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D-Index
41
Citations
9963
World Ranking
7585
National Ranking
2700

Qinghua Ding 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 Qinghua Ding sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 77 publications — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Qinghua Ding 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 Qinghua Ding sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Qinghua Ding is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States and has a research focus primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work covers several subfields, particularly Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, and Geology.

The scientist's research spans multiple key topics including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research

Qinghua Ding has frequently published in several well-established scientific journals. These venues include:

  • Journal of Climate
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Nature Communications
  • Communications Earth & Environment

Among recent notable publications authored or co-authored by Qinghua Ding are:

  • "Tropical teleconnection impacts on Antarctic climate changes," 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Impact of Winds and Southern Ocean SSTs on Antarctic Sea Ice Trends and Variability," 2020, Journal of Climate
  • "Enhanced jet stream waviness induced by suppressed tropical Pacific convection during boreal summer," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Summertime low clouds mediate the impact of the large-scale circulation on Arctic sea ice," 2021, Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Multidecadal modulations of key metrics of global climate change," 2020, Global and Planetary Change

In collaborative work, Qinghua Ding has frequently co-authored publications with researchers including:

  • Ian Baxter
  • Dániel Topál
  • Zhe Li
  • Charles Jones
  • Thomas J. Ballinger

Best Publications

  • Circumglobal Teleconnection in the Northern Hemisphere Summer

    Qinghua Ding;Bin Wang

  • Fundamental challenge in simulation and prediction of summer monsoon rainfall

    Bin Wang;Qinghua Ding;Xiouhua Fu;In-Sik Kang

  • Strong Sensitivity of Pine Island Ice-Shelf Melting to Climatic Variability

    Pierre Dutrieux;Jan De Rydt;Adrian Jenkins;Paul R. Holland

  • Global monsoon: Dominant mode of annual variation in the tropics

    Bin Wang;Qinghua Ding

  • Winter warming in West Antarctica caused by central tropical Pacific warming

    Qinghua Ding;Eric J. Steig;David S. Battisti;Marcel Küttel

  • Changes in global monsoon precipitation over the past 56 years

    Bin Wang;Qinghua Ding

  • Influence of high-latitude atmospheric circulation changes on summertime Arctic sea ice

    Qinghua Ding;Qinghua Ding;Axel Schweiger;Michelle L’Heureux;David S. Battisti

  • Tropical forcing of the recent rapid Arctic warming in northeastern Canada and Greenland

    Qinghua Ding;John Michael Wallace;David S Battisti;Eric J Steig

  • Onset of deglacial warming in West Antarctica driven by local orbital forcing

    T.J. Fudge;Eric J. Steig;Bradley R. Markle;Spruce W. Schoenemann

  • Intraseasonal Teleconnection between the Summer Eurasian Wave Train and the Indian Monsoon

    Qinghua Ding;Bin Wang

  • Influence of the Tropics on the Southern Annular Mode

    Qinghua Ding;Eric J. Steig;David S. Battisti;John M. Wallace

  • Tropical–Extratropical Teleconnections in Boreal Summer: Observed Interannual Variability*

    Qinghua Ding;Bin Wang;John M. Wallace;Grant Branstator

  • Tropical forcing of Circumpolar Deep Water Inflow and outlet glacier thinning in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica

    E.J. Steig;Q. Ding;D.S. Battisti;D.S. Battisti;A. Jenkins

  • Tropical teleconnection impacts on Antarctic climate changes

    Xichen Li;Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Gerald A. Meehl;Dake Chen

  • Objective Definition of the Indian Summer Monsoon Onset

    Bin Wang;Qinghua Ding;P. V. Joseph

  • Recent climate and ice-sheet changes in West Antarctica compared with the past 2,000 years

    Eric J. Steig;Qinghua Ding;James W. White;Marcel Kuttel

  • Centennial Variations of the Global Monsoon Precipitation in the Last Millennium: Results from ECHO-G Model

    Jian Liu;Bin Wang;Bin Wang;Qinghua Ding;Xueyuan Kuang

  • Fingerprints of internal drivers of Arctic sea ice loss in observations and model simulations

    Qinghua Ding;Axel Schweiger;Michelle L’Heureux;Eric J. Steig

  • Global atmospheric teleconnections during Dansgaard–Oeschger events

    Bradley R. Markle;Eric J. Steig;Christo Buizert;Spruce W. Schoenemann

  • Temperature Change on the Antarctic Peninsula Linked to the Tropical Pacific

    Qinghua Ding;Eric J. Steig

  • Coherent pan-Asian climatic and isotopic response to orbital forcing of tropical insolation

    D. S. Battisti;Qinghua Ding;G. H. Roe

Frequent Co-Authors

Bin Wang
Bin Wang University of Hawaii at Manoa
Eric J. Steig
Eric J. Steig University of Washington
David S. Battisti
David S. Battisti University of Washington
Nathaniel C. Johnson
Nathaniel C. Johnson Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Axel Schweiger
Axel Schweiger University of Washington
John M. Wallace
John M. Wallace University of Washington
James W. C. White
James W. C. White University of Colorado Boulder
Gerard H. Roe
Gerard H. Roe University of Washington
Cecilia M. Bitz
Cecilia M. Bitz University of Washington
Adrian Jenkins
Adrian Jenkins Durham University

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