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

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Renewable energy
We examine renewable-energy pathways, hydropower constraints, floating solar, wind-energy resilience, forestation, and restoration as coupled climate and resource questions.
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our teamGlobal instantaneous monitoring of reservoir water levels using ICESat-2 photon-counting LiDAR
Xin Jiang, Yuyu Zhou, Huizhong Shen, Zhilin Guo, Zhenzhong Zeng
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our teamThe first decline in US wind power generation despite the installed capacity growth in the 21st century
Jiayu Xu, Yiheng Tao, Zhenzhong Zeng
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our teamDecadal 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
LatestImpact of Density‐Dependent Flow and Aquifer Heterogeneity on Virus Transport and Removal During Aquifer Storage and Recovery
Hongkai Li, Zhilin Guo, Kewei Chen, Rixin Wu, Xuchen Zhai, Zhenzhong Zeng, Chunmiao Zheng
LatestProlonged wind droughts in a warming climate threaten global wind power security
Qu, Meng, Shen, Lu, Zeng, Zhenzhong, Yang, Bolei, Zhong, Huiru, Yang, Xinrong, Lu, Xi
LatestCarbon capture utilization and storage promotes poverty alleviation and sustainable development in China
Liu, Zhengguang, Chen, Yuntian, Wei, Xuemei, Zhao, Congyu, Zhang, Yangkai, Luo, Haizhi, Dong, Kangyin, Rui, Zhenhua, Xu, Hao, Yang, Lei, Yan, Jinyue, You, Fengqi, Zhang, Dongxiao, Zeng, Zhenzhong, Zhang, Haoran
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our teamIncreasing extreme winds challenge offshore wind energy resilience
Zhao, Yanan, Tao, Yiheng, Chen, Yuntian, Yan, Jinyue, Zeng, Zhenzhong
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our teamThe climate non-stationarity challenges Chinese wind energy safety and efficiency
Yanan Zhao, Congyu Wang, Yuntian Chen, Zhenzhong Zeng
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our teamAn unexpectedly large proportion of photovoltaic facilities installed on cropland
Sihuan Wei, Yuntian Chen, Zhenzhong Zeng
our teamSmall reduction in land surface albedo due to solar panel expansion worldwide
Wei, Sihuan, Ziegler, Alan D., Qin, Yingzuo, Wang, Dashan, Chen, Yuntian, Yan, Jinyue, Zeng, Zhenzhong
our teamThe forest loss within small reservoirs surpasses that of large reservoirs across the tropics
Feng Yang, Yingzuo Qin, Rongrong Xu, Lei Deng, Zhenzhong Zeng
Promoting sustainable solar-energy development in harmony with global threatened bird ranges
Haoran Zhang, Pengjun Zhao, Wenqian Zhang, Zhenzhong Zeng, Yegang Wu, Peiran Li, Mingkun Jiang, Liqiao Huang, Steven M. Bartell, Weidong Liu, Yuntian Chen, Dongxiao Zhang, Michael Obersteiner, Jinyue Yan
our teamImpacts of anemometer changes, site relocations and processing methods on wind speed trends in China
Liu, Yi, Zhou, Lihong, Qin, Yingzuo, Azorin-Molina, Cesar, Shen, Cheng, Xu, Rongrong, Zeng, Zhenzhong
our teamSpatiotemporal variation of power law exponent on the use of wind energy
Xinrong Yang, Xin Jiang, Shijing Liang, Yingzuo Qin, Fan Ye, Bin Ye, Jiayu Xu, Xinyue He, Jie Wu, Tianyun Dong, Xitian Cai, Rongrong Xu, Zhenzhong Zeng
our teamGeographically constrained resource potential of integrating floating photovoltaics in global existing offshore wind farms
Yubin Jin, Zhenzhong Zeng, Yuntian Chen, Rongrong Xu, Alan D. Ziegler, Wenchuang Chen, Bin Ye, Dongxiao Zhang
our teamWind speed enhancement as the primary cause of sand-dust days increase in China over recent years
Xin Jiang, Qiaomei Feng, Lihong Zhou, Yi Liu, Zhenzhong Zeng
Photovoltaic-Driven Battery Deionization System for Efficient and Sustainable Seawater Desalination
Xiaosong Gu, Wenfei Wei, Xuezhen Feng, Ranhao Wang, Songhe Yang, Zhenzhong Zeng, Hong Chen
our teamHigh-resolution assessment of wind energy potential in the Hami region of Northwestern China
Jiayu Xu, Yiheng Tao, Shuai Yang, Junyu Zou, Weili Duan, Yuntian Chen, Fan Ye, Jiangmin Ning, Zhenzhong Zeng
our teamTime resolution of wind speed data introduces errors in wind power density assessment
Xinrong Yang, Yiheng Tao, Yubin Jin, Bin Ye, Fan Ye, Weili Duan, Rongrong Xu, Zhenzhong Zeng
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our teamEnergy production and water savings from floating solar photovoltaics on global reservoirs
Jin, Yubin, Hu, Shijie, Ziegler, Alan D., Gibson, Luke, Campbell, J. Elliott, Xu, Rongrong, Chen, Deliang, Zhu, Kai, Zheng, Yan, Ye, Bin, Ye, Fan, Zeng, Zhenzhong
our teamWhat drives the change of capacity factor of wind turbine in the United States?
Jiayu Xu, Junyu Zou, Alan D Ziegler, Jie Wu, Zhenzhong Zeng
our teamGlobal assessment of spatiotemporal changes of frequency of terrestrial wind speed
Yanan Zhao, Shijing Liang, Yi Liu, Tim R McVicar, Cesar Azorin-Molina, Lihong Zhou, Robert J H Dunn, Sonia Jerez, Yingzuo Qin, Xinrong Yang, Jiayu Xu, Zhenzhong Zeng
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our teamA global-scale framework for hydropower development incorporating strict environmental constraints
Xu, Rongrong, Zeng, Zhenzhong, Pan, Ming, Ziegler, Alan D., Holden, Joseph, Spracklen, Dominick V., Brown, Lee E., He, Xinyue, Chen, Deliang, Ye, Bin, Xu, Haiwei, Jerez, Sonia, Zheng, Chunmiao, Liu, Junguo, Lin, Peirong, Yang, Yuan, Zou, Junyu, Wang, Dashan, Gu, Mingyi, Yang, Zongliang, Li, Dongfeng, Huang, Junling, Lakshmi, Venkataraman, Wood, Eric. F.
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
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
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our teamIncreases 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, Deliang 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
our teamWind Energy
Liu, Yi, Zeng, Zhenzhong
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our teamAn artificial intelligence reconstruction of global gridded surface winds
Lihong Zhou, Haofeng Liu, Xin Jiang, Alan D. Ziegler, Cesar Azorin-Molina, Jiang Liu, Zhenzhong Zeng
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
our teamEvaluation 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 Ekström, Tzung-May Fu, Zhenzhong Zeng
our teamA 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
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our teamA reversal in global terrestrial stilling and its implications for wind energy production
Zeng, Zhenzhong, Ziegler, Alan D., Searchinger, Timothy, Yang, Long, Chen, Anping, Ju, Kunlu, Piao, Shilong, Li, Laurent Z. X., Ciais, Philippe, Chen, Deliang, Liu, Junguo, Azorin-Molina, Cesar, Chappell, Adrian, Medvigy, David, Wood, Eric F.
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。
气候变化背景下的粤港澳大湾区海上风能资源评估与预测
评估并预测气候变化背景下粤港澳大湾区海上风能资源。
21 世纪中国地表风速变化及其对风能生产的影响机制
研究中国地表风速变化及其对风能生产的影响机制。
GGWS-PCNN global wind speed
A global gridded monthly wind speed dataset using partial convolutional neural networks, HadISD observations, and 34 climate models for 1973-2021.
Floating solar power
Code resources for assessing energy production and water savings from floating solar photovoltaics on global reservoirs.