Peili Wu

6.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
93 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Peili Wu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Peili Wu has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 63 papers in Atmospheric Science and 22 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Peili Wu's work include Climate variability and models (77 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (42 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (20 papers). Peili Wu is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (77 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (42 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (20 papers). Peili Wu collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and United States. Peili Wu's co-authors include Xing Yuan, Tianjun Zhou, Peter A. Stott, Justin Sheffield, Peng Ji, Michael Vellinga, Linying Wang, Keith Haines, Nikolaos Christidis and Lixia Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Peili Wu

92 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

A global transition to flash droughts under climate change

2023 469 citations Xing Yuan, Peili Wu et al. profile →
Anthropogenic shift towards higher risk of flash drought over China

2019 350 citations Xing Yuan, Linying Wang et al. Nature Communications profile →
Increasing precipitation variability on daily-to-multiyear time scales in a warmer world

2021 268 citations Wenxia Zhang, Kalli Furtado et al. Science Advances profile →
Anthropogenic amplification of precipitation variability over the past century

2024 82 citations Wenxia Zhang, Tianjun Zhou et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peili Wu United Kingdom	34	3.7k	2.6k	879	607	342	93	4.7k
Taotao Qian United States	13	2.9k 0.8×	1.7k 0.7×	621 0.7×	895 1.5×	343 1.0×	21	3.7k
Rosmeri Porfírio da Rocha Brazil	35	3.7k 1.0×	3.0k 1.1×	580 0.7×	679 1.1×	273 0.8×	145	4.8k
Benjamin R. Lintner United States	36	3.4k 0.9×	2.6k 1.0×	447 0.5×	621 1.0×	601 1.8×	88	4.1k
Angeline G. Pendergrass United States	33	4.1k 1.1×	3.3k 1.2×	538 0.6×	539 0.9×	247 0.7×	80	4.9k
Kireet Kumar India	26	3.6k 1.0×	2.9k 1.1×	759 0.9×	526 0.9×	456 1.3×	59	4.8k
Tim Cowan Australia	42	4.7k 1.3×	3.1k 1.2×	2.0k 2.3×	536 0.9×	333 1.0×	89	5.7k
Zhihong Jiang China	44	4.8k 1.3×	4.0k 1.5×	615 0.7×	734 1.2×	489 1.4×	138	5.9k
Thomas J. Phillips United States	27	3.4k 0.9×	2.3k 0.9×	427 0.5×	465 0.8×	417 1.2×	46	4.2k
Enrico Scoccimarro Italy	35	3.3k 0.9×	2.7k 1.0×	1.2k 1.4×	274 0.5×	187 0.5×	105	4.0k
Jin‐Ho Yoon United States	41	5.4k 1.5×	4.5k 1.7×	788 0.9×	409 0.7×	233 0.7×	127	6.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Peili Wu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peili Wu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peili Wu

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Zhang, Miao, Xing Yuan, Zhenzhong Zeng, et al.. (2025). A pronounced decline in northern vegetation resistance to flash droughts from 2001 to 2022. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2984–2984. 6 indexed citations

Song, Fengfei, Lixin Wu, L. Ruby Leung, et al.. (2025). Hot season gets hotter due to rainfall delay over tropical land in a warming climate. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2188–2188. 4 indexed citations

Song, Fengfei, Lixin Wu, Lu Dong, et al.. (2025). A long-term decline in downward surface solar radiation. National Science Review. 12(3). nwaf007–nwaf007. 4 indexed citations

Li, Mingxing, Peili Wu, Zhuguo Ma, & Jiandong Liu. (2024). Climate change reshapes bioclimatic environments in China’s dry–wet transition zones. Journal of Hydrology. 634. 131122–131122. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Xiaolong, Tianjun Zhou, Peili Wu, & Malcolm Roberts. (2024). Better Resolved Orography Improves Precipitation Simulation Over the Tibetan Plateau in High‐Resolution Models. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(21). 1 indexed citations

Liu, Jiarui, Kun Yang, Peili Wu, et al.. (2024). Cloud Radiative Feedback to the Large‐Scale Atmospheric Circulation Greatly Reduces Monsoon‐Season Wet Bias Over the Tibetan Plateau in Climate Modeling. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(14). 3 indexed citations

Meng, Xianhong, Peili Wu, Zhaoguo Li, et al.. (2024). Observed surface heat fluxes partitioning during the local growing season over the Tibetan Plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 356. 110186–110186. 6 indexed citations

He, Chao, Matthew Collins, Tianjun Zhou, et al.. (2024). Contrasting East Asian climate extremes in 2020 and 2022 tied to zonal flow. Environmental Research Letters. 19(10). 104019–104019. 12 indexed citations

Meng, Xianhong, Meifeng Deng, Christopher M. Taylor, et al.. (2023). Diagnosing Product Variability in the Soil Moisture Response to Precipitation on the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 24(4). 625–639. 7 indexed citations

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Huang, Anning, Peili Wu, Danqing Huang, et al.. (2023). Typical Synoptic Patterns Responsible for Summer Regional Hourly Extreme Precipitation Events Over the Middle and Lower Yangtze River Basin, China. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(17). 15 indexed citations

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Clark, Robin & Peili Wu. (2023). Heat health during future summers in eastern Asia: The combined roles of circulation, temperature and humidity. International Journal of Climatology. 43(11). 5269–5285. 3 indexed citations

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Li, Mingxing, et al.. (2022). The decline in the groundwater table depth over the past four decades in China simulated by the Noah-MP land model. Journal of Hydrology. 607. 127551–127551. 10 indexed citations

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Zhang, Wenxia, Kalli Furtado, Tianjun Zhou, Peili Wu, & Xiaolong Chen. (2022). Constraining extreme precipitation projections using past precipitation variability. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6319–6319. 42 indexed citations

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Huang, Anning, et al.. (2021). Drivers of Summer Extreme Precipitation Events Over East China. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(11). 82 indexed citations

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Zhang, Wenxia, Kalli Furtado, Peili Wu, et al.. (2021). Increasing precipitation variability on daily-to-multiyear time scales in a warmer world. Science Advances. 7(31). 268 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhou, Tianjun, Xiaolong Chen, Liwei Zou, et al.. (2021). Enhanced Turbulent Heat Fluxes Improve Meiyu‐Baiu Simulation in High‐Resolution Atmospheric Models. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 13(9). 8 indexed citations

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Wang, Lin, Geoffrey K. Vallis, Ruth Geen, et al.. (2021). Amplified Waveguide Teleconnections Along the Polar Front Jet Favor Summer Temperature Extremes Over Northern Eurasia. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(13). 31 indexed citations

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Chen, Xiaolong, Tianjun Zhou, Peili Wu, Zhun Guo, & Minghuai Wang. (2020). Emergent constraints on future projections of the western North Pacific Subtropical High. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2802–2802. 115 indexed citations

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Wang, Linying, Xing Yuan, Zhenghui Xie, Peili Wu, & Yaohui Li. (2016). Increasing flash droughts over China during the recent global warming hiatus. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 30571–30571. 256 indexed citations

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Li, Chongyin & Peili Wu. (1990). An observational study of the 30–50 day atmospheric oscillations part I: Structure and propagation. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 7(3). 294–304. 14 indexed citations

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