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)
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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.
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- h-index: 27
- Publications: 64
- Citations: 6,551
Positions
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Associate Professor 2018–presentUniversity of Arkansas Geosciences ORCID
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Associate Professor GEAR 230 publications 2019–2026University of Arkansas at Fayetteville Listing
Selected Publications
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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)
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Divergent hydrological responses to restoration between planted and natural forests basins in drylands (2026)
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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)
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Earth greening and climate change reshaping the patterns of terrestrial water sinks and sources (2025)
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Semi-arid rather than arid regions of China deserve the priority in drought mitigation efforts (2024)
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Vegetation greening accelerated hydrological drought in two-thirds of river basins over China (2024)
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Temperature forecasts for the continental United States: a deep learning approach using multidimensional features (2024)
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Observational Uncertainty for Global Drought‐Pluvial Volatility (2023)
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Evaluating Non-Stationarity in Precipitation Intensity-Duration-Frequency Curves for the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, Texas, USA (2023)
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Co-regulation of water and energy in the spatial heterogeneity of drought resistance and resilience (2023)
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Land‐Use Intensity Reversed the Role of Cropland in Ecological Restoration Over the World's Most Severe Soil Erosion Region (2023)
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Compensating Effects Between Climate and Underlying Characteristics on Watershed Water Loss (2023)
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Detectable Increase in Global Land Areas Susceptible to Precipitation Reversals Under the RCP8.5 Scenario (2022)
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A probabilistic framework for sequential drought-fluvial identification, probability estimation and prediction (2022)
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The Reconstruction and Extension of Terrestrial Water Storage Based on a Combined Prediction Model (2021)
Federal Grants 2 $545,027 total
Tunable multi-timescale cortical dynamics: fundamental theory and practical tools
AccelNet-Design: International Networks Towards Future U.S. Urban Resilience (Resilient-NET)
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Top Collaborators
- Compound hot droughts over China: Identification, risk patterns and variations
- Trade-off between carbon sequestration and water loss for vegetation greening in China
- Physical Understanding of Human-Induced Changes in U.S. Hot Droughts Using Equilibrium Climate Simulations
- Dynamic drought recovery patterns over the Yangtze River Basin
- Global Response of Evapotranspiration Ratio to Climate Conditions and Watershed Characteristics in a Changing Environment
Showing 5 of 19 shared publications
- Trade-off between carbon sequestration and water loss for vegetation greening in China
- Global Response of Evapotranspiration Ratio to Climate Conditions and Watershed Characteristics in a Changing Environment
- A hybrid bayesian vine model for water level prediction
- Vegetation controls on surface energy partitioning and water budget over China
- Earth greening and climate change reshaping the patterns of terrestrial water sinks and sources
Showing 5 of 11 shared publications
- Global Response of Evapotranspiration Ratio to Climate Conditions and Watershed Characteristics in a Changing Environment
- Vegetation controls on surface energy partitioning and water budget over China
- Earth greening and climate change reshaping the patterns of terrestrial water sinks and sources
- Vegetation greening accelerated hydrological drought in two-thirds of river basins over China
- Land‐Use Intensity Reversed the Role of Cropland in Ecological Restoration Over the World's Most Severe Soil Erosion Region
Showing 5 of 8 shared publications
- Compound hot droughts over China: Identification, risk patterns and variations
- Dynamic drought recovery patterns over the Yangtze River Basin
- Global Response of Evapotranspiration Ratio to Climate Conditions and Watershed Characteristics in a Changing Environment
- An alternative approach for quantitatively estimating climate variability over China under the effects of ENSO events
- A probabilistic framework for sequential drought-fluvial identification, probability estimation and prediction
- Trade-off between carbon sequestration and water loss for vegetation greening in China
- Vegetation controls on surface energy partitioning and water budget over China
- Earth greening and climate change reshaping the patterns of terrestrial water sinks and sources
- Semi-arid rather than arid regions of China deserve the priority in drought mitigation efforts
- A nature-based reservoir optimization model for resolving the conflict in human water demand and riverine ecosystem protection
- The Reconstruction and Extension of Terrestrial Water Storage Based on a Combined Prediction Model
- The Reconstruction and Extension of Terrestrial Water Storages Based On A Combined Prediction Model
- A nature-based reservoir optimization model for resolving the conflict in human water demand and riverine ecosystem protection
- The Reconstruction and Extension of Terrestrial Water Storage Based on a Combined Prediction Model
- The Reconstruction and Extension of Terrestrial Water Storages Based On A Combined Prediction Model
- Dynamic drought recovery patterns over the Yangtze River Basin
- Earth greening and climate change reshaping the patterns of terrestrial water sinks and sources
- Vegetation greening accelerated hydrological drought in two-thirds of river basins over China
- Land‐Use Intensity Reversed the Role of Cropland in Ecological Restoration Over the World's Most Severe Soil Erosion Region
- A probabilistic framework for sequential drought-fluvial identification, probability estimation and prediction
- Compensating Effects Between Climate and Underlying Characteristics on Watershed Water Loss
- Co-regulation of water and energy in the spatial heterogeneity of drought resistance and resilience
- Land‐Use Intensity Reversed the Role of Cropland in Ecological Restoration Over the World's Most Severe Soil Erosion Region
- A probabilistic framework for sequential drought-fluvial identification, probability estimation and prediction
- Vegetation greening accelerated hydrological drought in two-thirds of river basins over China
- Land‐Use Intensity Reversed the Role of Cropland in Ecological Restoration Over the World's Most Severe Soil Erosion Region
- Divergent hydrological responses to restoration between planted and natural forests basins in drylands
- Estimating the Increase in Regional Evaporative Water Consumption as a Result of Vegetation Restoration Over the Loess Plateau, China
- Vegetation dynamics and their effects on surface water-energy balance over the Three-North Region of China
- Estimating the Increase in Regional Evaporative Water Consumption as a Result of Vegetation Restoration Over the Loess Plateau, China
- Vegetation controls on surface energy partitioning and water budget over China
- Global Response of Evapotranspiration Ratio to Climate Conditions and Watershed Characteristics in a Changing Environment
- Land‐Use Intensity Reversed the Role of Cropland in Ecological Restoration Over the World's Most Severe Soil Erosion Region
- The Reconstruction and Extension of Terrestrial Water Storage Based on a Combined Prediction Model
- The Reconstruction and Extension of Terrestrial Water Storages Based On A Combined Prediction Model
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