School of Earth System Science
Associate professor
地下水科学与工程(Subsurface Hydrology)、土壤物理(Soil Physics)、水文与水资源(Hydrology and Water Resources)
ygzhang@tju.edu.cn
92 Weijin Road, Bldg 16, Room 309, Nankai District, Tianjin University
300072
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张永根,天津大学地球系统科学学院副教授、博士生导师,入选“北洋学者·英才副教授”、“北洋学者·青年骨干教师”。本科毕业于吉林大学,博士毕业于中国地质大学(北京),期间赴美国亚利桑那大学水文与水资源系进行联合培养,师从美国工程院院士,世界地下水权威Shlomo Neuman及Marcel Schaap教授,之后在亚利桑那大学土壤系与水文系进行博士后研究。
主要研究兴趣是通过计算和实验的方法解决地下多孔介质(如土壤、地下水)的基本物理问题,以此来应用到诸如地下水资源、地下水/土壤环境、能源开采等实际工程问题。
开发了预测土壤水力参数的Rosetta3模型等,并构建了全球高分辨率土壤水力、热力学参数等数据集,相关工作受到新华网、人民网、国家自然科学基金委、美国地球物理协会(AGU)会刊EOS等报道。主持国家自然科学基金-面上项目(两项)、青年项目、天津市自然科学基金、天津大学青年骨干教师项目等。
担任水文学顶刊《Hydrology and Earth System Sciences》editor(2025年10月至今)、《Water Resources Research》副主编(associate editor,2026年4月至今)、美国土壤学会期刊《Vadose Zone Journal》副主编(associate editor,2020年1月至今);担任首次来华举办的第四届土壤模拟国际会议(4th ISMC conference) 执行主席、担任国际土壤模拟联合会(ISMC)土壤参数工作小组Co-Leader、担任中国水资源战略研究会地下水工作委员会第一届委员会委员;受欧洲地球科学联盟(EGU)等国际会议邀请做特邀报告、受Journal of Hydrology期刊邀请撰写相关领域综述;三次荣获美国地球物理协会(AGU)出版期刊年度发表文章被阅读数量最多的作者之一(2017-2018年度Reviews of Geophysics、2018-2019年度WRR、2018-2019年度JAMES);部分研究成果入选ESI高引论文。
谷歌学术主页见: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=u46LEeQAAAAJ&hl=en
热忱欢迎地下水科学与工程、土壤物理、农田水利、水文与水资源、地质工程、自然地理学等相关专业的同学报考研究生。
研究方向
土壤参数化方案

新一代预测土壤水力参数的Rosetta3模型,此模型提高了土壤水力参数的预测精度,提供了参数的协方差矩阵,使得预测参数可用于随机模拟、数据同化、数据融合等计算。基于页面计算程序、python、R等程序包如下。

A web-based interface of the Rosetta model developed by Todd Skaggs (USDA-ARS) and Ehsan Ghane (Michigan State University) can be accessed, respectively, by https://www.handbook60.org/rosetta/ and https://dsiweb.cse.msu.edu/rosetta/.
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The python version (compatible with python 2 and python 3) of Rosetta 1 and Rosetta 3 code is available for download at https://github.com/YonggenZhang/Rosetta along with a user manual. This code is intended for users/developers familiar with the python programming language, and it works in Linux, Windows 7+, and Mac OSX, independent of the Operating System.
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The rosetta-soil python package by Todd Skaggs (USDA-ARS) is now on pypi https://pypi.org/project/rosetta-soil/ and can be installed with pip install rosetta-soil. The project page with instructions is at https://github.com/usda-ars-ussl/rosetta-soil
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The R version of the Rosetta3 code was developed by Dr. Todd Skaggs (USDA-ARS) and you may find the details of how to install, make a prediction, and make graphs of the Rosetta model using R code by accessing http://ncss-tech.github.io/AQP/soilDB/ROSETTA-API.html.
2. 全球高分辨率陆面土壤数据集及陆面模式

全球高分辨率残余含水量、饱和含水量、饱和渗透系数、田间持水量、植物可利用水分等参数
本数据集可以水文模型、土壤模型、水分和污染物迁移模拟、陆面模型、区域和全球气候模型等提供参数化方案
3. 孔隙尺度模拟

三种不同土壤粒径及利用格子玻尔兹曼(Lattice Boltzmann)模拟的流场图
Welcome to my research website.
I am an associate professor in Tianjin University, which is the first modern university in China. Before joining Tianjin University in July 2017, I was a research specialist / postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, Department of Soil, Water, and Environmental Science at the University of Arizona since September, 2013, which ranks No.1 in the US in the field of hydrology. I was working with Prof. Marcel Schaap, Regents’ Prof. Shlomo Neuman, and Prof. Alberto Guadagnini at Politecnico Di Milano in Italy. I received my Ph.D in Hydrogeology from China University of Geosciences, Beijing in China in May, 2014; and B.S. in Hydrogeology from Jilin University, Changchun in 2007. In February 2012 to March 2014, I was a visiting student in the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA, working with Regents’ Prof. Shlomo Neuman and Prof. Marcel Schaap.
I am interested in a variety of stuff ranging from subsurface flow dynamics in saturated and unsaturated soils, determination of saturated and unsaturated soil hydraulic properties, parameter estimation, geostatistics, uncertainty assessment. For more information, please check my website for details: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~ygzhang
- Adjoint Ph.D. student| University of Arizona| Hydrology and Water Resources| 2013
- Doctoral degree| China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China| Subsurface hydrology| 2014
- Bachelor’s Degree| Jilin University, Changchun| Subsurface Hydrology| 2007
- Inverse Modeling of Vadose Zone and Groundwater
- soil parameterization, i.e., soil pedotransfer functions
- Data Assimilation (ensemble Kalman Filtering)
- Pore Scale Simulation (Lattice Boltzmann Method)
- Associate Editor, Water Resources Research (April 2026 – present)
- Editor, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (October 2025 – present)
- Associate Editor, Vadose Zone Journal (January 2020 – present)
- Co-Leader of Working group on pedotransfer functions initiated by ISMC
- Member of AGU, EGU, ISMC, SSSA, Interpore
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2017.7-Now
 Associate Professor, School of Earth System Science, Tianjin University, China | Associate Professor  -
2013.10-2017.2
Hydrology and Water Resources | The University of Arizona, USA | Research Specialist 
- Papers
- [1] B Guo, J Zeng, ML Brusseau, Y Zhang, 2021, A screening model for quantifying PFAS leaching in the vadose zone and mass discharge to groundwater, Advances in Water Resources
- [2] Harry Vereecken, Wulf Amelung, Sara L. Bauke, Heye Bogena, Nicolas Brüggemann, Carsten Montzka, Jan Vanderborght, Michel Bechtold, Günter Blöschl, Andrea Carminati, Mathieu Javaux, Alexandra G. Konings, Jürgen Kusche, Insa Neuweiler, Dani Or, Susan Steele-Dunne, Anne Verhoef, Michael Young & Yonggen Zhang, 2022, Soil hydrology in the Earth system, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
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- [3] Yonggen Zhang, Lutz Weihermüller, Brigitta Szabó, Muhammad Noman, Harry Vereecken, 2022, Analyzing dual porosity in soil hydraulic properties using soil databases for pedotransfer function development. Vadose Zone Journal, e20227. https://doi.org/10.1002/vzj2.20227
- [4] Yonggen Zhang, Marcel G. Schaap, and Zhongwang Wei, 2020, Development of Hierarchical Ensemble Model and Estimates of Soil Water Retention with Global Coverage, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2020GL088819
- [5] Peijun Li, Yuanyuan Zha, Liangsheng Shi, Chak-Hau Michael Tso, Yonggen Zhang, Wenzhi Zeng, 2020, Comparison of the use of a physical-based model with data assimilation and machine learning methods for simulating soil water dynamics, Journal of Hydrology, 584, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124692
- [6] Lu Li, Wei Shangguan, Yi Deng, Jiafu Mao, JinJing Pan, Nan Wei, Hua Yuan, Shupeng Zhang, Yonggen Zhang, Yongjiu Dai, 2020, A Causal Inference Model Based on Random Forests to Identify the Effect of Soil Moisture on Precipitation, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 21(5), 1115-1131, doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-19-0209.1
- [7] Zhongwang Wei, Xiaogang He, Yonggen Zhang, Ming Pan, Justin Sheffield, Liqing Peng, Dai Yamazaki, Abdul Moiz, Yaping Liu, Koji Ikeuchi, 2020, Identification of uncertainty sources in quasi-global discharge and inundation simulations using satellite-based precipitation products, Journal of Hydrology, 589, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125180
- [8] Peijun Li, Yuanyuan Zha, Chak-Hau Michael Tso, Liangsheng Shi, Danyang Yu, Yonggen Zhang, Wenzhi Zeng, 2020, Data assimilation of uncalibrated soil moisture measurements from frequency-domain reflectometry, Geoderma, 374, doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114432
- [9] Shaobo Sun, Zhaoliang Song, Xi Chen, Tiejun Wang, Yonggen Zhang, Dongbo Zhang, Huifang Zhang, Qian Hao, Baozhang Chen, 2020, Multimodel‐based analyses of evapotranspiration and its controls in China over the last three decades, Ecohydrology, 13(3), 2195, doi: 10.1002/eco.2195
- [10] Lei Zhu, Tongqing Shen, Rong Ma, Dongjun Fan, Yonggen Zhang, Yuanyuan Zha, 2020, Development of cracks in soil: An improved physical model, Geoderma, 366, doil: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114258
- [11] Yonggen Zhang, and Marcel G. Schaap, 2019, Estimation of saturated hydraulic conductivity with pedotransfer functions: A review, Journal of Hydrology, 575, 1011-1030, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.05.058
- [12] Yongjiu Dai, Qinchuan Xin, Nan Wei, Yonggen Zhang, Wei Shangguan, Hua Yuan, Shupeng Zhang, Shaofeng Liu, Xingjie Lu, 2019, A Global High‐Resolution Data Set of Soil Hydraulic and Thermal Properties for Land Surface Modeling, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11(9), 2996-3023, doi: 10.1029/2019MS001784
- [13] Kuangjia Li, Yonggen Zhang, Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh, Lin Zhao, Xiaoru Su, Yu-Li Wang, Yueming Qi, 2019, An iterative scheme to map and incorporate geologic information of discontinuous heterogeneity in hydraulic tomography, Journal of Hydrology, 579, 124-143, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.124143
- [14] Yonggen Zhang, Marcel G. Schaap, and Yuanyuan Zha, 2018, A High-Resolution Global Map of Soil Hydraulic Properties Produced by a Hierarchical Parameterization of a Physically-Based Water Retention Model,Water Resources Research,doi: 10.1029/2018WR023539.
- [15] Lei Zhu, Dongjun Fan, Rong Ma, Yonggen Zhang,and Yuanyuan Zha,2018,Experimental and Numerical Investigations of Influence on Overland Flow and Water Infiltration by Fracture Networks in Soil,Geofluids,1-16,doi: 10.1155/2018/7056858.
- [16] Yuanyuan Zha, Tian-Chyi J. Yeh, Walter A. Illman, Wenzhi Zeng, Yonggen Zhang, Fangqiang Sun, and Liangsheng Shi,2018,A Reduced-Order Successive Linear Estimator for Geostatistical Inversion and Its Application in Hydraulic Tomography,Water Resources Research,54, 3,1616-1632,doi: 10.1002/2017WR021884.
- [17] Yonggen Zhang and Marcel G. Schaap,2017,Weighted Recalibration of the Rosetta Pedotransfer Model with Improved Estimates of Hydraulic Parameter Distributions and Summary Statistics (Rosetta3),Journal of Hydrology,547, 39–53,doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.01.004.
- [18] Kris Van Looy, Johan Bouma, Michael Herbst, John Koestel, Budiman Minasny, Umakant Mishra, Carsten Montzka, Attila Nemes, Yakov Pachepsky, José Padarian, Marcel Schaap, Brigitta Tóth, Anne Verhoef, Jan Vanderborght, Martine van der Ploeg, Lutz Weihermüller, Steffen Zacharias, Yonggen Zhang, and Harry Vereecken,2017,Pedotransfer functions in Earth system science: challenges and perspectives,Reviews of Geophysics,55, 4,1199-1256,doi:10.1002/2017RG000581.
- [19] Jicai Zeng, Yuanyuan Zha, Yonggen Zhang, Liangsheng Shi, Yan Zhu, Jinzhong Yang,2017,On the sub-model errors of a generalized one-way coupling scheme for linking models at different scales,Advances in Water Resources,69-83,doi: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.09.005.
- [20] Chi Xu, Wenzhi Zeng, Hongya Zhang, Jiesheng Huang, Yonggen Zhang, Jingwei Wu, and Marcel G. Schaap,2017,Inversion of Root Zone Soil Hydraulic Parameters with Limited Calibration Data,Soil Science Society of America Journal,p. 734-746,doi:10.2136/sssaj2016.09.0308.
- [21] Yuanyuan Zha, Jinzhong Yang, Lihe Yin, Yonggen Zhang, Wenzhi Zeng, and Liangsheng Shi,2017,A modified Picard iteration scheme for overcoming numerical difficulties of simulating infiltration into dry soil,Journal of Hydrology,551, 56–69,doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.05.053.
- [22] Yonggen Zhang, Marcel G. Schaap, Alberto Guadagnini, and Shlomo P. Neuman,2016,Inverse Modeling of Unsaturated Flow Using Clusters of Soil Texture and Pedotransfer Functions,Water Resources Research,52, 7631-7644,doi: 10.1002/2016WR019016.
- [23] Yonggen Zhang, Mingzhu Liu, Honghan Chen, and Guohua Hou,2014,Source identification of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in different ecological wetland components of the Qinkenpao Wetland in Northeast China,Ecotoxicology and environmental safety,102, 160-167,doi: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2014.01.030.





