Ping Chang

18.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
190 papers, 11.7k citations indexed

About

Ping Chang is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ping Chang has authored 190 papers receiving a total of 11.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 163 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 139 papers in Oceanography and 130 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Ping Chang's work include Climate variability and models (158 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (124 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (66 papers). Ping Chang is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (158 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (124 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (66 papers). Ping Chang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Ping Chang's co-authors include R. Saravanan, Link Ji, Alessandra Giannini, Hong Li, Lixin Wu, Christina M. Patricola, James A. Carton, James J. Hack, D. S. McKenna and Gordon B. Bonan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ping Chang

180 papers receiving 11.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

The Community Climate System Model Version 3 (CCSM3)

2006 2.0k citations Ping Chang et al. Journal of Climate profile →
North Atlantic climate variability: phenomena, impacts and mechanisms

2001 801 citations Ping Chang, R. Saravanan et al. profile →
Oceanic Forcing of Sahel Rainfall on Interannual to Interdecadal Time Scales

2003 783 citations R. Saravanan, Ping Chang et al. profile →
Enhanced warming over the global subtropical western boundary currents

2012 585 citations Lixin Wu, Wenju Cai et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
A decadal climate variation in the tropical Atlantic Ocean from thermodynamic air-sea interactions

1997 520 citations Ping Chang, Link Ji et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ping Chang United States	49	9.2k	7.9k	6.8k	827	373	190	11.7k
Gökhan Danabasoglu United States	54	10.0k 1.1×	8.6k 1.1×	6.7k 1.0×	617 0.7×	216 0.6×	178	12.7k
James A. Carton United States	41	7.1k 0.8×	5.9k 0.7×	6.6k 1.0×	655 0.8×	215 0.6×	134	9.9k
Peter R. Gent United States	43	8.4k 0.9×	7.4k 0.9×	7.1k 1.0×	516 0.6×	398 1.1×	98	11.5k
D. E. Parker United Kingdom	34	14.8k 1.6×	12.7k 1.6×	6.0k 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	195 0.5×	67	17.6k
Steven R. Jayne United States	33	4.8k 0.5×	4.0k 0.5×	4.0k 0.6×	488 0.6×	212 0.6×	80	7.2k
Éric Guilyardi France	47	9.5k 1.0×	7.7k 1.0×	5.9k 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	223 0.6×	122	11.4k
William G. Large United States	47	9.7k 1.1×	10.0k 1.3×	12.2k 1.8×	744 0.9×	1.1k 2.9×	90	16.1k
James J. Hack United States	41	8.6k 0.9×	9.2k 1.2×	2.2k 0.3×	343 0.4×	278 0.7×	79	11.1k
Steven R. Hare United States	18	9.2k 1.0×	5.2k 0.7×	4.5k 0.7×	2.6k 3.1×	193 0.5×	52	11.5k
Johann Jungclaus Germany	52	7.7k 0.8×	8.2k 1.0×	4.1k 0.6×	638 0.8×	336 0.9×	167	10.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ping Chang

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Richter, Ingo, Ping Chang, Gökhan Danabasoglu, et al.. (2025). The Tropical Basin Interaction Model Intercomparison Project (TBIMIP). Geoscientific model development. 18(9). 2587–2608. 1 indexed citations

Chang, Ping, Dan Fu, Xue Liu, et al.. (2025). Future extreme precipitation amplified by intensified mesoscale moisture convergence. Nature Geoscience. 19(1). 33–41.

Liu, Xue, R. Saravanan, Dan Fu, et al.. (2024). How Do Climate Model Resolution and Atmospheric Moisture Affect the Simulation of Unprecedented Extreme Events Like the 2021 Western North American Heat Wave?. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(14). 2 indexed citations

Xu, Gaopeng, Ping Chang, Xiaoqing Liu, et al.. (2024). High-resolution modelling identifies the Bering Strait’s role in amplified Arctic warming. Nature Climate Change. 14(6). 615–622. 8 indexed citations

Little, Christopher M., Stephen Yeager, Rui M. Ponte, Ping Chang, & Who M. Kim. (2024). Influence of Ocean Model Horizontal Resolution on the Representation of Global Annual‐To‐Multidecadal Coastal Sea Level Variability. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 129(12).

Weijer, Wilbert, et al.. (2024). Bering Strait Ocean Heat Transport Drives Decadal Arctic Variability in a High‐Resolution Climate Model. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(12).

Fu, Dan, Ping Chang, & Xue Liu. (2023). Using Convolutional Neural Network to Emulate Seasonal Tropical Cyclone Activity. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 15(10). 6 indexed citations

Chang, Ping, et al.. (2023). Role of the Maritime Continent in the remote influence of Atlantic Niño on the Pacific. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3327–3327. 14 indexed citations

Wang, Shengpeng, Zhao Jing, Lixin Wu, et al.. (2022). El Niño/Southern Oscillation inhibited by submesoscale ocean eddies. Nature Geoscience. 15(2). 112–117. 29 indexed citations

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Kurian, Jaison, et al.. (2021). Impact of the Benguela coastal low-level jet on the southeast tropical Atlantic SST bias in a regional ocean model. Climate Dynamics. 56(9-10). 2773–2800. 14 indexed citations

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Liu, Xue, Xiaohui Ma, Ping Chang, et al.. (2021). Ocean fronts and eddies force atmospheric rivers and heavy precipitation in western North America. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1268–1268. 38 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yu, et al.. (2021). Optimal Growth of IPV Lags AMV Modulations by up to a Decade. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(24). 8 indexed citations

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Ma, Xiaohui, et al.. (2020). Image-processing-based atmospheric river tracking method version 1 (IPART-1). Geoscientific model development. 13(10). 4639–4662. 30 indexed citations

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Jing, Zhao, Shengpeng Wang, Lixin Wu, et al.. (2020). Maintenance of mid-latitude oceanic fronts by mesoscale eddies. Science Advances. 6(31). eaba7880–eaba7880. 56 indexed citations

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Fu, Dan, Ping Chang, Christina M. Patricola, & R. Saravanan. (2019). High-Resolution Tropical Channel Model Simulations of Tropical Cyclone Climatology and Intraseasonal-to-Interannual Variability. Journal of Climate. 32(22). 7871–7895. 13 indexed citations

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Patricola, Christina M., Suzana J. Camargo, Philip J. Klotzbach, R. Saravanan, & Ping Chang. (2018). The Influence of ENSO Flavors on Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Activity. Journal of Climate. 31(14). 5395–5416. 87 indexed citations

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Schmidt, M. W., et al.. (2017). Deglacial Tropical Atlantic subsurface warming links ocean circulation variability to the West African Monsoon. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 15390–15390. 5 indexed citations

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Brandt, Peter, et al.. (2017). Mesoscale Eddies in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean: Three‐Dimensional Eddy Structures and Heat/Salt Transports. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 122(12). 9795–9813. 75 indexed citations

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Yang, Li, et al.. (2014). QTL Mapping for Arabinoxylans Content and Its Relationship with Processing Quality in Common Wheat. ACTA AGRONOMICA SINICA. 40(9). 1695–1701. 2 indexed citations

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Patricola, Christina M., R. Saravanan, & Ping Chang. (2014). The Impact of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation and Atlantic Meridional Mode on Seasonal Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Activity. Journal of Climate. 27(14). 5311–5328. 86 indexed citations

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