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  1. Improved daily accuracy from a new VIIRS-based, near-real time GFED emissions product

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  2. Fire - climate interactions in a warming world

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  3. Forecasting Daily Wildfire Activity Using Poisson Regression

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, January 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Yang Chen

  4. Modeling study of the air quality impact of record‐breaking Southern California wildfires in December 2017

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, June 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Yang Chen

  5. The Global Fire Atlas of individual fire size, duration, speed and direction

    Article • Earth System Science Data, April 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  6. Machine learning to predict final fire size at the time of ignition

    Article • International Journal of Wildland Fire, January 2019, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr Yang Chen

  7. Smoke radiocarbon measurements from Indonesian fires provide evidence for burning of millennia-aged peat

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Yang Chen

  8. Future Drying in Central America and Northern South America Linked With Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, September 2018, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Yang Chen

  9. The Global Fire Atlas of individual fire size, duration, speed, and direction

    Article • Earth System Science Data Discussions, September 2018, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  10. Forest response to rising CO2 drives zonally asymmetric rainfall change over tropical land

    Article • Nature Climate Change, April 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yang Chen, Dr. Forrest M. Hoffman

  11. A pan-tropical cascade of fire driven by El Niño/Southern Oscillation

    Article • Nature Climate Change, November 2017, Nature

    Dr Yang Chen

  12. Global fire emissions estimates during 1997–2016

    Article • Earth System Science Data, September 2017, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  13. A human-driven decline in global burned area

    Article • Science, June 2017, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Yang Chen

  14. Global fire emissions estimates during 1997–2015

    Article • January 2017, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  15. How much global burned area can be forecast on seasonal time scales using sea surface temperatures?

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, March 2016, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Yang Chen

  16. Tropical North Atlantic ocean-atmosphere interactions synchronize forest carbon losses from hurricanes and Amazon fires

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, August 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Yang Chen

  17. Long-term trends and interannual variability of forest, savanna and agricultural fires in South America

    Article • Carbon Management, December 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Yang Chen

  18. Satellite observations of terrestrial water storage provide early warning information about drought and fire season severity in the Amazon

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, April 2013, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Yang Chen

  19. Satellite-based assessment of climate controls on US burned area

    Article • Biogeosciences, January 2013, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  20. Global burned area and biomass burning emissions from small fires

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, December 2012, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Yang Chen

  21. El Niño and health risks from landscape fire emissions in southeast Asia

    Article • Nature Climate Change, August 2012, Nature

    Dr Yang Chen

  22. Estimated Global Mortality Attributable to Smoke from Landscape Fires

    Article • Environmental Health Perspectives, February 2012, Environmental Health Perspectives

    Dr Yang Chen

  23. Biomass burning contribution to black carbon in the Western United States Mountain Ranges

    Article • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, November 2011, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  24. Forecasting Fire Season Severity in South America Using Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies

    Article • Science, November 2011, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Yang Chen

  25. Impacts of 2006 Indonesian fires and dynamics on tropical upper tropospheric carbon monoxide and ozone

    Article • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, November 2011, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  26. Nitrogen deposition in tropical forests from savanna and deforestation fires

    Article • Global Change Biology, June 2010, Wiley

    Dr Yang Chen

  27. The sensitivity of CO and aerosol transport to the temporal and vertical distribution of North American boreal fire emissions

    Article • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, September 2009, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  28. Possible influence of anthropogenic aerosols on cirrus clouds and anthropogenic forcing

    Article • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, February 2009, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  29. Quantifying aerosol direct radiative effect with Multiangle Imaging Spectroradiometer observations: Top-of-atmosphere albedo change by aerosols based on land surface types

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 2009, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Ralph A Kahn, Dr Yang Chen

  30. Quantitative studies of wildfire smoke injection heights with the Terra Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer

    Article • August 2008, SPIE

    Dr Ralph A Kahn, Dr Yang Chen

  31. Example applications of the MISR INteractive eXplorer (MINX) software tool to wildfire smoke plume analyses

    Article • August 2008, SPIE

    Dr Ralph A Kahn, Dr Yang Chen

  32. Wildfire smoke injection heights: Two perspectives from space

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, February 2008, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Ralph A Kahn, Dr Yang Chen

  33. Uncertainty analysis for estimates of the first indirect aerosol effect

    Article • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, November 2005, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  34. Observational evidence of a change in radiative forcing due to the indirect aerosol effect

    Article • January 2004, Nature

    Dr Yang Chen