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Deliang Chen

Deliang Chen

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Environmental Sciences
Sweden
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
103
Citations
37928
World Ranking
314
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Deliang Chen is affiliated with Tsinghua University in China and specializes in environmental and earth sciences. Their research contributions span broad areas involving climate variability, hydrology, atmospheric sciences, and global planetary change. The core fields of study include Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, highlighting a focus on understanding natural systems and climate dynamics.

Their work encompasses multiple subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering, and Oceanography. These interrelated disciplines support investigations into climate models, hydrological processes, and environmental impacts on water systems.

Main topics of research covered by Deliang Chen include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Meteorological phenomena and simulations
  • Hydrology and watershed management studies
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Flood risk assessment and management

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Deliang Chen are:

  • Tinghai Ou (44 co-authored works)
  • César Azorín-Molina (32)
  • Junguo Liu (32)
  • Lorenzo Minola (25)
  • Lei Wang (23)

Key publication venues where Deliang Chen's work regularly appears include:

  • Climate Dynamics (28 publications)
  • Geophysical Research Letters (24)
  • Environmental Research Letters (22)
  • Advances in Climate Change Research (22)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (21)

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Deliang Chen are:

  • The imbalance of the Asian water tower, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Quantifying the impacts of climate change and extreme climate events on energy systems, 2020, Nature Energy
  • Warming amplification over the Arctic Pole and Third Pole: Trends, mechanisms and consequences, 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Abrupt shift to hotter and drier climate over inner East Asia beyond the tipping point, 2020, Science
  • Elevation dependent warming over the Tibetan Plateau: Patterns, mechanisms and perspectives, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews

Best Publications

  • Recent Third Pole’s Rapid Warming Accompanies Cryospheric Melt and Water Cycle Intensification and Interactions between Monsoon and Environment: Multidisciplinary Approach with Observations, Modeling, and Analysis

    Tandong Yao;Yongkang Xue;Deliang Chen;Fahu Chen

  • Regional Climate Information—Evaluation and Projections

    F. Giorgi;J. Christensen;M. Hulme;H. von Storch

  • Using the Köppen classification to quantify climate variation and change: An example for 1901–2010

    Deliang Chen;Hans Weiteng Chen

  • Analysis of spatial distribution and temporal trend of reference evapotranspiration and pan evaporation in Changjiang (Yangtze River) catchment

    Chong-yu Xu;Chong-yu Xu;Lebing Gong;Lebing Gong;Tong Jiang;Deliang Chen;Deliang Chen

  • Earth System Science for Global Sustainability: Grand Challenges

    W. V. Reid;D. Chen;L. Goldfarb;H. Hackmann

  • Quantifying the impacts of climate change and extreme climate events on energy systems

    A. T.D. Perera;A. T.D. Perera;Vahid M. Nik;Vahid M. Nik;Vahid M. Nik;Deliang Chen;Jean Louis Scartezzini

  • Sensitivity of the Penman–Monteith reference evapotranspiration to key climatic variables in the Changjiang (Yangtze River) basin

    Lebing Gong;Lebing Gong;Chong-yu Xu;Chong-yu Xu;Deliang Chen;Deliang Chen;Sven Halldin

  • Evaporative cooling over the Tibetan Plateau induced by vegetation growth

    Miaogen Shen;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Su-Jong Jeong;Liming Zhou

  • Evaluation of the Global Climate Models in the CMIP5 over the Tibetan Plateau

    Fengge Su;Xiaolan Duan;Deliang Chen;Zhenchun Hao

  • Indices for daily temperature and precipitation extremes in Europe analyzed for the period 1901–2000

    Anders Moberg;Philip D. Jones;David Lister;Alexander Walther

  • PM2.5-induced oxidative stress triggers autophagy in human lung epithelial A549 cells

    Xiaobei Deng;Fang Zhang;Wei Rui;Fang Long

  • A reversal in global terrestrial stilling and its implications for wind energy production

    Zhenzhong Zeng;Zhenzhong Zeng;Alan D. Ziegler;Timothy Searchinger;Long Yang

  • Warming amplification over the Arctic Pole and Third Pole: Trends, mechanisms and consequences

    Qinglong You;Ziyi Cai;Nick Pepin;Deliang Chen

  • Empirical-Statistical Downscaling

    Rasmus E Benestad;Inger Hanssen-Bauer;Deliang Chen

  • Linking atmospheric pollution to cryospheric change in the Third Pole region: current progress and future prospects

    Shichang Kang;Shichang Kang;Qianggong Zhang;Yun Qian;Zhenming Ji

  • Forty years of reform and opening up: China’s progress toward a sustainable path

    Yonglong Lu;Yonglong Lu;Yueqing Zhang;Xianghui Cao;Chenchen Wang

  • Heavy pollution suppresses light rain in China: Observations and modeling

    Yun Qian;Daoyi Gong;Jiwen Fan;L. Ruby Leung

  • Comparison of the Thornthwaite method and pan data with the standard Penman-Monteith estimates of reference evapotranspiration in China

    Deliang Chen;Ge Gao;Chong Yu Xu;Jun Guo

  • Changes of effective temperature and cold/hot days in late decades over China based on a high resolution gridded observation dataset

    Jia Wu;Xuejie Gao;Filippo Giorgi;Deliang Chen

  • The Beijing Climate Center atmospheric general circulation model: description and its performance for the present-day climate

    Tongwen Wu;Rucong Yu;Fang Zhang;Zaizhi Wang

  • Annual temperatures during the last 2485 years in the mid-eastern Tibetan Plateau inferred from tree rings

    Yu Liu;Yu Liu;ZhiSheng An;Hans W. Linderholm;DeLiang Chen

  • CHAPTER 2: ARCTIC CLIMATE - Past and Present

    G. Alekseev;D. Chen;E. Førland;J. Fyfe

Frequent Co-Authors

Cesar Azorin-Molina
Cesar Azorin-Molina Spanish National Research Council
Kun Yang
Kun Yang Tsinghua University
Hans W. Linderholm
Hans W. Linderholm University of Gothenburg
Chong-Yu Xu
Chong-Yu Xu North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power
Tim R. McVicar
Tim R. McVicar Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Shichang Kang
Shichang Kang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chang-Hoi Ho
Chang-Hoi Ho Seoul National University
Tandong Yao
Tandong Yao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Bin Wang
Bin Wang University of Hawaii at Manoa

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