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D-Index
49
Citations
11872
World Ranking
5159
National Ranking
1896

Yi Ming 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 Yi Ming sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 150 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Yi Ming 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 Yi Ming sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Yi Ming is affiliated with the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, focusing particularly on atmospheric processes and climate variability. The scientist has a substantial record of publications in Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change, with additional contributions in Oceanography, Environmental Engineering, and Water Science and Technology.

The main topics of Yi Ming's work include climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric ozone and climate, and precipitation measurement and analysis.

Yi Ming has published extensively in prominent scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Climate
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Science Advances

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, notably Pu Lin, Wenhao Dong, David Paynter, Akshaya Nikumbh, and Andrew Gettelman, reflecting frequent partnerships in research projects.

Representative recent papers by Yi Ming include:

  • Assessing the Influence of COVID-19 on the Shortwave Radiative Fluxes Over the East Asian Marginal Seas, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • New Generation of Climate Models Track Recent Unprecedented Changes in Earth's Radiation Budget Observed by CERES, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • The intensification of winter mid-latitude storm tracks in the Southern Hemisphere, 2022, Nature Climate Change
  • How Well Do Large-Eddy Simulations and Global Climate Models Represent Observed Boundary Layer Structures and Low Clouds Over the Summertime Southern Ocean?, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Contribution of local and remote anthropogenic aerosols to a record-breaking torrential rainfall event in Guangdong Province, China, 2020, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Best Publications

  • Anthropogenic Aerosols and the Weakening of the South Asian Summer Monsoon

    Massimo A. Bollasina;Yi Ming;V. Ramaswamy

  • The dynamical core, physical parameterizations, and basic simulation characteristics of the atmospheric component AM3 of the GFDL global coupled model CM3

    Leo J. Donner;Bruce L. Wyman;Richard S. Hemler;Larry W. Horowitz

  • Aerosol and monsoon climate interactions over Asia

    Zhanqing Li;Zhanqing Li;W. K.M. Lau;V. Ramanathan;G. Wu

  • Structure and Performance of GFDL's CM4.0 Climate Model

    I. M. Held;H. Guo;A. Adcroft;J. P. Dunne

  • Aerosol indirect effects – general circulation model intercomparison and evaluation with satellite data

    Johannes Quaas;Yi Ming;Surabi Menon;Surabi Menon;T. Takemura

  • Have Aerosols Caused the Observed Atlantic Multidecadal Variability

    Rong Zhang;Thomas L. Delworth;Rowan Sutton;Daniel L. R. Hodson

  • The GFDL Global Atmosphere and Land Model AM4.0/LM4.0: 2. Model Description, Sensitivity Studies, and Tuning Strategies

    M. Zhao;J.-C. Golaz;I. M. Held;H. Guo

  • The GFDL Global Atmosphere and Land Model AM4.0/LM4.0: 1. Simulation Characteristics With Prescribed SSTs

    M. Zhao;J. C. Golaz;Isaac M. Held;H. Guo

  • The effects of low molecular weight dicarboxylic acids on cloud formation

    Anthony J. Prenni;Paul J. Demott;Sonia M. Kreidenweis;D. Eli Sherman

  • The roles of aerosol direct and indirect effects in past and future climate change

    Hiram Levy;Larry W. Horowitz;M. Daniel Schwarzkopf;Yi Ming

  • Droplet nucleation: Physically‐based parameterizations and comparative evaluation

    Steven J. Ghan;Hayder Abdul-Razzak;Athanasios Nenes;Yi Ming

  • Summer rainfall over the southwestern Tibetan Plateau controlled by deep convection over the Indian subcontinent.

    Wenhao Dong;Yanluan Lin;Jonathon S. Wright;Yi Ming

  • Two opposing effects of absorbing aerosols on global-mean precipitation

    Yi Ming;V. Ramaswamy;Geeta Persad;Geeta Persad

  • Contribution of local and remote anthropogenic aerosols to the twentieth century weakening of the South Asian Monsoon

    Massimo A. Bollasina;Massimo A. Bollasina;Yi Ming;V. Ramaswamy;M. Daniel Schwarzkopf

  • A New Parameterization of Cloud Droplet Activation Applicable to General Circulation Models

    Yi Ming;V. Ramaswamy;Leo J. Donner;Vaughan T. J. Phillips

  • Nonlinear Climate and Hydrological Responses to Aerosol Effects

    Yi Ming;V. Ramaswamy

  • The dependence of aerosol effects on clouds and precipitation on cloud-system organization, shear and stability

    Seoung Soo Lee;Seoung Soo Lee;Leo J. Donner;Vaughan T. J. Phillips;Vaughan T. J. Phillips;Yi Ming

  • Uncertainty in Model Climate Sensitivity Traced to Representations of Cumulus Precipitation Microphysics

    Ming Zhao;J.-C. Golaz;I. M. Held;V. Ramaswamy

  • Sensitivity of the Aerosol Indirect Effect to Subgrid Variability in the Cloud Parameterization of the GFDL Atmosphere General Circulation Model AM3

    Jean-Christophe Golaz;Marc Salzmann;Leo J. Donner;Larry W. Horowitz

  • Predicted hygroscopic growth of sea salt aerosol

    Yi Ming;Lynn M. Russell

Frequent Co-Authors

Venkatachalam Ramaswamy
Venkatachalam Ramaswamy Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Leo J. Donner
Leo J. Donner Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Ming Zhao
Ming Zhao Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Paul Ginoux
Paul Ginoux Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Larry W. Horowitz
Larry W. Horowitz Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Isaac M. Held
Isaac M. Held Princeton University
Andrew Gettelman
Andrew Gettelman Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jean-Christophe Golaz
Jean-Christophe Golaz Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Vaishali Naik
Vaishali Naik Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Lynn M. Russell
Lynn M. Russell University of California, San Diego

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