2026 Yunyue Yu: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	37	8966	8602	3213	2986	93	4483

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

268
Citations
Exploration of scaling effects on coarse resolution land surface phenology

Xiaoyang Zhang;Jianmin Wang;Feng Gao;Yan Liu

232
Citations
Evaluation of the Relationship between Air and Land Surface Temperature under Clear- and Cloudy-Sky Conditions

Kevin Gallo;Robert Hale;Dan Tarpley;Yunyue Yu

223
Citations
Remote sensing of earth's energy budget: synthesis and review

Shunlin Liang;Dongdong Wang;Tao He;Yunyue Yu

210
Citations
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

187
Citations
Developing Algorithm for Operational GOES-R Land Surface Temperature Product

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

186
Citations
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

177
Citations
Evaluation of Split-Window Land Surface Temperature Algorithms for Generating Climate Data Records

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

160
Citations
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

144
Citations
Deriving Water Fraction and Flood Maps From MODIS Images Using a Decision Tree Approach

Donglian Sun;Yunyue Yu;M. D. Goldberg

128
Citations
Angular anisotropy of satellite observations of land surface temperature

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

119
Citations
Interannual variations and trends in global land surface phenology derived from enhanced vegetation index during 1982–2010

Xiaoyang Zhang;Bin Tan;Yunyue Yu

119
Citations
Analysis of the NPOESS VIIRS land surface temperature algorithm using MODIS data

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

111
Citations
Estimation of surface albedo and directional reflectance from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) observations

Tao He;Shunlin Liang;Dongdong Wang;Hongyi Wu

101
Citations
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

99
Citations
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

90
Citations
Drought-induced vegetation stress in southwestern North America

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

86
Citations
Quality Assessment of S-NPP VIIRS Land Surface Temperature Product

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

85
Citations
Direct estimation of land surface albedo from VIIRS data: Algorithm improvement and preliminary validation

Dongdong Wang;Shunlin Liang;Tao He;Yunyue Yu

82
Citations
Greenland surface albedo changes in July 1981–2012 from satellite observations

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

73
Citations
GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document For

Shunlin Liang;Dongdong Wang;Tao He;Yunyue Yu

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Shunlin Liang University of Hong Kong

Xiaoyang Zhang South Dakota State University

Konstantin Y. Vinnikov University of Maryland, College Park

Jeffrey L. Privette National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Qinhuo Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences

Isabel F. Trigo Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera

Simon J. Hook California Institute of Technology

Ivan Csiszar National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Miguel O. Román Goddard Space Flight Center

Mark A. Friedl Boston University

External Links

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