Litai Kang

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Litai Kang is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Litai Kang has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 11 papers in Atmospheric Science and 3 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in Litai Kang's work include Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (11 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (10 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (5 papers). Litai Kang is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (11 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (10 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (5 papers). Litai Kang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Pakistan. Litai Kang's co-authors include Jianping Huang, Haipeng Yu, Aiguo Dai, Yun Wei, Siyu Chen, Xiaojun Ma, Tiangang Yuan, Xin Wang, Tingting Xie and Guolong Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Geophysical Research Letters, Nature Climate Change and Atmospheric Environment.

In The Last Decade

Litai Kang

12 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Drylands face potential threat under 2 °C global warming target

2017 523 citations Jianping Huang, Haipeng Yu et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Litai Kang United States	10	856	710	190	117	100	13	1.1k
Rui Mao China	21	1.1k 1.3×	982 1.4×	177 0.9×	185 1.6×	63 0.6×	52	1.3k
Luis Garcia‐Carreras United Kingdom	21	1.4k 1.6×	931 1.3×	148 0.8×	36 0.3×	141 1.4×	40	1.6k
L. Orlovsky Israel	14	501 0.6×	464 0.7×	248 1.3×	108 0.9×	94 0.9×	25	919
R. Burkard Switzerland	10	558 0.7×	381 0.5×	135 0.7×	28 0.2×	63 0.6×	15	703
Jinhong Zhu China	16	878 1.0×	856 1.2×	39 0.2×	137 1.2×	81 0.8×	27	1.2k
Michael Groll Germany	17	361 0.4×	209 0.3×	188 1.0×	65 0.6×	133 1.3×	38	840
Kyung‐On Boo South Korea	18	1.3k 1.6×	1.1k 1.6×	71 0.4×	116 1.0×	58 0.6×	66	1.6k
T. L. O’Halloran United States	11	948 1.1×	469 0.7×	85 0.4×	49 0.4×	391 3.9×	33	1.2k
Jianbin Huang China	17	843 1.0×	903 1.3×	28 0.1×	91 0.8×	90 0.9×	53	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Litai Kang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Litai Kang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Litai Kang 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 Litai Kang. Litai Kang is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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13 of 13 papers shown

Kang, Litai, Roger Marchand, Po‐Lun Ma, et al.. (2025). Impacts of DMS Emissions and Chemistry on E3SMv2 Simulated Cloud Droplet Numbers and Aerosol Concentrations Over the Southern Ocean. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 17(5).

Kang, Litai, Roger Marchand, & Robert Wood. (2024). Stratocumulus Precipitation Properties Over the Southern Ocean Observed From Aircraft During the SOCRATES Campaign. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(6). 5 indexed citations

Bi, Hongru, Siyu Chen, Daizhou Zhang, et al.. (2023). The Circumglobal Transport of Massive African Dust and Its Impacts on the Regional Circulation in Remote Atmosphere. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 105(3). E605–E622. 13 indexed citations

Ge, Qi, et al.. (2023). The sensitivity of climate and climate change to the efficiency of atmospheric heat transport. Climate Dynamics. 62(3). 2057–2067. 3 indexed citations

Kang, Litai, Roger Marchand, Robert Wood, & Isabel L. McCoy. (2022). Coalescence Scavenging Drives Droplet Number Concentration in Southern Ocean Low Clouds. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(7). 18 indexed citations

Kang, Litai, Roger Marchand, & William L. Smith. (2021). Evaluation of MODIS and Himawari‐8 Low Clouds Retrievals Over the Southern Ocean With In Situ Measurements From the SOCRATES Campaign. Earth and Space Science. 8(3). 19 indexed citations

Zhang, Xiaorui, Siyu Chen, Litai Kang, et al.. (2020). Direct Radiative Forcing Induced by Light‐Absorbing Aerosols in Different Climate Regions Over East Asia. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 125(14). 20 indexed citations

Chen, Siyu, Jianping Huang, Litai Kang, et al.. (2017). Emission, transport, and radiative effects of mineral dust from the Taklimakan and Gobi deserts: comparison of measurements and model results. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 17(3). 2401–2421. 137 indexed citations

Kang, Litai, Siyu Chen, Jianping Huang, et al.. (2017). The Spatial and Temporal Distributions of Absorbing Aerosols over East Asia. Remote Sensing. 9(10). 1050–1050. 47 indexed citations

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Huang, Jianping, Haipeng Yu, Aiguo Dai, Yun Wei, & Litai Kang. (2017). Drylands face potential threat under 2 °C global warming target. Nature Climate Change. 7(6). 417–422. 523 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Siyu, Jianping Huang, Yun Qian, et al.. (2017). An overview of mineral dust modeling over East Asia. Journal of Meteorological Research. 31(4). 633–653. 73 indexed citations

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Chen, Siyu, Jianping Huang, Jingxin Li, et al.. (2017). Comparison of dust emissions, transport, and deposition between the Taklimakan Desert and Gobi Desert from 2007 to 2011. Science China Earth Sciences. 60(7). 1338–1355. 153 indexed citations

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Kang, Litai, Jianping Huang, Siyu Chen, & Xin Wang. (2015). Long-term trends of dust events over Tibetan Plateau during 1961–2010. Atmospheric Environment. 125. 188–198. 99 indexed citations

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