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83
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38407
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815
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351

Zong-Liang Yang 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 Zong-Liang Yang sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 255 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Zong-Liang Yang 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 Zong-Liang Yang sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 83 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Zong-Liang Yang is a researcher affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their work spans multiple areas primarily within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, contributing to the understanding of climate dynamics, hydrology, and atmospheric processes.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Subfields of study in which they have published extensively include:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Oceanography

The primary topics of their research cover:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Zong-Liang Yang's work has appeared frequently in several publication venues, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Recent selected publications reflect a focus on climate impacts, hydrology, and land surface processes. These include:

  • "Divergent effects of climate change on future groundwater availability in key mid-latitude aquifers," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Bias-corrected CMIP6 global dataset for dynamical downscaling of the historical and future climate (1979-2100)," 2021, Scientific Data
  • "Accelerating flash droughts induced by the joint influence of soil moisture depletion and atmospheric aridity," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Representation of Plant Hydraulics in the Noah-MP Land Surface Model: Model Development and Multiscale Evaluation," 2021, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Deforestation-induced warming over tropical mountain regions regulated by elevation," 2020, Nature Geoscience

The researcher collaborates regularly with several coauthors, notably:

  • Dev Niyogi
  • Hui Zheng
  • Lingcheng Li
  • Long Zhao
  • Wenli Fei

Best Publications

  • The Community Climate System Model Version 4

    Peter R. Gent;Gokhan Danabasoglu;Leo J. Donner;Marika M. Holland

  • The community Noah land surface model with multiparameterization options (Noah-MP): 1. Model description and evaluation with local-scale measurements

    Guo ‐ Yue Niu;Guo ‐ Yue Niu;Zong ‐ Liang Yang;Kenneth E. Mitchell;Fei Chen

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

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

  • Technical description of version 4.5 of the Community Land Model (CLM)

    Keith Oleson;M. Lawrence;B. Bonan;Beth Drewniak

  • 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

  • Improvements to the Community Land Model and their impact on the hydrological cycle

    K. W. Oleson;G. Y. Niu;Zong-Liang Yang;D. M. Lawrence

  • The community Noah land surface model with multiparameterization options (Noah-MP): 2. Evaluation over global river basins

    Zong Liang Yang;Guo Yue Niu;Guo Yue Niu;Kenneth E. Mitchell;Fei Chen

  • 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

  • Development of a simple groundwater model for use in climate models and evaluation with Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment data

    Guo Yue Niu;Zong-Liang Yang;Robert Earl Dickinson;Lindsey E. Gulden

  • Regional scale flood modeling using NEXRAD rainfall, GIS, and HEC-HMS/RAS: a case study for the San Antonio River Basin Summer 2002 storm event.

    M.R. Knebl;Z.-L. Yang;K. Hutchison;D.R. Maidment

  • Effects of Frozen Soil on Snowmelt Runoff and Soil Water Storage at a Continental Scale

    Gou Yue Niu;Zong Liang Yang

  • The Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parameterization Schemes

    A. Henderson-Sellers;Z.-L. Yang;R. E. Dickinson

  • A simple TOPMODEL-based runoff parameterization (SIMTOP) for use in global climate models

    Guo Yue Niu;Zong Liang Yang;Robert E. Dickinson;Lindsey E. Gulden

  • Assessment of three dynamical climate downscaling methods using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model

    Jeff Chun Fung Lo;Zong-Liang Yang;Roger A. Pielke

  • 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

  • Cabauw Experimental Results from the Project for Intercomparison of Land-Surface Parameterization Schemes

    T.H. Chen;A. Henderson-Sellers;P.C.D. Milly;A.J. Pitman

  • Validation of the Snow Submodel of the Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme with Russian Snow Cover and Meteorological Observational Data

    Zong-Liang Yang;Robert E. Dickinson;Alan Robock;K. Ya Vinnikov

  • Parameter estimation of a land surface scheme using multicriteria methods

    H. V. Gupta;L. A. Bastidas;S. Sorooshian;W. J. Shuttleworth

Frequent Co-Authors

Guo-Yue Niu
Guo-Yue Niu University of Arizona
Robert E. Dickinson
Robert E. Dickinson The University of Texas at Austin
David R. Maidment
David R. Maidment The University of Texas at Austin
Florence Habets
Florence Habets École Normale Supérieure
Yongjiu Dai
Yongjiu Dai Sun Yat-sen University
Yongkang Xue
Yongkang Xue University of California, Los Angeles
Fei Chen
Fei Chen National Center for Atmospheric Research
Andrew J. Pitman
Andrew J. Pitman University of New South Wales
Xubin Zeng
Xubin Zeng University of Arizona
Ann Henderson-Sellers
Ann Henderson-Sellers Macquarie University

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