CHENG Wei
Associate Professor
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Biography
Wei Cheng is an Associate Professor and Master’s Supervisor at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He received his Ph.D. from Beijing Normal University and completed postdoctoral research at Cornell University. His research focuses on global change and land surface systems, geoengineering strategy simulation, and land surface environmental impacts. He has published nearly 20 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals including Resources, Conservation and Recycling, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, Scientific Data, and Atmospheric Research. One of his publications has been recognized as an ESI Highly Cited Paper (Top 1%). He also holds three national invention patents. His work has been cited by papers published in Nature Climate Change, Nature Sustainability, PNAS, and IPCC reports, and has been featured in China Science Daily. He is currently the principal investigator of a Youth Science Fund project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), as well as a sub-project under the Country-Specific Comprehensive Research Program of CAS. He also plays a key role in several major national research initiatives, including the National Key Research and Development Program of China, the Strategic Priority Research Program (Category A) of CAS, and the NSFC Innovation Research Group Project.
Research Area
Global Change and Land Surface Systems
Research Interests
Global change and land surface processes
Geoengineering strategy simulation
Disaster risk and land environmental management
Land systems and food security
Terrestrial carbon cycle and surface hydrothermal patterns
Selected Publications
Cheng, W., Huang, L., Liu, Z., Dong, J., Moore, J.C., MacMartin, D.G., Deng, X., Seasonal and regional changes in terrestrial carbon uptake under an overshoot scenario, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2023, 195: 106997.
Cheng, W., MacMartin, D.G., Kravitz, B., Visioni, D., Bednarz, E.M., Xu, Y., Luo, Y., Huang, L., Hu, Y., Staten, P.W., Hitchcock, P., Moore, J.C., Guo, A., Deng, X., Changes in Hadley circulation and intertropical convergence zone under strategic stratospheric aerosol geoengineering, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2022, 5: 32.
Cheng, W., Dan, L., Deng, X., Feng, J., Wang, Y., Peng, J., Tian, J., Qi, W., Liu, Z., Zheng, X., Zhou, D., Jiang, S., Zhao, H., Wang, X., Global monthly gridded atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations under the historical and future scenarios, Scientific Data, 2022, 9: 83.
Cheng, W., Duan, X., Moore, J.C., Deng, X., Luo, Y., Huang, L., Wang, Y., Unevenly distributed CO2 and its impacts on surface energy balance, Atmospheric Research, 2022, 274: 106196.
Cheng, W., MacMartin, D.G., Dagon, K., Kravitz, B., Tilmes, S., Richter, J.H., Mills, M.J., Simpson, I.R., Soil moisture and other hydrological changes in a stratospheric aerosol geoengineering large ensemble, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2019, 124(23): 12773-12793.
Graduate Admissions
Major: Cartography and Geographic Information Systems
Research Direction: Geographic information systems technology and applications
Students with academic backgrounds in Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, Atmospheric Science, Physical Geography, or other related geosciences—as well as those from disciplines such as Computer Science, Mathematics, or Physics—are warmly welcome to apply through recommendation-based admission or the national graduate entrance examination.
Contact Information
Mailing Address: 11A, Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, China
E-mail: chengwei@igsnrr.ac.cn
