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Chengguang Lai 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 Chengguang Lai sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 82 publications — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Chengguang Lai 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 Chengguang Lai sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Chengguang Lai is affiliated with South China University of Technology in China. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a significant number of publications in subfields such as global and planetary change, atmospheric science, water science and technology, environmental engineering, and earth-surface processes.

The scientist's work covers several key topics, including:

  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Climate variability and models
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

Their recent papers include:

  • "The capacity of grey infrastructure in urban flood management: A comprehensive analysis of grey infrastructure and the green-grey approach" (2021), published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • "Assessment of the vulnerability of road networks to urban waterlogging based on a coupled hydrodynamic model" (2021), published in the Journal of Hydrology
  • "Fast simulation and prediction of urban pluvial floods using a deep convolutional neural network model" (2023), published in the Journal of Hydrology
  • "Quantitative assessment of the relative impacts of climate change and human activity on flood susceptibility based on a cloud model" (2020), published in the Journal of Hydrology
  • "Long-range precipitation forecast based on multipole and preceding fluctuations of sea surface temperature" (2022), published in the International Journal of Climatology

Chengguang Lai frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of Hydrology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies
  • Remote Sensing
  • International Journal of Climatology

The scientist collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Zhaoli Wang
  • Xushu Wu
  • Xiaohong Chen
  • Zhaoyang Zeng
  • Yaoxing Liao

Best Publications

  • Flood hazard risk assessment model based on random forest

    Zhaoli Wang;Chengguang Lai;Chengguang Lai;Xiaohong Chen;Bing Yang

  • Evaluation of the GPM IMERG satellite-based precipitation products and the hydrological utility

    Zhaoli Wang;Ruida Zhong;Ruida Zhong;Chengguang Lai;Jiachao Chen

  • A fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model for flood risk based on the combination weight of game theory

    Chengguang Lai;Xiaohong Chen;Xiaoyu Chen;Zhaoli Wang

  • Spatiotemporal variability of reference evapotranspiration and contributing climatic factors in China during 1961-2013

    Zhaoli Wang;Peiwei Xie;Chengguang Lai;Chengguang Lai;Xiaohong Chen

  • Does drought in China show a significant decreasing trend from 1961 to 2009

    Zhaoli Wang;Jun Li;Chengguang Lai;Chengguang Lai;Zhaoyang Zeng

  • Drought monitoring utility of satellite-based precipitation products across mainland China

    Ruida Zhong;Ruida Zhong;Xiaohong Chen;Chengguang Lai;Zhaoli Wang

  • Climate change enhances the severity and variability of drought in the Pearl River Basin in South China in the 21st century

    Zhaoli Wang;Ruida Zhong;Chengguang Lai;Zhaoyang Zeng

  • Response of net primary production to land use and land cover change in mainland China since the late 1980s.

    Jun Li;Zhaoli Wang;Chengguang Lai;Xiaoqing Wu

  • The capacity of grey infrastructure in urban flood management: A comprehensive analysis of grey infrastructure and the green-grey approach

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  • Monitoring hydrological drought using long-term satellite-based precipitation data.

    Chengguang Lai;Ruida Zhong;Zhaoli Wang;Xiaoqing Wu

  • Integrating the social, hydrological and ecological dimensions of freshwater health: The Freshwater Health Index.

    Derek Vollmer;Kashif Shaad;Nicholas J. Souter;Tracy Farrell

  • Fast simulation and prediction of urban pluvial floods using a deep convolutional neural network model

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  • Assessment of the vulnerability of road networks to urban waterlogging based on a coupled hydrodynamic model

    Mingliang Zhang;Menghua Xu;Zhaoli Wang;Chengguang Lai

  • Flood risk zoning using a rule mining based on ant colony algorithm

    Chengguang Lai;Chengguang Lai;Quanxi Shao;Xiaohong Chen;Zhaoli Wang

  • Spatio-temporal variation in rainfall erosivity during 1960–2012 in the Pearl River Basin, China

    Chengguang Lai;Xiaohong Chen;Zhaoli Wang;Xushu Wu

  • Strengthened tropical cyclones and higher flood risk under compound effect of climate change and urbanization across China's Greater Bay Area

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  • A novel spatial optimization approach for the cost-effectiveness improvement of LID practices based on SWMM-FTC.

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  • Long‐range precipitation forecast based on multipole and preceding fluctuations of sea surface temperature

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  • Drying tendency dominating the global grain production area

    Zhaoli Wang;Jun Li;Chengguang Lai;Raymond Yu Wang

  • Severe drought events inducing large decrease of net primary productivity in mainland China during 1982-2015.

    Jun Li;Zhaoli Wang;Chengguang Lai

  • Quantitative assessment of the relative impacts of climate change and human activity on flood susceptibility based on a cloud model

    Shanshan Li;Zhaoli Wang;Chengguang Lai;Guangsi Lin

  • A simplified approach for flood modeling in urban environments

    Xushu Wu;Xushu Wu;Zhaoli Wang;Shenglian Guo;Chengguang Lai

  • Applicability of two satellite-based precipitation products for assessing rainfall erosivity in China.

    Yuhong Chen;Menghua Xu;Zhaoli Wang;Ping Gao

  • Drought-Induced Reduction in Net Primary Productivity across Mainland China from 1982 to 2015

    Chengguang Lai;Jun Li;Zhaoli Wang;Xiaoqing Wu

  • Flood Risk Assessment and Regionalization from Past and Future Perspectives at Basin Scale.

    Chengguang Lai;Xiaohong Chen;Zhaoli Wang;Haijun Yu

  • Quantitative Evaluation of the Impact of Climate Change and Human Activity on Runoff Change in the Dongjiang River Basin, China

    Yuliang Zhou;Chengguang Lai;Zhaoli Wang;Xiaohong Chen

  • Tree-ring-width based streamflow reconstruction based on the random forest algorithm for the source region of the Yangtze River, China

    Jun Li;Zhaoli Wang;Zhaoli Wang;Chengguang Lai;Zhenxing Zhang

  • Evaluation and hydrologic validation of TMPA satellite precipitation product downstream of the Pearl River Basin, China

    Zhaoli Wang;Ruida Zhong;Chengguang Lai

  • Reexamination of the Xie model and spatiotemporal variability in rainfall erosivity in mainland China from 1960 to 2018

    Yuhong Chen;Menghua Xu;Zhaoli Wang;Wenjie Chen

  • Implication of climate variable selections on the uncertainty of reference crop evapotranspiration projections propagated from climate variables projections under climate change

    Chengguang Lai;Xiaohong Chen;Ruida Zhong;Zhaoli Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Sandy J. Andelman
Sandy J. Andelman Conservation International
Shenglian Guo
Shenglian Guo Wuhan University
Alison G. Power
Alison G. Power Cornell University
Helen M. Regan
Helen M. Regan University of California, Riverside
David Dudgeon
David Dudgeon University of Hong Kong
Glen M. MacDonald
Glen M. MacDonald University of California, Los Angeles

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