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Overview

Jia Yang is a researcher affiliated with Oklahoma State University in the United States, specializing in Environmental Science. Their scholarly work spans 81 publications primarily focused on topics related to global environmental change and biogeochemical processes.

Their research delves into several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Soil Science, and Water Science and Technology. Within these areas, Jia Yang has contributed significantly to the understanding of plant water relations and carbon dynamics, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, land use and ecosystem services, hydrology and watershed management, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, and climate variability and modeling.

Jia Yang has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Hanqin Tian, Shufen Pan, Hao Shi, Naiqing Pan, and Rongting Xu. These partnerships reflect sustained joint research efforts over numerous publications.

Their recent notable papers include:

  • A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks, 2020, Nature
  • Global nitrous oxide budget (1980-2020), 2024, Earth system science data
  • Increased greenhouse gas emissions intensity of major croplands in China: Implications for food security and climate change mitigation, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Global pattern and change of cropland soil organic carbon during 1901-2010: Roles of climate, atmospheric chemistry, land use and management, 2020, Geography and sustainability
  • Mapping cropping intensity in Huaihe basin using phenology algorithm, all Sentinel-2 and Landsat images in Google Earth Engine, 2021, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Jia Yang's research has been published in various scientific journals, with frequent appearances in the International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Ecological Indicators, The Science of The Total Environment, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Earth system science data.

The body of work by Jia Yang is centered on quantifying and modeling environmental processes at multiple scales, integrating aspects of atmospheric science, soil science, and ecosystem dynamics. Their publications address critical themes related to greenhouse gas emissions, land use impacts, and the interplay of climate factors on biogeochemical cycles.

Best Publications

  • A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks

    Hanquin Tian;Rongting Xu;Josep G. Canadell;Rona L. Thompson

  • The terrestrial biosphere as a net source of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere

    Hanqin Tian;Chaoqun Lu;Chaoqun Lu;Philippe Ciais;Anna M. Michalak

  • Global soil nitrous oxide emissions since the preindustrial era estimated by an ensemble of terrestrial biosphere models: Magnitude, attribution, and uncertainty.

    Hanqin Tian;Hanqin Tian;Jia Yang;Jia Yang;Rongting Xu;Chaoqun Lu

  • Global patterns and controls of soil organic carbon dynamics as simulated by multiple terrestrial biosphere models: Current status and future directions.

    Hanqin Tian;Chaoqun Lu;Jia Yang;Kamaljit Banger

  • Impact of large‐scale climate extremes on biospheric carbon fluxes: An intercomparison based on MsTMIP data

    Jakob Zscheischler;Jakob Zscheischler;Anna M. Michalak;Christopher Schwalm;Miguel D. Mahecha

  • Global ammonia emissions from synthetic nitrogen fertilizer applications in agricultural systems: Empirical and process-based estimates and uncertainty.

    Rongting Xu;Hanqin Tian;Hanqin Tian;Shufen Pan;Stephen A. Prior

  • The Global N2O Model Intercomparison Project

    Hanqin Tian;Jia Yang;Chaoqun Lu;Rongting Xu

  • Amazon drought and forest response: Largely reduced forest photosynthesis but slightly increased canopy greenness during the extreme drought of 2015/2016.

    Jia Yang;Jia Yang;Hanqin Tian;Hanqin Tian;Shufen Pan;Guangsheng Chen

  • Global manure nitrogen production and application in cropland during 1860–2014: a 5 arcmin gridded global dataset for Earth system modeling

    Bowen Zhang;Hanqin Tian;Hanqin Tian;Chaoqun Lu;Chaoqun Lu;Shree R. S. Dangal

  • Responses of global terrestrial evapotranspiration to climate change and increasing atmospheric CO2 in the 21st century

    Shufen Pan;Hanqin Tian;Shree R.S. Dangal;Qichun Yang

  • Methane emissions from global rice fields: Magnitude, spatiotemporal patterns, and environmental controls

    Bowen Zhang;Hanqin Tian;Wei Ren;Wei Ren;Bo Tao;Bo Tao

  • Optimizing resource use efficiencies in the food–energy–water nexus for sustainable agriculture: from conceptual model to decision support system

    Hanqin Tian;Hanqin Tian;Chaoqun Lu;Chaoqun Lu;Shufen Pan;Jia Yang

  • Methane emission from global livestock sector during 1890-2014: Magnitude, trends and spatiotemporal patterns.

    Shree R. S. Dangal;Hanqin Tian;Hanqin Tian;Bowen Zhang;Shufen Pan;Shufen Pan

  • Increasing Mississippi river discharge throughout the 21st century influenced by changes in climate, land use, and atmospheric CO2

    Bo Tao;Hanqin Tian;Wei Ren;Jia Yang

  • Global soil nitrous oxide emissions since the pre-industrial era estimated by an ensemble of Terrestrial Biosphere Models: Magnitude, attribution and uncertainty

    Hanqin Tian;Jia Yang;Rongting Xu;Chaoqun Lu

  • Long‐term trends in evapotranspiration and runoff over the drainage basins of the Gulf of Mexico during 1901–2008

    Mingliang Liu;Hanqin Tian;Qichun Yang;Jia Yang

  • Increased greenhouse gas emissions intensity of major croplands in China: Implications for food security and climate change mitigation

    Jingting Zhang;Hanqin Tian;Hao Shi;Jingfang Zhang

  • Changes in Water Surface Area during 1989–2017 in the Huai River Basin using Landsat Data and Google Earth Engine

    Haoming Xia;Jinyu Zhao;Yaochen Qin;Jia Yang

  • Impact of the 2015/2016 El Nino on the terrestrial carbon cycle constrained by bottom-up and top-down approaches

    Ana Bastos;Ana Bastos;Pierre Friedlingstein;Stephen Sitch;Chi Chen

  • Regional contribution to variability and trends of global gross primary productivity

    Min Chen;Rashid Rafique;Ghassem R. Asrar;Ben Bond-Lamberty

  • Mapping cropping intensity in Huaihe basin using phenology algorithm, all Sentinel-2 and Landsat images in Google Earth Engine

    Li Pan;Haoming Xia;Jia Yang;Wenhui Niu

Frequent Co-Authors

Hanqin Tian
Hanqin Tian Auburn University
Shufen Pan
Shufen Pan Auburn University
Chaoqun Lu
Chaoqun Lu Iowa State University
Wei Ren
Wei Ren Shaanxi Normal University
Bo Tao
Bo Tao University of Kentucky
Akihiko Ito
Akihiko Ito University of Tokyo
Jinfeng Chang
Jinfeng Chang Zhejiang University
Ning Zeng
Ning Zeng University of Maryland, College Park
Fortunat Joos
Fortunat Joos University of Bern
Christopher P.O. Reyer
Christopher P.O. Reyer Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

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