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  1. Leveraging additional VIIRS information to improve wildfire tracking in the western US

    Article • Remote Sensing of Environment, March 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Yang Chen

  2. Fire emission abatement potential by shifting fire regimes in global savannas: a reassessment using the fifth version of the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED5)

    Article • International Journal of Wildland Fire, February 2026, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr Yang Chen

  3. Amplified Arctic–boreal fire regimes from permafrost thaw feedbacks

    Article • Nature Geoscience, January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yang Chen, Professor Jan Hjort

  4. Multi-ignition fire complexes drive extreme fire years and impacts

    Article • Science Advances, January 2026, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Yang Chen

  5. Landscape fire emissions from the 5th version of the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED5)

    Article • Scientific Data, November 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yang Chen

  6. Near real-time indicators of burn severity in the western U.S. from active fire tracking

    Article • Fire Ecology, October 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yang Chen

  7. Simulating Pyrocumulonimbus Clouds Using a Multiscale Wildfire Simulation Framework

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, September 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Yang Chen

  8. Global warming amplifies wildfire health burden and reshapes inequality

    Article • Nature, September 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yang Chen

  9. ELM2.1-XGBfire1.0: improving wildfire prediction by integrating a machine learning fire model in a land surface model

    Article • Geoscientific Model Development, July 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  10. Burned area and fire emissions according to the fifth version of the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED)

    Article • January 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  11. What makes a fire grow extremely large?

    Article • January 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  12. Enhanced CH4 emissions from global wildfires likely due to undetected small fires

    Article • Nature Communications, January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yang Chen

  13. Global burned area increasingly explained by climate change

    Article • Nature Climate Change, October 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yang Chen

  14. Spatial variability in Arctic–boreal fire regimes influenced by environmental and human factors

    Article • Nature Geoscience, September 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yang Chen

  15. ML4Fire-XGBv1.0: Improving North American wildfire prediction by integrating a machine-learning fire model in a land surface model

    Article • August 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  16. Remote sensing for wildfire monitoring: Insights into burned area, emissions, and fire dynamics

    Article • One Earth, June 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Yang Chen

  17. Systematically tracking the hourly progression of large wildfires using GOES satellite observations

    Article • Earth System Science Data, March 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  18. Spatial variability in Arctic-boreal pyroregions shaped by climate and human influence

    Article • February 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yang Chen

  19. GloCAB: global cropland burned area from mid-2002 to 2020

    Article • Earth System Science Data, February 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  20. Multi-decadal trends and variability in burned area from the fifth version of the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED5)

    Article • Earth System Science Data, November 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  21. Systematically tracking the hourly progression of large wildfires using GOES satellite observations

    Article • September 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  22. Evidence for multi-decadal fuel buildup in a large California wildfire from smoke radiocarbon measurements

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, August 2023, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Yang Chen

  23. Attention-Based Wildland Fire Spread Modeling Using Fire-Tracking Satellite Observations

    Article • Fire, July 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Yang Chen

  24. GloCAB: Global Cropland Burned Area from Mid-2002 to 2020

    Article • June 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  25. Supplementary material to "GloCAB: Global Cropland Burned Area from Mid-2002 to 2020"

    Article • June 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  26. Multi-decadal trends and variability in burned area from the 5th version of the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED5)

    Article • May 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  27. Supplementary material to "Multi-decadal trends and variability in burned area from the 5th version of the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED5)"

    Article • May 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  28. A global model for estimating fuel consumption and fire carbon emissions at 500-m spatial resolution

    Article • May 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  29. Circumpolar patterns of arctic-boreal fire activity

    Article • May 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  30. Record-high CO 2 emissions from boreal fires in 2021

    Article • Science, March 2023, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Yang Chen

  31. Global biomass burning fuel consumption and emissions at 500 m spatial resolution based on the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED)

    Article • Geoscientific Model Development, November 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  32. Tracking and classifying Amazon fire events in near real time

    Article • Science Advances, July 2022, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Yang Chen

  33. California wildfire spread derived using VIIRS satellite observations and an object-based tracking system

    Article • Scientific Data, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yang Chen

  34. Future increases in lightning ignition efficiency and wildfire occurrence expected from drier fuels in boreal forest ecosystems of western North America

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, April 2022, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Yang Chen

  35. Evidence for a stronger global impact of fire on atmospheric composition

    Article • March 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  36. Development of an arctic-boreal fire atlas using Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite active fire data

    Article • March 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  37. Climate influence on the 2019 fires in Amazonia

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, November 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Yang Chen

  38. Increasing forest fire emissions despite the decline in global burned area

    Article • Science Advances, September 2021, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Yang Chen

  39. The influence of fire aerosols on surface climate and gross primary production in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM)

    Article • Journal of Climate, June 2021, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Yang Chen

  40. Future increases in Arctic lightning and fire risk for permafrost carbon

    Article • Nature Climate Change, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yang Chen

  41. The role of fire in global forest loss dynamics

    Article • Global Change Biology, March 2021, Wiley

    Dr Yang Chen

  42. Forecasting Global Fire Emissions on Subseasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Time Scales

    Article • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, September 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Yang Chen

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

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  44. Fire - climate interactions in a warming world

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  45. 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

  46. 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

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

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

    Dr Yang Chen

  48. 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

  49. 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

  50. 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

  51. 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

  52. 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

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

    Article • Nature Climate Change, November 2017, Nature

    Dr Yang Chen

  54. Global fire emissions estimates during 1997–2016

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

    Dr Yang Chen

  55. A human-driven decline in global burned area

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

    Dr Yang Chen

  56. Global fire emissions estimates during 1997–2015

    Article • January 2017, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  57. 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

  58. 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

  59. 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

  60. 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

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

    Article • Biogeosciences, January 2013, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Chen

  62. 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

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

    Article • Nature Climate Change, August 2012, Nature

    Dr Yang Chen

  64. Estimated Global Mortality Attributable to Smoke from Landscape Fires

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

    Dr Yang Chen

  65. 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

  66. 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

  67. 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

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

    Article • Global Change Biology, June 2010, Wiley

    Dr Yang Chen

  69. 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, Dr Ralph A Kahn

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

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

    Dr Yang Chen

  71. 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

  72. 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

  73. 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

  74. 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

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

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

    Dr Yang Chen

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

    Article • January 2004, Nature

    Dr Yang Chen