Outputs

Selected papers that reflect our work across climate change, Earth system science, vegetation dynamics, hydrology, remote sensing, AI for climate, and sustainable energy systems.

Outputs

Knowledge ExploreEarth system feedbacks

Earth system feedbacks

We investigate how forests, vegetation cover, evaporation, precipitation, and land-use change can amplify or reverse Earth system feedbacks.

133 papers, 5 projects
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2026-03-09GIScience & Remote Sensing

Global instantaneous monitoring of reservoir water levels using ICESat-2 photon-counting LiDAR

Xin Jiang, Yuyu Zhou, Huizhong Shen, Zhilin Guo, Zhenzhong Zeng

Global warmingChanging water cycle
Earth system feedbacksVegetation monitoring
Renewable energyHydropower
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2026-01-20Earth System Science Data Discussions

Decadal surge of water-surface solar in China

Yan, Yue, Jiang, Xin, Wei, Sihuan, Jin, Yubin, Zou, Xinyu, Liu, Junwei, Cai, Yaotong, Ye, Jianhuai, Guo, Zhilin, Zeng, Zhenzhong

Global warmingChanging water cycle
Earth system feedbacksVegetation monitoringFeedback and complex system
Renewable energySolar energy
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2025-07-05Communications Earth & Environment

Spatial transmission of resilience loss in deltaic dynamic systems

Wang, Yajun, Lin, Jianliang, Yan, Yu, Zeng, Zhenzhong, Liu, Xiaoye, Wang, Shuxian, She, Zhenyan, Huang, Zeqin, Sun, Pengnan, Zhao, Tongtiegang, Lin, Kairong, Coco, Giovanni, Cai, Huayang

Earth system feedbacksEcosystem resilience
AI for geoscienceAI for climate
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2025-06-30EMS2025

The DOWNBURST MXO: a real-time downburst monitoring service in eastern Spain

Cesar Azorin-Molina, Carlos Calvo-Sancho, Andres Martin-Barrio, Francisco Granell-Haro, Jose Gomez-Reyes, Andreas F. Prein, Juan Jesús Gonzalez-Aleman, Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano, Tim R. McVicar, Deliang Chen, Zhenzhong Zeng, Amir Pirooz, Luis Gimeno, Raquel Nieto, Marcos Martinez-Roig, Nuria P. Plaza-Martin, Maria Luisa Martin

Earth system feedbacksVegetation monitoring
AI for geoscienceAI for Earth twinsAI for climate
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2025-06-06Engineering

全球城市三维结构制图揭示城市垂直维度利用的增强和显著的建筑空间不平等(英文)

刘小平, 吴欣昕, 李雪草, 许晓聪, 廖威林, 焦利民, 曾振中, 陈广照, 黎夏

Earth system feedbacksFeedback and complex system
AI for geoscienceAI for Earth twins
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2025-01One Earth

Carbon accumulation rate peaks at 1,000-m elevation in tropical planted and regrowth forests

Yongxian Su, Xueyan Li, Chaoqun Zhang, Wenting Yan, Philippe Ciais, Susan C. Cook-Patton, Oliver L. Phillips, Jiali Shang, Alessandro Cescatti, Jing-Ming Chen, Jane Liu, Jerome Chave, Christopher E. Doughty, Viola Heinrich, Feng Tian, Yiqi Luo, Yi Liu, Zhen Yu, Dalei Hao, Shengli Tao, Yongguang Zhang, Zhenzhong Zeng, Raffaele Lafortezza, Yuanyuan Huang, Lei Fan, Xuhui Wang, Yuanwei Qin, Qinwei Ran, Kai Yan, Xiaoping Liu, Liyang Liu, Yuemin Yue, Jiashun Ren, Wenping Yuan, Xiuzhi Chen

Earth system feedbacksGlobal forest change
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2024-04-19Science

A national-scale assessment of land subsidence in China’s major cities

Zurui Ao, Xiaomei Hu, Shengli Tao, Xie Hu, Guoquan Wang, Mingjia Li, Fang Wang, Litang Hu, Xiuyu Liang, Jingfeng Xiao, Asadilla Yusup, Wenhua Qi, Qinwei Ran, Jiayi Fang, Jinfeng Chang, Zhenzhong Zeng, Yongshuo Fu, Baolin Xue, Ping Wang, Kefei Zhao, Le Li, Wenkai Li, Yumei Li, Mi Jiang, Yuanhe Yang, Haihua Shen, Xia Zhao, Yue Shi, Bo Wu, Zhengbing Yan, Mengjia Wang, Yanjun Su, Tianyu Hu, Qin Ma, Hao Bai, Lijun Wang, Ziyan Yang, Yuhao Feng, Danhua Zhang, Erhan Huang, Jiamin Pan, Huiying Ye, Chen Yang, Yanwei Qin, Chenqi He, Yanpei Guo, Kai Cheng, Yu Ren, Haitao Yang, Chengyang Zheng, Jiangling Zhu, Shaopeng Wang, Chengjun Ji, Biao Zhu, Hongyan Liu, Zhiyao Tang, Zhiheng Wang, Shuqing Zhao, Yanhong Tang, Hanfa Xing, Qinghua Guo, Yu Liu, Jingyun Fang

Earth system feedbacksFeedback and complex system
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2024-04Remote Sensing of Environment

Spatial-temporal patterns of land surface evapotranspiration from global products

Ronglin Tang, Zhong Peng, Meng Liu, Zhao-Liang Li, Yazhen Jiang, Yongxin Hu, Lingxiao Huang, Yizhe Wang, Junrui Wang, Li Jia, Chaolei Zheng, Yongqiang Zhang, Ke Zhang, Yunjun Yao, Xuelong Chen, Yujiu Xiong, Zhenzhong Zeng, Joshua B. Fisher

Global warmingLand warmingChanging water cycleEarth system feedbacks
Earth system feedbacksVegetation monitoring
AI for geoscienceAI for Earth twins
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2024-02Nature

Fertilizer management for global ammonia emission reduction

Xu, Peng, Li, Geng, Zheng, Yi, Fung, Jimmy C. H., Chen, Anping, Zeng, Zhenzhong, Shen, Huizhong, Hu, Min, Mao, Jiafu, Zheng, Yan, Cui, Xiaoqing, Guo, Zhilin, Chen, Yilin, Feng, Lian, He, Shaokun, Zhang, Xuguo, Lau, Alexis K. H., Tao, Shu, Houlton, Benjamin Z.

Global warmingEarth system feedbacks
Earth system feedbacksFeedback and complex system
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2024-01Nature Climate Change

Global patterns and drivers of tropical aboveground carbon changes

Feng, Yu, Ciais, Philippe, Wigneron, Jean-Pierre, Xu, Yidi, Ziegler, Alan D., van Wees, Dave, Fendrich, Arthur Nicolaus, Spracklen, Dominick V., Sitch, Stephen, Brandt, Martin, Li, Wei, Fan, Lei, Li, Xiaojun, Wu, Jie, Zeng, Zhenzhong

Global warmingEarth system feedbacks
Earth system feedbacksGlobal forest change
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2023-08Nature Climate Change

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

Su, Yongxian, Zhang, Chaoqun, Ciais, Philippe, Zeng, Zhenzhong, Cescatti, Alessandro, Shang, Jiali, Chen, Jing Ming, Liu, Jane, Wang, Ying-Ping, Yuan, Wenping, Peng, Shushi, Lee, Xuhui, Zhu, Zaichun, Fan, Lei, Liu, Xiaoping, Liu, Liyang, Lafortezza, Raffaele, Li, Yan, Ren, Jiashun, Yang, Xueqin, Chen, Xiuzhi

Global warmingLand warming
Earth system feedbacksGlobal forest change
AI for geoscienceAI for climate
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2023-07Science of The Total Environment

Satellites reveal Earth's seasonally shifting dust emission sources

Adrian Chappell, Nicholas P. Webb, Mark Hennen, Kerstin Schepanski, Philippe Ciais, Yves Balkanski, Charles S. Zender, Ina Tegen, Zhenzhong Zeng, Daniel Tong, Barry Baker, Marie Ekström, Matthew Baddock, Frank D. Eckardt, Tarek Kandakji, Jeffrey A. Lee, Mohamad Nobakht, Johanna von Holdt, John F. Leys

Earth system feedbacksVegetation monitoring
AI for geoscienceAI for Earth twins
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2022-08Nature Geoscience

Rewetting global wetlands effectively reduces major greenhouse gas emissions

Zou, Junyu, Ziegler, Alan D., Chen, Deliang, McNicol, Gavin, Ciais, Philippe, Jiang, Xin, Zheng, Chunmiao, Wu, Jie, Wu, Jin, Lin, Ziyu, He, Xinyue, Brown, Lee E., Holden, Joseph, Zhang, Zuotai, Ramchunder, Sorain J., Chen, Anping, Zeng, Zhenzhong

Global warmingEarth system feedbacks
Earth system feedbacksFeedback and complex system
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2022-07Nature Geoscience

High Mountain Asia hydropower systems threatened by climate-driven landscape instability

Li, Dongfeng, Lu, Xixi, Walling, Desmond E., Zhang, Ting, Steiner, Jakob F., Wasson, Robert J., Harrison, Stephan, Nepal, Santosh, Nie, Yong, Immerzeel, Walter W., Shugar, Dan H., Koppes, Mich&232;le, Lane, Stuart, Zeng, Zhenzhong, Sun, Xiaofei, Yegorov, Alexandr, Bolch, Tobias

Earth system feedbacksEcosystem resilience
Renewable energyHydropower
AI for geoscienceAI for energyAI for climate
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2022-05Nature Sustainability

Doubling of annual forest carbon loss over the tropics during the early twenty-first century

Feng, Yu, Zeng, Zhenzhong, Searchinger, Timothy D., Ziegler, Alan D., Wu, Jie, Wang, Dashan, He, Xinyue, Elsen, Paul R., Ciais, Philippe, Xu, Rongrong, Guo, Zhilin, Peng, Liqing, Tao, Yiheng, Spracklen, Dominick V., Holden, Joseph, Liu, Xiaoping, Zheng, Yi, Xu, Peng, Chen, Ji, Jiang, Xin, Song, Xiao-Peng, Lakshmi, Venkataraman, Wood, Eric F., Zheng, Chunmiao

Earth system feedbacksGlobal forest change
AI for geoscienceAI for climate
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2022-03-28遥感学报

利用高分辨率森林覆盖影像实现高山林线的自动提取

JIANG Xin, 南方科技大学 环境科学与工程学院, 深圳 518055 School of Environmental Science and Engineering, South University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China, HE Xinyue, WANG Dashan, ZOU Junyu, ZENG Zhenzhong, 利兹大学 地球与环境学院, 英国 利兹 LS29JT School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS29JT, UK

Earth system feedbacksGlobal forest changeVegetation monitoring
AI for geoscienceAI for Earth twins
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2022-01Earth's Future

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

Global warmingLand warmingChanging water cycle
Earth system feedbacksGlobal forest changeVegetation monitoring
AI for geoscienceAI for climate
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2021-08ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

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

Global warmingChanging water cycle
Earth system feedbacksVegetation monitoring
AI for geoscienceAI for Earth twinsAI for climate
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2021-01Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Global Reach-Level 3-Hourly River Flood Reanalysis (1980–2019)

Yuan Yang, Ming Pan, Peirong Lin, Hylke E. Beck, Zhenzhong Zeng, Dai Yamazaki, Cédric H. David, Hui Lu, Kun Yang, Yang Hong, Eric F. Wood

Global warmingChanging water cycle
Earth system feedbacksFeedback and complex system
AI for geoscienceAI for weather
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2021-01Nature Geoscience

Deforestation-induced warming over tropical mountain regions regulated by elevation

Zeng, Zhenzhong, Wang, Dashan, Yang, Long, Wu, Jie, Ziegler, Alan D., Liu, Maofeng, Ciais, Philippe, Searchinger, Timothy D., Yang, Zong-Liang, Chen, Deliang, Chen, Anping, Li, Laurent Z. X., Piao, Shilong, Taylor, David, Cai, Xitian, Pan, Ming, Peng, Liqing, Lin, Peirong, Gower, Drew, Feng, Yu, Zheng, Chunmiao, Guan, Kaiyu, Lian, Xu, Wang, Tao, Wang, Lang, Jeong, Su-Jong, Wei, Zhongwang, Sheffield, Justin, Caylor, Kelly, Wood, Eric F.

Earth system feedbacksGlobal forest change
AI for geoscienceAI for climate
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2020-08-21Earth's Future

Flood Risks in Sinking Delta Cities: Time for a Reevaluation?

Jie Yin, Sebastiaan Jonkman, Ning Lin, Dapeng Yu, Jeroen Aerts, Robert Wilby, Ming Pan, Eric Wood, Jeremy Bricker, Qian Ke, Zhenzhong Zeng, Qing Zhao, Jianzhong Ge, Jun Wang

Global warmingChanging water cycle
Earth system feedbacksFeedback and complex system
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2020-07Nature Sustainability

High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015

Liu, Xiaoping, Huang, Yinghuai, Xu, Xiaocong, Li, Xuecao, Li, Xia, Ciais, Philippe, Lin, Peirong, Gong, Kai, Ziegler, Alan D., Chen, Anping, Gong, Peng, Chen, Jun, Hu, Guohua, Chen, Yimin, Wang, Shaojian, Wu, Qiusheng, Huang, Kangning, Estes, Lyndon, Zeng, Zhenzhong

Earth system feedbacksVegetation monitoring
AI for geoscienceAI for Earth twinsAI for climate
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2018-09Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Spatiotemporal pattern of terrestrial evapotranspiration in China during the past thirty years

Xiangyi Li, Yue He, Zhenzhong Zeng, Xu Lian, Xuhui Wang, Mingyuan Du, Gensuo Jia, Yingnian Li, Yaoming Ma, Yanhong Tang, Weizhen Wang, Zhixiang Wu, Junhua Yan, Yitong Yao, Philippe Ciais, Xianzhou Zhang, Yiping Zhang, Yu Zhang, Guangsheng Zhou, Shilong Piao

Global warmingChanging water cycleEarth system feedbacks
Earth system feedbacksGlobal forest change
AI for geoscienceAI for weather
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2018-04-01Journal of Climate

Impact of Earth Greening on the Terrestrial Water Cycle

Zhenzhong Zeng, Shilong Piao, Laurent Z. X. Li, Tao Wang, Philippe Ciais, Xu Lian, Yuting Yang, Jiafu Mao, Xiaoying Shi, Ranga B. Myneni

Global warmingChanging water cycle
Earth system feedbacksVegetation monitoring
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2017-06Nature Climate Change

Climate mitigation from vegetation biophysical feedbacks during the past three decades

Zeng, Zhenzhong, Piao, Shilong, Li, Laurent Z. X., Zhou, Liming, Ciais, Philippe, Wang, Tao, Li, Yue, Lian, Xu, Wood, Eric F., Friedlingstein, Pierre, Mao, Jiafu, Estes, Lyndon D., Myneni, Ranga B., Peng, Shushi, Shi, Xiaoying, Seneviratne, Sonia I., Wang, Yingping

Global warmingEarth system feedbacks
Earth system feedbacksVegetation monitoringFeedback and complex system
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2016-08Nature Climate Change

Greening of the Earth and its drivers

Zhu, Zaichun, Piao, Shilong, Myneni, Ranga B., Huang, Mengtian, Zeng, Zhenzhong, Canadell, Josep G., Ciais, Philippe, Sitch, Stephen, Friedlingstein, Pierre, Arneth, Almut, Cao, Chunxiang, Cheng, Lei, Kato, Etsushi, Koven, Charles, Li, Yue, Lian, Xu, Liu, Yongwen, Liu, Ronggao, Mao, Jiafu, Pan, Yaozhong, Peng, Shushi, Pe&241;uelas, Josep, Poulter, Benjamin, Pugh, Thomas A. M., Stocker, Benjamin D., Viovy, Nicolas, Wang, Xuhui, Wang, Yingping, Xiao, Zhiqiang, Yang, Hui, Zaehle, S&246;nke, Zeng, Ning

Earth system feedbacksVegetation monitoring
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2016-01International Journal of Biometeorology

Long-term linear trends mask phenological shifts

Fu, Yongshuo H, Piao, Shilong, Ciais, Philippe, Huang, Mengtian, Menzel, Annette, Peaucelle, Marc, Peng, Shushi, Song, Yang, Vitasse, Yann, Zeng, Zhenzhong, Zhao, Hongfang, Zhou, Guiyun, Pe&241;uelas, Josep, Janssens, Ivan A

Earth system feedbacksFeedback and complex system
AI for geoscienceAI for weather
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2015-08-08Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Multicriteria evaluation of discharge simulation in Dynamic Global Vegetation Models

Hui Yang, Shilong Piao, Zhenzhong Zeng, Philippe Ciais, Yi Yin, Pierre Friedlingstein, Stephen Sitch, Anders Ahlström, Matthieu Guimberteau, Chris Huntingford, Sam Levis, Peter E. Levy, Mengtian Huang, Yue Li, Xiran Li, Mark R Lomas, Philippe Peylin, Ben Poulter, Nicolas Viovy, Soenke Zaehle, Ning Zeng, Fang Zhao, Lei Wang

Earth system feedbacksVegetation monitoring
AI for geoscienceAI for climate
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2015-04-23Nature Communications

Leaf onset in the northern hemisphere triggered by daytime temperature

Piao, Shilong, Tan, Jianguang, Chen, Anping, Fu, Yongshuo H., Ciais, Philippe, Liu, Qiang, Janssens, Ivan A., Vicca, Sara, Zeng, Zhenzhong, Jeong, Su-Jong, Li, Yue, Myneni, Ranga B., Peng, Shushi, Shen, Miaogen, Pe&241;uelas, Josep

Global warmingLand warming
Earth system feedbacksFeedback and complex system
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2015-01Global Ecology and Biogeography

Global patterns and climate drivers of water‐use efficiency in terrestrial ecosystems deduced from satellite‐based datasets and carbon cycle models

Yan Sun, Shilong Piao, Mengtian Huang, Philippe Ciais, Zhenzhong Zeng, Lei Cheng, Xiran Li, Xinping Zhang, Jiafu Mao, Shushi Peng, Benjamin Poulter, Xiaoying Shi, Xuhui Wang, Ying‐Ping Wang, Hui Zeng

Global warmingChanging water cycleEarth system feedbacks
Earth system feedbacksVegetation monitoring
AI for geoscienceAI for Earth twins
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2014-01Nature Communications

Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity

Piao, Shilong, Nan, Huijuan, Huntingford, Chris, Ciais, Philippe, Friedlingstein, Pierre, Sitch, Stephen, Peng, Shushi, Ahlstr&246;m, Anders, Canadell, Josep G., Cong, Nan, Levis, Sam, Levy, Peter E., Liu, Lingli, Lomas, Mark R., Mao, Jiafu, Myneni, Ranga B., Peylin, Philippe, Poulter, Ben, Shi, Xiaoying, Yin, Guodong, Viovy, Nicolas, Wang, Tao, Wang, Xuhui, Zaehle, Soenke, Zeng, Ning, Zeng, Zhenzhong, Chen, Anping

Global warmingLand warming
Earth system feedbacksVegetation monitoring
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2024.1.1-2028.12.31300 万参与(课题组负责人)国家自然科学基金国际(地区)合作与交流项目

气候变化对澜湄流域水-粮-能耦合系统的影响机制研究

围绕澜湄流域水、粮食与能源耦合系统,研究气候变化影响机制。

Global warmingChanging water cycle
Earth system feedbacksFeedback and complex system
Renewable energyHydropower
2023.11.21-2026.11.20300 万主持深圳市科技创新委员会 / 深圳市可持续发展科技专项

海洋气象信息与生态灾害一体化监测预警技术研究及应用示范

面向海洋气象信息与生态灾害,开展一体化监测预警技术研究与应用示范。

Global warmingMarine heatwaves
Earth system feedbacksVegetation monitoring
AI for geoscienceAI for Earth twinsAI for weather
2022.8-2023.1260 万参与可持续发展大数据国际研究中心开放研究计划

全球高分辨率洪范区提取及洪范区土地覆盖变化分析研究

开展全球高分辨率洪范区提取与洪范区土地覆盖变化分析。

Global warmingChanging water cycle
Earth system feedbacksGlobal forest changeVegetation monitoring
AI for geoscienceAI for Earth twins
2016.6-2019.890 万美元参与普林斯顿大学-蓝三家族

泰国可持续发展项目(B0891)

围绕泰国可持续发展开展跨学科研究。

Earth system feedbacksGlobal forest change
2012-2015参与国家自然科学基金委员会

全球变化与陆气生态系统

围绕全球变化与陆气生态系统开展基础研究。

Global warmingEarth system feedbacks
Earth system feedbacksFeedback and complex system