Recently, a paper published in Earth’s Future by Prof. Lu Hui’s Research Group, titled “Soil Moisture Memory of Land Surface Models Utilized in Major Reanalyses Differ Significantly From SMAP Observation”, has won the Wiley China Open Science Excellent Author Program of Q2 2023, for its top ranking of global downloads within three months after its publication among articles published by Chinese authors in this journal during the second quarter of 2023.

To help China realize the important goal of promoting scientific and technological innovation of basic research raised in the National Plan for Talent Development during the Period of the “14^th Five-Year Plan”, Wiley China has set up the Wiley China Open Science Excellent Author Program, which counts full-text reading downloads of all the articles published by Chinese authors (the institution of the corresponding author being an institution in the Chinese mainland) in a Wiley open access journal recognized by Chinese authors in each quarter in three calendar months following the publication of the articles, and select five papers published by Chinese authors with the highest amounts of downloads, to be awarded with the Wiley China Open Science Excellent Author Award and thank Chinese authors for their major contribution made by them to open science and promoting scientific and technological innovation.

Prof. Lu Hui’s Research Group has been dedicated to the study of land-air interaction based on remote sensing for many years. This award-winning research paper uses the surface soil moisture data observed by the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite in an attempt to deeply and systematically evaluate the hydrometeorological characteristics of four mainstream land surface models at present, and diagnoses and analyzes the possible error sources of land models. The research results can provide support for improving the hydrometeorological simulation and prediction ability of land surface models.

The three authors of the award-winning thesis are a Ph.D. graduate from the Department of Geography of Tsinghua University, He Qing (the first author) from the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Tokyo, Professor Lu Hui (the correspondent author) from the Department of Geography and Professor Yang Kun (the collaborator) from the Department of Geography. The winning paper is supported by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program (STEP, Grant 2019QZKK0206) and the International Partnership Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (182211KYSB20200015).

Certificates of Award

Open Science Excellent Author Program

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022EF003215

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Written by He Qing

Edited by Wang Jiayin

Reviewed by Zhang Qiang