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Professor Yang Long

Yang Long

Professor, doctoral supervisor, Department of Physical Geography

📧 yanglong@nju.edu.cn
🏢 School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing University
📍 Xianlin Campus, Nanjing University
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Yang Long is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing University. He was selected for a national young talent program. His research focuses on the mechanisms and prediction of basin flood processes. He explores the hydrological principles, hydrometeorological processes, and hydroclimatic mechanisms behind flood hazards from the perspectives of physical processes and statistical regularities. Supported by the Frontiers Science Center for Critical Earth Material Cycling of Nanjing University and the School of Geography and Ocean Science, he is committed to developing theories and technical methods related to flood prevention and disaster mitigation. His work has been published in leading journals such as Nature, Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, Geophysical Research Letters, Water Resources Research, Advances in Water Science, and Acta Geographica Sinica. He serves as vice chair and secretary-general of the Water Resources System Subcommittee of the Chinese National Committee of the International Hydrological Programme, and as a member of the Land-Atmosphere Interaction Subcommittee, among other academic roles.

Academic resume and achievements

Educational background

2009-2014
PhD, Department of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Tsinghua University
2011-2012
Princeton University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Joint Ph.D.
2005-2009
Hohai University, Department of Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering, Bachelor's degree

Work experience

2023-present
Professor and doctoral supervisor, School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing University
2019-2022
Associate Professor and doctoral supervisor, School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing University
2015-2019
Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Research Assistant
2014-2015
Purdue University Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Visiting Scholar

Award honors

  • 2024
    Excellent Academic Degree Master Thesis Advisor of Nanjing University, Excellent Academic Degree Master Thesis Advisor of Jiangsu Province
  • 2023
    First Prize of the Meteorological Science and Technology Achievement Award of the Jiangsu Meteorological Society (3/7), Outstanding Reviewer for Advances in Water Science
  • 2022
    Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Advisor of Jiangsu Province, Youth Science and Technology Award of Jiangsu Marine and Limnological Society (1/1)
  • 2021
    Nanjing University undergraduate thesis team special award (the only one in the school) instructor

important projects

  • January 2024-December 2027
    National Natural Science Foundation of China project: Research on the regional distribution patterns and formation mechanisms of extraordinary floods in my country
  • November 2023-November 2026
    Jiangsu Province Outstanding Youth Science Fund Project, Mechanism and prediction of heavy rain and floods in cities in the Yangtze River Delta
  • January 2021-December 2023
    Sub-project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China’s Major Program Integration Project, Integrated Project on Runoff Change and Adaptive Utilization in Southwest River Source Areas
  • January 2021-December 2023
    National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Project, Research on the Impact of Urban Complex Underlying Surfaces on Flooding and Heavy Rainfall

Social part-time job

  • Vice Chair of the Water Resources System Subcommittee of the Chinese National Committee of the International Hydrological Programme
  • Member of the Land-Atmosphere Interaction Subcommittee of the Chinese National Committee of the International Hydrological Programme
  • Member of the Hydrogeography Professional Committee of the Chinese Geographical Society
  • Member of Hydrology and Sediment Professional Committee of China Hydropower Engineering Society
  • Editorial board member of Water Resources Protection
  • Associate Editor, Hydrological Sciences Journal
  • Jiangsu Ocean and Limnological Society, Director
  • Jiangsu Provincial Geographical Society, Director

Representative works (*Corresponding author, #is the mentoring student)

  1. Yang, Y.#, Yang, L.*, Villarini, G., Zhao, F., Huang, D., Vechhi, G., Wang, Q., Sun, Y., and Tian, F.
    Synchronization of global peak river discharge since the 1980s
    Nature Climate Change, 15, 1084-1090, 2025
  2. Yang, L.*, Yang, Y. #, Shen, Y. #, Yang, J., Zheng, G., Smith, J., and Niyogi. D.
    Urban development pattern's influence on extreme rainfall occurrences
    Nature Communications, 15 (1), 3997, 2024
  3. Yang, L.*, Smith, J.A., and Niyogi, D.
    Urban impacts on extreme monsoon rainfall and flooding in complex terrain
    Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 5918-5927, 2019
  4. Yang, L.*, Ni, G., Tian, F., Niyogi, D.
    Urbanization exacerbated rainfall over European suburbs under a warming climate
    Geophysical Research Letters, 48 (21), e2021GL095987, 2021
  5. Shen, Y.# and Yang, L.*
    Divergent urban signatures in rainfall anomalies explained by pre-storm environment contrast
    Geophysical Research Letters, 50(5), e2022GL101658, 2023
  6. Zhang, J.# and Yang, L.*
    Synoptic origins of extreme riverine floods over the North China Plain with focus on the tail behaviors
    Geophysical Research Letters, 52(20), e2025GL118216, 2025
  7. Yang, L.*, Yang, Y. #, Villarini, G., Li, X., Hu, H., Wang, L., Bloschl, G., Tian, F.*
    Climate more important for Chinese flood changes than reservoirs and land use
    Geophysical Research Letters, 48(11), e2021GL093061, 2021
  8. Wang, Q.#, Yang, L.*, Yang, Y. #, Chen, X*
    Contrasting climatic trends of atmospheric river occurrences over East Asia
    Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL099646, 2022
  9. Yang, L.*, Li, K., Shen, Y. #, and Tian, F.
    Flood seasonality over the Third Pole region modulated by upper level moisture transport
    Earth's Future, 10 (9), e2022EF002828, 2022
  10. Yang, L.*, Yang, Y., Smith, J.
    The upper tail of flood peaks over China: hydrology, hydrometeorology, and hydroclimatology
    Water Resources Research, 57 (11), e2021WR030883, 2021