Books

1. Zhang, F., G. T. Yeh, and J. C. Parker. 2012. Ground Water Reactive Transport Models. Bentham Science Publishers. eISBN: 978-1-60805-306-3, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-60805-525-8.

Book Chapters

1. Martina Angela Caretta, Aditi Mukherji, Md Arfanuzzam, Richard A. Betts, Alexander Gelfan, Yukiko Hirabayashi, Tabea Katharina Lissne, Elena Lopez Gunn, Junguo Liu, Ruth Morgan, Sixbert Mwanga, Seree Supratid, Malcolm Araos, Soumya Balasubramanya, Angelica Katharina Casparina Brackel, John Caesar, Holly B. Caggiano, Benjamin Cook, Constantino Dockendorff, Calynn Dowler, Robert Dunn, Lina Elisabeth Erika Eklund, Zhang Fan, Valeria Fanghella, Colin M. Finlayson, Sabine Fuss, Animesh Kumar Gain, Freya Garry, Laila Gohar, Valentin Golosov, Sharlene Liane Gomes, Benjamin Jerome Gray, Lukas Gudmundsson, Tania Guillen Bolaneos, Kate Halladay, Ed Hawkins, Greeshma Hegde, Masoud Irannezhad, Bj？rn Kl？ve, Aristeidis G. Koutroulis, Manish Kumar, Jonathan Lautze, Deborah Ley, Ashwina Mahanti, Ganquan Mao, Deborah McGregor, Mamta Mehar, Megan Mills-Novoa, Tessa M？ller, Sanchari Mukhopadhyay, Tero Mustonen, Lakshmikantha N R, Gustavo Naumann, Prajjwal Kumar Panday, Vishnu Prasad Pandey, Jagadish Parajuli, Assela Pathirana, Ritu Priya, B. Uday Bhaskar Reddy, Ekaterina Rets, Rodrigo Fernandez Reynosa, Pamela Rittelmeyer, Conrado M. Rudorff, Orie Sasaki, Corinne Schuster Wallace, Christopher A. Scott, Cydney Kate Seigerman, Sonali Senaratna Sellamuttu, Rinan Shah, Mohammad Shamsudduha, Gitta Shrestha, Afreen Siddiqui, Balsher Singh Sidhu, Aprajita Singh, Anna Sinisalo, Francesca Spagnuolo, Jaishri Srinivasan, Makere Stewart-Harawira, Debra Tan, Masahiro Tanoue, Brock Ternes, William Rigoberto Delgado Thompson, Peter Uhe, Astrid Ulloa, Nicole van Maanen, Shuchi Vora, Yashoda Yashoda. “Water”. Chapter 4 in: H.-O. P？rtner, D.C. Roberts, M. Tignor, E.S. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, A. Alegría, M. Craig, S. Langsdorf, S. L？schke, V. M？ller, A. Okem, B. Rama (eds.), Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA. 2022, pp. 4-1 to 4-213-

2. Christopher, A.S., F. Zhang, A. Mukherji, W.Immerzeel, D.Mustafa, L.Bharati, 2019. “Water in the Hindu Kush Himalaya”. Chapter 8 in: Wester P., Mishra A., Mukherji A., Shrestha A. (eds) The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment. Springer, Cham, Switzerland. 2019, pp. 257-300

3. Yeh, G. T., G. B. Huang, H. P. Cheng, F. Zhang, H. C. Lin, E. Edris, D. Richards, 2005. “A First Principle, physics-based watershed model: WASH123D”. Chapter 9 in: Watershed Models (V. P. Singh and D. K. Frevert, ed.), CRC Press LLC, 6000 Broken Sound Parkway, NW, (Suite 300) Boca Raton, FL 33487, USA. pp. 211-244.

4. Yeh, G. T., V. S. Tripathi, J. P. Gwo, H. P. Cheng, J.R. C. Cheng, K. M. Salvage, M. H. Li, Y. Fang, Y. Li, J. T. Sun, F. Zhang, M. D. Siegel, 2012, “HYDROGEOCHEM: A Coupled Model of Variably Saturated Flow, Thermal Transport, and Reactive Biogeochemical Transport”. Chapter 1 in: Zhang, F., G. T. Yeh, and J. C. Parker (eds) Ground Water Reactive Transport Models, Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. Oak Park, IL 60301-0446, USA. pp. 1-35. 

Journal articles (within the last 5 years)

1. Xiong Xiao, Huawu Wu,Fan Zhang*, Cicheng Zhang, Zhongbo Yu, Guanxing Wang, Faizan Rehman Qaiser. Subsurface mixing of different soil water pools in a permafrost-underlain headwater catchment, Qilian Mountains, Northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Hydrology, 2024, 628:130478

2.    Shenqi Xie, Chen Zeng*, Fan Zhang*, Guanxing Wang, Xiong Xiao. Defining lateral subsurface flow and identifying its water sources in an alpine-permafrost hillslope. Catena, 2024, 236:107765

3.    Shenqi Xie, Chen Zeng*, Xiong Xiao, Guanxing Wang, Fan Zhang*. Hillslope groundwater and river channel precipitation recharge to rivers in a continuous permafrost catchment of northeastern Tibetan Plateau, Science of the Total Environment, 2024, 906:167725

4.   Ying Zheng, Xiaonan Shi*, Fan Zhang, Tingwu Lei, Chen Zeng, Xiong Xiao, Li Guanxing Wang. Field experimental study on the effect of thawed depth of frozen alpine meadow soil on rill erosion by snowmelt waterflow, International Soil and Water Conservation Research, 2024, 12:54-63.

5.   Fan Zhang*, Baoyuan Liu, Liping Zhu, Richard Cruse, Dongfeng Li, Panos Panagos, Pasquale Borrelli, Yakov Kuzyakov, Shaoshan An. Call for joint international actions to improve scientific understanding and address soil erosion and riverine sediment issues in mountainous regions, International Soil and Water Conservation Research, 2023, 11(3):586-588.

6.    Li Wang, Fan Zhang*, Chen Zeng, Wenjie Zhang. Variation of hydro-climatic extremes in headwater regions of Hei River basin under climate change, Journal of Hydrology:Regional Studies, 2023, 50:101561

7.   Li Wang, Fan Zhang*, Xiaonan Shi, Chen Zeng, Ijaz Ahmad, Guanxing Wang, Sahadeep Thapa, Xing Xu. Water resources system vulnerability in high mountain areas under climate change, Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023, 403:136789.

8.    Li Wang, Fan Zhang*, Santosh Nepal, Yuxuan Xiang, Handuo Tang, Xiaonan Shi, Chen Zeng, Ijaz Ahmad, Zhongbo Yu. Response of runoff processes to temperature rise in basins with different glacier ratios in the monsoon-influenced southern Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Hydrology:Regional Studies, 2023, 45:101299

9.   Ijaz Ahmad, Li Wang*, Fan Zhang. Spatiotemporal dynamics of annual, seasonal and extreme temperature over upper Indus basin. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2023, 151:1399–1418

10.  Faizan Ur Rehman Qaiser, Fan Zhang, Ramesh Raj Pant, Chen Zeng*, Nangyal Ghani Khan, Guanxing Wang. Characterization and health risk assessment of arsenic in natural waters of the Indus River Basin, Pakistan. Science of The Total Environment, 2023, 857:159408.

11.  Subash Adhikari, Chen Zeng*, Fan Zhang, Namita Paudel Adhikari, Jing Gao, Nasir Ahmed, Md Abdul Quaiyum Bhuiyan, Md Ariful Ahsan, Md Hafijur Rahaman Khan. Atmospheric wet deposition of trace elements in Bangladesh:A new insight into spatiotemporal variability and source apportionment. Environmental Research, 2023, 217:114729.

12. Tongqing She, Peng Jiang*, Qin Ju, Xuegao Chen, Hui Lin, Jiahui Zhao, Fan Zhang, Zhongbo Yu*. Frozen carbon is gradually thawing:Assessing interannual dynamics of thawed soil organic carbon stocks in the Tibetan Plateau permafrost area from 1901？ 2020, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2023, 343:109793

13.  Muhammad Dodo Jagirani*, Xiaonan Shi, Fan Zhang, Shahram Khalighi Sigaroodi, Chen Zeng, Xiong Xiao, Li Wang, Faizan ur Rehman Qaiser, and Guanxing Wang. Seasonal and Spatial Characteristics of Suspended Sediment Load and their Controlling Factors in the Upper Indus River Basin, Pakistan, Pakistan Journal of Analytical & Environmental Chemistry, 2023, 24(1):48 – 62

14. Wei Yang*, Zhongyan Wang, Baosheng An*, Yingying Chen, Chuanxi Zhao, Chenhui Li, Yongjie Wang, Weicai Wang, Jiule Li, Guangjian Wu, Lin Bai, Fan Zhang, and Tandong Yao. Early warning system for ice collapses and river blockages in the Sedongpu Valley, southeastern Tibetan Plateau, Natural Hazards and Earth System Science, 2023, 23:3015–3029

15.Fan Zhang, Chen Zeng*, Qianggong Zhang and Tandong Yao. Securing water quality of the Asian Water Tower. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2022, 3(10):611-612.

16. Fan Zhang, Chen Zeng*, Guanxing Li Wang Wang, Xiaonan Shi. Runoff and sediment yield in relation to precipitation, temperature and glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau. International Soil and Water Conservation Research. 2022, 10:197-207.

17.  Xiaonan Shi, Fan Zhang*, Xixi Lu, Yueguan Zhang, Ying Zheng, Guanxing Li Wang Wang, Muhammad Dodo Jagirani, Tao Wang, Shilong Piao. The response of the suspended sediment load of the headwaters of the Brahmaputra River to climate change:Quantitative attribution to the effects of hydrological, cryospheric and vegetation controls. Global and Planetary Change. 2022, 210:103753

18. Hongbo Zhang, Fan Zhang*, Guoqing Zhang, Wei Yan. Why do CMIP6 models fail to simulate snow depth in terms of temporal change and high mountain snow of China skillfully? Geophysical Research Letters, 2022, 49:e2022GL098888.

19. Hongbo Zhang, W.W. Immerzeel, Fan Zhang*, Remco J. de Kok, Deliang Chen, Wei Yan. Snow cover persistence reverses the altitudinal patterns of warming above and below 5000 m on the Tibetan Plateau. Science of the Total Environment. 2022, 803:149889

20. Ijaz Ahmad*, Fan Zhang. Optimal Agricultural Water Allocation for the Sustainable Development of Surface and Groundwater Resources. Water Resources Management. 2022, 36(11):1-18

21.  Kiran Bishwakarma, Guanxing Wang*, Fan Zhang, Subash Adhikari, Kabita Karki, Archana Ghimire. Hydrochemical characterization and irrigation suitability of the Ganges Brahmaputra River System:review and assessment. Journal of Mountain Science. 2022, 19(2):388-402.

22.  Baosheng An*, Weicai Wang*, Wei Yang*, Guangjian Wu, Yanhong Guo, Haifeng Zhu, Yang Gao, Ling Bai, Fan Zhang, Chen Zeng, Lei Wang, Jing Zhou, Xin Li, Jia Li, Zhijun Zhao, Yingying Chen, Jingshi Liu, Jiule Li, Zhongyan Wang, Wenfeng Chen, Tandong Yao. Process, mechanisms, and early warning of glacier collapse-induced river blocking disasters in the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Science of the Total Environment. 2022, 816:151652

23. Fan Zhang, Xiong Xiao*, Lijie Wang, Chen Zeng, Zhengliang Yu, Guanxing Wang, Xiaonan Shi. Chemical weathering and CO₂ consumption in the glaciated Karuxung River catchment, Tibetan Plateau. Hydrological Processes. 2021, 35:e14330.

24.  Hongbo Zhang, Fan Zhang*, Tao Che, Wei Yan, Ming Ye. Investigating the ability of multiple reanalysis datasets to simulate snow depth variability over mainland China from 1981 to 2018. Journal of Climate. 2021, 34:9957-9972.

25.  Sahadeep Thapa, Fan Zhang*, Hongbo Zhang, Chen Zeng, Li Wang, Chong-Yu Xu, Amrit Thapa, Santosh Nepal. Assessing the snow cover dynamics and its relationship with different hydro-climatic characteristics in Upper Ganges river basin and its sub-basins. Science of the Total Environment, 2021, 793:148648

26.  Hongbo Zhang, W.W. Immerzeel, Fan Zhang*, Remco J. de Kok, Sally J. Gorrie, and Ming Ye. Creating 1-km long-term (1980–2014) daily average air temperatures over the Tibetan Plateau by integrating eight types of reanalysis and land data assimilation products downscaled with MODIS-estimated temperature lapse rates based on machine learning, International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation, 2021, 97:102295

27.  Subash Adhikari, Fan Zhang*, Namita Paudel Adhikari, Chen Zeng, Ramesh Raj Pant, Kirpa Ram, Yongqin Liu, Nasir Ahmed, Jie Xu, Lekhendra Tripathee, Qianggong Zhang, Md. Abdul Quaiyum Bhuiyan, Md. Ariful Ahsan. Atmospheric Wet Deposition of Major Ionic Constituents and Inorganic Nitrogen in Bangladesh:Implications for Spatiotemporal Variation and Source Apportionment. Atmospheric Research, 2021, 250:105414

28.  Chen Zeng, Fan Zhang*, Li Wang, Deliang Chen. Summer precipitation characteristics on the southern Tibetan Plateau, International Journal of Climatology, 2021, 41 (Suppl. 1):E3160-E3177

29.  Hongbo Zhang*, Fan Zhang, Guoqing Zhang, Wei Yan and Sien Li. Enhanced scaling effects significantly lower the ability for MODIS normalized difference snow index to estimate fractional and binary snow cover of the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Hydrology, 2021, 592:125795

30.  Lei Wang*, Tandong Yao, Chenhao Chai, Lan Cuo, Fengge Su, Fan Zhang, Zhijun Yao, Yinsheng Zhang, Xiuping Li, Jia Qi, Zhidan Hu, Jingshi Liu, and Yuanwei Wang. TP-River: Monitoring and Quantifying Total River Runoff from the Third Pole., Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2021, 102(5):E948-E965.

31.  Ling Yang, Wei Luo*, Pin Zhao, Yulan Zhang, Shichang Kang, John P. Giesy, Fan Zhang. Microplastics in the Koshi River, a remote alpine river crossing the Himalayas from China to Nepal. Environmental Pollution, 2021, 290:118121

32.  Amirhosein Mosavi, Mohammad Golshan, Bahram Choubin*, Alan D. Ziegler, Shahram Khalighi Sigaroodi, Fan Zhang, Adrienn A. Dineva. Fuzzy clustering and distributed model for streamflow estimation in ungauged watersheds Scientific Reports, 2021, 11:8243

33.  Muhammad S. Ashraf, Ijaz Ahmad*, Noor M. Khan, Fan Zhang, Ahmed Bilal, Jiali Guo. Streamflow Variations in Monthly, Seasonal, Annual. and Extreme Values Using Mann-Kendall, Spearmen’s Rho and Innovative Trend Analysis. Water Resources Management, 2021, 35:243-261

34.  Johannes Buckel*, Eike Reinosch, Andreas H？rdt, Fan Zhang, Bj？rn Riedel, Markus Gerke, Antje Schwalb, and Roland M？usbacher. Insights into a remote cryosphere:a multi-method approach to assess permafrost occurrence at the Qugaqie basin, western Nyainqêntanglha Range, Tibetan Plateau. The Cryosphere, 2021, 15:149-168

35.  Fan Zhang*, Xiaonan Shi*, Chen Zeng, Li Wang, Xiong Xiao, Guanxing Wang, Yao Chen, Hongbo Zhang, Xixi Lu, Walter Immerzeel. Recent stepwise sediment flux increase with climate change in the Tuotuo River in the central Tibetan Plateau, Science Bulletin, 2020, 65(5):410-418.

36.  Ramesh Raj Pant,Fan Zhang*, Faizan Ur Rehman, Madan Koirala, Kedar Rijal, Rejina Maskey. Spatiotemporal characterization of dissolved trace elements in the Gandaki River, Central Himalaya Nepal, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2020, 389:121913.

37.  Xiong Xiao,Fan Zhang*, Tao Che, Xiaonan Shi, Chen Zeng, Guanxing Wang. Changes in Plot-scale Runoff Generation Processes from the Spring-Summer Transition Period to the Summer Months in a Permafrost-Dominated Catchment, Journal of Hydrology, 2020, 587:124966.

38.  Xiong Xiao, Fan Zhang*, Xiaioyan Li, Guanxing Wang, Chen Zeng, Xiaonan Shi. Hydrological functioning of thawing soil water in a permafrost-influenced alpine meadow hillslope, Vadose Zone Journal, 2020, 19:e20022.

39.  Xiong Xiao, Fan Zhang*, Xiaoyan Li, Chen Zeng, Xiaonan Shi, Huawu Wu, Muhammad Dodo Jagirani, Tao Che. Using stable isotopes to identify major flow pathways in a permafrost influenced alpine meadow hillslope during summer rainfall period, Hydrological Processes, 2020, 34(5):1104-1116.

40.  Li Wang, Fan Zhang*, Suhua Fu, Xiaonan Shi, Yao Chen, Muhammad Dodo Jagirani, Chen Zeng. Assessment of soil erosion risk and its response to climate change in the mid-Yarlung Tsangpo River region, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020, 27(1):607-621.

41.  Xiaonan Shi*, Fan Zhang, Li Wang, Muhammad Dodo Jagirani, Chen Zeng, Xiong Xiao, Guanxing Wang. Experimental study on the effects of multiple factors on spring meltwater erosion on an alpine meadow slope, International Soil and Water Conservation Research, 2020, 8(2):116-123.

42.  Hongbo Zhang*, Fan Zhang, Tao Che, Shijin Wang, Comparative evaluation of VIIRS daily snow cover product with MODIS for snow detection in China based on ground observations, Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 724:138156.

43.  Bo Li, Zeng Chen, Fan Zhang, Yongqin Liu, and Tao Yan*, Abundance, diversity and mobility potential of antibiotic resistance genes in pristine Tibetan Plateau soil as revealed by soil metagenomics, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2020, 96(10):fiaa172.

44. Meilian Chen, Chen Zeng, Fan Zhang, Shichang Kang, Chaoliu Li*. Characteristics of Dissolved Organic Matter from a Transboundary Himalayan Watershed:Relationships with Land Use, Elevation, and Hydrology, ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 2020, 4(3):449-456.

45. Mingyue Li, Qianggong Zhang*, Xuejun Sun, Kabita Karki, Chen Zeng, Aastha Pandey, Bakhat Rawat, Fan Zhang. Heavy metals in surface sediments in the trans-Himalayan Koshi River catchment:Distribution, source identification and pollution assessment, Chemosphere, 2020, 244:125410.

46.  Xuejun Sun, Qianggong Zhang*, Mingyue Li, Kshitiz Kandel, Bakhat Rawat, Aastha Pandey, Junming Guo, Shichang Kang, Ramesh Raj Pant, Zhiyuan Cong, Fan Zhang. Mercury variation and export in trans-Himalayan rivers:Insights from field observations in the Koshi River, Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 738:139836.

47. Fan Zhang, Faizan-ur-Rehman Qaiser, Chen Zeng*, Ramesh Raj Pant, Guanxing Wang, Hongbo Zhang, Deliang Chen. Meltwater hydrochemistry at four glacial catchments in the headwater of Indus River, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2019, 26(23):23645-23660.

48.  Hongbo Zhang, Fan Zhang*, Guoqing Zhang, Tao Che, Wei Yan, Ming Ye, Ning Ma. Ground-based evaluation of MODIS snow cover product V6 across China:Implications for the selection of NDSI threshold, Science of the Total Environment, 2019, 651:2712-2726.

49. Subash Adhikari, Fan Zhang*, Chen Zeng, Lekhendra Tripathee, Namita Paudel Adhikari, Jie Xu, Guanxing Wang. Precipitation chemistry and stable isotopic characteristics at Wengguo in the northern slopes of the Himalayas, Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry 2019, 76(4):289-313.

50. Tandong Yao, Yongkang Xue*, Deliang Chen, Fahu Chen, Lonnie Thompson, Peng Cui, Toshio Koike, William K-M Lau, Dennis Lettenmaier, Volker Mosbrugger, Renhe Zhang, Baiqing Xu, Jeff Dozier, Thomas Gillespie, Yu Gu, Shichang Kang, Shilong Piao, Shiori Sugimoto, Kenichi Ueno, Lei Wang, Weicai Wang, Fan Zhang, Yongwei Sheng, Weidong Guo, Ailikun, Xiaoxin Yang, Yaoming Ma, Samuel S. P. Shen, Zhongbo Su, Fei Chen, Shunlin Liang, Yimin Liu, Vijay P. Singh, Kun Yang, Daqing Yang, Xinquan Zhao, Yun Qian, Yu Zhang, Qian Li. Recent Third Pole's Rapid Warming Accompanies Cryospheric Melt and Water Cycle Intensification and Interactions between Monsoon and Environment:Multidisciplinary Approach with Observations, Modeling, and Analysis, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2019, 100(3):423-444.

51.  Namita Paudel Adhikari, Yongqin Liu*, Keshao Liu, Fan Zhang, Subash Adhikari, Yuying Chen, Xiaobo Liu. Bacterial community composition and diversity in Koshi River, the largest river of Nepal, Ecological Indicators, 2019, 104:501-511.

52.  Meilian Chen*, Chaoliu Li*, Chen Zeng, Fan Zhang, Peter A. Raymond, Jin Hur*. Immobilization of relic anthropogenic dissolved organic matter from alpine rivers in the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau in winter, Water Research, 2019, 160:97-106.

53.  Nick Pepin*, Haijun Deng, Hongbo Zhang, Fan Zhang, Shichang Kang, Tandong Yao. An Examination of Temperature Trends at High Elevations Across the Tibetan Plateau:The Use of MODIS LST to Understand Patterns of Elevation-Dependent Warming, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 2019, 124(11):5738-5756.

54.  Bahram Choubin, Shahram Khalighi Sigaroodi, Ashok Mishra, Massoud Goodarzi, Shahaboddin Shamshirband*, Esmatullah Ghaljaee, Fan Zhang. A novel bias correction framework of TMPA 3B42 daily precipitation data using similarity matrix/homogeneous conditions, Science of the Total Environment, 2019, 694:133680.