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Wenshou Tian

Wenshou Tian

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
45
Citations
7552
World Ranking
6419
National Ranking
649

Wenshou Tian 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 Wenshou Tian sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 143 publications — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wenshou Tian 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 Wenshou Tian sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Wenshou Tian is affiliated with Lanzhou University in China and has an extensive record of research in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work primarily focuses on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change, with additional contributions to Oceanography, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Condensed Matter Physics.

The scientist's research interests cover several main topics, including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes

Frequent collaboration has been a characteristic of Wenshou Tian's work. The scientist has worked closely with the following coauthors:

  • Jiankai Zhang
  • Tao Wang
  • Jiali Luo
  • Fei Xie
  • Mian Xu

These collaborations span across multiple studies published in various journals. Wenshou Tian's research has appeared frequently in these publication venues:

  • Journal of Climate
  • Atmospheric Research
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

The scientist has contributed to a number of research articles, including the following recent papers:

  • "Northern hemisphere cold air outbreaks are more likely to be severe during weak polar vortex conditions," 2021, Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Increasing trend of lightning activity in the South Asia region," 2020, Science Bulletin
  • "Responses of Arctic sea ice to stratospheric ozone depletion," 2022, Science Bulletin
  • "Impact of Sea Ice Reduction in the Barents and Kara Seas on the Variation of the East Asian Trough in Late Winter," 2020, Journal of Climate
  • "A stratospheric precursor of East Asian summer droughts and floods," 2024, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Assessment of temperature, trace species, and ozone in chemistry-climate model simulations of the recent past

    V. Eyring;N. Butchart;D. W. Waugh;H. Akiyoshi

  • Multimodel projections of stratospheric ozone in the 21st century

    V. Eyring;D. W. Waugh;G. E. Bodeker;Eugene C. Cordero

  • Impact of stratospheric ozone on Southern Hemisphere circulation change: A multimodel assessment

    S.-W. Son.;E. P. Gerber;J. Perlwitz;J. Perlwitz;L. M. Polvani

  • Chemistry-Climate Model Simulations of Twenty- First Century Stratospheric Climate and Circulation Changes

    Neal Butchart;I. Cionni;V. Eyring;T. G. Shepherd

  • Persistent shift of the Arctic polar vortex towards the Eurasian continent in recent decades

    Jiankai Zhang;Wenshou Tian;Martyn P. Chipperfield;Fei Xie

  • Multi-model assessment of stratospheric ozone return dates and ozone recovery in CCMVal-2 models

    V. Eyring;I. Cionni;G. E. Bodeker;Andrew J. Charlton-Perez

  • Multimodel assessment of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere: Tropics and global trends

    A. Gettelman;M. I. Hegglin;S.-W. Son;Jung-Hyun Kim

  • Multimodel climate and variability of the stratosphere

    N. Butchart;Andrew J. Charlton-Perez;I. Cionni;S. C. Hardiman

  • Coupled chemistry climate model simulations of the solar cycle in ozone and temperature

    John Austin;K. Tourpali;E. Rozanov;H. Akiyoshi

  • Signals of El Niño Modoki in the tropical tropopause layer and stratosphere

    F. Xie;J. Li;W. Tian;J. Feng

  • Review of the formulation of present-generation stratospheric chemistry-climate models and associated external forcings

    Olaf Morgenstern;M. A. Giorgetta;K. Shibata;V. Eyring

  • The Tropical Tropopause Layer 1960–2100

    Andrew Gettelman;Thomas Birner;Veronika Eyring;H. Akiyoshi

  • A new coupled chemistry–climate model for the stratosphere: The importance of coupling for future O3‐climate predictions

    Wenshou Tian;Martyn P. Chipperfield

  • Recent strengthening of the stratospheric Arctic vortex response to warming in the central North Pacific

    Dingzhu Hu;Zhaoyong Guan;Wenshou Tian;Rongcai Ren

  • Northern hemisphere cold air outbreaks are more likely to be severe during weak polar vortex conditions

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  • Projections of UV radiation changes in the 21st century: impact of ozone recovery and cloud effects

    Alkiviadis F. Bais;Kleareti Tourpali;Andreas Kazantzidis;Hideharu Akiyoshi

  • A connection from Arctic stratospheric ozone to El Niño-Southern oscillation

    Fei Xie;Jianping Li;Wenshou Tian;Qiang Fu

  • Multimodel assessment of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere: Extratropics

    M. I. Hegglin;A. Gettelman;P. Hoor;R. Krichevsky

  • Stratospheric ozone loss over the Eurasian continent induced by the polar vortex shift.

    Jiankai Zhang;Wenshou Tian;Fei Xie;Martyn P. Chipperfield

  • Effects of the Tibetan Plateau on total column ozone distribution

    Wenshou Tian;Martyn Chipperfield;Qian Huang

  • Quasi-biennial oscillation and tracer distributions in a coupled chemistry-climate model

    Wenshou Tian;Martyn P. Chipperfield;Lesley J. Gray;Joseph M. Zawodny

Frequent Co-Authors

Jianping Li
Jianping Li Ocean University of China
Martyn P. Chipperfield
Martyn P. Chipperfield University of Leeds
Sandip Dhomse
Sandip Dhomse University of Leeds
Wuhu Feng
Wuhu Feng University of Leeds
John H. Marsham
John H. Marsham University of Leeds
Yongyun Hu
Yongyun Hu Peking University
Douglas J. Parker
Douglas J. Parker University of Leeds
John M. C. Plane
John M. C. Plane University of Leeds
Katja Matthes
Katja Matthes GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Aijun Ding
Aijun Ding Nanjing University

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