Xiaolan L. Wang

11.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
87 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Xiaolan L. Wang is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaolan L. Wang has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 56 papers in Atmospheric Science and 32 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Xiaolan L. Wang's work include Climate variability and models (71 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (31 papers) and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (22 papers). Xiaolan L. Wang is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (71 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (31 papers) and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (22 papers). Xiaolan L. Wang collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Xiaolan L. Wang's co-authors include Val R. Swail, Yang Feng, Francis W. Zwiers, Yuehua Wu, Mark Hemer, Robert Lund, Jaxk Reeves, Qi Lu, Yalin Fan and Qiuzi Han Wen and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Climate and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Xiaolan L. Wang

83 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Hit Papers

Projected changes in wave climate from a multi-model ense... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. Projected changes in wave climate from a multi-model ensemble
    2013 431 citations Mark Hemer, Yalin Fan 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 Career Trend Papers Cites
Xiaolan L. Wang Canada 43 4.6k 4.3k 2.1k 689 675 87 6.9k
Hans Hersbach United Kingdom 22 3.7k 0.8× 3.9k 0.9× 1.8k 0.9× 551 0.8× 1.2k 1.7× 42 6.7k
Kenneth R. Knapp United States 28 4.8k 1.0× 5.3k 1.2× 2.0k 0.9× 278 0.4× 327 0.5× 57 6.2k
Joaquim G. Pinto Germany 57 7.3k 1.6× 6.4k 1.5× 1.3k 0.6× 372 0.5× 589 0.9× 212 9.6k
Alex Hall United States 57 8.5k 1.8× 7.6k 1.7× 1.4k 0.6× 256 0.4× 567 0.8× 147 10.8k
Suranjana Saha United States 15 5.6k 1.2× 5.4k 1.2× 2.1k 1.0× 206 0.3× 403 0.6× 26 6.8k
Jean‐Noël Thépaut United Kingdom 36 6.5k 1.4× 6.4k 1.5× 1.3k 0.6× 167 0.2× 1.3k 1.9× 79 8.8k
Uwe Ulbrich Germany 43 5.4k 1.2× 4.7k 1.1× 933 0.4× 285 0.4× 613 0.9× 144 6.8k
Jack Woollen United States 10 7.2k 1.5× 6.7k 1.5× 2.2k 1.0× 135 0.2× 605 0.9× 12 8.8k
Wilco Hazeleger Netherlands 43 4.4k 0.9× 3.6k 0.8× 1.8k 0.8× 261 0.4× 248 0.4× 140 5.6k
Kevin I. Hodges United Kingdom 59 11.4k 2.5× 11.7k 2.7× 3.3k 1.5× 350 0.5× 313 0.5× 230 13.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Xiaolan L. Wang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiaolan L. Wang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaolan L. Wang

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Qian, Budong, et al.. (2025). Observed Changes in Canada’s Snowfall as Inferred from Precipitation and Daily Mean Temperatures. ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN. 64(2). 132–146.
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Zwiers, Francis W., et al.. (2025). Constrained Estimates of Externally Forced Past and Future Warming for Canada. Earth s Future. 13(10).
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Cheng, Vincent Y. S., Xiaolan L. Wang, & Yang Feng. (2024). A Quality Control System for Historical In Situ Precipitation Data. ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN. 62(4). 271–287. 1 indexed citations
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Casas‐Prat, Mercè, Mark Hemer, Guillaume Dodet, et al.. (2024). Author Correction: Wind-wave climate changes and their impacts. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 5(2). 152–152. 1 indexed citations
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Casas‐Prat, Mercè, et al.. (2023). A 100-member ensemble simulations of global historical (1951–2010) wave heights. Scientific Data. 10(1). 362–362. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiaolan L., Yang Feng, Vincent Y. S. Cheng, & Xu Hong. (2023). Observed Precipitation Trends Inferred from Canada’s Homogenized Monthly Precipitation Dataset. Journal of Climate. 36(22). 7957–7971. 10 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiaolan L., et al.. (2021). Historical Changes in the Davis Strait Baffin Bay Surface Winds and Waves, 1979–2016. Journal of Climate. 34(22). 8879–8896. 2 indexed citations
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Min, Seung‐Ki, et al.. (2021). Changes in extreme ocean wave heights under 1.5 °C, 2 °C, and 3 °C global warming. Weather and Climate Extremes. 33. 100358–100358. 13 indexed citations
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Kaur, Sukhwinder, et al.. (2021). CMIP5 model evaluation for extreme ocean wave height responses to ENSO. Climate Dynamics. 59(5-6). 1323–1337. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Qingxiang, Yun Xiang, Boyin Huang, et al.. (2021). An updated evaluation of the global mean land surface air temperature and surface temperature trends based on CLSAT and CMST. Climate Dynamics. 56(1-2). 635–650. 31 indexed citations
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Morim, Joao, Claire Trenham, Mark Hemer, et al.. (2020). A global ensemble of ocean wave climate projections from CMIP5-driven models. Scientific Data. 7(1). 105–105. 70 indexed citations
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Xu, Wenhui, Qingxiang Li, P. D. Jones, et al.. (2017). A new integrated and homogenized global monthly land surface air temperature dataset for the period since 1900. Climate Dynamics. 50(7-8). 2513–2536. 69 indexed citations
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Wu, Yuehua, et al.. (2014). Bayesian spatiotemporal modeling for blending in situ observations with satellite precipitation estimates. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 119(4). 1806–1819. 17 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiaolan L., et al.. (2013). Is the storminess in the Twentieth Century Reanalysis really inconsistent with observations? - A reply to the comment by Krueger et al. (2013). EGUGA. 1 indexed citations
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Hemer, Mark, Yalin Fan, Nobuhito Mori, Álvaro Semedo, & Xiaolan L. Wang. (2013). Projected changes in wave climate from a multi-model ensemble. Nature Climate Change. 3(5). 471–476. 431 indexed citations breakdown →
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Vincent, Lucie A., Xiaolan L. Wang, Ewa J. Milewska, et al.. (2012). A second generation of homogenized Canadian monthly surface air temperature for climate trend analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 117(D18). 294 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiaolan L.. (2005). Climatology and Changes of Extra-Tropical Storm Tracks and Cyclone Activity: Comparison of ERA-40 with NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis for 1958-2001. 12 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiaolan L. & Francis W. Zwiers. (1999). Interannual Variability of Precipitation in an Ensemble of AMIP Climate Simulations Conducted with the CCC GCM2. Journal of Climate. 12(5). 1322–1335. 20 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiaolan L., João Corte‐Real, & Xuebin Zhang. (1996). Intraseasonal oscillations and associated spatial‐temporal structures of precipitation over China. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 101(D14). 19035–19042. 14 indexed citations

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