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Yaoming Ma is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their work predominantly focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a substantial number of publications in these fields.

Their research covers several key subfields including atmospheric science, global and planetary change, water science and technology, environmental engineering, and ecology.

Yaoming Ma's main topics of research work encompass:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Meteorological phenomena and simulations
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Hydrology and watershed management studies
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds

The scientist has contributed to numerous publications, with a strong presence in journals such as:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Atmospheric Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Water

Representative recent papers by Yaoming Ma include:

  • A long-term (2005-2016) dataset of hourly integrated land-atmosphere interaction observations on the Tibetan Plateau, 2020, Earth system science data

Other notable papers closely related to the research domain, albeit authored by frequent collaborators or related authors, are:

  • Global Climate Impacts of Land-Surface and Atmospheric Processes Over the Tibetan Plateau, 2023, Reviews of Geophysics
  • Plant uptake of CO2 outpaces losses from permafrost and plant respiration on the Tibetan Plateau, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Land-surface processes and summer-cloud-precipitation characteristics in the Tibetan Plateau and their effects on downstream weather: a review and perspective, 2020, National Science Review
  • Persistent and enhanced carbon sequestration capacity of alpine grasslands on Earth's Third Pole, 2023, Science Advances

Yaoming Ma frequently collaborates with several scientists in their field, including:

  • Weiqiang Ma
  • Xuelong Chen
  • Binbin Wang
  • Lei Zhong
  • Zhipeng Xie

Best Publications

  • Recent Third Pole’s Rapid Warming Accompanies Cryospheric Melt and Water Cycle Intensification and Interactions between Monsoon and Environment: Multidisciplinary Approach with Observations, Modeling, and Analysis

    Tandong Yao;Yongkang Xue;Deliang Chen;Fahu Chen

  • Third Pole Environment (TPE)

    Tandong Yao;Lonnie G. Thompson;Volker Mosbrugger;Fan Zhang

  • A remote sensing surface energy balance algorithm for land (SEBAL).

    W.G.M. Bastiaanssen;H. Pelgrum;J. Wang;Y. Ma

  • The Tibetan plateau observatory of plateau scale soil moisture and soil temperature, Tibet - Obs, for quantifying uncertainties in coarse resolution satellite and model products

    Z. Su;J. Wen;L. Dente;R. van der Velde

  • The Kobresia pygmaea ecosystem of the Tibetan highlands – Origin, functioning and degradation of the world's largest pastoral alpine ecosystem: Kobresia pastures of Tibet

    Georg Miehe;Per Marten Schleuss;Elke Seeber;Wolfgang Babel

  • Assessment of vegetation dynamics and their response to variations in precipitation and temperature in the Tibetan Plateau

    Lei Zhong;Lei Zhong;Lei Zhong;Yaoming Ma;Yaoming Ma;Mhd. Suhyb Salama;Zhongbo Su

  • THE JOINT AEROSOL- MONSOON EXPERIMENT A New Challenge for Monsoon Climate Research

    K. M. Lau;V. Ramanathan;Z. Li;S. C. Tsay

  • Spatiotemporal pattern of gross primary productivity and its covariation with climate in China over the last thirty years.

    Yitong Yao;Xuhui Wang;Yue Li;Tao Wang

  • Turbulent flux transfer over bare-soil surfaces: Characteristics and parameterization

    Kun Yang;Kun Yang;Toshio Koike;Hirohiko Ishikawa;Joon Kim

  • Auto-calibration system developed to assimilate AMSR-E data into a land surface model for estimating soil moisture and the surface energy budget

    Kun Yang;Takahiro Watanabe;Toshio Koike;Xin Li

  • A long-term (2005–2016) dataset of hourly integrated land–atmosphere interaction observations on the Tibetan Plateau

    Yaoming Ma;Yaoming Ma;Zeyong Hu;Zeyong Hu;Zhipeng Xie;Weiqiang Ma;Weiqiang Ma

  • Weather and climate effects of the Tibetan Plateau

    Anmin Duan;Guoxiong Wu;Yimin Liu;Yaoming Ma

  • Global Climate Impacts of Land‐Surface and Atmospheric Processes Over the Tibetan Plateau

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  • Weak precipitation, warm winters and springs impact glaciers of south slopes of Mt. Everest (central Himalaya) in the last 2 decades (1994–2013)

    F. Salerno;N. Guyennon;S. Thakuri;G. Viviano

  • Surface Energy Budget at Amdo on the Tibetan Plateau using GAME/Tibet IOP98 Data.

    Kenji Tanaka;Hirohiko Ishikawa;Taiichi Hayashi;Ichiro Tamagawa

  • The Third Atmospheric Scientific Experiment for Understanding the Earth–Atmosphere Coupled System over the Tibetan Plateau and Its Effects

    Ping Zhao;Xiangde Xu;Fei Chen;Xueliang Guo

  • ROOF OF THE WORLD: Tibetan Observation and Research Platform

    Yaoming Ma;Shichang Kang;Liping Zhu;Baiquing Xu

  • Climate Change Trends and Impacts on Vegetation Greening Over the Tibetan Plateau

    Lei Zhong;Lei Zhong;Lei Zhong;Yaoming Ma;Yaoming Ma;Yongkang Xue;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao

  • A Systematic Evaluation of Noah-MP in Simulating Land-Atmosphere Energy, Water, and Carbon Exchanges Over the Continental United States

    Ning Ma;Ning Ma;Guo Yue Niu;Youlong Xia;Xitian Cai

  • An Improvement of Roughness Height Parameterization of the Surface Energy Balance System (SEBS) over the Tibetan Plateau

    Xuelong Chen;Zhongbo Su;Yaoming Ma;Kun Yang

  • TIBETAN OBSERVATION AND RESEARCH PLATFORM Atmosphere-Land Interaction over a Heterogeneous Landscape

    Ma YM(马耀明);Kang SC(康世昌);Zhu LP(朱立平);Xu BQ(徐柏青)

  • Plant uptake of CO2 outpaces losses from permafrost and plant respiration on the Tibetan Plateau.

    Da Wei;Yahui Qi;Yaoming Ma;Xufeng Wang

  • Recent advances on the study of atmosphere-land interaction observations on the Tibetan Plateau

    Y. Ma;Y. Wang;R. Wu;Z. Hu

  • Land-surface processes and summer-cloud-precipitation characteristics in the Tibetan Plateau and their effects on downstream weather: a review and perspective

    Yunfei Fu;Yaoming Ma;Lei Zhong;Lei Zhong;Yuanjian Yang

  • Relationships between δ18O in precipitation and air temperature and moisture origin on a south-north transect of the Tibetan Plateau

    Wusheng Yu;Tandong Yao;Lide Tian;Yaoming Ma

  • Monitoring and Modeling the Tibetan Plateau's climate system and its impact on East Asia.

    Yaoming Ma;Weiqiang Ma;Lei Zhong;Zeyong Hu

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhongbo Su
Zhongbo Su University of Twente
Kun Yang
Kun Yang Tsinghua University
Massimo Menenti
Massimo Menenti Delft University of Technology
Thomas Foken
Thomas Foken University of Bayreuth
Tandong Yao
Tandong Yao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Shichang Kang
Shichang Kang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Toshio Koike
Toshio Koike University of Tokyo
Georg Miehe
Georg Miehe Philipp University of Marburg
Yakov Kuzyakov
Yakov Kuzyakov University of Göttingen

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