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D-Index
77
Citations
29906
World Ranking
1113
National Ranking
485

Xubin Zeng 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 Xubin Zeng sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 316 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Xubin Zeng 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 Xubin Zeng sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 77 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Xubin Zeng is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States and has contributed significantly to environmental and earth sciences through their extensive research output. Their work spans primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on several subfields.

Their main areas of study include Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Environmental Engineering, and Aerospace Engineering. Key topics covered in their research are Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Cryospheric studies and observations, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

Xubin Zeng has published numerous articles in several prominent scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Frontiers in Remote Sensing

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "The DOE E3SM Model Version 2: Overview of the Physical Model and Initial Model Evaluation," 2022, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Atmospheric Research Over the Western North Atlantic Ocean Region and North American East Coast: A Review of Past Work and Challenges Ahead," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "Enhancing the Noah-MP Ecosystem Response to Droughts With an Explicit Representation of Plant Water Storage Supplied by Dynamic Root Water Uptake," 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "An Overview of Atmospheric Features Over the Western North Atlantic Ocean and North American East Coast-Part 2: Circulation, Boundary Layer, and Clouds," 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "On Assessing ERA5 and MERRA2 Representations of Cold-Air Outbreaks Across the Gulf Stream," 2021, Geophysical Research Letters

Xubin Zeng collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Michael A. Brunke (19 coauthored papers)
  • Armin Sorooshian (19 coauthored papers)
  • Hailong Wang (17 coauthored papers)
  • Ewan Crosbie (14 coauthored papers)
  • Johnathan W. Hair (14 coauthored papers)

Best Publications

  • Technical Description of version 4.0 of the Community Land Model (CLM)

    W. Oleson;M. Lawrence;B. Bonan;G. Flanner

  • The Community Land Model version 5 : description of new features, benchmarking, and impact of forcing uncertainty

    David M. Lawrence;Rosie A. Fisher;Charles D. Koven;Keith W. Oleson

  • Parameterization improvements and functional and structural advances in version 4 of the Community Land Model

    David M Lawrence;Keith W Oleson;Mark G Flanner;Peter E Thornton

  • The Common Land Model

    Yongjiu Dai;Xubin Zeng;Robert E. Dickinson;Ian Baker

  • Technical Description of the Community Land Model (CLM)

    Keith Oleson;Yongjiu Dai;B. Bonan;Mike Bosilovichm

  • Intercomparison of Bulk Aerodynamic Algorithms for the Computation of Sea Surface Fluxes Using TOGA COARE and TAO Data

    Xubin Zeng;Ming Zhao;Ming Zhao;Robert Earl Dickinson

  • The DOE E3SM Coupled Model Version 1: Overview and Evaluation at Standard Resolution

    Jean Christophe Golaz;Peter M. Caldwell;Luke P. Van Roekel;Mark R. Petersen

  • The land surface climatology of the community land model coupled to the NCAR community climate model

    Gordon B. Bonan;Keith W. Oleson;Mariana Vertenstein;Samuel Levis

  • Interactions between the atmosphere and terrestrial ecosystems: influence on weather and climate

    Roger A. Pielke;Roni Avissar;Michael Raupach;A. Johannes Dolman

  • COSMOS: the COsmic-ray Soil Moisture Observing System

    M. Zreda;W. J. Shuttleworth;X. Zeng;C. Zweck

  • Improving the representation of hydrologic processes in Earth System Models

    Martyn P. Clark;Ying Fan;David M. Lawrence;Jennifer C. Adam

  • Hillslope Hydrology in Global Change Research and Earth System Modeling

    Ying Fan;M. Clark;D. M. Lawrence;S. Swenson

  • The Community Land Model and Its Climate Statistics as a Component of the Community Climate System Model

    Robert Earl Dickinson;Keith W. Oleson;Gordon Bonan;Forrest Hoffman

  • Derivation and Evaluation of Global 1-km Fractional Vegetation Cover Data for Land Modeling

    Xubin Zeng;Robert Earl Dickinson;Alison Walker;Muhammad Shaikh

  • Evaluation of multireanalysis products with in situ observations over the Tibetan Plateau

    Aihui Wang;Xubin Zeng

  • A Global Land Cover Climatology Using MODIS Data

    Patrick D. Broxton;Xubin Zeng;Damien Sulla-Menashe;Peter A. Troch

  • Evaluation of the Reanalysis Products from GSFC, NCEP, and ECMWF Using Flux Tower Observations

    Mark Decker;Michael A. Brunke;Zhuo Wang;Koichi Sakaguchi

  • Coupling of the Common Land Model to the NCAR Community Climate Model

    Xubin Zeng;Muhammad Shaikh;Yongjiu Dai;Robert E. Dickinson

  • A prognostic scheme of sea surface skin temperature for modeling and data assimilation

    Xubin Zeng;Anton Beljaars

  • Global Vegetation Root Distribution for Land Modeling

    Xubin Zeng

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert E. Dickinson
Robert E. Dickinson The University of Texas at Austin
Guo-Yue Niu
Guo-Yue Niu University of Arizona
Roger A. Pielke
Roger A. Pielke University of Colorado Boulder
Peter Troch
Peter Troch University of Arizona
Michael Barlage
Michael Barlage National Center for Atmospheric Research
Jon D. Pelletier
Jon D. Pelletier University of Arizona
Travis E. Huxman
Travis E. Huxman University of California, Irvine
Scott R. Saleska
Scott R. Saleska University of Arizona
Yongjiu Dai
Yongjiu Dai Sun Yat-sen University
Armin Sorooshian
Armin Sorooshian University of Arizona

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