I work at Faculty of Geography, Tianjin Normal University as an associate professor.

I am now working on Hybrid Modeling of Surface-Earth System. If you are seeking any form of academic cooperation, please feel free to email me at h.chen@tjnu.edu.cn.

I finished my postdoctal project from School of Earth System Science, Tianjin University. I graduated from Aerospace Information research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences with a phd degree. I also collaborate with Dr. Huiran Gao from National Institute of Natural Hazards, and Prof.Dr. Harry Vereecken from Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, Agrosphere (IBG-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich closely.

My research fields include GIScience, remote sensing, and environmental modeling. More specifically, I am interested in applying various geospatial techniques to study Earth and Planetary Sciences, especially hydrology modeling. I have published more than 40+ peer-reviewed papers with total google scholar citations 900+ at the top SCI journal such as Geoderma, AR, JH, GMD.

🔥 News

2025.12: 🎉 Accepted paper published in International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation.
2025.12: 🎉 Accepted paper published in Agricultural Water Management.
2025.12: 🎉 Rejected by Remote Sensing of Environmental after R3.
2025.09: 🎉 A warm welcome to Shuyang Xia, my new Master’s student, who has joined the lab.
2024.05: 🎉 Visiting Chengdu city for a conference on Information Geography.
2025.05: 🎉 Visiting Shijiazhuang city for a conference on Hydrology.
2024.09: 🎉 A warm welcome to Chongyang Xiu, my new Master’s student, who has joined the lab.
2024.05: 🎉 Accepted paper published in Geoderma.
2024.05: 🎉 Preparing to participate in the ISMC conference & meet old friends there.
2024.05: 🎉 Happy May Day holidays in Qinhuangdao.
2024.04: 🎉 Planning to go to Shenzhen city for a conference on Hydrology.
2024.04: 🎉 Revising again a manuscript on linkages of land use/cover & soil properties.
2024.04: 🎉 Accepted paper published in Atmospheric Research.
2024.03: 🎉 First month working in Tianjin Normal University.
2024.02: 🎉 Revising a manuscript on linkages of land use/cover & soil properties.
2024.02: 🎉 Planning to visit Qingdao with my family in the New Year Holiday.
2024.01: 🎉 Joining the faculty of Tianjin Normal University.
2024.01: 🎉 Finishing my postdoctal project.

📝 Publications

💻 Selected Research Papers

Soil physicochemical properties explain land use/cover histories in the last sixty years in China, Hao Chen, Mehdi Rahmati, Carsten Montzka, Huiran Gao, Harry Vereecken, Geoderma, 2024
Toward an improved ensemble of multi-source daily precipitation via joint machine learning classification and regression, Hao Chen, Tiejun Wang, Carsten Montzka, Huiran Gao, Ning Guo, Xi Chen, Harry Vereecken, Atmospheric Research, 2024
Dynamically weighted ensemble of geoscientific models via automated machine-learning-based classification, Hao Chen, Tiejun Wang, Yonggen Zhang, Yun Bai, Xi Chen, Geoscientific Model Development, 2023
Evaluating data-driven and hybrid modeling of terrestrial actual evapotranspiration based on an automatic machine learning approach, Ning Guo(#), Hao Chen(#), Qiong Han, Tiejun Wang, Journal of Hydrology, 2024
Impacts of seasonally frozen soil hydrothermal dynamics on the watershed hydrological processes inferred from a spatially distributed numerical modelling approach, Huiran Gao, Zhijie Zhang(*), Hao Chen(*), Wanchang Zhang, Chong Xu, Yaning Yi, Jinping Liu, Zikang Xiao, Journal of Hydrology, 2023
Discrimination and mapping ground surface freeze and thaw states over Northeastern China based on the improved dual-index algorithm, Huiran Gao, Zhijie Zhang, Hao Chen*, Wanchang Zhang,Yaning Yi, Chong Xu, Xiwei Xu, Cold Regions Science and Technology, 2023
Combining sparse observations and reanalysis data for refining spatiotemporal variability in near-surface air temperature lapse rates over China, Hao Chen, Huiran Gao, Tiejun Wang, Wanchang Zhang, Xi Chen, Ning Nie, Haoran Liu, International Journal of Climatology, 2021
Long-term groundwater storage variations estimated in the Songhua River Basin by using GRACE products, land surface models, and in-situ observations, Hao Chen, Wanchang Zhang, Ning Nie, Yuedong Guo, Science of The Total Environment, 2019
Remote detection of human-induced evapotranspiration in a regional system experiencing increased anthropogenic demands and extreme climatic variability, Hao Chen, Wanchang Zhang, Masoud Jafari Shalamzari, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2019
Climate Change and Anthropogenic Impacts on Wetland and Agriculture in the Songnen and Sanjiang Plain, Northeast China, Hao Chen, Wanchang Zhang, Huiran Gao, Ning Nie, Remote Sensing, 2018
AI in soil moisture remote sensing, Carsten Montzka, Luca Brocca, Hao Chen, Narendra N. Das, Antara Dasgupta, Mehdi Rahmati, Thomas Jagdhuber, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2026
Balancing agricultural expansion and groundwater sustainability: Insights from GRACE and hydrological models, Chi Xu, Hao Chen, Wanchang Zhang, Shuhang Wang, Zhenghui Fu, Agricultural Water Management, 2025
Long-Term Spatiotemporal Analysis of Crop Water Supply–Demand Relationship in Response to Climate Change and Vegetation Greening in Sanjiang Plain, China, Chi Xu, Wanchang Zhang, Zhenghui Fu, Hao Chen, Xia Jiang, Shuhang Wang, Bo Zhang and Zhijie Zhang, Remote Sensing, 2025
Impacts of Climatic Fluctuations and Vegetation Greening on Regional Hydrological Processes: A Case Study in the Xiaoxinganling Mountains–Sanjiang Plain Region, Northeastern China, Chi Xu, Zhijie Zhang, Zhenghui Fu, Shenqing Xiong, Hao Chen, Wanchang Zhang, Shuhang Wang, Donghui Zhang, Heng Lu and Xia Jiang, Remote Sensing, 2024
Soil Moisture Memory: State-Of-The-Art and the Way Forward, Mehdi Rahmati, Wulf Amelung, Cosimo Brogi, Jacopo Dari, Alessia Flammini, Heye Bogena, Luca Brocca, Hao Chen, Jannis Groh, Randal D. Koster, Kaighin A. McColl, Carsten Montzka, Shirin Moradi, Arash Rahi, Farnaz Sharghi S., Harry Vereecken, Reviews of Geophysics, 2024
Modeling hydrological consequences of 21st-Century climate and land use/land cover changes in a mid-high latitude watershed, Chuanqi Liu, Chi Xu, Zhijie Zhang, Shengqing Xiong, Wanchang Zhang, Bo Zhang, Hao Chen, Yongxin Xu, Shuhang Wang, Geoscience Frontiers, 2024
Spatiotemporal green water dynamics and their responses to variations of climatic and underlying surface factors: A case study in the Sanjiang Plain, China, Chi Xu, Wanchang Zhang, Shuhang Wang, Hao Chen, Abdullah Azzam, Bo Zhang, Yongxin Xu, Ning Nie, Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 2023
Human-Induced water loss from closed inland Lakes: Hydrological simulations in China’s Daihai lake, Shuhang Wang, Chi Xu, Wanchang Zhang, Hao Chen, Bo Zhang, Journal of Hydrology, 2022
Evaluating global ecosystem water use efficiency response to drought based on multi-model analysis, Shanshan Yang, Jiahua Zhang, Jiaqi Han, Jingwen Wang, Sha Zhang, Yun Bai, Dan Cao, Lan Xun, Minxuan Zheng, Hao Chen, Chi Xu, Yuejing Rong, Science of The Total Environment, 2021
Spatial Downscaling Based on Spectrum Analysis for Soil Freeze/Thaw Status Retrieved From Passive Microwave, Huiran Gao, Zhijie Zhang, Wanchang Zhang, Hao Chen, Mingjie Xu, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2021
Monitoring the spatial distribution and changes in permafrost with passive microwave remote sensing, Huiran Gao, Ning Nie, Wanchang Zhang, Hao Chen, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2020
Separating the impacts of climate variability, land-use change and large reservoir operations on streamflow in the Yangtze River basin, China, using a hydrological modeling approach, Ning Nie, Wanchang Zhang, Min Liu, Hao Chen, Dengzhong Zhao, International Journal of Digital Earth, 2020
A Global Hydrological Drought Index Dataset Based on Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) Data, Ning Nie, Wanchang Zhang, Hao Chen, Huadong Guo, Water Resources Management, 2018
A new method for surface water extraction using multi-temporal Landsat 8 images based on maximum entropy model, Wangping Li, Wanchang Zhang, Zhihong Li, Yu Wang, Hao Chen, Huiran Gao, Zhaoye Zhou, Junming Hao, Chuanhua Li, Xiaodong Wu, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 2022
An Improved Algorithm for Discriminating Soil Freezing and Thawing Using AMSR-E and AMSR2 Soil Moisture Products, Huiran Gao, Wanchang Zhang, Hao Chen, Remote Sensing, 2018

📖 Employments

2024.03 - Now, Associate Professor, Faculrty of Geography, Tianjin Normal University.
2023.01 - 2023.12, Visiting Scientist, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, Agrosphere (IBG-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich.
2020.07 - 2024.02, PostDoc, School of Earth System Science, Tianjin University.

📖 Educations

2014.09 - 2020.07, Ph.D, Aerospace Information research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2010.09 - 2014.07, B.S, School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Hefei University of Technology.

💬 Invited Talks