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D-Index
40
Citations
7646
World Ranking
7983
National Ranking
2849

Zhiming Kuang 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 Zhiming Kuang sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 108 publications — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Zhiming Kuang 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 Zhiming Kuang sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) mission

    D Crisp;RM Atlas;FM Breon;LR Brown

  • 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

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

    Zhiming Kuang;Christopher S. Bretherton

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

    Joseph Allan Andersen;Zhiming Kuang

  • A Moisture-Stratiform Instability for Convectively Coupled Waves

    Zhiming Kuang

  • Do Undiluted Convective Plumes Exist in the Upper Tropical Troposphere

    David M. Romps;Zhiming Kuang

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

    Zhiming Kuang;Jack Margolis;Geoffrey Toon;David Crisp

  • Observational Evaluation of a Convective Quasi-Equilibrium View of Monsoons

    Ji Nie;William R. Boos;Zhiming Kuang

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

    William R. Boos;Zhiming Kuang

  • Measured HDO/H2O ratios across the tropical tropopause

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

  • 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

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

    Zhiming Kuang

  • A moisture budget perspective of the amount effect

    Mary Moore;Zhiming Kuang;P. N. Blossey

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

    Zhiming Kuang;Dennis L. Hartmann

  • Nature versus Nurture in Shallow Convection

    David M. Romps;Zhiming Kuang

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

    Zhiming Kuang

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

    Zhiming Kuang;Christopher S. Bretherton

  • 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

  • Enhanced MJO-like Variability at High SST

    Nathan P. Arnold;Zhiming Kuang;Eli Tziperman

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

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

  • The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) mission

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

  • Mechanisms for convection triggering by cold pools

    Giuseppe Torri;Zhiming Kuang;Yang Tian

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuk L. Yung
Yuk L. Yung California Institute of Technology
Brian E. Mapes
Brian E. Mapes University of Miami
Paquita Zuidema
Paquita Zuidema University of Miami
Eli Tziperman
Eli Tziperman Harvard University
Adam H. Sobel
Adam H. Sobel Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Christopher S. Bretherton
Christopher S. Bretherton University of Washington
Adrian M. Tompkins
Adrian M. Tompkins International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Thomas P. Ackerman
Thomas P. Ackerman University of Washington
David Crisp
David Crisp California Institute of Technology

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