1984年生，江西上高人，博士，研究员，博士生导师，国家自然科学基金优秀青年科学基金获得者，入选天府青城计划天府科技菁英、四川省杰出青年科技人才、中国科学院西部之光等人才计划，研究方向为山地地表过程遥感监测理论方法与应用。在Review of Geophysics，Geophysical Research Letters， Remote Sensing of Environment，IEEE Transactions of Geoscience and Remote Sensing，Nature Communications等期刊发表论文100多篇，其中以第一或通讯作者发表SCI期刊论文50余篇，合作出版中英文论著6部，授权发明专利和软著11项，担任The Innovation，The Innovation Geoscience， Science of Remote Sensing，遥感学报等多个期刊的编委和青年编委，荣获北京市自然科学二等奖、中国地理学会青年地理科技奖、李小文遥感科学青年奖等奖励。
2022.03－至今：中国科学院成都山地灾害与环境研究所，研究员
2015.11－2022.03：中国科学院成都山地灾害与环境研究所，副研究员
2012.07－2015.11：中国科学院成都山地灾害与环境研究所，助理研究员
2006.09－2012.07：中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所，博士
2009.09－2011.08：法国斯特拉斯堡大学，国家公派博士研究生
2002.09－2006.07：北京师范大学，学士
山地地表过程遥感
获中国地理学青年地理科技奖、四川省科学与技术带头人后备人选、四川省“天府青城计划”天府科技菁英等号。
1. Li, Z.-L., Wu, H., Duan, S.-B.*, Zhao, W.*, Ren, H., Liu, X., Leng, P., Tang, R., Ye, X., Zhu, J., Sun, Y., Si, M., Liu, M., Li, J., Zhang, X., Shang, G., Tang, B.-H., Yan, G., & Zhou, C. (2023). Satellite Remote Sensing of Global Land Surface Temperature: Definition, Methods, Products, and Applications. Reviews of Geophysics, 61, e2022RG000777, DOI: 10.1029/2022RG000777
2. Brocca, L.*, Zhao, W.*, & Lu, H. (2023). High-resolution observations from space to address new applications in hydrology. The Innovation, 4, 100437
3. Wu, J., Yang, Y., Yin, G., Zhao, J., Ding, T., & Zhao, W.* (2025). Greening Nonlinearly Intensifies Drought Impacts on Grasslands of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Global Change Biology, 31(10), e70532
4. Mukhtar, H., Yang, Y., Xu, M., Wu, J., Abbas, S., Wei, D., & Zhao, W.* (2025). Elevation-dependent vegetation greening and its responses to climate changes in the south slope of the Himalayas. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2024GL113276.
5. He, K., Zhao, W.*, Brocca, L., Quintana-Seguí, P., & Chen, X. (2025). SMPD-MERG: A Hybrid Downscaling Model for High-Resolution Daily Precipitation Estimation via Merging Surface Soil Moisture and Multisource Precipitation Data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 63, 4104616
6. Ding, T., Zhao, W.*, & Yang, Y. (2024). Addressing spatial gaps in ESA CCI soil moisture product: A hierarchical reconstruction approach using deep learning model. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 132, 104003
7. Yang, Y., Zhao, W.*, Yang, Y., Xu, M., Mukhtar, H., Tauqir, G., & Tarolli, P., (2024). An annual temperature cycle feature constrained method for generating MODIS daytime all-weather Land Surface Temperature. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 62, 4405014
8. Li, M., Zhao, W.*, Yang, Y., Wu, T., & Luo, J., (2024). A solar radiation-based method for generating spatially seamless and temporally consistent land surface temperature. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 62, 5003515
9. Zhao W., Wang W., Zhou J., Ding L., & Yu D. (2023). A Spatial Downscaling Method for Deriving High-Resolution Downward Shortwave Radiation Data Under All-Sky Conditions, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 61, 1-11
10. Zhao, W., Li, X., Wang, W., Wen, F., and Yin, G.*. (2022). DSRC: An Improved Topographic Correction Method for Optical Remote-Sensing Observations Based on Surface Downwelling Shortwave Radiation. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 60, 5606015
11. He, K., Zhao, W.*, Brocca, L. and Quintana-Seguí, P. (2023). SMPD: A soil moisture-based precipitation downscaling method for high-resolution daily satellite precipitation estimation. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 27, 169–190
12. Zhao, W., Yang, M., Chang, R., Zhan, Q., & Li, Z.-L. (2021). Surface Warming Trend Analysis Based on MODIS/Terra Land Surface Temperature Product at Gongga Mountain in the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126, e2020JD034205
13. Zhao, W., F. Wen, Q. Wang, N. Sanchez, and M. Piles (2021), Seamless downscaling of the ESA CCI soil moisture data at the daily scale with MODIS land products, Journal of Hydrology, 603, 126930
14. Zhao, W., & Duan, S. B. (2020). Reconstruction of daytime land surface temperatures under cloud-covered conditions using integrated MODIS/Terra land products and MSG geostationary satellite data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 247, 111931
15. Zhao, W.*, Xiong, D., Wen, F., Wang, X., 2020. Lake area monitoring based on land surface temperature in the Tibetan Plateau from 2000 to 2018. Environmental Research Letters 15, 084033
主持国家自然科学基金区域联合重点、中国科学院国际合作重点项目、第二次青藏科考子专题、国家重点研发计划子课题等项目20余项