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Lingcheng Li

Land System Modeling
Earth Scientist

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2025

  • Hao Y., J. Mao, C.M. Bachmann, F.M. Hoffman, G. Koren, H. Chen, and H. Tian, et al. 2025. "Soil Moisture Controls over Carbon Sequestration and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Review." npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 8, no. 1:Art. No. 16. PNNL-SA-203137. doi:10.1038/s41612-024-00888-8
  • Huang J., V. Sehgal, L.V. Alvarez, L. Brocca, S. Cai, R. Cheng, and X. Cheng, et al. 2025. "Remotely Sensed High-Resolution Soil Moisture and Evapotranspiration: Bridging the Gap between Science and Society." Water Resources Research 61, no. 5:Art. No. e2024WR037929. PNNL-SA-198309. doi:10.1029/2024WR037929
  • Li L., X. Lin, Y. Fang, Z. Hou, L. Leung, Y. Wang, and J. Mao, et al. 2025. "A unified ensemble soil moisture dataset across the continental United States." Scientific Data 12:Art. No. 546. PNNL-SA-197456. doi:10.1038/s41597-025-04657-x
  • Shi M., N.G. McDowell, H. Huang, F. Zahura, L. Li, and X. Chen. 2025. "Ecosystem leaf area, gross primary production, and evapotranspiration responses to wildfire in the Columbia River Basin." Biogeosciences 22, no. 9:2225-2238. PNNL-SA-195207. doi:10.5194/bg-22-2225-2025

2024

  • Li L., G. Bisht, D. Hao, and L. Leung. 2024. "Global 1 km Land Surface Parameters for Kilometer-Scale Earth System Modeling." Earth System Science Data 16, no. 4:2007-2032. PNNL-SA-186655. doi:10.5194/essd-16-2007-2024
  • Qiu H., G. Bisht, L. Li, D. Hao, and D. Xu. 2024. "Development of inter-grid-cell lateral unsaturated and saturated flow model in the E3SM Land Model (v2.0)." Geoscientific Model Development 17, no. 1:143-167. PNNL-SA-182385. doi:10.5194/gmd-17-143-2024
  • Shi M., L. Li, X. Lin, Y. Fang, and Z. Hou. 2024. An ML-based terrestrial data fusion and augmentation framework to enable advanced understanding of the terrestrial carbon and water interactions. PNNL-36677. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. An ML-based terrestrial data fusion and augmentation framework to enable advanced understanding of the terrestrial carbon and water interactions
  • Shi M., M. Keller, B. Bomfim, L. Li, C.D. Koven, L. Kueppers, and R. Knox, et al. 2024. "Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator (FATES) for Hurricane Disturbance and Recovery." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 16, no. 1:Art. No. e2023MS003679. PNNL-SA-180797. doi:10.1029/2023MS003679
  • Sun S., L. Li, Z. Yang, G. Wang, N.G. McDowell, A. Matheny, and J. Wu, et al. 2024. "Refining water and carbon fluxes modeling in terrestrial ecosystems via plant hydraulics integration." Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 359, no. _:Art. No. 110256. PNNL-SA-205728. doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2024.110256
  • Xu D., G. Bisht, D. Feng, Z. Tan, L. Li, H. Qiu, and L. Leung. 2024. "Impacts of Sea-level Rise on Coastal Groundwater Table simulated by an Earth System Model with a Land-Ocean Coupling Scheme." Earth's Future 12, no. 8:e2024EF004479. PNNL-SA-194173. doi:10.1029/2024EF004479

2023

  • Li L., Y. Fang, Z. Zheng, M. Shi, M. Longo, C.D. Koven, and J.A. Holm, et al. 2023. "A machine learning approach targeting parameter estimation for plant functional type coexistence modeling using ELM-FATES (V2.0)." Geoscientific Model Development 16, no. 14:4017-4040. PNNL-SA-180863. doi:10.5194/gmd-16-4017-2023
  • Xu S., P. Gentine, L. Li, L. Wang, Z. Yu, N. Dong, and Q. Ju, et al. 2023. "Response of Ecosystem Productivity to High Vapor Pressure Deficit and Low Soil Moisture: Lessons Learned from the Global Eddy- Covariance Observations." Earth's Future 11, no. 8:Art. No. e2022EF003252. PNNL-SA-178332. doi:10.1029/2022EF003252
  • Zheng H., W. Fei, Z. Yang, J. Wei, L. Zhao, L. Li, and S. Wang. 2023. "An ensemble of 48 physically perturbed model estimates of the 1/8° terrestrial water budget over the conterminous United States, 1980-2015." Earth System Science Data 15, no. 7:2755-2780. PNNL-SA-188091. doi:10.5194/essd-15-2755-2023

2022

  • Li L., G. Bisht, and L. Leung. 2022. "Spatial heterogeneity effects on land surface modeling of water and energy partitioning." Geoscientific Model Development 15, no. 14:5489-5510. PNNL-SA-174760. doi:10.5194/gmd-15-5489-2022

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