Seminar

Biography
Prof. Lei Wang has received his bachelor and master degree from Tsinghua University in 2002 and 2004, respectively; and got his PhD degree from the University of Tokyo at 2007. In December 2010, he was promoted to the associate professor in the University of Tokyo, and then he joined the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research in August 2011 being supported by “Hundred Talents Program" of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has been committed to the development and application of the multi-sphere hydrological model for about 15 years. His scientific achievements are summarized as follows. (1) He has developed a distributed biosphere hydrological model (WEB-DHM) that couples hydrosphere-biosphere-atmosphere interactions. The model has been widely applied into dozens of watersheds in Asia, Africa, North America, and South America, to serve their integrated water resources management. (2) He has improved cryosphere elements of the WEB-DHM, and applied the improved one for the cryosphere studies in the Third Pole regions. (3) He also utilized the distributed biosphere hydrological model, for solving important issues of water science, and trained a group of young talents.

Abstract
Given the large area of cryosphere components (e.g., glacier, snow, and frozen soil) over the Tibetan Plateau, at present we aims at developing and integrating the modules of glacier, snow, frozen soil, and lake into a distributed land surface hydrological model, to obtain an integrated multi-sphere hydrological model (that could be applicable to Tibetan-Plateau river basins), for improving the predictive ability of regional water resources and water-related disasters.