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Professor Yuyu ZHOU  周宇宇 教授

Professor

Room 10.28

3917 7109

yuyuzhou@hku.hk

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Professor Yuyu Zhou earned his BS and MS degrees from Beijing Normal University and Ph.D degree from University of Rhode Island. Prior to his current position, he held roles as a research scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and a professor at the Iowa State University. His research focuses on urban environmental change and potential solutions, utilizing geospatial technologies including remote sensing, GIS, geovisualization, spatial analytic tools, and integrated assessment modeling. He has published over 180 papers in prestigious journals such as Energy & Environmental Science and PNAS. He serves as the Chief Editor of Earth System Science Data and Associate Editor of Ecological Processes, and has been recognized as a 2022 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate.

Research Interests

  • Urbanization mapping and modeling

  • Urban heat island

  • Urban energy use and emissions

  • Urban phenology

  • Urban air pollution

  • Urban sustainability

  • Water-energy-food nexus

  • Climate change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability

Courses

GEOG2090

Introduction to Geographic Information Systems #

6

credits

Annual; 1st Semester

Selected Publications

2025

  • Tang, X., Yu, G., Li, X., Taubenböck, H., Hu, G., Zhou, Y.,…Gong, P. (2025). A flexible framework for built-up height mapping using ICESat-2 photons and multisource satellite observations. Remote sensing of environment, 318, 114572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114572

  • Lao, Z., Fu, B., Sun, W., Wang, Y., Zhou, Y., He, H.,…Gao, E. (2025). A novel constrained spectral matching approach for extending UAV multispectral reflectance measurements and estimating nitrogen and phosphorus contents in wetland vegetation species. Plant Phenomics, 100059.

  • Cui, Y., Chen, S., Gong, Y., Li, M., Jia, Z., Zhou, Y., & Fu, Y. H. (2025). A vegetation phenology dataset developed by integrating multiple sources using the reliability ensemble averaging method. Earth system science data, 17(8), 4005-4022. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-4005-2025

  • Yu, L., Liu, T., Tu, Y., Chen, X., Du, Z., Wu, H.,…Peng, D. (2025). Afforestation on Abandoned Croplands in China Has the Potential to Increase Carbon Sequestration by half.

  • Liu, T., Yu, L., Chen, J., Qi, W., Wu, H., Peng, D.,…Zhou, Y. (2025). Afforestation Surpasses Abandonment in the Recovery of Post‐Agricultural Soil Organic Carbon in China as Estimated by Machine Learning Models. Global change biology, 31(8), e70383-n/a. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70383

  • Geng, M., Li, X., Liu, S., Yu, G., Zhou, Y., & Gong, P. (2025). An efficient method for aurora and noise reduction with a harmonized nighttime light dataset. Remote sensing of environment, 328, 114891. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2025.114891

  • Guo, F., Dai, F., Gong, P., & Zhou, Y. (2025). CHN-CH4: a gridded (0.1°×0.1°) anthropogenic methane emission inventory of China from 1990 to 2020. Earth system science data, 17(9), 4799-4819. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-4799-2025

  • Li, D., Sun, L., Feng, K., Zhang, N., Yu, Y., Zhao, D., & Zhou, Y. (2025). Disproportionate flood exposure for slum populations of the Global South. Nature Cities, 2(7), 626-638. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-025-00273-3

  • Yu, Z., Li, S., Yang, W., Chen, J., Rahman, M. A., Wang, C.,…Zhou, W. (2025). Enhancing Climate-Driven Urban Tree Cooling with Targeted Nonclimatic Interventions. Environmental science & technology, 59(18), 9082-9092. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c14275

  • Wang, H., Zhang, X., Du, S., Zhou, Y., Wu, D., Wang, Q.,…Xiong, S. (2025). Gap dynamics in the US between urban areas in the current trend and in sustainable scenario. Geography and Sustainability, 6(1), 100217.

  • Yu, Z., Ma, W., Hu, J., Yang, G., Liu, H., Zhou, Y.,…Zhou, W. (2025). Greening dominates greenspace exposure inequality in Chinese cities. npj Urban Sustainability, 5(1), 73-79. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-025-00253-5

  • Zhang, D., Zhu, Z., Mao, H., Yu, R., Botterud, A., Davidson, M.,…Su, B. (2025). Integrated Planning of Net-Zero Power Systems for All.

  • Carlen, E. J., Caizergues, A. E., Jagiello, Z., Kuzyo, H., Munshi-South, J., Alberti, M.,…Szulkin, M. (2025). Legacy effects of religion, politics and war on urban evolutionary biology. Nature Cities, 2(7), 593-602. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-025-00249-3

  • Hu, J., Zhou, Y., Yang, Y., Zhu, Z., Yang, J., Meng, X., & Lai, F. (2025). Multi-city local climate zone mapping and its quantitative applications on measuring surface urban heat Island in China. Remote sensing of environment, 330, 114965. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2025.114965

  • Zheng, Q., Zeng, Y., Zhou, Y., Wang, Z., Mu, T., & Weng, Q. (2025). Nighttime lights reveal substantial spatial heterogeneity and inequality in post-hurricane recovery. Remote sensing of environment, 319, 114645. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2025.114645

  • Liu, X., Hao, M., Zhou, Y., Zhang, Y., Xu, Z., Liu, X.,…Yao, Y. (2025). Projections of Heat-Related Mortality in Chinese Cities: The Roles of Climate Change, Urbanization, Socioeconomic Adaptation, and Landscape-Level Strategies. Environmental health perspectives, 133(6), 67011-67014. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP15010

  • Yao, H., Fu, B., Sun, W., Zhou, Y., Wang, Y., Jiang, W.,…Song, Y. (2025). Quantifying key indicators of essential biodiversity variables for mangrove species in response to hydro-meteorological factors. International journal of applied earth observation and geoinformation, 139, 104535. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2025.104535

  • Zhu, Y., Myint, S. W., Schaffer-Smith, D., Tong, D., Zhou, Y., Li, Y., & Muenich, R. L. (2025). Rising Environmental Inequalities and Their Relationship to Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in the US Southwest. Environmental science & technology, 59(33), 17534-17544. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c14369

  • Luo, W.-R., Che, H.-Z., Miao, S.-G., Dou, J.-X., Zheng, Y.-Q., Zhou, Y.-Y.,…Zhang, X.-Y. (2025). Simulation of CO2 flux and evaluation of carbon neutrality potential at the neighborhood scale in Beijing with multi-source data. Advances in climate change research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accre.2025.06.008

  • Zhang, X., LeDuc, S. D., Kim, S., Dale, B. E., Zhao, K., Zhou, Y.,…Moglen, G. E. (2025). Soil erosion and lateral carbon fluxes from corn stover-derived biofuel. Scientific reports, 15(1), 18315-18319. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-99218-y

  • Su, Q., Wang, Y., Yang, Y., Zhou, Y., Wan, B., Zong, L.,…Yuan, Q. (2025). Space-time deep hybrid boosting learning for investigating day-night hourly seamless air temperature distribution from FY-4A over China. Journal of hydrology (Amsterdam), 663, 134245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.134245

  • Yang, J., Li, Z., Zhou, Y., Bai, X., Xin, J., Kang, X.,…Li, X. (2025). Systematic overestimation of urban Parks’ cooling effects may mislead heat-governance-oriented park planning. Landscape and urban planning, 264, 105467. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105467

  • Yang, Y., Jiang, B., Wang, L., Zhou, Y., Li, B., & Gong, P. (2025). Thinking beyond general greenness: The nuanced associations between a variety of greenspaces and cardiovascular diseases across urbanicity. Landscape and urban planning, 253, 105223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105223

  • Wu, Z., Zohner, C. M., Zhou, Y., Crowther, T. W., Wang, H., Wang, Y.,…Fu, Y. H. (2025). Tree species composition governs urban phenological responses to warming. Nature communications, 16(1), 3696-3611. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58927-8

  • Yang, Z., Li, Z., Cheng, F., Lv, Q., Li, K., Zhang, T.,…Wei, J. (2025). Two-decade surface ozone (O3) pollution in China: Enhanced fine-scale estimations and environmental health implications. Remote sensing of environment, 317, 114459. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114459

  • Cheng, Y., Zhao, L., Chakraborty, T. C., Oleson, K., Demuzere, M., Liu, X.,…Li, X. C. (2025a). U-Surf: a global 1 km spatially continuous urban surface property dataset for kilometer-scale urban-resolving Earth system modeling. Earth system science data, 17(5), 2147-2174. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2147-2025

  • Cheng, Y., Zhao, L., Chakraborty, T. C., Oleson, K., Demuzere, M., Liu, X.,…Li, X. C. (2025b). U-Surf: a global 1 km spatially continuous urban surface property dataset for kilometer-scale urban-resolving Earth system modeling. Earth system science data, 17(5), 2147-2174. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2147-2025

  • Fu, P., Myint, S. W., Zheng, Z., Zhou, Y., & Han, F. (2025). Urbanization and the Environment: Data, Models, and Applications II Oral. AGU25,

  • Wang, Y., Zhou, Y., Zhang, X., Franz, K. J., & Jia, G. (2025). Water regulation mitigates but does not eliminate water scarcity under rapid economic growth in the Haihe River basin. Resources, conservation and recycling, 215, 108098. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.108098

2024

  • Hu, J., Zhou, Y. and Zhu, Z. (2024). "1-meter Heat Exposure Mapping and its Impacts on Urban Environments during Heat Waves." AGU24. 
    Wu, C., Hua, H., Wang, J., Dong, L., Zohner, C., Penuelas, J., . . . Ge, Q. (2024). Air pollution weakens global spring greening, Springer Science and Business Media LLC.  DOI:https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3868370/v1

  • Wang, F., Xu, Y., Patel, P. N., Gautam, R., Gao, M., Liu, C., . . . McElroy, M. B. (2024). "Arctic amplification–induced decline in West and South Asia dust warrants stronger antidesertification toward carbon neutrality." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121(14). DOI:https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2317444121

  • Shen, P., Wang, X., Zohner, C. M., Peñuelas, J., Zhou, Y., Tang, Z., . . . Wu, C. (2024). "Biodiversity buffers the response of spring leaf unfolding to climate warming." Nature Climate Change 14(8): 863-868. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02035-w

  • Wei, S., Zhang, H., Xu, Z., Lin, G., Lin, Y., Liang, X., . . . Gong, P. (2024). "Coastal urbanization may indirectly positively impact growth of mangrove forests." Communications Earth & Environment 5(1). DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01776-y

  • Li, H., Zhou, Y., Zhao, X., Zhang, X. and Liang, S. (2024). "A dataset of 0.05-degree leaf area index in China during 1983–2100 based on deep learning network." Scientific Data 11(1). DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03948-z

  • Li, Y., Wulder, M. A., Zhu, Z., Verbesselt, J., Masiliūnas, D., Liu, Y., . . . Zhao, K. (2024). "DRMAT: A multivariate algorithm for detecting breakpoints in multispectral time series." Remote Sensing of Environment 315: 114402. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114402

  • Xia, H., Qiao, L., Guo, Y., Ru, X., Qin, Y., Zhou, Y. and Wu, C. (2024). "Enhancing phenology modeling through the integration of artificial light at night effects." Remote Sensing of Environment 303: 113997. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.113997

  • Li, X. C., Zhao, L., Oleson, K., Zhou, Y., Qin, Y., Zhang, K. and Fang, B. (2024). "Enhancing Urban Climate-Energy Modeling in the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Through Explicit Representation of Urban Air-Conditioning Adoption." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 16(4): e2023MS004107. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1029/2023MS004107

  • Zhang, T., Li, B., Yuan, Y., Gao, X., Zhou, J., Jiang, Y., . . . Zhou, Y. (2024). "Enhancing vegetation formation classification: Integrating coarse-scale traditional mapping knowledge and advanced machine learning." Science of The Total Environment 923: 171477. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171477

  • Zhang, X., LeDuc, S. D., Kim, S., Dale, B., Zhao, K., Zhou, Y., . . . Moglen, G. (2024). "Erosion-Induced Lateral Carbon Fluxes: A Key but Uncertain Factor in Corn Stover Biofuel Carbon Balance." AGU24.

  • Ma, X., Zheng, G., Xu, C., Moskal, L. M., Gong, P., Guo, Q., . . . Zhou, Y. (2024). "A global product of 150-m urban building height based on spaceborne lidar." Scientific Data 11(1). DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-04237-5

  • Zhao, X., Zhou, Y., Li, X., Zhang, T., Wang, Y., Zhu, Z., . . . Li, D. (2024). "Improving assessment of population exposure and health impacts to PM 2.5 with high spatial and temporal data." GIScience & Remote Sensing 61(1). DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/15481603.2024.2388921

  • Chen, W., Zhou, Y., Passe, U., Zhang, T., Wang, C., Asrar, G. R., . . . Li, H. (2024). "Improving estimation of diurnal land surface temperatures by integrating weather modeling with satellite observations." Remote Sensing of Environment 315: 114393. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114393

  • Urban, M. C., Alberti, M., De Meester, L., Zhou, Y., Verrelli, B. C., Szulkin, M., . . . Brans, K. I. (2024). "Interactions between climate change and urbanization will shape the future of biodiversity." Nature Climate Change 14(5): 436-447. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-01996-2

  • Chen, W., Zhou, Y., Stokes, E. C. and Zhang, X. (2024). "Large-scale urban building function mapping by integrating multi-source web-based geospatial data." Geo-spatial Information Science 27(6): 1785-1799. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/10095020.2023.2264342

  • Wang, F., Shaheen, A., Yousefi, R., Ge, Q., Wu, R., Lelieveld, J., . . . Zhou, Y. (2024). "Long-Term Dynamics of Atmospheric Sulfur Dioxide in Urban and Rural Regions of China: Urbanization and Policy Impacts." Remote Sensing 16(2). DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16020391

  • Luo, J., Cao, W., Li, X., Zhou, Y., He, S., Zhang, Z., . . . Zhang, H. (2024). "Mapping Annual Tidal Flat Loss and Gain in the Micro-Tidal Area Integrating Dual Full-Time Series Spectral Indices." Remote Sensing 16(8): 1402. DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16081402

  • McManamay, R., Zhou, Y., Yao, L., Narayan, K. and Sweet-Breu, L. T. (2024). Multisector Dynamics: Advances in Global-to-Regional Land Use and Land Cover Change Modeling II Oral. AGU24, AGU.

  • Savage, A. M., Willmott, M. J., Moreno-García, P., Jagiello, Z., Li, D., Malesis, A., . . . Gotanda, K. M. (2024). "Online toolkits for collaborative and inclusive global research in urban evolutionary ecology." Ecology and Evolution 14(6): e11633. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11633

  • Mu, H., Guo, S., Li, X., Zhou, Y., Lü, Y., Du, X., . . . Du, P. (2024). "Quantifying landscape connectivity gaps between protected area and natural habitat." Journal of Cleaner Production 437: 140729. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.140729

  • Xu, D., Bai, T., Yang, L., Zhou, Y., Chen, B., Xu, H., . . . Ciais, P. (2024). "Quantifying the Cooling Effect of Urban Greening Driven by Ecological Restoration Projects in China." Environmental Science & Technology 58(47): 20990-21001. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c10314

  • Chen, G., Zhou, Y., Voogt, J. A. and Stokes, E. C. (2024). "Remote sensing of diverse urban environments: From the single city to multiple cities." Remote Sensing of Environment 305: 114108. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114108

  • Myint, S. W., Zhu, Y., Schaffer-Smith, D., Tong, D., Zhou, Y., Li, Y. and Muenich, R. L. (2024). "Rising environmental inequalities and their relationship to racial and socioeconomic disparities in the US Southwest." AGU24.

  • Xu, W., Zhou, Y., Taubenböck, H., Stokes, E. C., Zhu, Z., Lai, F., . . . Zhao, X. (2024). "Spatially explicit downscaling and projection of population in mainland China." Science of The Total Environment 941: 173623. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173623

  • Yoo, J., Eom, J. and Zhou, Y. (2024). "Thermal comfort and retail sales: A big data analysis of extreme temperature's impact on brick-and-mortar stores." Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services 77: 103699. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2023.103699

  • Wang, Y., Mao, J., Brelsford, C. M., Ricciuto, D. M., Yuan, F., Shi, X., . . . Thornton, P. E. (2024). "Thermal, water, and land cover factors led to contrasting urban and rural vegetation resilience to extreme hot months." PNAS Nexus 3(4). DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae147

  • Cheng, Y., Zhao, L., Chakraborty, T., Oleson, K., Demuzere, M., Liu, X., . . . Li, X. (2024). U-Surf: A Global 1 km spatially continuous urban surface property dataset for kilometer-scale urban-resolving Earth system modeling, Copernicus GmbH.  DOI:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2024-416

  • Yin, P., Li, X., Zhou, Y., Mao, J., Fu, Y. H., Cao, W., . . . Guo, J. (2024). "Urbanization effects on the spatial patterns of spring vegetation phenology depend on the climatic background." Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 345: 109718. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109718

  • Cui, Y., Chen, S., Gong, Y., Li, M., Jia, Z., Zhou, Y. and Fu, Y. H. (2024). A vegetation phenology dataset by integrating multiple sources using the Reliability Ensemble Averaging method, Copernicus GmbH.  DOI:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2024-225

2023

  • Chen, W., Y. Zhou*, E. C. Stokes, & X. Zhang (2023). Large-scale urban building function mapping by integrating multi-source web-based geospatial data. Geo-spatial Information Science, 1-15.

  • Wang, C., J. Song, D. Shi, J. L. Reyna, H. Horsey, S. Feron, Y. Zhou, Z. Ouyang, Y. Li and R. B. Jackson (2023). Impacts of climate change, population growth, and power sector decarbonization on urban building energy use. Nature Communications 14(1): 6434.

  • Xu, H., Y. Zhou*, Y. Wei, H. Guo, & X. Li. (2023). A Multirule-Based Relative Radiometric Normalization for Multisensor Satellite Images. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 20, 1-5.

  • Wang, S., A. Cescatti, Y. Zhang, Y. Zhou, L. Song, & J. Li. (2023). Global enhanced vegetation photosynthesis in urban environment and its drivers revealed by satellite solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence data. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 340, 109622.

  • Wang, Y., X. Li, P. Yin, G. Yu, W. Cao, J. Liu, L. Pei, T. Hu, Y. Zhou, X. Liu, J. Huang, & P. Gong. (2023). Characterizing annual dynamics of urban form at the horizontal and vertical dimensions using long-term Landsat time series data. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 203, 199-210.

  • He, W., X. Li*, Y. Zhou*, Z. Shi, G. Yu, T. Hu, Y. Wang, J. Huang, T. Bai, Z. Sun, X. Liu & P. Gong (2023) Global urban fractional changes at a 1 km resolution throughout 2100 under eight SSP-RCP scenarios. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, in Press.

  • Hu, J., Y. Zhou*, Y. Yang, G. Chen, W. Chen & M. Hejazi (2023) Multi-city assessments of human exposure to extreme heat during heat waves in the United States. Remote Sensing of Environment, 295, 113700.

  • Zheng, Q., K. C. Seto, Y. Zhou, S. You & Q. Weng (2023) Nighttime light remote sensing for urban applications: Progress, challenges, and prospects. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 202, 125-141.

  • Xu, H., Y. Zhou*, Y. Wei, C. Liu, X. Li & W. Chen (2023) A Relative Radiometric Normalization Method for Enhancing Radiometric Consistency of Landsat Time-Series Imageries. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 1-16.

  • Hu, T., X. Zhang, G. Bohrer, Y. Liu, Y. Zhou, J. Martin, Y. Li and K. Zhao (2023). Crop yield prediction via explainable AI and interpretable machine learning: Dangers of black box models for evaluating climate change impacts on crop yield. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 336: 109458.

  • Guo, C., K. Lanza, D. Li, Y. Zhou, K. Aunan, B. P. Y. Loo, J. Lee, B. Luo, X. Duan, W. Zhang, Z. Zhang, S. Lin & K. Zhang (2023) Impact of heat on all-cause and cause-specific mortality: A multi-city study in Texas. Environmental Research, 115453.

  • Li, L., W. Zhan, W. Ju, J. Peñuelas, Z. Zhu, S. Peng, X. Zhu, Z. Liu, Y. Zhou, J. Li, J. Lai, F. Huang, G. Yin, Y. Fu, M. Li & C. Yu (2023) Competition between biogeochemical drivers and land-cover changes determines urban greening or browning. Remote Sensing of Environment, 287, 113481.

  • He, W., X. Li, Y. Zhou, X. Liu, P. Gong, T. Hu, P. Yin, J. Huang, J. Yang, S. Miao, X. Wang & T. Wu (2023) Modeling gridded urban fractional change using the temporal context information in the urban cellular automata model. Cities, 133, 104146.

2022

  • Zhang, T., Y. Zhou*, K. Zhao, Z. Zhu, G. Chen, J. Hu & L. Wang (2022) A global dataset of daily maximum and minimum near-surface air temperature at 1km resolution over land (2003–2020). Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, 5637-5649.

  • Zhou, Y.*, X. Li, W. Chen, L. Meng, Q. Wu, P. Gong & K. C. Seto (2022) Satellite mapping of urban built-up heights reveals extreme infrastructure gaps and inequalities in the Global South. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119, e2214813119.

  • Zhang, T., Y. Zhou*, L. Wang, K. Zhao & Z. Zhu (2022) Estimating 1 km gridded daily air temperature using a spatially varying coefficient model with sign preservation. Remote Sensing of Environment, 277, 113072.

  • Meng, L., Y. Zhou*, M. O. Román, E. C. Stokes, Z. Wang, G. R. Asrar, J. Mao, A. D. Richardson, L. Gu & Y. Wang (2022) Artificial light at night: an under-appreciated effect on phenology of deciduous woody plants. PNAS Nexus, pgac046.

  • Zhou, Y*(2022). Understanding urban plant phenology for sustainable cities and planet. Nature Climate Change. 12, 302-304.

  • Zhang, T., Y. Zhou*, Z. Zhu, X. Li & G. R. Asrar (2022). A global seamless 1 km resolution daily land surface temperature dataset (2003-2020). Earth Syst. Sci. Data. 14, 651-664.

  • Zhao, M., C. Cheng*, Y. Zhou*, X. Li, S. Shen & C. Song (2022). A global dataset of annual urban extents (1992-2020) from harmonized nighttime lights. Earth Syst. Sci. Data. 14, 517–534.

  • Chen, W., Y. Zhou*, Y. Xie, G. Chen, K. J. Ding & D. Li (2022) Estimating spatial and temporal patterns of urban building anthropogenic heat using a bottom-up city building heat emission model. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 177, 105996.

2021

  • Li, X., Y. Zhou*, M. Hejazi, M. Wise, C. Vernon, G. Iyer & W. Chen (2021) Global urban growth between 1870 and 2100 from integrated high resolution mapped data and urban dynamic modeling. Communications Earth & Environment, 2, 201.

  • Meng, L., Y. Zhou*, L. Gu, A. D. Richardson, J. Peñuelas, Y. Fu, Y. Wang, G. R. Asrar, H. J. De Boeck, J. Mao, Y. Zhang & Z. Wang (2021) Photoperiod decelerates the advance of spring phenology of six deciduous tree species under climate warming. Global Change Biology, 27, 2914-2927.

2020

  • Zhao, M., Y. Zhou*, X. Li, W. Cheng*, C. Zhou, T. Ma, M. Li & K. Huang (2020) Mapping urban dynamics (1992–2018) in Southeast Asia using consistent nighttime light data from DMSP and VIIRS. Remote Sensing of Environment, 248, 111980.

  • Li, X., Y. Zhou*, Z. Zhu & W. Cao (2020) A national dataset of 30m annual urban extent dynamics (1985–2015) in the conterminous United States. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 357-371.

  • Li, X., Y. Zhou*, P. Gong, K. C. Seto & N. Clinton (2020) Developing a method to estimate building height from Sentinel-1 data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 240, 111705.

  • Meng, L., J. Mao*, Y. Zhou*, A. D. Richardson, X. Lee, P. E. Thornton, D. M. Ricciuto, X. Li, Y. Dai, X. Shi & G. Jia (2020) Urban warming advances spring phenology but reduces the response of phenology to temperature in the conterminous United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117, 4228

  • Cao, W., Y. Zhou*, R. Li & X. Li (2020) Mapping changes in coastlines and tidal flats in developing islands using the full time series of Landsat images. Remote Sensing of Environment, 239, 111665.

Selected Research Projects

  • Integrated assessments of urbanization impacts on building energy use for urban energy sustainability (PI)

  • Water Sustainability at the Food-Energy-Water Nexus under Urbanization and Climate Change (PI)

  • Improving GCAM Building Energy Use Modeling by Adding a Satellite-seeded Spatially Explicit Urban Expansion Component (PI)

  • Understanding and Simulating Global Urban Expansion in the Context of Climate Change (PI)

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