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D-Index
66
Citations
16820
World Ranking
2079
National Ranking
851

Fanrong Zeng 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 Fanrong Zeng sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 159 publications — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Fanrong Zeng 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 Fanrong Zeng sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Fanrong Zeng is affiliated with the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a notable emphasis on topics related to climate variability and models.

The scientist's work covers a range of subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Plant Science, and Computational Mechanics. Main topics explored in their research encompass:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Fanrong Zeng has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Climate
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Recent notable papers by Fanrong Zeng include:

  • WMO Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update: A Prediction for 2021-25 (2022), Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Seasonal Prediction and Predictability of Regional Antarctic Sea Ice (2021), Journal of Climate
  • The relative role of the subsurface Southern Ocean in driving negative Antarctic Sea ice extent anomalies in 2016-2021 (2022), Communications Earth & Environment
  • On the Development of GFDL's Decadal Prediction System: Initialization Approaches and Retrospective Forecast Assessment (2021), Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Are Multiseasonal Forecasts of Atmospheric Rivers Possible? (2021), Geophysical Research Letters

The scientist collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Thomas L. Delworth, Liping Zhang, Xiaosong Yang, Feiyu Lu, and William Cooke. The collaboration with these coauthors spans multiple publications, indicating ongoing research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • GFDL's CM2 global coupled climate models. Part I: Formulation and simulation characteristics

    Thomas L. Delworth;Anthony J. Broccoli;Anthony Rosati;Ronald J. Stouffer

  • The influence of pH and organic matter content in paddy soil on heavy metal availability and their uptake by rice plants

    Fanrong Zeng;Shafaqat Ali;Haitao Zhang;Younan Ouyang

  • The dynamical core, physical parameterizations, and basic simulation characteristics of the atmospheric component AM3 of the GFDL global coupled model CM3

    Leo J. Donner;Bruce L. Wyman;Richard S. Hemler;Larry W. Horowitz

  • Simulated Climate and Climate Change in the GFDL CM2.5 High-Resolution Coupled Climate Model

    Thomas L. Delworth;Anthony Rosati;Whit Anderson;Alistair J. Adcroft

  • Probing the Fast and Slow Components of Global Warming by Returning Abruptly to Preindustrial Forcing

    Isaac M. Held;Michael Winton;Ken Takahashi;Thomas Delworth

  • On the Seasonal Forecasting of Regional Tropical Cyclone Activity

    G. A. Vecchi;T. Delworth;R. Gudgel;S. Kapnick

  • GFDL's CM2 Global Coupled Climate Models. Part II: The Baseline Ocean Simulation

    Anand Gnanadesikan;Keith W. Dixon;Stephen M. Griffies;V. Balaji

  • The North Atlantic Oscillation as a driver of rapid climate change in the Northern Hemisphere

    Thomas L. Delworth;Fanrong Zeng;Gabriel Andres Vecchi;Xiaosong Yang

  • Volcanic signals in oceans

    Georgiy Stenchikov;Georgiy Stenchikov;Thomas L. Delworth;V. Ramaswamy;Ronald J. Stouffer

  • SPEAR – the next generation GFDL modeling system for seasonal to multidecadal prediction and projection

    Thomas L. Delworth;William F. Cooke;William F. Cooke;Alistair Adcroft;Alistair Adcroft;Mitchell Bushuk;Mitchell Bushuk

  • The Role of Mesoscale Eddies in the Rectification of the Southern Ocean Response to Climate Change

    Riccardo Farneti;Thomas L. Delworth;Anthony J. Rosati;Stephen M. Griffies

  • Simulation and Prediction of Category 4 and 5 Hurricanes in the High-Resolution GFDL HiFLOR Coupled Climate Model

    Hiroyuki Murakami;Gabriel A. Vecchi;Seth Underwood;Thomas L. Delworth

  • Genotypic and environmental variation in chromium, cadmium and lead concentrations in rice

    Fanrong Zeng;Ying Mao;Wangda Cheng;Feibo Wu

  • The Impact of the North Atlantic Oscillation on Climate through Its Influence on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

    Thomas L. Delworth;Fanrong Zeng

  • Changes of organic acid exudation and rhizosphere pH in rice plants under chromium stress

    Fanrong Zeng;Song Chen;Ying Miao;Feibo Wu

  • Multimodel Assessment of Regional Surface Temperature Trends: CMIP3 and CMIP5 Twentieth-Century Simulations

    Thomas R. Knutson;Fanrong Zeng;Andrew T. Wittenberg

  • The Central Role of Ocean Dynamics in Connecting the North Atlantic Oscillation to the Extratropical Component of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation

    Thomas L. Delworth;Fanrong Zeng;Liping Zhang;Rong Zhang

  • Regional rainfall decline in Australia attributed to anthropogenic greenhouse gases and ozone levels

    Thomas L. Delworth;Fanrong Zeng

  • SSiB and its sensitivity to soil properties-A case study using HAPEX-Mobilhy data

    Yongkang Xue;Fanrong J. Zeng;C. Adam Schlosser

  • Tropical cyclone sensitivities to CO2 doubling: roles of atmospheric resolution, synoptic variability and background climate changes

    Gabriel A. Vecchi;Thomas L. Delworth;Thomas L. Delworth;Hiroyuki Murakami;Hiroyuki Murakami;Hiroyuki Murakami;Seth D. Underwood

  • The Sensitivity of Surface Fluxes to Soil Water Content in Three Land Surface Schemes

    Paul A. Dirmeyer;Fanrong J. Zeng;Agnès Ducharne;Jean C. Morrill

  • NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE Comments on ''Use of Midlatitude Soil Moisture and Meteorological Observations to Validate Soil Moisture Simulations with Biosphere and Bucket Models''

    Yongkang Xue;Fanrong J. Zeng;C. Adam Schlosser

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas L. Delworth
Thomas L. Delworth Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Gabriel A. Vecchi
Gabriel A. Vecchi Princeton University
Andrew T. Wittenberg
Andrew T. Wittenberg Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Anthony Rosati
Anthony Rosati National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Hiroyuki Murakami
Hiroyuki Murakami National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Thomas R. Knutson
Thomas R. Knutson Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Rym Msadek
Rym Msadek Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Rong Zhang
Rong Zhang National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Gabriele Villarini
Gabriele Villarini Princeton University
Stephen M. Griffies
Stephen M. Griffies National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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