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48
Citations
11782
World Ranking
3734
National Ranking
1467

Overview

Chien-Lu Ping is affiliated with the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the United States and works primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Physics and Astronomy. Their research spans multiple subfields including Environmental Chemistry, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics, Oceanography, and Atmospheric Science.

They have contributed to scientific literature addressing various topics such as Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Ionosphere and Magnetosphere Dynamics, Seismic Waves and Analysis, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Climate Change and Permafrost, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Some of their recent published papers include:

  • Spatial heterogeneity and environmental predictors of permafrost region soil organic carbon stocks, 2021, Science Advances
  • High carbon emissions from thermokarst lakes and their determinants in the Tibet Plateau, 2023, Global Change Biology
  • The effects of warming and soil chemistry on bacterial community structure in Arctic tundra soils, 2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Recent Warming Fuels Increased Organic Carbon Export From Arctic Permafrost, 2021, AGU Advances
  • Applying NIR and MIR spectroscopy for C and soil property prediction in northern cold-region ecosystems. Which approach works better?, 2023, Geoderma Regional

Chien-Lu Ping frequently collaborates with a number of coauthors, including Melissa Ward Jones, Glenna Gannon, Benjamin Jones, Jason Toyoda, and Qian Zhao.

The most frequent venues for their publications include OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information), Science Advances, Global Change Biology, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, and Geoderma Regional.

Best Publications

  • Estimated stocks of circumpolar permafrost carbon with quantified uncertainty ranges and identified data gaps

    Gustaf Hugelius;Jens Strauss;Sebastian Zubrzycki;Jennifer W. Harden

  • Role of Land-Surface Changes in Arctic Summer Warming

    F. S. Chapin;M. Sturm;Mark C. Serreze;J.P. McFadden

  • Expert assessment of vulnerability of permafrost carbon to climate change

    E. A. G. Schuur;B. W. Abbott;W. B. Bowden;V. Brovkin

  • High stocks of soil organic carbon in the North American Arctic region

    Chien-Lu Ping;Gary J. Michaelson;Mark T. Jorgenson;John M. Kimble

  • Field information links permafrost carbon to physical vulnerabilities of thawing

    Jennifer W. Harden;Charles D. Koven;Chien-Lu Ping;Gustaf Hugelius

  • Mobilization pathways of organic carbon from permafrost to arctic rivers in a changing climate

    Laodong Guo;Chien-Lu Ping;Robie W. Macdonald

  • Spatial heterogeneity and environmental predictors of permafrost region soil organic carbon stocks

    Umakant Mishra;Gustaf Hugelius;Eitan Shelef;Yuanhe Yang

  • Changes of climate and seasonally frozen ground over the past 30 years in Qinghai–Xizang (Tibetan) Plateau, China

    Lin Zhao;Chien-Lu Ping;Daqing Yang;Guodong Cheng

  • Carbon Storage and Distribution in Tundra Soils of Arctic Alaska, U.S.A.

    G. J. Michaelson;C. L. Ping;J. M. Kimble

  • Permafrost soils and carbon cycling

    C. L. Ping;J. D. Jastrow;M. T. Jorgenson;G. J. Michaelson

  • Arctic patterned-ground ecosystems: A synthesis of field studies and models along a North American Arctic Transect

    D. A. Walker;H. E. Epstein;V. E. Romanovsky;C. L. Ping

  • Vegetation-Soil-Thaw-Depth Relationships along a Low-Arctic Bioclimate Gradient, Alaska: Synthesis of Information from the ATLAS Studies

    D. A. Walker;G. J. Jia;H. E. Epstein;M. K. Raynolds

  • A new data set for estimating organic carbon storage to 3 m depth in soils of the northern circumpolar permafrost region

    G. Hugelius;James G. Bockheim;P. Camill;B. Elberling;B. Elberling

  • Methane emissions proportional to permafrost carbon thawed in Arctic lakes since the 1950s

    Katey Walter Anthony;Ronald Daanen;Peter Anthony;Thomas Schneider von Deimling

  • Ground ice in the upper permafrost of the Beaufort Sea coast of Alaska

    M. Kanevskiy;Y. Shur;M.T. Jorgenson;C.-L. Ping

  • Characteristics of cryogenic soils along a latitudinal transect in arctic Alaska

    C. L. Ping;J. G. Bockheim;J. M. Kimble;G. J. Michaelson

  • Energy and trace-gas fluxes across a soil pH boundary in the Arctic

    D. A. Walker;N. A. Auerbach;J. G. Bockheim;F. S. Chapin

  • Frost‐boil ecosystems: complex interactions between landforms, soils, vegetation and climate

    Donald A. Walker;Howard E. Epstein;William A. Gould;Alexia M. Kelley

  • Soil Atlas of the Northern Circumpolar Region

    O. Anisimov;Ö. Arnalds;A. Arnoldusen;J. Bockheim

  • Soil carbon distribution in Alaska in relation to soil-forming factors

    Kristofer D. Johnson;Jennifer Harden;A. David McGuire;Norman B. Bliss

  • The nature of spatial transitions in the Arctic

    HE Epstein;Jason Beringer;WA Gould;AH Lloyd

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald A. Walker
Donald A. Walker University of Alaska Fairbanks
Guido Grosse
Guido Grosse Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Edward A. G. Schuur
Edward A. G. Schuur Northern Arizona University
Jennifer W. Harden
Jennifer W. Harden United States Geological Survey
Gustaf Hugelius
Gustaf Hugelius Stockholm University
Charles D. Koven
Charles D. Koven Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peter Kuhry
Peter Kuhry Stockholm University
Charles Tarnocai
Charles Tarnocai Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Lutz Schirrmeister
Lutz Schirrmeister Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Jens Strauss
Jens Strauss Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

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