Publications

Wang, X., Zhang, Y., Zhang, X., He, S., Kong, D., Tian, J., Wei, H., Wang, L., Quan, Y., Zheng, Y., & Wang, Y. (2025). Satellite data-driven estimation of daily and 500 m net ecosystem exchange over China during 2003–2020. Remote Sensing of Environment, 331, 115047. (DOI)

Naeem, M., Zhang, Y., Ma, N., Tang, Z., Miao, P., Tian, X., Li, C., Huang, Q., Xu, Z., Wang, L., & Huang, Z. (2025). Simulating and predicting lake dynamics by fusing HBV modeling, machine learning approach and remote sensing data. Journal of Hydrology, 663, 134303. (DOI)

Zhang, Y., Zheng, H., Liu, C., Leung, L. R., Zheng, C., Kong, D., & Blöschl, G. (2025). Groundwater Storage as a Key Driver of Subannual Streamflow Variability. Hydrology and Water Resources, 1(1), 2.

Ma, N., Szilagyi, J., & Zhang, Y. (2025). Hydrological Responses to Warming: Insights From Centennial‐Scale Terrestrial Evapotranspiration Estimates. Water Resources Research, 61(9). (DOI)

Luo, Y., Ma, N., & Zhang, Y. (2025). Divergent vegetation greening's direct impacts on land-atmosphere water and carbon exchanges in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Global and Planetary Change, 251, 104825. (DOI)

Tian, J., & Zhang, Y. (2025). Error estimation and data fusion of root zone soil moisture products over China based on the three corned hat method. Global and Planetary Change, 251, 104797. (DOI)

Huang, Z., Tang, Z., Tian, J., Zhang, X., Ma, N., Bai, X., & Zhang, Y. (2025). Climate change dominates recent increase in streamflow in the Yellow River Basin. Journal of Hydrology, 661, 133737. (DOI)

Zhang, X., Ren, C., Wang, Z., Li, X., & Zhang, Y. (2025). Gap-filling GRACE and GRACE-FO data with a climate adjustment scheme using Singular Spectrum analysis. Journal of Hydrology, 653, 132782. (DOI)

Wei, H., Zhang, Y., Huang, Q., Liu, C., & Wagener, T. (2025). Functional Relationships Reveal Large Differences in Streamflow Response to eCO2‐Vegetation in Global Water Models. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(9). (DOI)

Naeem, M., Zhang, Y., Tian, X., Miao, P., Li, C., Xu, Z., Wang, L., Mumtaz, F., He, S., & Tang, Z. (2025). Assessing and Predicting Bojiang Lake Area and Lulc Changes from 2000 to 2045. (DOI)

Yang, X., Zhang, X., Zhao, Z., Ma, N., Tian, J., Xu, Z., Zhang, J., & Zhang, Y. (2025). Rainfall and maximum temperature are dominant climatic factors influencing APSIM-Maize cultivar parameters sensitivity in semiarid regions. European Journal of Agronomy, 164, 127494. (DOI)

Ma, N., Zhang, Y., & Yang, Y. (2025). Recent Decline in Global Ocean Evaporation Due To Wind Stilling. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(4). (DOI)

Naeem, M., Zhang, Y., Nourani, V., Tian, X., & Miao, P. (2025). Both climate and anthropogenic impacts on recent lake area change in the Erdos Plateau. Journal of Environmental Management, 373, 123443. (DOI)

Wang, L., & Zhang, Y. (2024). Filling GRACE data gap using an innovative transformer-based deep learning approach. Remote Sensing of Environment, 315, 114465. (DOI)

Zhang, X., Zhang, Y., Wang, Y., Tang, Q., Ban, Y., Ren, C., Letu, H., Shi, J., & Liu, C. (2024). Quantifying Global Hydrological Sensitivity to CO2 Physiological and Radiative Forcings Under Large CO2 Increases. Earth's Future, 12(12). (PDF) (DOI)

Naeem, S., Zhang, Y., Li, C., Li, Y., Azeem, T., & Mahmood, R. (2024). Estimation and attribution of nonlinear trend of water use efficiency using a normalized partial derivative approach. Journal of Environmental Management, 372, 123323. (DOI)

Huang, Q., Zhang, Y., Li, C., & Ma, N. (2024). Quantifying propagation effects of climate and vegetation changes on evapotranspiration and streamflow signatures in Yarlung Tsangpo River Basin. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 56, 102015. (DOI)

Tang, Z., Zhang, Y., Tian, J., Ma, N., Li, X., Kong, D., Cao, Y., Yang, X., Wang, L., Zhang, X., & Chen, Y. (2024). Using hydrological modeling and satellite observations to elucidate subsurface and surface hydrological responses to the extreme drought. Journal of Hydrology, 645, 132174. (DOI)

Luo, Y., Ma, N., Zhang, Y., Zang, C., Szilagyi, J., Tian, J., Wang, L., Xu, Z., Tang, Z., & Wei, H. (2024). Response of alpine vegetation function to climate change in the Tibetan Plateau: A perspective from solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence. Science of The Total Environment, 952, 175845. (DOI)

Wei, H., Zhang, Y., Huang, Q., Chiew, F. H. S., Luan, J., Xia, J., & Liu, C. (2024). Direct vegetation response to recent CO2 rise shows limited effect on global streamflow. Nature Communications, 15(1), 9423. (PDF) (DOI)

Shao, X., Zhang, Y., Ma, N., Zhang, X., Tian, J., Xu, Z., & Liu, C. (2024). Drought-induced ecosystem resistance and recovery observed at 118 flux tower stations across the globe. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 356, 110170. (DOI)

Yang, X., Shao, X., Ma, N., Zhang, X., Tian, J., Tang, Z., Chen, Y., Tian, X., Feng, R., Wu, T., Bian, N., Miao, P., Ma, H., Chen, B., & Zhang, Y. (2024). Both meteorological droughts and human activities modulated groundwater variations in the northern Yellow River Basin. Hydrology Research, 55(9), 921-935. (PDF) (DOI)

Song, P., Liu, X., Sun, L., Zhai, X., Wang, J., He, L., Wang, Y., Zhang, Y., & Li, G. (2024). Soil moisture estimation based on FY-3E backscattering data for enhanced daily coverage to SMAP observations in the dawn-dusk orbit. Remote Sensing of Environment, 309, 114209. (DOI)

Luan, J., Zhang, Y., Li, X., Ma, N., Naeem, S., Xu, Z., Miao, P., & Wang, R. (2024). Disentangling streamflow impacts of check dams from vegetation changes. Journal of Hydrology, 638, 131477. (DOI)

Chen, Y., Zhang, Y., Tian, J., Nourani, V., Ma, N., Zhang, X., Xu, Z., Huang, Q., Tang, Z., Wei, H., & Yang, X. (2024). Groundwater exhibits spatially opposing trends during the Australian Millennium Drought. Environmental Research Letters, 19(7), 074016. (DOI)

Li, C., Zhang, X., Guo, J., Yu, Q., & Zhang, Y. (2024). Decadal variation and trend of boundary layer height and possible contributing factors in China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 347, 109910. (DOI)

Cao, Y., Zhang, Y., Tian, J., Li, X., Tang, Z., Yang, X., Zhang, X., & Ma, N. (2024). Strong Agricultural Resilience to 2022 Southern China Drought. Earth's Future, 12(3). (DOI)

Chen, Y., Zhang, Y., Tian, J., Tang, Z., Wang, L., & Yang, X. (2024). Understanding the Propagation of Meteorological Drought to Groundwater Drought: A Case Study of the North China Plain. Water, 16(3), 501. (DOI)

Wang, J., Zhang, Y., Song, P., & Tian, J. (2024). Estimating sub-daily resolution soil moisture using Fengyun satellite data and machine learning. Journal of Hydrology, 632, 130814. (DOI)

Ma, N., Zhang, Y., & Szilagyi, J. (2024). Water-balance-based evapotranspiration for 56 large river basins: A benchmarking dataset for global terrestrial evapotranspiration modeling. Journal of Hydrology, 630, 130607. (DOI)

Huang, Q., Zhang, Y., & Wei, H. (2024). Can direct CMIP6 model simulations reproduce mean annual historical streamflow change? CATENA, 235, 107650. (DOI)

Wei, H., Zhang, Y., Liu, C., Huang, Q., Jia, P., Xu, Z., & Guo, Y. (2024). The Strategic Random Search (SRS) – A new global optimizer for calibrating hydrological models. Environmental Modelling & Software, 172, 105914. (DOI)

Li, C., Yu, Q., Zhang, Y., Ma, N., Tian, J., & Zhang, X. (2023). Dominant Drivers for Terrestrial Water Storage Changes Are Different in Northern and Southern China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128(23). (DOI)

Song, P., Zhao, T., Zhang, Y., & He, Q. (2023). Conversion of satellite passive microwave signals to land surface "skin" temperature for extremely dry deserts. Remote Sensing of Environment, 299, 113857. (DOI)

Tian, J., & Zhang, Y. (2023). Comprehensive validation of seven root zone soil moisture products at 1153 ground sites across China. International Journal of Digital Earth, 16(2), 4008–4022. (DOI)

Naeem, S., Zhang, Y., Zhang, X., Rehman, A. U., Tang, Z., Xu, Z., Li, C., & Azeem, T. (2023). Recent change in ecosystem water use efficiency in China mainly dominated by vegetation greening and increased CO2. Remote Sensing of Environment, 298, 113811. (DOI)

Zhang, Y., Li, C., Chiew, F. H. S., Post, D. A., Zhang, X., Ma, N., Tian, J., Kong, D., Leung, L. R., Yu, Q., Shi, J., & Liu, C. (2023). Southern Hemisphere dominates recent decline in global water availability. Science, 382(6670), 579–584. (DOI)

Luan, J., Zhang, Y., Li, X., Ma, N., Naeem, S., Xu, Z., He, S., Miao, P., Tian, X., & Wang, R. (2023). Unexpected consequences of large-scale ecological restoration: Groundwater declines are reversed. Ecological Indicators, 155, 111008. (DOI)

Xu, Z., Zhang, Y., Blöschl, G., & Piao, S. (2023). Mega Forest Fires Intensify Flood Magnitudes in Southeast Australia. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(12). (DOI)

Wang, L., Zhang, Y., Ma, N., Song, P., Tian, J., Zhang, X., & Xu, Z. (2023). Diverse responses of canopy conductance to heatwaves. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 335, 109453. (DOI)

Zhang, Y., Zheng, H., Zhang, X., Leung, L. R., Liu, C., Zheng, C., Guo, Y., Chiew, F. H. S., Post, D., Kong, D., Beck, H. E., Li, C., & Blöschl, G. (2023). Future global streamflow declines are probably more severe than previously estimated. Nature Water, 1(3), 261–271. (DOI)

Zhang, X., Wang, Y., & Zhang, Y. (2023). Strong Nonlinearity of Land Climate‐Carbon Cycle Feedback Under a High CO2 Growth Scenario. Earth's Future, 11(1). (DOI)

Shao, X., Zhang, Y., Ma, N., Zhang, X., Tian, J., & Liu, C. (2023). Flood Increase and Drought Mitigation Under a Warming Climate in the Southern Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128(2). (DOI)

Tang, Z., Tian, J., Zhang, Y., Zhang, X., Zhang, J., Ma, N., Li, X., & Song, P. (2022). Anthropogenic aerosols dominated the decreased solar radiation in eastern China over the last five decades. Journal of Cleaner Production, 380, 135150. (DOI)

Huang, Q., Zhang, Y., Ma, N., & Post, D. (2022). Estimating Vegetation Greening Influences on Runoff Signatures Using a Log‐Based Weighted Ensemble Method. Water Resources Research, 58(12). (DOI)

Tian, J., Zhang, Y., Guo, J., Zhang, X., Ma, N., Wei, H., & Tang, Z. (2022). Predicting root zone soil moisture using observations at 2121 sites across China. Science of The Total Environment, 847, 157425. (DOI)

Faiz, M. A., Zhang, Y., Tian, X., Zhang, X., Ma, N., Aryal, S., & Naz, F. (2022). Time series analysis for droughts characteristics response to propagation. International Journal of Climatology, 43(3), 1561–1575. (DOI)

Luan, J., Miao, P., Tian, X., Li, X., Ma, N., Xu, Z., Wang, H., & Zhang, Y. (2022). Separating the impact of check dams on runoff from climate and vegetation changes. Journal of Hydrology, 614, 128565. (DOI)

Abrar Faiz, M., Zhang, Y., Tian, X., Tian, J., Zhang, X., Ma, N., & Aryal, S. (2022). Drought index revisited to assess its response to vegetation in different agro-climatic zones. Journal of Hydrology, 614, 128543. (DOI)

Xu, Z., Zhang, Y., Zhang, X., Ma, N., Tian, J., Kong, D., & Post, D. (2022). Bushfire‐Induced Water Balance Changes Detected by a Modified Paired Catchment Method. Water Resources Research, 58(11). (DOI)

He, S., Zhang, Y., Ma, N., Tian, J., Kong, D., & Liu, C. (2022). A daily and 500 m coupled evapotranspiration and gross primary production product across China during 2000–2020. Earth System Science Data, 14(12), 5463–5488. (DOI)

Luan, J., Miao, P., Tian, X., Li, X., Ma, N., Abrar Faiz, M., Xu, Z., & Zhang, Y. (2022). Estimating hydrological consequences of vegetation greening. Journal of Hydrology, 611, 128018. (DOI)

Ma, N., & Zhang, Y. (2022). Contrasting Trends in Water Use Efficiency of the Alpine Grassland in Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127(14). (DOI)

Shao, X., Zhang, Y., Liu, C., Chiew, F. H. S., Tian, J., Ma, N., & Zhang, X. (2022). Can Indirect Evaluation Methods and Their Fusion Products Reduce Uncertainty in Actual Evapotranspiration Estimates? Water Resources Research, 58(6). (DOI)

Zhang, X., Zhang, Y., Tian, J., Ma, N., & Wang, Y.-P. (2022). CO2 fertilization is spatially distinct from stomatal conductance reduction in controlling ecosystem water-use efficiency increase. Environmental Research Letters, 17(5), 054048. (DOI)

Ma, N., & Zhang, Y. (2022). Increasing Tibetan Plateau terrestrial evapotranspiration primarily driven by precipitation. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 317, 108887. (DOI)

Kong, D., McVicar, T. R., Xiao, M., Zhang, Y., Peña‐Arancibia, J. L., Filippa, G., Xie, Y., & Gu, X. (2022). phenofit: An R package for extracting vegetation phenology from time series remote sensing. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 13(7), 1508–1527. (DOI)

Faiz, M. A., Zhang, Y., Zhang, X., Ma, N., Aryal, S. K., Ha, T. T. V., Baig, F., & Naz, F. (2022). A composite drought index developed for detecting large-scale drought characteristics. Journal of Hydrology, 605, 127308. (DOI)

Zhang, Y., Viglione, A., & Blöschl, G. (2022). Temporal Scaling of Streamflow Elasticity to Precipitation: A Global Analysis. Water Resources Research, 58(1). (DOI)

Song, P., Zhang, Y., Guo, J., Shi, J., Zhao, T., & Tong, B. (2022). A 1 km daily surface soil moisture dataset of enhanced coverage under all-weather conditions over China in 2003–2019. Earth System Science Data, 14(6), 2613–2637. (DOI)

Zhang, X., Zhang, Y., Ma, N., Kong, D., Tian, J., Shao, X., & Tang, Q. (2021). Greening-induced increase in evapotranspiration over Eurasia offset by CO2-induced vegetational stomatal closure. Environmental Research Letters, 16(12), 124008. (DOI)

Song, P., & Zhang, Y. (2021). An improved non-linear inter-calibration method on different radiometers for enhancing coverage of daily LST estimates in low latitudes. Remote Sensing of Environment, 264, 112626. (DOI)

Luan, J., Zhang, Y., Ma, N., Tian, J., Li, X., & Liu, D. (2021). Evaluating the uncertainty of eight approaches for separating the impacts of climate change and human activities on streamflow. Journal of Hydrology, 601, 126605. (DOI)

Li, X., Zhang, Y., Ma, N., Li, C., & Luan, J. (2021). Contrasting effects of climate and LULC change on blue water resources at varying temporal and spatial scales. Science of The Total Environment, 786, 147488. (DOI)

Tian, J., Zhang, Y., & Zhang, X. (2021). Impacts of heterogeneous CO2 on water and carbon fluxes across the global land surface. International Journal of Digital Earth, 14(9), 1175–1193. (DOI)

Ma, N., Szilagyi, J., & Zhang, Y. (2021). Calibration‐Free Complementary Relationship Estimates Terrestrial Evapotranspiration Globally. Water Resources Research, 57(9). (DOI)

Zhang, X., Wang, Y.-P., Rayner, P. J., Ciais, P., Huang, K., Luo, Y., Piao, S., Wang, Z., Xia, J., Zhao, W., Zheng, X., Tian, J., & Zhang, Y. (2021). A small climate-amplifying effect of climate-carbon cycle feedback. Nature Communications, 12(1). (DOI)

Faiz, M. A., Zhang, Y., Baig, F., Wrzesiński, D., & Naz, F. (2021). Identification and inter‐comparison of appropriate long‐term precipitation datasets using decision tree model and statistical matrix over China. International Journal of Climatology, 41(10), 5003–5021. (DOI)

Naeem, S., Zhang, Y., Zhang, X., Tian, J., Abbas, S., Luo, L., & Meresa, H. K. (2021). Both climate and socioeconomic drivers contribute to vegetation greening of the Loess Plateau. Science Bulletin, 66(12), 1160–1163. (DOI)

Song, P., Zhang, Y., & Tian, J. (2021). Improving Surface Soil Moisture Estimates in Humid Regions by an Enhanced Remote Sensing Technique. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(5). (DOI)

Zhang, Y., Huang, Q., Qin, G., Tang, Q., Liu, C., Xia, J., Chiew, F. H. S., & Post, D. A. (2020). Using Remote Sensing Data-based Hydrological Model Calibrations for Predicting Runoff in Ungauged or Poorly Gauged Catchments. (DOI)

Li, C., Zhang, Y., Shen, Y., & Yu, Q. (2020). Decadal water storage decrease driven by vegetation changes in the Yellow River Basin. Science Bulletin, 65(22), 1859–1861. (DOI)

Luan, J., Zhang, Y., Tian, J., Meresa, H., & Liu, D. (2020). Coal mining impacts on catchment runoff. Journal of Hydrology, 589, 125101. (DOI)

Tian, J., & Zhang, Y. (2020). Detecting changes in irrigation water requirement in Central Asia under CO2 fertilization and land use changes. (DOI)

Li, C., Zhang, Y., Shen, Y., Kong, D., & Zhou, X. (2020). LUCC‐Driven Changes in Gross Primary Production and Actual Evapotranspiration in Northern China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125(6). (DOI)

Zhang, Y., Chiew, F. H. S., Liu, C., Tang, Q., Xia, J., Tian, J., Kong, D., & Li, C. (2020). Can Remotely Sensed Actual Evapotranspiration Facilitate Hydrological Prediction in Ungauged Regions Without Runoff Calibration? Water Resources Research, 56(1). (DOI)

Kong, D., Zhang, Y., Gu, X., & Wang, D. (2019). A robust method for reconstructing global MODIS EVI time series on the Google Earth Engine. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 155, 13–24. (DOI)

Zhang, Y., Zheng, H., Herron, N., Liu, X., Wang, Z., Chiew, F. H. S., & Parajka, J. (2019). A framework estimating cumulative impact of damming on downstream water availability. Journal of Hydrology, 575, 612–627. (DOI)

Zhang, Y., Kong, D., Gan, R., Chiew, F. H. S., McVicar, T. R., Zhang, Q., & Yang, Y. (2019). Coupled estimation of 500 m and 8-day resolution global evapotranspiration and gross primary production in 2002–2017. Remote Sensing of Environment, 222, 165–182. (DOI)

Zhang, Y., Chiew, F. H. S., Li, M., & Post, D. (2018). Predicting Runoff Signatures Using Regression and Hydrological Modeling Approaches. Water Resources Research, 54(10), 7859–7878. (DOI)

Gan, R., Zhang, Y., Shi, H., Yang, Y., Eamus, D., Cheng, L., Chiew, F. H. S., & Yu, Q. (2018). Use of satellite leaf area index estimating evapotranspiration and gross assimilation for Australian ecosystems. Ecohydrology, 11(5). (DOI)