Papers published in 2015

1. Cao, Y., Liang, S., Chen, X. & He, T. (2015) Assessment of Sea Ice Albedo Radiative Forcing and Feedback over the Northern Hemisphere from 1982 to 2009 Using Satellite and Reanalysis Data. Journal of Climate, 28, 1248-1259.

2. Chen, X., Liang, S., Cao, Y., He, T. & Wang, D. (2015b) Observed contrast changes in snow cover phenology in northern middle and high latitudes from 2001–2014. Scientific Reports, 5, 16820.

3. Chen, Y., Yuan, W.P., Xia, J.Z., Fisher, J.B., Dong, W.J., Zhang, X.T., Liang, S., Ye, A.Z., Cai, W.W. & Feng, J.M. (2015c) Using Bayesian model averaging to estimate terrestrial evapotranspiration in China. Journal of Hydrology, 528, 537-549.

4. Feng, F., Chen, J.Q., Li, X.L., Yao, Y.J., Liang, S., Liu, M., Zhang, N.N., Guo, Y., Yu, J. & Sun, M.M. (2015) Validity of Five Satellite-Based Latent Heat Flux Algorithms for Semi-arid Ecosystems. Remote Sensing, 7, 16733-16755.

5. He, T., Liang, S., Wang, D., Shi, Q. & Goulden, M.L. (2015a) Estimation of high-resolution land surface net shortwave radiation from AVIRIS data: Algorithm development and preliminary results. Remote Sensing of Environment, 167, 20-30.

6. He, T., Liang, S., Wang, D., Chen, X., Song, D.-X. & Jiang, B. (2015b) Land Surface Albedo Estimation from Chinese HJ Satellite Data Based on the Direct Estimation Approach. Remote Sensing, 7, 5495-5510.

7. Huang, J.X., Tian, L.Y., Liang, S., Ma, H.Y., Becker-Reshef, I., Huang, Y.B., Su, W., Zhang, X.D., Zhu, D.H. & Wu, W.B. (2015) Improving winter wheat yield estimation by assimilation of the leaf area index from Landsat TM and MODIS data into the WOFOST model. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 204, 106-121.

8. Jia, K., Liang, S., Wei, X., Li, Q., Du, X., Jiang, B., Yao, Y., Zhao, X. & Li, Y. (2015a) Fractional forest cover changes in Northeast China from 1982 to 2011 and its relationship with climatic variations. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 8, 775-783.

9. Jia, K., Liang, S., Liu, S.H., Li, Y.W., Xiao, Z.Q., Yao, Y.J., Jiang, B., Zhao, X., Wang, X.X., Xu, S. & Cui, J. (2015b) Global Land Surface Fractional Vegetation Cover Estimation Using General Regression Neural Networks From MODIS Surface Reflectance. Ieee Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 53, 4787-4796.

10. Jia, K., Liang, S., Liu, J., Li, Q., Wei, X., Yuan, W. & Yao, Y. (2015) Forest Cover Changes in the Three-North Shelter Forest Region of China during 1990 to 2005. Journal of Environmental Informatics, 26, 112-120.

11. Jiang, B., Liang, S. & Yuan, W. (2015a) Observational evidence for impacts of vegetation change on local surface climate over northern China using the Granger causality test. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 120, 1–12, doi:10.1002/2014JG002741.

12. Jiang, B., Zhang, Y., Liang, S., Wohlfahrt, G., Arain, A., Cescatti, A., Georgiadis, T., Jia, K., Kiely, G., Lund, M., Montagnani, L., Magliulo, V., Ortiz, P.S., Oechel, W., Vaccari, F.P., Yao, Y. & Zhang, X. (2015b) Empirical estimation of daytime net radiation from shortwave radiation and ancillary information. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 211–212, 23-36.

13. Jiapaer, G., Liang, S., Yi, Q.X. & Liu, J.P. (2015) Vegetation dynamics and responses to recent climate change in Xinjiang using leaf area index as an indicator. Ecological Indicators, 58, 64-76.

14. Qin, J., Tang, W.J., Yang, K., Lu, N., Niu, X.L. & Liang, S. (2015) An efficient physically based parameterization to derive surface solar irradiance based on satellite atmospheric products. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 120, 4975-4988.

15. Qu, Y., Liang, S., Liu, Q., He, T., Liu, S. & Li, X. (2015) Mapping Surface Broadband Albedo from Satellite Observations: A Review of Literatures on Algorithms and Products. Remote Sensing, 7, 990-1020.

16. Tao, X., Liang, S. & Wang, D. (2015) Assessment of five global satellite products of fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation: Intercomparison and direct validation against ground-based data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 163, 270-285.

17. Wang, D., Liang, S., He, T. & Shi, Q. (2015a) Estimating clear-sky all-wave net radiation from combined visible and shortwave infrared (VSWIR) and thermal infrared (TIR) remote sensing data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 167, 31-39.

18. Wang, D., Liang, S., He, T. & Shi, Q. (2015b) Estimation of Daily Surface Shortwave Net Radiation From the Combined MODIS Data. Ieee Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 53, 5519-5529.

19. Wang, D., Liang, S., He, T., Cao, Y. & Jiang, B. (2015c) Surface Shortwave Net Radiation Estimation from FengYun-3 MERSI Data. Remote Sensing, 7, 6224-6239.

20. Wang, D., Liang, S., He, T., Yu, Y.Y., Schaaf, C. & Wang, Z.S. (2015d) Estimating daily mean land surface albedo from MODIS data. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 120, 4825-4841.

21. Wu, D., Zhao, X., Liang, S., Zhou, T., Huang, K., Tang, B. & Zhao, W. (2015) Time-lag effects of global vegetation responses to climate change. Global change biology, 21, 3520-3531.

22. Xia, J., Chen, Y., Liang, S., Liu, D. & Yuan, W. (2015) Global simulations of carbon allocation coefficients for deciduous vegetation types. Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology, 67, 28016.

23. Xiao, Z., Liang, S., Wang, T. & Liu, Q. (2015a) Reconstruction of Satellite-Retrieved Land-Surface Reflectance Based on Temporally-Continuous Vegetation Indices. Remote Sensing, 7, 9844-9864.

24. Xiao, Z., Liang, S., Sun, R., Wang, J. & Jiang, B. (2015b) Estimating the fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation from the MODIS data based GLASS leaf area index product. Remote Sensing of Environment, 171, 105-117.

25. Xiao, Z., Liang, S., Wang, J., Xie, D., Song, J. & Fensholt, R. (2015c) A Framework for the Simultaneous Estimation of Leaf Area Index, Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation and Albedo from MODIS Time Series Data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 53, 3178-3197.

26. Xie, X., Liang, S., Yao, Y., Jia, K., Meng, S. & Li, J. (2015) Detection and attribution of changes in hydrological cycle over the Three-North region of China: Climate change versus afforestation effect. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 203, 74-87.

27. Xu, T., Bateni, S. & Liang, S. (2015) Estimating turbulent heat fluxes with a weak-constraint data assimilation scheme: A case study (HiWATER-MUSOEXE). Ieee Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 12, 68-72.

28. Xu, T., Liu, S., Xu, Z., Liang, S. & Xu, L. (2015) A dual-pass data assimilation scheme for estimating surface fluxes with FY3A-VIRR land surface temperature. Science China Earth Sciences, 58, 211-230.

29. Yao, Y., Liang, S., Li, X., Chen, J., Wang, K., Jia, K., Cheng, J., Jiang, B., Fisher, J.B., Mu, Q., Grünwald, T., Bernhofer, C. & Roupsard, O. (2015) A satellite-based hybrid algorithm to determine the Priestley–Taylor parameter for global terrestrial latent heat flux estimation across multiple biomes. Remote Sensing of Environment, 165, 216-233.

30. Zhang, X.T., Liang, S., Wild, M. & Jiang, B. (2015) Analysis of surface incident shortwave radiation from four satellite products. Remote Sensing of Environment, 165, 186-202.

31. Zhao, X., Wei, H., Liang, S., Zhou, T., He, B., Tang, B. & Wu, D. (2015) Responses of Natural Vegetation to Different Stages of Extreme Drought during 2009–2010 in Southwestern China. Remote Sensing, 7, 14039.