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- Ph.D., Geography, Boston
University, USA, 2002
- M.Sc., Meteorology, Nanjing
Institute of Meteorology, P.R. China
- B.Sc., Meteorology, Nanjing
Institute of Meteorology, P.R. China
- Chancellor’s Excellence Award
in Research and Creative Activities, 2024
- President’s Excellence Award
in Research and Creative Activities, 2023
- Director's Award for Collaborative Integration, NSF, 2009
- NASA Earth System Science Fellow, NASA, 1999-2001
- Professor, SUNY
Albany, USA, 2019-present
- Associate
Professor, SUNY Albany, USA, 2012-2018
- Research Associate
Professor, SUNY Albany, USA, 2011-2012
- Program
Director/Associate Program Director, Climate and Large-Scale Dynamics,
NSF, USA, 2008-2011
- Research Scientist, Georgia Institute of
Technology, USA, 2002-2008
- Weather Forecaster, Central Meteorological Observatory,
China, 1994-1998
- Research assistant, Open Lab. for Weather Forecast,
National Meteorological Center, China, 1994-1998
- Climate change and variability over subtropical deserts
- Climate change and it impact on tropical rainforests
- Renewable wind energy and its impacts on weather and
climate
- Land-human-atmosphere/climate interactions
- Remote sensing and its applications in land surface and
climate modeling
- Remote sensing of vegetation dynamics and vegetation
- Review manuscripts for top-notch geophysical journals including Nature and its family journals, PNAS, AGU
journals, AMS journals and other international journals
- Review proposals submitted to
NASA and NSF
- Editorial Board
member in Scientific Reports, 2016-
- Editorial Board
member in Remote Sensing, 2016-
- Selected
Recent Publications Since 2000 (out of 121 peer-referred journal
papers)
- Zhou, L., Hua, W., Nicholson, S., Clark, J.P., Interannual
teleconnections in the Sahara temperatures associated with the North
Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) during boreal winter, Climate Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-023-06962-w,
62, 1123-1143, 2024.
- Zhang, S., Zhou, L., Zhang, L.,
Yang, Y., Yang, D., Wei, Z., Zhou, S., Yang, D., Yang, X., Wu, X., Zhang, Y.,
Li, X., and Dai, Y., Reconcile
disagreement on global rive flood change in a warming climate. Nature Climate Change,
12, 1160-1167. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01539-7. 2022.
- Zhao, G., Li, Y., Zhou, L., Gao, H., Evaporative
water loss of 1.42 million global lakes. NCOMMS-21-24284, Nat
Commun 13, 3686. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31125-6, 2022.
- Zhou, L., Tian, Y., Wei, N., Ho, S-P., Li, J., Rising
planetary boundary layer height over the Sahara Desert and Arabian
Peninsula in a warming climate, Journal of Climate, 34(10),
4043-4068,
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/34/10/JCLI-D-20-0645.1.xml.
- Zhou, L., Diurnal
asymmetry of desert amplification and its possible connections to
planetary boundary layer height: a case study for the Arabian Peninsula,
Climate Dynamics, 56, 3131-3156
(2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-05634-x, 2021.
- Zhou, L., Baidya
Roy, S., and Xia, G., Weather,
climatic and ecological impacts of onshore wind farms, in Comprehensive Renewable Energy, Second
Edition, edited by Letcher, L., Elsevier, ISBN: 9780124095489.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819727-1.00018-2),
2020.
- Jiang, Y., Zhou, L.,
Tucker, C.J., Raghavendra, A., Hua, W., and Liu, Y.Y., and
Joiner, J., Widespread
Increase of boreal summer dry season length over the Congo rainforest,
Nature Climate Change,
9, 617-622,
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0512-y, 2019.
- Li, Y., Piao, S., Li, L.Z.X.,
Chen, A., Wang, X., Ciais, P., Huang, L., Lian, X., Peng, S., Zeng, Z.,
Wang, K., and Zhou,
L., Divergent
hydrological response to large-scale afforestation and vegetation
greening in China, Science Advances, 4(5), eaar418,
2018.
- Zeng, Z., Piao, S., Li, L.Z.X., Zhou, L., Ciais, P., Wang, T.,
Li, Y., Lian, X., Wood, E.F., Friedlingstein,
P., Mao, J., Estes, L.D., Myneni, R.B., Peng, S., Shi, X., Seneviratne,
S.I. and Wang, Y., Climate mitigation
from vegetation biophysical feedbacks during the past three decades,
Nature Climate
Change, 7, 432-436,
doi:10.1038/nclimate3299, 2017.
- Zhou, L., Desert
amplification in a warming climate, Scientific
Reports 6, 31065; doi: 10.1038/srep31065, 2016 (supporting
info).
- Zhou, L., Chen, H., Hua, W., Dai, Y., and Wei,
N., Mechanisms for stronger
warming over drier ecoregions observed since 1979, Climate Dynamics, 47(9), 2955-2974,
DOI 10.1007/s00382-016-3007-9, 2016.
- Zhou, L., Chen, H. and Dai, Y., Stronger
warming amplification over drier ecoregions observed since 1979, Environ. Res. Lett. 10,
064012, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/10/6/064012, 2015 (supporting
info)
- Shen, M., Piao, S., Jeong, S-J., Zhou, L., Zeng,
Z., Ciais, P., Cheng, D., Huang, M., Jin,
C-S., Li, L.Z.X., Li, Y., Myneni, R.B., Yang, K., Zhang, G., Zhang,Y., and Yao, T., Evaporative cooling over the Tibetan
Plateau induced by vegetation growth, Proc.
Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 112(30),
9299-9304, doi/10.1073/pnas.1504418112, 2015.
- Zhou, L., Tian,
Y., Myneni, R.B., Ciais, P., Saatchi, S., Liu, Y.Y., Piao, S., Chen,
H., Vermote, E.F., Song, C. and Hwang, T., Widespread
decline of Congo rainforest greenness in the last decade, Nature, 509, 86-90, DOI: 10.1038/nature13265, 2014 (supporting
info, Q&A, press
released by Nature, NASA, and UAlbany).
- Peng, S., Piao, S., Zeng, Z., Ciais,
P., Zhou, L., Li, L., Myneni, R.B., Yin, Y. and Zeng, H., Afforestation in China cools local land
surface temperature, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 111 (8),
2915-2919, 2014.
- Zhou, L., Tian, Y.,
Chen, H., Dai, Y. and Harris, R.A, Effects
of topography on assessing wind farm impacts using MODIS data, Earth
Interactions,17 (13), 1-18,
2013
- 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,
41 (2),
307-326, DOI 10.1007/s00382-012-1485-y, 2013.
- 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
released by Nature, NSF, NASA, and UAlbany)
- 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, 35(7), 1289-1307, 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, 32, 429-440, 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 GT).
- 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).
- 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).
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