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Weihong Qian

Weihong Qian

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
33
Citations
6216
World Ranking
9519
National Ranking
795

Weihong Qian 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 Weihong Qian sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 118 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Weihong Qian 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 Weihong Qian sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Weihong Qian is affiliated with Peking University in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, and oceanographic and atmospheric processes.

The scientist's work covers several key subfields, including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Oceanography
  • Geophysics
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics

Among the main topics addressed in their publications are:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Weihong Qian has frequently published in a range of scientific venues. The most common platforms for their work include:

  • Atmospheric Research
  • Meteorology
  • Open Journal of Geology
  • Journal of Modern Physics
  • Scientific Reports

Their recent papers feature research on climate and atmospheric variations, including:

  • "Enhanced risk of record-breaking regional temperatures during the 2023-24 El Niño," 2024, Scientific Reports
  • "A Review: Anomaly-Based versus Full-Field-Based Weather Analysis and Forecasting," 2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Differential expansion speeds of Indo-Pacific warm pool and deep convection favoring pool under greenhouse warming," 2022, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • "Anomaly Based Synoptic Analysis and Model Prediction of Six Dust Storms Moving From Mongolia to Northern China in Spring 2021," 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "El Niño and Sea Surface Temperature Pattern Effects Lead to Historically High Global Mean Surface Temperatures in 2023," 2025, Geophysical Research Letters

Throughout their career, Weihong Qian has collaborated with various co-authors. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Jeremy Cheuk-Hin Leung
  • Banglin Zhang
  • Yang Ai
  • Jun Du
  • Weijing Li

Best Publications

  • Quality control of daily meteorological data in China, 1951-2000: a new dataset

    Song Feng;Qi Hu;Weihong Qian

  • Variations of the Dust Storm in China and its Climatic Control

    Weihong Qian;Lingshen Quan;Shaoyin Shi

  • Changes in hot days and heat waves in China during 1961–2007

    Ting Ding;Weihong Qian;Zhongwei Yan

  • Climate Change in China from 1880 to 1998 and its Impact on the Environmental Condition

    Weihong Qian;Yafen Zhu

  • Regional trends in recent precipitation indices in China

    W. Qian;X. Lin

  • Regional trends in recent temperature indices in China

    Weihong Qian;Xiang Lin

  • Distribution of seasonal rainfall in the East Asian monsoon region

    W. Qian;H.-S. Kang;D.-K. Lee

  • Decrease of light rain events in summer associated with a warming environment in China during 1961–2005

    Weihong Qian;Jiaolan Fu;Zhongwei Yan

  • Recent weakening of northern East Asian summer monsoon: A possible response to global warming

    Congwen Zhu;Bin Wang;Weihong Qian;Bo Zhang

  • Climatic regime shift and decadal anomalous events in China

    Weihong Qian;Xiang Lin;Yafen Zhu;Yuan Xu

  • Seasonal march of Asian summer monsoon

    Weihong Qian;Dong-Kyou Lee

  • Spatial interpolation of daily precipitation in China: 1951–2005

    Deliang Chen;Tinghai Ou;Tinghai Ou;Lebing Gong;Chong-Yu Xu;Chong-Yu Xu

  • Why do dust storms decrease in northern China concurrently with the recent global warming

    Congwen Zhu;Bin Wang;Weihong Qian

  • Centennial-scale dry-wet variations in East Asia

    W. Qian;Q. Hu;Y. Zhu;D.-K. Lee

  • Regional summer precipitation events in Asia and their changes in the past decades

    Cai Yao;Song Yang;Weihong Qian;Zhengmin Lin

  • Precipitation division and climate shift in China from 1960 to 2000

    W. H. Qian;A. Qin

  • Geographical patterns and temporal variations of regional dry and wet heatwave events in China during 1960–2008

    Ting Ding;Weihong Qian

  • Regional characteristics of dust storms in China

    Weihong Qian;Xu Tang;Linsheng Quan

  • An Overview of Dry-wet Climate Variability among Monsoon-Westerly Regions and the Monsoon Northernmost Marginal Active Zone in China

    Weihong Qian;Ting Ding;Haoran Hu;Xiang Lin

  • Spatial-temporal characteristics of temperature variation in China

    W. Qian;A. Qin

Frequent Co-Authors

Shixia Liu
Shixia Liu Tsinghua University
Zhong Su
Zhong Su Alibaba Group (China)
Michelle X. Zhou
Michelle X. Zhou IBM (United States)
Nan Cao
Nan Cao Tongji University
Deliang Chen
Deliang Chen Tsinghua University
Yangqiu Song
Yangqiu Song Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Li Zhang
Li Zhang IBM (United States)
Furu Wei
Furu Wei Microsoft (United States)
Dong-Kyou Lee
Dong-Kyou Lee Seoul National University
Qi Hu
Qi Hu University of Nebraska–Lincoln

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