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59
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12549
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2024
National Ranking
131

Overview

Shiyin Liu is affiliated with Yunnan University in China and specializes predominantly in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

Their primary research topics include cryospheric studies and observations, climate change and permafrost, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, hydrology and watershed management studies, winter sports injuries and performance, landslides and related hazards, and flood risk assessment and management.

Frequent collaborators in their work include Yu Zhu, Fuming Xie, Kunpeng Wu, Zongli Jiang, and Miaomiao Qi. Publications featuring Shiyin Liu's research have appeared repeatedly in several venues, notably:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies

Notable papers by Shiyin Liu include:

  • "Glacial change and hydrological implications in the Himalaya and Karakoram," published in 2021 in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Glacial lake inventory of high-mountain Asia in 1990 and 2018 derived from Landsat images," published in 2020 in Earth System Science Data
  • "Pyridine-Based Covalent Organic Frameworks with Pyridyl-Imine Structures for Boosting Photocatalytic H2O2 Production via One-Step 2e Oxygen Reduction," published in 2024 in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Glacier change in China over past decades: Spatiotemporal patterns and influencing factors," published in 2022 in Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Interannual flow dynamics driven by frontal retreat of a lake-terminating glacier in the Chinese Central Himalaya," published in 2020 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Best Publications

  • The second Chinese glacier inventory: data, methods and results

    Wanqin Guo;Shiyin Liu;Li Xu;Lizong Wu

  • Geomorphic and geologic controls of geohazards induced by Nepal’s 2015 Gorkha earthquake

    J. S. Kargel;G. J. Leonard;D. H. Shugar;U. K. Haritashya

  • Glacial change and hydrological implications in the Himalaya and Karakoram

    Yong Nie;Hamish D. Pritchard;Qiao Liu;Thomas Hennig

  • A regional-scale assessment of Himalayan glacial lake changes using satellite observations from 1990 to 2015

    Yong Nie;Yong Nie;Yongwei Sheng;Qiao Liu;Linshan Liu

  • Changes of climate and seasonally frozen ground over the past 30 years in Qinghai–Xizang (Tibetan) Plateau, China

    Lin Zhao;Chien-Lu Ping;Daqing Yang;Guodong Cheng

  • Status and change of the cryosphere in the Extended Hindu Kush Himalaya Region

    Tobias Bolch;Joseph M. Shea;Joseph M. Shea;Joseph M. Shea;Shiyin Liu;Farooq M. Azam

  • Estimation on the response of glaciers in China to the global warming in the 21st century

    Yafeng Shi;Shiyin Liu

  • Glacier changes since the Little Ice Age maximum in the western Qilian Shan, northwest China, and consequences of glacier runoff for water supply

    Shiyin Liu;Wenxin Sun;Yongping Shen;Gang Li

  • Recent glacial retreat in High Asia in China and its impact on water resource in Northwest China

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  • Glacial lake inventory of high-mountain Asia in 1990 and 2018 derived from Landsat images

    Xin Wang;Xin Wang;Xiaoyu Guo;Chengde Yang;Qionghuan Liu

  • An inventory of historical glacial lake outburst floods in the Himalayas based on remote sensing observations and geomorphological analysis

    Yong Nie;Qiao Liu;Jida Wang;Yili Zhang

  • Heterogeneous mass loss of glaciers in the Aksu-Tarim Catchment (Central Tien Shan) revealed by 1976 KH-9 Hexagon and 2009 SPOT-5 stereo imagery

    Tino Pieczonka;Tobias Bolch;Tobias Bolch;Wei Junfeng;Liu Shiyin

  • The retreat of glaciers in response to recent climate warming in western China

    Yongjian Ding;Shiyin Liu;Jing Li;Donghui Shangguan

  • The glaciers of the Hindu Kush Himalayas: current status and observed changes from the 1980s to 2010

    Samjwal Ratna Bajracharya;Sudan Bikash Maharjan;Finu Shrestha;Wanqin Guo

  • Inclusion of glacier processes for distributed hydrological modeling at basin scale with application to a watershed in Tianshan Mountains, northwest China

    Yi Luo;Jeff Arnold;Shiyin Liu;Xiuying Wang

  • Glacier changes in the Qilian Mountains in the past half-century: Based on the revised First and Second Chinese Glacier Inventory

    Meiping Sun;Shiyin Liu;Xiaojun Yao;Wanqin Guo

  • Changes of glacial lakes and implications in Tian Shan, central Asia, based on remote sensing data from 1990 to 2010

    Xin Wang;Xin Wang;Yongjian Ding;Shiyin Liu;Lianghong Jiang

  • Glacial lake expansion in the central Himalayas by Landsat images, 1990-2010.

    Yong Nie;Qiao Liu;Shiyin Liu

  • Distribution of debris thickness and its effect on ice melt at Hailuogou glacier, southeastern Tibetan Plateau, using in situ surveys and ASTER imagery

    Yong Zhang;Koji Fujita;Shiyin Liu;Qiao Liu

  • Observed degree-day factors and their spatial variation on glaciers in western China

    Yong Zhang;Shiyin Liu;Yongjian Ding

  • Glacier retreat as a result of climate warming and increased precipitation in the Tarim river basin, northwest China

    Shiyin Liu;Yongjian Ding;Donghui Shangguan;Yong Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Yongjian Ding
Yongjian Ding Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tobias Bolch
Tobias Bolch Graz University of Technology
Christoph Mayer
Christoph Mayer Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Zhongqin Li
Zhongqin Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tandong Yao
Tandong Yao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yougui Song
Yougui Song Chinese Academy of Sciences
Koji Fujita
Koji Fujita Nagoya University
Yukiko Hirabayashi
Yukiko Hirabayashi Shibaura Institute of Technology
Lin Zhao
Lin Zhao Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Jiancheng Shi
Jiancheng Shi Chinese Academy of Sciences

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