2026 Bing Lin: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	41	7712	7410	2748	2556	159	6479

Overview

Bing Lin is affiliated with the Langley Research Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with particular emphasis on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Spectroscopy.

The main topics Bing Lin has worked on include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Spectroscopy and Laser Applications, Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, and Planetary Science and Exploration.

The scientist has published numerous papers in several frequent venues, including:

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
Earth and Space Science
Frontiers in Remote Sensing
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Bing Lin include:

Observations of Greenhouse Gas Changes Across Summer Frontal Boundaries in the Eastern United States, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
The Atmospheric Carbon and Transport (ACT)-America Mission, 2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Field Evaluation of Column CO₂ Retrievals From Intensity-Modulated Continuous-Wave Differential Absorption Lidar Measurements During the ACT-America Campaign, 2020, Earth and Space Science
Atmospheric Carbon and Transport - America (ACT-America) Data Sets: Description, Management, and Delivery, 2021, Earth and Space Science
A new exponentially decaying error correlation model for assimilating OCO-2 column-average CO₂ data using a length scale computed from airborne lidar measurements, 2022, Geoscientific Model Development

Bing Lin has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

K. J. Davis
J. F. Campbell
J. T. Dobler
Sandip Pal
Emily Bell

Best Publications

CALIPSO/CALIOP Cloud Phase Discrimination Algorithm

Yongxiang Hu;David Winker;Mark Vaughan;Bing Lin

388
Citations
Occurrence, liquid water content, and fraction of supercooled water clouds from combined CALIOP/IIR/MODIS measurements

Yongxiang Hu;Sharon Rodier;Kuan-man Xu;Wenbo Sun

377
Citations
Satellite-Based Assessment of Possible Dust Aerosols Semi-Direct Effect on Cloud Water Path over East Asia

Jianping Huang;Bing Lin;Patrick Minnis;Tianhe Wang

367
Citations
Possible influences of Asian dust aerosols on cloud properties and radiative forcing observed from MODIS and CERES

Jianping Huang;Patrick Minnis;Bing Lin;Tianhe Wang

347
Citations
Thin Liquid Water Clouds: Their Importance and Our Challenge

David D. Turner;A. M. Vogelmann;Richard T. Austin;James C. Barnard

248
Citations
The Observed State of the Energy Budget in the Early Twenty-First Century

Tristan S. L'Ecuyer;H. K. Beaudoing;H. K. Beaudoing;M. Rodell;W. Olson

235
Citations
The depolarization - attenuated backscatter relation: CALIPSO lidar measurements vs. theory

Yongxiang Hu;Mark Vaughan;Zhaoyan Liu;Bing Lin

230
Citations
The Iris Hypothesis: A Negative or Positive Cloud Feedback?.

Bing Lin;Bruce A. Wielicki;Lin H. Chambers;Yongxiang Hu

162
Citations
Sea surface wind speed estimation from space-based lidar measurements

Y. Hu;K. Stamnes;M. Vaughan;Jacques Pelon

156
Citations
δ-Fit: A fast and accurate treatment of particle scattering phase functions with weighted singular-value decomposition least-squares fitting

Y.-X Hu;B Wielicki;B Lin;G Gibson

149
Citations
Observations of cloud liquid water path over oceans: Optical and microwave remote sensing methods

Bing Lin;William B. Rossow

143
Citations
Evidence of mineral dust altering cloud microphysics and precipitation

Qilong Min;Rui Li;Bing Lin;Everette Joseph

136
Citations
Atmospheric CO2 column measurements with an airborne intensity-modulated continuous wave 1.57 μm fiber laser lidar.

Jeremy T. Dobler;F. Wallace Harrison;Edward V. Browell;Bing Lin

134
Citations
CERES Edition-2 Cloud Property Retrievals Using TRMM VIRS and Terra and Aqua MODIS Data—Part II: Examples of Average Results and Comparisons With Other Data

P. Minnis;Szedung Sun-Mack;Yan Chen;M. M. Khaiyer

132
Citations
Application of deep convective cloud albedo observation to satellite-based study of the terrestrial atmosphere: monitoring the stability of spaceborne measurements and assessing absorption anomaly

Yongxiang Hu;B.A. Wielicki;Ping Yang;P.W. Stackhouse

131
Citations
Advanced retrievals of multilayered cloud properties using multispectral measurements

Jianping Huang;Patrick Minnis;Bing Lin;Yuhong Yi

130
Citations
Life Cycle of Midlatitude Deep Convective Systems in a Lagrangian Framework

Zhe Feng;Zhe Feng;Xiquan Dong;Baike Xi;Sally A. McFarlane

118
Citations
Seasonal Variation of Liquid and Ice Water Path in Nonprecipitating Clouds over Oceans

Bing Lin;William B. Rossow

113
Citations
Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration and Carbon Uptake at Harvard Forest

Qilong Min;Bing Lin

101
Citations
Investigation of the 2006 drought and 2007 flood extremes at the Southern Great Plains through an integrative analysis of observations

Xiquan Dong;Baike Xi;Aaron Kennedy;Zhe Feng

98
Citations
Estimation of water cloud properties from satellite microwave, infrared and visible measurements in oceanic environments: 2. Results

Bing Lin;Patrick Minnis;Bruce Wielicki;David R. Doelling

94
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Yongxiang Hu Langley Research Center

Patrick Minnis Langley Research Center

Kenneth J. Davis Pennsylvania State University

Zhaoyan Liu Langley Research Center

Edward V. Browell Langley Research Center

Bruce A. Wielicki Langley Research Center

Jianping Huang Lanzhou University

Thomas Lauvaux Pennsylvania State University

Christopher W. O'Dell Colorado State University

Xiquan Dong University of Arizona

External Links

Personal website of Bing Lin

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