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  1. Estimate soil moisture and snow everywhere on land from multiple satellites

    Article • Remote Sensing of Environment, October 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  2. High Summertime Aerosol Loadings Over the Arabian Sea and Their Transport Pathways

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, September 2018, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang, Bing Pu, Dr. Qinjian Jin

  3. Potential surface hydrologic responses to increases in greenhouse gas concentrations and land use and land cover changes

    Article • International Journal of Climatology, September 2018, Wiley

    Dr Zhongfeng Xu, Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  4. Implementation of a vector-based river network routing scheme in the community WRF-Hydro modeling framework for flood discharge simulation

    Article • Environmental Modelling & Software, September 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  5. Insights into Hydrometeorological Factors Constraining Flood Prediction Skill during the May and October 2015 Texas Hill Country Flood Events

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, August 2018, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  6. Missing pieces to modeling the Arctic-Boreal puzzle

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, February 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  7. Spatiotemporal Evaluation of Simulated Evapotranspiration and Streamflow over Texas using the WRF-Hydro-RAPID Modeling Framework

    Article • JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, October 2017, Wiley

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  8. Decadal Modulation of Precipitation Patterns over Eastern China by Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies

    Article • Journal of Climate, September 2017, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  9. Irrigation-Induced Environmental Changes around the Aral Sea: An Integrated View from Multiple Satellite Observations

    Article • Remote Sensing, August 2017, MDPI AG

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  10. Foreword to the special issue: decadal scale drought in arid regions

    Article • Climatic Change, August 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  11. Improving the Radiance Assimilation Performance in Estimating Snow Water Storage across Snow and Land-Cover Types in North America

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, March 2017, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  12. Understanding dust emission in the Bodélé region by extracting locally mobilized dust aerosols from satellite Aerosol Optical Depth data using principal component analysis

    Article • Aeolian Research, February 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  13. LAND-ATMOSPHERE-AEROSOL COUPLING IN CHINA

    Article • International Journal of Climatology, January 2017, Wiley

    Dr. Qinjian Jin, Jiangfeng Wei, Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  14. Quantifying local-scale dust emission from the Arabian Red Sea coastal plain

    Article • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, January 2017, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  15. Effects of soil-type datasets on regional terrestrial water cycle simulations under different climatic regimes

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, December 2016, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  16. Snow data assimilation-constrained land initialization improves seasonal temperature prediction

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, November 2016, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  17. Estimating Snow Water Storage in North America Using CLM4, DART, and Snow Radiance Data Assimilation

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, November 2016, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  18. Continental-Scale River Flow Modeling of the Mississippi River Basin Using High-Resolution NHDPlusDataset

    Article • JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, September 2016, Wiley

    Alan D Snow, Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  19. Seasonal Responses of Indian Summer Monsoon to Dust Aerosols in the Middle East, India, and China

    Article • Journal of Climate, September 2016, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  20. Global Soil Moisture Estimation by Assimilating AMSR-E Brightness Temperatures in a Coupled CLM4–RTM–DART System

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, September 2016, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  21. High sensitivity of Indian summer monsoon to Middle East dust absorptive properties

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  22. Estimating uncertainties in the newly developed multi-source land snow data assimilation system

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, July 2016, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  23. Role of ocean evaporation in California droughts and floods

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, June 2016, Wiley

    Jiangfeng Wei, Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  24. Diagnostic evaluation of the Community Earth System Model in simulating mineral dust emission with insight into large-scale dust storm mobilization in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

    Article • Aeolian Research, June 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  25. A decade of RAPID-Reflections on the development of an open source geoscience code

    Article • Earth and Space Science, May 2016, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  26. Quantifying the impacts of landscape heterogeneity and model resolution on dust emissions in the Arabian Peninsula

    Article • Environmental Modelling & Software, April 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  27. New insights into the wind-dust relationship in sandblasting and direct aerodynamic entrainment from wind tunnel experiments

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, February 2016, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  28. Evaluation of the Snow Simulations from the Community Land Model, Version 4 (CLM4)

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, January 2016, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  29. A GIS Framework for Regional Modeling of Riverine Nitrogen Transport: Case Study, San Antonio and Guadalupe Basins

    Article • JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, September 2015, Wiley

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  30. Development and evaluation of a physically-based lake level model for water resource management: A case study for Lake Buchanan, Texas

    Article • Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies, September 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  31. Enhanced fixed-size parallel speedup with the Muskingum method using a trans-boundary approach and a large subbasins approximation

    Article • Water Resources Research, September 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  32. Error Characterization of Coupled Land Surface-Radiative Transfer Models for Snow Microwave Radiance Assimilation

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, September 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  33. A new dynamical downscaling approach

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, April 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zhongfeng Xu, Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  34. Foreword to the special issue: regional earth system modeling

    Article • Climatic Change, March 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  35. Impact of LULCC on climate seasonality and variability

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, February 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zhongfeng Xu, Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  36. Modeling seasonal snowpack evolution in the complex terrain and forested Colorado Headwaters region: A model intercomparison study

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, December 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  37. Assessment of simulated water balance from Noah, Noah-MP, CLM, and VIC over CONUS using the NLDAS test bed

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, December 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  38. Mapping erodibility in dust source regions based on geomorphology, meteorology, and remote sensing

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface, September 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  39. The scale-dependence of SMOS soil moisture accuracy and its improvement through land data assimilation in the central Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Remote Sensing of Environment, September 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  40. Assimilation of MODIS snow cover through the Data Assimilation Research Testbed and the Community Land Model version 4

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, June 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  41. Positive response of Indian summer rainfall to Middle East dust

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, June 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Mr Qinjian Jin, Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  42. Spring soil moisture‐precipitation feedback in the Southern Great Plains: How is it related to large‐scale atmospheric conditions?

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, February 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  43. Hydrological evaluation of the Noah-MP land surface model for the Mississippi River Basin

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  44. Spin-up processes in the Community Land Model version 4 with explicit carbon and nitrogen components

    Article • Ecological Modelling, August 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  45. Quantification of the upstream-to-downstream influence in the Muskingum method and implications for speedup in parallel computations of river flow

    Article • Water Resources Research, May 2013, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  46. Climate, river network, and vegetation cover relationships across a climate gradient and their potential for predicting effects of decadal-scale climate change

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, April 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  47. Regional-scale river flow modeling using off-the-shelf runoff products, thousands of mapped rivers and hundreds of stream flow gauges

    Article • Environmental Modelling & Software, April 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  48. An Improved Dynamical Downscaling Method with GCM Bias Corrections and Its Validation with 30 Years of Climate Simulations

    Article • Journal of Climate, September 2012, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Zhongfeng Xu, Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  49. A method to study the impact of climate change on variability of river flow: an example from the Guadalupe River in Texas

    Article • Climatic Change, March 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  50. River Network Routing on the NHDPlus Dataset

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, October 2011, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  51. The Community Climate System Model Version 4

    Article • Journal of Climate, October 2011, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  52. The community Noah land surface model with multiparameterization options (Noah-MP): 2. Evaluation over global river basins

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, June 2011, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  53. The community Noah land surface model with multiparameterization options (Noah-MP): 1. Model description and evaluation with local-scale measurements

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, June 2011, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  54. RAPID applied to the SIM-France model

    Article • Hydrological Processes, April 2011, Wiley

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  55. Parameterization improvements and functional and structural advances in Version 4 of the Community Land Model

    Article • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, March 2011, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang, Professor Xubin Zeng

  56. Parameter estimation in ensemble based snow data assimilation: A synthetic study

    Article • Advances in Water Resources, March 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  57. Ensemble Evaluation of Hydrologically Enhanced Noah-LSM: Partitioning of the Water Balance in High-Resolution Simulations over the Little Washita River Experimental Watershed

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, February 2011, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  58. Sensitivity of biogenic secondary organic aerosols to future climate change at regional scales: An online coupled simulation

    Article • Atmospheric Environment, December 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  59. Multisensor snow data assimilation at the continental scale: The value of Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment terrestrial water storage information

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, May 2010, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  60. Quantifying parameter sensitivity, interaction, and transferability in hydrologically enhanced versions of the Noah land surface model over transition zones during the warm season

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, February 2010, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  61. Using NHDPlus as the Land Base for the Noah-distributed Model

    Article • Transactions in GIS, August 2009, Wiley

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  62. Evaluating Enhanced Hydrological Representations in Noah LSM over Transition Zones: Implications for Model Development

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, June 2009, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  63. Impacts of vegetation and groundwater dynamics on warm season precipitation over the Central United States

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

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  64. Assessing the Capability of a Regional-Scale Weather Model to Simulate Extreme Precipitation Patterns and Flooding in Central Texas

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, December 2008, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  65. Effects of water table dynamics on regional climate: A case study over east Asian monsoon area

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, November 2008, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  66. Predicted impacts of climate and land use change on surface ozone in the Houston, Texas, area

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, October 2008, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  67. Model performance, model robustness, and model fitness scores: A new method for identifying good land-surface models

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

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  68. Sensitivity of biogenic emissions simulated by a land-surface model to land-cover representations

    Article • Atmospheric Environment, June 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  69. Assessment of three dynamical climate downscaling methods using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, May 2008, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  70. Enhancing the estimation of continental-scale snow water equivalent by assimilating MODIS snow cover with the ensemble Kalman filter

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, April 2008, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  71. An observation-based formulation of snow cover fraction and its evaluation over large North American river basins

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, November 2007, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  72. Retrieving snow mass from GRACE terrestrial water storage change with a land surface model

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, August 2007, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  73. Interannual variation in biogenic emissions on a regional scale

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, July 2007, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  74. Improving land-surface model hydrology: Is an explicit aquifer model better than a deeper soil profile?

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, May 2007, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  75. Development of a simple groundwater model for use in climate models and evaluation with Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment data

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, April 2007, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  76. Future precipitation changes and their implications for tropical peatlands

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, January 2007, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  77. Effects of Frozen Soil on Snowmelt Runoff and Soil Water Storage at a Continental Scale

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, October 2006, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  78. The Community Land Model and Its Climate Statistics as a Component of the Community Climate System Model

    Article • Journal of Climate, June 2006, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang, Dr. Forrest M. Hoffman, Professor Xubin Zeng

  79. Development of species-based, regional emission capacities for simulation of biogenic volatile organic compound emissions in land-surface models: An example from Texas, USA

    Article • Atmospheric Environment, March 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  80. Assessing a land surface model's improvements with GRACE estimates

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, January 2006, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  81. A simple TOPMODEL-based runoff parameterization (SIMTOP) for use in global climate models

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 2005, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  82. Effects of vegetation canopy processes on snow surface energy and mass balances

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, December 2004, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  83. The Common Land Model

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, August 2003, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang, Professor Xubin Zeng

  84. The Versatile Integrator of Surface and Atmosphere processes

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, July 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  85. The versatile integrator of surface atmospheric processes

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, July 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  86. Hydrometeorological Response of the Modeled North American Monsoon to Convective Parameterization

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, April 2003, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  87. The impact of sea surface temperature on the North American monsoon: A GCM study

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, January 2003, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  88. The Land Surface Climatology of the Community Land Model Coupled to the NCAR Community Climate Model*

    Article • Journal of Climate, November 2002, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang, Professor Xubin Zeng

  89. Sensitivity of the Modeled North American Monsoon Regional Climate to Convective Parameterization

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, May 2002, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  90. Comparison of albedos computed by land surface models and evaluation against remotely sensed data

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, September 2001, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang, Professor Xubin Zeng

  91. Impact of field-calibrated vegetation parameters on GCM climate simulations

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, April 2001, Wiley

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  92. Evaluation of the simulations of the North American Monsoon in the NCAR CCM3

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, April 2001, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  93. Impact of field-calibrated vegetation parameters on GCM climate simulations

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, April 2001, Wiley

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  94. Comparative Evaluation of BATS2, BATS, and SiB2 with Amazon Data

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, April 2000, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  95. Use of a Coupled Land Surface General Circulation Model to Examine the Impacts of Doubled Stomatal Resistance on the Water Resources of the American Southwest

    Article • Journal of Climate, December 1999, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  96. One-dimensional snow water and energy balance model for vegetated surfaces

    Article • Hydrological Processes, October 1999, Wiley

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  97. Simulation of snow mass and extent in general circulation models

    Article • Hydrological Processes, September 1999, Wiley

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  98. The Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parameterization Schemes (PILPS) phase 2(c) Red–Arkansas River basin experiment:

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, December 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Qingyun Duan, Prof. Yeugeniy Gusev, Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  99. The Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parameterization Schemes (PILPS) Phase 2(c) Red–Arkansas River basin experiment:

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, December 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Qingyun Duan, Prof. Yeugeniy Gusev, Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  100. The Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parameterization Schemes (PILPS) phase 2(c) Red-Arkansas River basin experiment:

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, December 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Qingyun Duan, Prof. Yeugeniy Gusev, Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  101. Treatment of soil, vegetation and snow in land surface models: a test of the Biosphere–Atmosphere Transfer Scheme with the HAPEX-MOBILHY, ABRACOS and Russian data

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, December 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  102. Validation of the Snow Submodel of the Biosphere–Atmosphere Transfer Scheme with Russian Snow Cover and Meteorological Observational Data

    Article • Journal of Climate, February 1997, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  103. Surface flux measurement and modeling at a semi-arid Sonoran Desert site

    Article • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, December 1996, Elsevier

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  104. Description of the Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme (BATS) for the Soil Moisture Workshop and evaluation of its performance

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, June 1996, Elsevier

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  105. Modeling vadose zone liquid water fluxes: Infiltration, runoff, drainage, interflow

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, June 1996, Elsevier

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang

  106. Sub-grid scale precipitation in ALCMs: re-assessing the land surface sensitivity using a single column model

    Article • Climate Dynamics, October 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Zong-Liang Yang