Cong-Yin | Cong Yin

Heatwaves enable wildfire activity in the western United States

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Our study on synchronous fire weather received media attention

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Our recent research on synchronous fire weather has been published in Science Advances.

In this study, we examined how climate change is contributing to a global increase in “fire weather synchronicity”—a pattern where wildfire seasons in different regions increasingly overlap. This trend presents emerging challenges, as it can strain the international firefighting resources and personnel that countries historically share during their respective peak fire seasons.

Following its publication, we are glad to see the study engage both the scientific community and the broader public. The research has been covered by several media outlets.

Selected coverage includes:

The New York Times: by Rebecca Dzombak
The Associated Press: by Seth Borenstein
Vox: by Umair Irfan
The Debrief: by Ryan Whalen
The Washington Post:
The Guardian:

I would like to acknowledge my co-authors and collaborators for their contributions to this project. We hope this work provides useful insights for global conversations regarding climate variability and extreme fire management.

The full paper is available in Science Advances .

Increasing synchronicity of global extreme fire weather

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

At AGU 2025: Increasing Synchronicity of Global Extreme Fire Weather

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 08:30:00 +0000

At AGU 2025: Fire Weather Waves Fuel Extreme Fire Activity

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:15:00 +0000

At Environmental Systems Seminar: Strengthening Fire Preparedness and Coordination

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 15:30:00 +0000

A New Beginning! My Personal Academic Website, XScience, is Live.

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome!

Today is a special day! On August 1, 2025, my very first personal academic homepage, XScience, is finally live!

“XScience” is short for “Extreme Science,” representing my research interest in extreme scientific topics like wildfires, heatwaves, and compound events. Going forward, I’ll be sharing my latest research progress and stories from my travels here.

To my pleasant surprise, today also marks the start of my second year as a postdoctoral fellow. Starting a new chapter on such a memorable day feels fantastic!

A Tip for Setup: The site was built using the by Hugo Blox. It’s powerful, beautifully designed, and very easy to get started with. Highly recommended!

Finally, I’d like to share a little trick I encountered that wasn’t clearly mentioned in the official documentation: To use a custom icon, you need to upload your .svg file (e.g., running.svg) to the following path: assets/media/icons/custom/running.svg

Then, call it in your configuration file like this: icon: custom/running

I hope this little tip helps someone out there.

A Transformer-based method to simulate multi-scale soil moisture

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

At 2025 SNRI Early Career Researcher Lightning Talks: Increasing synchronicity of global extreme fire weather

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:03:00 +0000

CETD, a global compound events detection and visualisation toolbox and dataset

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

CETD: Compound Events Toolbox and Dataset

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We introduce the Compound Events Toolbox and Dataset (CETD), which provides the first integrated, interactive, and extensible platform for CE detection and visualisation. Employing observations, reanalysis, and model simulations, CETD can quantify the frequency, duration, and severity of multiple CE types: multivariate, sequential, and concurrent events.

It can analyse CEs often linked to severe impacts on human health, wildfires, and air pollution, such as hot-dry, wet-windy, and hot-dry-stagnation events.

To validate the performance of CETD, we conduct statistical analyses for several high-impact events, such as the 2019 Australian wildfires and the 2022 European heatwaves. The accessibility and extensibility of CETD will benefit the broader community by enabling them to better understand and prepare for the risks and challenges posed by CEs in a warming world.

I launched a WeChat public account called Extreme Science!

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

On February 22, 2025, I launched a WeChat public account called Extreme Science, focusing on extreme hydroclimatic events such as wildfires and heatwaves. The goal is to share original research, cutting-edge developments in the field, and practical resources.

The primary motivation behind creating this platform was to document my research progress and keep a record of technical challenges and solutions I encounter in daily work. I’ve found it to be a helpful way to revisit knowledge, skills, and ideas.

As of today (August 3, 2025), the account has attracted 944 followers and accumulated over 10,000 total reads—an encouraging milestone that motivates me to keep going.

At AGU 2023: CETD, a global compound events detection and visualisation toolbox and dataset

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 08:30:00 +0000

One‐kilometre monthly air temperature and precipitation product over the Mongolian Plateau for 1950–2020

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Evaluation of IMERG and ERA5 precipitation products over the Mongolian Plateau

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Changes in global heat waves and its socioeconomic exposure in a warmer future

Fri, 16 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

GHWT: Global Heat Wave Toolbox

Fri, 16 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Using three historical reanalysis data and multi scenario CMIP6 modeled data, Global Heat Wave Toolbox (GHWT) was developed to generate heat wave matrix from 1971 to 2100.

A long-term global heat wave record dataset was constructed using three historical hourly climate data of CRU-JRA, ERA5 and GLDAS and future daily climate data of GFDL-ESM4 under three SSPS (Shared Socioeconomic Pathways). These datasets are based on constant thresholds over 35 °C, percentile thresholds over 90%, and duration thresholds over 3 days. The Python file is the source code for the Global Heat Wave Toolbox, which can be used to generate heat wave records based on custom thresholds.

GATHW: Global Apparent Temperature and Heat Wave Toolbox

Mon, 16 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Using ERA5 hourly data on single levels of 2 m temperature, wind speed, dewpoint temperature and solar radiation, this study developed a global apparent temperature and heat wave (GATHW) toolbox based on the Climate Data Store (CDS) online platform. This toolbox allows three methods to calculate daily apparent temperature and heat wave at three spatial resolutions of 0.25°, 0.5° and 1°, respectively. It can realize online calculation, display and real-time download of apparent temperature and heat wave data, and is update in near real-time.

The global daily apparent temperature and annual heat wave dataset from 2006 to 2020 calculated by the toolbox can be obtained from the National Qinghai Tibet Plateau Scientific Data Centre of China ( .

After evaluation, this dataset can well reflect the typical extreme temperatures and heat wave events, and is more accurate, with higher resolution and faster update frequency than similar data products, which can provide data support for the study of human-environmental ecological processes and extreme climate events.

Global near real-time daily apparent temperature and heat wave dataset

Mon, 16 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Diagnose the dominant climate factors and periods of spring phenology in Qinling Mountains, China

Sun, 12 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Contribution of Changes in Snow Cover Extent to Shortwave Radiation Perturbations at the Top of the Atmosphere over the Northern Hemisphere during 2000–2019

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Analogs of Future Climate in Chinese Cities Identified in Present Observations

Fri, 04 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Spatiotemporal Distribution and Risk Assessment of Heat Waves Based on Apparent Temperature in the One Belt and One Road Region

Mon, 06 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000