Papers published in 2013

1. Cheng, J. & Liang , S. (2013) A Novel Algorithm for Estimating Broadband Emissivity of Global Bare Soil using MODIS Albedo Product. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 51, 2619-2631.

2. Cheng, J. & Liang, S. (2013) Estimating global land surface broadband thermal-infrared emissivity from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer optical data. International Journal of Digital Earth, DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2013.783129.

3. Cheng, J., Liang, S., Yao, Y. & Zhang, X. (2013a) Estimating the Optimal Broadband Emissivity Spectral Range for Calculating Surface Longwave Net Radiation. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 10, 401-405.

4. Fang, H., Jiang, C., Li, W., Wei, S., Baret, F., Chen, J.M., Garcia-Haro, J., Liang, S., Liu, R., Myneni, R.B., Pinty, B., Xiao, Z. & Zhu, Z. (2013) Characterization and intercomparison of global moderate resolution leaf area index (LAI) products: Analysis of climatologies and theoretical uncertainties. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, 118, DOI:10.1002/jgrg.20051.

5. He, T., Liang, S., Wang, D., Shuai, Y. & Yu, Y. (2013a) Fusion of satellite land surface albedo products across scales using a multi-resolution tree method in the north-central United States. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, in press.

6. He, T., Liang, S., Yu, Y., Liu, Q. & Gao, F. (2013b) Greenland surface albedo changes 1981-2012 from satellite observations. Environmental Research Letters, 8, 044043, DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/044043.

7. Huang, G., Wang, W., Zhang, X., Liang, S., Liu, S., Zhao, T., Feng, J. & Ma, Z. (2013) Preliminary Validation of GLASS-DSSR products using surface measurements collected in arid and semi-arid region of China. International Journal of Digital Earth, DOI:10.1080/17538947.2013.825655.

8. Jiang, B. & Liang, S. (2013) Improved vegetation greenness increases summer atmospheric water vapor over Northern China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 118, 8129-8139.

9. Jiang, B., Liang, S., Townshend, J. & Dodson, Z. (2013) Assessment of the Radiometric Performance of Chinese HJ-1 Satellite CCD Instruments. IEEE Journal in Special Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 6, 840-850.

10. Li, X., Liang, S., Yu, G., Yuan, W., Cheng, X., Xia, J., Zhao, T., Feng, J., Ma, Z., Ma, M., Liu, S., Chen, J., Shao, C., Li, S., Zhang, X., Zhang, Z., Chen, S., Ohta, T., Varlagin, A., Miyata, A., Takagi, K., Saiqusa, N. & Kato, T. (2013) Estimation of gross primary production over the terrestrial ecosystems in China. Ecological Modelling, 261–262, 80-92.

11. Li, X., Ziadi, N., Bélanger, G., Yuan, W., Liang, S., Xu, H. & Cai, Z. (2013) Wheat grain Cd concentration and uptake as affected by timing of fertilizer N application. Canadian Journal of Soil Science, 93, 219-222

12. Liang, S., Zhao, X., Yuan, W., Liu, S., Cheng, X., Xiao, Z., Zhang, X., Liu, Q., Cheng, J., Tang, H., Qu, Y.H., Bo, Y., Qu, Y., Ren, H., Yu, K. & Townshend, J. (2013) A Long-term Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) Dataset for Environmental Studies. International Journal of Digital Earth, 6, 5-33.

13. Liu, N., Liu, Q., Wang, L., Liang, S., Wen, J., Qu, Y. & Liu, S. (2013a) A statistics-based temporal filter algorithm to map spatiotemporally continuous shortwave albedo from MODIS data. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 17, 2121-2129, doi:10.5194/hess-17-2121-2013.

14. Liu, Q., Wang, L., Qu, Y., Liu, N., Liu, S., Tang, H. & Liang, S. (2013b) Priminary Evaluation of the Long-Term GLASS Albedo Product. International Journal of Digital Earth, 6, 69-95,doi:10.1080/17538947.2013.804601.

15. Ren, H., Liang, S., Yan, G. & Cheng, J. (2013) Empirical Method to Map Global Broadband Emissivities over Vegetated Surfaces. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 51, 2619-2631.

16. Román, M.O., Gatebe, C.K., Shuai, Y., Wang, Z., Gao, F., Masek, J.G., He, T., Liang, S. & Schaaf, C.B. (2013) Use of in situ and airborne multiangle data to assess MODIS-and Landsat-based estimates of directional reflectance and albedo. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 51, 1393-1404.

17. Shi, Q. & Liang, S. (2013a) Characterizing the surface radiation budget over the Tibetan Plateau with ground-measured, reanalysis, and remote sensing data sets: 2. Spatiotemporal analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 118, 8921-8934.

18. Shi, Q. & Liang, S. (2013b) Characterizing the surface radiation budget over the Tibetan Plateau with ground-measured, reanalysis, and remote sensing data sets: 1. Methodology. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 118, 9642-9657.

19. Sun, L., Liang, S., Yuan, W. & Chen, Z. (2013) Improving a Penman–Monteith evapotranspiration model by incorporating soil moisture control on soil evaporation in semiarid areas. International Journal of Digital Earth, 6, 134-156,DOI:10.1080/17538947.2013.783635.

20. Yang, J., Gong, P., Fu, R., Zhang, M., Chen, J., Liang, S., Xu, B., Shi, J. & Dickinson, R. (2013) The role of satellite remote sensing in climate change studies. Nature Clim. Change, 3, 875-883.

21. Yao, Y.J., Liang, S., Cheng, J., Liu, S.M., Fisher, J.B., Zhang, X.D., Jia, K., Zhao, X., Qing, Q.M., Zhao, B., Han, S.J., Zhou, G.S., Zhou, G.Y., Li, Y.L. & Zhao, S.H. (2013) MODIS-driven estimation of terrestrial latent heat flux in China based on a modified Priestley-Taylor algorithm. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 171, 187-202.

22. Zhao, X., Liang, S., Liu, S., Yuan, W., Xiao, Z., Liu, Q., Cheng, J., Zhang, X., Tang, H. & Zhang, X. (2013) The Global Land Surface Satellite (GLASS) remote sensing data processing system and products. Remote Sensing, 5, 2436-2450