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Environmental Sciences
Canada
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
91
Citations
56298
World Ranking
549
National Ranking
25

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Xuebin Zhang is affiliated with the University of Victoria in Canada and has a significant body of research in environmental and earth sciences. Their research spans multiple fields, focusing primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences.

Their work prominently covers subfields such as global and planetary change, atmospheric science, water science and technology, economics and econometrics, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Xuebin Zhang's main research topics include climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, hydrology and drought analysis, land use and ecosystem services, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, and minerals flotation and separation techniques.

Frequent publication venues for Xuebin Zhang include:

  • Journal of Climate
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN
  • Weather and Climate Extremes
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Frequent coauthors in their collaborative work are:

  • Francis W. Zwiers
  • Ying Sun
  • Chao Li
  • Megan C. Kirchmeier-Young
  • Qiaohong Sun

Selected recent papers by Xuebin Zhang include:

  • Anthropogenic intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Globally observed trends in mean and extreme river flow attributed to climate change, 2021, Science
  • Evaluation of the CMIP6 multi-model ensemble for climate extreme indices, 2020, Weather and Climate Extremes
  • Development of an Updated Global Land In Situ-Based Data Set of Temperature and Precipitation Extremes: HadEX3, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • A Global, Continental, and Regional Analysis of Changes in Extreme Precipitation, 2020, Journal of Climate

Best Publications

  • Global observed changes in daily climate extremes of temperature and precipitation

    Lisa V. Alexander;Lisa V. Alexander;Lisa V. Alexander;X. Zhang;T. C. Peterson;J. Caesar

  • Changes in climate extremes and their impacts on the natural physical environment.

    Sonia I. Seneviratne;Neville Nicholls;David Easterling;Clare M. Goodess

  • Human contribution to more-intense precipitation extremes

    Seung-Ki Min;Xuebin Zhang;Francis W. Zwiers;Francis W. Zwiers;Gabriele C. Hegerl

  • Indices for monitoring changes in extremes based on daily temperature and precipitation data

    Xuebin Zhang;Lisa Alexander;Gabriele C. Hegerl;Philip D. Jones;Philip D. Jones

  • Future climate risk from compound events

    Jakob Zscheischler;Seth Westra;Bart J. J. M. van den Hurk;Bart J. J. M. van den Hurk;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • Trends in Total Precipitation and Frequency of Daily Precipitation Extremes over China

    Panmao Zhai;Xuebin Zhang;Hui Wan;Xiaohua Pan

  • Climate extremes indices in the CMIP5 multimodel ensemble: Part 2. Future climate projections

    J. Sillmann;V. V. Kharin;F. W. Zwiers;X. Zhang

  • Climate extremes indices in the CMIP5 multimodel ensemble: Part 1. Model evaluation in the present climate

    J. Sillmann;V. V. Kharin;X. Zhang;F. W. Zwiers

  • Temperature and precipitation trends in Canada during the 20th century

    Xuebin Zhang;Lucie A. Vincent;W.D. Hogg;Ain Niitsoo

  • Updated analyses of temperature and precipitation extreme indices since the beginning of the twentieth century: The HadEX2 dataset

    M. G. Donat;L. V. Alexander;H. Yang;I. Durre

  • Changes in temperature and precipitation extremes in the IPCC ensemble of global coupled model simulations

    Viatcheslav V. Kharin;Francis W. Zwiers;Xuebin Zhang;Gabriele C. Hegerl

  • Detection of human influence on twentieth-century precipitation trends

    Xuebin Zhang;Francis W. Zwiers;Gabriele C. Hegerl;F. Hugo Lambert

  • Changes in temperature and precipitation extremes in the CMIP5 ensemble

    V. V. Kharin;F. W. Zwiers;X. Zhang;M. Wehner

  • El Niño–Southern Oscillation complexity

    Axel Timmermann;Axel Timmermann;Soon Il An;Jong Seong Kug;Fei Fei Jin

  • Trends in Canadian streamflow

    Xuebin Zhang;K. David Harvey;W. D. Hogg;Ted R. Yuzyk

  • Impacts of 1.5°C Global Warming on Natural and Human Systems

    O. Hoegh-Guldberg;D. Jacob;M. Bindi;S. Brown

  • Detection and attribution of climate change: from global to regional

    NL Bindoff;PA Stott;M AchutaRao;Allen

  • Characteristics of Daily and Extreme Temperatures over Canada

    B. R. Bonsal;X. Zhang;L. A. Vincent;W. D. Hogg

  • Anthropogenic intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes

    Hayley J. Fowler;Geert Lenderink;Andreas F. Prein;Seth Westra

  • Rapid increase in the risk of extreme summer heat in Eastern China

    Ying Sun;Xuebin Zhang;Francis W. Zwiers;Lianchun Song

  • Trends in Canadian Streamflow

    Xuebin Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Francis W. Zwiers
Francis W. Zwiers University of Victoria
Gabriele C. Hegerl
Gabriele C. Hegerl University of Edinburgh
Lisa V. Alexander
Lisa V. Alexander University of New South Wales
Thomas C. Peterson
Thomas C. Peterson National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Peter A. Stott
Peter A. Stott Met Office
Jana Sillmann
Jana Sillmann Universität Hamburg
Lucie A. Vincent
Lucie A. Vincent Environment and Climate Change Canada
Viatcheslav V. Kharin
Viatcheslav V. Kharin Environment and Climate Change Canada
Seung-Ki Min
Seung-Ki Min Pohang University of Science and Technology

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