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Yonghui Yang is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China, conducting research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering. Their work focuses on several specialized subfields including Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, Ocean Engineering, Soil Science, and Environmental Engineering.

Their research covers a range of main topics, notably Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Water Resources Management and Optimization, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Environmental Impact and Sustainability, Irrigation Practices and Water Management, and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements.

Recent publications by Yonghui Yang include:

  • Did water-saving irrigation protect water resources over the past 40 years? A global analysis based on water accounting framework, 2021, Agricultural Water Management
  • Variation of gross primary production, evapotranspiration and water use efficiency for global croplands, 2020, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Shifting from homogeneous to heterogeneous surfaces in estimating terrestrial evapotranspiration: Review and perspectives, 2021, Science China Earth Sciences
  • The Land-Water-Food-Environment nexus in the context of China's soybean import, 2021, Advances in Water Resources
  • Hydro-economic model framework for achieving groundwater, food, and economy trade-offs by optimizing crop patterns, 2022, Water Research

Yonghui Yang frequently publishes in venues such as Agricultural Water Management, PubMed, Journal of Hydrology, Journal of Physics Conference Series, and Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

Collaborative efforts feature recurring co-authors including Shumin Han, Xinyao Zhou, Huilong Li, Dandan Ren, and Yanmin Yang.

Best Publications

  • Trends in pan evaporation and reference and actual evapotranspiration across the Tibetan Plateau

    Yongqiang Zhang;Changming Liu;Yanhong Tang;Yonghui Yang

  • Abrupt change of runoff and its major driving factors in Haihe River Catchment, China

    Yonghui Yang;Fei Tian

  • Water use efficiency and evapotranspiration of winter wheat and its response to irrigation regime in the north China plain

    Guo Yu Qiu;Liming Wang;Xinhua He;Xiying Zhang

  • Agricultural water-saving and sustainable groundwater management in Shijiazhuang Irrigation District, North China Plain

    Yukun Hu;Juana Paul Moiwo;Yonghui Yang;Shumin Han

  • Performance of double-cropped winter wheat-summer maize under minimum irrigation in the North China Plain

    Xiying Zhang;Dong Pei;Suying Chen;Hongyong Sun

  • Optimizing irrigation management for wheat to reduce groundwater depletion in the piedmont region of the Taihang Mountains in the North China Plain

    Yonghui Yang;Masataka Watanabe;Xiying Zhang;Jiqun Zhang

  • Relationship between land-use and sources and fate of nitrate in groundwater in a typical recharge area of the North China Plain

    Shiqin Wang;Wenbo Zheng;Matthew Currell;Yonghui Yang

  • Estimation of irrigation requirement for sustainable water resources reallocation in North China

    Yanmin Yang;Yonghui Yang;Juana Paul Moiwo;Yukun Hu

  • Impact of water resource exploitation on the hydrology and water storage in Baiyangdian Lake.

    Juana Paul Moiwo;Yonghui Yang;Huilong Li;Shumin Han

  • Land-Water-Food Nexus and indications of crop adjustment for water shortage solution

    Dandan Ren;Yonghui Yang;Yanmin Yang;Keith Richards

  • Identifying changes in irrigation return flow with gradually intensified water-saving technology using HYDRUS for regional water resources management

    Qiuli Hu;Yonghui Yang;Shumin Han;Yanmin Yang

  • Measuring water storage fluctuations in lake Dongting, China, by topex/poseidon satellite altimetry

    Jiqun Zhang;Kaiqin Xu;Kaiqin Xu;Yonghui Yang;Lianhui Qi

  • Comparison of GRACE with in situ hydrological measurement data shows storage depletion in Hai River basin, Northern China

    Juana Paul Moiwo;Yonghui Yang;Huilong Li;Shumin Han

  • China's dimming and brightening: evidence, causes and hydrological implications

    Y. W. Wang;Y. H. Yang

  • Linking trends in urban extreme rainfall to urban flooding in China

    Xinyao Zhou;Zhijie Bai;Yonghui Yang

  • Prediction of cotton yield and water demand under climate change and future adaptation measures

    Yanmin Yang;Yonghui Yang;Shumin Han;Ian Macadam

  • Estimation of evapotranspiration and its partition based on an extended three-temperature model and MODIS products

    Fei Tian;Fei Tian;GuoYu Qiu;YongHui Yang;YiHe Lü

  • Impact of future climate change on wheat production in relation to plant-available water capacity in a semiaridenvironment

    Yanmin Yang;De Li Liu;Muhuddin Rajin Anwar;Heping Zuo

  • Simulation of groundwater dynamics in the North China Plain by coupled hydrology and agricultural models

    Tadanobu Nakayama;Yonghui Yang;Masataka Watanabe;Masataka Watanabe;Xiying Zhang

  • Shifting from homogeneous to heterogeneous surfaces in estimating terrestrial evapotranspiration: Review and perspectives

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  • Land cover classification from MODIS EVI times-series data using SOM neural network

    Hasi Bagan;Qinxue Wang;Masataka Watanabe;Yonghui Yang

  • Groundwater-table and recharge changes in the Piedmont region of Taihang Mountain in Gaocheng City and its relation to agricultural water use

    Yonghui Yang;Masataka Watanabe;Yasuo Sakura;Tang Changyuan

Frequent Co-Authors

De Li Liu
De Li Liu University of New South Wales
Yongqiang Zhang
Yongqiang Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiying Zhang
Xiying Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kaiqin Xu
Kaiqin Xu National Institute for Environmental Studies
Hong Yang
Hong Yang Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Bingfang Wu
Bingfang Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lu Zhang
Lu Zhang Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Bojie Fu
Bojie Fu Peking University
Fulu Tao
Fulu Tao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Garry O'Leary
Garry O'Leary University of Melbourne

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