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Citations
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World Ranking
7144
National Ranking
143

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Ranhao Sun is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and works primarily in the field of Environmental Science. With over 117 publications, their research spans several specialized subfields including Environmental Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Ecology.

The main topics addressed in their work cover diverse environmental and health-related areas. These include Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Urban Green Space and Health, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Remote Sensing and Land Use, Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport, and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes.

Ranhao Sun has contributed frequently to several publication venues, which reflect their multidisciplinary approach. Notable journals where multiple publications appear include Ecological Indicators, Remote Sensing, The Science of The Total Environment, Cities, and Landscape Ecology.

Frequent collaborators have notably included Liding Chen, Zhaowu Yu, Jialei Li, Song Leng, and Hongbin He, indicating a network of close professional associations contributing to environmental and ecological research.

The following recent papers highlight selected contributions by the scientist:

  • "Links between green space and public health: a bibliometric review of global research trends and future prospects from 1901 to 2019" (2020), published in Environmental Research Letters
  • "Impacts of landscape multifunctionality change on landscape ecological risk in a megacity, China: A case study of Beijing" (2020), published in Ecological Indicators
  • "Enhanced observations from an optimized soil-canopy-photosynthesis and energy flux model revealed evapotranspiration-shading cooling dynamics of urban vegetation during extreme heat" (2024), published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "A Chinese soil conservation dataset preventing soil water erosion from 1992 to 2019" (2023), published in Scientific Data
  • "Global assessment of wind erosion based on a spatially distributed RWEQ model" (2021), published in Progress in Physical Geography Earth and Environment

Best Publications

  • How can urban water bodies be designed for climate adaptation

    Ranhao Sun;Liding Chen

  • Cooling effects of wetlands in an urban region: The case of Beijing

    Ranhao Sun;Ailian Chen;Liding Chen;Yihe Lü

  • Effect of urban green patterns on surface urban cool islands and its seasonal variations

    Ailian Chen;X. Angela Yao;Ranhao Sun;Liding Chen

  • Effects of green space dynamics on urban heat islands: Mitigation and diversification

    Ranhao Sun;Liding Chen

  • How many metrics are required to identify the effects of the landscape pattern on land surface temperature

    Ailian Chen;Lei Yao;Ranhao Sun;Liding Chen

  • Effects of soil conservation techniques on water erosion control: A global analysis.

    Muqi Xiong;Ranhao Sun;Liding Chen

  • Land use changes and socio-economic development strongly deteriorate river ecosystem health in one of the largest basins in China

    Xian Cheng;Liding Chen;Ranhao Sun;Peiru Kong

  • Understanding the variability of urban heat islands from local background climate and urbanization

    Ranhao Sun;Yihe Lü;Xiaojun Yang;Liding Chen

  • Potential reduction in urban runoff by green spaces in Beijing: A scenario analysis

    Lei Yao;Liding Chen;Wei Wei;Ranhao Sun

  • A global comparison of soil erosion associated with land use and climate type

    Muqi Xiong;Ranhao Sun;Liding Chen

  • Impacts of landscape multifunctionality change on landscape ecological risk in a megacity, China: A case study of Beijing

    Weijie Li;Yong Wang;Shiyou Xie;Ranhao Sun

  • A distributed model for quantifying temporal-spatial patterns of anthropogenic heat based on energy consumption

    Ranhao Sun;Yening Wang;Liding Chen

  • Assessing the stability of annual temperatures for different urban functional zones

    Ranhao Sun;Yihe Lü;Liding Chen;Liu Yang

  • The Distribution and Accessibility of Urban Parks in Beijing, China: Implications of Social Equity.

    Shu Feng;Liding Chen;Ranhao Sun;Zhiqiang Feng

  • Carbon retention by check dams: Regional scale estimation

    Yihe Lü;Ranhao Sun;Bojie Fu;Yafeng Wang

  • A landscape connectivity model to quantify contributions of heat sources and sinks in urban regions.

    Ranhao Sun;Wei Xie;Liding Chen

  • The Impact of Greenspace on Thermal Comfort in a Residential Quarter of Beijing, China

    Zhifeng Wu;Fanhua Kong;Yening Wang;Ranhao Sun

  • Major Ecosystems in China: Dynamics and Challenges for Sustainable Management

    Yihe Lü;Bojie Fu;Wei Wei;Xiubo Yu

  • Effect of land-use patterns on total nitrogen concentration in the upstream regions of the Haihe River Basin, China.

    Ranhao Sun;Liding Chen;Wenlin Chen;Yuhe Ji

  • An improved export coefficient model to estimate non-point source phosphorus pollution risks under complex precipitation and terrain conditions

    Xian Cheng;Liding Chen;Ranhao Sun;Yongcai Jing

Frequent Co-Authors

Liding Chen
Liding Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yihe Lü
Yihe Lü Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bojie Fu
Bojie Fu Peking University
Lei Yang
Lei Yang Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Guangsheng Zhou
Guangsheng Zhou Chinese Academy of Sciences

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