Liming Zhou
Associate Professor
State University of New York
USA
Biography
Liming Zhou is an Associate Professor with the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences at University at Albany, State University of New York. He has a strong publication record in the fields of land-surface remote sensing, land-atmosphere/climate interactions, and land surface/climate modeling (e.g., author or coauthor of 3 book chapters including the IPCC AR4 Report and ~80 peer-reviewed papers in journals including Nature). His peer-refereed publications since 2000 have a total citation of >9500 times (h-index: 36) according to Google Scholar and >5500 times (h-index: 33) according to Web of Science as of March 16, 2017. Prof. Zhou has been active in professional service activities as a NSF program director (2008-2011) and as a reviewer for major highly regarded geophysical journals including Nature and for NSF and NASA proposals. Before coming to US, he was a weather forecaster (1994-1998) at National Meteorological Center in China.
Research Interest
Land-atmosphere/climate interaction, land-surface remote sensing, remote sensing of vegetation dynamics, land-surface modeling, climate modeling, and applications of various remote sensed products in weather, climate, and environmental sciences