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Buwen Dong publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Buwen Dong sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 149 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Buwen Dong D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Buwen Dong sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Buwen Dong is affiliated with the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple domains within Earth and Environmental Sciences, focusing extensively on the interactions between atmospheric processes and climate variability.

The main fields of study in Dong's work include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

The subfields highlighted in their research are:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Oceanography
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Key topics covered in Dong's body of work include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds

Among the frequent publication venues where Dong's research has appeared are:

  • Climate Dynamics
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Journal of Climate
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Dong has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Simon F. B. Tett
  • Fraser C. Lott
  • Fangxing Tian
  • Rowan Sutton
  • Nicolas Freychet

Representative recent papers authored by Dong include:

  • Recent decadal weakening of the summer Eurasian westerly jet attributable to anthropogenic aerosol emissions, 2022, Nature Communications
  • The dynamic and thermodynamic processes dominating the reduction of global land monsoon precipitation driven by anthropogenic aerosols emission, 2020, Science China Earth Sciences
  • Development, Amplification, and Decay of Atlantic/European Summer Weather Patterns Linked to Spring North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperatures, 2020, Journal of Climate
  • Anthropogenic Influences on the Persistent Night-Time Heat Wave in Summer 2018 over Northeast China, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Anthropogenic Influence on 2018 Summer Persistent Heavy Rainfall in Central Western China, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

The concentration on atmospheric phenomena such as aerosols, their chemistry, and influence on climate models reflects Dong's scientific approach to understanding the complex dynamics of terrestrial and atmospheric systems.

Best Publications

  • The new hadley centre climate model (HadGEM1) : Evaluation of coupled simulations

    T. C. Johns;C. F. Durman;H. T. Banks;M. J. Roberts

  • Monsoon changes for 6000 years ago: Results of 18 simulations from the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP)

    S. Joussaume;K. E. Taylor;P. Braconnot;J. F.B. Mitchell

  • Atlantic Ocean influence on a shift in European climate in the 1990s

    Rowan T. Sutton;Buwen Dong

  • Land/sea warming ratio in response to climate change: IPCC AR4 model results and comparison with observations

    Rowan T. Sutton;Buwen Dong;Jonathan M. Gregory;Jonathan M. Gregory

  • Impact of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation on the Asian summer monsoon

    Riyu Lu;Buwen Dong;Hui Ding

  • The influence of a weakening of the atlantic meridional overturning circulation on ENSO

    Axel Timmermann;Y. Okumura;Soon-Il An;Amy Clement

  • Decadal to multidecadal variability and the climate change background

    David Parker;Chris Folland;Adam Scaife;Jeff Knight

  • Multidecadal modulation of El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) variance by Atlantic Ocean sea surface temperatures

    Buwen Dong;Rowan T. Sutton;Adam A. Scaife

  • Explaining Extreme Events of 2012 from a Climate Perspective

    T.C. Peterson;L.V. Alexander;M.R. Allen;J.A. Anel;J.A. Anel

  • Westward extension of North Pacific subtropical high in summer

    Riyu Lu;Buwen Dong

  • Dominant role of greenhouse-gas forcing in the recovery of Sahel rainfall

    Buwen Dong;Rowan Sutton

  • Mechanism of interdecadal thermohaline circulation variability in a coupled ocean : Atmosphere GCM

    Buwen Dong;Rowan T. Sutton

  • Adjustment of the coupled ocean–atmosphere system to a sudden change in the Thermohaline Circulation

    B.-W. Dong;R. T. Sutton

  • Intercomparison of Simulated Global Vegetation Distributions in Response to 6 kyr BP Orbital Forcing

    S. P. Harrison;D. Jolly;F. Laarif;A. Abe-Ouchi

  • Influence of the Tibetan Plateau uplift on the Asian monsoon-arid environment evolution

    XiaoDong Liu;XiaoDong Liu;BuWen Dong

  • Revisiting Asian monsoon formation and change associated with Tibetan Plateau forcing: II. Change

    Yimin Liu;Guoxiong Wu;Jieli Hong;Buwen Dong

  • Contrasting interannual and multidecadal NAO variability

    T. Woollings;C. Franzke;D. L. R. Hodson;B. Dong

  • Understanding Land–Sea Warming Contrast in Response to Increasing Greenhouse Gases. Part I: Transient Adjustment

    Buwen Dong;Jonathan Michael Gregory;Rowan Timothy Sutton

  • Variability of the North Atlantic summer storm track: mechanisms and impacts on European climate

    Buwen Dong;Rowan T. Sutton;Tim Woollings;Kevin Hodges

  • Enhancement of ENSO Variability by a Weakened Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation in a Coupled GCM

    Buwen Dong;Rowan T. Sutton

Frequent Co-Authors

Rowan Sutton
Rowan Sutton University of Reading
Riyu Lu
Riyu Lu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaodong Liu
Xiaodong Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Laura Wilcox
Laura Wilcox University of Reading
Simon F. B. Tett
Simon F. B. Tett University of Edinburgh
Len Shaffrey
Len Shaffrey University of Reading
Paul J. Valdes
Paul J. Valdes University of Bristol
Nick Dunstone
Nick Dunstone Met Office
Tim Woollings
Tim Woollings University of Oxford
Eleanor J. Highwood
Eleanor J. Highwood University of Reading

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