Papers published in 2017

1. Cao, Y., Liang, S., Chen, X., He, T., Wang, D. & Cheng, X. (2017) Enhanced wintertime greenhouse effect reinforcing Arctic amplification and initial sea-ice melting. Scientific Reports, 7, 8462.

2. Chen, X., Liang, S. & Cao, Y. (2017a) Sensitivity of Summer Drying to Spring Snow-Albedo Feedback Throughout the Northern Hemisphere From Satellite Observations. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 14, 2345-2349.

3. Chen, X., Long, D., Hong, Y., Liang, S. & Hou, A. (2017b) Observed radiative cooling over the Tibetan Plateau for the past three decades driven by snow cover induced surface albedo anomaly. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122, 6170-6185.

4. Cheng, J., Liang, S., Wang, W. & Guo, Y. (2017a) An efficient hybrid method for estimating clear-sky surface downward longwave radiation from MODIS data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122, 2616-2630.

5. Cheng, J., Cheng, X., Liang, S., Niclòs, R., Nie, A. & Liu, Q. (2017b) A Lookup Table-Based Method for Estimating Sea Surface Hemispherical Broadband Emissivity Values (8–13.5 μm). Remote Sensing, 9, 245，doi:10.3390/rs9030245.

6. Cheng, J., Liu, H., Liang, S., Nie, A., Liu, Q. & Guo, Y. (2017c) A framework for estimating the 30‐m thermal‐infrared broadband emissivity from Landsat surface‐reflectance data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122, 11405-11421.

7. Dong, W., Lan, J., Liang, S., Yao, W. & Zhan, Z. (2017) Selection of LiDAR geometric features with adaptive neighborhood size for urban land cover classification. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 60, 99-110.

8. He, T., Liang, S. & Wang, D. (2017) Direct Estimation of Land Surface Albedo From Simultaneous MISR Data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 55, 2605-2617.

9. Jia, K., Li, Y., Liang, S., Wei, X. & Yao, Y. (2017a) Combining Estimation of Green Vegetation Fraction in an Arid Region from Landsat 7 ETM+ Data. Remote Sensing, 9, 1121.

10. Jia, K., Li, Y., Liang, S., Wei, X., Mu, X. & Yao, Y. (2017b) Fractional vegetation cover estimation based on soil and vegetation lines in a corn-dominated area. Geocarto International, 32, 531-540.

11. Ma, H., Liang, S., Xiao, Z. & Shi, H. (2017a) Simultaneous inversion of multiple land surface parameters from MODIS optical–thermal observations. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 128, 240-254.

12. Ma, H., Liu, Q., Liang, S. & Xiao, Z. (2017b) Simultaneous Estimation of Leaf Area Index, Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation and Surface Albedo from multiple-Satellite Data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 55, 4334 - 4354，doi:10.1109/TGRS.2017.2691542.

13. Meng, S., Xie, X. & Liang, S. (2017a) Assimilation of soil moisture and streamflow observations to improve flood forecasting with considering runoff routing lags. Journal of Hydrology, 550, 568-579.

14. Meng, X., Cheng, J. & Liang, S. (2017b) Estimating Land Surface Temperature from Feng Yun-3C/MERSI Data Using a New Land Surface Emissivity Scheme. Remote Sensing, 9, 1247.

15. Shi, H., Xiao, Z., Liang, S. & Ma, H. (2017) A Method for Consistent Estimation of Multiple Land Surface Parameters From MODIS Top-of-Atmosphere Time Series Data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 55, 5158-5173.

16. Song, Z., Liang, S., Feng, L., He, T., Song, X.-P. & Zhang, L. (2017) Temperature changes in Three Gorges Reservoir Area and linkage with Three Gorges Project. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122, 4866-4879.

17. Tang, W., Qin, J., Yang, K., Niu, X., Min, M. & Liang, S. (2017) An efficient algorithm for calculating photosynthetically active radiation with MODIS products. Remote Sensing of Environment, 194, 146-154.

18. Wang, D. & Liang, S. (2017) Estimating top-of-atmosphere daily reflected shortwave radiation flux over land from MODIS data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 55, 4022 - 4031.

19. Wang, D., Liang, S., Zhou, Y., He, T. & Yu, Y. (2017a) A New Method for Retrieving Daily Land Surface Albedo From VIIRS Data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 55, 1765-1775.

20. Wang, X., Jia, K., Liang, S., Li, Q., Wei, X., Yao, Y., Zhang, X. & Tu, Y. (2017b) Estimating Fractional Vegetation Cover From Landsat-7 ETM+; Reflectance Data Based on a Coupled Radiative Transfer and Crop Growth Model. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 55, 5539-5546.

21. Weatherhead, B., Wielicki, B.A., Ramaswamy, V., Abbott, M., Ackerman, T., Atlas, R., Brasseur, G., Bruhwiler, L., Busalacchi, A., Butler, J.H., Clack, C.T.M., Cooke, R., Cucurull, L., Davis, S., English, J.M., Fahey, D.W., Fine, S.S., Lazo, J.K., Liang, S., Loeb, N.G., Rignot, E., Soden, B., Stanitski, D., Stephens, G., Tapley, B., Thompson, A.M., Trenberth, K.E. & Wuebbles, D. (2017) Designing the Climate Observing System of the Future. Earth's Future, 5, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017EF000627.

22. Xiao, Z., Liang, S. & Jiang, B. (2017a) Evaluation of four long time-series global leaf area index products. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 246, 218-230.

23. Xiao, Z., Liang, S., Tian, X., Jia, K., Yao, Y. & Jiang, B. (2017b) Reconstruction of Long-Term Temporally Continuous NDVI and Surface Reflectance From AVHRR Data. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 10, 5551-5568.

24. Yang, L., Jia, K., Liang, S., Wei, X., Yao, Y. & Zhang, X. (2017) A Robust Algorithm for Estimating Surface Fractional Vegetation Cover from Landsat Data. Remote Sensing, 9, 857.

25. Yao, Y., Liang, S., Li, X., Chen, J., Liu, S., Jia, K., Zhang, X., Xiao, Z., Fisher, J.B. & Mu, Q. (2017a) Improving global terrestrial evapotranspiration estimation using support vector machine by integrating three process-based algorithms. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 242, 55-74.

26. Yao, Y., Liang, S., Li, X., Zhang, Y., Chen, J., Jia, K., Zhang, X., Fisher, J.B., Wang, X. & Zhang, L. (2017b) Estimation of high-resolution terrestrial evapotranspiration from Landsat data using a simple Taylor skill fusion method. Journal of Hydrology, 553, 508-526.

27. Yao, Y., Liang, S., Yu, J., Zhao, S., Lin, Y., Jia, K., Zhang, X., Cheng, J., Xie, X., Sun, L., Wang, X. & Zhang, L. (2017c) Differences in estimating terrestrial water flux from three satellite-based Priestley-Taylor algorithms. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 56, 1-12.

28. Yao, Y., Liang, S., Yu, J., Chen, J., Liu, S., Lin, Y., Fisher, J.B., McVicar, T.R., Cheng, J., Jia, K., Zhang, X., Xie, X., Jiang, B. & Sun, L. (2017d) A simple temperature domain two-source model for estimating agricultural field surface energy fluxes from Landsat images. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122, 5211-5236.

29. Zhou, H., Wang, J., Liang, S. & Xiao, Z. (2017) Extended Data-Based Mechanistic Method for Improving Leaf Area Index Time Series Estimation with Satellite Data. Remote Sensing, 9, 533.