Thian Yew Gan

9.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
173 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

Thian Yew Gan is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thian Yew Gan has authored 173 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 137 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 89 papers in Atmospheric Science and 65 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Thian Yew Gan's work include Climate variability and models (92 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (63 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (53 papers). Thian Yew Gan is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (92 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (63 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (53 papers). Thian Yew Gan collaborates with scholars based in Canada, China and United States. Thian Yew Gan's co-authors include Shereif H. Mahmoud, Xuezhi Tan, Getu Fana Biftu, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Henry K. Ntale, Adam Kenea Gobena, Mesgana Seyoum Gizaw, Chun‐Chao Kuo, Prakash Raj Kannel and Stephen J. Burges and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Thian Yew Gan

168 papers receiving 7.0k 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.

Advances in understanding large‐scale responses of the water cycle to climate change

2020 378 citations Richard P. Allan, Mathew Barlow et al. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences profile →
Increasing global precipitation whiplash due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions

2023 81 citations Thian Yew Gan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thian Yew Gan Canada	48	5.1k	3.1k	2.4k	1.4k	770	173	7.3k
Maoyi Huang United States	45	4.1k 0.8×	3.2k 1.0×	1.7k 0.7×	1.5k 1.0×	585 0.8×	140	6.3k
Quanxi Shao Australia	50	4.5k 0.9×	4.0k 1.3×	1.7k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	553 0.7×	179	6.9k
Sheng Yue Canada	27	6.4k 1.3×	3.3k 1.0×	2.1k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	810 1.1×	50	8.2k
Chris Kilsby United Kingdom	47	5.3k 1.1×	2.8k 0.9×	2.3k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	475 0.6×	151	6.9k
Lorenzo Alfieri Italy	39	5.7k 1.1×	3.4k 1.1×	2.2k 0.9×	942 0.7×	549 0.7×	91	7.1k
Rohini Kumar Germany	51	5.3k 1.0×	4.6k 1.5×	1.6k 0.6×	2.0k 1.4×	559 0.7×	194	8.4k
Guobin Fu Australia	38	3.9k 0.8×	3.2k 1.0×	1.6k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	545 0.7×	126	5.5k
Hossein Tabari Belgium	51	6.7k 1.3×	2.9k 0.9×	2.0k 0.8×	2.0k 1.3×	474 0.6×	117	8.6k
Zongxue Xu China	45	4.5k 0.9×	4.1k 1.3×	1.9k 0.8×	1.7k 1.1×	941 1.2×	243	7.2k
Harald Kunstmann Germany	49	4.8k 0.9×	2.4k 0.8×	3.5k 1.4×	1.4k 1.0×	390 0.5×	296	7.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thian Yew Gan

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhang, Gengxi, Huimin Wang, Thian Yew Gan, et al.. (2025). A comprehensive review of recent progress on the drought-flood abrupt alternation. Journal of Hydrology. 661. 133806–133806. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Gengxi, Huimin Wang, Shuyu Zhang, et al.. (2025). Spring phenology and productivity alter vegetation vulnerability under summer droughts over Northern Hemisphere. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 368. 110555–110555.

Wang, Lunche, Tianjun Zhou, Dabang Jiang, et al.. (2025). Excess water availability in northern mid-high latitudes contiguously migrated from ocean under climate change. Science Advances. 11(33). eadv0282–eadv0282.

Wang, Jian, Javier Cortés-Ramírez, Thian Yew Gan, J M Davies, & W. Hu. (2024). Effects of climate and environmental factors on childhood and adolescent asthma: A systematic review based on spatial and temporal analysis evidence. The Science of The Total Environment. 951. 175863–175863. 6 indexed citations

Zhang, Gengxi, Shuyu Zhang, Huimin Wang, et al.. (2024). Evaluating vegetation vulnerability under compound dry and hot conditions using vine copula across global lands. Journal of Hydrology. 631. 130775–130775. 29 indexed citations

Chen, Yufan, et al.. (2024). Impacts of moisture transport on extreme precipitation in the Central Plains Urban Agglomeration, China. Global and Planetary Change. 242. 104582–104582. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Shuyu, Yufan Chen, Kai Wang, et al.. (2024). Anomalous Water Vapor Circulation in an Extreme Drought Event of the Mid‐Reaches of the Lancang‐Mekong River Basin. Earth s Future. 12(8). 1 indexed citations

Gan, Thian Yew, et al.. (2023). Projected changes of precipitation extremes in North America using CMIP6 multi-climate model ensembles. Journal of Hydrology. 621. 129598–129598. 21 indexed citations

Faramarzi, Monireh, et al.. (2023). Evaluation and uncertainty assessment of weather data and model calibration on daily streamflow simulation in a large-scale regulated and snow-dominated river basin. Journal of Hydrology. 617. 129103–129103. 17 indexed citations

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Mahmoud, Shereif H., Thian Yew Gan, & David Z. Zhu. (2023). Impacts of climate change and climate variability on water resources and drought in an arid region and possible resiliency and adaptation measures against climate warming. Climate Dynamics. 61(9-10). 4079–4105. 9 indexed citations

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Gan, Thian Yew, et al.. (2023). Enhancing Renewable Energy Systems, Contributing to Sustainable Development Goals of United Nation and Building Resilience Against Climate Change Impacts. Energy Technology. 11(11). 39 indexed citations

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Mahmoud, Shereif H., et al.. (2023). Monitoring the spatial distribution of water quality of an urban stormwater pond using satellite images. Ecological Informatics. 77. 102205–102205. 9 indexed citations

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Zhang, Shuyu, Thian Yew Gan, Andrew B. G. Bush, et al.. (2023). Changes of the streamflow of northern river basins of Siberia and their teleconnections to climate patterns. International Journal of Climatology. 43(13). 6114–6130. 2 indexed citations

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Allan, Richard P., Mathew Barlow, Michael P. Byrne, et al.. (2020). Advances in understanding large‐scale responses of the water cycle to climate change. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1472(1). 49–75. 378 indexed citations breakdown →

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Li, Jianfeng, Thian Yew Gan, Yun Chen, et al.. (2017). Impacts of spatial resolutions on projected changes in precipitationextremes: from site- to grid-scales. 2 indexed citations

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Gan, Thian Yew, et al.. (2016). Possible Climate Change/Variability and Human Impacts, Vulnerability of African Drought Prone Regions, its Water Resources and Capacity Building. EGUGA. 2017. 1 indexed citations

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Tan, Xuezhi & Thian Yew Gan. (2015). Contribution of human and climate change impacts to changes in streamflow of Canada. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 17767–17767. 85 indexed citations

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Gan, Thian Yew, Yeugeniy M. Gusev, Stephen J. Burges, & О. Н. Насонова. (2006). Performance comparison of a complex physics-based land surface model and a conceptual, lumped-parameter hydrological model at the basin-scale.. IAHS-AISH publication. 307. 196–207. 13 indexed citations

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Gan, Thian Yew, et al.. (2005). Modelling hydrological responses of the Athabasca River basin to climate change by the Modified ISBA Land Surface Scheme. IAHS-AISH publication. 89–101. 2 indexed citations

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Gan, Thian Yew, et al.. (2003). Applying radar rainfall data in basin hydrological modelling. IAHS-AISH publication. 258–267. 1 indexed citations

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