I obtained my PhD at China University of Geosciences, Wuhan. I have basic knowledge of earth science and terrestrial ecosystem ecology. My research mainly focuses on climate change and global carbon and water cycles on a broad range of timescales, with the application of meteorological observation, remote-sensing images, paleorecords and land surface models. I am especially interested in critical zone evolution (soil-land surface-atmosphere interactions) during Quaternary.

Currently, we are studying the land cover changes during the mid-Holocene in two monsoon regions (North Africa and East Asia) with compiled climate, vegetation and wetland data, and a land surface model - ORCHIDEE.

Other websites: Researchgate, ORCID, Google Scholar, Geobiology

 Selected Publications 

• Chen, W., Zhang, Z., Ciais, P., Tan, L., Kemp, D., Viovy, N., 2023. Enhanced Mid-Holocene Vegetation Growth and its Biophysical Feedbacks in China. Geophysical Research Letters, 50: e2023GL104702. [link]

• Ma, Z. (指导学生), Chen, W.*, Xiao, A., Zhang, R., 2023. The Susceptibility of Wetland Areas in the Yangtze River Basin to Temperature and Vegetation Changes. Remote Sensing, 15: 4534. [link]

• Chen, W., Xiao, A., Braconnot, P., Ciais P., Viovy, N., Zhang, R., 2022. Mid-Holocene high-resolution temperature and precipitation gridded reconstructions over China: Implications for elevation-dependent temperature changes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 539: 117656. [link]

• Chen, W., Ciais, P., Qiu, C., Ducharne, A., Zhu, D., Peng, S., Braconnot, P., Huang, C., 2021. Wetlands of North Africa During the Mid-Holocene were At Least Five Times the Area Today. Geophysical Research Letters, 48: e2021GL094194. [link]

• Chen, W., Ciais, P., Zhu, D., Ducharne, A., Viovy, N., Qiu, C., Huang, C., 2020. Feedbacks of soil properties on vegetation during the Green Sahara period. Quaternary Science Reviews, 240: 106389. [link]

• Chen, W., Zhu, D., Ciais, P., Huang, C., Viovy, N., Kageyama, M., 2019. Response of vegetation cover to CO2 and climate changes between Last Glacial Maximum and pre-industrial period in a dynamic global vegetation model. Quaternary Science Reviews, 218: 293-305. [link]

• Chen, W., Zhu, D., Huang, C., Ciais, P., Yao, Y., Friedlingstein, P., Sitch, S., Haverd, V., Jain, A.K., Kato, E., Kautz, M., Lienert, S., Lombardozzi, D., Poulter, B., Tian, H., Vuichard, N., Walker, A.P. and Zeng, N., 2019. Negative extreme events in gross primary productivity and their drivers in China during the past three decades. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 275: 47-58. [link]

• Chen, W., Huang, C., Wang, L., Li, D., 2018. Climate Extremes and Their Impacts on Interannual Vegetation Variabilities: A Case Study in Hubei Province of Central China. Remote Sensing, 10: 477. [link]

 Grants 

• 2024-2026 National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 42307556), 300 k¥ [RMB]

• 2023-2025 Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (No. 2023AFB024), 50 k¥ [RMB]

• 2020-2023 Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), 200 k¥ [RMB]

• 2019 Travel grant for the EGU General Assembly 2019, 7 k¥ [RMB]

• 2018-2020 Scholarship for joint training Ph.D program from China Scholarship Council (No. 201806410044), 30 k€ [Euro]

• 2018-2021  National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41772029), “Cyclostratigraphy of the Middle Triassic in South China”, Participant [rank 6th]

• 2016-2019 Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of Hubei Province of China (No. 2016CFA051), “Global Change and Regional Response in the Middle Yangtze River Basin”, Participant [rank 6th]

 Awards 

• 2020 Excellent doctoral dissertation in CUG.

• 2019 GAOSHAN outstanding graduate student scholarship in CUG, 10 k¥ [RMB]

• 2018 Outstanding graduate student in CUG, Wuhan, China

• 2015 The 1st place of “Poster Design and Presentation Competition of the Tethys International Conference” in CUG, Wuhan, China

• 2015 Excellence Award of the “26th Graduate Scientific Conference of School of Earth Science” in CUG, Wuhan, China

• 2014 Outstanding undergraduate scholarship in CUG, Wuhan, China