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66
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15187
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2102
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205

Di Long publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Di Long sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 183 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Di Long D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Di Long sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Di Long is affiliated with Tsinghua University in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research spans various subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's work focuses on topics such as Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Climate Change and Permafrost, Arctic and Antarctic Ice Dynamics, Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, and Flood Risk Assessment and Management.

Di Long has authored and coauthored numerous papers across respected journals and publication venues. Notable recent papers include:

  • South-to-North Water Diversion stabilizing Beijing's groundwater levels (2020) published in Nature Communications
  • Generation of MODIS-like land surface temperatures under all-weather conditions based on a data fusion approach (2020) published in Remote Sensing of Environment

Other important papers from broader collaborative efforts include:

  • Global water resources and the role of groundwater in a resilient water future (2023) published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Climate change threatens terrestrial water storage over the Tibetan Plateau (2022) published in Nature Climate Change
  • Generating surface soil moisture at 30 m spatial resolution using both data fusion and machine learning toward better water resources management at the field scale (2021) published in Remote Sensing of Environment

Frequent coauthors partnering with Di Long include Bridget R. Scanlon, Xingdong Li, Qi Huang, Fanyu Zhao, and Mohamed A. Hamouda.

The scientist's contributions are frequently published in the following venues:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Hydrology

Best Publications

  • Global models underestimate large decadal declining and rising water storage trends relative to GRACE satellite data

    Bridget R. Scanlon;Zizhan Zhang;Himanshu Save;Alexander Y. Sun

  • Uncertainty in evapotranspiration from land surface modeling, remote sensing, and GRACE satellites

    Di Long;Laurent Longuevergne;Bridget R. Scanlon

  • Evaluation of GPM Day-1 IMERG and TMPA Version-7 legacy products over Mainland China at multiple spatiotemporal scales

    Guoqiang Tang;Yingzhao Ma;Di Long;Lingzhi Zhong

  • Global GRACE data assimilation for groundwater and drought monitoring: Advances and challenges

    Bailing Li;Bailing Li;Matthew Rodell;Sujay Kumar;Hiroko Kato Beaudoing;Hiroko Kato Beaudoing

  • Global Evaluation of New GRACE Mascon Products for Hydrologic Applications

    Bridget R. Scanlon;Zizhan Zhang;Himanshu Save;David N. Wiese

  • South-to-North Water Diversion stabilizing Beijing’s groundwater levels

    Di Long;Wenting Yang;Bridget R. Scanlon;Jianshi Zhao

  • Quantifying the impacts of climate change and ecological restoration on streamflow changes based on a Budyko hydrological model in China's Loess Plateau

    Wei Liang;Dan Bai;Feiyu Wang;Bojie Fu

  • Drought and flood monitoring for a large karst plateau in Southwest China using extended GRACE data

    Di Long;Di Long;Yanjun Shen;Alexander Sun;Yang Hong;Yang Hong

  • Ground referencing GRACE satellite estimates of groundwater storage changes in the California Central Valley, USA

    Bridget R. Scanlon;Laurent Longuevergne;Di Long

  • GRACE satellite monitoring of large depletion in water storage in response to the 2011 drought in Texas

    Di Long;Bridget R. Scanlon;Laurent Longuevergne;Alexander Y. Sun

  • Contrasting responses of water use efficiency to drought across global terrestrial ecosystems

    Yuting Yang;Huade Guan;Okke Batelaan;Tim R. McVicar

  • Global analysis of spatiotemporal variability in merged total water storage changes using multiple GRACE products and global hydrological models

    Di Long;Yun Pan;Jian Zhou;Yang Chen

  • Have GRACE satellites overestimated groundwater depletion in the Northwest India Aquifer

    Di Long;Xi Chen;Bridget R. Scanlon;Yoshihide Wada

  • A Two-source Trapezoid Model for Evapotranspiration (TTME) from satellite imagery

    Di Long;Vijay P. Singh

  • Improved modeling of snow and glacier melting by a progressive two‐stage calibration strategy with GRACE and multisource data: How snow and glacier meltwater contributes to the runoff of the Upper Brahmaputra River basin?

    Xi Chen;Di Long;Yang Hong;Chao Zeng

  • Deriving scaling factors using a global hydrological model to restore GRACE total water storage changes for China's Yangtze River Basin

    Di Long;Yuting Yang;Yoshihide Wada;Yoshihide Wada;Yoshihide Wada;Yang Hong;Yang Hong

  • Global analysis of approaches for deriving total water storage changes from GRACE satellites

    Di Long;Di Long;Laurent Longuevergne;Bridget R. Scanlon

  • Statistical and Hydrological Comparisons between TRMM and GPM Level-3 Products over a Midlatitude Basin: Is Day-1 IMERG a Good Successor for TMPA 3B42V7?

    Guoqiang Tang;Ziyue Zeng;Di Long;Xiaolin Guo

  • Generating surface soil moisture at 30 m spatial resolution using both data fusion and machine learning toward better water resources management at the field scale

    Ahmed Samir Abowarda;Liangliang Bai;Caijin Zhang;Di Long

  • Analysis of spatial and temporal patterns of net primary production and their climate controls in China from 1982 to 2010

    Wei Liang;Yuting Yang;Yuting Yang;Dongmei Fan;Huade Guan

  • Observed changes in flow regimes in the Mekong River basin

    Dongnan Li;Di Long;Jianshi Zhao;Hui Lu

Frequent Co-Authors

Yang Hong
Yang Hong University of Oklahoma
Bridget R. Scanlon
Bridget R. Scanlon The University of Texas at Austin
Yuting Yang
Yuting Yang Tsinghua University
Laurent Longuevergne
Laurent Longuevergne University of Rennes
Vijay P. Singh
Vijay P. Singh Texas A&M University
Yoshihide Wada
Yoshihide Wada King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Ali Behrangi
Ali Behrangi University of Arizona
Robert C. Reedy
Robert C. Reedy The University of Texas at Austin
Huade Guan
Huade Guan Flinders University
Alexander Y. Sun
Alexander Y. Sun The University of Texas at Austin

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