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Overview

Bing Cheng Si is affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and engineering, focusing extensively on soil, water, and atmospheric interactions.

The scientist has published numerous papers across a range of reputable journals. Some notable recent publications include:

  • Optimizing biochar application to improve soil physical and hydraulic properties in saline-alkali soils, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Precipitation dominates the transpiration of both the economic forest (Malus pumila) and ecological forest (Robinia pseudoacacia) on the Loess Plateau after about 15 years of water depletion in deep soil, 2020, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Technical Note: Improved partial wavelet coherency for understanding scale-specific and localized bivariate relationships in geosciences, 2021, Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • A review of time domain reflectometry (TDR) applications in porous media, 2021, Advances in agronomy
  • Room for improvement: A review and evaluation of 24 soil thermal conductivity parameterization schemes commonly used in land-surface, hydrological, and soil-vegetation-atmosphere transfer models, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews

Their frequent coauthors include Huijie Li, Hailong He, Yanwei Lu, Kadambot H. M. Siddique, and Ze Tao. Collaboration with these researchers reflects multidisciplinary efforts involving environmental engineering and hydrological sciences.

Bing Cheng Si has published extensively in certain venues, with the largest numbers appearing in:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Agricultural Water Management

Their main fields of study are concentrated in Environmental Science and Engineering. Within these broader categories, subfields include:

  • Environmental Engineering
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Soil Science
  • Civil and Structural Engineering

The main topics covered in their body of work reflect interdisciplinary environmental and hydrological research priorities:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Climate change and permafrost

Best Publications

  • Effects of straw and plastic film mulching on greenhouse gas emissions in Loess Plateau, China: A field study of 2 consecutive wheat-maize rotation cycles

    Haixin Chen;Jingjing Liu;Afeng Zhang;Jing Chen

  • Technical note: Multiple wavelet coherence for untangling scale-specific andlocalized multivariate relationships in geosciences

    Wei Hu;Wei Hu;Bing Cheng Si;Bing Cheng Si

  • Optimizing biochar application to improve soil physical and hydraulic properties in saline-alkali soils.

    Jiaping Liang;Yi Li;Bingcheng Si;Yanzi Wang

  • Nitrous oxide emissions and biogeochemical responses to soil freezing-thawing and drying-wetting

    K.A. Congreves;C. Wagner-Riddle;B.C. Si;T.J. Clough

  • Probability Distribution and Spatial Dependence of Nitrous Oxide Emission

    T. T. Yates;B. C. Si;R. E. Farrell;D. J. Pennock

  • Near‐saturated surface soil hydraulic properties under different land uses in the St Denis National Wildlife Area, Saskatchewan, Canada

    Waduwawatte Bodhinayake;Bing Cheng Si

  • Development and Application of the Heat Pulse Method for Soil Physical Measurements

    Hailong He;Miles F. Dyck;Robert Horton;Tusheng Ren

  • Scaling Relationships between Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity and Soil Physical Properties

    Takele B. Zeleke;Bing Cheng Si

  • Scale-Dependent Relationship between Wheat Yield and Topographic Indices

    Bing Cheng Si;Richard E. Farrell

  • Spatial Scaling Analyses of Soil Physical Properties: A Review of Spectral and Wavelet Methods

    Bing Cheng Si

  • Seasonal changes in surface bulk density and saturated hydraulic conductivity of natural landscapes

    W. Hu;M. A. Shao;B. C. Si

  • Determination of groundwater recharge mechanism in the deep loessial unsaturated zone by environmental tracers.

    Zhi Li;Xi Chen;Wenzhao Liu;Bingcheng Si;Bingcheng Si

  • Determination of hydraulic properties in sloping landscapes from tension and double-ring infiltrometers

    Waduwawatte Bodhinayake;Bing Cheng Si;Kosuke Noborio

  • Characterizing scale-dependent spatial relationships between soil properties using multifractal techniques

    Takele B. Zeleke;Bing C. Si

  • Water mining from the deep critical zone by apple trees growing on loess

    Huijie Li;Bingcheng Si;Bingcheng Si;Pute Wu;Jeffrey J. McDonnell;Jeffrey J. McDonnell

  • A modified normalized model for predicting effective soil thermal conductivity

    Hailong He;Hailong He;Ying Zhao;Miles F. Dyck;Bingcheng Si;Bingcheng Si

  • Soil water prediction based on its scale-specific control using multivariate empirical mode decomposition

    Wei Hu;Bing Cheng Si

  • Infiltration and drainage processes in multi-layered coarse soils

    Mingbin Huang;Mingbin Huang;S. Lee Barbour;Amin Elshorbagy;Julie D. Zettl

  • Influence of textural layering on field capacity of coarse soils

    Julie D. Zettl;S. Lee Barbour;Mingbin Huang;Bing C. Si

  • Quantifying dual recharge mechanisms in deep unsaturated zone of Chinese Loess Plateau using stable isotopes

    Wei Xiang;Bing Cheng Si;Bing Cheng Si;Asim Biswas;Zhi Li

  • Representative Soil Water Benchmarking for Environmental Monitoring

    L. K. Tallon;B. C. Si

Frequent Co-Authors

Asim Biswas
Asim Biswas University of Guelph
Ying Zhao
Ying Zhao Ludong University
Mingan Shao
Mingan Shao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hao Feng
Hao Feng Northwest A&F University
Pute Wu
Pute Wu Northwest A&F University
Jeff J. Schoenau
Jeff J. Schoenau University of Saskatchewan
Dan Pennock
Dan Pennock University of Saskatchewan
Jeffrey J. McDonnell
Jeffrey J. McDonnell University of Saskatchewan
Huijun Jin
Huijun Jin Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xining Zhao
Xining Zhao Northwest A&F University

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