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D-Index
57
Citations
12580
World Ranking
3426
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1316

Wei-Chyung Wang 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 Wei-Chyung Wang sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 189 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wei-Chyung Wang 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 Wei-Chyung Wang sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Wei-Chyung Wang is affiliated with the University at Albany, State University of New York in the United States. Their research expertise spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science.

Their work covers several interconnected topics, including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Climate change and permafrost

Wei-Chyung Wang has contributed to numerous publications across various well-known journals and platforms. Frequently, work has appeared in:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Atmospheric Research
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Short-Term Precipitation Prediction for Contiguous United States Using Deep Learning," 2022, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "An observational study of the effects of aerosols on diurnal variation of heavy rainfall and associated clouds over Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei," 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "Evaluation of Simulated Cloud Diurnal Variation in CMIP6 Climate Models," 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "Extreme Snow Events along the Coast of the Northeast United States: Potential Changes due to Global Warming," 2020, Journal of Climate
  • "A Neural Network-Based Scale-Adaptive Cloud-Fraction Scheme for GCMs," 2023, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Some frequent coauthors collaborating with Wang include:

  • Guoxing Chen
  • Xiaoye Yang
  • Qing Bao
  • Jiandong Li
  • Gang Zeng

Best Publications

  • Radiative forcing of climate

    V. Ramanswamy;Keith Shine;Conway Leovy;Wei-Chyung Wang

  • Greenhouse effects due to man-made perturbations of trace gases

    W. C. Wang;Y. L. Yung;A. A. Lacis;T. Mo

  • Regional climate modeling: Progress, challenges, and prospects

    Yuqing Wang;L. Ruby Leung;John L. McGREGOR;Dong-Kyou Lee

  • Assessment of urbanization effects in time series of surface air temperature over land

    P. D. Jones;P. Ya. Groisman;M. Coughlan;N. Plummer

  • A Method of Relating General Circulation Model Simulated Climate to the Observed Local Climate. Part I: Seasonal Statistics

    Thomas R. Karl;Wei-Chyung Wang;Michael E. Schlesinger;Richard W. Knight

  • Winter half-year temperature reconstruction for the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River and Yangtze River, China, during the past 2000 years

    Quansheng Ge;Jingyun Zheng;Xiuqi Fang;Zhimin Man

  • Atmospheric Composition Change: Climate-Chemistry Interactions

    I.S.A. Isaksen;C. Granier;C. Granier;G. Myhre;T. Berntsen

  • Precipitation variability and extreme events in eastern China during the past 1500 years

    Jingyun Zheng;Wei-Chyung Wang;Quansheng Ge(葛全胜);Zhimin Man

  • Associations between China monsoon rainfall and tropospheric jets

    Xin-Zhong Liang;Wei-Chyung Wang

  • A Pacific Decadal Oscillation record since 1470 AD reconstructed from proxy data of summer rainfall over eastern China

    Caiming Shen;Wei-Chyung Wang;Wei Gong;Zhixin Hao

  • Mount agung eruption provides test of a global climatic perturbation.

    James E. Hansen;Wei-Chyung Wang;Andrew A. Lacis

  • Model calculations of the relative effects of CFCs and their replacements on global warming

    Donald A. Fisher;Charles H. Hales;Wei-Chyung Wang;Malcolm K. W. Ko

  • Assessing land-atmosphere coupling using soil moisture from the Global Land Data Assimilation System and observational precipitation

    Jingyong Zhang;Wei Chyung Wang;Jiangfeng Wei

  • Climatic forcing of nitrogen oxides through changes in tropospheric ozone and methane; global 3D model studies

    Jan S. Fuglestvedt;Terje K. Berntsen;Ivar S.A. Isaksen;Huiting Mao

  • Atmospheric sulfur hexafluoride: Sources, sinks and greenhouse warming

    Malcolm K. W. Ko;Nien Dak Sze;Wei-Chyung Wang;George Shia

  • Exceptional drought events over eastern China during the last five centuries

    Caiming Shen;Wei-Chyung Wang;Zhixin Hao;Wei Gong

  • Temperature variation through 2000 years in China: An uncertainty analysis of reconstruction and regional difference

    Q.-S. Ge;J.-Y. Zheng;Z.-X. Hao;X.-M. Shao

  • Urban heat islands in China

    Wei-Chyung Wang;Zhaomei Zeng;Thomas R. Karl

  • Climatic Effects Due to Halogenated Compounds in the Earth’s Atmosphere

    Wei-Chyung Wang;Joseph P. Pinto;Yuk Ling Yung

  • Inadequacy of effective Co2 as a proxy in simulating the greenhouse effect of other radiatively active gases

    Wei-Chyung Wang;Michael P. Dudek;Xin-Zhong Liang;J. T. Kiehl

Frequent Co-Authors

Xin-Zhong Liang
Xin-Zhong Liang University of Maryland, College Park
Ivar S. A. Isaksen
Ivar S. A. Isaksen University of Oslo
Quansheng Ge
Quansheng Ge Chinese Academy of Sciences
Terje Berntsen
Terje Berntsen University of Oslo
Malcolm K. W. Ko
Malcolm K. W. Ko Langley Research Center
Nien Dak Sze
Nien Dak Sze Harvard University
Andrew A. Lacis
Andrew A. Lacis Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Huang-Hsiung Hsu
Huang-Hsiung Hsu Academia Sinica
Thomas R. Karl
Thomas R. Karl National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Yimin Liu
Yimin Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences

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