by a Deep Learning Autoencoder

The 3rd Hydro90 Young Scholars Symposium on Hydrology

Online May 28, 2023 - May 29, 2023
Poster

基于 Autoencoder 深度学习的中国地区大尺度异常降水的历史变化、环流背景及未来预测

The 8th Youth Geosciences Forum

Wuhan, China May 5, 2023 - May 8, 2023
Oral
News

  • 2024-11 — I received the National Scholarship (Top Student Award in China). [Link]

  • 2024-07 — I was awarded the CSC (China Scholarship Council) scholarship to pursue joint education at The University of Tokyo.

  • 2023-07 — Nature Water paper published!

  • 2022-12 — We won the 1st Prize of the 2nd Smart Water Conservancy Innovation Competition. [Link]