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Yunyue Yu publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yunyue Yu sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 93 publications — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Yunyue Yu D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yunyue Yu sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Yunyue Yu is affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with particular attention to atmospheric science, global and planetary change, ecology, environmental engineering, and aerospace engineering.

Their work covers a variety of topics including remote sensing in agriculture, urban heat island mitigation, cryospheric studies and observations, remote sensing and land use, climate change and permafrost, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, as well as calibration and measurement techniques.

Frequent co-authors in their research network include Dongdong Wang, Shunlin Liang, Jingjing Peng, Aolin Jia, and Peng Yu.

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, with notable contributions to Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Remote Sensing of Environment, Remote Sensing, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Global Daily Actual and Snow-Free Blue-Sky Land Surface Albedo Climatology From 20-Year MODIS Products, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Estimation of Land Surface Incident Shortwave Radiation From Geostationary Advanced Himawari Imager and Advanced Baseline Imager Observations Using an Optimization Method, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • Improved cloudy-sky snow albedo estimates using passive microwave and VIIRS data, 2023, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • An evaluation of the NOAA global daily gap-filled VIIRS surface albedo, 2023, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Angular normalization of GOES-16 and GOES-17 land surface temperature over overlapping region using an extended time-evolving kernel-driven model, 2024, Remote Sensing of Environment

Best Publications

  • Evaluation of the VIIRS and MODIS LST products in an arid area of Northwest China

    Hua Li;Hua Li;Donglian Sun;Yunyue Yu;Hongyan Wang;Hongyan Wang

  • Exploration of scaling effects on coarse resolution land surface phenology

    Xiaoyang Zhang;Jianmin Wang;Feng Gao;Yan Liu

  • Evaluation of the Relationship between Air and Land Surface Temperature under Clear- and Cloudy-Sky Conditions

    Kevin Gallo;Robert Hale;Dan Tarpley;Yunyue Yu

  • Remote sensing of earth's energy budget: synthesis and review

    Shunlin Liang;Dongdong Wang;Tao He;Yunyue Yu

  • Validation of Land Surface Temperature products derived from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) using ground-based and heritage satellite measurements

    Pierre C. Guillevic;James C. Biard;James C. Biard;Glynn C. Hulley;Jeffrey L. Privette

  • Developing Algorithm for Operational GOES-R Land Surface Temperature Product

    Yunyue Yu;D. Tarpley;J.L. Privette;M.D. Goldberg

  • A review of earth surface thermal radiation directionality observing and modeling: Historical development, current status and perspectives

    Biao Cao;Qinhuo Liu;Yongming Du;Jean-Louis Roujean

  • Evaluation of Split-Window Land Surface Temperature Algorithms for Generating Climate Data Records

    Yunyue Yu;J.L. Privette;A.C. Pinheiro

  • Evaluating land surface albedo estimation from Landsat MSS, TM, ETM +, and OLI data based on the unified direct estimation approach

    Tao He;Tao He;Shunlin Liang;Dongdong Wang;Yunfeng Cao

  • Deriving Water Fraction and Flood Maps From MODIS Images Using a Decision Tree Approach

    Donglian Sun;Yunyue Yu;M. D. Goldberg

  • Angular anisotropy of satellite observations of land surface temperature

    Konstantin Y. Vinnikov;Yunyue Yu;Mitchell D. Goldberg;Dan Tarpley

  • Interannual variations and trends in global land surface phenology derived from enhanced vegetation index during 1982–2010

    Xiaoyang Zhang;Bin Tan;Yunyue Yu

  • Analysis of the NPOESS VIIRS land surface temperature algorithm using MODIS data

    Yunyue Yu;J.L. Privette;A.C. Pinheiro

  • Estimation of surface albedo and directional reflectance from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) observations

    Tao He;Shunlin Liang;Dongdong Wang;Hongyi Wu

  • Estimating daily average surface air temperature using satellite land surface temperature and top-of-atmosphere radiation products over the Tibetan Plateau

    Yuhan Rao;Shunlin Liang;Dongdong Wang;Yunyue Yu

  • Validation of GOES-R Satellite Land Surface Temperature Algorithm Using SURFRAD Ground Measurements and Statistical Estimates of Error Properties

    Yunyue Yu;D. Tarpley;J. L. Privette;L. E. Flynn

  • Drought-induced vegetation stress in southwestern North America

    Xiaoyang Zhang;Mitchell Goldberg;Dan Tarpley;Mark A Friedl

  • Quality Assessment of S-NPP VIIRS Land Surface Temperature Product

    Yuling Liu;Yunyue Yu;Peng Yu;Frank M. Göttsche

  • Direct estimation of land surface albedo from VIIRS data: Algorithm improvement and preliminary validation

    Dongdong Wang;Shunlin Liang;Tao He;Yunyue Yu

  • Greenland surface albedo changes in July 1981–2012 from satellite observations

    Tao He;Shunlin Liang;Shunlin Liang;Yunyue Yu;Dongdong Wang

  • GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document For

    Shunlin Liang;Dongdong Wang;Tao He;Yunyue Yu

Frequent Co-Authors

Shunlin Liang
Shunlin Liang University of Hong Kong
Xiaoyang Zhang
Xiaoyang Zhang South Dakota State University
Konstantin Y. Vinnikov
Konstantin Y. Vinnikov University of Maryland, College Park
Jeffrey L. Privette
Jeffrey L. Privette National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Qinhuo Liu
Qinhuo Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Isabel F. Trigo
Isabel F. Trigo Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Simon J. Hook
Simon J. Hook California Institute of Technology
Ivan Csiszar
Ivan Csiszar National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Miguel O. Román
Miguel O. Román Goddard Space Flight Center
Mark A. Friedl
Mark A. Friedl Boston University

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