Publications

Ziqian Zhong, Hans W. Chen, Aiguo Dai, Tianjun Zhou, Bin He, Bo Su. 2025. Sub-diurnal asymmetric warming has amplified atmospheric dryness since the 1980s. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63672-z

Rising atmospheric vapor pressure deficit (VPD)—a measure of atmospheric dryness, defined as the difference between saturated vapor pressure (SVP) and actual vapor pressure (AVP)—has been linked to increasing daily mean near-surface air temperatures since the 1980s. However, it remains unclear whether the faster increases in daily maximum temperature (Tmax) relative to daily minimum temperature (Tmin) have contributed to risin...

Ziqian Zhong, Hans W. Chen, Bin He, Bo Su. 2025. Contrasting vegetation productivity responses in arid and humid zones to recent changes in diurnal temperature range. The Innovation Geoscience. https://doi.org/10.59717/j.xinn-geo.2025.100163

Biological and ecological processes regulating the ecosystem carbon cycle exhibit varying sensitivities to temperature fluctuations during the day and night. Consequently, the diurnal temperature range (DTR)—the difference between daily maximum and minimum temperatures—plays an important role in modulating carbon assimilation and consumption in plants. Over recent decades, daytime warming has outpaced nighttime warming over la...

Hai-Peng Feng, Bo Su, Jian-Ping Duan, Hong-Yu Zhao, Tong Zhang, Cun-De Xiao. 2025. Increasing extreme heat events in the permafrost region of the Northern Hemisphere. Advances in Climate Change Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accre.2025.11.001

The intensification of extreme heat events is a potent thermal disturbance that can trigger abrupt permafrost degradation. However, a systematic understanding of their spatiotemporal variation across the permafrost region of the Northern Hemisphere (PRONH) is lacking, hindering predictions of regional-scale responses and climate feedback tipping points. In this study, six indices are systematically employed to analyse the hist...

Shiwei Liu, Cunde Xiao, David E. Robertson, Bo Su, Yi Huang, Tianye Wang, Xiaoming Wang. 2025. An enhanced Budyko-based water balance model simulating monthly runoff in headwater catchments of the Tarim River Basin. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2025.102576

Climate warming is rapidly retreating the cryosphere, increasing water yield variability in high mountain catchments and challenging downstream water management. A deeper understanding of water resources involving quantifying runoff components, is crucial for effective adaptation strategies in high mountain catchments. However, data scarcity limits the application of complex physically-based models in high mountain areas. To a...

Can Zhang, Bo Su, Michael Beckmann, Shiming Fang, Yao Xiao, Heng Ma, Ningyu Yan, Martin Volk. 2025. Emergy-based valuation of glacier ecosystem services: A case from the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Environmental Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.123966

Glaciers provide multiple ecosystem services (ES) to human society. Due to the continued global warming, the valuation of glacier ES is of urgent importance because this knowledge can support the protection of glaciers. However, a systematic valuation of glacier ES is still lacking, particularly from the perspective of ES contributors. In this study, we introduce the concept of emergy to establish a methodological framework fo...

Feng, Haipeng, Dai, Xiaoai, Chai, Linna, Su, Bo, Zhang, Tong, & Xiao, Cunde (2024). Landsat data-driven identification of surface soil freeze and thaw states: a comparison of various target detection and semantic segmentation models. International Journal of Digital Earth, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2024.2413889

Frozen soil is a vital component of the cryosphere and is sensitive to climate changes, accelerating thaw when the anthropogenic climate warms. Identifying the state of soil freeze/thaw is crucial for effective water resource management, cold region engineering construction, agriculture development, etc. In this study, we used Landsat remote sensing images data to identify the freeze/thaw state of frozen soil, focusing on the ...

Heng Ma, Gangfeng Zhang, Weihang Liu, Bo Su, Ning Zhan, Yonggui Ma, Weidong Ma, Shuo Chen, Peijun Shi. 2024. Prevention capacity significantly reduced the livestock exposure to snow hazards across the Qinghai Plateau. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104714

Livestock snow disaster is one of the most serious natural disasters in pastoral areas during cold seasons, leading to substantial livestock losses over the past few decades. Accurate assessment of livestock exposure is crucial for reducing the risk of livestock snow disaster, while much less is known about the livestock exposure due to the lack of available gridded livestock density data with long time series. In this study, ...

Can Zhang, Bo Su, Michael Beckmann, Martin Volk. 2024. Emergy-based evaluation of ecosystem services: Progress and perspectives. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2023.114201

This review investigates the potential of the emergy analysis (EMA) as a new perspective and approach to the worldwide used ecosystem services (ESs) framework to quantify and analyse the potential benefits people obtain from ecosystems. Based on bibliometric analysis method, the study systematically investigates the latest developments and issues of application of EMA in ESs in conjunction with thematic analysis. The analysis ...