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- Ph.D., Geography, Boston
University, USA, 2002
- M.Sc., Meteorology, Nanjing
Institute of Meteorology, P.R. China, 1994
- B.Sc., Meteorology, Nanjing
Institute of Meteorology, P.R. China, 1991
- Director’s Award for Collaborative Integration, NSF, 2009
- NASA Earth System Science Fellow, NASA, 1999-2001
- Associate
Professor, SUNY Albany, USA, 09/2012-present
- Research Associate
Professor, SUNY Albany, USA, 09/2011-08/2012
- Program
Director/Associate Program Director, Climate and Large-Scale Dynamics,
National Science Foundation, USA, 02/2008-07/2011
- Senior Research scientist, Georgia Institute of
Technology, USA, 11/2007-01/2008
- Physical scientist, IMSG at NOAA/NESDIS/STAR,
USA, 07/2007-11/2007
- Research Scientist II, Georgia Institute of Technology,
USA, 02/2004-07/2007
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA,
12/2001-01/2004
- Weather forecaster, the Central Meteorological Observatory,
China, 06/1994-08/1998
- Research assistant, Open Lab. for Weather Forecast,
National Meteorological Center, China, 06/1994-08/1998
- Impact of land cover and land use changes on climate
- Application of remote sensing data in land surface modeling
- Remote sensing of vegetation dynamics and
vegetation-climate interactions
- Weather forecast techniques and operational systems
- Numerical weather prediction in mesoscale
systems
- Theoretical research and operational forecasts of tropical
cyclones
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Paper reviewer of 23
leading geophysical journals including Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences USA, Nature Climate Change, AGU journals, AMS journals and
other international journals
- Proposal reviewer of National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA),National
Science Foundation(NSF), SRON National Institute for
Space Research
- Selected
Recent Publications
- Zhou, L., Tian, Y., Baidya
Roy, S., Dai,
Y. and Chen, H., Diurnal
and seasonal variations of wind farm impacts on land surface
temperature over Western Texas, Climate
Dynamics, DOI
10.1007/s00382-012-1485-y, 2012
- Zhou, L., Tian, Y., Baidya
Roy, S., Thorncroft, C., Bosart,
L.F., and Hu, Y., Impacts
of wind farms on land surface temperature, Nature Climate Change,
2,539–543, 2012 (supporting
info, Q&A,
press
release)
- Zhou, L., R.
E. Dickinson, A. Dai, and P. Dirmeyer, Detection and attribution of anthropogenic
forcing to diurnal temperature range changes from 1950 to 1999: Comparing
multi-model simulations with observations, Climate Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0644-2, 2010
- Zhou, L., R. E. Dickinson, P. Dirmeyer, A. Dai,
and S.-K. Min, Spatiotemporal patterns of changes
in maximum and minimum temperatures in multi-model simulations, Geophy. Res. Lett.,36,
L02702, doi:10.1029/2008GL036141, 2009.
- Zhou, L., Dai, A., Dai, Y., Vose, R.S, Zou, C-Z., Tian, Y., and
Chen, H., Spatial patterns of diurnal
temperature range trends on precipitation from 1950 to 2004, Climate Dynamics, DOI
10.1007/s00382-008-0387-5, 2009.
- Zhou, L., Dickinson, R.E., Tian, Y., Chen, H.,
and Dai, Y., Asymmetric response of maximum
and minimum temperatures to soil emissivity change over the Northern
African Sahel in a GCM, Geophy. Res. Lett., 35, L05402, doi:10.1029/2007GL032953,
2008.
- A
contributing author, Chapter 7:
Couplings Between Changes in the Climate
System and Biogeochemistry in The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report:
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis, 2007 (SBN
978-0-521-88009-1).
- Zhou, L., Dickinson, R.E., Tian, Y., and Vose, R.S., Impact
of vegetation removal and soil aridation on
diurnal temperature range in a semiarid region – Application to the
Sahel, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA,
104 (46), 17937-17942, 2007.
- Zhou, L., Kaufmann, R.K., Tucker, C.J., Myneni,
R.B., The Green Wave in Our
Changing Planet: The View from Space, edited by King, M.,
Parkinson, C., Partington, K.C., and
Williams, R.G., Cambridge University Press, 2007 (ISBN-13:
9780521828703).
- Zhou, L., R.E. Dickinson, and Y. Tian, Derivation of a soil albedo dataset from MODIS
using principal component analysis - Norther
Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Geophy. Res. Lett.,
32, L21407, doi:10.1029/2005GL024448, 2005.
- Zhou, L., R.E. Dickinson, Y. Tian, J. Fang, Q.
Li, R.K. Kaufmann, C.J. Tucker, and R.B. Myneni,
Evidence for a significant urbanization
effect on climate in China, Proc.
Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., 101(26), 9540-9544, 2004 (Press released by Georgia Tech:
“Heating Up: Study Shows Rapid Urbanization in China Warming the
Regional Climate Faster than Other Urban Area”).
- Zhou, L., Dickinson, R.E., Tian, Y., Jin, M.,
Ogawa, K., Yu, H., and Schmugge, T., A sensitivity study of climate and energy
balance simulations with use of satellite derived emissivity data over the
northern Africa and the Arabian peninsula. J. Geophys. Res., 108(D24), 4795,
doi:10.1029/2003JD004083, 2003.
- Zhou, L., Dickinson, R.E., Ogawa, K., Tian, Y.,
Jin, M., Schmugge, T., and Tsvetsinskaya, E., Relations
Between Albedos and Emissivities
from MODIS and ASTER Data Over North African Desert. Geophy. Res. Lett.,
30 (20), 2026, doi:10.1029/2003GL018069, 2003.
- Zhou, L., Dickinson, R.E., Tian, Y., Zeng, X., Dai, Y., Yang, Z., Schaaf,
C.B., Gao, F., Jin, Y., Strahler,
A., Myneni, R.B., Yu, H., Wu, W., and Shaikh, M., Comparison
of seasonal and spatial variations of albedos from Moderate-Resolution
Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Common
Land Model. J. Geophys. Res., 108(D15), 4488, doi:10.1029/2002JD003326, 2003.
- Zhou, L., Kaufmann, R.K., Tian, Y., Myneni, R.B, and Tucker, C.J., Relation between interannual
variations in satellite measures of vegetation greenness and climate
between 1982 and 1999. J. Geophys. Res.,108
(D1), 10.1029/2002JD002510, 2003.
- Zhou, L., Tucker, C.J., Kaufmann, R.K., Slayback,
D., Shabanov, N.V, and Myneni,
R.B., Variations in northern vegetation
activity inferred from satellite data of vegetation index during 1981
to 1999. J. Geophys.
Res., 106, 20069-20083, 2001 (Press released by
NASA-HQ, NASA-GSFC, AGU and BU: “Earth is Becoming
a Greener Greenhouse”).
- Myneni, R.B, Dong, J., Tucker,
C.J., Kaufmann, R.K., Kauppi, P.E., Liski, J. Zhou,
L., Alexeyev, V., and Huges,
M.K., A large carbon sink in the woody biomass of northern forests. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 98(26),
14784-14789, 2001 (Press released by
NASA-HQ, EFI and BU: “A large carbon sink in the woody biomass of
northern forests”).
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