Xiangping Hu
73598937
Realfagbygget, E4-158B, Gløshaugen, Høgskoleringen 5, N-7034 Trondheim
Om
I am a Forsker I at the Industrial Ecology Programme, a multidisciplinary research program within the Department of Energy and Process. With a background spanning environmental science, climate science, mathematics, and engineering, my work focuses on developing data-driven solutions to critical environmental challenges.
Research interests
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Environmental Systems Analysis
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Ecosystems and ecoservices
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Biodiversity and bioresources
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Climate change mitigation strategies
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Advanced Data Analytics
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Mathematical and statistical modelling
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Bayesian and computational statistics
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Spatial statistics and biostatistics
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Numerical optimization and operations research
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Machine learning and Artificial intelligence
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Editorial
- Global Environmental Change Advances, Elsevier (Editorial board)
- Discover Applied Sciences, Springer Nature (Editorial board)
- Discover Conservation, Springer Nature (Editorial board)
- Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, section for Climate Change and Cities (Associate editor)
- Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, section for Forests and the Atmosphere (Associate editor)
Current & Recent Projects
- Bio4Fuels: Norwegian Centre for Sustainable Bio-based Fuels and Energy (2017 - 2025)
- Bio4-7Seas: Biofuels in deep sea shipping for climate change mitigation (2020 - 2025)
- BIOPATH: Advancing biofuel pathways with regional climate change implications (2019 - 2024)
- MITISTRESS: Strategies to Mitigate Pressures on Terrestrial Ecosystems from Multiple Stressors (2019 - 2023)
- BEST: Bioenergy's role in a sustainable future (2019 - 2023)
Forskning
Norwegian Centre for Sustainable Bio-based Fuels and Energy (Bio4Fuels)
Bio4Fuels use new technology to ensure efficient and sustainable use of biomass as renewable feedstock for heat, power and transportation.
Advancing biofuel pathways with regional climate change implications (BIOPATH)
We explore the interactions between future biofuel pathways, land transitions, and the regional climate to identify synergies between land management and biofuel strategies for climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Biofuels in deep sea shipping for climate change mitigation (Bio4-7Seas)
We assess the mitigation potential of biofuels for deep sea shipping by combining leading methods in biofuel systems, maritime disciplines, LCA, and climate science to ensure robust analyzes of the climate impact from the use of biofuels in shipping.
Strategies to Mitigate Pressures on Terrestrial Ecosystems from Multiple Stressors (MITISTRESS)
We study how ecosystems in Norway and the Tibetan Plateau of China response to multiple stressors like land use change, and climate change, generating new robust scientific knowledge to assist the design of land management policies in Norway and China.
Publikasjoner
Selected Publications
2026
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Cao, Jinhong;
Chang, Guangyi;
Chen, Xiumei;
He, Tao;
Hu, Xiangping;
(+1 andre).
(2026)
Impact of forest cover change on mean and extreme surface temperatures in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration, China.
Ecological Indicators
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Sødal, Sofie Eiksund;
Skreiberg, Øyvind;
Barbosa Watanabe, Marcos Djun;
Hu, Xiangping;
Cherubini, Francesco.
(2026)
Effects of Norwegian wood stove use on climate and human health.
Environmental impact assessment review
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Chen, Feng;
Wang, Zhaohua;
Hu, Xiangping;
Ding, Yueting;
Zheng, Heran.
(2026)
Water scarcity challenges global power plant operation.
Environmental impact assessment review
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Werra, Marvin;
Tørset, Hans Kristian Bugge;
Hua, Ting;
Hu, Xiangping;
Joncourt, Laurent;
(+4 andre).
(2026)
Life-cycle assessment and sustainable supply potential of charcoal for low-emission silicomanganese production in Gabon.
Resources, Conservation and Recycling
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Hu, Xiangping;
Ballal, Vedant Pushpahas;
Martinelli, Gabriele;
Fuglstad, Geir-Arne;
Nocente, Alessandro;
(+3 andre).
(2026)
Impacts of drought on electricity production, fossil carbon emissions, and air pollution in Europe.
Energy Nexus
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Junya, Zhang,;
Baiwen, Ma,;
Hu, Xiangping;
Qingling, Wang,;
Kailan, Tian,;
(+7 andre).
(2026)
Livestock antimicrobial use embodied in global supply chains.
Nature Sustainability
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Shen, Wenjuan;
Wang, Tongyu;
Zuo, Zhuang;
He, Jiaying;
He, Tao;
(+2 andre).
(2026)
Enhanced warming due to afforestation and deforestation driven by both radiative and non-radiative effects in the mid-latitude Greater and Lesser Khingan mountains ecoregion of China.
Forest Ecosystems
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2025
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Hua, Ting;
Hu, Xiangping;
Austrheim, Gunnar;
Speed, James D. M.;
Oort, Bob van;
(+1 andre).
(2025)
Reconciling crop production, climate action and nature conservation in Europe by agricultural intensification and extensification.
Nature Communications
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Shen, Wenjuan;
Liu, Ziyan;
Zuo, Zhuang;
He, Jiaying;
He, Tao;
(+2 andre).
(2025)
Utilizing the synergistic biophysical and biogeochemical processes to estimate the impacts of forest landscape characteristics on land surface temperature and carbon stock in southern China.
Journal of Environmental Management (JEM)
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Zhang, Lan;
Hu, Xiangping;
Cherubini, Francesco.
(2025)
Accounting for exact vegetation index recording date to enhance evaluation of time-lagged and accumulated climatic effects on global vegetation greenness.
Environmental Research
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2024
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Malbranque, Maxime Denis;
Hu, Xiangping;
Cherubini, Francesco.
(2024)
Comparing trends of crop and pasture in future land-use scenarios for climate change mitigation.
Geography and Sustainability
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Wang, Xiaolin;
Lu, Xiangyi;
Chen, Jun;
Hu, Xiangping.
(2024)
The border effects and choices of competitive strategies of the provincial natural gas markets in China.
Resources Policy
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Zhang, Lan;
Hu, Xiangping;
Austrheim, Gunnar;
Speed, James David Mervyn;
Zhao, Wenwu;
(+1 andre).
(2024)
Disentangling the effects of climate variability and herbivory on spatial and temporal changes in northern vegetation greening.
Ecological Indicators
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Zhang, Xia;
Huang, Bo;
Rinke Dias de Souza, Nariê;
Hu, Xiangping;
Cherubini, Francesco.
(2024)
Regional cooling potential from expansion of perennial grasses in Europe.
Communications Earth & Environment
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2023
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Barbosa Watanabe, Marcos Djun;
Hu, Xiangping;
Ballal, Vedant Pushpahas;
Cavalett, Otavio;
Cherubini, Francesco.
(2023)
Climate change mitigation potentials of on grid-connected Power-to-X fuels and advanced biofuels for the European maritime transport.
Energy Conversion and Management: X
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Wang, Xiaolin;
Lu, Xiangyi;
Zhang, Xianfeng;
Zeng, Weijing;
Liu, Zhankun;
(+1 andre).
(2023)
Identifying the critical factors of transmission efficiency loss in China’s natural gas network.
Frontiers in Energy Research
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Tisserant, Alexandre;
Hu, Xiangping;
Liu, Qi;
Xie, Zubin;
Zhao, Wenwu;
(+1 andre).
(2023)
Biochar and Its Potential to Deliver Negative Emissions and Better Soil Quality in Europe.
Earth's Future
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Gvein, Maren Haug;
Hu, Xiangping;
Næss, Jan Sandstad;
Barbosa Watanabe, Marcos Djun;
Cavalett, Otavio;
(+3 andre).
(2023)
Potential of land-based climate change mitigation strategies on abandoned cropland.
Communications Earth & Environment
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Salisbury, John Maxwell;
Hu, Xiangping;
Speed, James David Mervyn;
Iordan, Cristina Maria;
Austrheim, Gunnar;
(+1 andre).
(2023)
Net Climate Effects of Moose Browsing in Early Successional Boreal Forests by Integrating Carbon and Albedo Dynamics.
Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Biogeosciences
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2022
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Løvenskiold, Anne Cecilie;
Hu, Xiangping;
Zhao, Wenwu;
Cherubini, Francesco.
(2022)
Comparing the climate change mitigation potentials of alternative land uses: Crops for biofuels or biochar vs. natural regrowth.
Geography and Sustainability
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Wang, Xiaolin;
Qiu, Yangyang;
Chen, Jun;
Hu, Xiangping.
(2022)
Evaluating natural gas supply security in China: An exhaustible resource market equilibrium model.
Resources Policy
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Hu, Xiangping;
Hou, Yanzhen;
Li, Dan;
Hua, Ting;
Marchi, Maurizio;
(+4 andre).
(2022)
Changes in multiple ecosystem services and their influencing factors in Nordic countries.
Ecological Indicators
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2021
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Hu, Xiangping;
Næss, Jan Sandstad;
Iordan, Cristina Maria;
Huang, Bo;
Zhao, Wenwu;
(+1 andre).
(2021)
Recent global land cover dynamics and implications for soil erosion and carbon losses from deforestation.
Anthropocene
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Liu, Weixing;
Iordan, Cristina Maria;
Cherubini, Francesco;
Hu, Xiangping;
Fu, Dafang.
(2021)
Environmental impacts assessment of wastewater treatment and sludge disposal systems under two sewage discharge standards: a case study in Kunshan, China.
Journal of Cleaner Production
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Hu, Xiangping;
Huang, Bo;
Verones, Francesca;
Cavalett, Otávio;
Cherubini, Francesco.
(2021)
Overview of recent land‐cover changes in biodiversity hotspots.
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Zhou, Na;
Hu, Xiangping;
Byskov, Ingvild;
Næss, Jan Sandstad;
Wu, Qiaosheng;
(+2 andre).
(2021)
Overview of recent land cover changes, forest harvest areas, and soil erosion trends in Nordic countries.
Geography and Sustainability
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2020
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Meng, Jing;
Hu, Xiangping;
Chen, Peipei;
Coffman, D'Maris;
Han, Mengyao.
(2020)
The unequal contribution to global energy consumption along the supply chain.
Journal of Environmental Management (JEM)
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Huang, Bo;
Hu, Xiangping;
Fuglstad, Geir-Arne;
Zhou, Xu;
Zhao, Wenwu;
(+1 andre).
(2020)
Predominant regional biophysical cooling from recent land cover changes in Europe.
Nature Communications
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Zhou, Na;
Wu, Qiaosheng;
Hu, Xiangping;
Zhu, Yongguang;
Su, Hui;
(+1 andre).
(2020)
Synthesized indicator for evaluating security of strategic minerals in China: A case study of lithium.
Resources Policy
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2019
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Hu, Xiangping;
Huang, Bo;
Cherubini, Francesco.
(2019)
Impacts of idealized land cover changes on climate extremes in Europe.
Ecological Indicators
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2018
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Hu, Xiangping;
Cherubini, Francesco;
Vezhapparambu, Sajith;
Strømman, Anders Hammer.
(2018)
From Remotely-Sensed Data of Norwegian Boreal Forests to Fast and Flexible Models for Estimating Surface Albedo.
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Hu, Xiangping;
Iordan, Cristina Maria;
Cherubini, Francesco.
(2018)
Estimating future wood outtakes in the Norwegian forestry sector under the shared socioeconomic pathways.
Global Environmental Change
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2016
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Hu, Xiangping;
Steinsland, Ingelin.
(2016)
Spatial modeling with system of stochastic partial differential equations.
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2015
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Liu, Li-Lan;
Hu, Rongsong;
Hu, Xiangping;
Zhao, Gaiping;
Wang, Sen.
(2015)
A hybrid PSO-GA algorithm for job shop scheduling in machine tool production.
International Journal of Production Research
Vitenskapelig artikkel
Tidsskriftspublikasjoner
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Cao, Jinhong;
Chang, Guangyi;
Chen, Xiumei;
He, Tao;
Hu, Xiangping;
(+1 andre).
(2026)
Impact of forest cover change on mean and extreme surface temperatures in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration, China.
Ecological Indicators
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Sødal, Sofie Eiksund;
Skreiberg, Øyvind;
Barbosa Watanabe, Marcos Djun;
Hu, Xiangping;
Cherubini, Francesco.
(2026)
Effects of Norwegian wood stove use on climate and human health.
Environmental impact assessment review
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Chen, Feng;
Wang, Zhaohua;
Hu, Xiangping;
Ding, Yueting;
Zheng, Heran.
(2026)
Water scarcity challenges global power plant operation.
Environmental impact assessment review
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Werra, Marvin;
Tørset, Hans Kristian Bugge;
Hua, Ting;
Hu, Xiangping;
Joncourt, Laurent;
(+4 andre).
(2026)
Life-cycle assessment and sustainable supply potential of charcoal for low-emission silicomanganese production in Gabon.
Resources, Conservation and Recycling
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Hu, Xiangping;
Ballal, Vedant Pushpahas;
Martinelli, Gabriele;
Fuglstad, Geir-Arne;
Nocente, Alessandro;
(+3 andre).
(2026)
Impacts of drought on electricity production, fossil carbon emissions, and air pollution in Europe.
Energy Nexus
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Junya, Zhang,;
Baiwen, Ma,;
Hu, Xiangping;
Qingling, Wang,;
Kailan, Tian,;
(+7 andre).
(2026)
Livestock antimicrobial use embodied in global supply chains.
Nature Sustainability
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Hua, Ting;
Hu, Xiangping;
Austrheim, Gunnar;
Speed, James D. M.;
Oort, Bob van;
(+1 andre).
(2025)
Reconciling crop production, climate action and nature conservation in Europe by agricultural intensification and extensification.
Nature Communications
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Shen, Wenjuan;
Wang, Tongyu;
Zuo, Zhuang;
He, Jiaying;
He, Tao;
(+2 andre).
(2026)
Enhanced warming due to afforestation and deforestation driven by both radiative and non-radiative effects in the mid-latitude Greater and Lesser Khingan mountains ecoregion of China.
Forest Ecosystems
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Shen, Wenjuan;
Liu, Ziyan;
Zuo, Zhuang;
He, Jiaying;
He, Tao;
(+2 andre).
(2025)
Utilizing the synergistic biophysical and biogeochemical processes to estimate the impacts of forest landscape characteristics on land surface temperature and carbon stock in southern China.
Journal of Environmental Management (JEM)
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Liu, Li-Lan;
Hu, Rongsong;
Hu, Xiangping;
Zhao, Gaiping;
Wang, Sen.
(2015)
A hybrid PSO-GA algorithm for job shop scheduling in machine tool production.
International Journal of Production Research
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Malbranque, Maxime Denis;
Hu, Xiangping;
Cherubini, Francesco.
(2024)
Comparing trends of crop and pasture in future land-use scenarios for climate change mitigation.
Geography and Sustainability
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Hu, Xiangping;
Steinsland, Ingelin.
(2016)
Spatial modeling with system of stochastic partial differential equations.
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Barbosa Watanabe, Marcos Djun;
Hu, Xiangping;
Ballal, Vedant Pushpahas;
Cavalett, Otavio;
Cherubini, Francesco.
(2023)
Climate change mitigation potentials of on grid-connected Power-to-X fuels and advanced biofuels for the European maritime transport.
Energy Conversion and Management: X
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Hu, Xiangping;
Huang, Bo;
Cherubini, Francesco.
(2019)
Impacts of idealized land cover changes on climate extremes in Europe.
Ecological Indicators
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Hu, Xiangping;
Næss, Jan Sandstad;
Iordan, Cristina Maria;
Huang, Bo;
Zhao, Wenwu;
(+1 andre).
(2021)
Recent global land cover dynamics and implications for soil erosion and carbon losses from deforestation.
Anthropocene
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Wang, Xiaolin;
Lu, Xiangyi;
Zhang, Xianfeng;
Zeng, Weijing;
Liu, Zhankun;
(+1 andre).
(2023)
Identifying the critical factors of transmission efficiency loss in China’s natural gas network.
Frontiers in Energy Research
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Wang, Xiaolin;
Lu, Xiangyi;
Chen, Jun;
Hu, Xiangping.
(2024)
The border effects and choices of competitive strategies of the provincial natural gas markets in China.
Resources Policy
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Løvenskiold, Anne Cecilie;
Hu, Xiangping;
Zhao, Wenwu;
Cherubini, Francesco.
(2022)
Comparing the climate change mitigation potentials of alternative land uses: Crops for biofuels or biochar vs. natural regrowth.
Geography and Sustainability
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Meng, Jing;
Hu, Xiangping;
Chen, Peipei;
Coffman, D'Maris;
Han, Mengyao.
(2020)
The unequal contribution to global energy consumption along the supply chain.
Journal of Environmental Management (JEM)
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Liu, Weixing;
Iordan, Cristina Maria;
Cherubini, Francesco;
Hu, Xiangping;
Fu, Dafang.
(2021)
Environmental impacts assessment of wastewater treatment and sludge disposal systems under two sewage discharge standards: a case study in Kunshan, China.
Journal of Cleaner Production
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Zhang, Lan;
Hu, Xiangping;
Austrheim, Gunnar;
Speed, James David Mervyn;
Zhao, Wenwu;
(+1 andre).
(2024)
Disentangling the effects of climate variability and herbivory on spatial and temporal changes in northern vegetation greening.
Ecological Indicators
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Zhang, Lan;
Hu, Xiangping;
Cherubini, Francesco.
(2025)
Accounting for exact vegetation index recording date to enhance evaluation of time-lagged and accumulated climatic effects on global vegetation greenness.
Environmental Research
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Wang, Xiaolin;
Qiu, Yangyang;
Chen, Jun;
Hu, Xiangping.
(2022)
Evaluating natural gas supply security in China: An exhaustible resource market equilibrium model.
Resources Policy
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Tisserant, Alexandre;
Hu, Xiangping;
Liu, Qi;
Xie, Zubin;
Zhao, Wenwu;
(+1 andre).
(2023)
Biochar and Its Potential to Deliver Negative Emissions and Better Soil Quality in Europe.
Earth's Future
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Hu, Xiangping;
Huang, Bo;
Verones, Francesca;
Cavalett, Otávio;
Cherubini, Francesco.
(2021)
Overview of recent land‐cover changes in biodiversity hotspots.
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Huang, Bo;
Hu, Xiangping;
Fuglstad, Geir-Arne;
Zhou, Xu;
Zhao, Wenwu;
(+1 andre).
(2020)
Predominant regional biophysical cooling from recent land cover changes in Europe.
Nature Communications
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Gvein, Maren Haug;
Hu, Xiangping;
Næss, Jan Sandstad;
Barbosa Watanabe, Marcos Djun;
Cavalett, Otavio;
(+3 andre).
(2023)
Potential of land-based climate change mitigation strategies on abandoned cropland.
Communications Earth & Environment
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Hu, Xiangping;
Cherubini, Francesco;
Vezhapparambu, Sajith;
Strømman, Anders Hammer.
(2018)
From Remotely-Sensed Data of Norwegian Boreal Forests to Fast and Flexible Models for Estimating Surface Albedo.
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Zhang, Xia;
Huang, Bo;
Rinke Dias de Souza, Nariê;
Hu, Xiangping;
Cherubini, Francesco.
(2024)
Regional cooling potential from expansion of perennial grasses in Europe.
Communications Earth & Environment
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Hu, Xiangping;
Iordan, Cristina Maria;
Cherubini, Francesco.
(2018)
Estimating future wood outtakes in the Norwegian forestry sector under the shared socioeconomic pathways.
Global Environmental Change
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Salisbury, John Maxwell;
Hu, Xiangping;
Speed, James David Mervyn;
Iordan, Cristina Maria;
Austrheim, Gunnar;
(+1 andre).
(2023)
Net Climate Effects of Moose Browsing in Early Successional Boreal Forests by Integrating Carbon and Albedo Dynamics.
Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Biogeosciences
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Hu, Xiangping;
Hou, Yanzhen;
Li, Dan;
Hua, Ting;
Marchi, Maurizio;
(+4 andre).
(2022)
Changes in multiple ecosystem services and their influencing factors in Nordic countries.
Ecological Indicators
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Zhou, Na;
Wu, Qiaosheng;
Hu, Xiangping;
Zhu, Yongguang;
Su, Hui;
(+1 andre).
(2020)
Synthesized indicator for evaluating security of strategic minerals in China: A case study of lithium.
Resources Policy
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Zhou, Na;
Hu, Xiangping;
Byskov, Ingvild;
Næss, Jan Sandstad;
Wu, Qiaosheng;
(+2 andre).
(2021)
Overview of recent land cover changes, forest harvest areas, and soil erosion trends in Nordic countries.
Geography and Sustainability
Vitenskapelig artikkel
Undervisning
Emner
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PhD and MSc Supervision
I supervise PhD and MSc students in data-driven research on climate change, ecosystems, energy systems, and environmental science, with a focus on climate impacts, climate–ecosystem interactions, land-use and land-cover change, electricity and energy systems, and the application of mathematical and statistical modelling to environmental and energy-related problems.
Highly motivated students interested in these research areas are welcome to contact me to discuss potential research opportunities.
Formidling
Soot from wood burning – a short-lived but potent climate pollutant
For the first time, we have compared the climate and health impacts of old wood stoves with those of older modern and new wood stoves. The results reveal surprisingly large differences.
Europe’s power grid has a big drought problem
A new study tracking 25 European countries from 2017 to 2023 documents a problematic reality: when droughts strike, hydropower and other renewables don’t work as well as they might.
Europe’s power grid has a big drought problem
Europe’s droughts are challenging its clean energy ambitions — with considerable social and environmental costs. There’s a solution – but it’s not quite what you might expect.
European agriculture can cut emissions by 40 percent without reducing food production
A comprehensive survey led by Norwegian researchers shows that European agriculture can cut climate emissions by 40 percent while taking better care of nature than today, without reducing food production.
Global livestock antibiotic use falls – but trade shifts the problem abroad
After decades of growth, the use of antimicrobials—including antibiotics—in livestock peaked in 2013 and then dropped by nearly a third by 2020. The decline is positive, as overusing antimicrobials in animals can create drug-resistant bacteria.
Moose can play a big role in global warming
Climate researchers have long known that large animals, like moose, could play a role in how much the Earth will warm due to climate change. But the question is, how much? New research shows the answer can be a lot.
Munching Moose Cool Forest Floors
Moose can cool boreal forests, according to a new study. They show that these large grazers expose gaps between trees, revealing a snowy forest floor that reflects light and keeps temperatures down.
Abandoned cropland helps make Europe cooler
As nations prepare to mitigate climate change, decision makers need to understand how land use fits into the climate equation. A new study looked at land use changes over two decades and found a major shift from cropland to forests.
Losing ground in biodiversity hotspots worldwide
Agriculture is eating into areas that are important in protecting some of the most biologically diverse places on the planet. Most of this new agricultural land is being used to grow cattle feed.
Envisioning a future where all the trees in Europe disappear
Global climate change is already affecting the globe, as demonstrated by shrinking polar ice cap, melting glaciers, and more intense heat waves. Now we conducted a radical thought experiment on how extreme land use changes could influence future climate.