Remote Sensing of Water & Carbon Lab

Publications

    Papers Under Review:
  1. He, M., Yi, Y.*, Li, X., Wigneron, J.P., Kimball, J.S., Endsley, A., Reichle, R., Fan, L., Chen, H. The capability of multi-frequency vegetation optical depth products to monitor vegetation dynamics in China under a changing climate. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, in review.
  2. Yi, Y.*, Wu, T., Wu, M., Jiang, H., Yang, Y., Rogers, B.M. Abrupt thaw and its effects on permafrost carbon emissions in the Tibetan Plateau: a remote sensing and modeling perspective. Earth-Science Reviews, in review.
  3. Chang, T., Yi, Y.*, Jiang, H., Li, R., Lu, P., Liu, L., Wang, L., Zhao, L., Zwieback, S., Zhao, J., Chen, J. Unraveling the non-linear relationship between seasonal deformation and active layer thickness. Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, in review.

    4. Papers published in referred journals:
  4. He, M., Cui, J.*, Yi, Y.*, et al. Vegetation increases global climate vulnerability risk by shifting climate zones in response to rising atmospheric CO2. Science of The Total Environment, 2024.
  5. Jiang, H., Yi, Y.*, Yang, K., Zhao, L., Chen, D., Kimball, J.S., Lu, F.: Soil Freeze/Thaw Dynamics Strongly Influences Runoff Regime in a Tibetan Permafrost Watershed: Insights from a Process-Based Model. CATENA, to be accepted, 2024.
  6. Zhao, Y., Bakian-Dogaheh, L., Whitcomb, J., Chen, R.H., Yi, Y., Kimball, J.S., Moghaddam, M.: Mapping boreal forest properties in Interior Alaska from Multi-source remote sensing data in support of radar modeling. Environmental Research Letters, to be accepted, 2024.
  7. Liu, L., Yi, Y.*, Jiang, H., Ran, Y., Chen, D.: ERA5-Land overestimates runoff coefficient but underestimates runoff recession rate in the central Tibetan permafrost region. Journal of Hydrology: Regional studies, 53, 101792, 2024.
  8. Miller, C. et al (including Yi, Y.): The ABoVE L-band and P-band airborne synthetic aperture radar surveys, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 16, 2605–2624, 2024.
  9. Whitcomb, J., Chen, R., Clewley, D., Kimball, J. S., Pastick, N. J., Yi, Y., & Moghaddam, M.: Maps of active layer thickness in northern Alaska by upscaling P-band polarimetric synthetic aperture radar retrievals. Environmental Research Letters, 19(1), 014046, 2024.
  10. Liu, Z., Kimball, J. S., Ballantyne, A., Watts, J. D., Natali, S. M., Rogers, B. M., Yi, Y. et al.: Widespread deepening of the active layer in northern permafrost regions from 2003 to 2020. Environmental Research Letters, 19(1), 014020, 2024.
  11. Jiang, H., Yi, Y.*, Xu, J., Chen, D., Lu, F., Li, R., Wang, X., Zhou, B.: Characterizing precipitation uncertainties in a high-altitudinal permafrost watershed of the Tibetan Plateau based on regional water balance and hydrological model simulations. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies. 2023.
  12. Lu, P., Han, J., Yi, Y., Hao, T., Zhou, F., Meng X., Zhang, Y., Li, R.: InSAR unveils dynamic permafrost disturbances on Tibetan Plateau hinterland. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, 2023.
  13. Yi, Y., Bakian-Dogaheh, Moghaddam, M., Mishra, M., Kimball, J.S.: Mapping surface organic soil properties in Arctic tundra using C-band SAR data. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 2023.
  14. Schiferl, L., Arndt, K., Biraud, S., Euskirchen, E.S., Henderson, J., Larson, E., McKain, K., Munger, J.W., Oechel, W., Sweeney, C., Watts, J.D., Yi, Y., Zona, D., and Commane, R.: Using atmospheric observations to quantify annual biogenic carbon dioxide fluxes on the Alaska North Slope. Biogeosciences, 2023.
  15. Chang, T., Yi, Y.*, Wen, Y., Lu, P., Zhou, F., Meng, X., et al.: Bias Correction for ERA5-Land Soil Moisture Product Using Variational Mode Decomposition in the Permafrost Region of Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 15, 7025–7041, 2022.
  16. Byrne, B., Liu, J., Yi, Y., Chatterjee, A., Basu, S., Cheng, R., Doughty, R., Chevallier, F., Bowman, K. W., Parazoo, N. C., Crisp, D., Li, X., Xiao, J., Sitch, S., Guenet, B., Deng, F., Johnson, M. S., Philip, S., McGuire, P. C., and Miller, C. E.: Multi-year observations reveal a larger than expected autumn respiration signal across northeast Eurasia, Biogeosciences, 2022.
  17. Yi, Y., Chen, R. H., Kimball, J. S., Moghaddam, M., Xu, X., Euskirchen, E. S., et al.: Potential Satellite Monitoring of Surface Organic Soil Properties in Arctic Tundra From SMAP. Water Resources Research, 58(4), 2022.
  18. Bakian-Dogaheh, K., Chen, R. H., Yi, Y., Kimball, J. S., Moghaddam, M., & Tabatabaeenejad, A.: A model to characterize soil moisture and organic matter profiles in the permafrost active layer in support of radar remote sensing in Alaskan Arctic tundra. Environmental Research Letters, 17(2), 025011, 2022.
  19. Yi, Y., Chen, R.H., Moghaddam M., Kimball J.S., Jones, B.A., Jandt, R., Miller,E. Miller, C.: Sensitivity of multi-frequency polarimetric SAR data to post-fire permafrost changes and recovery processes in Arctic tundra. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3125715, 2021.
  20. Kim, J., Kim, Y., Zona, D., Oechel, Park, S., Lee, B., Yi, Y., Erb, A., Schaaf, C.: Carbon response of tundra ecosystems to advancing greenup and snowmelt in Alaska. Nature Communications, 12(1), 6879, 2021.
  21. Yi, Y., Kimball, J.S., Watts, J., Natali, S., Zona, D., Liu, J., Ueyama, M., Kobayashi, H., Oechel, W., and Miller, C.E.: Investigating the sensitivity of soil heterotrophic respiration to recent snow cover changes in Alaska using a satellite-based permafrost carbon model. Biogeosciences, 17, 5861-5882, 2020.
  22. Jiang, H., Zhang, G., Yi, Y.*, Chen, D., Zhang, W., Yang, K., Miller, C.E.: Progress and challenges in studying regional permafrost in the Tibetan Plateau using satellite remote sensing and models. Frontiers in Earth Science, 8:560403, 2020.
  23. Zheng, G., Yang, Y., Yang, D., Dafflon, B., Yi, Y., Zhang, S., Chen, D., Gao, B., Wang, T., Shi, R., and Wu, Q.: Remote sensing spatiotemporal patterns of frozen soil and the environmental controls over the Tibetan Plateau during 2002–2016. Remote Sensing of Environment, 247, 111927, 2020.
  24. Jiang, H., Yi, Y., Zhang, W., Yang, K., Chen, D.: Investigating the sensitivity of soil freeze/thaw dynamics to environmental conditions at different scales in the Central Tibetan Plateau. Science of the Total Environment. 734, 129261, 2020.
  25. Yi, Y., Kimball, J.S., Chen, R.H., Moghaddam, M., and Miller, C.E.: Sensitivity of active-layer freezing process to snow cover in Arctic Alaska, The Cryosphere, 13, 197-218, 2019.
  26. He, M., Kimball, J.S., Yi, Y., Mu, Q., Running, S.W., Guang, K., Maneta, M.: Satellite data-driven modeling of field scale evapotranspiration in croplands using the MOD16 algorithm framework. Remote Sensing of Environment, 230, 2019.
  27. He, M., Kimball, J.S., Yi, Y. et al. Impacts of the 2017 flash drought in the US Northern plains informed by satellite-based evapotranspiration and solar-induced fluorescence. Environmental Research Letters, 14, 074019, 2019.
  28. Yi, Y., Kimball, J.S., Chen, R., Moghaddam, M., Reichle, R.H., Mishra, U., Zona, D., Oechel, W.: Characterizing permafrost soil active layer dynamics and sensitivity to landscape spatial heterogeneity in Alaska. The Cryosphere, 12, 145-161, 2018.
  29. Jiang, H., Zhang, W., Yi, Y. et al.: The impacts of soil freeze/thaw dynamics on soil water transfer and spring phenology in the Tibetan Plateau. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 50(1), e1439155, 2018.
  30. Wang, J., Dong, J., Yi, Y. et al.: Decreasing net primary production due to drought and slight decreases in solar radiation in China from 2000 to 2012. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, 122, doi:10.1002/2016JG003417. 2017.
  31. Zhang, W., Yi, Y., Song, K., Kimball, J.S.: Hydrological sensitivity of alpine wetlands to climate warming in the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Remote Sensing, 8, 336, 2016.
  32. Yi, Y., Kimball, J. S., Rawlins, M. A., Moghaddam, M., Euskirchen, E. S.: The role of snow cover affecting boreal-arctic soil freeze-thaw and carbon dynamics, Biogeosciences, 12, 5811-5829, 2015.
  33. Zhang, W., Yi, Y., Kimball, J.S., Kim, Y.: Climatic controls on spring onset of Tibetan Plateau grasslands from 1982 to 2008. Remote Sensing, 7(12), 2015.
  34. Yi, Y., Kimball, J. S., Reichle, R. H.: Spring hydrology determines summer net carbon uptake in northern ecosystems, Environmental Research Letters, 9, 064003, 2014.
  35. Yi, Y., Kimball, J. S., Jones, L. A., Reichle, R. H., Nemani, R., Margolis, H. A.: Recent climate and fire disturbance impacts on boreal and arctic ecosystem productivity estimated using a satellite-based terrestrial carbon flux model, Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, 118, 606-622, 2013.
  36. McGuire, A. D. et al. (including Yi, Y.): An assessment of the carbon balance of Arctic tundra: comparisons among observations, process models, and atmospheric inversions, Biogeosciences, 9, 3185-3204, doi:10.5194/bg-9-3185-2012, 2012.
  37. Yi, Y., Kimball, J. S., Jones, L. A., Reichle, R. H., McDonald, K. C.: Evaluation of MERRA land surface estimates in preparation for the Soil Moisture Active Passive Mission, Journal of Climate, 24, 3797-3816, 2011.
  38. Yi, Y. and Yang, D.: An operational method to estimate evapotranspiration using MODIS data during winter wheat growing season, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 32, 4915-4932, 2011.
  39. Zhang, W., Wang, H., Yang, F., Yi, Y. et al.: Underestimated effects of low temperature during early growing season on carbon sequestration of a subtropical coniferous plantation, Biogeosciences, 8, 1667-1678, 2011.
  40. Yi, Y., Yang, D., Huang, J., Chen, D.: Evaluation of MODIS surface reflectance products for wheat leaf area index (LAI) retrieval, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 63, 661-677, 2008.
  41. Xu, J., Yang, D., Yi, Y. et al.: Spatial and temporal variation of runoff in the Yangtze River basin during the past 40 years, Quaternary International, 186, 32-42, 2008.
  42. Yi, Y., Yang, D. W., Chen, D. Y., Huang, J.: Retrieving crop physiological parameters and assessing water deficiency using MODIS data during the winter wheat growing period, Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 33, 189-202, 2007.