Satellite remote sensing of global land surface temperature: Definition, methods, products, and applications

ZL Li, H Wu, SB Duan, W Zhao, H Ren… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Land surface temperature (LST) is a crucial parameter that reflects land–atmosphere
interaction and has thus attracted wide interest from geoscientists. Owing to the rapid …

Drivers and impacts of changes in China's drylands

C Li, B Fu, S Wang, LC Stringer, Y Wang, Z Li… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract China has 6.6 million km2 of drylands that support approximately 580 million
people. These drylands are at risk of desertification. In this Review, the changes observed in …

Forestation at the right time with the right species can generate persistent carbon benefits in China

H Xu, C Yue, Y Zhang, D Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Previous evaluations on the biophysical potential of forest carbon sink have focused on
forestation area distribution and the associated carbon stock for equilibrium-state forests …

Biophysical impacts of earth greening can substantially mitigate regional land surface temperature warming

Y Li, ZL Li, H Wu, C Zhou, X Liu, P Leng, P Yang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Vegetation change can alter surface energy balance and subsequently affect the local
climate. This biophysical impact has been well studied for forestation cases, but the sign and …

[PDF][PDF] Land–climate interactions

ÉL Davin - 2022 - boris.unibe.ch
Executive summary Land and climate interact in complex ways through changes in forcing
and multiple biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks across different spatial and …

China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management

C Chen, T Park, X Wang, S Piao, B Xu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Satellite data show increasing leaf area of vegetation due to direct factors (human land-use
management) and indirect factors (such as climate change, CO2 fertilization, nitrogen …

Asymmetric influence of forest cover gain and loss on land surface temperature

Y Su, C Zhang, P Ciais, Z Zeng, A Cescatti… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
The direct biophysical effects of fine-scale tree cover changes on temperature are not well
understood. Here, we show how land surface temperature responds to subgrid gross tree …

Perspectives on the role of terrestrial ecosystems in the 'carbon neutrality'strategy

S Piao, C Yue, J Ding, Z Guo - Science China Earth Sciences, 2022 - Springer
The Chinese government has made a strategic decision to reach 'carbon neutrality'before
2060. China's terrestrial ecosystem carbon sink is currently offsetting 7–15% of national …

[HTML][HTML] Vegetation greening, extended growing seasons, and temperature feedbacks in warming temperate grasslands of China

X Shen, B Liu, M Henderson, L Wang… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Vegetation activity and phenology are significantly affected by climate change, and changes
in vegetation activity and phenology can in turn affect regional or global climate patterns. As …

Extreme rainfall reduces one-twelfth of China's rice yield over the last two decades

J Fu, Y Jian, X Wang, L Li, P Ciais, J Zscheischler… - Nature Food, 2023 - nature.com
Extreme climate events constitute a major risk to global food production. Among these,
extreme rainfall is often dismissed from historical analyses and future projections, the …