“Local versus Nonlocal” Enterprise Linkages of Global Cities: A Comparison between Beijing and Shanghai, China by Jiayi Lu, Dongqi Sun, Jiali Yu, Jiaming Li, Fangqu Niu

“…There is a large economic development gap between Beijing and its hinterland, Hebei Province, while Shanghai has formed a highly integrated region with its hinterland, the Yangtze River Delta. According to the Outline of Collaborative Development of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Province, enterprise linkages between Beijing and Hebei should be strengthened in order to narrow the economic gap between the center and the hinterland. …”
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Skillful subseasonal ensemble predictions of heat wave onsets through better representation of land surface uncertainties by Qiyu Zhang, Mu Mu, Guodong Sun

“…Via six strong and long-lasting HW events over the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River (MLYR), HW onset ensemble forecast experiments were conducted with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. …”
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Development of Synchronous Transportation Model for Trackless Vehicle Dispatching During the Construction of Long-Distance Single-Headed Shield Tunnel by Jian Wu, Shao-Hui Tang, Chui-Yi Zhou, Yong Huang, Lei Huang, Hong-Bo Lu, Ning Miao

“…In the present study, the material transportation processes and vehicle transportation parameters have been investigated based on the Sutong GIL Yangtze River Crossing Cable Tunnel. The synchronous transportation model has been established to improve transportation efficiency during the construction stage. …”
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A Dynamical Z-R Relationship for Precipitation Estimation Based on Radar Echo-Top Height Classification by Wenxin Wu, Haibo Zou, Jiusheng Shan, Shanshan Wu

“…The new Z-R relationship is then applied to derive the RQPE over the middle and lower reaches of Yangtze River for two short-time intense rainfall cases in summer (2200 UTC 1 June 2016 and 2200 UTC 18 June 2016) and one stratiform rainfall case in winter (0000 UTC 15 December 2017), and then the comparative analyses between the RQPE and the RQPEs derived by the other two methods (the fixed Z-R relationship and the dynamical Z-R relationship based on radar reflectivity classification) are accomplished. …”
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Genetic Contribution of Ningmai 9 Wheat to Its Derivatives Evaluated by Using SNP Markers by Peng Jiang, Ping-Ping Zhang, Xu Zhang, Hong-Xiang Ma

“…Therefore it serves as an important commercial variety and founder parent in middle and lower Yangtze River of China. To date, 20 new cultivars have been developed from Ningmai 9 and released to wheat production in the last 10 years. …”
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Recent Decreasing Trends in Surface PM2.5 over East Asia in the Winter-Spring Season: Different Responses to Emissions and Meteorology between Upwind and Downwind Regions by Young-Hee Ryu, Seung-Ki Min, Alma Hodzic

“…This system accurately reproduced the monthly means, daily variations, and vertical profiles of PM2.5 during winter and spring over the Seoul Metropolitan Area (SMA) in South Korea and the North China Plain (NCP) and Yangtze River Delta (YRD) in China. Furthermore, it demonstrated that the decline in PM2.5 over the latter nation is attributable to control measures in China that have been in effect since 2013. …”
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Analysis of Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Driving Factors of China’s Nationally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems by Fei Ju, Rui Yang, Chun Yang

“…The results reveal a predominantly clustered spatial distribution of China-NIAHS, centered around the Yangtze River Basin, with significant influences from population density, tourism development, and industrialization. …”
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Influence of Channel Regulating Structures on the Transportation and Dissipation of Supersaturated Total Dissolved Gas by Yun Qing, Qian Ma, Ran Li, Xia Shen, XuJin Zhang, LinFeng Han

“…In this study, a numerical simulation of the TDG at the Yangtze River’s upper reaches (one of the inland waterways in China) was conducted with the establishment of a two-dimensional TDG dissipation model. …”
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High-Temperature Properties of a Long-Span Double-Deck Suspension Bridge under a Tanker Fire by Mengsheng Yu, Qifeng Chen, Xinyu Yao, Xiao Guo, Tianzhi Hao, Hua Wang

“…The main focus of this paper is the behavior analysis of Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge. A three-dimensional thermal model of the bridge was established by the Fire Dynamics software (FDS) to obtain the 3D temperature field distribution, and the thermal analysis result was then applied to the three-dimensional finite element model of the suspension bridge. …”
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Comparison of Satellite-based PM2.5 Estimation from Aerosol Optical Depth and Top-of-atmosphere Reflectance by Heming Bai, Zhi Zheng, Yuanpeng Zhang, He Huang, Li Wang

“…In this study, satellite observations of TOA reflectance and AOD from the Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI) onboard the Himawari-8 geostationary satellite in 2016 over Yangtze River Delta (YRD) and meteorological data are used to estimate hourly PM2.5 based on four different machine learning algorithms (i.e., random forest, extreme gradient boosting, gradient boosting regression, and support vector regression). …”
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Spatio-Temporal Feature Aware Vision Transformers for Real-Time Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Tracking by Hao Zhang, Hengzhou Ye, Xiaoyu Guo, Xu Zhang, Yao Rong, Shuiwang Li

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Effect of adhesive on the anchorage performance of variable curvature waveform clamping anchor for CFRP plate: Experimental investigation and carrying capacity calculation by Yongyu Duo, Minglei Ma, Guowen Xu, Xiaogang Liu

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Multilayer entropy-weighted TOPSIS method and its decision-making in ecological operation during the subsidence period of the Three Gorges Reservoir by Ai Xueshan, Yu Yangxin, Liang Zhiming, Shi Xuanyu, Cao Rui, Zhang Xiaoke

“…The research results of this paper can provide a reference for decision-making on the ecological management of the spawning period of the " Four Major Chinese Carps" in the Three Gorges Reservoir of the Yangtze River.…”
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Research on Historical and Future Spatial-Temporal Variability of Precipitation in China by Jun Yin, Denghua Yan, Zhiyong Yang, Zhe Yuan, Yong Yuan, Hao Wang, Xiaoliang Shi

“…Although the annual precipitation of Yangtze River Basin has an indistinctive decreasing trend, that in the middle and lower reaches has increased and that in the upper reaches has decreased. …”
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Water Use Efficiency and Physiological Response of Rice Cultivars under Alternate Wetting and Drying Conditions by Yunbo Zhang, Qiyuan Tang, Shaobing Peng, Danying Xing, Jianquan Qin, Rebecca C. Laza, Bermenito R. Punzalan

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Impact of Tibetan plateau warming amplification on the interannual variations in East Asia Summer precipitation by XiaoJing Jia, XinHai Chen, Wei Dong, Hao Ma, JingWen Ge, QiFeng Qian

“…When TA exceeds the Northern Hemisphere average, summer precipitation in the Yangtze River Valley significantly decreases, while it increases in North China and South China, resulting in a tripole Pre_EA pattern. …”
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Risk Prediction for Ship Encounter Situation Awareness Using Long Short-Term Memory Based Deep Learning on Intership Behaviors by Jie Ma, Wenkai Li, Chengfeng Jia, Chunwei Zhang, Yu Zhang

“…Experiments were conducted on a set of naturalistic data from various encounter scenarios in the South Channel of the Yangtze River Estuary. The results show that the proposed data-driven approach can predict future collision risk with high accuracy and efficiency. …”
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Improving WRF-Chem PM2.5 predictions by combining data assimilation and deep-learning-based bias correction by Xingxing Ma, Hongnian Liu, Zhen Peng

“…Besides having the best optimization effect over the whole domain, the combined method also performed well in different regions: during the forecasting period of 0–24 h, the RMSEs decreased from 32 % to 62 %, 39 % to 57 %, 28 % to 40 %, and 30 % to 49 % in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Central China, and Sichuan Basin urban agglomerations, respectively.…”
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Flood modeling prior to the instrumental era reveals limited magnitude of 1931 Yangtze flood by Ling Zhang, Zhongshi Zhang, Lu Li, Xiaoling Chen, Xijin Wang, Entao Yu, Pratik Kad, Odd Helge Otterå, Chuncheng Guo, Jianzhong Lu, Mingna Wu

“…We developed a dynamical approach, NorESM-WRF-SWAT, integrating a global climate, a regional, and a hydrologic model to investigate the 1931 Yangtze River flood (the deadliest in the world) and compared it with the 1998’s. …”
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Study on the Impact of Climate Warming on Mariculture in China by GAO Jia, YANG Huaiyu

“…Further research also reveals that in different marine industrial economic circles, the impact of climate warming on mariculture output is significantly different, which has a certain promoting effect in the Yangtze River Delta economic circle, while it has an obvious inhibitory effect in the Bohai Rim economic circle and the Pearl River Delta economic circle. …”
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