Thian Gan
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Alberta
Canada
Biography
Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists & Geophysicists, Province of Alberta (Professional Engineer) Professional Engineers & Land Surveyors, State of Washington, USA (Professional Engineer) Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers Member of the American Society for Engineering Education Member of the International Association of hydrological Sciences Member of the American Geophysics Union Member of the Canadian Geophysics Union Member of the International Association of Lowland Technology.
Research Interest
Climate Change Research: Dr. Gan has conducted hydrologic impacts of climatic change to river basins of USA, Canada, and Germany, and uncertainties associated with climate change projections to river basins of Alberta. One of his climate change papers, Lettenmaier & Gan (1990), on the climate change effect on watersheds of California, was cited 285 times. Satellite Data research: Dr. Gan had used Landsat-TM data to map the migration of Jamuna River of Ganges Bhamaputra; ERS-SAR data of ESA to map the flooding of Danube River; infrared-microwave data to estimate precipitation; Global Vegetation Moisture Index to model the gross primary production of forests in USA; vegetation indices to develop vegetation-climate relationships; and merged WSR-88D radar rainfall data with rain gauge data using wavelet analysis; developed algorithms to retrieve snow water equivalent from passive microwave SSM/I data, and retrieved soil moisture from Radarsat SAR data. Land Surface Scheme (LSS) and Hydroclimatology Research: Developed a combined climate-hydrologic system for Zambia, Africa that predicts the basin hydrology at one/two season lead time; modified a LSS (MISBA) to incorporate northern features of Athabasca River Basin of Alberta. Wavelet analysis, EOF, and Independent Component Analysis to regionalize and to predict precipitation and streamflow of Africa and North America; multifractal analysis of climate data; modified drought indices to better monitor drought severity, the impact of ENSO on climate of East, central and southern Africa.
Publications
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Tan, X., and Gan, T. Y., 2016, Influence of Large-scale Climate Patterns on Extreme Precipitation of Canada, revised, Climate Dynamics.
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Tan, X., and Gan, T. Y., 2016, Projected timing of perceivable change in extreme climate, submitted to Nature Climate Change, Natural Publishing Group.
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Kuo, C. C., Gan, T. Y., and Higuchi, K., 2016, Potential impacts of climate change to streamflow patterns of River basins of Lake Simcoe, to submit to Climatic Change.
