Earth System and Artificial Intelligence Lab
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Research

Our research is organized around four scientific questions: Why is global warming accelerating? How will Earth system tipping points emerge? How can renewable energy reshape human-Earth interactions? And how can AI help us better understand and predict a changing planet?

Research
Forest canopy and clouds representing biosphere-atmosphere feedbacks

How will Earth system tipping points emerge?

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

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Why it matters

Potential tipping behavior is most visible when ecological resilience, water exchange, and climate feedbacks are studied together rather than as isolated trends.

Topic

Global forest change
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Our contributions

  • Map forest-cover gains and losses from tropical mountains to boreal systems, linking deforestation, wildfire emissions, afforestation potential, and forest carbon accumulation.
  • Use floodplain, land-cover, and sustainable-development outputs to connect global forest change with water, carbon, and land-management decisions.
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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
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Vegetation monitoring
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Our contributions

  • Advance remote-sensing monitoring of vegetation activity, cropland, water surfaces, phenology, and forest carbon-sequestration potential across multiple spatial scales.
  • Connect high-resolution mapping outputs with news and paper evidence on global greening, evapotranspiration sensitivity, and subgrid vegetation function.
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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
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Ecosystem resilience
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  • Assess ecosystem resilience through tropical tree-cover sensitivity, soil respiration, aquifer recovery, deltaic resilience loss, and extreme-wind stress on offshore energy systems.
  • Use ecological climatology and boreal-forest resilience evidence to evaluate how ecosystems recover or destabilize under climate and land-cover pressures.
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Feedback and complex system
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  • Study nonlinear Earth-system behavior through water-food-energy coupling, cropland mapping, reservoir and aquifer dynamics, soil respiration, and direct carbon-removal simulations.
  • Connect global-change and land-atmosphere ecosystem outputs to identify feedback pathways that link climate, hydrology, vegetation, and human systems.
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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
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

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