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Yijian Zeng is affiliated with the University of Twente in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Engineering. Their research spans a wide range of topics, focusing primarily on soil moisture and remote sensing, climate change and permafrost, and cryospheric studies and observations.

The main subfields of study for Zeng include Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Mechanical Engineering, and Civil and Structural Engineering. Their work addresses important themes such as soil and unsaturated flow, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, hydrology and watershed management studies, and climate variability and models.

Zeng has published research in several notable venues, showing a particularly strong presence in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Remote Sensing
  • Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • Journal of Hydrology

Frequent coauthors include Zhongbo Su, Salvatore Manfreda, Lianyu Yu, Jun Wen, and Ruodan Zhuang, with whom Zeng has collaborated on multiple studies. These partnerships highlight a sustained engagement with fellow researchers in related environmental and earth sciences.

Significant papers authored or coauthored by Yijian Zeng are:

  • The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade, 2021, Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • Validation of Soil Moisture Data Products From the NASA SMAP Mission, 2021, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • An Integrative Information Aqueduct to Close the Gaps between Satellite Observation of Water Cycle and Local Sustainable Management of Water Resources, 2020, Water
  • Evaluation of WaPOR V2 evapotranspiration products across Africa, 2020, Hydrological Processes
  • Status of the Tibetan Plateau observatory (Tibet-Obs) and a 10-year (2009-2019) surface soil moisture dataset, 2021, Earth system science data

Zeng's contributions also extend to book publications, including titles such as WaPOR V2 quality assessment - Technical Report on the Data Quality of the WaPOR FAO Database version 2, published by FAO eBooks in 2020, and Theories, Methods, and Practices of Wetland Degradation and Restoration, published by Frontiers Media in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Validation of SMAP surface soil moisture products with core validation sites

    A. Colliander;T.J. Jackson;R. Bindlish;S. Chan

  • The International Soil Moisture Network: Serving Earth system science for over a decade

    Wouter Dorigo;Irene Himmelbauer;Daniel Aberer;Lukas Schremmer

  • Assessment of the SMAP Level-4 surface and root-zone soil moisture product using in situ measurements

    Rolf H. Reichle;Gabrielle J. M. De Lannoy;Qing Liu;Joseph V. Ardizzone

  • Evaluation of ECMWF's soil moisture analyses using observations on the Tibetan Plateau

    Zhongbo Su;P. de Rosnay;J. Wen;Lichun Wang

  • Development and analysis of the Soil Water Infiltration Global database

    Mehdi Rahmati;Mehdi Rahmati;Lutz Weihermüller;Jan Vanderborght;Yakov A. Pachepsky

  • First Assessment of Sentinel-1A Data for Surface Soil Moisture Estimations Using a Coupled Water Cloud Model and Advanced Integral Equation Model over the Tibetan Plateau

    Xiaojing Bai;Binbin He;Xing Li;Jiangyuan Zeng

  • A simulation analysis of the advective effect on evaporation using a two‐phase heat and mass flow model

    Yijian Zeng;Zhongbo Su;Li Wan;Jun Wen

  • Estimation of human-induced changes in terrestrial water storage through integration of GRACE satellite detection and hydrological modeling: A case study of the Yangtze River basin

    Ying Huang;Mhd. Suhyb Salama;Maarten S. Krol;Zhongbo Su

  • Liquid-Vapor-Air Flow in the Frozen Soil

    Lianyu Yu;Yijian Zeng;Jun Wen;Zhongbo Su

  • Evaluation of WaPOR V2 evapotranspiration products across Africa

    Megan L. Blatchford;Chris M. Mannaerts;Sammy M. Njuki;Hamideh Nouri

  • Numerical analysis of air‐water‐heat flow in unsaturated soil: Is it necessary to consider airflow in land surface models?

    Yijian Zeng;Yijian Zeng;Zhongbo Su;Li Wan;Jun Wen

  • An integrative information aqueduct to close the gaps between satellite observation of water cycle and local sustainable management of water resources

    Zhongbo Su;Yijian Zeng;Nunzio Romano;Salvatore Manfreda

  • Blending Satellite Observed, Model Simulated, and in Situ Measured Soil Moisture over Tibetan Plateau

    Yijian Zeng;Zhongbo Su;Rogier van der Velde;Lichun Wang

  • Status of accuracy in remotely sensed and in-situ agricultural water productivity estimates: A review

    Megan L. Blatchford;Chris M. Mannaerts;Yijian Zeng;Hamideh Nouri

  • Status of the Tibetan Plateau observatory (Tibet-Obs) and a 10-year (2009–2019) surface soil moisture dataset

    Pei Zhang;Pei Zhang;Donghai Zheng;Rogier van der Velde;Jun Wen

  • Analysis of soil hydraulic and thermal properties for land surface modeling over the Tibetan Plateau

    Hong Zhao;Yijian Zeng;Shaoning Lv;Zhongbo Su

  • Diurnal soil water dynamics in the shallow vadose zone : field site of China University of Geosciences, China

    Yijian Zeng;Yijian Zeng;Li Wan;Zhongbo Su;Hirotaka Saito

  • Reanalysis in Earth System Science: Toward Terrestrial Ecosystem Reanalysis

    R. Baatz;H. J. Hendricks Franssen;E. Euskirchen;D. Sihi

  • Effects of anthropogenic revegetation on the water and carbon cycles of a desert steppe ecosystem

    Lingtong Du;Lingtong Du;Yijian Zeng;Longlong Ma;Chenglong Qiao

  • The effect of different evapotranspiration methods on portraying soil water dynamics and ET partitioning in a semi-arid environment in Northwest China

    Lianyu Yu;Yijian Zeng;Zhongbo Su;Huanjie Cai

  • Diurnal pattern of the drying front in desert and its application for determining the effective infiltration

    Y. Zeng;Y. Zeng;Z. Su;L. Wan;Z. Yang

  • Validation of Soil Moisture Data Products from the NASA SMAP Mission

    Andreas Colliander;Rolf Reichle;Wade Crow;Michael Cosh

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhongbo Su
Zhongbo Su University of Twente
Carsten Montzka
Carsten Montzka Forschungszentrum Jülich
Mahta Moghaddam
Mahta Moghaddam University of Southern California
Michael H. Cosh
Michael H. Cosh Agricultural Research Service
Aaron A. Berg
Aaron A. Berg University of Guelph
Salvatore Manfreda
Salvatore Manfreda University of Naples Federico II
Rajat Bindlish
Rajat Bindlish Goddard Space Flight Center
Todd G. Caldwell
Todd G. Caldwell United States Geological Survey
Yaoming Ma
Yaoming Ma Chinese Academy of Sciences
José Martínez-Fernández
José Martínez-Fernández University of Salamanca

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