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Lei Cheng is a researcher affiliated with Wuhan University in China. Their scholarly work primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering, with a strong focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's research addresses a variety of topics including:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Climate Variability and Models
  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
  • Water Resources Management and Optimization
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis

Lei Cheng has contributed numerous publications to notable research venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Hydrology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Renewable Energy
  • Water Resources Research

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Lei Cheng are:

  • "Assessment of GCMs simulation performance for precipitation and temperature from CMIP5 to CMIP6 over the Tibetan Plateau" (2021), published in International Journal of Climatology
  • "Multi-step wind speed prediction by combining a WRF simulation and an error correction strategy" (2020), published in Renewable Energy
  • "A Stacking Ensemble Model of Various Machine Learning Models for Daily Runoff Forecasting" (2023), published in Water
  • "Recent leveling off of vegetation greenness and primary production reveals the increasing soil water limitations on the greening Earth" (2021), published in Science Bulletin
  • "A shift in the dominant role of atmospheric vapor pressure deficit and soil moisture on vegetation greening in China" (2022), published in Journal of Hydrology

Collaboration has been an important part of their work, with frequent co-authors including Pan Liu, Lu Zhang, Shujing Qin, Liu Liu, and Qian Cheng. The number of collaborative publications with these researchers ranges from 14 to 71.

Best Publications

  • Greening of the Earth and its drivers

    Zaichun Zhu;Zaichun Zhu;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Ranga B. Myneni;Mengtian Huang

  • Detection and Attribution of Vegetation Greening Trend in China over the Last 30 Years

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Guodong Yin;Jianguang Tan;Lei Cheng

  • Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Increase Organic Carbon Decomposition Under Elevated CO2

    Lei Cheng;Fitzgerald L. Booker;Fitzgerald L. Booker;Cong Tu;Kent O. Burkey;Kent O. Burkey

  • NCycDB: a curated integrative database for fast and accurate metagenomic profiling of nitrogen cycling genes.

    Qichao Tu;Lu Lin;Lei Cheng;Ye Deng

  • Tundra soil carbon is vulnerable to rapid microbial decomposition under climate warming

    Kai Xue;Kai Xue;Mengting M. Yuan;Zhou J. Shi;Yujia Qin

  • Root morphology and mycorrhizal symbioses together shape nutrient foraging strategies of temperate trees.

    Weile Chen;Roger T. Koide;Thomas S. Adams;Jared L. DeForest

  • Change in terrestrial ecosystem water‐use efficiency over the last three decades

    Mengtian Huang;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Yan Sun;Philippe Ciais

  • Recent increases in terrestrial carbon uptake at little cost to the water cycle

    Lei Cheng;Lu Zhang;Ying Ping Wang;Josep Gili Canadell

  • Optimal daily generation scheduling of large hydro–photovoltaic hybrid power plants

    Bo Ming;Pan Liu;Lei Cheng;Yanlai Zhou

  • Warming enhances old organic carbon decomposition through altering functional microbial communities

    Lei Cheng;Lei Cheng;Naifang Zhang;Mengting Yuan;Jing Xiao

  • Use of satellite leaf area index estimating evapotranspiration and gross assimilation for Australian ecosystems

    Rong Gan;Rong Gan;Yongqiang Zhang;Hao Shi;Yuting Yang

  • Assessment of GCMs simulation performance for precipitation and temperature from CMIP5 to CMIP6 over the Tibetan Plateau

    Yurui Lun;Liu Liu;Lei Cheng;Xiuping Li

  • Soil Microbial Community Responses to a Decade of Warming as Revealed by Comparative Metagenomics

    Chengwei Luo;Luis M. Rodriguez-R;Eric R. Johnston;Liyou Wu

  • Can the co-cultivation of rice and fish help sustain rice production?

    Liangliang Hu;Jian Zhang;Weizheng Ren;Liang Guo

  • Multi-step wind speed prediction by combining a WRF simulation and an error correction strategy

    Weifeng Xu;Pan Liu;Lei Cheng;Yong Zhou

  • Seasonal responses of terrestrial ecosystem water-use efficiency to climate change.

    Mengtian Huang;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Zhenzhong Zeng;Shushi Peng;Shushi Peng

  • Evaluating relative merits of four baseflow separation methods in Eastern Australia

    Junlong Zhang;Junlong Zhang;Yongqiang Zhang;Jinxi Song;Jinxi Song;Lei Cheng

  • Long-term complementary operation of a large-scale hydro-photovoltaic hybrid power plant using explicit stochastic optimization

    He Li;Pan Liu;Shenglian Guo;Bo Ming

  • Deriving operating rules for a large-scale hydro-photovoltaic power system using implicit stochastic optimization

    Zhikai Yang;Pan Liu;Lei Cheng;Hao Wang

  • Global patterns and climate drivers of water-use efficiency in terrestrial ecosystems deduced from satellite-based datasets and carbon cycle models

    Yan Sun;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Mengtian Huang;Philippe Ciais

  • Atmospheric CO2 enrichment facilitates cation release from soil.

    L. Cheng;J. Zhu;G. Chen;X. Zheng

  • Exploring the physical controls of regional patterns of flow duration curves – Part 1: Insights from statistical analyses

    L. Cheng;L. Cheng;M. Yaeger;A. Viglione;E. Coopersmith

Frequent Co-Authors

Pan Liu
Pan Liu Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Lu Zhang
Lu Zhang Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Ying-Ping Wang
Ying-Ping Wang Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Jun Xia
Jun Xia Wuhan University
Shenglian Guo
Shenglian Guo Wuhan University
Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma
Jinxi Song
Jinxi Song Northwest University
Zhenzhong Zeng
Zhenzhong Zeng Southern University of Science and Technology
Shushi Peng
Shushi Peng Peking University

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