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Yongwei Sheng is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions in atmospheric science, global and planetary change, and water science and technology.

The main topics of their work include flood risk assessment and management, hydrology and watershed management studies, cryospheric studies and observations, climate change and permafrost, geology and paleoclimatology research, hydrology and sediment transport processes, and geological formations and processes.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Yongwei Sheng include:

  • GeoDAR: georeferenced global dams and reservoirs dataset for bridging attributes and geolocations, 2022, Earth system science data
  • A comprehensive geospatial database of nearly 100 000 reservoirs in China, 2022, Earth system science data
  • Satellites reveal hotspots of global river extent change, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Holocene climatic optimum in the East Asian monsoon region of China defined by climatic stability, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Ongoing Drainage Reorganization Driven by Rapid Lake Growths on the Tibetan Plateau, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters

Yongwei Sheng frequently collaborates with several co-authors, with whom they have co-authored multiple publications. These include:

  • Jida Wang
  • Chunqiao Song
  • Chenyu Fan
  • Linghong Ke
  • George H. Allen

Their work has been published repeatedly in several scientific venues. The venues where they have the highest number of publications include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Earth system science data
  • Remote Sensing
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Science Bulletin

The research contributions of Yongwei Sheng cover diverse aspects of environmental systems, focusing on hydrology, climate dynamics, and landscape changes. Their publications address both regional and global scales of environmental phenomena, incorporating datasets and satellite observations to enhance understanding of hydrological and climatic processes.

Best Publications

  • Landsat-8: Science and Product Vision for Terrestrial Global Change Research

    David P. Roy;M.A. Wulder;Thomas R. Loveland;C.E. Woodcock

  • Disappearing Arctic Lakes

    L. C. Smith;L. C. Smith;L. C. Smith;Y. Sheng;Y. Sheng;Y. Sheng;G. M. MacDonald;G. M. MacDonald;G. M. MacDonald;L. D. Hinzman;L. D. Hinzman;L. D. Hinzman

  • 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

  • Current status of Landsat program, science, and applications

    Michael A. Wulder;Thomas R. Loveland;David P. Roy;Christopher J. Crawford

  • Siberian Peatlands a Net Carbon Sink and Global Methane Source Since the Early Holocene

    Laurence C Smith;G M MacDonald;A A Velichko;D W Beilman

  • Rapid early development of circumarctic peatlands and atmospheric CH4 and CO2 variations

    Glen M. MacDonald;Glen M. MacDonald;David W. Beilman;David W. Beilman;Konstantine V. Kremenetski;Konstantine V. Kremenetski;Yongwei Sheng;Yongwei Sheng

  • A regional-scale assessment of Himalayan glacial lake changes using satellite observations from 1990 to 2015

    Yong Nie;Yong Nie;Yongwei Sheng;Qiao Liu;Linshan Liu

  • Recent global decline in endorheic basin water storages.

    Jida Wang;Chunqiao Song;Chunqiao Song;John T. Reager;Fangfang Yao

  • Regional differences of lake evolution across China during 1960s–2015 and its natural and anthropogenic causes

    Guoqing Zhang;Guoqing Zhang;Tandong Yao;Tandong Yao;Wenfeng Chen;Guoxiong Zheng

  • Mapping wetland changes in China between 1978 and 2008

    ZhenGuo Niu;HaiYing Zhang;XianWei Wang;WenBo Yao

  • Area Partitioning for Channel Network Extraction Using Digital Elevation Models and Remote Sensing

    Dayong Shen;Yongwei Sheng

  • Response of inland lake dynamics over the Tibetan Plateau to climate change

    Yanbin Lei;Kun Yang;Bin Wang;Bin Wang;Yongwei Sheng

  • Coherent lake growth on the central Tibetan Plateau since the 1970s: Characterization and attribution

    Yanbin Lei;Tandong Yao;Broxton W. Bird;Broxton W. Bird;Kun Yang

  • A high-resolution GIS-based inventory of the west Siberian peat carbon pool

    Yongwei Sheng;Laurence C. Smith;Glen M. MacDonald;Konstantine V. Kremenetski;Konstantine V. Kremenetski

  • An inventory of historical glacial lake outburst floods in the Himalayas based on remote sensing observations and geomorphological analysis

    Yong Nie;Qiao Liu;Jida Wang;Yili Zhang

  • An automated scheme for glacial lake dynamics mapping using Landsat imagery and digital elevation models: a case study in the Himalayas

    Junli Li;Yongwei Sheng

  • GeoDAR: georeferenced global dams and reservoirs dataset for bridging attributes and geolocations

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  • Efficient meltwater drainage through supraglacial streams and rivers on the southwest Greenland ice sheet.

    Laurence C. Smith;Vena W. Chu;Kang Yang;Colin J. Gleason

  • A new data set for estimating organic carbon storage to 3 m depth in soils of the northern circumpolar permafrost region

    G. Hugelius;James G. Bockheim;P. Camill;B. Elberling;B. Elberling

  • Representative lake water extent mapping at continental scales using multi-temporal Landsat-8 imagery

    Yongwei Sheng;Chunqiao Song;Jida Wang;Evan A. Lyons

  • A first pan-Arctic assessment of the influence of glaciation, permafrost, topography and peatlands on northern hemisphere lake distribution

    Laurence C. Smith;Yongwei Sheng;Glen M. MacDonald

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurence C. Smith
Laurence C. Smith Brown University
Tandong Yao
Tandong Yao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kun Yang
Kun Yang Tsinghua University
Glen M. MacDonald
Glen M. MacDonald University of California, Los Angeles
Peng Gong
Peng Gong University of Hong Kong
Yoshihide Wada
Yoshihide Wada King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
James S. Famiglietti
James S. Famiglietti University of Saskatchewan
Karen E. Frey
Karen E. Frey Clark University
Kenneth M. Hinkel
Kenneth M. Hinkel Michigan Technological University
Zhe Zhu
Zhe Zhu University of Connecticut

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