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D-Index
42
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38780
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7230
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2568

Quanan Zheng 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 Quanan Zheng sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 220 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Quanan Zheng 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 Quanan Zheng sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Quanan Zheng is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences with a specialization in Oceanography, covering a significant number of publications in this field.

Their work also spans several subfields of study, including:

  • Oceanography
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Geology
  • Ecology

Zheng's research topics include:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Climate variability and models
  • Marine and fisheries research

The scientist has contributed to several publication venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Acta Oceanologica Sinica (9 papers)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans (7 papers)
  • Remote Sensing (7 papers)
  • Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (4 papers)
  • Frontiers in Marine Science (2 papers)

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Quanan Zheng are:

  • "Characteristics of Global Ocean Abnormal Mesoscale Eddies Derived From the Fusion of Sea Surface Height and Temperature Data by Deep Learning" (2021) published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "A Machine-Learning Model for Forecasting Internal Wave Propagation in the Andaman Sea" (2021) published in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • "Progress in research of submesoscale processes in the South China Sea" (2020) published in Acta Oceanologica Sinica
  • "Tide-Induced Periodic Sea Surface Temperature Drops in the Coral Reef Area of Nanwan Bay, Southern Taiwan" (2020) published in Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • "Spatiotemporal Distributions of Ocean Color Elements in Response to Tropical Cyclone: A Case Study of Typhoon Mangkhut (2018) Past over the Northern South China Sea" (2021) published in Remote Sensing

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • Lingling Xie
  • Chung-Ru Ho
  • Mingming Li
  • Xuejun Xiong

Best Publications

  • The empirical mode decomposition and the Hilbert spectrum for nonlinear and non-stationary time series analysis

    Norden E. Huang;Zheng Shen;Steven R. Long;Manli C. Wu

  • Upwelling along the coasts of Java and Sumatra and its relation to ENSO

    R. Dwi Susanto;Arnold L. Gordon;Quanan Zheng

  • Wave-induced mixing in the upper ocean: Distribution and application to a global ocean circulation model

    Fangli Qiao;Yeli Yuan;Yongzeng Yang;Quanan Zheng

  • Temperature and Size Variabilities of the Western Pacific Warm Pool

    Xiao-Hai Yan;Chung-Ru Ho;Quanan Zheng;Vic Klemas

  • Remote sensing evidence for baroclinic tide origin of internal solitary waves in the northeastern South China Sea

    Zhongxiang Zhao;Victor Klemas;Quanan Zheng;Xiao-Hai Yan

  • Marine debris collects within the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone.

    William G. Pichel;James H. Churnside;Timothy S. Veenstra;David G. Foley;David G. Foley

  • Statistical and dynamical analyses of generation mechanisms of solitary internal waves in the northern South China Sea

    Quanan Zheng;R. Dwi Susanto;Chung-Ru Ho;Y. Tony Song

  • Theoretical expression for an ocean internal soliton synthetic aperture radar image and determination of the soliton characteristic half width

    Quanan Zheng;Yeli Yuan;Vic Klemas;Xiao-Hai Yan

  • Satellite observation of upwelling along the western coast of the South China Sea

    Nan-Jung Kuo;Quanan Zheng;Chung-Ru Ho

  • Seasonal variability of sea surface height in the South China Sea observed with TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter data

    Chung-Ru Ho;Quanan Zheng;Yin S. Soong;Nan-Jung Kuo

  • Ocean Internal Waves Observed in the Lombok Strait

    R. Dwi Susanto;Leonid Mitnik;Quanan Zheng

  • A Note on the South China Sea Shallow Interocean Circulation

    Fang Guohong;Dwi Susanto;Indroyono Soesilo;Quan’an Zheng

  • Comparison of Ocean-Surface Winds Retrieved From QuikSCAT Scatterometer and Radarsat-1 SAR in Offshore Waters of the U.S. West Coast

    Xiaofeng Yang;Xiaofeng Li;Quanan Zheng;Xingfa Gu

  • Satellite altimeter observations of nonlinear Rossby eddy-Kuroshio interaction at the Luzon Strait

    Quanan Zheng;Chang-Kuo Tai;Jianyu Hu;Hongyang Lin

  • Estimating parameters of a two-layer stratified ocean from polarity conversion of internal solitary waves observed in satellite SAR images

    Zhongxiang Zhao;Victor Klemas;Quanan Zheng;Xiaofeng Li

  • Response of Vietnam coastal upwelling to the 1997¿1998 ENSO event observed by multisensor data

    Nan-Jung Kuo;Quanan Zheng;Chung-Ru Ho

  • Winter‐spring fronts in Taiwan Strait

    Chunyan Li;Jianyu Hu;Sen Jan;Zexun Wei

  • Statistical Characteristics of Mesoscale Eddies in the North Pacific Derived from Satellite Altimetry

    Yu-Hsin Cheng;Chung-Ru Ho;Quanan Zheng;Nan-Jung Kuo

  • Penetration of nonlinear Rossby eddies into South China Sea evidenced by cruise data

    Jianyu Hu;Jianyu Hu;Quanan Zheng;Zhenyu Sun;Chang-Kuo Tai

  • Determination of winter temperature patterns, fronts, and surface currents in the Yellow Sea and East China Sea from satellite imagery

    Q.A. Zheng;V. Klemas

  • Dynamically Active Areas in the South China Sea Detected from TOPEX/POSEIDON Satellite Altimeter Data

    Chung-Ru Ho;Nan-Jung Kuo;Quanan Zheng;Yin S. Soong

Frequent Co-Authors

W. Timothy Liu
W. Timothy Liu California Institute of Technology
Chunyan Li
Chunyan Li Louisiana State University
Victor Klemas
Victor Klemas University of Delaware
William G. Pichel
William G. Pichel National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Fangli Qiao
Fangli Qiao Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
Hui Lin
Hui Lin Jiangxi Normal University
Xinyu Guo
Xinyu Guo Ehime University
Fengyan Shi
Fengyan Shi University of Delaware
David G. Foley
David G. Foley National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Leonard J. Pietrafesa
Leonard J. Pietrafesa Coastal Carolina University

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