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Linyin Cheng

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Associate Professor

Also affiliated: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (2016); Sun Yat-sen University (2020); Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (2015–2018); University of Colorado Boulder (2015–2018); University of California, Irvine (2014–2015); NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory (2017); Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing (2014–2015); NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (2015–2018)

27 h-index 64 pubs 6,551 cited

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  • Conservation of Natural Resources
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  • Geographic Mapping
  • Climate Change
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  • Enema
  • Animals
  • Fishes
  • International Cooperation
  • Reproducibility of Results

Biography and Research Information

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Linyin Cheng's research focuses on environmental science, particularly concerning climate change and its impact on water resources and ecosystems. Cheng has investigated changes in extreme value analysis under non-stationary conditions, relevant for infrastructure design in a changing climate. This work includes developing methods to quantify shifts in precipitation intensity-duration-frequency curves using multimodel ensemble simulations. Cheng also studies the effects of climate change on water consumption, examining how vegetation restoration over the Loess Plateau in China influences regional evaporative water use. Additionally, Cheng's work has contributed to understanding global environmental patterns, such as mapping the world's free-flowing rivers. Cheng holds a h-index of 22 with over 3,445 citations across 42 publications and has been recognized as a highly cited researcher. Cheng has served as a Co-PI on two federal grants totaling $545,027: one from the NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse for tunable multi-timescale cortical dynamics, and another from the NSF for the AccelNet-Design: International Networks Towards Future U.S. Urban Resilience (Resilient-NET) project. Cheng leads a research group and maintains an active lab website at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

Metrics

  • h-index: 27
  • Publications: 64
  • Citations: 6,551

Positions

  • Associate Professor 2018–present
    University of Arkansas Geosciences ORCID
  • Associate Professor GEAR 230 publications 2019–2026
    University of Arkansas at Fayetteville Listing

Selected Publications

  • Enhanced Extreme Precipitation Simulation in China Using NCAR CESM Based on a Realistic Remotely‐Sensed Time Series of Annual Land Cover and Land Use Data From 1982 to 2013 (2026)
    Earth and Space Science DOI OpenAlex
  • Divergent hydrological responses to restoration between planted and natural forests basins in drylands (2026)
    Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Enhanced Extreme Precipitation Simulation in China using NCAR CESM Based on Realistic Remotely-Sensed Land Cover and Land Use Data from 1982 to 2013 (2025)
  • Earth greening and climate change reshaping the patterns of terrestrial water sinks and sources (2025)
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 30 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Semi-arid rather than arid regions of China deserve the priority in drought mitigation efforts (2024)
    Journal of Hydrology 17 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Vegetation greening accelerated hydrological drought in two-thirds of river basins over China (2024)
    Journal of Hydrology 25 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Temperature forecasts for the continental United States: a deep learning approach using multidimensional features (2024)
    Frontiers in Climate 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Observational Uncertainty for Global Drought‐Pluvial Volatility (2023)
    Water Resources Research 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Evaluating Non-Stationarity in Precipitation Intensity-Duration-Frequency Curves for the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, Texas, USA (2023)
    Hydrology 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Co-regulation of water and energy in the spatial heterogeneity of drought resistance and resilience (2023)
    Environmental Research Letters 23 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Land‐Use Intensity Reversed the Role of Cropland in Ecological Restoration Over the World's Most Severe Soil Erosion Region (2023)
    Earth s Future 21 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Compensating Effects Between Climate and Underlying Characteristics on Watershed Water Loss (2023)
    Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Detectable Increase in Global Land Areas Susceptible to Precipitation Reversals Under the RCP8.5 Scenario (2022)
    Earth s Future 11 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A probabilistic framework for sequential drought-fluvial identification, probability estimation and prediction (2022)
    Journal of Hydrology 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • The Reconstruction and Extension of Terrestrial Water Storage Based on a Combined Prediction Model (2021)
    Water Resources Management 4 citations DOI OpenAlex

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Federal Grants 2 $545,027 total

NIH Co-PI Aug 2024 - May 2027

Tunable multi-timescale cortical dynamics: fundamental theory and practical tools

National Institute on Drug Abuse $295,122 R01
NSF Co-PI Sep 2022 - Apr 2024

AccelNet-Design: International Networks Towards Future U.S. Urban Resilience (Resilient-NET)

AccelNet - Accelerating Resear $249,905

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