顾西辉，地理科学系教授、博士生导师，2021-2023年前往牛津大学开展了为期两年的访问交流。长期以来致力于气候变化与灾害遥感领域研究，耦合卫星遥感反演、物理模型模拟和深度学习方法，探索和解决碳循环的植被效应、水循环的洪旱效应等方面的科学和技术问题。研究成果以第一/通讯作者发表在Nature Climate Change、Nature Geoscience、Nature Communications、Science Advances、PNAS等国际权威期刊，被Nature作为研究亮点专文报道、Science News长篇新闻报道、Nature Climate Change长文正面评述，入选2025年度湖北省实验室体系（大设施）亮点科技成果（排名1；该年度全省仅30项）。担任Science、Nature等期刊审稿人。

研究兴趣

结合卫星遥感反演、物理模型模拟和深度学习方法，探索碳中和目标下碳循环的植被效应、水循环的洪旱效应：

（1）城市水碳循环

（2）土壤—植被—大气交互作用

（3）洪旱灾害监测、模拟与预估

（4）气候变化检测与归因

招生专业

硕士招生专业：地理学（自然地理学、地理信息科学、地图学与地理信息系统；学术型）、资源与环境（专业型）

博士招生专业：地理学（自然地理学、地图学与地理信息科学；学术型）、资源与环境（工程博士）

2025-2026年，有1~2个地理学学术型博士招生名额、1个资源与环境专业型博士招生名额，欢迎报考（guxihui421@163.com）

代表性学术论文（*通讯作者）

[10] Yansong Guan, Xihui Gu*, Aiguo Dai, Tianjun Zhou, Xing Yuan, Ashok K. Mishra, Jakob Zscheischler, Yadu Pokhrel, Lunche Wang, Jianfeng Li, Shengzhi Huang, Sijia Luo, Liangwei Li, Dongdong Kong, Xiang Zhang. Anthropogenic enhancement of subsurface soil moisture droughts. Nature Climate Change, 2025, 15, 1355-1362. 

[9] Xihui Gu, Zaiming Jiang, Yansong Guan, Ming Luo, Jianfeng Li, cang Zhang, Dongdong Kong, Liangyi Wang. Frequent land-ocean transboundary migration of tropical heatwaves under climate change. Nature Communications, 2025, 16, 3400. 

[8] Yansong Guan, Xihui Gu*, Lunche Wang, Tianjun Zhou, Jun Xia, Dabang Jiang, Louise J. Slater, Luis Gimeno, Yadu Pokhrel, Gabriele Villarini, Jong-Seong Kug, Seok-Woo Son, Richard P. Allan, Jianfeng Li, Thian Yew Gan, Yinxue Liu, Dongdong Kong, Xiang Zhang, Xiangsen Cui. Excess water availability in northern mid-high latitudes contiguously migrated from ocean under climate change. Science Advances, 2025, 11(33), eadv0282. 

[7] Yangchen Lai, Jianfeng Li*, Xihui Gu*, Yongqin David Chen, Dongdong Kong, Thian Yew Gan, Maofeng Liu, Qingquan Li, Guofeng Wu. Greater flood risks in response to slowdown of tropical cyclones over the coast of China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020, 117(26), 14751-14755. 

[6] Xihui Gu, Zhang Qiang, Li Jianfeng, Vijay P. Singh, Liu Jianyu, Sun Peng, Cheng Changxiu. Attribution of global soil moisture drying to human activities: A quantitative viewpoint. Geophysical Research Letters, 2019, 46, 2573-2582.

[5] Xuwen Zhang, Xihui Gu*, Liangwei Li, Yanhui Zheng, Dongdong Kong, Yansong Guan, Sijia Luo, Aminjon Gulakhmadov, Xiang Zhang, Wen Xiao, Lunche Wang. Drying soil moisture dominates enhancing summer soil moisture-temperature coupling under climate change. Geophysical Research Letters, 2026, 53(3), e2025GL119826.

[4] Xihui Gu, Zhang Qiang, Li Jianfeng, Vijay P. Singh, Liu Jianyu, Vijay P. Singh, Peng Sun, Chunyang He, Jianjun Wu. Intensification and expansion of soil moisture drying in warm season over Eurasia under global warming. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2019, 124, 3765-3782.

[3] Xihui Gu, Jianfeng Li, Yongqin David Chen, Dongdong Kong, Jianyu Liu. Consistency and discrepancy of global surface soil moisture changes from multiple model‐based data sets against satellite observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2019, 124, 1474-1495.

[2] Sijia Luo, Xihui Gu*, Yansong Guan, Lunche Wang, Louise J. Slater, Dongdong Kong, Xiang Zhang, Qian Cao. Hot weather amplifies the urban dry island effect, especially in wetter climates. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2025, 130(6), e2024JD043224.