Water Tower of the Yellow River in a Changing Climate

Yurong Hu (1974, China) obtained her BSc degree in Hydrology and Water Resources in 1996 from Hohai University, China. From October 2005 to April 2007 she studied MSc in Hydrology and Water Resources at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands. She has extensive experience in hydrology, water resources and river basin management. Since June 1996 she has been working as a water resources manager at the Yellow River Conservancy Commission (YRCC), China, and is responsible for a number of projects regarding water policy, water price, water license, water allocation and regulation, water resources planning and water use assessment in the Yellow River. In 2009, she was enrolled for the PhD study at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education. Her PhD research focused on the impacts of climate change on hydrology and water resources in the Yellow River source region in China. Her key areas of expertise and interest are integrated water resources management, statistical hydrology, process-based distributed hydrological modeling, statistical downscaling, and climate change impacts and adaptation at a river basin scale. She has co-authored a number of scientifically important and practically relevant papers and has presented her research at various national and international workshops and conferences. Yurong is a frequent reviewer of manuscripts submitted to international scientific journals, including, for example, International Journal of Climatology and Hydrology and Earth System Science. She is currently working for YRCC as a senior engineer in water resources management. She is married to Wang Lunshun and they have a son Wang Dinghan.

Summary
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1. Introduction
2. Study area and data sets
3. Trends in temperature and rainfall extremes in the YRSR
4. Streamflow trends and climate linkages in the YRSR
5. Downscaling daily precipitation over the YRSR: a comparison of three statistical downscaling methods
6. Expected changes in future temperature extremes and their elevation dependency over the YRSR
7. Impacts of climate change on the hydrology of the YRSR