The exacerbated thermal environment in cities, with the urban heat island (UHI) effect as a
prominent example, has been the source of many adverse urban environmental issues …

Leaf area index (LAI) is a terrestrial essential climate variable that is required in a variety of
ecosystem and climate models. The Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) LAI product has …

While terrestrial evapotranspiration (ET) from the Tibetan Plateau (TP) plays a key role in
modulating water storage change in the Asian Water Tower, the magnitude, trend, and …

Forests are a major terrestrial carbon sink, but the increasing frequency and intensity of
climate-driven disturbances such as droughts, fires and biotic agent outbreaks is threatening …

Vegetation activity and phenology are significantly affected by climate change, and changes
in vegetation activity and phenology can in turn affect regional or global climate patterns. As …

For many applications, raw satellite observations need to be converted to high-level
products of various essential environmental variables. While numerous products are …

While large‐scale terrestrial evapotranspiration (ET) information is essential for our
understanding of the Earth's water and energy cycles, substantial differences exist in current …

Coastal salt marshes suffering from anthropogenic coastal development and sea level rise
have attracted much attention because of their capacity for carbon sequestration and global …

Leaf area index (LAI) with an explicit biophysical meaning is a critical variable to
characterize terrestrial ecosystems. Long-term global datasets of LAI have served as …

Drought–land cover change (D-LCC) is considered to be an important stress factor that
affects vegetation greenness and productivity (VG&P) in global terrestrial ecosystems …