PeopleGlobal PartnersNingning Zhang

Ningning Zhang

Working in: Beijing, People's Republic of China

Position:
Visiting Scholar

Regions of Interest:
Northern China

The aridification in northern China became increasingly serious in the recent years. This state project, with both basic and applied studies, focuses on the regulation and mechanism of aridification. Guided by the theories of global changes, the project is designed to analyze the natural regulations of the monsoon environment system composed of water, soil, air and biota, and to discover the processes and mechanisms of how global warming and human activities impact the aridification in northern China, by using multi-disciplinary synthetic analysis, ecosystem experiment and numerical simulation. On such a basis, the project will develop the theory and methodology for the prediction and impact assessment of regional environmental change, especially of the aridification trend in northern China. The project will also explore the possibilities of reducing aridification through organizing orderly human activities. All these studies will contribute to the theory of the relation between the monsoon environment system and global changes.