Publications

2023

  1. A global-scale framework for hydropower development incorporating strict environmental constraints
    Rongrong Xu; Zhenzhong Zeng*; Ming Pan; Alan D. Ziegler; Joseph Holden; Dominick V. Spracklen; Lee E. Brown; Xinyue He; Deliang Chen; Bin Ye; Haiwei Xu; Sonia Jerez; Chunmiao Zheng; Junguo Liu; Peirong Lin; Yuan Yang; Junyu Zou; Dashan Wang; Mingyi Gu; Zongliang Yang; Dongfeng Li; Junling Huang; Venkataraman Lakshmi & Eric. F. Wood
    Nature Water

2022

  1. Forest restoration potential in china: implications for carbon capture
    Xin Jiang; Alan D Ziegler; Shijing Liang; Dashan Wang & Zhenzhong Zeng*.
    Remote Sensing

  2. Interplay of greening and ENSO on biosphere–atmosphere processes in Australia
    Shijing Liang; Alan D. Ziegler; Laurent Z. X. Li; Jie Wu; Dashan Wang & Zhenzhong Zeng*.
    Geoscience Letters

  3. Inhibitive effects of recent exceeding air temperature optima of vegetation productivity and increasing water limitation on photosynthesis reversed global greening
    Baozhang Chen*; Yu Ke*; Philippe Ciais; Zhenzhong Zeng; Andy Black; Honggang Lv; Mengtian Huang; Wenping Yuan; Xiangming Xiao; Junjun Fang; Kun Hou; Ying-Ping Wang & Yiqi Luo.
    Earth’s Future

  4. Climate change may neutralize the sediment starvation in mega deltas caused by hydropower dams
    Xiaoxian Chen; Yi Zheng*; Longfan Wang; Feng Han; Zhenzhong Zeng; Peng Xu; Guangtao Fu & Chi Zhang.
    Sustainable Horizons

  5. Potential and roadmap of CO2 emission reduction in urban buildings: Case study of Shenzhen
    Jingjing Jiang; Bin Ye*; Zhenzhong Zeng; Junguo Liu & Xin Yang.
    Advances in Climate Change Research

  6. Increases in China’s wind energy production from the recovery of wind speed since 2012
    Yi Liu; Zhenzhong Zeng*; Rongrong Xu; Alan D Ziegler; Sonia Jerez; D Chen; Cesar Azorin-Molina; Lihong Zhou; Xinrong Yang; Haiwei Xu; Laurent Li; Li Dong; Feng Zhou; Renjing Cao; Junguo Liu; Bin Ye; Xingxing Kuang; Xin Yang.
    Environmental Research Letters

  7. Modeling urban impact on Zhengzhou storm on July 20, 2021
    Xiaowen Huang; Dashan Wang; Laurent ZX Li; Qi Li; Zhenzhong Zeng*.
    Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

  8. An artificial intelligence reconstruction of global gridded surface winds
    Lihong Zhou; Haofeng Liu; Xin Jiang; Alan D Ziegler; Cesar Azorin-Molina; Jiang Liu; Zhenzhong Zeng*.
    Science Bulletin

  9. Evaluation of ECOSTRESS evapotranspiration estimates over heterogeneous landscapes in the continental US
    Lili Liang; Yu Feng; Jie Wu; Xinyue He; Shijing Liang; Xin Jiang; Gabriel de Oliveira*; Jianxiu Qiu*; Zhenzhong Zeng*.
    Environmental Research Letters

  10. Exploring the individualized effect of climatic drivers on MODIS net primary productivity through an explainable machine learning framework
    Li Luyi; Zhenzhong Zeng; Zhang Guo; Duan Kai; Liu Bingjun; Cai Xitian*.
    Remote Sensing

  11. Stronger winds increase sand-dust storm risk in northern China
    Yi Liu; Rongrong Xu; Alan D Ziegler; Zhenzhong Zeng*.
    Environmental Science: Atmospheres

  12. Large-scale reforestation can increase water yield and reduce drought risk for water-insecure regions in the Asia-Pacific
    Teo Hoong Chen*; Raghavan Srivatsan V; He Xiaogang; Zhenzhong Zeng; Cheng Yanyan; Luo Xiangzhong; Lechner Alex M; Ashfold Matthew J; Lamba Aakash; Sreekar Rachakonda; Zheng Qiming; Chen Anping; Koh Lian Pin.
    Global Change Biology

  13. Submarine Groundwater Discharge in the Northern Bohai Sea, China: Implications for Coastal Carbon Budgets and Buffering Capacity
    Zhang Yan; Zou Changpei; Wang Zhaohui Aleck; Wang Xuejing; Zhenzhong Zeng; Xiao Kai; Guo Huaming; Jiang Xiaowei; Li Zhenyang; Li Hailong*.
    Journal of geophysical research-biogeosciences

  14. Madden–Julian Oscillation-induced extreme rainfalls constrained by global warming mitigation
    Shijing Liang; Dashan Wang*; Alan D. Ziegler; Laurent Z. X. Li; Zhenzhong Zeng*.
    npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

  15. How does irrigation alter the water, carbon, and nitrogen budgets in a large endorheic river basin?
    *Shuai Yang; Kewei Chen; Bowen Zhu; Yong Tian; Zhenzhong Zeng; Ming Liu; Chunmiao Zheng*.
    Journal of Hydrology

  16. Rewetting global wetlands effectively reduces major greenhouse gas emissions
    Junyu Zou; Alan D. Ziegle; Deliang Chen; Gavin McNicol; Philippe Ciais; Xin Jiang; Chunmiao Zheng; Jie Wu; Jin Wu; Ziyu Lin; Xinyue H; Lee E. Brown; Joseph Holden; Zuotai Zhang; Sorain J. Ramchunde; Anping Chen; Zhenzhong Zeng*.
    Nature Geoscience

  17. High Mountain Asia hydropower systems threatened by climate-driven landscape instability
    Dongfeng Li*; Xixi Lu; Desmond Walling; Ting Zhang; F Steiner; Robert J Wasson; Stephan Harrison; Santosh Nepal; Yong Nie; Walter W Immerzeel; Dan H Shugar; Michele Koppes; Stuart Lane; Zhenzhong Zeng; Xiaofei Sun; Alexandr Yegorov; Tobias Bolch.
    Nature Geoscience

  18. Assessing evapotranspiration observed from ECOSTRESS using flux measurements in agroecosystems
    Jie Wu; Yu Feng; Lili Liang; Xinyue He; Zhenzhong Zeng*.
    Agricultural Water Management

  19. Reduction in reversal of global stilling arising from correction to encoding of calm periods
    Robert JH Dunn*; Cesar Azorin-Molina; Matthew Menne; Zhenzhong Zeng; Nancy Casey; Cheng Shen.
    Environmental Research Communications

  20. Decreasing relative humidity dominates a reversal of decreasing pan evaporation in mainland China after 1989
    Yubin Jin; Dashan Wang*; Yu Feng; Jie Wu; Wenhui Cui; Xinyue He; Aifang Chen; Zhenzhong Zeng*.
    Journal of Hydrology

  21. Influence of urbanization on hourly extreme precipitation over China
    Xiaowen Huang; Dashan Wang*; Alan D Ziegler; Xiaoping Liu; Hui Zeng; Zhibo Xu; Zhenzhong Zeng*.
    Environmental Research Letters

  22. Effectiveness of protected areas in preventing forest loss in a tropical mountain region
    Yang Liu; Alan D Ziegler; Jie Wu; Shijing Liang; Dashan Wang; Rongrong Xu; Decha Duangnamon; Hailong Li; Zhenzhong Zeng.
    Ecological Indicators

  23. Doubling of annual forest carbon loss over the tropics during the early twenty-first century
    Yu Feng; Zhenzhong Zeng*; Timothy D. Searchinger; Alan D. Ziegler; Jie Wu; Dashan Wang; Xinyue He; Paul R. Elsen; Philippe Ciais; Rongrong Xu; Zhilin Guo; Liqing Peng; Yiheng Tao; Dominick V. Spracklen; Joseph Holden; Xiaoping Liu; Yi Zheng; Peng Xu; Ji Chen*; Xin Jiang; Xiao-Peng Song; Venkataraman Lakshmi; Eric F. Wood and Chunmiao Zheng*.
    nature sustainability

  24. A moderate mitigation can significantly delay the emergence of compound hot extremes
    Feng Ma; Xing Yuan*; Peili Wu; Zhenzhong Zeng.*
    Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

  25. Hydrological feedback from projected Earth greening in the 21st century
    Jie Wu; Dashan Wang; Laurent Z.X. Li; Zhenzhong Zeng*.
    Sustainable Horizons

  26. Absorption Enhancement of Black Carbon Aerosols Constrained by Mixing-State Heterogeneity Jinghao Zhai; Xin Yang*; Ling Li; Bin Bai; Pengfei Liu; Yuanlong Huang; Tzung-May Fu; Lei Zhu; Zhenzhong Zeng; Shu Tao; Xiaohui Lu; Xingnan Ye; Xiaofei Wang; Lin Wang; Jianmin Chen.
    Environmental Science & Technology

  27. Decarbonising the iron and steel sector for a 2° C target using inherent waste streams
    Yongqi Sun; Sicong Tian; Philippe Ciais; Zhenzhong Zeng*; Jing Meng*; Zuotai Zhang*.
    Nature communications

  28. Automatic alpine treeline extraction using high-resolution forest cover
    Xin Jiang; Xinyue He; Dashan Wang; Junyu Zou; Zhenzhong Zeng*.
    National Remote Sensing Bulletin

2021

  1. Weaknesses in dust emission modelling hidden by tuning to dust in the atmosphere
    Adrian Chappell; Nicholas Webb; Mark Hennen; Charles Zender; Philippe Ciais; Kerstin Schepanski; Brandon Edwards; Nancy Ziegler; Sandra Jones; Yves Balkanski; Daniel Tong; John Leys; Stephan Heidenreich; Robert Hynes; David Fuchs; Zhenzhong Zeng; Marie Ekström; Matthew Baddock; Jeffrey Lee; Tarek Kandakji.
    Geoscientific Model Development Discussions

  2. High‐Resolution Mapping of Ice Cover Changes in Over 33,000 Lakes Across the North Temperate Zone
    Xinchi Wang; Lian Feng*; Luke Gibson; Wei Qi; Junguo Liu; Yi Zheng; Jing Tang; Zhenzhong Zeng; Chunmiao Zheng.
    Geophysical Research Letters

  3. The critical effect of subgrid‐scale scheme on simulating the climate impacts of deforestation
    Dashan Wang; Jie Wu; Maoyi Huang; Laurent ZX Li; Dagang Wang; Ting Lin; Li Dong; Qi Li; Long Yang; Zhenzhong Zeng*.
    Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

  4. A continuous decline of global seasonal wind speed range over land since 1980
    Lihong Zhou; Zhenzhong Zeng*; Cesar Azorin-Molina; Yi Liu; Jie Wu; Dashan Wang; Dan Li; Alan D Ziegler; Li Dong.
    Journal of Climate

  5. Effects of design parameters, microbial community and nitrogen removal on the field-scale multi-pond constructed wetlands
    Dan Li; Zhaosheng Chu *; Zhenzhong Zeng; Matthew Sima; Minsheng Huang; Binghui Zheng.
    Journal of Hydrometeorology

  6. Global Reach-level 3-hourly River Flood Reanalysis (1980-2019)
    Yuan Yang; Ming Pan*; Peirong Lin; Hylke E. Beck; Zhenzhong Zeng; Dai Yamazaki.
    Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

  7. Upward expansion and acceleration of forest clearance in the mountains of Southeast Asia
    Yu Feng; Alan D. Ziegler; Paul R. Elsen; Yang Liu; Xinyue He; Dominick V. Spracklen; Joseph Holden; Xin Jiang; Chunmiao Zheng  and Zhenzhong Zeng*.
    Nature Sustainability

  8. Rapid and large-scale mapping of flood inundation via integrating spaceborne synthetic aperture radar imagery with unsupervised deep learning
    Xin Jiang; Shijing Liang; Xinyue He; Alan D. Ziegler; Peirong Lin; Ming Pan; Dashan Wang; Junyu Zou; Dalei Hao; Ganquan Mao; Yelu Zeng; Jie Yin; Lian Feng; Chiyuan Miao; Eric F. Wood; Zhenzhong Zeng*.
    ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

  9. Role of Groundwater in Sustaining Northern Himalayan Rivers
    Yingying Yao; Chunmiao Zheng*; Charles B. Andrews; Bridget R. Scanlon; Xingxing Kuang; Zhenzhong Zeng; Su-Jong Jeong; Michele Lancia; Yiping Wu; and Guoshuai Li.
    Geophysical Research Letters

  10. Aerosol presence reduces diurnal temperature change: An interval when the COVID-19 pandemic reduced aerosols revealed the climate effect
    Shijie Hu; Dashan Wang; Jie Wu; Lihong Zhou; Xu Feng; Tzung-May Fu; Xin Yang; Alan D; Ziegler and Zhenzhong Zeng*.
    Environmental Science: Atmospheres

  11. Recent leveling off of vegetation greenness and primary production reveals the increasing soil water limitations on the greening Earth
    *Xiaoming Feng; Bojie Fu*; Yuan Zhang; Naiqing Pan; Zhenzhong Zeng; Hanqin Tian; Yihe Lyu; Yongzhe Chen; Philippe Ciais; Yingping Wang; Lu Zhang; Lei Cheng; Fernando T. Maestre; Marcos Fernández-Martínez; Jordi Sardans; Josep Peñuelas. *
    Science Bulletin

  12. Two-Tier Synergic Governance of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Air Pollution in China’s Megacity, Shenzhen: Impact Evaluation and Policy Implication
    Jingjing Jiang; Bin Ye*; Shuai Shao; Nan Zhou; Dashan Wang; Zhenzhong Zeng; Junguo Liu.
    Environmental Science and Technology

  13. Impacts of Chemical Degradation on the Global Budget of Atmospheric Levoglucosan and Its Use As a Biomass Burning Tracer
    Yumin Li; Tzung-May Fu*; Jianyu Zhen*; Xu Feng; Lijuan Zhang; Jing Chen; Suresh Kumar Reddy Boreddy; Kimitaka Kawamura; Pingqing Fu; Xin Yang; Lei Zhu,Zhenzhong Zeng.
    Environmental Science and Technology

  14. Intercomparison of ten ISI-MIP models in simulating discharges along the Lancang-Mekong River basin
    He Chen; Junguo Liu*; Ganquan Mao; Zifeng Wang; Zhenzhong Zeng; Aifang Chen; Kai Wang; Deliang Chen.
    The Science of the total environment

  15. Reducing solar radiation forcing uncertainty and its impact on surface energy and water fluxes
    Liqing Peng ; Zhongwang Wei ; Zhenzhong Zeng; Peirong Lin; Eric F Wood; Justin Sheffield.
    Journal of Hydrometeorology

  16. Simulated response of warming to Southeast Asian deforestation: Insights from WRF simulations using three land surface models
    Dashan Wang; Jie Wu; Xin Jiang; Shijing Liang; Zhenzhong Zeng*.
    Transactions of Atmospheric Sciences

  17. Urban signatures in the spatial clustering of precipitation extremes over mainland China
    Dashan Wang; Xianwei Wang; Lin Liu; Dagang Wang; Zhenzhong Zeng*.
    Journal of Hydrometeorology

  18. Evaluation of global reanalysis land surface wind speed trends to support wind energy development using in situ observations
    Wenxin Fan; Yi Liu; Adrian Chappell; Li Dong; Rongrong Xu; Marie Ekstrom; TZung-May Fu; Zhenzhong Zeng*.
    Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

2020

  1. High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015
    Liu, X., Huang, Y., Xu, X., Li, X., Li, X.*, Ciais, P., Lin, P., Gong, K., Ziegler, A. D., Chen, A., Gong, P., Chen, J., Hu, G., Chen, Y., Wang, S., Wu, Q., Huang, K., Estes, L. & Zeng, Z.*
    Nature Sustainability

  2. Riverine flooding and landfalling tropical cyclones over China
    Yang, L., Villarini, G., Zeng, Z., Smith, J., Liu, M., Li, X., Wang, L. & Hou, A.
    Geophysical Research Letters

  3. Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation
    Lian, X., Piao, S., Li, L., Li, Y., Huntingford, C., Ciais, P., Cescatti, A., Janssens, A., Penuelas, J., Buermann, W., Chen, A., Li, X., Myneni, R., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Yang, Y., Zeng, Z., Zhang, Y. & McVicar T.
    Science Advance

  4. Global Estimates of Reach‐Level Bankfull River Width Leveraging Big Data Geospatial Analysis
    Lin, P., Pan, M., Allen, G., Frasson, R. P. M., Zeng, Z., Yamazaki, D. & Wood, E. F.
    Geophysical Research Letters

  5. The Reliability of Global Remote Sensing Evapotranspiration Products over Amazon
    Wu, J., Lakshmi, V., Wang, D., Lin, P., Pan. M., Cai, X., Wood, E. F., & Zeng, Z.*
    Remote Sensing

  6. Flood Risks in Sinking Delta Cities: Time for a Reevaluation?
    Yin, J., Jonkman, S., Lin, N., Yu, D.,Aerts, J., Wilby, R., Pan, M., Wood, E. F., Bricker, J., Ke, Q., Zeng, Z., Zhao, Q., Ge, J., &Wang, J.
    Earth’s Future

  7. Large Uncertainty on Forest Area Change in the Early 21st Century among Widely Used Global Land Cover Datasets
    Chen, H., Zeng, Z.*, Wu, J., Peng, L., Lakshmi, V., Yang, H., & Liu, J.
    Remote Sensing

  8. Evaluation of Global Reanalysis Land Surface Wind Speed Trends to Support Wind Energy Development Using In Situ Observations
    Fan, X., Liu, Y., Chappell, A., Dong, L., Xu, R., Ekström, M., Fu, T., & Zeng, Z.*
    Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

  9. Intercomparison of ten ISI-MIP models in simulating discharges along the Lancang-Mekong River basin
    Chen, H., Liu, J.*, Mao, Q., Wang, Z., Zeng, Z., Chen, A., Wang, K., & Chen, D.
    Science of The Total Environment

  10. Deforestation-induced warming over tropical mountain regions regulated by elevation
    Zeng, Z., Wang, D., Yang, L., Wu, J., Ziegler, A., Liu, M., Ciais, P., Seachinger, T., Yang, Z., Chen, D., Chen, A., Li, L., Piao, S., Taylor, D., Cai, X., Pan, M., Peng, L., Lin, P., Gower, D., Feng, Y., Zheng, C., Guan, K., Lian, X., Wang, T., Wang, L., Jeong, S., Wei, Z., Sheffield, J., Caylor, K., & Wood, E.F.
    Nature Geoscience

2019

  1. A reversal in global terrestrial stilling and its implications for wind energy production
    Zeng, Z.*, Ziegler, A. D., Searchinger, T., Yang, L., Chen, A., Ju, K., Piao, S., Li, L., Ciais, P., Chen, D., Liu, J., Azorin-Molina, C., Chappell, A., Medvigy, D. & Wood, E. F.
    Nature Climate Change

  2. Improving representation of deforestation effects on evapotranspiration in the E3SM land model
    Cai, X., Riley, W., Zhu, Q., Tang, J., Zeng, Z., Bisht, G. & Randerson, J.
    Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

  3. Determinants for the ratio of actual to potential evapotranspiration
    Peng, L., Zeng, Z., Wei, Z., Chen, A., Wood, E. F. & Sheffield, J.
    Global Change Biology

2018

  1. Highland cropland expansion and forest loss in Southeast Asia in the twenty-first century
    Zeng, Z.*, Estes, L., Ziegler, A. D., Chen, A., Searchinger, T., Hua, F., Guan, K., Jintrawet, A. & Wood, E. F.
    Nature Geoscience

  2. Accelerating forest loss in Southeast Asian Massif in the 21st century: a case study in Nan Province
    Zeng, Z.*, Gower, B. & Wood, E. F.
    Global Change Biology

  3. Comment on “Satellites reveal contrasting responses of regional climate to the widespread greening of Earth
    Li, Y., Zeng, Z.*, Huang, L., Lian, X. & Piao, S.
    Science

  4. Response of terrestrial evapotranspiration to Earth’s greening
    Zeng, Z., Peng, L., & Piao, S.
    Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

  5. Impact of Earth greening on the terrestrial water cycle
    Zeng, Z., Piao, S., Li, L., Wang, T., Ciais, P., Lian, X., Yang, Y., Mao, J., Shi, X. & Myneni, R.
    Journal of Climate

  6. Global terrestrial stilling: does Earth’s greening play a role?
    Zeng, Z., Piao, S., Li, L., Ciais, P., Li, Y., Cai, X., Yang, L., Liu, M. & Wood, E. F.
    Environmental Research Letters

  7. Partitioning global land evapotranspiration using CMIP5 models constrained by field observations
    Lian, X., Piao, S., Huntingford, C., Li, Y., Zeng, Z., Wang, X., Ciais, P., McVicar, T., Peng, S., Ottle, C., Yang, H., Yang, Y., Zhang, Y. & Wang, T. Nature Climate Change

  8. Spatiotemporal pattern of terrestrial evapotranspiration in China during the past thirty years
    Li, X., He, Y., Zeng, Z., Lian, X., Wang, X., Du, M., Jia, G., Li, Y., Ma, Y., Tang, Y., Wang, W., Wu, Z., Yan, J., Yao, Y., Ciais, P., Zhang, X., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Y., Zhou, G. & Piao, S.
    Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

  9. Divergent hydrological response to large scale afforestation and vegetation greening in China
    Li, Y., Piao, S., Li, L., Huang, L., Ciais, P., He, Y., Li, X., Lian, X., Peng, S., Zeng, Z., Wang, K., Wang, X. & Zhou, L.
    Science Advance

  10. Using MODIS-Landsat fused data and ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 to map paddy rice and estimate crop yields for Thai Binh Province in Viet Nam
    Guan, K., Li, Z., Rao, N., Gao, F., Xie, D., Hien, N. & Zeng, Z.
    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

2017

  1. Climate mitigation from vegetation biophysical feedbacks during the past three decades
    Zeng, Z., Piao, S., Li, L., Zhou, L., Ciais, P., Wang, T., Li, Y., Lian, X., Wood, E. F., Friedlingstein, P., Mao, J., Estes, L., Myneni, R., Peng, S., Shi, X., Seneviratne, S. & Wang, Y.
    Nature Climate Change

  2. Regional patterns of future runoff changes from Earth system models constrained by observation
    Yang, H., Piao, S., Zhou, F., Huang, M., Ciais, P., Peng., S. & Zeng, Z.
    Geophysical Research Letters

  3. Spatiotemporal variations in the difference between satellite-observed daily maximum land surface temperature and station-based daily maximum near-surface air temperature
    Lian, X., Zeng, Z., Yao, Y., Peng, S., Wang, K. & Piao, S.
    Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

  4. Responses of land evapotranspiration to Earth’s greening in CMIP5 Earth System Models
    Zeng, Z., Zhu, Z., Lian, X., Li, L., Chen, A., He, X. & Piao, S.
    Environmental Research Letter

2016

  1. Revegetation in China’s Loess Plateau is approaching sustainable water resource limits
    Feng, X., Fu, B., Piao, S., Wang, S., Ciais, P., Zeng, Z., Lu, Y., Zeng, Y., Li, Y., Jiang, X. & Wu, B.
    Nature Climate Change

  2. The contribution of China’s emissions to global climate forcing
    Li, B., Gasser, T., Ciais, P., Zhou, F., Balkanski, Y., Boisier, J., Hauglustaine, D., Li, L., Li, Y., Liu, H., Liu, J., Peng, S., Piao, S., Shen, Z., Sun, Z., Wang, R, Wang, T., Yin, G., Yin, Y., Zeng, Z. & Tao S.
    Nature

  3. Evaluating biases in simulated land surface albedo from CMIP5 earth system models
    Yue, L., Wang, T., Zeng, Z., Peng, P., Lian, X. & Piao, S.
    Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

  4. Greening of the Earth and its drivers
    Zhu, Z., Piao, S., Myneni, R., Huang, M., Zeng, Z., Canadell, J., Ciais, P., Sitch, S., Friedlingstein, P., Arneth, A., Cao, C., Cheng, L., Kato, E., Koven, C., Li, Y., Lian, X., Liu, Y., Liu, R., Mao, J., Pan, Y., Peng, S., Penuelas, J., Poulter, B., Pugh, T., Stocker, B., Viovy, N., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Xiao, Z., Yang, H., Zaehle, S. & Zeng, N.
    Nature Climate Change

  5. Seasonal and interannual changes in photosynthetic activity of tropical forests in Southeast Asia
    Zhang, Y., Zhu, Z., Liu, Z., Zeng, Z., Ciais, P., Huang, M, Liu, Y & Piao, S.
    Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

  6. Long-term linear trends mask phenological shifts
    Fu, Y., Piao, S., Ciais, P., Huang, M., Menzel, A., Peaucelle, M., Peng, S., Song, Y., Vitasse, Y., Zeng, Z., Zhao, H., Zhou, G., Penuelas, J. & Jassens, I.
    International Journal of Biometeorology

  7. Plausible rice yield losses under future climate warming
    Zhao, C., Piao, S., Wang, X., Huang, Y., Ciais, P., Elliott, J., Huang, M., Janssens, I., Li, T., Lian, X., Liu, Y., Müller, C., Peng, S., Wang, T., Zeng, Z. & Peñuelas, J.
    Nature Plants

  8. The effect of afforestation on soil moisture content in Northeastern China
    Yao, Y., Wang, X., Zeng, Z., Liu, Y., Peng S., Zhu, Z. & Piao, S.
    PLOS ONE

  9. Global patterns and climate drivers of terrestrial ecosystem water-use efficiency deduced from satellite-based datasets and carbon cycle models
    Sun, Y., Piao, S., Huang, M., Ciais, P., Zeng, Z., Cheng, L., Li, X., Zhang, X., Mao, J., Peng S., Poulter, B., Shi, X., Wang, Y. & Zeng, H. Global Ecology and Biogeography

  10. Field warming experiments shed light on the wheat yield response to temperature in China
    Zhao, C., Piao, S., Huang, Y., Wang, X., Ciais, P., Huang, M., Zeng, Z. & Peng, S.
    Nature Communications

2015

  1. Regional air pollution brightening reverses the greenhouse gases induced warming-elevation relationship
    Zeng, Z., Chen, A., Ciais, P., Li, Y., Li, L., Vautard, R., Yang, H., Zhou, L. & Piao, S.
    Geophysical Research Letters

  2. Spatial patterns of climatological temperature lapse rate in mainland China
    Li, Y., Zeng, Z., Zhao, L. & Piao, S.
    Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

  3. Declining global warming effects on the phenology of spring leaf unfolding
    Fu, Y., Zhao, H., Piao, S., Peaucelle, M., Peng, S., Zhou, G., Ciais, P., Huang, M., Menzel, A., Penuelas, J., Song, Y., Vitasse, Y., Zeng, Z. & Jassens, I.
    Nature

  4. Multi-criteria evaluation of discharge simulation in Dynamic Global Vegetation Models
    Yang, H., Piao, S., Zeng, Z., Ciais, P., Yin, Y., Friedlingstein, P., Sitch, S., Anders, A., Guimberteau M., Huntingford, C., Levis, S., Levy, P., Li, Y., Lomas, M., Peylin, P., Poulter, B., Viovy, N., Zaehle, S., Zeng, N. & Zhao, Fang.
    Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

  5. MODIS based estimation of forest above ground biomass in China
    Yin, G., Zhang, Y., Sun, Y., Wang, T., Zeng, Z. & Piao, S.
    PLOS ONE

  6. New model for capturing the variations of fertilizer-induced emission factors of N2O
    Zhou, F., Shang, Z., Zeng, Z., Piao, S., Ciais, P., Raymond, P., Wang, X., Wang, R., Chen, M., Yang, C., Tao, S., Zhao, Y., Meng, Q., Gao, S. & Mao Q.
    Global Biogeochemical Cycles

  7. Evaporative cooling over the Tibetan Plateau induced by vegetation growth
    Shen, M., Piao, S., Jeong, S., Zhou, L., Zeng, Z., Ciais, P., Chen, D., Jin, C., Li, L., Myneni, R., Yang, K., Zhang, G., Zhang, Y. & Yao, T.
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

  8. Seasonal responses of terrestrial ecosystem water-use efficiency to climate change
    Huang, M., Piao, S., Zeng, Z.., Peng, S., Ciais, P., Cheng, L., Mao, J., Poulter, B., Shi, X., Yang, H. & Wang, Y.
    Global Change Biology

  9. Change in terrestrial ecosystem water use efficiency over the last three decades
    Huang, M., Piao, S., Sun, Y., Ciais, P., Cheng, L., Mao, J., Poulter, B., Shi, X., Zeng, Z. & Wang, Y.
    Global Change Biology

  10. Disentangling climatic and anthropogenic controls on global terrestrial evapotranspiration trends
    Mao, J., Fu, W., Shi, X., Ricciuto, D., Fisher, J. B., Dickinson, R. E., Wei, Y., Shem, W., Piao, S., Wang, K., Schwalm, C. R., Tian, H., Mu, M., Arain, A., Ciais, P., Cook, R., Dai, Y., Hayes, D., Hoffman, R. M., Huang, M., Huang, S., Huntzinger, D. H., Ito, A., Jain, A., King, A. W., Lei, H., Lu, C., Michalak A. M., Parazoo, N., Peng, C., Poulter, B., Schaefer, K., Jafarov, E., Thornton, P. E., Wang, W., Zeng, N., Zeng, Z., Zhao, F., Zhu, Q. & Zhu, Z. Environmental Research Letters

  11. Temperature, precipitation, and insolation effects on autumn vegetation phenology in temperate China
    Liu, Q., Fu, Y., Zeng, Z., Huang, M., Li, X. & Piao, S.
    Global Change Biology

  12. Timing of rice maturity in China is affected more by transplanting date than by climate change
    Zhao, H., Fu, Y., Wang, X., Zhao, C., Zeng, Z., Piao, S.
    Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

  13. Leaf onset in the northern hemisphere triggered by daytime temperature
    Piao, S., Tan, J., Chen, A., Fu, Y., Ciais, P., Liu, Q., Janssens, I., Vicca, S., Zeng, Z., Jeong, S., Li, Y., Myneni, R., Peng, S., Shen, M. & Penuelas, J. Nature Communications

  14. Detection and attribution of vegetation greening trend in China over the last 30 years
    Piao, S., Yin, G., Tan, J., Cheng, L., Huang, M., Li, Y., Liu, R., Mao, J., Myneni, R., Peng, S., Poulter, B., Shi, X., Xiao, Z., Zeng, N., Zeng, Z. & Wang, Y.
    Global Change Biology

2014

  1. Environmental determinants of tropical forest and savanna distribution: a quantitative model evaluation and its implication
    Zeng, Z., Chen, A., Piao, S., Rabin, S. & Shen, Z.
    Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

  2. A worldwide analysis of spatiotemporal changes in water balance based evapotranspiration from 1982 to 2009
    Zeng, Z., Wang, T., Zhou, F., Ciais, P., Mao, J., Shi, X. & Piao, S.
    Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

  3. Afforestation in China cools local land surface temperature
    Peng, S., Piao, S., Zeng, Z., Ciais, P., Zhou, L., Li, L.Z.X., Myneni, R.B., Yin, Y. & Zeng, H.
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

  4. Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity
    Piao, S., Nan, H., Huntingford, C., Ciais, P., Friedlingstein, P., Sitch, S., Peng, S., Ahlström, A., Canadell, J., Cong, N., Levis, S., Levy, P., Liu, L., Lomas, M., Mao, J., Myneni, R., Peylin, P., Poulter, B., Shi, X., Yin, G., Viovy, N., Wang, T., Wang, X., Zaehle, S., Zeng, N., Zeng, Z. & Chen, A.
    Nature Communications

  5. Seasonally different response of photosynthetic activity to daytime and night-time warming in the Northern Hemisphere
    Tan, J., Piao, S., Chen, A., Zeng, Z.., Ciais, P., Janssens, I., Mao, J., Myneni, R., Peng, S., Peñuelas, J., Shi, X. & Vicca, S.
    Global Change Biology

  6. A new high-resolution N2O emission inventory for China in 2008
    Zhou, F., Shang, Z., Ciais, P., Tao, S., Piao, S., Raymond, P., He, C., Li, B., Wang, R., Wang, X., Peng, S., Zeng, Z., Chen, H., Ying, N., Hou, X. & Xu, P.
    Environmental Science & Technology

2013

  1. Committed changes in tropical tree cover under the projected 21st century climate change
    Zeng, Z., Piao, S., Chen, A., Lin, X., Nan, H., Li, J. & Ciais, P.
    Scientific Report

2012

  1. Global evapotranspiration over the past three decades: estimation based on the water balance equation combined with empirical models
    Zeng, Z., Piao, S., Lin, X., Yin, G., Peng, S., Ciais, P. & Myneni, R.
    Environmental Research Letters