Lifeng Luo

10.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
94 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Lifeng Luo is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lifeng Luo has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 45 papers in Atmospheric Science and 42 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Lifeng Luo's work include Climate variability and models (38 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (38 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (29 papers). Lifeng Luo is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (38 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (38 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (29 papers). Lifeng Luo collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Lifeng Luo's co-authors include Eric F. Wood, Justin Sheffield, Qingyun Duan, Kenneth E. Mitchell, B. Cosgrove, John C. Schaake, Dag Lohmann, Jesse Meng, Ming Pan and Alan Robock and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Lifeng Luo

89 papers receiving 6.0k citations

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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.

Continental‐scale water and energy flux analysis and validation for the North American Land Data Assimilation System project phase 2 (NLDAS‐2): 1. Intercomparison and application of model products

2011 1.0k citations Eric F. Wood, Lifeng Luo et al. profile →
Past and future changes in climate and hydrological indicators in the US Northeast

2006 719 citations Lifeng Luo, Eric F. Wood et al. profile →
Real‐time and retrospective forcing in the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) project

2003 537 citations Eric F. Wood, John C. Schaake et al. profile →
Continental‐scale water and energy flux analysis and validation for North American Land Data Assimilation System project phase 2 (NLDAS‐2): 2. Validation of model‐simulated streamflow

2011 374 citations Lifeng Luo, Ben Livneh et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lifeng Luo United States	35	4.1k	2.7k	2.5k	1.5k	448	94	6.1k
Brecht Martens Belgium	21	4.5k 1.1×	3.0k 1.1×	2.2k 0.9×	1.7k 1.1×	668 1.5×	36	6.6k
Ben Livneh United States	38	4.7k 1.2×	3.6k 1.3×	3.3k 1.3×	1.3k 0.9×	515 1.1×	116	7.5k
Emanuel Dutra United Kingdom	43	5.5k 1.3×	4.0k 1.5×	2.2k 0.9×	1.7k 1.1×	628 1.4×	100	7.7k
Maoyi Huang United States	45	4.1k 1.0×	1.7k 0.6×	3.2k 1.3×	1.5k 1.0×	585 1.3×	140	6.3k
E. D. Gutmann United States	37	3.7k 0.9×	3.9k 1.4×	2.0k 0.8×	1.8k 1.2×	363 0.8×	95	6.4k
Liliang Ren China	45	4.6k 1.1×	2.5k 0.9×	2.8k 1.1×	1.1k 0.7×	494 1.1×	219	6.2k
Luis Samaniego Germany	48	4.5k 1.1×	1.4k 0.5×	4.4k 1.7×	2.0k 1.3×	460 1.0×	133	6.9k
Michael Barlage United States	42	4.9k 1.2×	4.5k 1.7×	1.7k 0.7×	2.0k 1.3×	406 0.9×	106	7.2k
Harald Kunstmann Germany	49	4.8k 1.2×	3.5k 1.3×	2.4k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	390 0.9×	296	7.2k
Venkataramana Sridhar United States	37	3.6k 0.9×	1.5k 0.5×	2.3k 0.9×	849 0.6×	429 1.0×	126	4.9k

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Luo, Lifeng, et al.. (2025). Ship Traffic Flow Analysis and Prediction in High-Traffic Areas Under Complex Environments. Applied Sciences. 15(21). 11776–11776.

Luo, Shanshan, et al.. (2025). Integrating network pharmacology and experimental validation to decipher the protective effect of icariin against testicular aging. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 303. 119063–119063.

Yun, Xiaobo, Qiuhong Tang, Jie Wang, et al.. (2025). Optimizing Lancang-Mekong hydropower portfolio effectively reduces greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 114. 107952–107952. 1 indexed citations

Pokhrel, Yadu, Ben Livneh, Lifeng Luo, et al.. (2024). Toward Understanding Parametric Controls on Runoff Sensitivity to Climate in the Community Land Model: A Case Study Over the Colorado River Headwaters. Water Resources Research. 60(12). 2 indexed citations

Luo, Lifeng, et al.. (2023). Hydrological Modeling in the Upper Lancang-Mekong River Basin Using Global and Regional Gridded Meteorological Re-Analyses. Water. 15(12). 2209–2209. 3 indexed citations

Lin, Zhaohui, et al.. (2023). Variation of Surface Air Temperature Induced by Enhanced Land–Atmosphere Coupling During 1981–2020 in Xinjiang, Northwest China. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(11). 7 indexed citations

Lan, Xin, et al.. (2023). Long-term water temperature changes in Seneca Lake and their nexus to climate change and human activities. Environmental Research Communications. 5(11). 111003–111003.

Tang, Qiuhong, Xingcai Liu, Yuanyuan Zhou, et al.. (2022). Climate change and water security in the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains. Geography and sustainability. 3(3). 246–257. 23 indexed citations

Luo, Lifeng, et al.. (2021). Evaluation of random forests for short-term daily streamflow forecasting in rainfall- and snowmelt-driven watersheds. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(6). 2997–3015. 79 indexed citations

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Luo, Lifeng, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of Random Forest for short-term daily streamflow forecast in rainfall and snowmelt driven watersheds. 14 indexed citations

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Luo, Lifeng, et al.. (2019). Modeled changes to the Great Plains low‐level jet under a realistic irrigation application. Atmospheric Science Letters. 20(3). e888–e888. 11 indexed citations

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Zhou, Jiayu, et al.. (2019). Spatio-Temporal Multi-Task Learning via Tensor Decomposition. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 33(6). 2764–2775. 17 indexed citations

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Ma, Feng, Lifeng Luo, Aizhong Ye, & Qingyun Duan. (2018). Seasonal drought predictability and forecast skill in the semi-arid endorheic Heihe River basin in northwestern China. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(11). 5697–5709. 20 indexed citations

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Xu, Huating, Zhiyong Wu, Lifeng Luo, & Hai He. (2018). Verification of High-Resolution Medium-Range Precipitation Forecasts from Global Environmental Multiscale Model over China during 2009–2013. Atmosphere. 9(3). 104–104. 5 indexed citations

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Luo, Lifeng, et al.. (2018). Predicting US Drought Monitor Drought Categories with multiple land surface models and machine learning. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2018. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Yunyun, Jianxia Chang, Lifeng Luo, et al.. (2018). Spatiotemporal impacts of land use land cover changes on hydrology from the mechanism perspective using SWAT model with time-varying parameters. Hydrology research. 50(1). 244–261. 72 indexed citations

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Tan, Pang‐Ning, et al.. (2014). ORION: Online Regularized Multi-task Regression and Its Application to Ensemble Forecasting. 1061–1066. 15 indexed citations

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Lin, Zhaohui, et al.. (2013). Assessing the Seasonal Predictability of Summer Precipitation over the Huaihe River Basin with Multiple APCC Models. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters. 6(4). 185–190. 3 indexed citations

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Schaake, John C., Jean Pailleux, Jutta Thielen, et al.. (2010). Summary of recommendations of the first workshop on Postprocessing and Downscaling Atmospheric Forecasts for Hydrologic Applications held at Météo‐France, Toulouse, France, 15–18 June 2009. Atmospheric Science Letters. 11(2). 59–63. 23 indexed citations

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Li, Haibin, Lifeng Luo, & Eric F. Wood. (2008). Seasonal hydrologic predictions of low‐flow conditions over eastern USA during the 2007 drought. Atmospheric Science Letters. 9(2). 61–66. 26 indexed citations

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