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34
Citations
14588
World Ranking
9376
National Ranking
3360

Overview

Xu Liang is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, focusing notably on Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, Information Systems and Management, Environmental Engineering, and Computer Networks and Communications.

Their work frequently addresses topics related to Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Scientific Computing and Data Management, Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems, Environmental Monitoring and Data Management, Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, Climate Variability and Models, and Groundwater Flow and Contamination Studies.

Xu Liang has contributed to several publications, with notable papers including:

  • An open-data open-model framework for hydrological models' integration, evaluation and application (2020) published in Environmental Modelling & Software
  • A Calibration Framework for High-Resolution Hydrological Models Using a Multiresolution and Heterogeneous Strategy (2020) in Water Resources Research
  • Feasibility of Harvesting Solar Energy for Self-Powered Environmental Wireless Sensor Nodes (2020) in Electronics
  • Roles of Hydrology and Transport Processes in Denitrification at Watershed Scale (2024) in Water Resources Research
  • Coupled models of water and carbon cycles from leaf to global: A retrospective and a prospective (2024) in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Xu Liang's frequent co-authors include:

  • Yao Liang
  • Daniel Luna
  • Ranran Chen
  • Felipe Hernández
  • Ryan M. Young

Their work has appeared predominantly in Environmental Modelling & Software and Water Resources Research, with additional publications in arXiv (Cornell University), Electronics, and Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

Best Publications

  • A simple hydrologically based model of land surface water and energy fluxes for general circulation models

    Xu Liang;Dennis P. Lettenmaier;Eric F. Wood;Stephen J. Burges

  • IAHS Decade on Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB), 2003–2012: Shaping an exciting future for the hydrological sciences

    M. Sivapalan;K. Takeuchi;S. W. Franks;V. K. Gupta

  • Surface soil moisture parameterization of the VIC-2L model: Evaluation and modification

    Xu Liang;Eric F. Wood;Dennis P. Lettenmaier

  • Model Parameter Estimation Experiment (MOPEX): An overview of science strategy and major results from the second and third workshops

    Q. Duan;J. Schaake;V. Andréassian;S. Franks

  • Streamflow simulation for continental-scale river basins

    Bart Nijssen;Dennis P. Lettenmaier;Xu Liang;Suzanne W. Wetzel;Suzanne W. Wetzel

  • One-dimensional statistical dynamic representation of subgrid spatial variability of precipitation in the two-layer variable infiltration capacity model

    Xu Liang;Dennis P. Lettenmaier;Eric F. Wood

  • The Effect of Soil Thermal Conductivity Parameterization on Surface Energy Fluxes and Temperatures

    C. D. Peters-Lidard;E. Blackburn;X. Liang;E. F. Wood

  • Cabauw Experimental Results from the Project for Intercomparison of Land-Surface Parameterization Schemes

    T.H. Chen;A. Henderson-Sellers;P.C.D. Milly;A.J. Pitman

  • A new surface runoff parameterization with subgrid-scale soil heterogeneity for land surface models

    Xu Liang;Zhenghui Xie

  • A new parameterization for surface and groundwater interactions and its impact on water budgets with the variable infiltration capacity (VIC) land surface model

    Xu Liang;Zhenghui Xie;Zhenghui Xie;Maoyi Huang

  • The Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parameterization Schemes (PILPS) Phase 2(c) Red–Arkansas River basin experiment:: 1. Experiment description and summary intercomparisons

    Eric F. Wood;Dennis P. Lettenmaier;Xu Liang;Dag Lohmann

  • The Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parameterization Schemes (PILPS) phase 2(c) Red–Arkansas River basin experiment:: 3. Spatial and temporal analysis of water fluxes

    Dag Lohmann;Dennis P. Lettenmaier;Xu Liang;Eric F. Wood

  • Hydrological modeling of continental-scale basins

    Eric F. Wood;Dennis Lettenmaier;Xu Liang;Bart Nijssen

  • Reliable, robust and realistic: the three R's of next-generation land-surface modelling

    I. C. Prentice;I. C. Prentice;X. Liang;B. E. Medlyn;B. E. Medlyn;Y.-P. Wang

  • Modeling ground heat flux in land surface parameterization schemes

    Xu Liang;Eric F. Wood;Dennis P. Lettenmaier

  • The Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parameterization Schemes PILPS Phase 2 c Red–Arkansas River basin experiment: 1. Experiment description and summary intercomparisons

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  • Key results and implications from phase 1(c) of the Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parametrization Schemes

    A. J. Pitman;A. Henderson-Sellers;C. E. Desborough;Z.-L. Yang

  • Assessment of the effects of spatial resolutions on daily water flux simulations

    Xu Liang;Jianzhong Guo;L.Ruby Leung

  • Important factors in land-atmosphere interactions: surface runoff generations and interactions between surface and groundwater

    Xu Liang;Zhenghui Xie;Zhenghui Xie

  • On the assessment of the impact of reducing parameters and identification of parameter uncertainties for a hydrologic model with applications to ungauged basins

    Maoyi Huang;Xu Liang

  • The distributed model intercomparison project (DMIP)

    Michael B Smith;Konstantine P Georgakakos;Xu Liang

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric F. Wood
Eric F. Wood Princeton University
Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Dennis P. Lettenmaier University of California, Los Angeles
Maoyi Huang
Maoyi Huang Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Lai-yung Ruby Leung
Lai-yung Ruby Leung Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Yongkang Xue
Yongkang Xue University of California, Los Angeles
Zong-Liang Yang
Zong-Liang Yang The University of Texas at Austin
Robert E. Dickinson
Robert E. Dickinson The University of Texas at Austin
Yaping Shao
Yaping Shao University of Cologne
Yongjiu Dai
Yongjiu Dai Sun Yat-sen University
Florence Habets
Florence Habets École Normale Supérieure

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