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Sha 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 Sha Zhou sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 70 publications — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sha 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 Sha Zhou sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Sha Zhou is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States, specializing in environmental science with a significant focus on aspects of global and planetary change, atmospheric science, water science and technology, plant science, and ecology. Their research contributions prominently address climate variability, plant water relations, hydrology, atmospheric gas dynamics, and soil carbon dynamics.

The scientist's work has been published extensively, with frequent appearances in several prominent journals. The main publication venues for Sha Zhou include:

  • Nature Climate Change
  • Global Change Biology
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Sha Zhou's recent papers demonstrate a focus on interactions between terrestrial ecosystems and environmental conditions, along with the influence of anthropogenic factors on climate events. Selected recent publications include:

  • "Soil moisture-atmosphere feedbacks mitigate declining water availability in drylands," 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • "Increasing sensitivity of dryland vegetation greenness to precipitation due to rising atmospheric CO2," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Global concurrent climate extremes exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change," 2023, Science Advances
  • "Ecosystem transpiration and evaporation: Insights from three water flux partitioning methods across FLUXNET sites," 2020, Global Change Biology
  • "Light limitation regulates the response of autumn terrestrial carbon uptake to warming," 2020, Nature Climate Change

The main research topics covered by Sha Zhou include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Hydrology and watershed management studies
  • Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics
  • Hydrology and drought analysis
  • Remote sensing in agriculture
  • Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sha Zhou include:

  • Yao Zhang
  • Trevor F. Keenan
  • Pierre Gentine
  • Bofu Yu
  • Park Williams

Best Publications

  • Land-atmosphere feedbacks exacerbate concurrent soil drought and atmospheric aridity.

    Sha Zhou;Sha Zhou;A. Park Williams;Alexis M. Berg;Benjamin I. Cook;Benjamin I. Cook

  • A global moderate resolution dataset of gross primary production of vegetation for 2000–2016

    Yao Zhang;Xiangming Xiao;Xiangming Xiao;Xiaocui Wu;Sha Zhou

  • A global spatially contiguous solar-induced fluorescence (CSIF) dataset using neural networks

    Yao Zhang;Joanna Joiner;Seyed Hamed Alemohammad;Sha Zhou

  • Large increase in global storm runoff extremes driven by climate and anthropogenic changes.

    Jiabo Yin;Jiabo Yin;Pierre Gentine;Sha Zhou;Sylvia C. Sullivan

  • Projected increases in intensity, frequency, and terrestrial carbon costs of compound drought and aridity events.

    Sha Zhou;Yao Zhang;A. Park Williams;Pierre Gentine

  • Soil moisture–atmosphere feedbacks mitigate declining water availability in drylands

    Sha Zhou;A. Park Williams;Benjamin R. Lintner;Alexis M. Berg

  • Increasing sensitivity of dryland vegetation greenness to precipitation due to rising atmospheric CO2

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  • Coupling between the terrestrial carbon and water cycles—a review

    Pierre Gentine;Julia K Green;Marceau Guérin;Vincent Humphrey

  • Partitioning evapotranspiration based on the concept of underlying water use efficiency

    Sha Zhou;Bofu Yu;Yao Zhang;Yuefei Huang

  • Physics‐constrained machine learning of evapotranspiration

    Wen Li Zhao;Wen Li Zhao;Pierre Gentine;Markus Reichstein;Yao Zhang

  • Global concurrent climate extremes exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change

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  • Consistency Between Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence and Gross Primary Production of Vegetation in North America

    Yao Zhang;Xiangming Xiao;Xiangming Xiao;Cui Jin;Jinwei Dong

  • A simple and objective method to partition evapotranspiration into transpiration and evaporation at eddy-covariance sites

    Xi Li;Xi Li;Pierre Gentine;Changjie Lin;Sha Zhou

  • The effect of vapor pressure deficit on water use efficiency at the subdaily time scale

    Sha Zhou;Bofu Yu;Yuefei Huang;Guangqian Wang

  • Exacerbated drought impacts on global ecosystems due to structural overshoot

    Yao Zhang;Yao Zhang;Yao Zhang;Trevor F. Keenan;Trevor F. Keenan;Sha Zhou

  • Ecosystem transpiration and evaporation: Insights from three water flux partitioning methods across FLUXNET sites.

    Jacob A. Nelson;Oscar Pérez-Priego;Sha Zhou;Sha Zhou;Rafael Poyatos

  • Light limitation regulates the response of autumn terrestrial carbon uptake to warming

    Yao Zhang;Róisín Commane;Sha Zhou;Sha Zhou;A. Park Williams

  • On the relationship between sub-daily instantaneous and daily total gross primary production: Implications for interpreting satellite-based SIF retrievals

    Yao-Jun Zhang;Xiangming Xiao;Xiangming Xiao;Yongguang Zhang;Sebastian Wolf

  • The complementary relationship and generation of the Budyko functions

    Sha Zhou;Bofu Yu;Yuefei Huang;Guangqian Wang

  • Canopy and physiological controls of GPP during drought and heat wave

    Yao Zhang;Xiangming Xiao;Xiangming Xiao;Sha Zhou;Sha Zhou;Philippe Ciais

  • Explaining inter-annual variability of gross primary productivity from plant phenology and physiology

    Sha Zhou;Sha Zhou;Yao Zhang;Kelly K. Caylor;Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo

  • Effects of human activities on the eco-environment in the middle Heihe River Basin based on an extended environmental Kuznets curve model

    Sha Zhou;Yuefei Huang;Bofu Yu;Guangqian Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Yao Zhang
Yao Zhang Peking University
Yuefei Huang
Yuefei Huang Tsinghua University
Pierre Gentine
Pierre Gentine Columbia University
Xiangming Xiao
Xiangming Xiao University of Oklahoma
Bofu Yu
Bofu Yu Griffith University
Trevor F. Keenan
Trevor F. Keenan Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Guangqian Wang
Guangqian Wang Tsinghua University
Benjamin I. Cook
Benjamin I. Cook Goddard Institute for Space Studies
A. Park Williams
A. Park Williams Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Jinwei Dong
Jinwei Dong Chinese Academy of Sciences

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