Liming Zhou

18.9k total citations · 10 hit papers
147 papers, 14.6k citations indexed

About

Liming Zhou is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Liming Zhou has authored 147 papers receiving a total of 14.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 108 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 78 papers in Atmospheric Science and 32 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Liming Zhou's work include Climate variability and models (59 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (46 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (31 papers). Liming Zhou is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (59 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (46 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (31 papers). Liming Zhou collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and France. Liming Zhou's co-authors include Ranga B. Myneni, Shilong Piao, Robert K. Kaufmann, Philippe Ciais, Jingyun Fang, Compton J. Tucker, Yuhong Tian, Nikolay V. Shabanov, Shushi Peng and D. A. Slayback and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Liming Zhou

144 papers receiving 14.2k 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.

Variations in northern vegetation activity inferred from satellite data of vegetation index during 1981 to 1999

2001 1.3k citations Liming Zhou, Ranga B. Myneni et al. profile →
Surface Urban Heat Island Across 419 Global Big Cities

2011 1.1k citations Shushi Peng, Shilong Piao et al. profile →
Variations in satellite‐derived phenology in China's temperate vegetation

2006 737 citations Shilong Piao, Liming Zhou et al. profile →
Evidence for a significant urbanization effect on climate in China

2004 725 citations Liming Zhou, Qingxiang Li et al. profile →
Afforestation in China cools local land surface temperature

2014 603 citations Shushi Peng, Zhenzhong Zeng et al. profile →
A large carbon sink in the woody biomass of Northern forests

2001 522 citations Ranga B. Myneni, Liming Zhou et al. profile →
Evaporative cooling over the Tibetan Plateau induced by vegetation growth

2015 473 citations Shilong Piao, Liming Zhou et al. profile →
Divergent hydrological response to large-scale afforestation and vegetation greening in China

2018 410 citations Yue Li, Shilong Piao et al. Science Advances profile →
Climate mitigation from vegetation biophysical feedbacks during the past three decades

2017 390 citations Zhenzhong Zeng, Shilong Piao et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Evaporative water loss of 1.42 million global lakes

2022 142 citations Gang Zhao, Yao Li et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Liming Zhou

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Liming Zhou. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Liming Zhou based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Liming Zhou. Liming Zhou is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Quantifying the role of vegetation on urban heat over Bengaluru, India 2025 ·Theoretical and Applied Climatology ·(unknown), Aiguo Dai, Liming Zhou	1
2	A framework for creating sustainable rainwater harvesting and reuse strategies for urban landscape irrigation in a changing climate 2025 ·Journal of Environmental Management ·Siyu Li, Yaoze Liu, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Tracy N.Y. Choi, Liming Zhou, Younggu Her, Fawen Li, Dongyang Ren, Xiaobo Xue Romeiko	0
3	Local and Non‐Local Biophysical Impacts of Deforestation on Global Temperature During Boreal Summer: CMIP6‐LUMIP Multimodel Analysis 2023 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Shuyu Liu, Wenjian Hua, Liming Zhou, Haishan Chen, Miao Yu, Xing Li, (unknown)	11
4	Observed impacts of large wind farms on grassland carbon cycling 2023 ·Science Bulletin ·Donghai Wu, Steven M. Grodsky, Wenfang Xu, (unknown), Rafael M. Almeida, Liming Zhou, Lee M. Miller, Somnath Baidya Roy, Geng Xia, Anurag A. Agrawal, Benjamin Z. Houlton, Alexander S. Flecker, Xiangtao Xu	12
5	An evaluation of WRF urban canopy models over Bengaluru, India 2023 ·Modeling Earth Systems and Environment ·(unknown), Aiguo Dai, Ajay Raghavendra, Liming Zhou	7
6	Interannual teleconnections in the Sahara temperatures associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) during boreal winter 2023 ·Climate Dynamics ·Liming Zhou, Wenjian Hua, Sharon E. Nicholson, (unknown)	3
7	Important non-local effects of deforestation on cloud cover changes in CMIP6 models 2023 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Wenjian Hua, Liming Zhou, Aiguo Dai, Haishan Chen, Yi Liu	14
8	Status-quo of proved oil/gas initially-in-place in China as of 2020 and its variation trend in the past decade 2022 ·Energy Geoscience ·Liming Zhou, Daoyong Zhang, (unknown), Yufeng Gu, (unknown), Chen Zhang	6
9	Evaporative water loss of 1.42 million global lakes breakdown → 2022 ·Nature Communications ·Gang Zhao, Yao Li, Liming Zhou, Huilin Gao	142
10	Reconciling Human and Natural Drivers of the Tripole Pattern of Multidecadal Summer Temperature Variations Over Eurasia 2021 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Wenjian Hua, Minhua Qin, Aiguo Dai, Liming Zhou, Haishan Chen, (unknown)	17
11	Vegetation Greening Offsets Urbanization‐Induced Fast Warming in Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao Region (GHMR) 2021 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·(unknown), Qingxiang Li, Wenjie Dong, Yuanjian Yang, (unknown), Boyin Huang, Liming Zhou, Zhihong Jiang, Panmao Zhai, P. D. Jones	20
12	Analyzing intensifying thunderstorms over the Congo Basin using the Gálvez-Davison index from 1983–2018 2020 ·Climate Dynamics ·(unknown), Ajay Raghavendra, Liming Zhou, Yan Jiang, (unknown), (unknown)	11
13	Effects of Nonuniform Land Surface Warming on Summer Anomalous Extratropical Cyclone Activity and the East Asian Summer Monsoon: Numerical Experiments with a Regional Climate Model 2020 ·Journal of Climate ·(unknown), Haishan Chen, Liming Zhou, Botao Zhou, Jie Zhang, Jiangfeng Wei	11
14	An Externally Forced Decadal Rainfall Seesaw Pattern Over the Sahel and Southeast Amazon 2019 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Wenjian Hua, Aiguo Dai, Liming Zhou, Minhua Qin, Haishan Chen	35
15	Divergent hydrological response to large-scale afforestation and vegetation greening in China breakdown → 2018 ·Science Advances ·Yue Li, Shilong Piao, Laurent Li, Anping Chen, Xuhui Wang, Philippe Ciais, Ling Huang, Xu Lian, Shushi Peng, Zhenzhong Zeng, Kai Wang, Liming Zhou	410
16	Climate mitigation from vegetation biophysical feedbacks during the past three decades breakdown → 2017 ·Nature Climate Change ·Zhenzhong Zeng, Shilong Piao, Laurent Li, Liming Zhou, Philippe Ciais, Tao Wang, Yue Li, Xu Lian, Eric F. Wood, Pierre Friedlingstein, Jiafu Mao, Lyndon Estes, Ranga B. Myneni, Shushi Peng, Xiaoying Shi, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Ying‐Ping Wang	390
17	Observational Evidence for Desert Amplification Using Multiple Satellite Datasets 2017 ·Scientific Reports ·Nan Wei, Liming Zhou, Yongjiu Dai, Geng Xia, Wenjian Hua	20
18	Ambient air monitoring with Auto-gas chromatography running in trigger mode 2007 ·Analytica Chimica Acta ·Liming Zhou, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	6
19	Detection of Intracellular Reactive Oxygen Species by Flow Cytometry in Pichia pastoris Fermentation 2006 ·Chinese journal of biotechnology/Shengwu gongcheng xuebao ·Anfeng Xiao, Xingtao Zhou, Liming Zhou, Youmin Zhang	12
20	Proxy for Millennial Climate Change during the Last 50,000 Years in the Loess-paleosol Sequence at Shengshan Island in the East China Sea: Estimation by Soil Color Reflectance Indices (L, a, and b) 2003 ·The Quaternary Research (Daiyonki-Kenkyu)* ·(unknown), Kunihiko Endo, Xiangmin Zheng, Liming Zhou	1

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