SUN Aili
INTRODUCTION TO AILI SUN
AILI SUN, Ph.D., Yong Associate Professor of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering,
College of Water Resources and Architectural Engineering
Northwest A&F University, P.R.China.
23# Weihui Rd , Yangling, Shaanxi Province, 712100
0086-29-87092901(office)
0086-19927316196 (Cell-phone)
asun@nwsuaf.edu.cn
EDUCATION
2019 Ph.D. Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University
2011 B.Sc. Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
01/2020 – present Yong Associate Professor, Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, Northwest A&F University
09/2014 – 09/2015 Visiting Student, Desert Research Institute, USA
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Hydrological processes and flood forecasting under climate change, permafrost degradation and anthropogenic activities
RESEARCH PROJECTS
2022-2024 Mechanism of changing discharge to spatial-temporal evolution of groundwater under the permafrost degradation, Chinese National Natural Science Fund for Young Scholar, PI
2021-2023 Spatial-temporal evolution mechanism of runoff generation capacity to the permafrost degradation in the headwaters of the Yellow River, the foundation of the State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PI
2021-2022 Evolution mechanism of discharge composition to the permafrost degradation under climate change in the headwaters of the Yellow River, the Belt and Road Special Foundation of the State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, PI
2020-2022 Construction and Analysis of Hydrological Reservoir Model in Yenisey Basin, funded by the “strategic priority research program” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, PI
2020-2022 Multi-stage vertical water transport law under permafrost degradation based on the coupled hydrothermal simulation, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, the Chinese Universities Scientific Fund, PI
2017-2021 Responses of eco-hydrological processes to climate change in the permafrost region of the Yellow River source, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Participant
2016-2020 Research on the mechanism of key hydrological processes and distributed model in the source region of the Yellow River under changing climate, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Participant
2016-2018 Multi-model ensemble prediction and uncertainty study of hydrological extreme events in the Hanjiang River Basin under climate change, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Participant
2013-2016 the fourth topic "development and application of coupled hydrology-permafrost model in the source area of the Yellow River" of Hydrological responses to permafrost degradation in the source area of the Yellow River, the key deployment project of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Participant
2010-2012 Interaction mechanism between watershed hydrological processes and agricultural non-point source pollutants migration and transformation, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Participant
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Aili Sun, Zhongbo Yu, Jian Zhou, Kumud Acharya, Qin Ju, Ruofei Xing, Dongjing Huang, Lei Wen. 2020, Quantified hydrological responses to permafrost degradation in the headwaters of the Yellow River (HWYR) in High Asia. Science of the Total Environment. 712:135632.
Aili Sun, Jian Zhou, Zhongbo Yu, Huijun Jin, Yu Sheng, Chuanguo Yang. 2019, Three-dimensional distribution of permafrost and responses to increasing air temperatures in the head waters of the Yellow River in High Asia. Science of The Total Environment. 666:321–336.
Ai-Li Sun, Zhong-Bo Yu, Chuan-Guo Yang, Huang-He Gu. 2013, Impact factors of contribution area threshold in extracting drainage network for rivers in China. Shuili Xuebao/Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. 44(8):901–908.
Wenfei Liu, Xiaoling Su, Gengxi Zhang, Aili Sun, Lianzhou Wu. 2022, Ensemble projection and uncertainty attribution of potential evapotranspiration in northwest China in the future. Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering. 38(4):123–32.
