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Overview

Yuhong Tian is affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science and social sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including atmospheric science, global and planetary change, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, transportation, and environmental engineering.

Their research topics cover a diverse range of areas, with particular focus on plant water relations and carbon dynamics, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, urban green space and health, urban transport and accessibility, atmospheric ozone and climate, tree-ring climate responses, and urban heat island mitigation.

Yuhong Tian has published in various scientific journals, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Sustainability
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Chemistry & Biodiversity
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Climatic Change

Recent notable papers include:

  • Investigating Changes in Ozone Formation Chemistry during Summertime Pollution Events over the Northeastern United States, 2022, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Compensation effect of winter snow on larch growth in Northeast China, 2021, Climatic Change
  • Public views on green roofs and green walls in two major Asian cities and implications for promotion policy, 2022, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening
  • Residents' Living Environments, Self-Rated Health Status and Perceptions of Urban Green Space Benefits, 2021, Forests
  • Rising Planetary Boundary Layer Height over the Sahara Desert and Arabian Peninsula in a Warming Climate, 2021, Journal of Climate

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Yuhong Tian include:

  • C.Y. Jim
  • Mengxuan Yan
  • Jingya Luan
  • Tiantian Wang
  • Xiuchen Wu

Best Publications

  • Global products of vegetation leaf area and fraction absorbed PAR from year one of MODIS data

    Ranga B. Myneni;S. Hoffman;Yuri Knyazikhin;J. Privette

  • Evidence for a significant urbanization effect on climate in China

    Liming Zhou;Robert Earl Dickinson;Yuhong Tian;Jingyun Fang

  • Widespread decline of Congo rainforest greenness in the past decade

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

  • Relation between interannual variations in satellite measures of northern forest greenness and climate between 1982 and 1999

    L. Zhou;L. Zhou;R. K. Kaufmann;Y. Tian;Y. Tian;R. B. Myneni

  • Impacts of wind farms on land surface temperature

    Liming Zhou;Yuhong Tian;Somnath Baidya Roy;Chris Thorncroft

  • Evaluation of the MODIS LAI algorithm at a coniferous forest site in Finland

    Yujie Wang;Curtis E Woodcock;Wolfgang Buermann;Pauline Stenberg

  • Multiscale analysis and validation of the MODIS LAI product: I. Uncertainty assessment

    Yuhong Tian;Yuhong Tian;Curtis E Woodcock;Yujie Wang;Jeff L Privette

  • Early spatial and temporal validation of MODIS LAI product in the Southern Africa Kalahari

    J.L Privette;R.B Myneni;Y Knyazikhin;M Mukelabai

  • Spatial dependence of diurnal temperature range trends on precipitation from 1950 to 2004

    Liming Zhou;Aiguo Dai;Yongjiu Dai;Russell S. Vose

  • Canopy spectral invariants for remote sensing and model applications

    Dong Huang;Yuri Knyazikhin;Robert Earl Dickinson;Miina Rautiainen

  • Impact of vegetation removal and soil aridation on diurnal temperature range in a semiarid region: Application to the Sahel

    Liming Zhou;Robert E. Dickinson;Yuhong Tian;Russell S. Vose

  • Investigation of product accuracy as a function of input and model uncertainties Case study with SeaWiFS and MODIS LAI/FPAR algorithm

    Yujie Wang;Yuhong Tian;Yu Zhang;Nazmi El-Saleous

  • Radiative transfer based scaling of LAI retrievals from reflectance data of different resolutions

    Yuhong Tian;Yuhong Tian;Yujie Wang;Yu Zhang;Yuri Knyazikhin

  • Prototyping of MODIS LAI and FPAR algorithm with LASUR and LANDSAT data

    Yuhong Tian;Yu Zhang;Y. Knyazikhin;R.B. Myneni

  • Comparison of seasonal and spatial variations of albedos from Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Common Land Model

    L. Zhou;R. E. Dickinson;Y. Tian;X. Zeng

  • Direct radiative effect of aerosols as determined from a combination of MODIS retrievals and GOCART simulations

    Hongbin Yu;R. E. Dickinson;M. Chin;Y. J. Kaufman

  • Effect of foliage spatial heterogeneity in the MODIS LAI and FPAR algorithm over broadleaf forests

    N.V. Shabanov;Y. Wang;W. Buermann;J. Dong

  • Land cover mapping in support of LAI and FPAR retrievals from EOS-MODIS and MISR: Classification methods and sensitivities to errors

    A. Lotsch;Y. Tian;M. A. Friedl;R. B. Myneni

  • Comparison of seasonal and spatial variations of leaf area index and fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Common Land Model

    Y. Tian;R. E. Dickinson;L. Zhou;X. Zeng

  • Multiscale analysis and validation of the MODIS LAI product: II. Sampling strategy

    Yuhong Tian;Yuhong Tian;Curtis E Woodcock;Yujie Wang;Jeff L Privette

  • Multiscale analysis and validation of the MODIS LAI product

    Yuhong Tian;Curtis E. Woodcock;Yujie Wang;Jeff L. Privette

Frequent Co-Authors

Liming Zhou
Liming Zhou University at Albany, State University of New York
Ranga B. Myneni
Ranga B. Myneni Boston University
Robert E. Dickinson
Robert E. Dickinson The University of Texas at Austin
Yuri Knyazikhin
Yuri Knyazikhin Boston University
Curtis E. Woodcock
Curtis E. Woodcock Boston University
Wolfgang Buermann
Wolfgang Buermann University of Augsburg
Yongjiu Dai
Yongjiu Dai Sun Yat-sen University
Mark A. Friedl
Mark A. Friedl Boston University
Hongbin Yu
Hongbin Yu Goddard Space Flight Center
Pauline Stenberg
Pauline Stenberg University of Helsinki

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