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Warming Enchanced
Plant Growth in the North Since the 1980s: A Greener Greenhouse?
- NASA
Earth System Science Fellow, NASA, 1999-2001
- Associate Program Director in Climate and Large-Scale
Dynamics, National Science Foundation, USA, 02/2008-present
- Senior Research scientist, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA,
11/2007-present
- 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
- Paper reviewer of Advances in Atmospheric Sciences,
Climate Dynamics,
Journal
of Climate, Earth
Interactions, Ecological
Modelling, Environmental
Management, Frontiers
in Ecology and the Environment, Geophysical Research Letters,
Global
Change Biology, Global
Ecology and Biogeography,Global Environmental Change,, Journal of Geophysical Research
- Atmospheres, Journal of Geophysical Research
- Biogeosciences, Photogrammetric
Engineering and Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing of Environment,
Theoretical
and Applied Climatology
- Proposal
reviewer of National Aeronautics
and Space Administration (NASA),National Science Foundation(NSF),
SRON National Institute for
Space Research
- Selected
Recent Publications
- 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, 2008.
- 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., 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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