(Brown et al. 2020; Cao et al. 2020; Chen et al. 2020a; Chen et al. 2020b; Cheng et al. 2020; Du et al. 2020; Gao et al. 2020; Jia et al. 2020; Liu et al. 2020; Ma et al. 2020; Rao et al. 2020; Tu et al. 2020; Wang et al. 2020a; Wang et al. 2020b; Wu and Liang 2020; Yang et al. 2020; Zhan et al. 2020; Zhang et al. 2020a; Zhang and Liang 2020; Zhang et al. 2020b; Zhang et al. 2020c; Zhao et al. 2020; Zheng et al. 2020)

Papers published in 2020

1. Brown, M.G.L., Skakun, S., He, T., & Liang, S. (2020). Intercomparison of Machine-Learning Methods for Estimating Surface Shortwave and Photosynthetically Active Radiation. Remote Sensing, 12, 372

2. Cao, Y., Liang, S., & Yu, M. (2020). Observed low-frequency linkage between Northern Hemisphere tropical expansion and polar vortex weakening from 1979 to 2012. Atmospheric Research, 105034

3. Chen, J., He, T., Jiang, B., & Liang, S. (2020a). Estimation of all-sky all-wave daily net radiation at high latitudes from MODIS data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 245, 111842

4. Chen, X., Liang, S., & Yang, Y. (2020b). Differences in snow-induced radiative forcing estimated from satellite and reanalysis surface albedo datasets over the Northern Hemisphere landmass for the overlapping period of 1982�2012. Environmental Research Communications, 2, 091001

5. Cheng, J., Liang, S., & Shi, J. (2020). Impact of Air Temperature Inversion on the Clear-Sky Surface Downward Longwave Radiation Estimation. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 58, 4796-4802

6. Du, X., Zhao, X., Liang, S., Zhao, J., Xu, P., & Wu, D. (2020). Quantitatively Assessing and Attributing Land Use and Land Cover Changes on China�s Loess Plateau. Remote Sensing, 12, 353

7. Gao, X., Liang, S., & Sauer, J. (2020). Greening hiatus in Eurasian boreal forests since 1997 caused by a wetting and cooling summer climate. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 125, e2020JG005662

8. Jia, A., Liang, S., Wang, D., Jiang, B., & Zhang, X. (2020). Air pollution slows down surface warming over the Tibetan Plateau. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 881-899

9. Liu, H., Gong, P., Wang, J., Clinton, N., Bai, Y., & Liang, S. (2020). Annual Dynamics of Global Land Cover and its Long-term Changes from 1982 to 2015. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 1217-1243

10. Ma, J., Zhou, J., Göttsche, F.-M., Liang, S., Wang, S., & Li, M. (2020). A global long-term (1981�2000) land surface temperature product for NOAA AVHRR. Earth System Science Data, 12, 3247�3268

11. Rao, Y., Liang, S., Wang, D., Yu, Y., Song, Z., Zhou, Y., Shen, M., & Xu, B. (2020). Estimating daily average surface air temperature using satellite land surface temperature and top-of-atmosphere radiation products over the Tibetan Plateau. Remote Sensing of Environment, 234, 111462,https://doi.org/111410.111016/j.rse.112019.111462

12. Tu, Y., Jia, K., Liang, S., Wei, X., Yao, Y., & Zhang, X. (2020). Fractional vegetation cover estimation in heterogeneous areas by combining a radiative transfer model and a dynamic vegetation model. International Journal of Digital Earth, doi:10.1080/17538947.17532018.11531438

13. Wang, D., Liang, S., Zhang, Y., Gao, X., Brown, M.G.L., & Jia, A. (2020a). A New Set of MODIS Land Products (MCD18): Downward Shortwave Radiation and Photosynthetically Active Radiation. Remote Sensing, 12, 168

14. Wang, Y., Xie, X., Liang, S., Zhu, B., Yao, Y., Meng, S., & Lu, C. (2020b). Quantifying the response of potential flooding risk to urban growth in Beijing. Science of the Total Environment, 705, 135868

15. Wu, J., & Liang, S. (2020). Assessing Terrestrial Ecosystem Resilience using Satellite Leaf Area Index. Remote Sensing, 12, 595

16. Yang, L., Liang, S., & Zhang, Y. (2020). A New Method for Generating a Global Forest Aboveground Biomass Map From Multiple High-Level Satellite Products and Ancillary Information. Ieee Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 13, 2587-2597

17. Zhan, C., Shi, Q., & Liang, S. (2020). Assessing the impacts of the spring sensible heat flux over the Tibetan Plateau on Asian summer monsoon rainfall using observational and reanalysis data. International Journal of Climatology, 40, 2342-2358, https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6336

18. Zhang, X., Zhou, J., Liang, S., Chai, L., Wang, D., & Liu, J. (2020a). Estimation of 1-km all-weather remotely sensed land surface temperature based on reconstructed spatial-seamless satellite passive microwave brightness temperature and thermal infrared data. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 167, 321-344

19. Zhang, Y., & Liang, S. (2020). Fusion of multiple gridded biomass datasets for generating a global forest aboveground biomass map. Remote Sensing, 12(16), DOI:10.3390/rs12162559

20. Zhang, Y., Liang, S., He, T., Wang, D., & Yu, Y. (2020b). Estimation of Land Surface Incident and Net Shortwave Radiation from Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Using an Optimization Method. Remote Sensing, 12, 4153

21. Zhang, Y., Liang, S., & Xiao, Z. (2020c). Observed Vegetation Greening and Its Relationships with Cropland Changes and Climate in China. Land, 9, 274

22. Zhao, J., Zhao, X., Liang, S., Zhou, T., Du, X., Xu, P., & Wu, D. (2020). Assessing the thermal contributions of urban land cover types. Landscape and Urban Planning, 204, 103927

23. Zheng, Y., Shen, R., Wang, Y., Li, X., Liu, S., Liang, S., Chen, J.M., Ju, W., Zhang, L., & Yuan, W. (2020). Improved estimate of global gross primary production for reproducing its long-term variation, 1982�2017. Earth System Science Data, 12, 2725-2746