Publications

Books and Book Chapters:

Yi, C., & Kutter, E. (2023). We can’t move mountains: Flow in complex environments. Pages 153-185, in Hiscox, A., McCombs, A., Eds., Conceptual Boundary Layer Meteorology: The Air Near Here, 1st Edition, Academic Press, Cambridge, MA USA, 314 pp., ISBN 978-0128170922. (link)

Yi, C., Nonlinear Sciences and Their Applications to the Geosciences, Meteorological Press, Beijing, 1995. (In Chinese)

Yi, C, Climate Change and Climate Models, Ocean Publishing House, Beijing, 1993. (In Chinese)

First author papers:

Yi, C. M. Rietkerk, J. Anderies, D. Chen, V. Dakos, P. D L Ritchie, J. C Rocha, M. Milkoreit and C. Quinn (2025) Principles for guiding future research on resilience and tipping points, Environ. Res. Lett. 20 (2025) DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/adb7f3.

Yi, C, Q Zhang, A threshold precipitation function determines when ecosystem respiration depends on water (2024) Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02502-9.

Yi, C, V Dakos, PDL Ritchie, J Sillmann, JC Rocha, M Milkoreit, C Quinn,  2024, Earth system resilience and tipping behavior,  Environ. Res. Lett. 19 (2024) 070201. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad5741

Yi, C., E. Kutter, 2023. We can’t move mountains: Flow in complex environments, 153 – 185,  in Hiscox, A., McCombs, A., Eds., Conceptual Boundary Layer Meteorology: The Air Near Here, 1st Edition, Academic Press, Cambridge, MA USA, 314 pp., ISBN 978-0128170922.

Yi, C., Hendrey, G.,  Niu,S., McDowell, N.,  Allen, C. D., Tree Mortality in a Warming World: Causes, Patterns, and Implications, Environ. Res. Lett. 17 (2022) 030201 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac507b.

Yi, C, N. Jackson (2021)  A review of measuring ecosystem resilience to disturbance Environ. Res. Lett. 16 053008 https://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~cyi/Yi_2021_Environ._Res._Lett._16_053008.pdf.

Yi, C., G. Mu, G. Hendrey, S. M. Vicente-Serrano, W. Fang, T. Zhou, S. Gao, P. Xu. Bifurcated Response of a Regional Forest to Drought,  Expert Opin Environ Biol, 7:2, 10.4172/2325-9655.1000153 (2018).

Yi, C., E. Pendall &  P. Ciais, Focus on extreme events and the carbon cycle. Environ. Res. Lett. 10 070201 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/10/7/070201 (2015). Citations (6); JIF (4.134).

Yi, C., S. Wei &  G. Hendrey, Warming climate extends dryness-controlled areas of terrestrial carbon sequestration. Sci. Rep. 4, 5472; DOI:10.1038/srep05472 (2014).

Yi, C., D. Ricciuto, G. Hendrey (2013) Biome Q10 and dryness, The American Journal of Climate Change. 2, 292-295. doi: 10.4236/ajcc.2013.24029, 2013.

Yi, C., G. Rustic, X. Xu, J. Wang, A. Dookies, S. Wei, G. Hendrey, D. M. Ricciuto, T. Meyers, Z. Nagy, K. Pinter (2012) Climate extremes and grassland potential productivity, Environmental Research Letters, 7, 035703 (6pp) doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/3/035703.  

Yi, C., D. Ricciuto, R. Li, J. Wolbeck, X. Xu, M. Nilsson, L. Aires, J. D. Albertson, C. Ammann, M. A. Arain, A. C. de Araujo, M. Aubinet, M. Aurela, Z. Barcza, A. Barr, P. Berbigier, J. Beringer, C. Bernhofer, A. T. Black, P. V. Bolstad, F. C. Bosveld, M. S. J. Broadmeadow, N. Buchmann, S. P. Burns, P. Cellier, J.M. Chen, J.Q. Chen, P. Ciais, R. Clement, B. D. Cook, P. S. Curtis, D. B. Dail, E. Dellwik, N. Delpierre, A. R. Desai, S. Dore, D. Dragoni, B. G. Drake, E. Dufrêne, A. Dunn, J. Elbers, W. Eugster, M. Falk, C. Feigenwinter, L. B. Flanagan, T. Foken, J. Frank, J. Fuhrer, D. Gianelle, A. Goldstein, M. Goulden, A. Granier, T. Grünwald, L. Gu, H. Guo, A. Hammerle, S. Han, N. P Hanan, L. Haszpra, B. Heinesch, C. Helfter, D. Hendriks, L. B. Hutley, A. Ibrom, C. Jacobs, T. Johansson, M. Jongen, G. Katul, G. Kiely, K. Klumpp, A. Knohl, T. Kolb, W. L. Kutsch, P. Lafleur, T. Laurila, R. Leuning, A. Lindroth, H. Liu, B. Loubet, G. Manca, M. Marek, H. A. Margolis, T. A. Martin, W. J Massman, R. Matamala, G. Matteucci, H. McCaughey, L. Merbold, T. Meyers, M. Migliavacca, F. Miglietta, L. Misson, M. Mölder, J. Moncrieff, R. K. Monson, L. Montagnani, M. Montes-Helu, E. Moors, Ch. Moureaux, M. M Mukelabai, J. W. Munger, M. Myklebust, Z. Nagy, A. Noormets, W. Oechel, R. Oren, S. G. Pallardy, K. T. Paw U, J. S. Pereira, K. Pilegaard, K. Pintér, C. Pio, G. Pita, T. L. Powell, S. Rambal, J. T. Randerson, C. von Randow, C. Rebmann, J. Rinne, F. Rossi, N. Roulet, R. J. Ryel, J. Sagerfors, N. Saigusa, M. J. Sanz, G.S. Mugnozza, H. P. Schmid, G. Seufert, M. Siqueira, J. F. Soussana, G. Starr, M. A. Sutton, J. Tenhunen, Z. Tuba, J. P. Tuovinen, R.Valentini, C. S. Vogel, J. Wang, S. Wang, W. Wang, L. R. Welp, X. Wen, S. Wharton, M. Wilkinson, C. A. Williams, G. Wohlfahrt, S. Yamamoto, G. Yu, R. Zampedri, B. Zhao, X. Zhao, Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents, Environmental Research Letters, 5 (2010) doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/5/3/034007.

International Award:

      This paper was awarded the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) 2012 Norbert Gerbier-MUMM International Medal and Prize (€7,600) on 2 July 2012 at the International Award Ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland. More

 Yi, C. (2009) Instability analysis of terrain-induced canopy flows, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 66, 2134-2142, doi:10.1175/2009JAS3005.1.

 Yi, C. (2008) Momentum transfer within canopies, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 47, 262-275, doi:10.1175/2007JAMC1667.1.

Yi, C.,  D. E. Anderson, A. A. Turnipseed, S. P. Burns, and J. Sparks, D. Stannard, and K. R. Monson (2008)  The contribution of advective fluxes to net ecosystem CO2 exchange in a high-elevation, subalpine forest ecosystem, Invited Feature in Ecological Applications, 18 (6), 1379-1390.

Yi, C., R. K. Monson, Z. Zhai, D. E. Anderson, B. Lamb, G. Allwine, A. A. Turnipseed, and S. P. Burns, Modeling and measuring the nocturnal drainage flow in a high-elevation, subalpine forest with complex terrain, Journal of Geographical Research, 110, D22303, doi:10.1029/2005JD006282, 2005.

Yi, C., R. Li, P. S. Bakwin, A. Desai, D. M. Ricciuto, S. P. Burns, A. A. Turnipseed, S. C. Wofsy, J. W. Munger, K. Wilson, and R. K. Monson, A nonparametric method for separating photosynthesis and respiration components in CO2 flux measurements, Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L17107, doi:10.1029/2004GL020490, 2004b.

Yi, C., K. J. Davis, P. S. Bakwin, A.S. Denning, N. Zhang, A. Desai, J. C. Lin, and C. Gerbig, The observed covariance between ecosystem carbon exchange and atmospheric boundary layer dynamics at a site in northern Wisconsin, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, D08302, doi:10.1029/2003JD004164, 2004a.

Yi, C., K. J. Davis, B. W. Berger, P. S. Bakwin, Long-term observations of the dynamics of the continental planetary boundary layer, Journal of the Atmospheric Science, 58, 1288-1299, 2001b.

Yi, C., P. Gong, M. Xu , and Y. Qi , The effects of buffer and temperature feedback on the oceanic   uptake of CO2, Geophysical Research Letter, 28, 751-754,  2001a.

Yi, C., K. J. Davis, P. S. Bakwin, B. W. Berger, and L. Marr, The influence of advection on measurements of the net ecosystem-atmosphere exchange of   CO2 from a very tall tower, Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 9991-9999, 2000.

Yi, C., K. Liu, and T. Zhou, Research on a formula of rainfall interception by vegetation, Journal of Soil Erosion and Soil and Water Conservation, 2 , 77-79, 1996a. (In Chinese)

Yi, C., K. Liu, and T. Zhou, A model for calculating soil moisture fields in the monsoon region of the eastern part of China, Journal of Soil Erosion and Soil and Water Conservation, 2, 80-85, 1996b.  (In Chinese)

Yi, C., K. Liu, and T. Li, Research on relations of soil zonal distributions with climate in the monsoon region of the eastern part of China, Acta Pedologica Sinica , 32, 385-390, 1996c. (In Chinese)

Yi, C. and T. Zhou, On zonal relation of effective atmospheric emissivity with water vapor and carbon dioxide, Journal of Beijing Normal University, Natural Science Ed., 32, 278-280, 1996d. (In Chinese)

Yi, C., On land surface dynamics, Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 6, 212-219, 1995a. (In Chinese)

Yi, C., Approach on applying the nonlinear theories to formulate a synthetical theory of environment and ecology, Advance in Earth Science, 10, 164-168, 1995b. (In Chinese)

Yi, C., A catastrophe model of debris flow, Journal of Nature Disasters, 4, 53-57,1995c. (In Chinese)

Yi, C., P. Shi, On the natural disaster model, Journal of Nature Disasters, 4, 6-8, 1995d. (In Chinese)

Yi, C., and P. Shi, Entropy Production and Natural Hazards, Journal of Beijing Normal University , Natural Science Ed., 30, 276-280, 1994b. (In Chinese)

Yi, C. and R. Wu, A Self-Organization Climate Model, Scientia Atmospheric Sinica, 18, 129-140, 1994a. (In Chinese)

Yi, C., On earth’s surface dynamics I: A land surface system,  Journal of Beijing Normal University , Natural Science Ed., 30, 511-515, 1994. (In Chinese)

Yi, C., On earth’s surface dynamics II: Governing equations,  Journal of Beijing Normal University. Natural Science Ed., 30, 516-524, 1994. (In Chinese)

Yi, C., Entropy in the Atmospheric System, Scientia Atmospheric Sinica, 18, 367-372, 1989.  (In Chinese)

 Graduate students and postdocs papers:

Zhang, Q, C Yi, G Destouni, G Wohlfahrt, Y Kuzyakov, R Li, E Kutter, D Chen, M Rietkerk, Z Tian, G Hendrey, W Fang, N Krakauer, G Hugelius, J Jarsjo, J Han, S Xu (2025) How Michaelis-Menten Kinetics Can Represent Ecosystem-scale Respiration: Scale and Applicability, Environ. Res. Lett.  DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/adc31a. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adc31a/meta

Zhang, Q, C Yi, G Destouni, G Wohlfahrt, Y Kuzyakov, R Li, E Kutter, D Chen, M Rietkerk, S Manzoni, Z Tian, G Hendrey, W Fang, N Krakauer, G Hugelius, J Jarsjo, J Han, S Xu, 2024, Water limitation regulates positive feedback of increased ecosystem respiration, Nat Ecol Evol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02501-w

Zhang, Q., C. Yi, G. Wohlfahrt, D. Chen, M. Rietkerk, Z. Tian, M. Wu, E. Kutter, J. Han, G. Hendrey & S. Xu, 2024, Climate indices as predictors of global soil organic carbon stocks, Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography, DOI: 10.1080/04353676.2024.2335000

Luo, H., Zhou, T, Yu, P, Yi, C., Liu, X., Zhang, Y., Zhou, P., Zhang, J., Xu, Y. The forest recovery path after drought dependence on forest type and stock volume, 2022 Environ. Res. Lett. in press https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac57e5

Xu, P., Fang, W., Zhou, T., Li, H., Zhao, X., Berman, S., Zhang, T., Yi, C., Satellite evidence of canopy-height dependence of forest drought resistance in southwestern China, Environ. Res. Lett. 17 (2022) 025005, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac4a33

Fang, W., C. Yi, D. Chen, P. Xu, G. Hendrey, N. Krakauer, K. Jensen, S. Gao, Z. Lin, G. Lam, Q. Zhang, T. Zhou, 2021, Hotter and Drier Climate Made the Mediterranean Europe and Northern Africa Region a Shrubbier Landscape, Oecologia, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00442-021-05041-3

Ramadhin, C., C. Yi, G. R Hendrey (2021) Temperature variance portends and indicates the extent of abrupt climate shifts, IOPSciNotes https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2633-1357/abda14

Gao, S., T. Zhou, C. Yi, P. Shi, W. Fang, R. Liu, E. Liang, J. J. Camareroh, Asymmetric impacts of dryness and wetness on tree growth and forest coverage, Agric. Forest Meteorol., 288–289, 2020, 107980, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.107980.

Ramadhin, C., and C. Yi, 2020: ESD Ideas: Why are glaciations slower than deglaciations? Earth Syst. Dynam., 11, 13–16, 2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-11-13-2020.

Xu, P., W. Fang, T. Zhou, X. Zhao, H. Luo, G. Hendrey, and C. Yi, Spatial upscaling of tree-ring-based forest response to drought with satellite data, Remote Sens. 2019, 11(20), 2344; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11202344.

Gao, S., R. Liu, T. Zhou, W. Fang, C. Yi, R. Lu, X. Zhao, H. Luo, Dynamic responses of tree-ring growth to multiple dimensions of drought, Global Change Biology, DOI:10.1111/gcb.14367 (2018).

Xu, P., T. Zhou, C. Yi, W. Fang, G. Hendrey, and X. Zhao, Forest drought resistance distinguished by canopy height, Environ. Res. Lett. 13 (2018) 075003 (2018).

Xu, P., T. Zhou, C. Yi, H. Luo, X. Zhao, W. Fang, S. Gao, X. Liu, Impacts of Water Stress on Forest Recovery and Its Interaction with Canopy Height, Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 15, 1257; doi:10.3390/ijerph15061257 (2018).

Ramadhin, C., and C. Yi, 2019: Why are glacial inceptions slower than terminations? Earth Syst. Dynam. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-2019-10.

Luo, H., T. Zhou, C. Yi, P. Xu, X. Zhao, S. Gao, X. Liu,  Stock volume dependency of forest drought responses in Yunnan, China, Forests, 9(4), 209; doi:10.3390/f9040209 (2018).

Kutter, E., C. Yi, G. Hendrey, H. Liu, T. Eaton, W. Ni-Meister, Recirculation over Complex Terrain, Journal of Geophysical Research, 122, doi:10.1002/2016JD026409, (2017).

Xu, X., C. Yi, L. Montagnani, E. Kutter, Numerical Study of the interplay between thermo-topographic slope flow and synoptic flow on canopy transport processes, Agric. Forest Meteorol., doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.03.004. (2017).

Wei, S., C. Yi, W. Fang, G. Hendrey, A global Study of GPP focusing on Light Use Efficiency in a Random Forest Regression Model, Ecosphere 8(5):e01724. 10.1002/ecs2.1724 (2017).

Xu, X., C. Yi, and E. Kutter,  Stably stratified canopy flow in complex terrain, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 7457-7470, doi:10.5194/acp-15-7457-2015, (2015).

Huang, K., C. Yi, D. Wu, T. Zhou, X. Zhao, W. J. Blanford, S. Wei, H. Wu, D. Ling, and Z. Li, Tipping point of a conifer forest ecosystem under severe drought, Environ. Res. Lett. 10 024011 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/10/2/024011 (2015).

Wei, S., C. Yi, G. Hendrey, T. Eaton, G. Rustic, S. Wang, H. Liu, N. Y. Krakauer, W. Wang, A. R. Desai, L. Montagnani, K. T. Paw U, M. Falk, A. Black, C. Bernhofer, T. Grünwald, T. Laurila, A. Cescatti, E. Moors, R. Bracho, and R. Valentini, Data-based perfect-deficit approach to understanding climate extremes and forest carbon assimilation capacity, Environ. Res. Lett. 9 065002 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/9/6/065002. (2014)

Xu, X., C. Yi (2012) the influence of geometry on recirculation and CO2 transport over forested hills, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, DOI: 10.1007/s00703-012-0224-6. 

Chen, H., and C. Yi (2012) Optimal control of katabatic flows within canopies, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, DOI:10.1002/qj.1904.

 Collaborative papers:

Li, F., Xin, Q., Yi, C., Kannenberg, S. A., Green, J. K., Migliavacca, M., Moore, D. J. P., Kemanian, A. R., Gentine, P., Stoy, P. C., Zhang, F., Xiong, Y., & Fu, Z. (2025), Limited regulation of canopy water use efficiency by stomatal behavior under drought propagation. Global Change Biology, 31, e70381. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70381 

Tian, Z, Y Fu, T Zhou, C Yi, E Kutter, Q Zhang, NY Krakauer (2024), Estimating forest gross primary production using machine learning, light use efficiency model, and global eddy covariance data , Forests, 15(9), 1615, doi: 10.3390/f15091615

Tian, Z., Yi, C., Fu, Y., Kutter, E., Krakauer, N. Y., Fang, W., et al. (2023). Fusion of multiple models for improving gross primary production estimation with eddy covariance data based on machine learning. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 128, 2022JG007122. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JG007122

Wohlfahrt, G., A. Hammerle, F. M. Spielmann, F. Kitz, and C. Yi, Technical note: Novel estimates of the leaf relative uptake rate of carbonyl sulfide from optimality theory, Biogeosciences, 20, 589–596, 2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-589-2023.

Manuel Helbig,  Tobias Gerken, Eric Beamesderfer, Dennis D. Baldocchi, Tirtha Banerjee, Sébastien C. Biraud, William O.J. Brown, Nathaniel A. Brunsell, Elizabeth A Burakowski, Sean P. Burns, Brian J. Butterworth, W. Stephen Chan, Kenneth J. Davis, Ankur R. Desai, Jose D. Fuentes, David Y. Hollinger, Natascha Kljun, Matthias Mauder, Kimberly A. Novick, John M. Perkins, David A. Rahn, Camilo Rey-Sanchez, Joseph A. Santanello, Russell L. Scott, Bijan Seyednasrollah, Paul C. Stoy, Ryan C. Sullivan, Jordi Vilà-Guerau de Arellano, Sonia Wharton, Chuixiang Yi, Andrew D. Richardson (2021) Integrating continuous atmospheric boundary layer and tower-based flux measurements to advance understanding of land-atmosphere interactions Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 307 15 September 2021, 108509. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168192321001933

Lupo, A.R.; Chernokulsky, A.V.; Gimeno, L.; Mao, J.; Matzarakis, A.; Tzanis, C.G.; Yi, C. Special Issue: 10th Anniversary of Atmosphere: Climatology and Meteorology. Atmosphere 2021, 12, 681. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12060681.

Tian, Z, C. Yi, Y Fu, J. Singer , Q Zhang, (2020) Spatiotemporal analysis of weather effects on COVID-19 pandemic transmissions in select US Counties, Journal of Health and Environmental Research 6(4): 104-113, doi: 10.11648/j.jher.20200604.11.

Ma, Y., Liu, H., Banerjee, T., Katul, G. G., Yi, C., & Pardyjak, E. R. (2020). The effects of canopy morphology on flow over a two‐dimensional isolated ridge. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125, e2020JD033027. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD033027.

Li, Z., Z. Zeng, D. Tian, J. Wang, Z. Fu, B. Wang, Z. Tang, W. Chen, H. Y H Chen, C. Wang, C. Yi, and S. Niu, 2020 The stoichiometry of soil microbial biomass determines metabolic quotient of nitrogen mineralization, Environ. Res. Lett. 15 034005, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6a26.

Ma, Y., H. Liu, Z. Liu, C. Yi, B. Lamb, 2019, Influence of forest-edge flows on scalar transport with different vertical distributions of foliage and scalar sources, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 1-19, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10546-019-00475-y, 2019.

Meng, C., D. Tian, H. Zeng, Z. Li, C. Yi, and S. Niu, 2019: Soil acidification impacts on belowground processes: a meta-analysis, Environ. Res. Lett. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab239c.

Burns, S.P., J. Sun, D.H. Lenschow, S.P. Oncley, B.B. Stephens, C. Yi, D.E. Anderson, J. Hu, and R.K. Monson, 2019: Correction to: Atmospheric stability effects on wind fields and scalar mixing within and just above a subalpine forest in sloping terrain. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, doi:10.1007/s10546-019-00436-5, 2019.

Andujar, E., N. Y. Krakauer, C. Yi, F. Kogan, Ecosystem Drought Response Timescales from Thermal Emission versus Shortwave Remote Sensing, Advances in Meteorology, Volume 2017, Article ID 8434020, 10 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/8434020, (2017).

Wang, W. and C. Yi (2012) A new nonlinear analytical model for canopy flow over a forested hill, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, DOI 10.1007/s00704-012-0599-9.

Wang, S., J. Liu, C. Zhang, C. Yi, W. Wu (2011) Effects of Afforestation on Soil Carbon Turnover in China’s Subtropical Region, J. Geogr. Sci., 21(1), 118-134.

Burns, S.P., J. Sun, D.H. Lenschow, S.P. Oncley, B.B. Stephens, C. Yi, D.E. Anderson, J. Hu, and R.K. Monson (2010) Atmospheric stability effects on wind fields and scalar mixing within and just above a subalpine forest in sloping terrain. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, doi:10.1007/s10546-010-9560-6 , 231-262.  

Eaton, T. T., C. Yi (2009) Hydroperiod and hydraulic loading for treatment potential in urban tidal wetlands, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., 6, 589–625.

Zhou, T. , C. Yi, P. S. Bakwin, and L. Zhu (2008) Links between global CO2 variability and climate anomalies of biomes, Sciences in China, Ser D-Earth Sci,. 51, 740-747.

Denning, A.S., N. Zhang, C. Yi, M. Branson, K. Davis, J. Kleist, and P. Bakwin (2008) Evaluation of modeled atmospheric boundary layer depth at the WLEF Tower, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology,  148, 206-215.

Wang W., K J. Davis, B. D. Cook, C. Yi,  M. P. Butler, D. M. Ricciuto, and P. S. Bakwin, Estimating      daytime CO2 fluxes over a mixed forest from tall tower mixing ratio measurements, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, D10308, doi:10.1029/2006JD007770, 2007.

Wang W., K J. Davis, C. Yi, E. G. Patton, M. P. Butler, D. M. Ricciuto, and P. S. Bakwin, A note on the top-down and bottom-up gradient functions over a forested site, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 305-314 2007.

Wang, W., K.J. Davis, B.D. Cook, P. Bakwin, C. Yi, D. Ricciuto, and M. Butler, Surface layer CO2 budget and advective contributions to measurements of net ecosystem-atmosphere exchange of CO2, Agriculture and Forest Meteorology, 2005, 135, 202-214. 

Bakwin, P.S., K.J. Davis, C. Yi, S.C. Wofsy, J.W. Munger, L. Haszpra and Z. Barcza, Regional carbon dioxide fluxes from mixing ratio data, Tellus 56B, 301-311, 2004. 

Cook, B.D., K.J. Davis, W. Wang, C. Yi,  B.W. Berger, P.V. Bolstad, P. Bakwin, J.G. Isebrands, and R.M. Teclaw, Annual pattern of carbon exchange and evapotranspiration of an upland hardwood forest in northern Wisconsin, Agriculture and Forest Meteorology, 126, 271-295, 2004. 

Hurwitz, M.D., D.M. Ricciuto,  P.S. Bakwin, K.J. Davis, W. Wang, C. Yi, and M.P. Butler, Transport of Carbon Dioxide in the Presence of Storm Systems over a Northern Wisconsin Forest, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 61, 607-618, 2004. 

Werner, C., K.J. Davis, P. Bakwin, C. Yi, D. Hurst, and L. Lock, Interannual variability of methane exchange over a temperate-boreal lowland and wetland forest, Global Change Biology, 9, 1251-1261, 2003. 

Davis, K.J., P.S. Bakwin, C. Yi, B.W. Berger, C. Zhao, R.M. Teclaw and J.G. Isebrands, Long-term carbon dioxide fluxes from a very tall tower in a northern forest: Annual cycle of CO2 exchange, Global Change Biology, 9, 1278-1293, 2003. 

Berger, B. W., K. J. Davis, C. Yi, P. S. Bakwin, and C. Zhao, Long-term carbon dioxide fluxes from a very tall tower in a northern forest: Part  I. Flux measurement methodology, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology , 18, 529-542, 2001. 

Zhou T., C. Yi, P. Shi, Relationship between NDVI and climatic factors under different drought conditions, Acta Geographica Sinica, 58, 512-518, 2003. (In Chinese) 

Zhou T., C. Yi, P. Shi, and J. Luo, Research on the feedback mechanism between terrestrial carbon cycle and temperature, Geographical Research, 21, 53-59, 2002. (In Chinese) 

Gong, D., C. Yi, Fractal analysis of climatic proxy, Journal of Beijing Normal University, Natural Science Ed., 31, 400-403, 1995e. (In Chinese).