Rucong Yu

8.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
128 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Rucong Yu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Rucong Yu has authored 128 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 120 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 113 papers in Atmospheric Science and 18 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Rucong Yu's work include Climate variability and models (105 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (88 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (24 papers). Rucong Yu is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (105 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (88 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (24 papers). Rucong Yu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and France. Rucong Yu's co-authors include Tianjun Zhou, Jian Li, Haoming Chen, Bin Wang, Weihua Yuan, Xiaoge Xin, Yongqiang Yu, Bin Wang, Youping Xu and Yi Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Climate and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Rucong Yu

125 papers receiving 6.9k 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.

Atmospheric water vapor transport associated with typical anomalous summer rainfall patterns in China

2005 667 citations Tianjun Zhou, Rucong Yu profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rucong Yu China	40	6.5k	6.2k	1.1k	466	283	128	7.0k
Hirokazu Endo Japan	20	5.8k 0.9×	5.4k 0.9×	1.7k 1.5×	458 1.0×	232 0.8×	45	6.6k
Hirotaka Kamahori Japan	16	5.6k 0.9×	5.4k 0.9×	1.9k 1.7×	359 0.8×	239 0.8×	26	6.5k
Kazutoshi Onogi Japan	12	5.5k 0.8×	5.2k 0.8×	1.8k 1.6×	361 0.8×	245 0.9×	15	6.3k
Kiyotoshi Takahashi Japan	10	5.4k 0.8×	5.1k 0.8×	1.8k 1.6×	353 0.8×	226 0.8×	14	6.2k
J. J. Hnilo United States	11	5.9k 0.9×	5.4k 0.9×	1.9k 1.7×	257 0.6×	241 0.9×	16	6.6k
R. Krishnan India	42	4.6k 0.7×	4.1k 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	408 0.9×	257 0.9×	136	5.5k
Jeff Knight United Kingdom	38	6.3k 1.0×	5.8k 0.9×	2.0k 1.8×	291 0.6×	153 0.5×	82	7.1k
Chiaki Kobayashi Japan	16	4.8k 0.7×	4.5k 0.7×	1.6k 1.4×	292 0.6×	209 0.7×	47	5.4k
Shrinivas Moorthi United States	19	4.5k 0.7×	4.5k 0.7×	1.7k 1.5×	305 0.7×	353 1.2×	38	5.5k
Muthuvel Chelliah United States	18	4.7k 0.7×	4.3k 0.7×	1.7k 1.5×	226 0.5×	204 0.7×	29	5.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rucong Yu

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20 of 20 papers shown

Yuan, Weihua, Rucong Yu, & Wei Sun. (2025). Unique climate features of the rainfall center along the northern coast of the Beibu Gulf. Climate Dynamics. 63(3).

Li, Jian, et al.. (2024). Quantitative characteristics of the quasi-stationary front anchored over the steep terrain on the Yungui Plateau. Atmospheric Research. 315. 107902–107902.

Yuan, Weihua & Rucong Yu. (2024). Mesoscale anomalous three-dimensional atmospheric circulation underpinned regional heavy rainfall events in the eastern foot of Tibetan Plateau. Climate Dynamics. 62(5). 3943–3954. 1 indexed citations

Zhou, Yihui, et al.. (2023). Dynamic and thermodynamic processes related to precipitation diurnal cycle simulated by GRIST. Climate Dynamics. 61(7-8). 3935–3953. 7 indexed citations

Yuan, Weihua & Rucong Yu. (2023). Spatiotemporal features of nocturnal heavy rainfall over the central Yungui Plateau and its leading three-dimensional circulations patterns. Climate Dynamics. 61(5-6). 2471–2484. 3 indexed citations

He, Mu, Haoming Chen, & Rucong Yu. (2022). Evaluation of Warm-Season Rainfall Diurnal Variation over the Qilian Mountains in Northwest China in ERA5 Reanalysis. Atmosphere. 13(5). 674–674. 4 indexed citations

Yuan, Weihua, et al.. (2020). The evolution process of warm season intense regional rainfall events in Yaan. Climate Dynamics. 54(7-8). 3245–3258. 10 indexed citations

Zhou, Yihui, Yi Zhang, Jian Li, Rucong Yu, & Zhuang Liu. (2020). Configuration and evaluation of a global unstructured mesh atmospheric model (GRIST-A20.9) based on the variable-resolution approach. Geoscientific model development. 13(12). 6325–6348. 19 indexed citations

Zhou, Yihui, Yi Zhang, Jian Li, Rucong Yu, & Zhuang Liu. (2020). Configuration and Evaluation of a Global Unstructured Mesh Modelbased on the Variable-Resolution Approach. 1 indexed citations

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Chen, Haoming, Jian Li, & Rucong Yu. (2018). Warm season nocturnal rainfall over the eastern periphery of the Tibetan Plateau and its relationship with rainfall events in adjacent regions. International Journal of Climatology. 38(13). 4786–4801. 13 indexed citations

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Yu, Rucong. (2012). Analysis of the biases in the cloud radiative feature simulations over eastern China as done by the BCC_AGCM2.1. Acta Meteorologica Sinica. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Jian, Rucong Yu, Weihua Yuan, & Haoming Chen. (2011). Early Spring Dry Spell in the Southeastern Margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 89(1). 1–13. 20 indexed citations

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Yu, Rucong. (2009). Numerical Simulation on the Sensitivity of Heavy Rainfall over the Western Sichuan Basin to Initial Water Vapor Condition. Chinese Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. 5 indexed citations

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Yu, Rucong. (2009). The East Asian Summer Monsoon Simulated by Coupled Model FGOALS_s. Chinese Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. 4 indexed citations

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Yu, Rucong. (2009). Atmospheric Water Vapor Transport and Corresponding Typical Anomalous Spring Rainfall Patterns in China. Chinese Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. 19 indexed citations

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Yu, Rucong, et al.. (2009). Development of a Regional Climate Model (CREM) and Evaluation on Its Simulation of Summer Climate over Eastern China. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 87(3). 381–401. 11 indexed citations

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Yu, Rucong. (2008). Spatial Distribution and Temporal Variation of Soil Moisture over China Part II: The Evaluations for Coupled Models' Simulations. Chinese Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. 4 indexed citations

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Xin, Xiaoge, Laurent Li, Rucong Yu, & Tianjun Zhou. (2008). Impacts of upper tropospheric cooling upon the late spring drought in East Asia simulated by a regional climate model. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 25(4). 555–562. 15 indexed citations

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Liu, Xiying, et al.. (2004). Mean climatic characteristics in high northern latitudes in an ocean-sea ice-atmosphere coupled model. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 21(2). 236–244. 5 indexed citations

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Li, Yunying, Rucong Yu, Youping Xu, & Xuehong Zhang. (2004). Spatial Distribution and Seasonal Variation of Cloud over China Based on ISCCP Data and Surface Observations. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 82(2). 761–773. 74 indexed citations

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