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D-Index
60
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19823
World Ranking
2864
National Ranking
122

Overview

Xiaolan L. Wang is affiliated with Environment and Climate Change Canada in Canada and has an extensive research portfolio in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work frequently intersects with climate variability, oceanography, and atmospheric processes, focusing on the interactions and impacts of climate phenomena on marine and atmospheric systems.

The primary fields of study for Xiaolan L. Wang include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Their research spans several subfields, particularly:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Oceanography
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Management Science and Operations Research

Main topics covered by their work encompass:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Xiaolan L. Wang has published in several influential scientific venues, including:

  • ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN
  • Scientific Data
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Climate Dynamics

Some notable recent papers authored by Xiaolan L. Wang are:

  • Projections of Extreme Ocean Waves in the Arctic and Potential Implications for Coastal Inundation and Erosion, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • A global ensemble of ocean wave climate projections from CMIP5-driven models, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Global-scale changes to extreme ocean wave events due to anthropogenic warming, 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • A Third Generation of Homogenized Temperature for Trend Analysis and Monitoring Changes in Canada's Climate, 2020, ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN
  • An updated evaluation of the global mean land surface air temperature and surface temperature trends based on CLSAT and CMST, 2021, Climate Dynamics

Frequent collaborators in Xiaolan L. Wang's research include:

  • Mercè Casas-Prat
  • Yang Feng
  • Nobuhito Mori
  • Joao Morim
  • Mark Hemer

Best Publications

  • The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project

    Gilbert P Compo;Gilbert P Compo;J. S. Whitaker;Prashant D Sardeshmukh;Prashant D Sardeshmukh;N. Matsui;N. Matsui

  • Towards a more reliable historical reanalysis: improvements for version 3 of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis system

    Laura C. Slivinski;Laura C. Slivinski;Gilbert P. Compo;Gilbert P. Compo;Jeffrey S. Whitaker;Prashant D. Sardeshmukh;Prashant D. Sardeshmukh

  • A Review and Comparison of Changepoint Detection Techniques for Climate Data

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  • Changes of Extreme Wave Heights in Northern Hemisphere Oceans and Related Atmospheric Circulation Regimes

    Xiaolan L. Wang;V. A. L. R. Swail

  • IMILAST: A Community Effort to Intercompare Extratropical Cyclone Detection and Tracking Algorithms

    Urs Neu;Mirseid G. Akperov;Nina Bellenbaum;Rasmu S. Benestad

  • EC-Earth V2.2: description and validation of a new seamless earth system prediction model

    W. Hazeleger;W. Hazeleger;X. Wang;C. Severijns;S. Stefanescu

  • Projected changes in wave climate from a multi-model ensemble

    Mark A. Hemer;Yalin Fan;Nobuhito Mori;Alvaro Semedo

  • Accounting for Autocorrelation in Detecting Mean Shifts in Climate Data Series Using the Penalized Maximal t or F Test

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  • A second generation of homogenized Canadian monthly surface air temperature for climate trend analysis

    Lucie A. Vincent;Xiaolan L. Wang;Ewa J. Milewska;Hui Wan

  • IMILAST – a community effort to intercompare extratropical cyclone detection and tracking algorithms: assessing method-related uncertainties

    Urs Neu;Mirseid G. Akperov;Nina Bellenbaum;Rasmus Benestad

  • Robustness and uncertainties in global multivariate wind-wave climate projections

    Joao Morim;Joao Morim;Joao Morim;Mark Hemer;Xiaolan L. Wang;Nick Cartwright

  • Climatology and Changes of Extratropical Cyclone Activity: Comparison of ERA-40 with NCEP–NCAR Reanalysis for 1958–2001

    Xiaolan L. Wang;Val R. Swail;Francis W. Zwiers

  • Homogenization and Trend Analysis of Canadian Near-Surface Wind Speeds

    Hui Wan;Xiaolan L. Wang;Val R. Swail

  • New Techniques for the Detection and Adjustment of Shifts in Daily Precipitation Data Series

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  • Homogenization of Chinese daily surface air temperatures and analysis of trends in the extreme temperature indices

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  • Observed Trends in Canada’s Climate and Influence of Low-Frequency Variability Modes

    L. A. Vincent;X. Zhang;R. D. Brown;Y. Feng

  • North Atlantic Ocean Wave Climate Change Scenarios for the Twenty-First Century

    Xiaolan L. Wang;Francis W. Zwiers;Val R. Swail

  • Changes in global ocean wave heights as projected using multimodel CMIP5 simulations

    Xiaolan L. Wang;Yang Feng;Val R. Swail

  • Observed soil temperature trends associated with climate change in Canada

    Budong Qian;Edward G. Gregorich;Sam Gameda;David W. Hopkins;David W. Hopkins

  • Climate change signal and uncertainty in projections of ocean wave heights

    Xiaolan L. Wang;Val R. Swail

  • An Evaluation of the Performance of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis Version 3

    L. C. Slivinski;L. C. Slivinski;G. P. Compo;G. P. Compo;P. D. Sardeshmukh;P. D. Sardeshmukh;J. S. Whitaker

  • European storminess: late nineteenth century to present

    C. Matulla;W. Schöner;H. Alexandersson;H. von Storch

  • Daily Mean Sea Level Pressure Reconstructions for the European–North Atlantic Region for the Period 1850–2003

    T. J. Ansell;P. D. Jones;R. J. Allan;D. Lister

  • The International Surface Pressure Databank version 2

    Thomas A. Cram;Gilbert P. Compo;Gilbert P. Compo;Xungang Yin;Robert J. Allan

Frequent Co-Authors

Val R. Swail
Val R. Swail Environment and Climate Change Canada
Gilbert P. Compo
Gilbert P. Compo National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Prashant D. Sardeshmukh
Prashant D. Sardeshmukh National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Philip Jones
Philip Jones University of East Anglia
Manola Brunet
Manola Brunet University of East Anglia
Rob Allan
Rob Allan Met Office
Russell S. Vose
Russell S. Vose National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Francis W. Zwiers
Francis W. Zwiers University of Victoria
Stefan Brönnimann
Stefan Brönnimann University of Bern
Pavel Ya. Groisman
Pavel Ya. Groisman North Carolina State University

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