Search Results - "Zeng, Zhenzhong"
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Decarbonising the iron and steel sector for a 2 °C target using inherent waste streams
Published in Nature communications (13-01-2022)“…The decarbonisation of the iron and steel industry, contributing approximately 8% of current global anthropogenic CO 2 emissions, is challenged by the…”
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Revegetation in China’s Loess Plateau is approaching sustainable water resource limits
Published in Nature climate change (01-11-2016)“…China’s ‘Grain for Green’ revegetation programme has potential to help mitigate climate change. However, the increased water demand in the Loess Plateau is…”
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Declining global warming effects on the phenology of spring leaf unfolding
Published in Nature (London) (01-10-2015)“…Spring leaf unfolding has been occurring earlier in the year because of rising temperatures; however, long-term evidence in the field from 7 European tree…”
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Partitioning global land evapotranspiration using CMIP5 models constrained by observations
Published in Nature climate change (01-07-2018)“…The ratio of plant transpiration to total terrestrial evapotranspiration (T/ET) captures the role of vegetation in surface–atmosphere interactions. However,…”
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Detection and attribution of vegetation greening trend in China over the last 30 years
Published in Global change biology (01-04-2015)“…The reliable detection and attribution of changes in vegetation growth is a prerequisite for the development of strategies for the sustainable management of…”
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Highland cropland expansion and forest loss in Southeast Asia in the twenty-first century
Published in Nature geoscience (01-08-2018)“…Southeast Asia is a hotspot of tropical deforestation for agriculture. Most of the deforestation is thought to occur in lowland forests, whereas the region’s…”
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Afforestation in China cools local land surface temperature
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (25-02-2014)“…China has the largest afforested area in the world (∼62 million hectares in 2008), and these forests are carbon sinks. The climatic effect of these new forests…”
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Role of Groundwater in Sustaining Northern Himalayan Rivers
Published in Geophysical research letters (28-05-2021)“…The Himalayas are critical for supplying water for ∼2 billion people who live downstream, and available water is highly sensitive to climate change. The role…”
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Change in terrestrial ecosystem water‐use efficiency over the last three decades
Published in Global change biology (01-06-2015)“…Defined as the ratio between gross primary productivity (GPP) and evapotranspiration (ET), ecosystem‐scale water‐use efficiency (EWUE) is an indicator of the…”
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Leaf onset in the northern hemisphere triggered by daytime temperature
Published in Nature communications (23-04-2015)“…Recent warming significantly advanced leaf onset in the northern hemisphere. This signal cannot be accurately reproduced by current models parameterized by…”
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High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015
Published in Nature sustainability (01-07-2020)“…High-resolution global maps of annual urban land coverage provide fundamental information of global environmental change and contribute to applications related…”
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Comment on "Satellites reveal contrasting responses of regional climate to the widespread greening of Earth"
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (15-06-2018)“…Forzieri (Reports, 16 June 2017, p. 1180) used satellite data to show that boreal greening caused regional warming. We show that this positive sensitivity of…”
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Experimental warming affects soil carbon dynamics in boreal and temperate forests: a meta-analysis
Published in Environmental research letters (01-10-2024)“…Abstract Boreal and temperate forests, spanning cold mid- to high-latitude environments and encompassing about 43% of the global forest area, are highly…”
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Evaporative cooling over the Tibetan Plateau induced by vegetation growth
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (28-07-2015)“…Understanding land-surface biophysical feedbacks to the atmosphere is needed if we are to simulate regional climate accurately. In the Arctic, previous studies…”
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Multiple Seepage‐Faces in Tidal Flat With Very Gentle Slopes
Published in Geophysical research letters (28-07-2023)“…Large‐scale seepage‐faces occur on small‐slope tidal flats. All previous studies assume that the seepage‐face has only one single exit point. Here we show via…”
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The forest loss within small reservoirs surpasses that of large reservoirs across the tropics
Published in Environmental research letters (01-08-2024)“…Abstract The vast potential of hydropower remains crucial in addressing the escalating need for clean energy, particularly in Tropical Moist Forests (TMFs)…”
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Field warming experiments shed light on the wheat yield response to temperature in China
Published in Nature communications (17-11-2016)“…Wheat growth is sensitive to temperature, but the effect of future warming on yield is uncertain. Here, focusing on China, we compiled 46 observations of the…”
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Impacts of Chemical Degradation on the Global Budget of Atmospheric Levoglucosan and Its Use As a Biomass Burning Tracer
Published in Environmental science & technology (20-04-2021)“…Levoglucosan has been widely used to quantitatively assess biomass burning’s contribution to ambient aerosols, but previous such assessments have not accounted…”
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Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity
Published in Nature communications (16-10-2014)“…Satellite-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), a proxy of vegetation productivity, is known to be correlated with temperature in northern…”
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A worldwide analysis of spatiotemporal changes in water balance-based evapotranspiration from 1982 to 2009
Published in Journal of geophysical research. Atmospheres (16-02-2014)“…A satellite‐based water balance method is developed to model global evapotranspiration (ET) through coupling a water balance (WB) model with a machine‐learning…”
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