NIEER Researchers Helps in Snow Service and Guarantee in Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games

A researcher team led by Prof. WANG Feiteng from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences will provide technical support and service guarantee for the snow events of 2022 Beijing Winter Games in terms of snow making, snow storage, snow quality guarantee and ...

Chinese Researchers Release High-resolution Radiometer Snow Cover Extent Product

Researchers from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences released a long-term Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) snow cover extent (SCE) product of cloud-free snow cover area in China from 1981 to 2019.

Future Sea Ice Changes Will Affect Navigability in the Arctic

In view of this, a research team led by KANG Shichang from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has investigated the change of arctic sea ice in the future and navigation status.

Chinese Institutes Generate High-Resolution Snow Cover Dataset

Effect of Afforestation on Soil Fungal Community Structures is Greater Than Spatial Distance

Researchers from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) conducted a study by investigating the variations of soil fungal diversity and community structures under afforestation in Nanliu River Basin, where paddy field and dry farmland were converted t...

Freezing-Thawing Attenuation Coefficient Helps Evaluate Dynamic Characteristics of Frozen Surbage Soil

Chinese researchers recently investigated the evolution features of dynamic stiffness parameters in the small strain range to determine the effects of freeze-thaw cycles on the dynamic responses of frozen subgrade soil, which could provide a useful and important reference for assessing the degeneration of engineerin...

Precipitation Pattern and Vegetation Cover Type Affect Deep Percolation and Groundwater Recharge

Chinese researchers recently found that the interaction between precipitation pattern and vegetation cover type affect deep percolation and groundwater recharge in semi-arid sandy land.

Radar Remote Sensing Reveals Magnitudes and Patterns of Large-scale Permafrost Ground Deformation

Researchers from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) developed a MODIS-Land-Surface-Temperature-Integrated InSAR approach to reconstruct the permafrost-related ground deformation, and they observed widespread seasonal and long-term ground deformation on t...