Research Fellow (BVOC)

Centre for the study of Environmental Change and Sustainability (CECS)

School of Geosciences

University of Edinburgh

Email: x.cui@ed.ac.uk

Tel: 0044-131-6514467

Research Interests:

Global land use modelling

Land use changes in China

Environmental Change in the Tibetan Plateau

Water resources in China

Global and regional climate modelling

Education:

Ph.D. Meteorology in 2005

University of Hamburg, Germany

Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg

International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling

BSc. Meteorology in 1999

University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Research Experience:

PDRA, 01,2006-07,2008 University of Liverpool

working on NERC project: African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (AMMA)

Pulications:

Cui, X., D. Parker, and A. Morse, 2009: The drying out of soil moisture following rainfall in a numerical weather prediction model, and implications for malaria prediction in West Africa. Weather and Forecasting (in press).

Cui, X., G. Huang and W. Chen, 2009: Threatening of climate change on water resources and supply: Case study of North China. Desalination (in press).

Cui, X., and H-F. Graf, 2009: Recent land cover changes on the Tibetan Plateau, A review. Climatic Change DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9556-8.

Cui, X., G. Huang, and W. Chen, 2008: Notes of regional climate model simulation for hydrological studies in China. Advances in Atmospheric Science,25(6), 999-1008.

Cui, X., H-F. Graf, B. Langmann, W. Chen and R-H. Huang, 2007: Hydrological impacts of deforestation on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau: A model study. Earth Interactions, 11, 15, 1-18.

Cui, X., B. Langmann, and H-F. Graf, 2007: Summer monsoonal rainfall simulation on the Tibetan Plateau with a regional climate model using a one-way double-nesting system. Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere, 3, 49-52.

Cui, X., H-F. Graf, B. Langmann, W. Chen and R-H. Huang, 2006: Climatic impacts of anthropogenic land use change over the Tibetan Plateau. Global and Planetary change, 54, 33-56.

Huang, R-H., and X. Cui, 1999: Impact of position and horizontal scale of strong convection area on the low-frequency oscillation in tropical atmosphere. Chinese J. of Atmos. Sci., 23, 337-350.