Cong Yin 🌍
Cong Yin 殷聪

Postdoc Scientist

About Me

I am an early-career climate scientist pushing the boundaries of understanding wildfires and climate extremes using hydroclimatic, data-driven, and geostatistical approaches. My work has led to step-changes in understanding the synchronicity and persistence of extreme fire weather, factors that strongly influence extreme fires.

I work with Prof. John Abatzoglou, who leads the Climatology Lab at University of California, Merced.

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Interests
  • Wildfire
  • Climate Extremes
  • Hydroclimatology
Education
  • PhD, Geographic Information System

    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • Visiting PhD, Climate Dynamics

    Columbia University

  • BSc, Land Resources Management

    Chang’an University

My Research

Benefiting from world-class supervision and collaboration, I focus my recent work on extreme fires, one of the most societally and environmentally destructive consequences of climate change.

I increasingly concentrate on predicting extreme fires and developing a mechanistic understanding of their causes, contributing to advances in fire science and fire management, with the potential to save lives and property. Please reach out to collaborate!

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Recent Publications
(2025). A Transformer-based method to simulate multi-scale soil moisture. Journal of Hydrology.
(2025). CETD, a global compound events detection and visualisation toolbox and dataset. Scientific Data.
(2023). One‐kilometre monthly air temperature and precipitation product over the Mongolian Plateau for 1950–2020. International Journal of Climatology.
(2022). Evaluation of IMERG and ERA5 precipitation products over the Mongolian Plateau. Scientific Reports.
(2022). Changes in global heat waves and its socioeconomic exposure in a warmer future. Climate Risk Management.
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