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Liming Zhou publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Liming Zhou sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 128 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Liming Zhou D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Liming Zhou sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Liming Zhou is affiliated with the University at Albany, State University of New York in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong emphasis on Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. Additional subfields include Environmental Engineering, Geophysics, and Water Science and Technology.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, especially Climate Variability and Models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics. They have also contributed to research in Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones, Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis.

Liming Zhou has published research in various notable scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Climate Dynamics
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Atmospheric Research
  • Journal of Climate

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Zhou are:

  • Evaporative water loss of 1.42 million global lakes, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Reconciling disagreement on global river flood changes in a warming climate, 2022, Nature Climate Change
  • Observed changes in fire patterns and possible drivers over Central Africa, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Increasing Influence of Indian Ocean Dipole on Precipitation Over Central Equatorial Africa, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • The most extreme heat waves in Amazonia happened under extreme dryness, 2022, Climate Dynamics

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several frequent coauthors, including:

  • Wenjian Hua
  • Ajay Raghavendra
  • Yan Jiang
  • Haishan Chen
  • Geng Xia

Best Publications

  • Variations in northern vegetation activity inferred from satellite data of vegetation index during 1981 to 1999

    Liming Zhou;Compton J. Tucker;Robert K. Kaufmann;Daniel Slayback

  • Surface Urban Heat Island Across 419 Global Big Cities

    Shushi Peng;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Pierre Friedlingstein

  • Evidence for a significant urbanization effect on climate in China

    Liming Zhou;Robert Earl Dickinson;Yuhong Tian;Jingyun Fang

  • Variations in satellite-derived phenology in China's temperate vegetation.

    Shilong Piao;Jingyun Fang;Liming Zhou;Philippe Ciais

  • Remote sensing of vegetation and land-cover change in Arctic Tundra Ecosystems

    Douglas A. Stow;Allen Hope;David McGuire;David Verbyla

  • A large carbon sink in the woody biomass of Northern forests

    R. B. Myneni;J. Dong;C. J. Tucker;R. K. Kaufmann

  • Afforestation in China cools local land surface temperature

    Shu-Shi Peng;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Zhenzhong Zeng;Philippe Ciais

  • Interannual variations of monthly and seasonal normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) in China from 1982 to 1999

    Shilong Piao;Jingyun Fang;Liming Zhou;Qinghua Guo;Qinghua Guo

  • Evaporative cooling over the Tibetan Plateau induced by vegetation growth

    Miaogen Shen;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Su-Jong Jeong;Liming Zhou

  • Climate mitigation from vegetation biophysical feedbacks during the past three decades

    Zhenzhong Zeng;Shilong Piao;Laurent Z. X. Li;Liming Zhou

  • Divergent hydrological response to large-scale afforestation and vegetation greening in China

    Yue Li;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Laurent Z. X. Li;Anping Chen

  • Widespread decline of Congo rainforest greenness in the past decade

    Liming Zhou;Yuhong Tian;Ranga B. Myneni;Philippe Ciais

  • Variability of the Seasonally Integrated Normalized Difference Vegetation Index Across the North Slope of Alaska in the 1990s

    D. Stow;Scott Daeschner;A. Hope;David C. Douglas

  • Climate Response to Rapid Urban Growth: Evidence of a Human-Induced Precipitation Deficit

    Robert K. Kaufmann;Karen C. Seto;Annemarie Schneider;Zouting Liu

  • Changes in vegetation net primary productivity from 1982 to 1999 in China

    Shilong Piao;Jingyun Fang;Liming Zhou;Biao Zhu

  • Relation between interannual variations in satellite measures of northern forest greenness and climate between 1982 and 1999

    L. Zhou;L. Zhou;R. K. Kaufmann;Y. Tian;Y. Tian;R. B. Myneni

  • Impacts of wind farms on land surface temperature

    Liming Zhou;Yuhong Tian;Somnath Baidya Roy;Chris Thorncroft

  • Increasing net primary production in China from 1982 to 1999

    Jingyun Fang;Shilong Piao;Christopher B. Field;Yude Pan

  • Multiscale analysis and validation of the MODIS LAI product: I. Uncertainty assessment

    Yuhong Tian;Yuhong Tian;Curtis E Woodcock;Yujie Wang;Jeff L Privette

  • Effect of climate and CO2 changes on the greening of the Northern Hemisphere over the past two decades

    Shilong Piao;Pierre Friedlingstein;Philippe Ciais;Liming Zhou

  • Response to Comment on ``Surface Urban Heat Island Across 419 Global Big Cities''

    Shushi Peng;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Pierre Friedlingstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Ranga B. Myneni
Ranga B. Myneni Boston University
Yuhong Tian
Yuhong Tian National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Robert E. Dickinson
Robert E. Dickinson The University of Texas at Austin
Compton J. Tucker
Compton J. Tucker Goddard Space Flight Center
Yongjiu Dai
Yongjiu Dai Sun Yat-sen University
Jingyun Fang
Jingyun Fang Peking University
Yuri Knyazikhin
Yuri Knyazikhin Boston University
Shushi Peng
Shushi Peng Peking University
Zhenzhong Zeng
Zhenzhong Zeng Southern University of Science and Technology

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