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Youlong Xia

Youlong Xia

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
46
Citations
12073
World Ranking
5965
National Ranking
21

Overview

Youlong Xia is affiliated with M-Systems in Israel and specializes in research within Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work focuses on a range of topics including geophysics and gravity measurements, climate variability and models, hydrology and drought analysis, climate change impacts on agriculture, GNSS positioning and interference, groundwater and isotope geochemistry, and plant water relations and carbon dynamics.

The scientist has contributed to several research papers published in well-known scientific venues. Notable publications include:

  • Compound droughts and hot extremes: Characteristics, drivers, changes, and impacts (2022, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • Comparison of Groundwater Storage Changes From GRACE Satellites With Monitoring and Modeling of Major U.S. Aquifers (2020, Water Resources Research)
  • A Bayesian Three-Cornered Hat (BTCH) Method: Improving the Terrestrial Evapotranspiration Estimation (2020, Remote Sensing)

Their frequent co-authors include Zengchao Hao, Fanghua Hao, Sifang Feng, Cheng Sun, and Xuan Zhang.

Youlong Xia's research publications have appeared primarily in the following venues:

  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Water Resources Research
  • Remote Sensing

The main fields of study encompass Environmental Science with four related publications, and Earth and Planetary Sciences with three publications.

Subfields of their research cover:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Oceanography
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Geochemistry and Petrology

Their work addresses key scientific topics, including:

  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • Climate variability and models
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • GNSS positioning and interference
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Best Publications

  • The community Noah land surface model with multiparameterization options (Noah-MP): 1. Model description and evaluation with local-scale measurements

    Guo ‐ Yue Niu;Guo ‐ Yue Niu;Zong ‐ Liang Yang;Kenneth E. Mitchell;Fei Chen

  • Continental-scale water and energy flux analysis and validation for the North American Land Data Assimilation System project phase 2 (NLDAS-2): 1. Intercomparison and application of model products

    Youlong Xia;Kenneth Mitchell;Michael Ek;Justin Sheffield

  • The community Noah land surface model with multiparameterization options (Noah-MP): 2. Evaluation over global river basins

    Zong Liang Yang;Guo Yue Niu;Guo Yue Niu;Kenneth E. Mitchell;Fei Chen

  • Seasonal Drought Prediction: Advances, Challenges, and Future Prospects

    Zengchao Hao;Vijay P. Singh;Youlong Xia

  • Continental‐scale water and energy flux analysis and validation for North American Land Data Assimilation System project phase 2 (NLDAS‐2): 2. Validation of model‐simulated streamflow

    Youlong Xia;Kenneth Mitchell;Michael Ek;Brian Cosgrove

  • Drought onset mechanisms revealed by satellite solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence: Insights from two contrasting extreme events

    Ying Sun;Rong Fu;Robert Dickinson;Joanna Joiner

  • Simulation of high-latitude hydrological processes in the Torne-Kalix basin: PILPS phase 2(e) - 1: Experiment description and summary intercomparisons

    Laura C. Bowling;Dennis P. Lettenmaier;Bart Nijssen;Bart Nijssen;L. Phil Graham

  • Compound droughts and hot extremes: Characteristics, drivers, changes, and impacts

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  • Assimilation of Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture and Snow Depth Retrievals for Drought Estimation

    Sujay V. Kumar;Christa D. Peters-Lidard;David Mocko;Rolf Reichle

  • Evaluation of multi-model simulated soil moisture in NLDAS-2

    Youlong Xia;Justin Sheffield;Michael B. Ek;Jiarui Dong

  • Evaluating Different Machine Learning Methods for Upscaling Evapotranspiration from Flux Towers to the Regional Scale

    Tongren Xu;Zhixia Guo;Shaomin Liu;Xinlei He

  • Noah LSM Snow Model Diagnostics and Enhancements

    Ben Livneh;Youlong Xia;Kenneth E. Mitchell;Michael B. Ek

  • Evaluation of twelve evapotranspiration products from machine learning, remote sensing and land surface models over conterminous United States

    Tongren Xu;Zhixia Guo;Youlong Xia;Vagner G. Ferreira

  • Forest climatology: estimation of missing values for Bavaria, Germany

    Youlong Xia;Peter Fabian;Andreas Stohl;Martin Winterhalter

  • Assessment of simulated water balance from Noah, Noah‐MP, CLM, and VIC over CONUS using the NLDAS test bed

    Xitian Cai;Zong-Liang Yang;Youlong Xia;Maoyi Huang

  • Assimilation of Gridded GRACE Terrestrial Water Storage Estimates in the North American Land Data Assimilation System

    Sujay V. Kumar;Benjamin F. Zaitchik;Christa D. Peters-Lidard;Matthew Rodell

  • An Overview of Drought Monitoring and Prediction Systems at Regional and Global Scales

    Zengchao Hao;Xing Yuan;Youlong Xia;Fanghua Hao

  • 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

  • Comparison of Groundwater Storage Changes From GRACE Satellites With Monitoring and Modeling of Major U.S. Aquifers

    Ashraf Rateb;Bridget R. Scanlon;Donald R. Pool;Alexander Sun

  • Comparison of NLDAS-2 Simulated and NASMD Observed Daily Soil Moisture. Part I: Comparison and Analysis

    Youlong Xia;Michael B. Ek;Yihua Wu;Trent Ford

  • Benchmarking NLDAS-2 Soil Moisture and Evapotranspiration to Separate Uncertainty Contributions

    Grey S. Nearing;David M. Mocko;Christa D. Peters-Lidard;Sujay V. Kumar

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Ek
Michael Ek National Center for Atmospheric Research
David Mocko
David Mocko National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Christa D. Peters-Lidard
Christa D. Peters-Lidard Goddard Space Flight Center
Zengchao Hao
Zengchao Hao Beijing Normal University
Sujay V. Kumar
Sujay V. Kumar Goddard Space Flight Center
Kenneth E. Mitchell
Kenneth E. Mitchell National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Vijay P. Singh
Vijay P. Singh Texas A&M University
Fanghua Hao
Fanghua Hao Beijing Normal University
Justin Sheffield
Justin Sheffield University of Southampton
Ben Livneh
Ben Livneh University of Colorado Boulder

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