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Environmental Sciences
China
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
81
Citations
27527
World Ranking
915
National Ranking
91

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in China Leader Award

Overview

Junguo Liu is affiliated with the Southern University of Science and Technology in China. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with extensive work covering subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, and Ocean Engineering.

The core topics in Junguo Liu's research include:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
  • Climate variability and models
  • Water resources management and optimization
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis

Some notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Liu include:

  • Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Globally observed trends in mean and extreme river flow attributed to climate change, 2021, Science
  • Global mapping reveals increase in lacustrine algal blooms over the past decade, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • China's food loss and waste embodies increasing environmental impacts, 2021, Nature Food
  • Deceleration of China's human water use and its key drivers, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Junguo Liu has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Chinese Science Bulletin (Chinese Version)
  • Journal of Cleaner Production

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several co-authors including:

  • Deliang Chen
  • Lian Feng
  • Chunmiao Zheng
  • Hong Yang
  • Zhan Tian

Best Publications

  • Reduced carbon emission estimates from fossil fuel combustion and cement production in China

    Z Liu;Dabo Guan;Wei Wei;Steven J Davis

  • International principles and standards for the practice of ecological restoration: Second edition

    George D. Gann;Tein McDonald;Bethanie Walder;James Aronson

  • Water scarcity assessments in the past, present, and future

    Junguo Liu;Hong Yang;Hong Yang;Simon N. Gosling;Matti Kummu

  • Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective

    Günter Blöschl;Marc F.P. Bierkens;Antonio Chambel;Christophe Cudennec

  • PEATMAP: Refining estimates of global peatland distribution based on a meta-analysis

    Jiren Xu;Paul J. Morris;Junguo Liu;Junguo Liu;Joseph Holden

  • Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change

    Yadu Pokhrel;Farshid Felfelani;Yusuke Satoh;Yusuke Satoh;Julien Boulange

  • A high-resolution assessment on global nitrogen flows in cropland

    Junguo Liu;Liangzhi You;Manouchehr Amini;Michael Obersteiner

  • Global mapping reveals increase in lacustrine algal blooms over the past decade

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  • Physical and virtual water transfers for regional water stress alleviation in China

    Xu Zhao;Junguo Liu;Qingying Liu;Martin R. Tillotson

  • GEPIC – modelling wheat yield and crop water productivity with high resolution on a global scale

    Junguo Liu;Jimmy R. Williams;Alexander J.B. Zehnder;Hong Yang

  • Globally observed trends in mean and extreme river flow attributed to climate change

    Lukas Gudmundsson;Julien Boulange;Hong X. Do;Hong X. Do;Hong X. Do;Simon N. Gosling

  • Water scarcity hotspots travel downstream due to human interventions in the 20th and 21st century

    T.I.E. Veldkamp;T.I.E. Veldkamp;Y. Wada;J.C.J.H. Aerts;J.C.J.H. Aerts;P. Döll

  • A reversal in global terrestrial stilling and its implications for wind energy production

    Zhenzhong Zeng;Zhenzhong Zeng;Alan D. Ziegler;Timothy Searchinger;Long Yang

  • Water conservancy projects in China: Achievements, challenges and way forward

    Junguo Liu;Junguo Liu;Chuanfu Zang;Shiying Tian;Jianguo Liu

  • Global urban expansion offsets climate-driven increases in terrestrial net primary productivity

    Xiaoping Liu;Fengsong Pei;Youyue Wen;Xia Li;Xia Li;Xia Li

  • Human–water interface in hydrological modelling : current status and future directions

    Yoshihide Wada;Yoshihide Wada;Marc F. P. Bierkens;Ad de Roo;Paul A. Dirmeyer

  • Physical water scarcity metrics for monitoring progress towards SDG target 6.4: An evaluation of indicator 6.4.2 “Level of water stress”

    D. Vanham;Arjen Y. Hoekstra;Y. Wada;F. Bouraoui

  • Global consumptive water use for crop production: The importance of green water and virtual water

    Junguo Liu;Junguo Liu;Alexander J. B. Zehnder;Hong Yang

  • China’s food loss and waste embodies increasing environmental impacts

    Li Xue;Li Xue;Xiaojie Liu;Shijun Lu;Guangyan Cheng

  • Assessing water scarcity by simultaneously considering environmental flow requirements, water quantity, and water quality

    Junguo Liu;Qingying Liu;Hong Yang;Hong Yang

  • A spatially explicit assessment of current and future hotspots of hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa in the context of global change

    Junguo Liu;Steffen Fritz;C.F.A. van Wesenbeeck;Michael Fuchs

  • Food consumption patterns and their effect on water requirement in China

    J. Liu;H. H. G. Savenije;H. H. G. Savenije

Frequent Co-Authors

Hong Yang
Hong Yang Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Laixiang Sun
Laixiang Sun University of Maryland, College Park
Yoshihide Wada
Yoshihide Wada King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Deliang Chen
Deliang Chen University of Gothenburg
Simon N. Gosling
Simon N. Gosling University of Nottingham
Chunmiao Zheng
Chunmiao Zheng Southern University of Science and Technology
Florian Kraxner
Florian Kraxner International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Jinyue Yan
Jinyue Yan Mälardalen University
Lian Feng
Lian Feng Southern University of Science and Technology
Yadu Pokhrel
Yadu Pokhrel Michigan State University

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