Zhang Yonggen
School
School of Earth System Science
Professional Title
Associate professor
Discipline
地下水科学与工程(Subsurface Hydrology)、土壤物理(Soil Physics)、水文与水资源(Hydrology and Water Resources)
Contact Information
ygzhang@tju.edu.cn
92 Weijin Road, Bldg 16, Room 309, Nankai District, Tianjin University
300072
Education Background
- Adjoint Ph.D. student| University of Arizona| Hydrology and Water Resources| 2013
- Doctoral degree| China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China| Subsurface hydrology| 2014
- Bachelor’s Degree| Jilin University, Changchun| Subsurface Hydrology| 2007
Research Interests
- Inverse Modeling of Vadose Zone and Groundwater
- soil parameterization, i.e., soil pedotransfer functions
- Data Assimilation (ensemble Kalman Filtering)
- Pore Scale Simulation (Lattice Boltzmann Method）
Professional Membership
- Associate Editor of Vadose Zone journal
- Co-Leader of Working group on pedotransfer functions initiated by ISMC
- Member of AGU, EGU, ISMC, SSSA, Interpore
Positions & Employments
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2017.7-Now
Associate Professor, School of Earth System Science, Tianjin University, China | Associate Professor -
2013.10-2017.2
Hydrology and Water Resources | The University of Arizona, USA | Research Specialist
Academic Achievements
- Papers
- [1] B Guo, J Zeng, ML Brusseau, Y Zhang, 2021, A screening model for quantifying PFAS leaching in the vadose zone and mass discharge to groundwater, Advances in Water Resources
- [2] Harry Vereecken, Wulf Amelung, Sara L. Bauke, Heye Bogena, Nicolas Brüggemann, Carsten Montzka, Jan Vanderborght, Michel Bechtold, Günter Blöschl, Andrea Carminati, Mathieu Javaux, Alexandra G. Konings, Jürgen Kusche, Insa Neuweiler, Dani Or, Susan Steele-Dunne, Anne Verhoef, Michael Young & Yonggen Zhang, 2022, Soil hydrology in the Earth system, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
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- [3] Yonggen Zhang, Lutz Weihermüller, Brigitta Szabó, Muhammad Noman, Harry Vereecken, 2022, Analyzing dual porosity in soil hydraulic properties using soil databases for pedotransfer function development. Vadose Zone Journal, e20227. https://doi.org/10.1002/vzj2.20227
- [4] Yonggen Zhang, Marcel G. Schaap, and Zhongwang Wei, 2020, Development of Hierarchical Ensemble Model and Estimates of Soil Water Retention with Global Coverage, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2020GL088819
- [5] Peijun Li, Yuanyuan Zha, Liangsheng Shi, Chak-Hau Michael Tso, Yonggen Zhang, Wenzhi Zeng, 2020, Comparison of the use of a physical-based model with data assimilation and machine learning methods for simulating soil water dynamics, Journal of Hydrology, 584, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124692
- [6] Lu Li, Wei Shangguan, Yi Deng, Jiafu Mao, JinJing Pan, Nan Wei, Hua Yuan, Shupeng Zhang, Yonggen Zhang, Yongjiu Dai, 2020, A Causal Inference Model Based on Random Forests to Identify the Effect of Soil Moisture on Precipitation, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 21(5), 1115-1131, doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-19-0209.1
- [7] Zhongwang Wei, Xiaogang He, Yonggen Zhang, Ming Pan, Justin Sheffield, Liqing Peng, Dai Yamazaki, Abdul Moiz, Yaping Liu, Koji Ikeuchi, 2020, Identification of uncertainty sources in quasi-global discharge and inundation simulations using satellite-based precipitation products, Journal of Hydrology, 589, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125180
- [8] Peijun Li, Yuanyuan Zha, Chak-Hau Michael Tso, Liangsheng Shi, Danyang Yu, Yonggen Zhang, Wenzhi Zeng, 2020, Data assimilation of uncalibrated soil moisture measurements from frequency-domain reflectometry, Geoderma, 374, doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114432
- [9] Shaobo Sun, Zhaoliang Song, Xi Chen, Tiejun Wang, Yonggen Zhang, Dongbo Zhang, Huifang Zhang, Qian Hao, Baozhang Chen, 2020, Multimodel‐based analyses of evapotranspiration and its controls in China over the last three decades, Ecohydrology, 13(3), 2195, doi: 10.1002/eco.2195
- [10] Lei Zhu, Tongqing Shen, Rong Ma, Dongjun Fan, Yonggen Zhang, Yuanyuan Zha, 2020, Development of cracks in soil: An improved physical model, Geoderma, 366, doil: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114258
- [11] Yonggen Zhang, and Marcel G. Schaap, 2019, Estimation of saturated hydraulic conductivity with pedotransfer functions: A review, Journal of Hydrology, 575, 1011-1030, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.05.058
- [12] Yongjiu Dai, Qinchuan Xin, Nan Wei, Yonggen Zhang, Wei Shangguan, Hua Yuan, Shupeng Zhang, Shaofeng Liu, Xingjie Lu, 2019, A Global High‐Resolution Data Set of Soil Hydraulic and Thermal Properties for Land Surface Modeling, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11(9), 2996-3023, doi: 10.1029/2019MS001784
- [13] Kuangjia Li, Yonggen Zhang, Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh, Lin Zhao, Xiaoru Su, Yu-Li Wang, Yueming Qi, 2019, An iterative scheme to map and incorporate geologic information of discontinuous heterogeneity in hydraulic tomography, Journal of Hydrology, 579, 124-143, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.124143
- [14] Yonggen Zhang, Marcel G. Schaap, and Yuanyuan Zha, 2018, A High-Resolution Global Map of Soil Hydraulic Properties Produced by a Hierarchical Parameterization of a Physically-Based Water Retention Model，Water Resources Research，doi: 10.1029/2018WR023539.
- [15] Lei Zhu, Dongjun Fan, Rong Ma, Yonggen Zhang,and Yuanyuan Zha，2018，Experimental and Numerical Investigations of Influence on Overland Flow and Water Infiltration by Fracture Networks in Soil，Geofluids，1-16，doi: 10.1155/2018/7056858.
- [16] Yuanyuan Zha, Tian-Chyi J. Yeh, Walter A. Illman, Wenzhi Zeng, Yonggen Zhang, Fangqiang Sun, and Liangsheng Shi，2018，A Reduced-Order Successive Linear Estimator for Geostatistical Inversion and Its Application in Hydraulic Tomography，Water Resources Research，54, 3,1616-1632，doi: 10.1002/2017WR021884.
- [17] Yonggen Zhang and Marcel G. Schaap，2017，Weighted Recalibration of the Rosetta Pedotransfer Model with Improved Estimates of Hydraulic Parameter Distributions and Summary Statistics (Rosetta3)，Journal of Hydrology，547, 39–53，doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.01.004.
- [18] Kris Van Looy, Johan Bouma, Michael Herbst, John Koestel, Budiman Minasny, Umakant Mishra, Carsten Montzka, Attila Nemes, Yakov Pachepsky, José Padarian, Marcel Schaap, Brigitta Tóth, Anne Verhoef, Jan Vanderborght, Martine van der Ploeg, Lutz Weihermüller, Steffen Zacharias, Yonggen Zhang, and Harry Vereecken，2017，Pedotransfer functions in Earth system science: challenges and perspectives，Reviews of Geophysics，55, 4,1199-1256，doi:10.1002/2017RG000581.
- [19] Jicai Zeng, Yuanyuan Zha, Yonggen Zhang, Liangsheng Shi, Yan Zhu, Jinzhong Yang，2017，On the sub-model errors of a generalized one-way coupling scheme for linking models at different scales，Advances in Water Resources，69-83，doi: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.09.005.
- [20] Chi Xu, Wenzhi Zeng, Hongya Zhang, Jiesheng Huang, Yonggen Zhang, Jingwei Wu, and Marcel G. Schaap，2017，Inversion of Root Zone Soil Hydraulic Parameters with Limited Calibration Data，Soil Science Society of America Journal，p. 734-746，doi:10.2136/sssaj2016.09.0308.
- [21] Yuanyuan Zha, Jinzhong Yang, Lihe Yin, Yonggen Zhang, Wenzhi Zeng, and Liangsheng Shi，2017，A modified Picard iteration scheme for overcoming numerical difficulties of simulating infiltration into dry soil，Journal of Hydrology，551, 56–69，doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.05.053.
- [22] Yonggen Zhang, Marcel G. Schaap, Alberto Guadagnini, and Shlomo P. Neuman，2016，Inverse Modeling of Unsaturated Flow Using Clusters of Soil Texture and Pedotransfer Functions，Water Resources Research，52, 7631-7644，doi: 10.1002/2016WR019016.
- [23] Yonggen Zhang, Mingzhu Liu, Honghan Chen, and Guohua Hou，2014，Source identification of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in different ecological wetland components of the Qinkenpao Wetland in Northeast China，Ecotoxicology and environmental safety，102, 160-167，doi: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2014.01.030.
Team
Subsurface Hydrology
We focus on the vadose zone and groundwater hydrology. We now have two master students.
已毕业学生
Echo-hydrology and Water Research Center
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