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Yi Y. Liu is affiliated with Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology in China. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science.

Their recent publications demonstrate a concentration on climate variability, plant water relations, and remote sensing technologies. Key papers include:

  • Global Land Surface Temperature Change (2003-2017) and Its Relationship with Climate Drivers: AIRS, MODIS, and ERA5-Land Based Analysis, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Long-term changes in evapotranspiration over China and attribution to climatic drivers during 1980-2010, 2021, Journal of Hydrology
  • Causes for the increases in both evapotranspiration and water yield over vegetated mainland China during the last two decades, 2022, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Vapor Pressure Deficit and Sunlight Explain Seasonality of Leaf Phenology and Photosynthesis Across Amazonian Evergreen Broadleaved Forest, 2021, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • The Optimal Multimodel Ensemble of Bias-Corrected CMIP5 Climate Models over China, 2020, Journal of Hydrometeorology

Frequent co-authors with whom Yi Y. Liu has collaborated include:

  • Daniel Fiifi Tawia Hagan (12 joint publications)
  • Seokhyeon Kim (8 joint publications)
  • Waheed Ullah (8 joint publications)
  • Guojie Wang (7 joint publications)
  • Shanlei Sun (6 joint publications)

The scientist's work appears regularly in several publication venues such as:

  • Remote Sensing (4 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (4 publications)
  • Journal of Hydrology (3 publications)
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (3 publications)
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (3 publications)

Research topics addressed by Yi Y. Liu often include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Subfields within their expertise feature Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Ecology, and Water Science and Technology. Their publications reflect a multidisciplinary approach linking environmental processes and climate systems through modeling and remote sensing techniques.

Best Publications

  • The Millennium Drought in southeast Australia (2001–2009): Natural and human causes and implications for water resources, ecosystems, economy, and society

    Albert I. J. M. van Dijk;Hylke E. Beck;Russell S. Crosbie;Richard A. M. de Jeu

  • Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle

    Benjamin Poulter;David Frank;Philippe Ciais;Ranga B. Myneni

  • ESA CCI Soil Moisture for improved Earth system understanding : State-of-the art and future directions

    Wouter Dorigo;Wolfgang Wagner;Clement Albergel;Franziska Albrecht

  • Trend-preserving blending of passive and active microwave soil moisture retrievals

    Y. Y. Liu;W. A. Dorigo;R. M. Parinussa;R. A. M. de Jeu

  • Multi-decadal trends in global terrestrial evapotranspiration and its components

    Yongqiang Zhang;Jorge L. Peña-Arancibia;Tim R. McVicar;Tim R. McVicar;Francis H. S. Chiew

  • Developing an improved soil moisture dataset by blending passive and active microwave satellite-based retrievals

    Y. Y. Liu;Y. Y. Liu;Y. Y. Liu;R. M. Parinussa;W. A. Dorigo;R. A. M. De Jeu

  • Recent reversal in loss of global terrestrial biomass

    Yi Y. Liu;Albert I. J. M. van Dijk;Albert I. J. M. van Dijk;Richard A. M. de Jeu;Josep G. Canadell

  • Nitrogen and phosphorus constrain the CO2 fertilization of global plant biomass

    César Terrer;César Terrer;César Terrer;Robert B. Jackson;I. Colin Prentice;I. Colin Prentice;I. Colin Prentice;Trevor F. Keenan;Trevor F. Keenan

  • Widespread decline of Congo rainforest greenness in the past decade

    Liming Zhou;Yuhong Tian;Ranga B. Myneni;Philippe Ciais

  • Error characterisation of global active and passive microwave soil moisture datasets.

    W. A. Dorigo;K. Scipal;R. M. Parinussa;Y. Y. Liu;Y. Y. Liu;Y. Y. Liu

  • Large divergence of satellite and Earth system model estimates of global terrestrial CO2 fertilization

    W. Kolby Smith;W. Kolby Smith;Sasha C. Reed;Cory C. Cleveland;Ashley P. Ballantyne

  • Evaluating global trends (1988–2010) in harmonized multi‐satellite surface soil moisture

    Wouter Dorigo;Richard de Jeu;Daniel Chung;Robert Parinussa

  • Using satellite based soil moisture to quantify the water driven variability in NDVI: A case study over mainland Australia

    T. Chen;T. Chen;R.A.M. de Jeu;Y.Y. Liu;Y.Y. Liu;G.R. van der Werf

  • Global long-term passive microwave satellite-based retrievals of vegetation optical depth

    Yi Y. Liu;Yi Y. Liu;Yi Y. Liu;Richard A. M. de Jeu;Matthew F. McCabe;Jason P. Evans

  • Short communication: A three-dimensional gap filling method for large geophysical datasets: Application to global satellite soil moisture observations

    Guojie Wang;Damien Garcia;Yi Liu;Richard de Jeu

  • Remote sensing of vegetation dynamics in drylands: Evaluating vegetation optical depth (VOD) using AVHRR NDVI and in situ green biomass data over West African Sahel

    Feng Tian;Feng Tian;Martin Brandt;Yi Y. Liu;Aleixandre Verger

  • Global changes in dryland vegetation dynamics (1988–2008) assessed by satellite remote sensing: comparing a new passive microwave vegetation density record with reflective greenness data

    N. Andela;Y. Y. Liu;Y. Y. Liu;A. I. J. M. van Dijk;A. I. J. M. van Dijk;R. A. M. de Jeu

  • Changing Climate and Overgrazing Are Decimating Mongolian Steppes

    Yi Y. Liu;Jason P. Evans;Matthew F. McCabe;Matthew F. McCabe;Richard A. M. de Jeu

  • A global comparison of alternate AMSR2 soil moisture products: Why do they differ?

    Seokhyeon Kim;Yi.Y. Liu;Fiona M. Johnson;Robert M. Parinussa;Robert M. Parinussa

  • Global vegetation biomass change (1988–2008) and attribution to environmental and human drivers

    Yi Y. Liu;Albert I. J. M. van Dijk;Albert I. J. M. van Dijk;Matthew F. McCabe;Jason P. Evans

Frequent Co-Authors

Albert van Dijk
Albert van Dijk Australian National University
Robert Parinussa
Robert Parinussa University of New South Wales
Jason P. Evans
Jason P. Evans University of New South Wales
R.A.M. de Jeu
R.A.M. de Jeu Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Matthew F. McCabe
Matthew F. McCabe King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Benjamin Poulter
Benjamin Poulter Goddard Space Flight Center
Ashish Sharma
Ashish Sharma University of New South Wales
Benjamin D. Stocker
Benjamin D. Stocker University of Bern
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University

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