Hua Wu

8.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
191 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Hua Wu is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Hua Wu has authored 191 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 121 papers in Environmental Engineering, 108 papers in Atmospheric Science and 58 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Hua Wu's work include Urban Heat Island Mitigation (109 papers), Remote Sensing and Land Use (54 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (38 papers). Hua Wu is often cited by papers focused on Urban Heat Island Mitigation (109 papers), Remote Sensing and Land Use (54 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (38 papers). Hua Wu collaborates with scholars based in China, France and United States. Hua Wu's co-authors include Zhao-Liang Li, Bo‐Hui Tang, Guangjian Yan, José A. Sobrino, Zhengming Wan, Huazhong Ren, Si‐Bo Duan, Isabel F. Trigo, Ronglin Tang and Pei Leng and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Hua Wu

179 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Satellite-derived land surface temperature: Current status and perspectives

2013 1.7k citations Zhao-Liang Li, Bo‐Hui Tang et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
Land surface emissivity retrieval from satellite data

2012 399 citations Zhao-Liang Li, Hua Wu et al. profile →
Validation of Collection 6 MODIS land surface temperature product using in situ measurements

2019 332 citations Si‐Bo Duan, Zhao-Liang Li et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
Satellite Remote Sensing of Global Land Surface Temperature: Definition, Methods, Products, and Applications

2022 327 citations Zhao‐Liang Li, Hua Wu et al. Reviews of Geophysics profile →
Biophysical impacts of earth greening can substantially mitigate regional land surface temperature warming

2023 118 citations Yitao Li, Zhao-Liang Li et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hua Wu China	32	4.5k	3.2k	2.4k	1.1k	668	191	6.2k
Bo‐Hui Tang China	30	4.5k 1.0×	3.2k 1.0×	2.9k 1.2×	1.0k 1.0×	649 1.0×	202	6.4k
Huazhong Ren China	35	3.4k 0.7×	2.3k 0.7×	2.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	508 0.8×	132	5.3k
V. Caselles Spain	44	3.6k 0.8×	2.5k 0.8×	3.1k 1.3×	1.4k 1.3×	629 0.9×	203	6.7k
Glynn Hulley United States	39	2.7k 0.6×	2.2k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	746 0.7×	480 0.7×	98	4.4k
Ji Zhou China	36	2.7k 0.6×	2.0k 0.6×	1.7k 0.7×	787 0.7×	463 0.7×	159	4.6k
Qinhuo Liu China	41	3.8k 0.9×	2.8k 0.9×	3.5k 1.5×	3.2k 3.0×	296 0.4×	488	7.4k
Guangjian Yan China	43	6.6k 1.5×	2.9k 0.9×	4.1k 1.7×	4.0k 3.7×	531 0.8×	238	9.8k
Zhao-Liang Li China	52	8.7k 1.9×	6.3k 2.0×	5.1k 2.1×	2.3k 2.2×	1.2k 1.8×	346	12.5k
Jiancheng Shi China	45	3.7k 0.8×	5.3k 1.7×	2.9k 1.2×	805 0.8×	128 0.2×	448	8.2k
Massimo Menenti Netherlands	49	4.4k 1.0×	2.7k 0.8×	6.8k 2.8×	3.4k 3.2×	240 0.4×	318	10.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Hua Wu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hua Wu

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Li, Yitao, Jun Ge, Hua Wu, et al.. (2025). Amplified local cooling effect of forestation in warming Europe. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8412–8412.

Zhao, Long, Lisheng Song, Hua Wu, et al.. (2024). A Two-Step Reconstruction Framework for Mapping Seamless All-Weather Daily Evapotranspiration Using Thermal Infrared Data. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 18. 424–434. 2 indexed citations

Li, Xiujuan, et al.. (2024). A practical machine learning approach to retrieve land surface emissivity from space using visible and near-infrared to short-wave infrared data. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 134. 104170–104170.

Ma, Jin, Ji Zhou, Frank-Michael Göttsche, et al.. (2023). An atmospheric influence correction method for longwave radiation-based in-situ land surface temperature. Remote Sensing of Environment. 293. 113611–113611. 24 indexed citations

Xu, Tong & Hua Wu. (2023). Spatiotemporal Analysis of Vegetation Cover in Relation to Its Driving Forces in Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Forests. 14(9). 1835–1835. 14 indexed citations

Liu, Xiangyang, Zhao-Liang Li, Yitao Li, et al.. (2023). Local temperature responses to actual land cover changes present significant latitudinal variability and asymmetry. Science Bulletin. 68(22). 2849–2861. 40 indexed citations

Li, Zhao‐Liang, Hua Wu, Si‐Bo Duan, et al.. (2022). Satellite Remote Sensing of Global Land Surface Temperature: Definition, Methods, Products, and Applications. Reviews of Geophysics. 61(1). 327 indexed citations breakdown →

Wu, Hua, et al.. (2021). Thermal Pollution Monitoring of Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant for the Past 20 Years Based on Landsat Remote Sensed Data. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 14. 6146–6155. 12 indexed citations

Li, Ni, et al.. (2020). Spatiotemporal Analysis of Vegetation Changes Along the Belt and Road Initiative Region From 1982 to 2015. IEEE Access. 8. 122579–122588. 24 indexed citations

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Wu, Hua, et al.. (2019). A Temporal Disaggregation Approach for TRMM Monthly Precipitation Products Using AMSR2 Soil Moisture Data. Remote Sensing. 11(24). 2962–2962. 9 indexed citations

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Zhou, Fang-Cheng, Zhao-Liang Li, Hua Wu, et al.. (2018). A Practical Two-Stage Algorithm for Retrieving Land Surface Temperature from AMSR-E Data—A Case Study Over China. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 11(6). 1939–1948. 11 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yuze, Li Ni, Hua Wu, & Xiaoguang Jiang. (2018). Evaluations of the Wavelet-Transformed Temperature and Emissivity Separation Method: Lessons Learned From Simulated and Field-Measured TIR Data. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 11(6). 1839–1847. 2 indexed citations

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Zhou, Fang-Cheng, Zhao-Liang Li, Hua Wu, et al.. (2017). Retrieving K-Band Instantaneous Microwave Land Surface Emissivity Based on Passive Microwave Brightness Temperature and Atmospheric Precipitable Water Vapor Data. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 10(12). 5608–5617. 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yuze, et al.. (2017). Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity Retrieval from Field-Measured Hyperspectral Thermal Infrared Data Using Wavelet Transform. Remote Sensing. 9(5). 454–454. 23 indexed citations

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Fan, Xiwei, Bo‐Hui Tang, Hua Wu, Guangjian Yan, & Zhao-Liang Li. (2015). Daytime Land Surface Temperature Extraction from MODIS Thermal Infrared Data under Cirrus Clouds. Sensors. 15(5). 9942–9961. 9 indexed citations

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Zhang, Tingbin, Zhijun Li, Guihua Yi, et al.. (2014). Cross comparison of the vegetation indexes between Landsat TM and HJ CCD. Guotu ziyuan yaogan. 27(1). 87–91. 3 indexed citations

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Wu, Hua. (2012). Research on a passive localization method based on dual match in combined air attack. Transducer and Microsystem Technologies. 1 indexed citations

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Wu, Hua, et al.. (2009). Analysis and Application of Urban Dynamic Traffic Flow Map Based on Technology of GPS Virtual Loops. Information Systems. 2009(15). 71–74. 1 indexed citations

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Wu, Hua. (2004). Fair Medium Access in Wireless Ad Hoc Network. 1 indexed citations

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Jayalath, Dhammika, Chintha Tellambura, & Hua Wu. (2000). Reduced Complexity PTS and New Phase Sequences for SLM to Reduce PAP of an OFDM Signal. QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology). 24 indexed citations

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