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Henry Lin is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with significant contributions to the subfields of Environmental Engineering, Soil Science, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and Water Science and Technology.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Geophysical Methods and Applications
  • Microwave Imaging and Scattering Analysis
  • Climate change and permafrost

Henry Lin has published recent papers on various aspects of soil, water, and environmental processes. Notable papers include:

  • Noninvasive 2D and 3D Mapping of Root Zone Soil Moisture Through the Detection of Coarse Roots With Ground-Penetrating Radar, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • Soil micro-climate variation in relation to slope aspect, position, and curvature in a forested catchment, 2020, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • A new analytical model for predicting soil erosion and nutrient loss during crop growth on the Chinese loess plateau, 2020, Soil and Tillage Research
  • An enhanced rainfall-runoff model with coupled canopy interception, 2020, Hydrological Processes
  • Sustainability of soil organic carbon in consolidated gully land in China's Loess Plateau, 2020, Scientific Reports

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Li Guo
  • Wanghai Tao
  • Guanghua Qin
  • Quanjiu Wang
  • Xinbo Liu

Publications by Henry Lin appear in venues such as Water Resources Research, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Soil and Tillage Research, Hydrological Processes, and Scientific Reports.

Best Publications

  • Earth's Critical Zone and hydropedology: concepts, characteristics, and advances

    H. S. Lin

  • Quantification of 3-D soil macropore networks in different soil types and land uses using computed tomography

    Lifang Luo;Henry Lin;Shuangcai Li

  • Soil moisture patterns in a forested catchment: A hydropedological perspective

    H.S. Lin;W. Kogelmann;C. Walker;M.A. Bruns

  • Comparing Ordinary Kriging and Regression Kriging for Soil Properties in Contrasting Landscapes

    Q. Zhu;H.S. Lin

  • Temporal stability of soil moisture spatial pattern and subsurface preferential flow pathways in the Shale Hills Catchment

    Henry Lin

  • Hydropedology and pedotransfer functions

    Y.A. Pachepsky;W.J. Rawls;H.S. Lin

  • Hydropedology: Bridging Disciplines, Scales, and Data

    Hangsheng Lin

  • Hydropedology: Synergistic integration of pedology and hydrology

    Henry Lin;Johan Bouma;Yakov Pachepsky;Andrew Western

  • Cross-reference system for translating between genetic soil classification of China and soil taxonomy

    X. Z. Shi;D. S. Yu;E. D. Warner;W. X. Sun

  • Application of ground penetrating radar for coarse root detection and quantification: A review

    Li Guo;Jin Chen;Xihong Cui;Bihang Fan

  • Linking principles of soil formation and flow regimes

    Henry Lin

  • Quantifying Soil Structure and Preferential Flow in Intact Soil Using X-ray Computed Tomography

    Lifang Luo;Henry Lin;Phil Halleck

  • Evidence of subsurface preferential flow using soil hydrologic monitoring in the Shale Hills catchment

    H. Lin;X. Zhou

  • Advances in Hydropedology

    H. Lin;J. Bouma;L.P. Wilding;J.L. Richardson

  • Spatial and temporal occurrence of preferential flow in a forested headwater catchment

    I. Wiekenkamp;J.A. Huisman;H.R. Bogena;H.S. Lin

  • Wavelet analysis of hydrological and water quality signals in an agricultural watershed

    Shujiang Kang;Henry Lin

  • Connecting ecohydrology and hydropedology in desert shrubs: stemflow as a source of preferential flow in soils

    Xiao Yan Li;Zhi Peng Yang;Yue Tan Li;Henry Lin

  • Surface soil hydraulic properties in four soil series under different land uses and their temporal changes

    X. Zhou;H.S. Lin;E.A. White

  • Controls of surface soil moisture spatial patterns and their temporal stability in a semi‐arid steppe

    Y. Zhao;S. Peth;X. Y. Wang;H. Lin

  • Effects of soil morphology on hydraulic properties : I. Quantification of soil morphology

    H. S. Lin;K. J. McInnes;L. P. Wilding;C. T. Hallmark

  • Surface and Ground Water, Weathering, and Soils

    Henry Lin

Frequent Co-Authors

Yunqiang Wang
Yunqiang Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Susan L. Brantley
Susan L. Brantley Pennsylvania State University
David M. Eissenstat
David M. Eissenstat Pennsylvania State University
Jin Chen
Jin Chen Beijing Normal University
Jason P. Kaye
Jason P. Kaye Pennsylvania State University
Weijian Zhou
Weijian Zhou Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhisheng An
Zhisheng An Chinese Academy of Sciences
Harry Vereecken
Harry Vereecken Forschungszentrum Jülich
Heye Bogena
Heye Bogena Forschungszentrum Jülich
Xinhua Peng
Xinhua Peng Chinese Academy of Sciences

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