Prof. Dr. Jian Peng
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)
Head of Department of Remote Sensing (RS)
Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig
Tel.: ++49 341 235 482335
email: jian.peng@ufz.de
University of Leipzig
Full professor for Hydrology and Remote Sensing
Career details
| 2020-present |
Head of Remote Sensing Department Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ |
| 2020-present |
W3 Professor for Hydrology and Remote Sensing Leipzig University |
| 2020-present |
Editor-in-Chief Geoscience Data Journal Royal Meteorological Society |
| 2018-2020 |
Senior researcher University of Oxford |
| 2018-2020 |
Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education University of Oxford |
| 2015-2017 |
Research scientist University of Munich |
| 2013-2015 |
Post-Doc Max Planck Institute for Meteorology |
| 2010-2013 |
PhD in Earth science Max Planck Institute for Meteorology |
Research interests
- Hydrology and the atmospheric environment
- Satellite remote sensing
- Process-based modeling and data-driven methods
- Climate extremes and climate variability
Impact and outreach
“2019 Remote sensing Young Investigator Award, MDPI”https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/awards.pdf....
“In the spotlight – promising future leaders in climate science”
World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)
https://www.wcrp-climate.org/future-science-leadership/spotlight-on-early-career-researchers?view=article&id=1074&catid=23
“Seeing Soil Moisture from the Sky”
EOS BUZZ news & EOS Editors’ Vox
https://eos.org/editors-vox/seeing-soil-moisture-from-the-sky
“Research Collaboration Results In Publication Of High-Resolution Dataset For Drought Monitoring”
NASA Harvest
“UFZ Earth Observation Scientist Prof. Dr. Jian Peng in portrait”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnn5zLfIwYA
Publications
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2023 (19)
- Cuesta-Valero, F.J., Beltrami, H., García-García, A., Krinner, G., Langer, M., MacDougall, A.H., Nitzbon, J., Peng, J., von Schuckmann, K., Seneviratne, S.I., Thiery, W., Vanderkelen, I., Wu, T. (2023):
Continental heat storage: contributions from the ground, inland waters, and permafrost thawing
Earth Syst. Dynam. 14 (3), 609 - 627
full text (doi) - Cuesta-Valero, F.J., Beltrami, H., García-García, A., Krinner, G., Langer, M., MacDougall, A.H., Nitzbon, J., Peng, J., von Schuckmann, K., Seneviratne, S.I., Thiery, W., Vanderkelen, I., Wu, T. (2023):
GCOS EHI 1960-2020 Continental Heat Content (Version 2)
World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) 10.26050/WDCC/GCOS_EHI_1960-2020_CoHC_v2 - Cuesta-Valero, F.J., Peng, J. (2023):
Global ground heat flux from remote sensing data: preliminary results and evaluation
EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023
EGUsphere
Copernicus Publications, p. EGU23-2608
full text (doi) - Dong, H., Huang, S., Wang, H., Huang, Q., Leng, G., Li, Z., Li, L., Peng, J. (2023):
Identifying non-stationarity in the dependence structures of meteorological factors within and across seasons and exploring possible causes
Stoch. Environ. Res. Risk Assess. 37 (10), 4071 - 4089
full text (doi) - Fang, W., Huang, Q., Huang, G., Ming, B., Quan, Q., Li, P., Guo, Y., Zheng, X., Feng, G., Peng, J. (2023):
Assessment of dynamic drought-induced ecosystem risk: Integrating time-varying hazard frequency, exposure and vulnerability
J. Environ. Manage. 342 , art. 118176
full text (doi) - García-García, A., Cuesta-Valero, F.J., Miralles, D.G., Mahecha, M., Quaas, J., Reichstein, M., Zscheischler, J., Peng, J. (2023):
Soil heat extremes can outpace air temperature extremes
Nat. Clim. Chang.
full text (doi) - Gruber, A., Peng, J. (2023):
Remote sensing of soil moisture
In: Goss, M.J., Oliver, M.A. (eds.)
Encyclopedia of soils in the environment, Volume 4 (2nd edition)
p. 618 - 630
full text (doi) - Guo, W., Huang, S., Huang, Q., Leng, G., Mu, Z., Han, Z., Wei, X., She, D., Wang, H., Wang, Z., Peng, J. (2023):
Drought trigger thresholds for different levels of vegetation loss in China and their dynamics
Agric. For. Meteorol. 331 , art. 109349
full text (doi) - Guo, W., Huang, S., Huang, Q., She, D., Shi, H., Leng, G., Li, J., Cheng, L., Gao, Y., Peng, J. (2023):
Precipitation and vegetation transpiration variations dominate the dynamics of agricultural drought characteristics in China
Sci. Total Environ. 898 , art. 165480
full text (doi) - Hannemann, M., García-García, A., Peng, J. (2023):
Transpiration in forest ecosystems based on deep learning and sap flow observations
EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023
EGUsphere
Copernicus Publications, p. EGU23-14104
full text (doi) - Li, J., Leng, G., Peng, J. (2023):
The merit of estimating high-resolution soil moisture using combined optical, thermal and microwave data
IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Lett. 20 , art. 2503405
full text (doi) - Li, S., Wang, G., Zhu, C., Hannemann, M., Poyatos, R., Lu, J., Ullah, W., Hagan, D.F.T., García-García, A., Liu, Y., Liu, Q., Ma, S., Liu, Q., Sun, S., Zhao, F., Peng, J. (2023):
Spatial patterns and recent temporal trends in global transpiration modelled using eco-evolutionary optimality
Agric. For. Meteorol. 342 , art. 109702
full text (doi) - Li, S., Wang, G., Zhu, C., Lu, J., Ullah, W., Hagan, D.F.T., Kattel, G., Liu, Y., Zhang, Z., Song, Y., Sun, S., Zheng, Y., Peng, J. (2023):
Vegetation growth due to CO2 fertilization is threatened by increasing vapor pressure deficit
J. Hydrol. 619 , art. 129292
full text (doi) - Li, Y., Huang, S., Wang, H., Huang, Q., Li, P., Zheng, X., Wang, Z., Jiang, S., Leng, G., Li, J., Peng, J. (2023):
Warming and greening exacerbate the propagation risk from meteorological to soil moisture drought
J. Hydrol. 622, Part B , art. 129716
full text (doi) - Liu, Q., Yao, F., Garcia-Garcia, A., Zhang, J., Li, J., Ma, S., Li, S., Peng, J. (2023):
The response and sensitivity of global vegetation to water stress: A comparison of different satellite-based NDVI products
Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinf. 120 , art. 103341
full text (doi) - Peng, J., García-García, A. (2023):
A new satellite-based product for studying land-atmosphere interactions
EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023
EGUsphere
Copernicus Publications, p. EGU23-2078
full text (doi) - von Schuckmann, K., Minière, A., Gues, F., Cuesta-Valero, F.J., Kirchengast, G., Adusumilli, S., Straneo, F., Ablain, M., Allan, R.P., Barker, P.M., Beltrami, H., Blazquez, A., Boyer, T., Cheng, L., Church, J., Desbruyeres, D., Dolman, H., Domingues, C.M., García-García, A., Giglio, D., Gilson, J.E., Gorfer, M., Haimberger, L., Hakuba, M.Z., Hendricks, S., Hosoda, S., Johnson, G.C., Killick, R., King, B., Kolodziejczyk, N., Korosov, A., Krinner, G., Kuusela, M., Landerer, F.W., Langer, M., Lavergne, T., Lawrence, I., Li, Y., Lyman, J., Marti, F., Marzeion, B., Mayer, M., MacDougall, A.H., McDougall, T., Monselesan, D.P., Nitzbon, J., Otosaka, I., Peng, J., Purkey, S., Roemmich, D., Sato, K., Sato, K., Savita, A., Schweiger, A., Shepherd, A., Seneviratne, S.I., Simons, L., Slater, D.A., Slater, T., Steiner, A.K., Suga, T., Szekely, T., Thiery, W., Timmermans, M.-L., Vanderkelen, I., Wjiffels, S.E., Wu, T., Zemp, M. (2023):
Heat stored in the Earth system 1960–2020: where does the energy go?
Earth Syst. Sci. Data 15 (4), 1675 - 1709
full text (doi) - von Schuckmann, K., Minière, A., Gues, F., Cuesta-Valero, F.J., Kirchengast, G., Adusumilli, S., Straneo, F., Allan, R.P., Barker, P.M., Beltrami, H., Blazquez, A., Boyer, T., Cheng, L., Church, J., Desbruyeres, D., Dolman, H., Domingues, C.M., García-García, A., Gilson, J.E., Gorfer, M., Haimberger, L., Hendricks, S., Hosoda, S., Johnson, G.C., Killick, R., King, B., Kolodziejczyk, N., Korosov, A., Krinner, G., Kuusela, M., Langer, M., Lavergne, T., Lawrence, I., Li, Y., Lyman, J., Marti, F., Marzeion, B., Mayer, M., MacDougall, A.H., McDougall, T., Monselesan, D.P., Nitzbon, J., Otosaka, I., Peng, J., Purkey, S., Roemmich, D., Sato, K., Sato, K., Savita, A., Schweiger, A., Shepherd, A., Seneviratne, S.I., Slater, D.A., Slater, T., Simons, L., Steiner, A.K., Szekely, T., Suga, T., Thiery, W., Timmermans, M.-L., Vanderkelen, I., Wjiffels, S.E., Wu, T., Zemp, M. (2023):
GCOS EHI 1960-2020 Earth Heat Inventory Ocean Heat Content (Version 2)
World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) 10.26050/WDCC/GCOS_EHI_1960-2020_OHC_v2 - Zeng, J., Peng, J., Zhao, W., Ma, C., Ma, H. (2023):
Microwave remote sensing of soil moisture
Remote Sens. 15 (17), art. 4243
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2022 (17)
- Chen, J., Xing, M., Yu, H., Liang, B., Peng, J., Sun, G.-C. (2022):
Motion compensation/autofocus in airborne synthetic aperture radar: a review
IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Mag. 10 (1), 185 - 206
full text (doi) - Cuesta-Valero, F.J., Beltrami, H., García-García, A., Krinner, G., Langer, M., MacDougall, A.H., Nitzbon, J., Peng, J., von Schuckmann, K., Seneviratne, S.I., Smith, N., Thiery, W., Vanderkelen, I., Wu, T. (2022):
GCOS EHI 1960-2020 Continental Heat Content (Version 1)
World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) 10.26050/WDCC/GCOS_EHI_1960-2020_CoHC - Fan, D., Jiang, X., Wu, H., Jiang, Y., Wei, L., Gao, C., Peng, J. (2022):
Comparative analysis of future global drought risk under different scenarios
2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 17-22 July 2022
International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS 2022
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), New York, NY, p. 7958 - 7961
full text (doi) - Fan, L., Al-Yaari, A., Frappart, F., Peng, J., Wen, J., Xiao, Q., Jin, R., Li, X., Liu, X., Wang, M., Chen, X., Zhao, L., Ma, M., Wigneron, J.-P. (2022):
Estimating high-resolution soil moisture over mountainous regions using remotely-sensed multispectral and topographic data
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Observ. Remote Sens. 15 , 3637 - 3649
full text (doi) - Fan, L., Xing, Z., De Lannoy, G., Frappart, F., Peng, J., Zeng, J., Li, X., Yang, K., Zhao, T., Shi, J., Ma, H., Wang, M., Liu, X., Yi, C., Ma, M., Tang, X., Wen, J., Chen, X., Wang, C., Wang, L., Wang, G., Wigneron, J.-P. (2022):
Evaluation of satellite and reanalysis estimates of surface and root-zone soil moisture in croplands of Jiangsu Province, China
Remote Sens. Environ. 282 , art. 113283
full text (doi) - Li, P., Huang, Q., Leng, G., Peng, J., Wang, H., Zheng, X., Li, Y., Fang, W. (2022):
Various maize yield losses and their dynamics triggered by drought thresholds based on Copula-Bayesian conditional probabilities
Agric. Water Manage. 261 , art. 107391
full text (doi) - Li, S., Wang, G., Zhu, C., Lu, J., Ullah, W., Hagan, D.F.T., Kattel, G., Peng, J. (2022):
Attribution of global evapotranspiration trends based on the Budyko framework
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 26 (13), 3691 - 3707
full text (doi) - Li, Y., Huang, S., Wang, H., Zheng, X., Huang, Q., Deng, M., Peng, J. (2022):
High-resolution propagation time from meteorological to agricultural drought at multiple levels and spatiotemporal scales
Agric. Water Manage. 262 , art. 107428
full text (doi) - Mahecha, M.D., Bastos, A., Bohn, F.J., Eisenhauer, N., Feilhauer, H., Hartmann, H., Hickler, T., Kalesse-Los, H., Migliavacca, M., Otto, F.E.L., Peng, J., Quaas, J., Tegen, I., Weigelt, A., Wendisch, M., Wirth, C. (2022):
Biodiversity loss and climate extremes — study the feedbacks
Nature 612 (7938), 30 - 32
full text (doi) - Meng, X., Yang, Y., Zeng, J., Peng, J., Hu, J. (2022):
Improvement of AMSR2 soil moisture retrieval using a soil-vegetation temperature decomposition algorithm
IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Lett. 19 , art. 2507805
full text (doi) - Pyarali, K., Peng, J., Disse, M., Tuo, Y. (2022):
Development and application of high resolution SPEI drought dataset for Central Asia
Sci. Data 9 , art. 172
full text (doi) - Tanguy, M., Peng, J., Robinson, E., Pinnington, E., Evans, J., Ellis, R., Cooper, E., Hannaford, J., Blyth, E., Dadson, S. (2022):
Soil moisture product merged from satellite and modelled data for Great Britain, April 2015-December 2017
Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC] 10.5285/26b8ddd4-09fd-4e40-a556-6a8f3a7481ea - von Schuckmann, K., Minière, A., Gues, F., Cuesta-Valero, F.J., Kirchengast, G., Adusumilli, S., Straneo, F., Allan, R.P., Barker, P.M., Beltrami, H., Blazquez, A., Boyer, T., Cheng, L., Church, J., Desbruyeres, D., Dolman, H., Domingues, C.M., García-García, A., Gilson, J.E., Gorfer, M., Haimberger, L., Hendricks, S., Hosoda, S., Johnson, G.C., Killick, R., King, B., Kolodziejczyk, N., Korosov, A., Krinner, G., Kuusela, M., Langer, M., Lavergne, T., Lawrence, I., Li, Y., Lyman, J., Marti, F., Marzeion, B., Mayer, M., MacDougall, A.H., McDougall, T., Monselesan, D.P., Nitzbon, J., Otosaka, I., Peng, J., Purkey, S., Roemmich, D., Sato, K., Sato, K., Savita, A., Schweiger, A., Shepherd, A., Seneviratne, S.I., Slater, D.A., Slater, T., Simons, L., Steiner, A.K., Szekely, T., Suga, T., Thiery, W., Timmermans, M.-L., Vanderkelen, I., Wjiffels, S.E., Wu, T., Zemp, M. (2022):
GCOS EHI 1960-2020 Earth Heat Inventory Ocean Heat Content (Version 1)
World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) 10.26050/WDCC/GCOS_EHI_1960-2020_OHC - Wang, Z., Huang, S., Huang, Q., Duan, W., Leng, G., Guo, Y., Zheng, X., Nie, M., Han, Z., Dong, H., Peng, J. (2022):
Seasonal propagation characteristics from meteorological to hydrological drought and their dynamics in the headstreams of the Tarim River basin
J. Hydrometeorol. 23 (9), 1487 - 1506
full text (doi) - Wei, X., Huang, S., Huang, Q., Liu, D., Leng, G., Yang, H., Duan, W., Li, J., Bai, Q., Peng, J. (2022):
Analysis of vegetation vulnerability dynamics and driving forces to multiple drought stresses in a changing environment
Remote Sens. 14 (17), art. 4231
full text (doi) - Zheng, X., Huang, S., Peng, J., Leng, G., Huang, Q., Fang, W., Guo, Y. (2022):
Flash droughts identification based on an improved framework and their contrasting impacts on vegetation over the Loess Plateau, China
Water Resour. Res. 58 (9), e2021WR031464
full text (doi) - Zhou, Z., Fang, L., De Lannoy, G., Liu, X., Peng, J., Bai, X., Frappart, F., Baghdadi, N., Xing, Z., Li, M., Ma, M., Li, X., Che, T., Geng, L., Wigneron, J.-P. (2022):
Retrieval of high-resolution vegetation optical depth from Sentinel-1 data over a grassland region in the Heihe River Basin
Remote Sens. 14 (21), art. 5468
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2021 (12)
- Balenzano, A., Mattia, F., Satalino, G., Lovergine, F.P., Palmisano, D., Peng, J., Marzahn, P., Wegmüller, U., Cartus, O., Dąbrowska-Zielińska, K., Musial, J.P., Davidson, M.W.J., Pauwels, V.R.N., Cosh, M.H., McNairn, H., Johnson, J.T., Walker, J.P., Yueh, S.H., Entekhabi, D., Kerr, Y.H., Jackson, T.J. (2021):
Sentinel-1 soil moisture at 1 km resolution: a validation study
Remote Sens. Environ. 263 , art. 112554
full text (doi) - Crowhurst, D., Dadson, S., Peng, J., Washington, R. (2021):
Contrasting controls on Congo Basin evaporation at the two rainfall peaks
Clim. Dyn. 56 (5-6), 1609 - 1624
full text (doi) - Huang, J., Zhang, Y., Bing, H., Peng, J., Dong, F., Gao, J., Arhonditsis, G.B. (2021):
Characterizing the river water quality in China: Recent progress and on-going challenges
Water Res. 201 , art. 117309
full text (doi) - Ling, X., Huang, Y., Guo, W., Wang, Y., Chen, C., Qiu, B., Ge, J., Qin, K., Xue, Y., Peng, J. (2021):
Comprehensive evaluation of satellite-based and reanalysis soil moisture products using in situ observations over China
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 25 (7), 4209 - 4229
full text (doi) - Lu, J., Wang, G., Chen, T., Li, S., Hagan, D.F.T., Kattel, G., Peng, J., Jiang, T., Su, B. (2021):
A harmonized global land evaporation dataset from model-based products covering 1980–2017
Earth Syst. Sci. Data 13 (12), 5879 - 5898
full text (doi) - Peng, J., Albergel, C., Balenzano, A., Brocca, L., Cartus, O., Cosh, M.H., Crow, W.T., Dabrowska-Zielinska, K., Dadson, S., Davidson, M.W.J., de Rosnay, P., Dorigo, W., Gruber, A., Hagemann, S., Hirschi, M., Kerr, Y.H., Lovergine, F., Mahecha, M.D., Marzahn, P., Mattia, F., Musial, J.P., Preuschmann, S., Reichle, R.H., Satalino, G., Silgram, M., van Bodegom, P.M., Verhoest, N.E.C., Wagner, W., Walker, J.P., Wegmüller, U., Loew, A. (2021):
A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications – confronting product characteristics with user requirements
Remote Sens. Environ. 252 , art. 112162
full text (doi) - Peng, J., Tanguy, M., Robinson, E.L., Pinnington, E., Evans, J., Ellis, R., Cooper, E., Hannaford, J., Blyth, E., Dadson, S. (2021):
Estimation and evaluation of high-resolution soil moisture from merged model and Earth observation data in the Great Britain
Remote Sens. Environ. 264 , art. 112610
full text (doi) - Pinnington, E., Amezcua, J., Cooper, E., Dadson, S., Ellis, R., Peng, J., Robinson, E., Morrison, R., Osborne, S., Quaife, T. (2021):
Improving soil moisture prediction of a high-resolution land surface model by parameterising pedotransfer functions through assimilation of SMAP satellite data
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 25 (3), 1617 - 1641
full text (doi) - Su, Z., Ma, Y., Chen, X., Dong, X., Du, J., Han, C., He, Y., Hofste, J.G., Li, M., Li, M., Lv, S., Ma, W., Polo, M.J., Peng, J., Qian, H., Sobrino, J., van der Velde, R., Wen, J., Wang, B., Wang, X., Yu, L., Zhang, P., Zhao, H., Zheng, H., Zheng, D., Zhong, L., Zeng, Y. (2021):
Monitoring water and energy cycles at climate scale in the Third Pole Environment (CLIMATE-TPE)
Remote Sens. 13 (18), art. 3661
full text (doi) - Wang, Y., Leng, P., Ma, J., Peng, J. (2021):
A method for downscaling satellite soil moisture based on land surface temperature and net surface shortwave radiation
IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Lett. 19 , art. 3002105
full text (doi) - Xing, Z., Fan, L., Zhao, L., De Lannoy, G., Frappart, F., Peng, J., Li, X., Zeng, J., Al-Yaari, A., Yang, K., Zhao, T., Shi, J., Wang, M., Liu, X., Hu, G., Xiao, Y., Du, E., Li, R., Qiao, Y., Shi, J., Wen, J., Ma, M., Wigneron, J.-P. (2021):
A first assessment of satellite and reanalysis estimates of surface and root-zone soil moisture over the permafrost region of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Remote Sens. Environ. 265 , art. 112666
full text (doi) - Yu, L., Leng, G., Python, A., Peng, J. (2021):
A comprehensive evaluation of latest GPM IMERG V06 early, late and final precipitation products across China
Remote Sens. 13 (6), art. 1208
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