Dr. Budong Qian

Research Scientist

Climate change impacts and adaptation

Current research and/or projects

Sustainable crop production in Canada under climate change

 

Research and/or project statements

The project addresses many research gaps in sustainable crop production in Canada facing a changing climate.

Professional activities / interests

  • Climate variability and climate change
  • Applied climatology in agriculture
  • Stochastic weather generation for agricultural modelling
  • Climate downscaling and scenarios for agricultural applications
  • Climate change impacts and adaptation in the agricultural sector
  • Crop modelling for climate change impacts on crop growth and production
  • Statistical analysis 

Education and awards

Ph.D. Physics, University of Lisbon, 2000

M.Sc. Climatology, Hohai University, 1990

B.Sc. Climatology, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, 1982

Key publications

  1. Kritika Kothari, Montserrat Salmeron, Rafael Battisti, Kenneth Boote, Sotirios Archontoulis, Adriana Confalone, Julie Constantin, Santiago Cuadra, Philippe Debaeke, Babacar Faye, Brian Grant, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Qi Jing, Michael van der Laan, Fernando Macena, Fabio Marin, Alireza Nehbandani, Claas Nendel, Larry Purcell, Budong Qian, Alex Ruane, Evandro da Silva, Ward Smith, Afshin Soltani, Amit Srivastava, Nilson Vieira Jr. Poster: First Soybean Multi-model Sensitivity Analysis to CO2, Temperature, Water, and Nitrogen (CTWN). ICROPM 2020, Montpellier, France, Feb 3-5, 2020.

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  2. Montse Salmeron Cortasa, Kritika Kothari, Rafael Battisti, Kenneth J. Boote, Sotirios Archontoulis, Adriana Confalone, Julie Constantin, Santiago Cuadra, Philippe Debaeke, Babacar Faye, Brian Grant, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Qi Jing, Michael van der Laan, Fernando Macena, Fabio Marin, Alireza Nehbandani, Claas Nendel, Larry C. Purcell, Budong Qian, Alex Ruane, Evandro da Silva, Ward Smith, Afshin Soltani, Amit Srivastava, Nilson Vieira. 2019. Soybean multi‐model sensitivity analysis for prediction of seed nitrogen, biological N fixation, and N cycling. ICROPM 2020, Montpellier, France, Feb 3-5, 2020

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  3. Budong Qian, Qi Jing, Ward Smith, Brian Grant, Alex Cannon, Xuebin Zhang (2020) Quantifying the uncertainty introduced by internal climate variability in the projected Canadian crop yield changes. Oral presentation, iCROPM2020, February 2-5, 2020, Montpellier, France.

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  4. Budong Qian, Qi Jing, Ward Smith, Brian Grant, Alex Cannon, Xuebin Zhang (2020) Uncertainty introduced by internal climate variability in the projected climate change impacts on Canadian crop yields. Oral Presentation, American Meteorological Society Annual Meetings 20202, January 10 -16, 2020, Boston, USA.

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  5. Liu, J., Huffman, T., Qian, B., Shang, J., Li, Q., Dong, T., Davidson, A., Jing, Q. (2020). Crop Yield Estimation in the Canadian Prairies Using Terra/MODIS-Derived Crop Metrics. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, [online] 13 2685-2697. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2020.2984158

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  6. Dong, T., Shang, J., Liu, J., Qian, B., Jing, Q., Ma, B., Huffman, T., Geng, X., Sow, A., Shi, Y., Canisius, F., Jiao, X., Kovacs, J.M., Walters, D., Cable, J., Wilson, J. (2019). Using RapidEye imagery to identify within-field variability of crop growth and yield in Ontario, Canada. Precision Agriculture, [online] 20(6), 1231-1250. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11119-019-09646-w

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  7. He, W., Grant, B.B., Smith, W.N., VanderZaag, A.C., Piquette, S., Qian, B., Jing, Q., Rennie, T.J., Bélanger, G., Jégo, G., Deen, B. (2019). Assessing alfalfa production under historical and future climate in eastern Canada: DNDC model development and application. Environmental Modelling and Software, [online] 122 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2019.104540

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  8. Kritika Kothari, Montse Salmeron Cortasa, Rafael Battisti, Kenneth J. Boote, Sotirios Archontoulis, Adriana Confalone, Julie Constantin, Santiago Cuadra, Philippe Debaeke, Babacar Faye, Brian Grant, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Qi Jing, Michael van der Laan, Fernando Macena, Fabio Marin, Alireza Nehbandani, Claas Nendel, Larry C. Purcell, Budong Qian, Alex Ruane, Evandro da Silva, Ward Smith, Afshin Soltani, Amit Srivastava, Nilson Vieira. 2019. AgMIP Soybean Phase 1: Multi-Model Sensitivity Analysis to CO2, Temperature, Water, and Nitrogen. ASA, CSSA and SSSA International Annual Meetings, San Antonio, Texas, Nov 10-13, 2019.

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  9. Dong, T., Shang, J., Chen, J.M., Liu, J., Qian, B., Ma, B., Morrison, M.J., Zhang, C., Liu, Y., Shi, Y., Pan, H., Zhou, G. (2019). Assessment of portable chlorophyll meters for measuring crop leaf chlorophyll concentration. Remote Sensing, [online] 11(22), http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs11222706

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  10. Liu, J., Shang, J., Qian, B., Huffman, T., Zhang, Y., Dong, T., Jing, Q., Martin, T. (2019). Crop yield estimation using time-series MODIS data and the effects of cropland masks in Ontario, Canada. Remote Sensing, [online] 11(20), http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs11202419

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  11. Dong, T., Shang, J., Qian, B., Liu, J., Chen, J.M., Jing, Q., McConkey, B., Huffman, T., Daneshfar, B., Champagne, C., Davidson, A., MacDonald, D. (2019). Field-scale crop seeding date estimation from MODIS data and growing degree days in Manitoba, Canada. Remote Sensing, [online] 11(15), http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs11151760

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  12. Qian, B., Zhang, X., Smith, W., Grant, B., Jing, Q., Cannon, A.J., Neilsen, D., McConkey, B., Li, G., Bonsal, B., Wan, H., Xue, L., Zhao, J. (2019). Climate change impacts on Canadian yields of spring wheat, canola and maize for global warming levels of 1.5 °c, 2.0 °c, 2.5 °c and 3.0 °c. Environmental Research Letters, [online] 14(7), http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab17fb

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  13. Xuebin Zhang, Guilong Li, Francis Zwiers, Budong Qian, Ying Sun (2019) Increase in daily temperature variability during early growing season. 14th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology, Centre International de Conférences - Météo-France, Toulouse, France. June 24-28, 2019.

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  14. Cheng, Z., Meng, J., Shang, J., Liu, J., Qiao, Y., Qian, B., Jing, Q., Dong, T. (2019). Improving Soil Available Nutrient Estimation by Integrating Modified WOFOST Model and Time-Series Earth Observations. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, [online] 57(5), 2896-2908. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2018.2878382

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  15. Dong, T., Liu, J., Shang, J., Qian, B., Ma, B., Kovacs, J.M., Walters, D., Jiao, X., Geng, X., Shi, Y. (2019). Assessment of red-edge vegetation indices for crop leaf area index estimation. Remote Sensing of Environment, [online] 222 133-143. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.12.032

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  16. Qian, B., Jing, Q., Zhang, X., Shang, J., Liu, J., Wan, H., Dong, T., De Jong, R. (2019). Adapting estimation methods of daily solar radiation for crop modelling applications in Canada. Canadian Journal of Soil Science, [online] 99(4), 533-547. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjss-2019-0018

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  17. Du, X., Li, Q., Shang, J., Liu, J., Qian, B., Jing, Q., Dong, T., Fan, D., Wang, H., Zhao, L., Lieff, S., Davies, T. (2019). Detecting advanced stages of winter wheat yellow rust and aphid infection using RapidEye data in North China Plain. GIScience and Remote Sensing, [online] 56(7), 1093-1113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15481603.2019.1613804

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  18. He, W., Yang, J.Y., Qian, B., Drury, C.F., Hoogenboom, G., He, P., Lapen, D., Zhou, W. (2018). Climate change impacts on crop yield, soil water balance and nitrate leaching in the semiarid and humid regions of Canada. PLoS ONE, [online] 13(11), http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207370

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  19. Jarecki, M., Grant, B., Smith, W., Deen, B., Drury, C., VanderZaag, A., Qian, B., Yang, J., Wagner-Riddle, C. (2018). Long-term trends in corn yields and soil carbon under diversified crop rotations. Journal of Environmental Quality, [online] 47(4), 635-643. http://dx.doi.org/10.2134/jeq2017.08.0317

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  20. Enli Wang, Di He, Jing Wang, Julianne M. Lilley, Brendan Christy, Munir Hoffmann, Garry O’Leary, Jerry Hatfield, Luigi Ledda, Paola A. Deligios, Brian Grant, Qi Jing, Class Nendel, Henning Kage, Budong Qian, Ehsan Eyshi Rezaei, Ward Smith, Wiebke Weymann, Frank Ewert. 2018. Inter-comparison of crop models for simulating canola growth and yield. AgMIP7 Global Workshop, San Jose, Costa Rica, April 24-26th, 2018. The 7th AgMIP Global Workshop San Jose 2018/04/24 - 2018/04/26

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Research facility

960 Carling Avenue
Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6
Canada

Affiliations

  • Associate Editor of the Journal of Environmental Quality (2015 – 2020)
  • American Meteorological Society
  • American Geophysical Union 

Language

English