2026 Zhiming Kuang: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	40	7983	7671	2849	2653	108	7646

Overview

Zhiming Kuang is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Computational Mechanics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Automotive Engineering.

The main research topics addressed by Kuang include:

Climate variability and models
Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Radiative Heat Transfer Studies
Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols

Kuang has collaborated frequently with several researchers. Among the most frequent co-authors are:

Zeyuan Hu
Fayçal Lamraoui
Pak Wah Chan
Ned Kleiner
Ding Ma

Their recent papers span various topics and publication venues, including:

A Bridging Role of Winter Snow over Northern China and Southern Mongolia in Linking the East Asian Winter and Summer Monsoons, 2020, Journal of Climate
Effects of Climate Model Mean-State Bias on Blocking Underestimation, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
Soil Moisture Control of Precipitation Reevaporation over a Heterogeneous Land Surface, 2021, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
Sensitivity of convectively driven tropical tropopause cirrus properties to ice habits in high-resolution simulations, 2023, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Influence of Upper-Troposphere Stratification and Cloud-Radiation Interaction on Convective Overshoots in the Tropical Tropopause Layer, 2021, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Kuang's publications appear frequently in several scientific journals and data repositories, with the most common venues being:

Harvard Dataverse
Geophysical Research Letters
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Best Publications

Dominant control of the South Asian monsoon by orographic insulation versus plateau heating

William R. Boos;Zhiming Kuang

1034
Citations
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) mission

D Crisp;RM Atlas;FM Breon;LR Brown

864
Citations
Cloud ice: A climate model challenge with signs and expectations of progress

Duane E. Waliser;Jui-Lin F. Li;Christopher P. Woods;Richard T. Austin

439
Citations
A Mass-Flux Scheme View of a High-Resolution Simulation of a Transition from Shallow to Deep Cumulus Convection

Zhiming Kuang;Christopher S. Bretherton

376
Citations
Moist Static Energy Budget of MJO-like Disturbances in the Atmosphere of a Zonally Symmetric Aquaplanet

Joseph Allan Andersen;Zhiming Kuang

284
Citations
A Moisture-Stratiform Instability for Convectively Coupled Waves

Zhiming Kuang

239
Citations
Do Undiluted Convective Plumes Exist in the Upper Tropical Troposphere

David M. Romps;Zhiming Kuang

235
Citations
Spaceborne measurements of atmospheric CO2 by high‐resolution NIR spectrometry of reflected sunlight: An introductory study

Zhiming Kuang;Jack Margolis;Geoffrey Toon;David Crisp

201
Citations
Observational Evaluation of a Convective Quasi-Equilibrium View of Monsoons

Ji Nie;William R. Boos;Zhiming Kuang

173
Citations
Sensitivity of the South Asian monsoon to elevated and non-elevated heating

William R. Boos;Zhiming Kuang

158
Citations
Measured HDO/H2O ratios across the tropical tropopause

Zhiming Kuang;Zhiming Kuang;Geoffrey C. Toon;Paul O. Wennberg;Yuk L. Yung

143
Citations
Responses of midlatitude blocks and wave amplitude to changes in the meridional temperature gradient in an idealized dry GCM

Pedram Hassanzadeh;Zhiming Kuang;Brian F. Farrell

139
Citations
Modeling the Interaction between Cumulus Convection and Linear Gravity Waves Using a Limited-Domain Cloud System–Resolving Model

Zhiming Kuang

138
Citations
A moisture budget perspective of the amount effect

Mary Moore;Zhiming Kuang;P. N. Blossey

137
Citations
Testing the Fixed Anvil Temperature Hypothesis in a Cloud-Resolving Model

Zhiming Kuang;Dennis L. Hartmann

133
Citations
Nature versus Nurture in Shallow Convection

David M. Romps;Zhiming Kuang

133
Citations
Linear Response Functions of a Cumulus Ensemble to Temperature and Moisture Perturbations and Implications for the Dynamics of Convectively Coupled Waves

Zhiming Kuang

129
Citations
Convective Influence on the Heat Balance of the Tropical Tropopause Layer: A Cloud-Resolving Model Study

Zhiming Kuang;Christopher S. Bretherton

124
Citations
Isotopic composition of water in the tropical tropopause layer in cloud‐resolving simulations of an idealized tropical circulation

Peter N. Blossey;Zhiming Kuang;David M. Romps

124
Citations
Enhanced MJO-like Variability at High SST

Nathan P. Arnold;Zhiming Kuang;Eli Tziperman

124
Citations
Enhanced upper tropical tropospheric COS: impact on the stratospheric aerosol layer.

Justus Notholt;Z. Kuang;C. P. Rinsland;G. C. Toon

121
Citations
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) mission

D. Crisp;P. Ciais;S. Pawson;P. Rayner

100
Citations
Mechanisms for convection triggering by cold pools

Giuseppe Torri;Zhiming Kuang;Yang Tian

97
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuk L. Yung California Institute of Technology

Brian E. Mapes University of Miami

Paquita Zuidema University of Miami

Eli Tziperman Harvard University

Adam H. Sobel Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Christopher S. Bretherton University of Washington

Kerry Emanuel MIT

Adrian M. Tompkins International Centre for Theoretical Physics

Thomas P. Ackerman University of Washington

David Crisp California Institute of Technology

External Links

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