Shunlin Liang

43.7k total citations · 15 hit papers
548 papers, 29.0k citations indexed

About

Shunlin Liang is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Shunlin Liang has authored 548 papers receiving a total of 29.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 361 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 248 papers in Atmospheric Science and 233 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Shunlin Liang's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (230 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (155 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (115 papers). Shunlin Liang is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (230 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (155 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (115 papers). Shunlin Liang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Hong Kong. Shunlin Liang's co-authors include Kaicun Wang, Dongdong Wang, Hongliang Fang, Tao He, Xiaotong Zhang, Zhiqiang Xiao, Jie Cheng, Bo Jiang, Xiang Zhao and Yunjun Yao and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Shunlin Liang

534 papers receiving 28.0k citations

Hit Papers

Narrowband to broadband conversions of land surface albedo I 2001 2026 2009 2017 2001 2015 2003 2013 2013 250 500 750
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.

  1. Narrowband to broadband conversions of land surface albedo I
    2001 982 citations Shunlin Liang Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  2. Time‐lag effects of global vegetation responses to climate change
    2015 843 citations Xiang Zhao, Shunlin Liang et al. profile →
  3. Quantitative Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces
    2003 541 citations Shunlin Liang profile →
  4. Use of General Regression Neural Networks for Generating the GLASS Leaf Area Index Product From Time-Series MODIS Surface Reflectance
    2013 535 citations Shunlin Liang et al. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing profile →
  5. A long-term Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) data-set for environmental studies
    2013 428 citations Shunlin Liang, Xiang Zhao et al. International Journal of Digital Earth profile →
  6. The role of satellite remote sensing in climate change studies
    2013 411 citations Shunlin Liang et al. profile →
  7. Assimilation of remote sensing into crop growth models: Current status and perspectives
    2019 366 citations Jianxi Huang, Hai Huang et al. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology profile →
  8. The Global Land Surface Satellite (GLASS) Product Suite
    2020 366 citations Shunlin Liang, Jie Cheng et al. profile →
  9. Long-Time-Series Global Land Surface Satellite Leaf Area Index Product Derived From MODIS and AVHRR Surface Reflectance
    2016 353 citations Shunlin Liang, Xiang Zhao et al. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing profile →
  10. Improving winter wheat yield estimation by assimilation of the leaf area index from Landsat TM and MODIS data into the WOFOST model
    2015 349 citations Jianxi Huang, Shunlin Liang et al. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology profile →
  11. Improved estimate of global gross primary production for reproducing its long-term variation, 1982–2017
    2020 272 citations Yi Zheng, Shunlin Liang et al. Earth system science data profile →
  12. Annual dynamics of global land cover and its long-term changes from 1982 to 2015
    2020 265 citations Shunlin Liang et al. Earth system science data profile →
  13. A practical reanalysis data and thermal infrared remote sensing data merging (RTM) method for reconstruction of a 1-km all-weather land surface temperature
    2021 213 citations Shunlin Liang, Dongdong Wang et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  14. Development of the GLASS 250-m leaf area index product (version 6) from MODIS data using the bidirectional LSTM deep learning model
    2022 173 citations Han Ma, Shunlin Liang Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  15. Vegetation-based climate mitigation in a warmer and greener World
    2022 116 citations Shunlin Liang et al. profile →

Peers

Shunlin Liang
Comparison fields: 5 of 162
  • Global and Planetary Change 18.2k
  • Ecology 11.3k
  • Atmospheric Science 10.9k
  • Environmental Engineering 10.5k
  • Water Science and Technology 2.7k
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Éric Vermote United States
Feng Gao United States
M. A. Friedl United States
Martha C. Anderson United States
William P. Kustas United States
Curtis E. Woodcock United States
Ramakrishna Nemani United States
Alfredo Huete United States
Crystal Schaaf United States
P. J. Sellers United States
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
1
Multimodel ensemble estimation of Landsat-like global terrestrial latent heat flux using a generalized deep CNN-LSTM integration algorithm
2024 ·Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Xiaozheng Guo, Yunjun Yao, (unknown), Shunlin Liang, Changliang Shao, Joshua B. Fisher, Jiquan Chen, Kun Jia, Xiaotong Zhang, Ke Shang, Junming Yang, Ruiyang Yu, (unknown), Lu Liu, Jing Ning, Lilin Zhang
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2
Transformer approach to nowcasting solar energy using geostationary satellite data
2024 ·Applied Energy ·Ruohan Li, Dongdong Wang, (unknown), Shunlin Liang, Zhanqing Li, Yiqun Xie, (unknown)
4
3
Increased summertime wildfire as a major driver of the clear-sky dimming in the Siberian Arctic from 2000 to 2020
2024 ·Atmospheric Research ·Yun‐Feng Cao, (unknown), Jiaxin Tian, Shunlin Liang
1
4
Improving crop yield estimation by unified model parameters and state variable with Bayesian inference
2024 ·Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Jianjian Song, Jianxi Huang, Hai Huang, (unknown), Xuecao Li, Li Li, Wei Su, Wenbin Wu, Peng Yang, Shunlin Liang
11
5
A dataset of 0.05-degree leaf area index in China during 1983–2100 based on deep learning network
2024 ·Scientific Data ·(unknown), Yuyu Zhou, Xiang Zhao, Xin Zhang, Shunlin Liang
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6
A comprehensive review of rice mapping from satellite data: Algorithms, product characteristics and consistency assessment
2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), Shunlin Liang, Yongzhe Chen, Han Ma, (unknown), (unknown), Feng Tian, Fengjiao Zhang
6
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A daily 5-km all-sky sea-surface longwave radiation product based on statistically modified deep neural network and spatiotemporal analysis for 1981–2018
2023 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·(unknown), Shunlin Liang, Han Ma, Tao He, Yufang Zhang, (unknown)
6
8
Four-decade response of land surface temperature to urban expansion in Beijing
2023 ·Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Yibing Wang, Xianhong Xie, Xiang Zhao, Shunlin Liang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Xiaotong Zhang
13
9
Generation of global 1-km daily top-of-atmosphere outgoing longwave radiation product from 2000 to 2021 using machine learning
2023 ·International Journal of Digital Earth ·(unknown), Shunlin Liang
3
10
Recent progress on evaluating and analysing surface radiation and energy budget datasets
2023 ·International Journal of Digital Earth ·Bo Jiang, Xiaotong Zhang, Dongdong Wang, Shunlin Liang
1
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A monthly 1° resolution dataset of daytime cloud fraction over the Arctic during 2000–2020 based on multiple satellite products
2023 ·Earth system science data ·(unknown), Tao He, Shunlin Liang, Ruibo Li, Xiongxin Xiao, Rui Ma, (unknown)
2
12
The Hi-GLASS all-wave daily net radiation product: Algorithm and product validation
2023 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Bo Jiang, (unknown), Hui Liang, Shunlin Liang, (unknown), (unknown), Tao He, (unknown)
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13
Assessing the Reliability of the MODIS LST Product to Detect Temporal Variability
2023 ·IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters ·Shuo Xu, Dongdong Wang, Shunlin Liang, Yuling Liu, Aolin Jia
5
14
Different Satellite Products Revealing Variable Trends in Global Gross Primary Production
2023 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Yu Bai, Shunlin Liang, Aolin Jia, Shenggong Li
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15
High spatial resolution vegetation gross primary production product: Algorithm and validation
2022 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Xiaojuan Huang, Yi Zheng, Hui Zhang, Shangrong Lin, Shunlin Liang, Xiangqian Li, Mingguo Ma, Wenping Yuan
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16
A global long-term ocean surface daily/0.05° net radiation product from 1983–2020
2022 ·Scientific Data ·Hui Liang, Bo Jiang, Shunlin Liang, (unknown), Shaopeng Li, (unknown), (unknown), Jie Cheng, Kun Jia, Qiang Liu, Yunjun Yao, Xiang Zhao, Xiaotong Zhang
6
17
Global Ecosystem Demography Model (ED-global v1.0): Development, Calibration and Evaluation for NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI)
2020 ·Lei Ma, G. C. Hurtt, Lesley Ott, Ritvik Sahajpal, J. Fisk, (unknown), Benjamin Poulter, Shunlin Liang, Joe H. Sullivan, Ralph Dubayah
4
18
Generating a High-Resolution Time-Series Ocean Surface Net Radiation Product by Downscaling J-OFURO3
2020 ·IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ·(unknown), Bo Jiang, Shunlin Liang, Xiuxia Li, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Hui Liang, Shaopeng Li
9
19
Estimating high-resolution top of atmosphere albedo from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer data
2016 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Dongdong Wang, Shunlin Liang
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A new method based on remote sensing observations and data assimilation for estimation of evapotranspiration over field crops
2007 ·New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research ·Jun Qin, Ronggao Liu, Shunlin Liang, Hao Zhang, Bo Hu
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