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China's land cover and land use change from 1700 to 2005: Estimations from high‐resolution satellite data and historical archives

Liu, Mingliang; Tian, Hanqin; 0000-0002-1806-4091; 0000-0002-1963-5933 (2022-03-03)

One of the major limitations in assessing the impacts of human activities on globalbiogeochemical cycles and climate is a shortage of reliable data on historical landcover and land use change (LCLUC). China had extreme ...

China's terrestrial carbon balance: Contributions from multiple global change factors

Tian, Hanqin; Melillo, Jerry; Lu, Chaoqun; Kicklighter, David; Liu, Mingliang; Ren, Wei; Xu, Xiaofeng; Chen, Guangsheng; Zhang, Chi; Pan, Shufen; Liu, Jiyuan; Running, Steven; 0000-0002-1806-4091; 0000-0001-7920-1427 (2022-03-04)

The magnitude, spatial, and temporal patterns of the terrestrial carbon sink and theunderlying mechanisms remain uncertain and need to be investigated. China is importantin determining the global carbon balance in terms ...

Development of a REgion‐Specific Ecosystem Feedback Fire (RESFire) Model in the Community Earth System Model

Zou, Yufei; Wang, Yuhang; Ke, Ziming; Tian, Hanqin; Yang, Jia; Liu, Yongqiang; 0000-0002-1806-4091 (2020-04-01)

Fires play a critical role in modulating regional and global climate through disturbances on meteorological, biogeochemical, and hydrological processes, while fires are strongly affected by climate, terrestrial ecosystems, ...

Effect of nitrogen deposition on China’s terrestrial carbon uptake in the context of multifactor environmental changes

Lu, Chaoqun; Tian, Hanqin; Liu, Mingliang; Ren, Wei; Xu, Xiaofeng; Chen, Guangshen; Zhang, Chi (2023-09-20)

The amount of atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposited on the land surface has increased globally and by nearly five times in China from 1901 to 2005. Little is known about how elevated reactive N input has affected the carbon ...

Effects of tropospheric ozone pollution on net primary productivity and carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems of China

Ren, Wei; Tian, Hanqin; Liu, Mingliang; Zhang, Chi; Chen, Guangsheng; Pan, Shufen; Felzer, Benjamin; Xu, Xiaofeng; 0000-0002-4840-4835; 0000-0002-1806-4091; 0000-0001-7920-1427 (2022-12-05)

We investigated the potential effects of elevated ozone (O-3) along with climate variability, increasing CO2, and land use change on net primary productivity (NPP) and carbon storage in China's terrestrial ecosystems for ...

Increasing Mississippi river discharge throughout the 21st century influenced by changes in climate, land use, and atmospheric CO2

Tao, Bo; Tian, Hanqin; Ren, Wei; Yang, Jia; Yang, Qichun; He, Ruoying; Cai, Weijun; Lohrenz, Steven (2022-09-15)

Previous studies have demonstrated that changes in temperature and precipitation (hereafter climate change) would influence river discharge, but the relative importance of climate change, land use, and elevated atmospheric ...

Integrating a process-based ecosystem model with Landsat imagery to assess impacts of forest disturbance on terrestrial carbon dynamics: Case studies in Alabama and Mississippi

Chen, Guangsheng; Tian, Hanqin; Huang, Chengquan; Prior, Stephen; Pan, Shufen; 0000-0002-1806-4091; 0000-0003-1750-6326; 0000-0001-7920-1427; 0000-0003-0055-9798 (2022-12-02)

Forest ecosystems in the southern United States are dramatically altered by three major disturbances: timber harvesting, hurricane, and permanent land conversion. Understanding and quantifying effects of disturbance on ...

Long-term trends in evapotranspiration and runoff over the drainage basins of the Gulf of Mexico during 19012008

Liu, Mingliang; Tian, Hanqin; Yang, Qichun; Yang, Jia; Song, Xia; Lohren, Steven E.; Cai, Wei-Jun; 0000-0002-1806-4091 (2020-04-01)

The Gulf of Mexico (GOM) is facing large pressures from environmental changes since the beginning of the last century. However, the magnitude and long-term trend of total water discharge to the GOM and the underlying ...

Methane exchange between marshland and the atmosphere over China during 1949-2008

Xu, Xiaofeng; Tian, Hanqin; 0000-0002-1806-4091; 0000-0002-6553-6514 (2020-02-25)

We used a process-based ecosystem model to examine methane (CH4) fluxes in the marshland across China as a result of multifactor global changes during 1949–2008. Our simulated results show a significant declining rate of ...

Net exchanges of CO2, CH4, and N2O between China's terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere and their contributions to global climate warming

Tian, Hanqin; Xu, Xiaofeng; Lu, Chaoqun; Liu, Mingliang; Ren, Wei; Chen, Guangsheng; Melillo, Jerry; Liu, Jiyuan; 0000-0002-6553-6514; 0000-0002-1963-5933; 0000-0002-1526-0513; 0000-0002-4840-4835; 0000-0002-1806-4091 (2022-10-25)

China's terrestrial ecosystems have been recognized as an atmospheric CO2 sink; however, it is uncertain whether this sink can alleviate global warming given the fluxes of CH4 and N2O. In this study, we used a process-based ...

Regional sources of nitrous oxide over the United States: Seasonal variation and spatial distribution

Miller, S.M.; Kort, E. A.; Hirsch, A. I.; Dlugokencky, E. J.; Andrews, A. E.; Xu, X; Tian, H; Nehrkorn, T.; Eluszkiewicz, J.; Michalak, A.M.; Wofsy, S. C.; 0000-0002-1806-4091 (2022-03-04)

his paper presents top-down constraints on the magnitude, spatial distribution, andseasonality of nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions over the central United States. We analyzedata from tall towers in 2004 and 2008 using a high ...

Responses of global terrestrial evapotranspiration to climate change and increasing atmospheric CO2 in the 21st century

Pan, Shufen; Tian, Hanqin; Dangal, Shree; Yang, Qichun; Yang, Jia; Lu, Chaoqun; Tao, Bo; Ren, Wei; Ouyang, Zhiyun; 0000-0002-1806-4091; 0000-0002-1526-0513; 0000-0001-9529-8206; 0000-0003-2019-9603; 0000-0002-1526-0513; 0000-0002-4840-4835; 0000-0001-7920-1427; 0000-0002-8689-2550 (2023-06-17)

Quantifying the spatial and temporal patterns of the water lost to the atmosphere through land surface evapotranspiration (ET) is essential for understanding the global hydrological cycle, but remains much uncertain. In ...

Severe Long-Lasting Drought Accelerated Carbon Depletion in the Mongolian Plateau

Lu, Chaoqun; Tian, Hanqin; Yu, Zhen; Pan, Shufen; Dangal, Shree; Zhang, Bowen; Yang, Jin; Pederson, Neil; Hessl, Amy; 0000-0002-1806-4091; 0000-0001-7920-1427; 0000-0001-9529-8206; 0000-0002-8370-0509; 0000-0003-2019-9603 (2020-02-25)

Paleoclimate records identified a severe drought lasting approximately a decade on the Mongolian Plateau during the 2000s, the severity of which was only exceeded by a single drought during the last two millennia. Under ...

Spatial and temporal patterns of nitrogen deposition in China: Synthesis of observational data

Lu, Chaoqun; Tian, Hanqin; 0000-0002-1806-4091 (2022-11-07)

[1] Anthropogenic nitrous pollutant emissions in China significantly increased during the last decades, which contributed to the accelerated nitrogen ( N) deposition. In order to characterize spatial pattern of nitrogen ...

Temperature Changes in Central Asia from 1979 to 2011 Based on Multiple Datasets*

Hu, Zengyun; Zhang, Chi; Hu, Qi; Tian, Hanqin; 0000-0002-4259-9141 (2022-03-03)

The arid and semiarid region in central Asia is sensitive and vulnerable to climate variations. However, the sparse and highly unevenly distributed meteorological stations in the region provide limited data for understanding ...

Vegetation Functional Properties Determine Uncertainty of Simulated Ecosystem Productivity: A Traceability Analysis in the East Asian Monsoon Region

Cui, Erqian; Huang, Kun; Arain, Muhammad Altaf; Fisher, Joshua B.; Huntzinger, Deborah N.; Ito, Akihiko; Luo, Yiqi; Jain, Atul K.; Mao, Jiafu; Michalak, Anna M.; Niu, Shuli; Parazoo, Nicholas C.; Peng, Changhui; Peng, Shushi; Poulter, Benjamin; Ricciuto, Daniel M.; Schaefer, Kevin M.; Schwalm, Christoper R.; Shi, Xiaoying; Tian, Hanqin; Wang, Weile; Wang, Jinsong; Wei, Yaxing; Yan, Enrong; Yan, Liming; Zeng, Ning; Zhu, Qiuan; Xia, Jianyang; 0000-0002-1806-4091 (2020-04-02)

Global and regional projections of climate change by Earth system models are limited by their uncertain estimates of terrestrial ecosystem productivity. At the middle to low latitudes, the East Asian monsoon region has ...