Hanbo Yang

7.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
99 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Hanbo Yang is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Hanbo Yang has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 53 papers in Water Science and Technology and 40 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Hanbo Yang's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (51 papers), Climate variability and models (39 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (38 papers). Hanbo Yang is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (51 papers), Climate variability and models (39 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (38 papers). Hanbo Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Hanbo Yang's co-authors include Dawen Yang, Huimin Lei, Zhidong Lei, Bing Gao, Xiangyu Xu, Fubao Sun, Yue Qin, Zhe Li, Yan Shen and Kai Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Water Resources Research and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Hanbo Yang

94 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

New analytical derivation of the mean annual water‐energy balance equation

2008 549 citations Hanbo Yang, Dawen Yang et al. profile →
Spatio-temporal variation of drought in China during 1961–2012: A climatic perspective

2014 498 citations Dawen Yang, Hanbo Yang et al. Journal of Hydrology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hanbo Yang China	32	3.9k	3.2k	1.8k	881	483	99	5.3k
Guobin Fu Australia	38	3.9k 1.0×	3.2k 1.0×	1.6k 0.9×	1.0k 1.2×	498 1.0×	126	5.5k
Liliang Ren China	45	4.6k 1.2×	2.8k 0.9×	2.5k 1.4×	1.1k 1.3×	316 0.7×	219	6.2k
Venkataramana Sridhar United States	37	3.6k 0.9×	2.3k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	849 1.0×	315 0.7×	126	4.9k
Randall J. Donohue Australia	26	3.9k 1.0×	2.0k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	721 0.8×	309 0.6×	50	4.9k
Huimin Lei China	31	2.6k 0.7×	1.7k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	847 1.0×	621 1.3×	102	3.8k
Jaap Schellekens Netherlands	31	3.0k 0.7×	2.3k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	970 1.1×	337 0.7×	59	4.2k
Gonzalo Miguez‐Macho Spain	35	3.6k 0.9×	1.9k 0.6×	2.1k 1.1×	1.2k 1.4×	412 0.9×	87	5.5k
Eleanor Blyth United Kingdom	30	3.4k 0.9×	1.4k 0.4×	2.0k 1.1×	888 1.0×	282 0.6×	91	4.6k
Douglas B. Clark United Kingdom	27	3.3k 0.8×	1.6k 0.5×	1.6k 0.9×	578 0.7×	208 0.4×	49	4.3k
Neil R. Viney Australia	30	3.2k 0.8×	2.7k 0.8×	735 0.4×	890 1.0×	423 0.9×	80	4.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Hanbo Yang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hanbo Yang

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20 of 20 papers shown

Yang, Hanbo, et al.. (2025). Hydrological sensitivity of mountainous wetlands to precipitation and potential evapotranspiration using elasticity curves. Ecological Engineering. 212. 107542–107542. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Yuanbo, Hanbo Yang, Changming Li, & Ziwei Liu. (2024). Quantifying the warming-induced impact of glacier storage change on runoff using Budyko framework: A case study in the Tarim River basin. Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies. 55. 101936–101936. 2 indexed citations

Li, Changming, Ziwei Liu, Wencong Yang, et al.. (2024). CAMELE: Collocation-Analyzed Multi-source Ensembled Land Evapotranspiration Data. Earth system science data. 16(4). 1811–1846. 14 indexed citations

Yang, Hanbo, Ziwei Liu, Changming Li, et al.. (2024). Assessment of Meteorological Drought in a Changing Environment: An Example in the Upper Yangtze River. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(20). 1 indexed citations

Quan, Quan, et al.. (2024). A multiple-drought cascading framework based on causal inference. Journal of Hydrology. 630. 130657–130657. 1 indexed citations

Li, Changming, et al.. (2024). A harmonized global gridded transpiration product based on collocation analysis. Scientific Data. 11(1). 604–604. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Ziwei, Hanbo Yang, Changming Li, & Taihua Wang. (2024). Estimating the sensitivity of the Priestley–Taylor coefficient to air temperature and humidity. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 28(18). 4349–4360.

Fatichi, Simone, et al.. (2023). Environmental changes promoted vegetation growth and reduced water yield over the temperate semi-arid grassland of China during 1901–2016. Journal of Hydrology. 618. 129235–129235. 10 indexed citations

Liu, Ziwei, Taihua Wang, Changming Li, Wencong Yang, & Hanbo Yang. (2023). A physically-based potential evapotranspiration model for global water availability projections. Journal of Hydrology. 622. 129767–129767. 12 indexed citations

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Liu, Ziwei, Taihua Wang, & Hanbo Yang. (2023). Overestimated global dryland expansion with substantial increases in vegetation productivity under climate warming. Environmental Research Letters. 18(5). 54024–54024. 11 indexed citations

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Ma, Yaofei, et al.. (2023). Autonomous Decision Making with Reinforcement Learning in Multi-UAV Air Combat. 41. 2874–2879. 2 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhi, et al.. (2023). Comparative analysis of nitrogen content and its influence on actinorhizal nodule and rhizospheric microorganism diversity in three Alnus species. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1230170–1230170. 8 indexed citations

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Yang, Hanbo, et al.. (2022). Revisiting the Pan Evaporation Trend in China During 1988–2017. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 127(12). 7 indexed citations

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Yang, Danni, Sien Li, Mousong Wu, et al.. (2022). Drip irrigation improves spring wheat water productivity by reducing leaf area while increasing yield. European Journal of Agronomy. 143. 126710–126710. 20 indexed citations

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Liu, Ziwei, et al.. (2022). Decreases in Mean Annual Streamflow and Interannual Streamflow Variability Across Snow‐Affected Catchments Under a Warming Climate. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(3). 29 indexed citations

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Li, Changming, et al.. (2022). Assessments of three evapotranspiration products over China using extended triple collocation and water balance methods. Journal of Hydrology. 614. 128594–128594. 37 indexed citations

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Liu, Ziwei & Hanbo Yang. (2021). Estimation of Water Surface Energy Partitioning With a Conceptual Atmospheric Boundary Layer Model. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(9). 15 indexed citations

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Gong, Tingting, et al.. (2015). [Characteristics of surface energy fluxes over a sparse shrubland ecosystem in the farming-pastoral zone of the Loess Plateau, Northwest China].. PubMed. 26(6). 1625–33. 2 indexed citations

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Yang, Hanbo, et al.. (2015). Comparison of parametrization methods for calculating the downward long-wave radiation over the North China Plain. Journal of Tsinghua University(Science and Technology). 54(5). 590–595. 1 indexed citations

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Yang, Hanbo, Dawen Yang, Zhentao Cong, & Zhidong Lei. (2009). Analysis of the dominant climatic factors of evaporation change over the main basins in mainland China based on Budyko and Bouchet hypotheses.. IAHS-AISH publication. 111–115. 1 indexed citations

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