Jian Lu

14.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
172 papers, 8.9k citations indexed

About

Jian Lu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Jian Lu has authored 172 papers receiving a total of 8.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 157 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 133 papers in Atmospheric Science and 71 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Jian Lu's work include Climate variability and models (153 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (88 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (65 papers). Jian Lu is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (153 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (88 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (65 papers). Jian Lu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Jian Lu's co-authors include Gabriel A. Vecchi, Gang Chen, Thomas Reichler, L. Ruby Leung, Dargan M. W. Frierson, Isaac M. Held, Nili Harnik, Mingfang Ting, Naomi Naik and Huei‐Ping Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Jian Lu

162 papers receiving 8.6k 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.

Model Projections of an Imminent Transition to a More Arid Climate in Southwestern North America

2007 1.7k citations Jian Lu, Gabriel A. Vecchi et al. profile →
Expansion of the Hadley cell under global warming

2007 953 citations Jian Lu, Gabriel A. Vecchi et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jian Lu United States	45	7.5k	6.1k	2.2k	701	556	172	8.9k
Mingfang Ting United States	55	9.2k 1.2×	7.7k 1.3×	2.4k 1.1×	833 1.2×	751 1.4×	158	10.8k
Samuel Somot France	54	5.8k 0.8×	3.9k 0.6×	2.9k 1.3×	1.1k 1.6×	656 1.2×	145	7.9k
T. C. Johns United Kingdom	20	6.0k 0.8×	4.8k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	707 1.0×	649 1.2×	29	8.2k
Richard Wood United Kingdom	33	4.8k 0.6×	4.1k 0.7×	2.5k 1.1×	526 0.8×	558 1.0×	74	6.8k
Richard Neale United States	39	6.5k 0.9×	6.3k 1.0×	2.0k 0.9×	396 0.6×	405 0.7×	73	8.1k
Naomi Naik United States	30	4.5k 0.6×	3.6k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	786 1.1×	541 1.0×	41	5.8k
Alex Hall United States	57	8.5k 1.1×	7.6k 1.2×	1.4k 0.6×	704 1.0×	984 1.8×	147	10.8k
Thierry Fichefet Belgium	40	4.7k 0.6×	6.7k 1.1×	2.3k 1.0×	879 1.3×	272 0.5×	125	8.9k
Caroline C. Ummenhofer United States	39	4.0k 0.5×	3.0k 0.5×	1.9k 0.9×	800 1.1×	304 0.5×	110	5.5k
G. J. Boer Canada	50	10.2k 1.4×	8.2k 1.3×	2.4k 1.1×	837 1.2×	989 1.8×	131	12.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Jian Lu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jian Lu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jian Lu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jian Lu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jian Lu based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Jian Lu. Jian Lu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Chen, Gang, et al.. (2025). Moist Energy Constraints on Surface Temperature Variance Under Climate Warming. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 17(5).

Lu, Riyu, et al.. (2024). Concurrent Inter‐Model Spread of Boreal Winter Westerly Jet Meridional Positions Between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres in CMIP6 Models. International Journal of Climatology. 44(15). 5474–5486.

Harrop, Bryce E., Jian Lu, L. Ruby Leung, et al.. (2024). An overview of cloud–radiation denial experiments for the Energy Exascale Earth System Model version 1. Geoscientific model development. 17(8). 3111–3135. 3 indexed citations

Zhou, Wenyu, L. Ruby Leung, Shang‐Ping Xie, & Jian Lu. (2024). An analytic theory for the degree of Arctic Amplification. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5060–5060. 2 indexed citations

Zhou, Wenyu, L. Ruby Leung, & Jian Lu. (2024). Steady threefold Arctic amplification of externally forced warming masked by natural variability. Nature Geoscience. 17(6). 508–515. 33 indexed citations

Liu, Fukai, Yiyong Luo, Wenju Cai, et al.. (2024). Increased Asian aerosols drive a slowdown of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 18–18. 17 indexed citations

Hwang, Yen‐Ting, et al.. (2024). Robust increase in South Asian monsoon rainfall under warming driven by extratropical clouds and ocean. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 3 indexed citations

Lu, Jian, et al.. (2024). Optimal control of polar sea-ice near its tipping points. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1).

Nie, Yu, Gang Chen, Jian Lu, Wenyu Zhou, & Yang Zhang. (2023). Constraining the Varied Response of Northern Hemisphere Winter Circulation Waviness to Climate Change. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(6). 8 indexed citations

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Zhou, Wenyu, L. Ruby Leung, Nicholas Siler, & Jian Lu. (2023). Future precipitation increase constrained by climatological pattern of cloud effect. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6363–6363. 6 indexed citations

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Zhou, Wenyu, L. Ruby Leung, & Jian Lu. (2023). The Role of Interactive Soil Moisture in Land Drying Under Anthropogenic Warming. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(19). 10 indexed citations

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Hwang, Yen‐Ting, et al.. (2021). The Dominant Contribution of Southern Ocean Heat Uptake to Time‐Evolving Radiative Feedback in CESM. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(9). 15 indexed citations

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Song, Fengfei, L. Ruby Leung, Jian Lu, et al.. (2021). Emergence of seasonal delay of tropical rainfall during 1979–2019. Nature Climate Change. 11(7). 605–612. 37 indexed citations

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Zhou, Wenyu, L. Ruby Leung, Fengfei Song, & Jian Lu. (2020). Future Changes in the Great Plains Low‐Level Jet Governed by Seasonally Dependent Pattern Changes in the North Atlantic Subtropical High. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(4). 22 indexed citations

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Yang, Hu, Gerrit Lohmann, Jian Lu, et al.. (2020). Tropical Expansion Driven by Poleward Advancing Midlatitude Meridional Temperature Gradients. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 125(16). 55 indexed citations

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Zhou, Wenyu, L. Ruby Leung, Jian Lu, Da Yang, & Fengfei Song. (2020). Contrasting Recent and Future ITCZ Changes From Distinct Tropical Warming Patterns. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(22). 21 indexed citations

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Liu, Chuntao, et al.. (2018). Precipitation characteristic changes due to global warming in a high‐resolution (16 km) ECMWF simulation. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 145(718). 303–317. 41 indexed citations

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Reichler, Thomas, Paul W. Staten, & Jian Lu. (2012). Latitudinal shifts in precipitation; the role of anthropogenic forcings. AGUFM. 2012.

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Cai, Minggang & Jian Lu. (2009). Quantifying Contributions to Polar Warming Amplification in a Coupled General Circulation Model. AGUFM. 2009. 4 indexed citations

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Onitsuka, Katsutada, et al.. (2002). Geotechnical Characteristics of Mound-Tomb in JiangNan Area of China. Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering. 50(9). 10–12.

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