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Guo-Yue Niu is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research primarily spans environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a focus on several subfields including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, water science and technology, environmental engineering, and soil science.

Niu's work centers around key topics such as hydrology and watershed management studies, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, climate variability and models, cryospheric studies and observations, meteorological phenomena and simulations, soil moisture and remote sensing, and flood risk assessment and management.

They have contributed to numerous publications over the years. Some recent papers include:

  • Enhancing the Noah-MP Ecosystem Response to Droughts With an Explicit Representation of Plant Water Storage Supplied by Dynamic Root Water Uptake (2020), Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Why Is the Terrestrial Water Storage in Dryland Regions Declining? A Perspective Based on Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Satellite Observations and Noah Land Surface Model With Multiparameterization Schemes Model Simulations (2020), Water Resources Research
  • Modernizing the open-source community Noah with multi-parameterization options (Noah-MP) land surface model (version 5.0) with enhanced modularity, interoperability, and applicability (2023), Geoscientific Model Development
  • Global Evaluation of the Noah-MP Land Surface Model and Suggestions for Selecting Parameterization Schemes (2022), Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • High-resolution simulations of mean and extreme precipitation with WRF for the soil-erosive Loess Plateau (2020), Climate Dynamics

Niu frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • S. A. Papuga
  • Kumud Acharya
  • Newsha Ajami
  • Christophe Ancey
  • Holly Barnard

Their work has appeared in multiple publication venues, notably:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Geoscientific Model Development

Best Publications

  • The community Noah land surface model with multiparameterization options (Noah-MP): 1. Model description and evaluation with local-scale measurements

    Guo ‐ Yue Niu;Guo ‐ Yue Niu;Zong ‐ Liang Yang;Kenneth E. Mitchell;Fei Chen

  • Technical Description of version 4.0 of the Community Land Model (CLM)

    W. Oleson;M. Lawrence;B. Bonan;G. Flanner

  • The Common Land Model

    Yongjiu Dai;Xubin Zeng;Robert E. Dickinson;Ian Baker

  • Technical Description of the Community Land Model (CLM)

    Keith Oleson;Yongjiu Dai;B. Bonan;Mike Bosilovichm

  • Improvements to the Community Land Model and their impact on the hydrological cycle

    K. W. Oleson;G. Y. Niu;Zong-Liang Yang;D. M. Lawrence

  • The community Noah land surface model with multiparameterization options (Noah-MP): 2. Evaluation over global river basins

    Zong Liang Yang;Guo Yue Niu;Guo Yue Niu;Kenneth E. Mitchell;Fei Chen

  • Development of a simple groundwater model for use in climate models and evaluation with Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment data

    Guo Yue Niu;Zong-Liang Yang;Robert Earl Dickinson;Lindsey E. Gulden

  • A simple TOPMODEL-based runoff parameterization (SIMTOP) for use in global climate models

    Guo Yue Niu;Zong Liang Yang;Robert E. Dickinson;Lindsey E. Gulden

  • 2005 drought event in the Amazon River basin as measured by GRACE and estimated by climate models

    Jianli Chen;Clark R Wilson;Byron D Tapley;Zong-Liang Yang

  • Development of a China Dataset of Soil Hydraulic Parameters Using Pedotransfer Functions for Land Surface Modeling

    Yongjiu Dai;Wei Shangguan;Qingyun Duan;Baoyuan Liu

  • A gridded global data set of soil, intact regolith, and sedimentary deposit thicknesses for regional and global land surface modeling

    Jon D. Pelletier;Patrick D. Broxton;Pieter Hazenberg;Xubin Zeng

  • The Rhône-Aggregation Land Surface Scheme Intercomparison Project: An Overview

    Aaron A. Boone;F. Habets;J. Noilhan;D. Clark

  • River Network Routing on the NHDPlus Dataset

    Cédric H. David;David R Maidment;Guo Yue Niu;Guo Yue Niu;Zong-Liang Yang

  • Effects of vegetation canopy processes on snow surface energy and mass balances

    Guo Yue Niu;Zong Liang Yang

  • An observation-based formulation of snow cover fraction and its evaluation over large North American river basins

    Guo Yue Niu;Zong Liang Yang

  • Simulation of high-latitude hydrological processes in the Torne-Kalix basin: PILPS phase 2(e) - 1: Experiment description and summary intercomparisons

    Laura C. Bowling;Dennis P. Lettenmaier;Bart Nijssen;Bart Nijssen;L. Phil Graham

  • Hydrological evaluation of the Noah‐MP land surface model for the Mississippi River Basin

    Xitian Cai;Zong Liang Yang;Cédric H. David;Cédric H. David;Guo Yue Niu

  • Quantifying parameter sensitivity, interaction, and transferability in hydrologically enhanced versions of the Noah land surface model over transition zones during the warm season

    Enrique Rosero;Enrique Rosero;Zong Liang Yang;Thorsten Wagener;Lindsey E. Gulden;Lindsey E. Gulden

  • Simulation of high latitude hydrological processes in the Torne-Kalix basin : PILPS phase 2(e) - 2: Comparison of model results with observations

    Bart Nijssen;Bart Nijssen;Laura C. Bowling;Dennis P. Lettenmaier;Douglas B. Clark

  • The effect of groundwater interaction in North American regional climate simulations with WRF/Noah-MP

    Michael Barlage;Mukul Tewari;Fei Chen;Gonzalo Miguez-Macho

  • A Systematic Evaluation of Noah-MP in Simulating Land-Atmosphere Energy, Water, and Carbon Exchanges Over the Continental United States

    Ning Ma;Ning Ma;Guo Yue Niu;Youlong Xia;Xitian Cai

Frequent Co-Authors

Zong-Liang Yang
Zong-Liang Yang The University of Texas at Austin
Peter Troch
Peter Troch University of Arizona
Xubin Zeng
Xubin Zeng University of Arizona
Greg A. Barron-Gafford
Greg A. Barron-Gafford University of Arizona
Jon D. Pelletier
Jon D. Pelletier University of Arizona
Jiming Jin
Jiming Jin Utah State University
Robert E. Dickinson
Robert E. Dickinson The University of Texas at Austin
Claudio Paniconi
Claudio Paniconi Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Jon Chorover
Jon Chorover University of Arizona
David Gochis
David Gochis National Center for Atmospheric Research

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