By Associate Professor Yi Liu

Book Chapters

Brouwer R; Hess S; Liu Y; van Beukering P; Garcia S, 2011, 'A hedonic price model of coral reef quality in Hawaii', in International Handbook on Non Market Environmental Valuation, pp. 37 - 59

Journal articles

Bi Z; Sun S; Ma Q; Liu Y; Li X; Li J; Liu Y; Zhou Y; Zhou B; Chen H, 2026, 'A 0.1° monthly potential evapotranspiration dataset based on the optimal models over global vegetation zones', Scientific Data, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-06956-3

Kankanige D; Vishwakarma BD; Liu YY; Sharma A, 2026, 'Can a Persistence-Based Prediction of GRACE Gravity Field Coefficients Reduce Uncertainties at Finer Temporal Scales?', Earth and Space Science, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025EA004554

Chen L; Cai Z; Liu Y; Sun K; Yang D; Wang X; Wang Y, 2026, 'Satellite data-driven estimates of NOx and co-emitted CO2 from coal-fired power plants in China (2021–2024)', Environmental Research Letters, 21, pp. 144001, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae84e9

Sun S; Ma A; Zu Q; Ma Q; Liu Y; Liu Y; Mu M; Zhou Y; Hua W; Zhou B; Chen H, 2026, 'A New Vegetation Health Index Based on Vegetation Optical Depth: Development and Application in Vegetated Australia', Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, 131, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2026JD046923

Shah S; Liu Y; Kim S; Sharma A, 2026, 'RainMerge: a two-stage framework for gauge-independent merging of multiple rainfall products', Journal of Hydrology, 672, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2026.135390

Wu K; Yang D; Lunt M; Palmer PI; Feng L; Zhou M; Li T; Zhu S; Liu Y, 2026, 'Vegetation dynamics and methane emissions: insights from East African wetlands', Environmental Research Communications, 8, pp. 061012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ae7d9d

Shah S; Liu Y; Kim S; Sharma A, 2026, 'Corrigendum to “Constrained negentropy optimisation (CoNE-opt): Using independent components to merge satellite data products [Remote Sensing of Environment, 334 (2026) 115170]', Remote Sensing of Environment, 335, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2026.115298

Shah S; Liu Y; Kim S; Sharma A, 2026, 'Constrained negentropy optimisation (CoNE-opt): Using independent components to merge satellite data products', Remote Sensing of Environment, 334, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2025.115170

Yi Y; Cai Z; Liu Y; Fang S; Liang M; Tao M; Yang D; Yao B; Bai Z; Bian J, 2026, 'Observation of CH4, CO and N2O in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere over the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau', Environmental Research Letters, 21, pp. 034009, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae34cd

Lv R; Sun S; Bi Z; Liu Y; Ma Q; Ren Y; Wei L; Zhou Y; Zhou B, 2026, 'Attributing changes in evapotranspiration and runoff across the continental U.S. using the Budyko hypothesis combined with the Shuttleworth-Wallace model', Journal of Hydrology, 666, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.134831

Yang D; Feng L; Wang J; Palmer PI; Guo X; Hu D; Tian L; Liu G; Liu S; Liu Y; Cao J, 2026, 'A Step Forward to Global Segment CO2 Flux Estimation Benefiting from Large Swath of Coordinated CO2 and Solar-Induced Fluorescence Measurements from the TanSat-2 Mission', Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 43, pp. 1874 - 1884, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00376-026-6150-1

Li X; Ma Q; Zhang H; Sun S; Ren Y; Bi Z; Liu Y; Liu Y; Chen H, 2026, 'Impacts of Soil and Atmospheric Dryness on Terrestrial Vegetation Productivity in Southwest China: Dominant Roles, Critical Thresholds, and Pathways', Ecosystems, 29, pp. 52, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10021-026-01074-y

Kankanige D; Liu YY; Sharma A, 2025, 'Addressing cross-dependence in gravity coefficients for improved terrestrial water storage estimation', Geomatica, 77, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomat.2025.100077

Hagan DFT; Kim S; Wang G; Ma X; Hu Y; Liu YY; Barth A; Liu H; Ullah W; Nooni IK; Bhatti SA, 2025, 'Seamless finer-resolution soil moisture from the synergistic merging of the FengYun-3 satellite series', Scientific Data, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05263-7

Liu S; McVicar TR; Wu X; Cao X; Liu Y, 2025, 'Can we estimate, and even predict, terrestrial water storage months in advance during severe large-scale Amazon droughts?', Environmental Research Letters, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae0da7

Bi Z; Sun S; Liu Y; Sun G; Mu M; Li X; Li J; Liu Y; Zhou Y; Zhou B; Chen H, 2025, 'Global changes in potential evapotranspiration (1992–2020) and associated drivers: Shuttleworth-Wallace model-based analysis', Journal of Hydrology, 660, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.133435

Sun S; Zhang Y; Mu M; Bi Z; Liu Y; Li J; Zhou Y; Li X; Chen H, 2025, 'Necessity of incorporating realistic land surface parameters for trend analyses of potential evapotranspiration and drought', Journal of Hydrology, 655, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.132938

Liu Y; Feng Y; Wu D; Chen X; Yang C; Gao W, 2025, 'Stochastic fracture and fatigue analysis in elasto-plastic materials via virtual modelling techniques', Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 441, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2025.117997

Kankanige D; Liu YY; Sharma A, 2025, 'Vegetation optical depth as a key predictor for fire risk escalation', Ecological Informatics, 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2025.103050

Sun S; Bi Z; Mu M; Liu Y; Zhang Y; Li J; Liu Y; Zhou Y; Zhou B; Chen H, 2025, 'Quantifying Impacts of Vegetation Greenness Change on Drought Over Global Vegetation Zones', Geophysical Research Letters, 52, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024GL111634

Su Y; Li X; Zhang C; Yan W; Ciais P; Cook-Patton SC; Phillips OL; Shang J; Cescatti A; Chen J-M; Liu J; Chave J; Doughty CE; Heinrich V; Tian F; Luo Y; Liu Y; Yu Z; Hao D; Tao S; Zhang Y; Zeng Z; Lafortezza R; Huang Y; Fan L; Wang X; Qin Y; Ran Q; Yan K; Liu X; Liu L; Yue Y; Ren J; Yuan W; Chen X, 2025, 'Carbon accumulation rate peaks at 1,000-m elevation in tropical planted and regrowth forests', One Earth, 8, pp. 101147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.11.001

Li X; Sun S; Ren Y; Bi Z; Liu Y; Liu Y; Zhou B; Chen H, 2025, 'Corrigendum to “Explaining the contrast responses of evergreen needle-leaved forest and grassland carbon fluxes during the growing season droughts over the North Temperate Zone” [Ecol. Indic. 178 (2025) 114016]', Ecological Indicators, 179, pp. 114227, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.114227

Li X; Sun S; Ren Y; Bi Z; Liu Y; Liu Y; Zhou B; Chen H, 2025, 'Explaining the contrast responses of evergreen needle-leaved forest and grassland carbon fluxes during the growing season droughts over the North Temperate Zone', Ecological Indicators, 178, pp. 114016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.114016

Sun S; Ma A; Liu Y; Mu M; Liu Y; Zhou Y; Li J, 2024, 'Dissecting changes in evapotranspiration and its components across the Losses Plateau of China during 2001–2020', International Journal of Climatology, 44, pp. 5207 - 5232, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.8633

Che K; Lauvaux T; Taquet N; Stremme W; Xu Y; Alberti C; Lopez M; García‐Reynoso A; Ciais P; Liu Y; Ramonet M; Grutter M, 2024, 'CO2 Emissions Estimate From Mexico City Using Ground‐ and Space‐Based Remote Sensing', Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024jd041297

Liu Y; Feng Y; Wu Z; Alamdari MM; Wu D; Luo Z; Chen X; Gao W, 2024, 'Dynamic crack propagation in elasto-plastic materials using phase-field virtual modelling method', Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 429, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2024.117160

Chen X; Chen T; Liu YY; He B; Liu S; Guo R; Dolman H, 2024, 'Emergent constraints on historical and future global gross primary productivity', Global Change Biology, 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17479

Yi Y; Cai Z; Liu Y; Tao M; Fang S; Yang D; Bai Z; Liang M; Yao B; Bian J; Honomichl SB; Randel WJ; Pan LL, 2024, 'AirCore Observations at Northern Tibetan Plateau During the Asian Summer Monsoon', Geophysical Research Letters, 51, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024gl109256

Che K; Lauvaux T; Taquet N; Stremme W; Xu Y; Alberti C; Lopez M; García‐Reynoso A; Ciais P; Liu Y; Ramonet M; Grutter M, 2024, 'Urban XCO2 Gradients From a Dense Network of Solar Absorption Spectrometers and OCO‐3 Over Mexico City', Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2023jd040063

Liu YY; Van Dijk AIJM; Meir P; McVicar TR, 2024, 'Drought and radiation explain fluctuations in Amazon rainforest greenness during the 2015-2016 drought', Biogeosciences, 21, pp. 2273 - 2295, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-2273-2024

Liu S; McVicar TR; Wu X; Cao X; Liu Y, 2024, 'Assessing the relative importance of dry-season incoming solar radiation and water storage dynamics during the 2005, 2010 and 2015 southern Amazon droughts: Not all droughts are created equal', Environmental Research Letters, 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad281e

Tao M; Cai Z; Zhu S; Liu Y; Feng L; Fang S; Yi Y; Bian J, 2024, 'New evidence for CH4 enhancement in the upper troposphere associated with the Asian summer monsoon', Environmental Research Letters, 19, pp. 034033, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad2738

Chen Z; Wang G; Wei X; Liu Y; Duan Z; Hu Y; Jiang H, 2024, 'Basin-Scale Daily Drought Prediction Using Convolutional Neural Networks in Fenhe River Basin, China', Atmosphere, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/atmos15020155

Shah S; Liu Y; Kim S; Sharma A, 2024, 'Advancing High-Mountain Precipitation Reconstruction Through Merging of Multiple Data Sources: Triple Collocation Versus Signal-to-Noise Ratio Optimization', IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2024.3494812

Zhang H; Wang H; Liu Y; Jing X; Liu Y, 2024, 'Influences of Cloud Vertical Overlapping on the Calculated Cloud Albedo and Their Validation with Satellite Observations', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 81, pp. 65 - 76, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jas-d-22-0219.1

Zhao T; Yang D; Guo D; Wang Y; Yao L; Ren X; Fan M; Cai Z; Wu K; Liu Y, 2024, 'Low-cost UAV coordinated carbon observation network: Carbon dioxide measurement with multiple UAVs', Atmospheric Environment, 332, pp. 120609, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2024.120609

Yang D; Zhao T; Yao L; Guo D; Fan M; Ren X; Li M; Wu K; Wang J; Cai Z; Wang S; Guo J; Chen L; Liu Y, 2024, 'Toward Establishing a Low-cost UAV Coordinated Carbon Observation Network (LUCCN): First Integrated Campaign in China', Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 41, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00376-023-3107-5

Liu Y; Donat MG; England MH; Alexander LV; Hirsch AL; Delgado-Torres C, 2023, 'Enhanced multi-year predictability after El Niño and La Niña events', Nature Communications, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42113-9

Tao S; Wigneron JP; Chave J; Tang Z; Wang Z; Zhu J; Guo Q; Liu YY; Ciais P, 2023, 'Little evidence that Amazonian rainforests are approaching a tipping point', Nature Climate Change, 13, pp. 1317 - 1320, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01853-8

Li S; Wang G; Zhu C; Hannemann M; Poyatos R; Lu J; Li J; Ullah W; Hagan DFT; García-García A; Liu Y; Liu Q; Ma S; Liu Q; Sun S; Zhao F; Peng J, 2023, 'Spatial patterns and recent temporal trends in global transpiration modelled using eco-evolutionary optimality', Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 342, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109702

Sun S; Bi Z; Xiao J; Liu Y; Sun G; Ju W; Liu C; Mu M; Li J; Zhou Y; Li X; Liu Y; Chen H, 2023, 'A global 5km monthly potential evapotranspiration dataset (1982-2015) estimated by the Shuttleworth-Wallace model', Earth System Science Data, 15, pp. 4849 - 4876, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-4849-2023

Wu K; Yang D; Liu Y; Cai Z; Zhou M; Feng L; Palmer PI, 2023, 'Evaluating the Ability of the Pre-Launch TanSat-2 Satellite to Quantify Urban CO2 Emissions', Remote Sensing, 15, pp. 4904, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs15204904

Liu Y; Xie Y; Guo Z; Xi G, 2023, 'Effects of Climate Variability and Human Activities on Vegetation Dynamics across the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau from 1982 to 2020', Remote Sensing, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs15204988

Hua W; Zhou L; Dai A; Chen H; Liu Y, 2023, 'Important non-local effects of deforestation on cloud cover changes in CMIP6 models', Environmental Research Letters, 18, pp. 094047, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acf232

Song W; Feng A; Wang G; Zhang Q; Dai W; Wei X; Hu Y; Amankwah SOY; Zhou F; Liu Y, 2023, 'Bi-Objective Crop Mapping from Sentinel-2 Images Based on Multiple Deep Learning Networks', Remote Sensing, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs15133417

Sun S; Zhang Y; Chai R; Liu Y; Mu M; Zhou B; Zhou Y; Li J; Chen H, 2023, 'Spatial differences in impacts of CO2 effect on China's meteorological droughts: Analysis from surface resistance perspective', Journal of Hydrology, 621, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129568

Tao S; Ao Z; Wigneron JP; Saatchi S; Ciais P; Chave J; Le Toan T; Frison PL; Hu X; Chen C; Fan L; Wang M; Zhu J; Zhao X; Li X; Liu X; Su Y; Hu T; Guo Q; Wang Z; Tang Z; Liu YY; Fang J, 2023, 'A global long-term, high-resolution satellite radar backscatter data record (1992-2022+): merging C-band ERS/ASCAT and Ku-band QSCAT', Earth System Science Data, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-1577-2023

Li S; Wang G; Zhu C; Lu J; Ullah W; Fiifi Tawia Hagan D; Kattel G; Liu Y; Zhang Z; Song Y; Sun S; Zheng Y; Peng J, 2023, 'Vegetation growth due to CO2 fertilization is threatened by increasing vapor pressure deficit', Journal of Hydrology, 619, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129292

Dou Y; Tian F; Wigneron JP; Tagesson T; Du J; Brandt M; Liu Y; Zou L; Kimball JS; Fensholt R, 2023, 'Reliability of using vegetation optical depth for estimating decadal and interannual carbon dynamics', Remote Sensing of Environment, 285, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113390

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