2026 Qiuhong Tang: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	71	1578	1500	149	147	313	19474

Overview

Qiuhong Tang is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has an extensive body of research in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work primarily focuses on hydrology, watershed management, climate variability, and water resource optimization. The scientist has published nearly 400 works in environmental science and over 120 in earth and planetary sciences, indicating a significant contribution to these fields.

Their research covers several subfields including:

Global and Planetary Change
Water Science and Technology
Atmospheric Science
Ecology
Environmental Engineering

Main topics of their research work include:

Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
Flood Risk Assessment and Management
Climate Variability and Models
Hydrology and Drought Analysis
Cryospheric Studies and Observations
Water Resources Management and Optimization
Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies

Qiuhong Tang has published frequently in several scientific venues, among them are:

Journal of Hydrology
Water Resources Research
Earth's Future
The Science of The Total Environment
Remote Sensing

Recent published papers include:

The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management, 2022, Nature
Projected Impacts of Climate Change on Drought Patterns Over East Africa, 2020, Earth's Future
Deceleration of China's human water use and its key drivers, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Sensitivity Analysis-Based Automatic Parameter Calibration of the VIC Model for Streamflow Simulations Over China, 2020, Water Resources Research
Global Agricultural Water Scarcity Assessment Incorporating Blue and Green Water Availability Under Future Climate Change, 2022, Earth's Future

Coauthors frequently collaborating with Qiuhong Tang include:

Xingcai Liu
Deliang Chen
Siao Sun
Paul P.J. Gaffney
Ximeng Xu

Best Publications

Multimodel assessment of water scarcity under climate change

Jacob Schewe;Jens Heinke;Jens Heinke;Dieter Gerten;Ingjerd Haddeland

1958
Citations
Constraints and potentials of future irrigation water availability on agricultural production under climate change

Joshua Elliott;Delphine Deryng;Christoph Müller;Katja Frieler

1250
Citations
The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management

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549
Citations
Climate change impacts on meteorological, agricultural and hydrological droughts in China

Guoyong Leng;Qiuhong Tang;Scott Rayburg

525
Citations
Cold winter extremes in northern continents linked to Arctic sea ice loss

Qiuhong Tang;Xuejun Zhang;Xuejun Zhang;Xiaohua Yang;Jennifer A Francis

463
Citations
Droughts in East Africa: Causes, impacts and resilience

Gebremedhin Gebremeskel Haile;Qiuhong Tang;Siao Sun;Zhongwei Huang

430
Citations
Projected Impacts of Climate Change on Drought Patterns Over East Africa

Gebremedhin Gebremeskel Haile;Qiuhong Tang;Seyed-Mohammad Hosseini-Moghari;Xingcai Liu

347
Citations
State-of-the-art global models underestimate impacts from climate extremes

Jacob Schewe;Simon N. Gosling;Christopher Reyer;Fang Zhao

296
Citations
Deceleration of China's human water use and its key drivers

Feng Zhou;Yan Bo;Philippe Ciais;Philippe Ciais;Patrice Dumas

290
Citations
Extreme summer weather in northern mid-latitudes linked to a vanishing cryosphere

Qiuhong Tang;Xuejun Zhang;Jennifer A. Francis

284
Citations
Global Agricultural Water Scarcity Assessment Incorporating Blue and Green Water Availability Under Future Climate Change

Unknown

248
Citations
Recent Changes in the Moisture Source of Precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau

Chi Zhang;Qiuhong Tang;Deliang Chen

247
Citations
The footprint of urban heat island effect in 302 Chinese cities: Temporal trends and associated factors.

Qiquan Yang;Xin Huang;Qiuhong Tang

246
Citations
Sensitivity Analysis-Based Automatic Parameter Calibration of the VIC Model for Streamflow Simulations Over China

Jiaojiao Gou;Chiyuan Miao;Qingyun Duan;Qiuhong Tang

237
Citations
Drought: Progress in broadening its understanding

Gebremedhin Gebremeskel Haile;Qiuhong Tang;Wenhong Li;Xingcai Liu

227
Citations
Cross‐scale intercomparison of climate change impacts simulated by regional and global hydrological models in eleven large river basins

Fred Hattermann;V. Krysanova;Simon N. Gosling;Rutger Dankers

214
Citations
Reconstruction of global gridded monthly sectoral water withdrawals for 1971–2010 and analysis of their spatiotemporal patterns

Zhongwei Huang;Zhongwei Huang;Mohamad Hejazi;Mohamad Hejazi;Xinya Li;Qiuhong Tang

212
Citations
Estimating ground-level PM2.5 concentrations in Beijing using a satellite-based geographically and temporally weighted regression model

Yuanxi Guo;Qiuhong Tang;Dao-Yi Gong;Ziyin Zhang

212
Citations
Multisectoral climate impact hotspots in a warming world

Franziska Piontek;Christoph Müller;Thomas A.M. Pugh;Douglas B. Clark

207
Citations
Water budget record from variable infiltration capacity (VIC) model

Huilin Gao;Qiuhong Tang;Xiaogang Shi;Chunmei Zhu

199
Citations
Remote sensing: hydrology.

Qiuhong Tang;Huilin Gao;Hui Lu;Dennis P. Lettenmaier

192
Citations
A Long-Term Land Surface Hydrologic Fluxes and States Dataset for China

Xue-Jun Zhang;Qiuhong Tang;Ming Pan;Yin Tang

180
Citations
Estimating the water budget of major US river basins via remote sensing

Huilin Gao;Qiuhong Tang;Craig R. Ferguson;Eric F. Wood

172
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Guoyong Leng Chinese Academy of Sciences

Yoshihide Wada King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Simon N. Gosling University of Nottingham

Dieter Gerten Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Taikan Oki University of Tokyo

Dennis P. Lettenmaier University of California, Los Angeles

Hong Yang Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

Deliang Chen University of Gothenburg

Katja Frieler Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Yadu Pokhrel Michigan State University

External Links

Personal website of Qiuhong Tang

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