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2023

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D-Index
105
Citations
38582
World Ranking
270
National Ranking
31

Tianjun Zhou 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 Tianjun Zhou sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 433 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Tianjun Zhou 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 Tianjun Zhou sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 105 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in China Leader Award

Overview

Tianjun Zhou is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research spans across multiple domains within Earth and Environmental Sciences, with a particular focus on climate variability, modeling, and atmospheric phenomena.

The scientist's primary fields of study include Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. More specialized subfields in their research portfolio encompass Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Water Science and Technology, and Environmental Engineering.

The main topics addressed in their work are:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Their frequent co-authors include Xiaolong Chen, Wenxia Zhang, Lixia Zhang, Bo Wu, and Jie Jiang, with collaboration counts ranging from 30 to 60 joint publications.

Prominent publication venues for this scientist are:

  • Journal of Climate
  • Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Nature Communications

Notable recent papers by Tianjun Zhou include:

  • "Increasing precipitation variability on daily-to-multiyear time scales in a warmer world," 2021, Science Advances
  • "The Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System Model Grid-Point Version 3 (FGOALS-g3): Description and Evaluation," 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Monsoons Climate Change Assessment," 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Global Land Monsoon Precipitation Changes in CMIP6 Projections," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Future changes in precipitation over Central Asia based on CMIP6 projections," 2020, Environmental Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Changes in climate extremes and their impacts on the natural physical environment.

    Sonia I. Seneviratne;Neville Nicholls;David Easterling;Clare M. Goodess

  • Atmospheric water vapor transport associated with typical anomalous summer rainfall patterns in China

    Tian-Jun Zhou;Ru-Cong Yu

  • The Asian Summer Monsoon: An Intercomparison of CMIP5 vs. CMIP3 Simulations of the Late 20th Century

    K. R. Sperber;H. Annamalai;I. Kang;A. Kitoh

  • Aerosol and monsoon climate interactions over Asia

    Zhanqing Li;Zhanqing Li;W. K.M. Lau;V. Ramanathan;G. Wu

  • Why the Western Pacific Subtropical High Has Extended Westward since the Late 1970s

    Tianjun Zhou;Rucong Yu;Jie Zhang;Helge Drange

  • Tropospheric cooling and summer monsoon weakening trend over East Asia

    Rucong Yu;Bin Wang;Bin Wang;Tianjun Zhou

  • Detecting and understanding the multi-decadal variability of the East Asian Summer Monsoon: Recent progress and state of affairs

    Tianjun Zhou;Daoyi Gong;Jian Li;Bo Li

  • Advance and prospectus of seasonal prediction: assessment of the APCC/CliPAS 14-model ensemble retrospective seasonal prediction (1980–2004)

    Bin Wang;June Yi Lee;In Sik Kang;J. Shukla

  • Monsoons in a changing world: A regional perspective in a global context

    Akio Kitoh;Hirokazu Endo;K. Krishna Kumar;Iracema F. A. Cavalcanti

  • Responses of East Asian summer monsoon to historical SST and atmospheric forcing during 1950-2000

    Hongmei Li;Aiguo Dai;Tianjun Zhou;Jian Lu

  • Twentieth-Century Surface Air Temperature over China and the Globe Simulated by Coupled Climate Models

    Tianjun Zhou;Rucong Yu

  • Diurnal variations of summer precipitation over contiguous China

    Rucong Yu;Tianjun Zhou;Anyuan Xiong;Yanjun Zhu

  • Seasonally evolving dominant interannual variability modes of East Asian climate.

    Bo Wu;Tianjun Zhou;Tim Li

  • Relative Contributions of the Indian Ocean and Local SST Anomalies to the Maintenance of the Western North Pacific Anomalous Anticyclone during the El Niño Decaying Summer

    Bo Wu;Tim Li;Tianjun Zhou

  • Summer Precipitation Frequency, Intensity, and Diurnal Cycle over China: A Comparison of Satellite Data with Rain Gauge Observations

    Tianjun Zhou;Rucong Yu;Haoming Chen;Aiguo Dai

  • Drought over East Asia: A Review

    Lixia Zhang;Tianjun Zhou

  • Increasing precipitation variability on daily-to-multiyear time scales in a warmer world.

    Wenxia Zhang;Kalli Furtado;Peili Wu;Tianjun Zhou

  • Theories on formation of an anomalous anticyclone in western North Pacific during El Niño: A review

    Tim Li;Tim Li;Bin Wang;Bin Wang;Bo Wu;Tianjun Zhou

  • Seasonality and Three-Dimensional Structure of Interdecadal Change in the East Asian Monsoon

    Rucong Yu;Tianjun Zhou

  • Water vapor transport for summer precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau: Multidata set analysis

    Lei Feng;Lei Feng;Tianjun Zhou

  • Responses of East Asian summer monsoon to natural and anthropogenic forcings in the 17 latest CMIP5 models

    Fengfei Song;Tianjun Zhou;Yun Qian

  • The Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System Model, Grid-point Version 2: FGOALS-g2

    Lijuan Li;Pengfei Lin;Yongqiang Yu;Bin Wang;Bin Wang

  • Relative contributions of the Indian Ocean and local SST anomalies to the maintenance of the western North Pacific anomalous anticyclone during El Niño decaying summer

    Bo Wu;Tim Li;Tianjun Zhou

Frequent Co-Authors

Bin Wang
Bin Wang University of Hawaii at Manoa
Rucong Yu
Rucong Yu China Meteorological Administration
Tim Li
Tim Li University of Hawaii at Manoa
Yun Qian
Yun Qian Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peili Wu
Peili Wu Met Office
Laurent Li
Laurent Li École Normale Supérieure
Aiguo Dai
Aiguo Dai University at Albany, State University of New York
Minghuai Wang
Minghuai Wang Nanjing University
James L. Kinter
James L. Kinter George Mason University
Yimin Liu
Yimin Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences

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