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Xing Yuan is a researcher affiliated with Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology in China. Their work is primarily concentrated within the field of Environmental Science, with a strong emphasis on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering, and Materials Chemistry.

Their research covers several key topics including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Cryospheric studies and observations

Frequent publication venues for Xing Yuan include:

  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Research Letters

Xing Yuan has collaborated extensively with several co-authors. Notable frequent co-authors include Peng Ji, Feng Ma, Yang Jiao, Hua Li, and Xiaolin Zhu.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • A global transition to flash droughts under climate change (2023), published in Science
  • Adsorption of three bivalent metals by four chemical distinct microplastics (2020), published in Chemosphere
  • The key drivers for the changes in global water scarcity: Water withdrawal versus water availability (2021), published in Journal of Hydrology
  • Comparison of characteristics, water quality and health risk assessment of trace elements in surface water and groundwater in China (2021), published in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
  • Rapid reduction in ecosystem productivity caused by flash droughts based on decade-long FLUXNET observations (2020), published in Hydrology and earth system sciences

Best Publications

  • A Drought Monitoring and Forecasting System for Sub-Sahara African Water Resources and Food Security

    Justin Sheffield;Eric F. Wood;Nathaniel Chaney;Kaiyu Guan

  • Anthropogenic shift towards higher risk of flash drought over China.

    Xing Yuan;Xing Yuan;Linying Wang;Peili Wu;Peng Ji

  • Increasing flash droughts over China during the recent global warming hiatus

    Linying Wang;Xing Yuan;Zhenghui Xie;Peili Wu

  • A first look at Climate Forecast System version 2 (CFSv2) for hydrological seasonal prediction

    Xing Yuan;Eric F. Wood;Lifeng Luo;Ming Pan

  • The key drivers for the changes in global water scarcity: Water withdrawal versus water availability

    Zhongwei Huang;Xing Yuan;Xingcai Liu

  • Microwave remote sensing of short‐term droughts during crop growing seasons

    Xing Yuan;Zhuguo Ma;Ming Pan;Chunxiang Shi

  • Regional Climate–Weather Research and Forecasting Model

    Xin Zhong Liang;Min Xu;Xing Yuan;Tiejun Ling

  • Multimodel seasonal forecasting of global drought onset

    Xing Yuan;Eric F. Wood

  • An Overview of Drought Monitoring and Prediction Systems at Regional and Global Scales

    Zengchao Hao;Xing Yuan;Youlong Xia;Fanghua Hao

  • A review on climate-model-based seasonal hydrologic forecasting: physical understanding and system development

    Xing Yuan;Eric F. Wood;Zhuguo Ma

  • Understanding and seasonal forecasting of hydrological drought in the Anthropocene

    Xing Yuan;Miao Zhang;Linying Wang;Tian Zhou

  • Anthropogenic Intensification of Southern African Flash Droughts as Exemplified by the 2015/16 Season

    Xing Yuan;Linying Wang;Eric F. Wood

  • CFSv2-Based Seasonal Hydroclimatic Forecasts over the Conterminous United States

    Xing Yuan;Eric F. Wood;Joshua K. Roundy;Ming Pan

  • Rapid reduction in ecosystem productivity caused by flash droughts based on decade-long FLUXNET observations

    Miao Zhang;Xing Yuan

  • Two Types of Flash Drought and Their Connections with Seasonal Drought

    Linying Wang;Xing Yuan

  • Land-atmosphere coupling speeds up flash drought onset.

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  • Effects of different levels of water stress on leaf photosynthetic characteristics and antioxidant enzyme activities of greenhouse tomato

    X. K. Yuan;X. K. Yuan;Z. Q. Yang;Z. Q. Yang;Y. X. Li;Y. X. Li;Q. Liu

  • Seasonal Forecasting of Global Hydrologic Extremes: System Development and Evaluation over GEWEX Basins

    Xing Yuan;Joshua K. Roundy;Eric F. Wood;Justin Sheffield

  • Probabilistic Seasonal Forecasting of African Drought by Dynamical Models

    Xing Yuan;Eric F. Wood;Nathaniel W. Chaney;Justin Sheffield

  • A probabilistic framework for assessing drought recovery

    Ming Pan;Xing Yuan;Eric F. Wood

  • Impact of vegetation dynamics on hydrological processes in a semi-arid basin by using a land surface-hydrology coupled model

    Yang Jiao;Huimin Lei;Dawen Yang;Maoyi Huang

  • Effects of water table dynamics on regional climate: A case study over east Asian monsoon area

    Xing Yuan;Zhenghui Xie;Jing Zheng;Xiangjun Tian

  • Unprecedented Europe Heat in June–July 2019: Risk in the Historical and Future Context

    Feng Ma;Xing Yuan;Yang Jiao;Peng Ji

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric F. Wood
Eric F. Wood Princeton University
Justin Sheffield
Justin Sheffield University of Southampton
Ming Pan
Ming Pan Princeton University
Xin-Zhong Liang
Xin-Zhong Liang University of Maryland, College Park
Huijun Wang
Huijun Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peili Wu
Peili Wu Met Office
Lifeng Luo
Lifeng Luo Michigan State University
Qiuhong Tang
Qiuhong Tang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kenneth E. Kunkel
Kenneth E. Kunkel North Carolina State University
Jimy Dudhia
Jimy Dudhia National Center for Atmospheric Research

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