Mingfang Ting

14.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
158 papers, 10.8k citations indexed

About

Mingfang Ting is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Mingfang Ting has authored 158 papers receiving a total of 10.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 150 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 142 papers in Atmospheric Science and 37 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Mingfang Ting's work include Climate variability and models (144 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (99 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (48 papers). Mingfang Ting is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (144 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (99 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (48 papers). Mingfang Ting collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Mingfang Ting's co-authors include Richard Seager, Yochanan Kushnir, Cuihua Li, Isaac M. Held, Naomi Naik, Nili Harnik, Hailan Wang, Jennifer Nakamura, Jennifer Velez and Huei‐Ping Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physics Today.

In The Last Decade

Mingfang Ting

154 papers receiving 10.4k 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 Richard Seager, Mingfang Ting et al. profile →
Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects

2020 603 citations Clara Deser, Flavio Lehner et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
2021 North American heatwave amplified by climate change-driven nonlinear interactions

2022 114 citations Kai Kornhuber, Mingfang Ting et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mingfang Ting United States	55	9.2k	7.7k	2.4k	833	751	158	10.8k
Jian Lu United States	45	7.5k 0.8×	6.1k 0.8×	2.2k 0.9×	701 0.8×	556 0.7×	172	8.9k
G. J. Boer Canada	50	10.2k 1.1×	8.2k 1.1×	2.4k 1.0×	837 1.0×	989 1.3×	131	12.3k
Henry F. Díaz United States	48	6.5k 0.7×	5.6k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	1.0k 1.3×	1.1k 1.5×	110	9.5k
Martin P. Hoerling United States	63	12.0k 1.3×	9.4k 1.2×	3.2k 1.3×	617 0.7×	1.3k 1.7×	152	13.7k
T. C. Johns United Kingdom	20	6.0k 0.7×	4.8k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	707 0.8×	649 0.9×	29	8.2k
Michel Déqué France	54	8.6k 0.9×	7.3k 1.0×	1.8k 0.7×	648 0.8×	1.3k 1.7×	154	11.2k
Akio Kitoh Japan	57	12.0k 1.3×	11.3k 1.5×	3.0k 1.3×	938 1.1×	1.5k 1.9×	195	15.0k
Samuel Somot France	54	5.8k 0.6×	3.9k 0.5×	2.9k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	656 0.9×	145	7.9k
David W. Pierce United States	44	6.7k 0.7×	4.3k 0.6×	1.8k 0.7×	853 1.0×	2.3k 3.1×	88	8.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Mingfang Ting

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mingfang Ting

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mingfang Ting

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ting, Mingfang, et al.. (2025). Identifying Physical Drivers of Arctic Sea Ice Growth and Their Changing Roles in a Warming Climate. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(6). 1 indexed citations

Singh, Deepti, et al.. (2025). Contributions of Atmospheric Ridging and Low Soil Moisture to the Record‐Breaking June 2023 Mexico‐Texas Heatwave. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(5). 1 indexed citations

Ting, Mingfang, et al.. (2024). Climate warming contributes to the record-shattering 2022 Pakistan rainfall. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 15 indexed citations

Balaguru, Karthik, L. Ruby Leung, Gregory R. Foltz, et al.. (2024). A Global Increase in Nearshore Tropical Cyclone Intensification. Earth s Future. 12(5). 10 indexed citations

Nielsen, Miriam, Benjamin I. Cook, Kate Marvel, Mingfang Ting, & Jason E. Smerdon. (2024). The Changing Influence of Precipitation on Soil Moisture Drought With Warming in the Mediterranean and Western North America. Earth s Future. 12(5). 8 indexed citations

Wu, Yutian, et al.. (2024). Significant contribution of internal variability to recent Barents–Kara sea ice loss in winter. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 4 indexed citations

Biasutti, Michela, Mingfang Ting, & Spencer A. Hill. (2023). The dynamics and changes of the world’s monsoons. Physics Today. 76(9). 32–38. 2 indexed citations

Seager, Richard, Mingfang Ting, Patrick Alexander, et al.. (2023). Ocean-forcing of cool season precipitation drives ongoing and future decadal drought in southwestern North America. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 6(1). 21 indexed citations

Ting, Mingfang, et al.. (2023). Higher‐Resolution Tropopause Folding Accounts for More Stratospheric Ozone Intrusions. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(8). 8 indexed citations

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Zheng, Cheng, Yutian Wu, Mingfang Ting, James A. Screen, & Pengfei Zhang. (2023). Diverse Eurasian Temperature Responses to Arctic Sea Ice Loss in Models due to Varying Balance between Dynamic Cooling and Thermodynamic Warming. Journal of Climate. 36(24). 8347–8364. 7 indexed citations

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Ting, Mingfang, et al.. (2023). Increased extreme humid heat hazard faced by agricultural workers. Environmental Research Communications. 5(11). 115013–115013. 3 indexed citations

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Zheng, Cheng, Mingfang Ting, Yutian Wu, et al.. (2022). Turbulent Heat Flux, Downward Longwave Radiation, and Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation Associated with Wintertime Barents–Kara Sea Extreme Sea Ice Loss Events. Journal of Climate. 35(12). 3747–3765. 7 indexed citations

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Baek, Seung H., Yochanan Kushnir, Walter A. Robinson, et al.. (2021). An Atmospheric Bridge Between the Subpolar and Tropical Atlantic Regions: A Perplexing Asymmetric Teleconnection. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(24). 2 indexed citations

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Rogers, Cassandra D. W., Mingfang Ting, Cuihua Li, et al.. (2021). Recent Increases in Exposure to Extreme Humid‐Heat Events Disproportionately Affect Populated Regions. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(19). 94 indexed citations

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Deser, Clara, Flavio Lehner, Keith B. Rodgers, et al.. (2020). Publisher Correction: Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects. Nature Climate Change. 10(8). 791–791. 10 indexed citations

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Westervelt, Daniel M., et al.. (2020). Relative Importance of Greenhouse Gases, Sulfate, Organic Carbon, and Black Carbon Aerosol for South Asian Monsoon Rainfall Changes. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(13). 21 indexed citations

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Ting, Mingfang, Richard Seager, & Cuihua Li. (2019). Future Summer Drying in the Midwestern United State in CMIP5 Models and the Role of Midlatitude Storm Tracks. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaoqiong, Mingfang Ting, & Dong Eun Lee. (2018). Fast Adjustments of the Asian Summer Monsoon to Anthropogenic Aerosols. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(2). 1001–1010. 48 indexed citations

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Singh, Deepti, Mingfang Ting, Adam A. Scaife, & Nicola Martin. (2018). California Winter Precipitation Predictability: Insights From the Anomalous 2015–2016 and 2016–2017 Seasons. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(18). 9972–9980. 24 indexed citations

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Singh, Deepti, Massimo Bollasina, Mingfang Ting, & Noah S. Diffenbaugh. (2018). Disentangling the influence of local and remote anthropogenic aerosols on South Asian monsoon daily rainfall characteristics. Climate Dynamics. 52(9-10). 6301–6320. 31 indexed citations

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