Yuhan (Douglas) Rao

Also known as: Yuhan (Douglas) Rao
NC Inst of Climate Studies

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6850-3403

Works (28)

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2023 webpage

Opensciency - A core open science curriculum by and for the research community

Almarzouq, B., Azevedo, F., Batalha, N., Bayer, J., Bell, T., Bhogal, S., … Yehudi, Y. (2023, February 22).

By: B. Almarzouq, F. Azevedo, N. Batalha, J. Bayer, T. Bell, S. Bhogal, M. Black, S. Brown ...

Source: ORCID
Added: March 3, 2023

2022 review

A review of Earth Artificial Intelligence

[Review of ]. COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES, 159.

By: Z. Sun *, L. Sandoval*, R. Crystal-Ornelas *, S. Mousavi*, J. Wang*, C. Lin *, N. Cristea *, D. Tong * ...

author keywords: Geosphere; Hydrology; Atmosphere; Artificial intelligence/machine learning; Big data; Cyberinfrastructure
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: February 7, 2022

2022 article

Are We at Risk of Losing the Current Generation of Climate Researchers to Data Science?

Jain, S., Mindlin, J., Koren, G., Gulizia, C., Steadman, C., Langendijk, G. S., … Rabanal, V. (2022, August). AGU ADVANCES, Vol. 3.

By: S. Jain *, J. Mindlin *, G. Koren *, C. Gulizia *, C. Steadman *, G. Langendijk *, M. Osman *, M. Abid *, Y. Rao , V. Rabanal*

author keywords: climate model data; early career researchers; CMIP; climate science; climate research
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: July 26, 2022

2022 journal article

ClimateBench v1.0: A Benchmark for Data-Driven Climate Projections

JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN MODELING EARTH SYSTEMS, 14(10).

By: D. Watson-Parris *, Y. Rao , D. Olivie*, O. Seland*, P. Nowack*, G. Camps-Valls *, P. Stier *, S. Bouabid* ...

author keywords: climate; emulation; precipitation; machine learning
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: October 31, 2022

2022 article

Earth and Space Science Informatics Perspectives on Integrated, Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON) Science

Hills, D. J., Damerow, J. E., Ahmmed, B., Catolico, N., Chakraborty, S., Coward, C. M., … Yao, T. (2022, April). EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE, Vol. 9.

By: D. Hills *, J. Damerow *, B. Ahmmed *, N. Catolico *, S. Chakraborty *, C. Coward*, R. Crystal-Ornelas *, W. Duncan* ...

Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: May 2, 2022

2022 speech

Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science (TAI4ES) Summer School 2022

McGovern, A., Gagne, D., Ebert-Uphoff, I., Bostrom, A., Wirz, C., Rao, D., … Haynes, K. (2022, June).

By: A. McGovern, D. Gagne, I. Ebert-Uphoff, A. Bostrom, C. Wirz, D. Rao, A. Schumacher, M. Flora ...

Source: ORCID
Added: March 9, 2023

2022 article

Warming does not delay the start of autumnal leaf coloration but slows its progress rate

Jiang, N., Shen, M., Ciais, P., Campioli, M., Penuelas, J., Korner, C., … Zhao, W. (2022, August 14). GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY, Vol. 8.

By: N. Jiang *, M. Shen *, P. Ciais *, M. Campioli*, J. Penuelas *, C. Korner *, R. Cao *, S. Piao * ...

author keywords: autumnal leaf senescence; global warming; leaf coloration onset; Northern Hemisphere; photoperiod
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: August 29, 2022

2021 report

A science paradigm shift is needed for Earth and Environmental Systems Sciences (EESS) to integrate Knowledge-Guided Artificial Intelligence (KGAI) and lead new EESS-KGAI theories

By: N. Voisin *, A. Bennett, Y. Fang, G. Nearing, B. Nijssen & Y. Rao 

Source: ORCID
Added: March 9, 2023

2021 journal article

Adopting "Difference-in-Differences" Method to Monitor Crop Response to Agrometeorological Hazards with Satellite Data: A Case Study of Dry-Hot Wind

REMOTE SENSING, 13(3).

By: S. Wang, Y. Rao , J. Chen, L. Liu & W. Wang

author keywords: remote sensing; vegetation indices; winter wheat; heat stress; spectral response; shape model fitting; damage assessment
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: March 1, 2021

2020 journal article

Can changes in autumn phenology facilitate earlier green-up date of northern vegetation?

AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY, 291.

By: M. Shen *, N. Jiang *, D. Peng *, Y. Rao , Y. Huang *, Y. Fu *, W. Yang *, X. Zhu * ...

author keywords: Autumn phenology; Legacy effect; Climate change; Northern hemisphere; Phenological sequence; Spring phenology
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: August 24, 2020

2020 journal article

Response of winter wheat to spring frost from a remote sensing perspective: Damage estimation and influential factors

ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING, 168, 221–235.

By: S. Wang *, J. Chen *, Y. Rao , L. Liu*, W. Wang* & Q. Dong*

author keywords: Spring frost; Winter wheat; Damage assessment; Remote sensing; North China
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: September 28, 2020

2020 journal article

Short-term effects of specific humidity and temperature on COVID-19 morbidity in select US cities

SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, 740.

By: J. Runkle, M. Sugg *, R. Leeper, Y. Rao , J. Matthews & J. Rennie n

author keywords: COVID-19 morbidity; Distributed lag non-linear model; Time-stratified case-crossover; Weather; Seasonality
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: September 14, 2020

2019 journal article

Enterprise LST Algorithm Development and Its Evaluation with NOAA 20 Data

Remote Sensing, 11(17), 2003.

By: Y. Liu, Y. Yu, P. Yu, H. Wang & Y. Rao 

author keywords: land surface temperature (LST); enterprise algorithm; VIIRS; NOAA 20; split window
Source: ORCID
Added: January 3, 2023

2019 journal article

Estimating daily average surface air temperature using satellite land surface temperature and top-of-atmosphere radiation products over the Tibetan Plateau

Remote Sensing of Environment, 234, 111462.

By: Y. Rao , S. Liang *, D. Wang*, Y. Yu *, Z. Song *, Y. Zhou *, M. Shen *, B. Xu*

Source: ORCID
Added: March 9, 2023

2018 journal article

A practical sampling method for assessing accuracy of detected land cover/land use change: Theoretical analysis and simulation experiments

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 144, 379–389.

By: Y. Li *, J. Chen * & Y. Rao 

author keywords: Land use land cover change; Accuracy assessment; Transition accuracy; Sample design
Source: ORCID
Added: January 3, 2023

2018 journal article

Land Surface Air Temperature Data Are Considerably Different Among BEST‐LAND, CRU‐TEM4v, NASA‐GISS, and NOAA‐NCEI

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123(11), 5881–5900.

By: Y. Rao , S. Liang * & Y. Yu *

author keywords: land surface air temperature; intercomparison; surface warming; warming hiatus
Source: ORCID
Added: January 3, 2023

2016 journal article

A Simple Method for Detecting Phenological Change From Time Series of Vegetation Index

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 54(6), 3436–3449.

By: J. Chen *, Y. Rao , M. Shen *, C. Wang *, Y. Zhou *, L. Ma *, Y. Tang*, . Yang *

author keywords: Cross-correlogram spectral matching (CCSM); moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS); phenological change; start of season (SOS); vegetation index (VI)
Source: ORCID
Added: January 3, 2023

2016 journal article

Land cover change detection by integrating object-based data blending model of Landsat and MODIS

Remote Sensing of Environment, 184, 374–386.

By: M. Lu *, J. Chen *, H. Tang*, Y. Rao , P. Yang* & W. Wu *

author keywords: Change detection; Object-based; Data blending; NDVI gradient difference; NDVI time series
Source: ORCID
Added: January 3, 2023

2015 journal article

A method for screening climate change-sensitive infectious diseases

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 12(1), 767–783.

By: Y. Wang *, Y. Rao , X. Wu *, H. Zhao * & J. Chen *

author keywords: climate change; infectious diseases; climate change-sensitive diseases; relative sensitivity; screening method
Source: ORCID
Added: January 3, 2023

2015 conference paper

A quantitative assessment of multiple scattering in plant-soil mixtures and the implications on nonlinear spectral unmixing models

2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS).

By: J. Wang *, X. Cao *, J. Chen *, D. Liu * & Y. Rao 

Source: ORCID
Added: January 3, 2023

2015 journal article

An improved method for producing high spatial-resolution NDVI time series datasets with multi-temporal MODIS NDVI data and Landsat TM/ETM+ images

Remote Sensing, 7(6), 7865–7891.

By: Y. Rao , X. Zhu *, J. Chen * & J. Wang *

author keywords: NDVI time series; linear mixing model; MODIS; Landsat TM/ETM; data fusion
Source: ORCID
Added: January 3, 2023

2015 journal article

Identification of climate factors related to human infection with avian influenza A H7N9 and H5N1 viruses in China

Scientific Reports, 5.

By: J. Li *, Y. Rao , Q. Sun*, X. Wu *, J. Jin *, Y. Bi *, J. Chen *, F. Lei * ...

Source: ORCID
Added: January 3, 2023

2015 journal article

Temperature sensitivity of spring vegetation phenology correlates to within-spring warming speed over the Northern Hemisphere

Ecological Indicators, 50, 62–68.

By: C. Wang *, R. Cao *, J. Chen *, Y. Rao  & Y. Tang*

author keywords: Climate change; NDVI time series; Spring vegetation phenology; Spring temperature; Temperature sensitivity
Source: ORCID
Added: January 3, 2023

2014 journal article

A combination of TsHARP and thin plate spline interpolation for spatial sharpening of thermal imagery

Remote Sensing, 6(4), 2845–2863.

By: X. Chen*, W. Li*, J. Chen, Y. Rao  & Y. Yamaguchi *

author keywords: thermal sharpening; land surface temperature; TsHARP; thin plate spline; error estimation
Source: ORCID
Added: January 3, 2023

2014 journal article

A simple error estimation method for linear-regression-based thermal sharpening techniques with the consideration of scale difference

Geo-Spatial Information Science, 17(1), 54–59.

By: X. Chen*, W. Li*, J. Chen *, W. Zhan * & Y. Rao 

author keywords: thermal sharpening; error estimation; linear regression; equivalent random sample size
Source: ORCID
Added: January 3, 2023

2014 journal article

Earlier vegetation green-up has reduced spring dust storms

Scientific Reports, 4.

By: B. Fan*, L. Guo*, N. Li *, J. Chen *, H. Lin *, X. Zhang*, M. Shen *, Y. Rao , C. Wang *, L. Ma *

Source: ORCID
Added: January 3, 2023

2013 conference paper

Quantitative assessment of the different methods addressing the endmember variability

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 3317–3320.

By: Y. Rao , J. Chen *, X. Chen* & J. Wang *

author keywords: SMA; endmember variability; simulated data; quantitative
Source: ORCID
Added: January 3, 2023

journal article

混合像元分解技术及其进展

遥感学报, 20(5), 1102. http://www.jors.cn/jrs/ch/reader/view_abstract.aspx?file_no=r16169&flag=1

www.jors.cn
Source: ORCID
Added: January 3, 2023

Employment

2022 - present

North Carolina State University Asheville, North Carolina, US
Research Scientist North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies

2019 - 2022

North Carolina State University Asheville, North Carolina, US
Postdoctoral Research Scholar North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies

2015 - 2019

University of Maryland, College Park College Park, Maryland, US
Graduate Research Assistant Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center

Education

2014 - 2019

University of Maryland College Park, Maryland, US
Ph.D. (Geographical Sciences) Department of Geographical Sciences

2011 - 2014

Beijing Normal University Beijing, Beijing, CN
Master of Engineering (Cartography and Geo-information Engineering) Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management

2007 - 2011

Beijing Normal University Beijing, Beijing, CN
Bachelor of Science (Statistics) School of Mathematical Sciences