Shuqing Zhao

TL;DR: Using MODIS data from 2003 to 2012, it is shown that the UHI effect decayed exponentially toward rural areas for majority of the 32 Chinese cities, and an obvious urban/rural temperature “cliff” is found.

TL;DR: An improved estimation method of forest biomass and a 50-year national forest resource inventory in China to estimate changes in the storage of living biomass between 1949 and 1998 suggest that carbon sequestration through forest management practices addressed in the Kyoto Protocol could help offset industrial carbon dioxide emissions.

TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper quantified the diurnal and seasonal surface UHI intensity (SUHII, urban-suburban temperature difference) in China's 32 major cities, and analyzed their spatial variations and possible underlying mechanisms.

TL;DR: A review of the status and major challenges in representing the impacts of disturbances in modeling the carbon dynamics across North America revealed some major advances and challenges as mentioned in this paper, and significant advances have been made in representation, scaling, and characterization of disturbances that should be included in regional modeling efforts.

TL;DR: A comprehensive satellite-based evaluation of lake shrinkage across the Mongolian Plateau finds a greater decreasing rate of the number of lakes in Inner Mongolia than in Mongolia between the late 1980s and 2010, due mainly to an unsustainable mining boom and agricultural irrigation in the former.