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Allam, Mona (author), Meng, Qingyan (author), Elhag, Mohamed (author), Giardino, Claudia (author), Ghirardi, Nicola (author), Su, Yi (author), Al-Hababi, Mohammed A.M. (author), Menenti, M. (author)Around 90% of the oceanic and inland waters’ reflectance registered in satellite detectors comes from the atmospheric contribution. Hence the water-leaving radiances in the Near-InfraRed (NIR) region are above the zero value over inland waters because of sediments and dissolved organic particles, this radiance cannot be ignored. To accurately...journal article 2024
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Buri, Pascal (author), Fatichi, Simone (author), Shaw, Thomas E. (author), Fyffe, Catriona L. (author), Miles, Evan S. (author), McCarthy, Michael J. (author), Kneib, Marin (author), Ren, Shaoting (author), Menenti, M. (author)Mountains are important suppliers of freshwater to downstream areas, affecting large populations in particular in High Mountain Asia (HMA). Yet, the propagation of water from HMA headwaters to downstream areas is not fully understood, as interactions in the mountain water cycle between the cryo-, hydro- and biosphere remain elusive. We review...journal article 2024
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Li, Peng (author), Jia, Li (author), Lu, Jing (author), Jiang, Min (author), Zheng, C. (author), Menenti, M. (author)Flash droughts tend to cause severe damage to agriculture due to their characteristics of sudden onset and rapid intensification. Early detection of the response of vegetation to flash droughts is of utmost importance in mitigating the effects of flash droughts, as it can provide a scientific basis for establishing an early warning system....journal article 2024
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Zheng, Chaolei (author), Jia, Li (author), Menenti, M. (author), Hu, Guangcheng (author), Lu, Jing (author), Chen, Qiting (author), Jiang, Min (author), Mancini, Marco (author), Corbari, Chiara (author)Improving irrigation water management is a key concern for the agricultural sector, and it requires extensive and comprehensive tools that provide a complete knowledge of crop water use and requirements. This study presents a novel methodology to explicitly estimate daily gross and net crop water requirements, actual crop water use, and...journal article 2024
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Luo, Yifan (author), Yang, Jinxin (author), Shi, Qian (author), Xu, Yong (author), Menenti, M. (author), Wong, Man Sing (author)The urban heat island effect poses a growing threat to human society, especially in densely populated and developed megacities. With the introduction of the Local Climate Zones (LCZ) framework, new perspectives and findings have been brought to urban heat island studies. This study investigated the cooling effect of vegetation and albedo on the...journal article 2023
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Chen, Qiting (author), Jia, Li (author), Menenti, M. (author), Hu, Guangcheng (author), Wang, Kun (author), Yi, Zhiwei (author), Zhou, Jie (author), Peng, Fei (author), Ma, Shaoxiu (author)Information on crop yield is important for food security, in particular under the conditions of climate change and growing population worldwide. We developed a new fully distributed, high spatial resolution, model of biomass accumulation and crop yield applicable to a highly heterogeneous desert-oasis agroecosystem. The bulk of required input...journal article 2023
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Asenso Barnieh, Beatrice (author), Jia, Li (author), Menenti, M. (author), Yu, Le (author), Nyantakyi, Emmanuel Kwesi (author), Kabo-Bah, Amos Tiereyangn (author), Jiang, Min (author), Zhou, Jie (author), Lv, Yunzhe (author)Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) change is a major global concern and a topic of scientific debate. In West Africa, the key trend among the changes of the past few years is the loss of natural vegetation related to changes in different LULC categories, e.g., water bodies, wetland, and bare soil. However, not all detected changes in these LULC...journal article 2023
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Zeng, Yelong (author), Jia, Li (author), Menenti, M. (author), Jiang, Min (author), Barnieh, Beatrice Asenso (author), Bennour, Ali (author), Lv, Yunzhe (author)The potential drivers of vegetation changes in the Sudano-Sahelian region of Africa remain poorly understood due to complex interactions between climatic and anthropogenic processes. In this study, we analyzed the vegetation greenness trends in relation to rainfall variability that we considered the essence of climatic effects on vegetation...journal article 2023
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Yang, Jinxin (author), Wu, Zhifeng (author), Menenti, M. (author), Wong, Man Sing (author), Xie, Yanhua (author), Zhu, Rui (author), Abbas, Sawaid (author), Xu, Yong (author)Urban morphology affects the sensible heat flux and net radiation exchange which can alter urban heat mitigation plans. This study first parameterized the geometric effects on the net radiation, and then calculated the net radiation and sensible heat flux in the urban landscape of Hong Kong. Considering that the sensible heat flux is the main...journal article 2023
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Ren, Shaoting (author), Jia, Li (author), Menenti, M. (author), Zhang, Jing (author)Glacier surface albedo dominates glacier energy balance, thus strongly affecting the glacier mass balance. Glaciers in the Western Nyainqentanglha Mountains (WNM) experienced large mass losses in the past two decades, but long-term changes of glacier albedo and its drivers are less understood. In this study, we retrieved glacier albedo with...journal article 2023
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Cheruiyot, Elijah (author), Mito, Collins (author), Menenti, M. (author)This work presents an improved gravimetric algorithm to derive reference soil moisture, with removal of some of the hypothesis on which its original expression was based, and addition of a new corrective term that takes into account the interdependence between temperature and non-unitary water density. The temperature correction term improves...journal article 2023
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Hao, Xuan (author), Qiu, Yubao (author), Jia, Guoqiang (author), Menenti, M. (author), Ma, Jiangming (author), Jiang, Zhengxin (author)Land use–land cover (LULC) is an important feature for ecological environment research, land resource management and evaluation. Although global high-resolution LULC data sets are booming, their regional performances were still evaluated in limited regions. To demonstrate the local applicability of global LULC data products, six emerging LULC...journal article 2023
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Zhou, J. (author), Menenti, M. (author), Jia, Li (author), Gao, Bo (author), Zhao, Feng (author), Cui, Yilin (author), Xiong, Xuqian (author), Liu, Xuan (author), Li, Dengchao (author)Spatiotemporal residual noise in terrestrial earth observation products, often caused by unfavorable atmospheric conditions, impedes their broad applications. Most users prefer to use gap-filled remote sensing products with time series reconstruction (TSR) algorithms. Applying currently available implementations of TSR to large-volume...journal article 2023
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Bennour, Ali (author), Jia, Li (author), Menenti, M. (author), Zheng, Chaolei (author), Zeng, Yelong (author), Barnieh, Beatrice Asenso (author), Jiang, Min (author)Study region: Senegal river (SRB), Niger river (NRB), and Lake Chad basins (LCB). Study focus: We investigated the impacts of land use/land cover change (LULC) and climate variability on the water balance components from 1990 to 2020. We applied the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) coupled with remote sensing retrievals of actual...journal article 2023
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Foroughnia, Fatemeh (author), Alfieri, S.M. (author), Menenti, M. (author), Lindenbergh, R.C. (author)Precise and accurate delineation of flooding areas with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and multi-spectral (MS) data is challenging because flooded areas are inherently heterogeneous as emergent vegetation (EV) and turbid water (TW) are common. We addressed these challenges by developing and applying a new stepwise sequence of unsupervised and...journal article 2022
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Tran, Khuong H. (author), Menenti, M. (author), Jia, Li (author)The annual flood and the alteration in hydrological regimes are the most vital concerns in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta (VMD). Although synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Sentinel-1 imagery is widely used for water management, only a few studies have used Sentinel-1 data for mapping surface water and monitoring flood events in the VMD. This study...journal article 2022
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Understanding spatial patterns in the drivers of greenness trends in the Sahel-Sudano-Guinean regionJiang, Min (author), Jia, Li (author), Menenti, M. (author), Zeng, Yelong (author)The region-wide spatial pattern of the drivers of vegetation trends in the African Sahel-Sudano-Guinean region, one of the main drylands of the world, has not been fully investigated. Time-series satellite earth observation datasets were used to investigate spatiotemporal patterns of the vegetation greenness changes in the region and then a...journal article 2022
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Liu, Lian (author), Menenti, M. (author), Ma, Yaoming (author), Ma, Weiqiang (author)Snowfall and the subsequent evolution of the snowpack have a large effect on the surface energy balance and water cycle of the Tibetan Plateau (TP). The effects of snow cover can be represented by the WRF coupled with a land surface scheme. The widely used Noah scheme is computationally efficient, but its poor representation of albedo needs...journal article 2022
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Lu, Jing (author), Jia, Li (author), Zhou, Jie (author), Jiang, Min (author), Zhong, Yulong (author), Menenti, M. (author)A drought-induced water storage deficit index (D-WSDI) is proposed to quantify the response of GRACE-based terrestrial water storage change to meteorological drought and the impact of drought on water storage deficit. D-WSDI is defined as the normalized residual component of GRACE time-series data after removing the long-term trend and...journal article 2022
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Yang, Jinxin (author), Shi, Qian (author), Menenti, M. (author), Xie, Yanhua (author), Wu, Zhifeng (author), Xu, Yong (author), Abbas, Sawaid (author)Vegetation is important for urban heat mitigation. The cooling intensity of vegetation is affected by background climate and urban design. How to evaluate vegetation cooling efficiency under different climate conditions is still an issue open to discussion. In this study, a normalized indicator of urban vegetation cooling efficiency (NVCE) is...journal article 2022