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68
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

C. K. Shum is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial focus on Environmental Science. The main fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

The subfields of study that Shum contributes to cover various disciplines such as:

  • Oceanography
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Geophysics

The primary topics of research encompass:

  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • GNSS Positioning and Interference
  • Cryospheric Studies and Observations
  • Climate Variability and Models
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management

Among recent papers, notable works by Shum include:

  • "Response of Tibetan Plateau lakes to climate change: Trends, patterns, and mechanisms" (2020), published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Water level changes, subsidence, and sea level rise in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta" (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "An Iterative ICA-Based Reconstruction Method to Produce Consistent Time-Variable Total Water Storage Fields Using GRACE and Swarm Satellite Data" (2020), published in Remote Sensing
  • "Machine learning based downscaling of GRACE-estimated groundwater in Central Valley, California" (2022), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Description of the multi-approach gravity field models from Swarm GPS data" (2020), published in Earth system science data

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Wenhao Li
  • Ehsan Forootan
  • Chaoyang Zhang
  • Yu Zhang
  • Hao Ding

Shum's work is often published in venues such as:

  • Remote Sensing
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • Journal of Geodetic Science
  • All Earth
  • Geophysical Research Letters

In 2011, Shum was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • The Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2): Science requirements, concept, and implementation

    Thorsten Markus;Tom Neumann;Anthony Martino;Waleed Abdalati

  • Response of Tibetan Plateau lakes to climate change: Trends, patterns, and mechanisms

    Guoqing Zhang;Guoqing Zhang;Tandong Yao;Tandong Yao;Hongjie Xie;Kun Yang;Kun Yang

  • Accuracy assessment of global barotropic ocean tide models

    D. Stammer;R. D. Ray;Ole Baltazar Andersen;B. K. Arbic

  • The Joint Gravity Model 3

    B. D. Tapley;M. M. Watkins;M. M. Watkins;J. C. Ries;G. W. Davis;G. W. Davis

  • Global sea-level budget 1993 - present

    Anny Cazenave;Benoit Meyssignac;Michael Ablain

  • Crustal Dilatation Observed by GRACE After the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake

    Shin-Chan Han;C. K. Shum;Michael Bevis;Chen Ji

  • Lake volume and groundwater storage variations in Tibetan Plateau's endorheic basin

    Guoqing Zhang;Guoqing Zhang;Tandong Yao;Tandong Yao;C. K. Shum;Shuang Yi

  • Regional differences of lake evolution across China during 1960s–2015 and its natural and anthropogenic causes

    Guoqing Zhang;Guoqing Zhang;Tandong Yao;Tandong Yao;Wenfeng Chen;Guoxiong Zheng

  • Accuracy assessment of recent ocean tide models

    C. K. Shum;P. L. Woodworth;O. B. Andersen;Gary D. Egbert

  • Lunar global shape and polar topography derived from Kaguya-LALT laser altimetry.

    H. Araki;S. Tazawa;H. Noda;Y. Ishihara

  • Precision orbit determination for TOPEX/POSEIDON

    B. D. Tapley;J. C. Ries;G. W. Davis;R. J. Eanes

  • Extensive and drastically different alpine lake changes on Asia's high plateaus during the past four decades

    Guoqing Zhang;Guoqing Zhang;Tandong Yao;Tandong Yao;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Tobias Bolch;Tobias Bolch

  • Gravity model development for TOPEX/POSEIDON: Joint gravity models 1 and 2

    R. S. Nerem;F. J. Lerch;J. A. Marshall;E. C. Pavlis

  • Altimetry for the future: building on 25 years of progress

    Saleh Abdalla;Abdolnabi Abdeh Kolahchi;Michaël Ablain;Susheel Adusumilli

  • Non-isotropic filtering of GRACE temporal gravity for geophysical signal enhancement

    Shin-Chan Han;C. K. Shum;Christopher Jekeli;Chung-Yen Kuo

  • Groundwater Storage Changes in China from Satellite Gravity: An Overview

    Wei Feng;C. K. Shum;Min Zhong;Yun Pan

  • Time-variable aliasing effects of ocean tides, atmosphere, and continental water mass on monthly mean GRACE gravity field

    Shin-Chan Han;Christopher Jekeli;C. K. Shum

  • Understanding the global hydrological droughts of 2003?2016 and their relationships with teleconnections

    Ehsan Forootan;Ehsan Forootan;M. Khaki;M. Schumacher;V. Wulfmeyer

  • On the postprocessing removal of correlated errors in GRACE temporal gravity field solutions

    X. J. Duan;J. Y. Guo;C. K. Shum;W. van der Wal;W. van der Wal

  • Temporal variations in low degree zonal harmonics from Starlette orbit analysis

    M. K. Cheng;R. J. Eanes;C. K. Shum;B. E. Schutz

  • Determination of long-term changes in the Earth's gravity field from satellite laser ranging observations

    M. K. Cheng;C. K. Shum;B. D. Tapley

Frequent Co-Authors

Byron D Tapley
Byron D Tapley The University of Texas at Austin
Hyongki Lee
Hyongki Lee University of Houston
John C Ries
John C Ries The University of Texas at Austin
Shin-Chan Han
Shin-Chan Han The Ohio State University
Jürgen Kusche
Jürgen Kusche University of Bonn
Adrian Jäggi
Adrian Jäggi University of Bern
Cheinway Hwang
Cheinway Hwang National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Stéphane Calmant
Stéphane Calmant Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Ole Baltazar Andersen
Ole Baltazar Andersen Technical University of Denmark
Christopher Jekeli
Christopher Jekeli The Ohio State University

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