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Overview

Chaoyang Wu is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and conducts research primarily in the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on global and planetary change, ecology, and atmospheric science. Their work also spans ecological modeling and environmental engineering, contributing to a diverse understanding of environmental processes.

Their research topics include plant water relations and carbon dynamics, remote sensing in agriculture, species distribution and climate change, climate variability and models, urban heat island mitigation, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and land use and ecosystem services.

The scientist has published papers in various scientific journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • Spatial and temporal variations in global soil respiration and their relationships with climate and land cover, 2020, Science Advances
  • Increased drought effects on the phenology of autumn leaf senescence, 2022, Nature Climate Change
  • Overestimation of the effect of climatic warming on spring phenology due to misrepresentation of chilling, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Divergent responses of ecosystem water-use efficiency to extreme seasonal droughts in Southwest China, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Widespread decline in winds delayed autumn foliar senescence over high latitudes, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Chaoyang Wu frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Nature Communications
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Global Change Biology
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Nature Climate Change

Collaborations form a significant part of their work, with notable co-authors including Josep Peñuelas, Xiaoyue Wang, Yongguang Zhang, Quansheng Ge, and Rachhpal S. Jassal. These partnerships indicate a collaborative research approach across multiple environmental science domains.

Best Publications

  • Increased atmospheric vapor pressure deficit reduces global vegetation growth

    Wenping Yuan;Yi Zheng;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais

  • Estimating chlorophyll content from hyperspectral vegetation indices : Modeling and validation

    Chaoyang Wu;Zheng Niu;Quan Tang;Wenjiang Huang

  • An underestimated role of precipitation frequency in regulating summer soil moisture

    Chaoyang Wu;Jing M. Chen;Jukka Pumpanen;Alessandro Cescatti

  • Use of MODIS and Landsat time series data to generate high-resolution temporal synthetic Landsat data using a spatial and temporal reflectance fusion model

    Mingquan Wu;Zheng Niu;Changyao Wang;Chaoyang Wu;Chaoyang Wu

  • Divergent shifts in peak photosynthesis timing of temperate and alpine grasslands in China

    Jilin Yang;Jinwei Dong;Xiangming Xiao;Junhu Dai

  • Remote estimation of gross primary production in wheat using chlorophyll-related vegetation indices

    Chaoyang Wu;Zheng Niu;Quan Tang;Wenjiang Huang;Wenjiang Huang

  • Contrasting responses of autumn-leaf senescence to daytime and night-time warming

    Chaoyang Wu;Xiaoyue Wang;Huanjiong Wang;Philippe Ciais

  • Satellite detection of cumulative and lagged effects of drought on autumn leaf senescence over the Northern Hemisphere

    Jie Peng;Chaoyang Wu;Xiaoyang Zhang;Xiaoyue Wang

  • Land surface phenology derived from normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) at global FLUXNET sites

    Chaoyang Wu;Dailiang Peng;Kamel Soudani;Lukas Siebicke

  • Comparison of multiple models for estimating gross primary production using MODIS and eddy covariance data in Harvard Forest

    Chaoyang Wu;J. William Munger;Zheng Niu;Da Kuang

  • Spatial and temporal variations in global soil respiration and their relationships with climate and land cover

    Ni Huang;Li Wang;Xiao-Peng Song;T. Andrew Black

  • Interannual variability of net ecosystem productivity in forests is explained by carbon flux phenology in autumn

    Chaoyang Wu;Jing M. Chen;T. Andrew Black;David T. Price

  • Land surface phenology from optical satellite measurement and CO2 eddy covariance technique

    Alemu Gonsamo;Jing M. Chen;David T. Price;Werner A. Kurz

  • A new satellite-based monthly precipitation downscaling algorithm with non-stationary relationship between precipitation and land surface characteristics

    Shiguang Xu;Chaoyang Wu;Li Wang;Alemu Gonsamo

  • Land surface phenology of China's temperate ecosystems over 1999–2013: Spatial–temporal patterns, interaction effects, covariation with climate and implications for productivity

    Chaoyang Wu;Xuehui Hou;Dailiang Peng;Alemu Gonsamo

  • Modeling growing season phenology in North American forests using seasonal mean vegetation indices from MODIS

    Chaoyang Wu;Chaoyang Wu;Alemu Gonsamo;Christopher M. Gough;Jing M. Chen

  • Snow cover phenology affects alpine vegetation growth dynamics on the Tibetan Plateau: Satellite observed evidence, impacts of different biomes, and climate drivers

    Xiaoyue Wang;Chaoyang Wu;Dailiang Peng;Alemu Gonsamo

  • Predicting gross primary production from the enhanced vegetation index and photosynthetically active radiation: Evaluation and calibration

    Chaoyang Wu;Chaoyang Wu;Jing M. Chen;Ni Huang

  • Divergent responses of ecosystem water-use efficiency to extreme seasonal droughts in Southwest China.

    Min Wang;Zhi Ding;Chaoyang Wu;Lisheng Song

  • Overestimation of the effect of climatic warming on spring phenology due to misrepresentation of chilling.

    Huanjiong Wang;Chaoyang Wu;Philippe Ciais;Josep Peñuelas

  • Gross primary production estimation from MODIS data with vegetation index and photosynthetically active radiation in maize

    Chaoyang Wu;Zheng Niu;Shuai Gao

Frequent Co-Authors

Alemu Gonsamo
Alemu Gonsamo McMaster University
Jing M. Chen
Jing M. Chen University of Toronto
Zheng Niu
Zheng Niu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wenjiang Huang
Wenjiang Huang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaoyang Zhang
Xiaoyang Zhang South Dakota State University
Rachhpal S. Jassal
Rachhpal S. Jassal University of British Columbia
Christopher M. Gough
Christopher M. Gough Virginia Commonwealth University
Quansheng Ge
Quansheng Ge Chinese Academy of Sciences
David Price
David Price University of Aberdeen
Werner A. Kurz
Werner A. Kurz Natural Resources Canada

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