Assistant Professor (Water and Environmental Engineering)   Dr. Ji CHEN   BE, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China ME. Tsinghua Unviersity, Beijing, China PhD, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.   Office:      HW 6-03 Phone:     +852 28592646 Fax:         +852 25595337 E-mail:     jichen@hkucc.hku.hk

 

Teaching Activities

• CIVL 1006 Fluid Mechanics
• CIVL 2001 Engineering Design and Communication
• CIVL 2004 Hydraulics and Hydrology
• CIVL 3023 Inter-disciplinary Design Project
• CIVL 6005 Advanced Techniques of Hydrologic Modeling and Prediction

 

Research Interests

• Multi-scale terrestrial hydrologic processes
• Interactions of the land surface and the atmosphere
• Predictability of the hydrological variables
• Management of water resources
• Climate change
• Water-related natural hazards

 

Representative Research / Consultancy Projects

• Dominant hydrologic processes for floods and droughts over the Pearl River Basin at different temporal and spatial scales
• Assuring Hong Kong's water supply: Learning the lessons of the 1963 drought
• Two regional climate models for dynamical downscaling climate projections over Hong Kong and its vicinity
• Advancing land surface parameterization in a coupled land-atmosphere model

 

Representative Publications

1. Hui, D.T.-W., Shum, K.K.-Y., Chen, J., Chen, S.-C., Ritchie, J., and Roads, J.O. (2007). "Case studies of seasonal rainfall forecasts for Hong Kong and its vicinity using a regional climate model." Natural Hazards , published online on 11 January 2007, doi: 10.1007/s11069-006-9068-z.
2. Sivakumar, B. and Chen, J. (2007). "Suspended sediment load transport in the Mississippi River basin at St. Louis: Temporal scaling and nonlinear determinism." Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 32(2), 269-280.
3. Lal, D., and Chen, J. (2005). "Cosmic ray labeling of erosion surfaces II: special cases of exposure histories of boulders, soils and beach terraces." Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 236(3-4), 797-813.
4. Chen, J., and Kumar, P. (2004). "A modeling study of the ENSO influence on the terrestrial energy profile in North America." Journal of Climate, 17(8), 1657-1670.
5. Chen, J., and Kumar, P. (2002). "Role of terrestrial hydrologic memory in modulating ENSO impacts in North America." Journal of Climate, 15(24), 3569-3585.
6. Chen, J., and Kumar, P. (2001). "Topographic influence on the seasonal and inter-annual variation of water and energy balance of basins in North America." Journal of Climate, 14(9), 1989-2014.