Xingren Wu

10.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Xingren Wu is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Xingren Wu has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Atmospheric Science, 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 5 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Xingren Wu's work include Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (24 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (21 papers) and Climate variability and models (18 papers). Xingren Wu is often cited by papers focused on Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (24 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (21 papers) and Climate variability and models (18 papers). Xingren Wu collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and China. Xingren Wu's co-authors include Wanqiu Wang, Jesse Meng, David Behringer, Malaquías Peña, Sudhir Nadiga, Mingyue Chen, Mark Iredell, Jiande Wang, Qin Zhang and Michael Ek and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, PLoS ONE and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Xingren Wu

39 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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 NCEP Climate Forecast System Version 2

2013 2.6k citations Suranjana Saha, Shrinivas Moorthi et al. Journal of Climate profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xingren Wu United States	17	2.9k	2.5k	1.1k	253	244	41	3.6k
Sudhir Nadiga United States	7	3.0k 1.0×	3.1k 1.3×	1.4k 1.4×	287 1.1×	301 1.2×	9	3.9k
Mark Iredell United States	11	2.4k 0.9×	2.2k 0.9×	976 0.9×	226 0.9×	254 1.0×	18	3.3k
Patrick Tripp United States	3	2.0k 0.7×	2.0k 0.8×	874 0.8×	216 0.9×	226 0.9×	3	2.6k
Yu-Tai Hou United States	10	2.3k 0.8×	2.3k 0.9×	901 0.8×	217 0.9×	263 1.1×	12	3.0k
David Behringer United States	21	3.0k 1.1×	3.2k 1.3×	2.1k 2.0×	243 1.0×	279 1.1×	36	4.4k
Frauke Feser Germany	24	3.0k 1.0×	3.2k 1.3×	644 0.6×	264 1.0×	230 0.9×	55	4.0k
Emily Becker United States	19	3.0k 1.1×	3.3k 1.3×	1.4k 1.3×	326 1.3×	331 1.4×	43	4.1k
Paul Berrisford United Kingdom	23	3.4k 1.2×	3.5k 1.4×	1.0k 1.0×	172 0.7×	190 0.8×	41	4.1k
Yang Feng Canada	28	1.8k 0.6×	1.9k 0.8×	959 0.9×	182 0.7×	267 1.1×	48	2.9k
Len Shaffrey United Kingdom	37	3.6k 1.2×	3.7k 1.5×	730 0.7×	146 0.6×	170 0.7×	94	4.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Xingren Wu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xingren Wu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xingren Wu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xingren Wu based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Xingren Wu. Xingren Wu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Wang, Jia, David A. Lavers, Luca Delle Monache, et al.. (2025). Impacts of atmospheric river reconnaissance dropsondes on ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System precipitation forecasts. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 152(774).

Murphy, Michael J., et al.. (2025). The Utility of a Two-Dimensional Forward Model for Bending Angle Observations in Regions with Strong Horizontal Gradients. Monthly Weather Review. 153(8). 1467–1487. 1 indexed citations

Zheng, Minghua, Ryan D. Torn, Luca Delle Monache, et al.. (2024). An Assessment of Dropsonde Sampling Strategies for Atmospheric River Reconnaissance. Monthly Weather Review. 152(3). 811–835. 4 indexed citations

Yang, Qinghua, Matthew R. Mazloff, Xingren Wu, et al.. (2023). Transiting consolidated ice strongly influenced polynya area during a shrink event in Terra Nova Bay in 2013. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 3 indexed citations

Lord, Stephen J., Xingren Wu, Vijay Tallapragada, & F. Martin Ralph. (2023). The Impact of Dropsonde Data on the Performance of the NCEP Global Forecast System during the 2020 Atmospheric Rivers Observing Campaign. Part II: Dynamic Variables and Humidity. Weather and Forecasting. 38(5). 721–752. 5 indexed citations

Wilson, Anna M., Brian Kawzenuk, Minghua Zheng, et al.. (2023). Impacts of Dropsonde Observations on Forecasts of Atmospheric Rivers and Associated Precipitation in the NCEP GFS and ECMWF IFS Models. Weather and Forecasting. 38(12). 2397–2413. 4 indexed citations

Lord, Stephen J., Xingren Wu, Vijay Tallapragada, & F. Martin Ralph. (2022). The Impact of Dropsonde Data on the Performance of the NCEP Global Forecast System during the 2020 Atmospheric Rivers Observing Campaign. Part I: Precipitation. Weather and Forecasting. 38(1). 17–45. 11 indexed citations

Zheng, Minghua, Luca Delle Monache, Bruce D. Cornuelle, et al.. (2021). Improved Forecast Skill Through the Assimilation of Dropsonde Observations From the Atmospheric River Reconnaissance Program. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(21). 21 indexed citations

Zhao, Jiechen, Qi Shu, Chunhua Li, et al.. (2020). The role of bias correction on subseasonal prediction of Arctic sea ice during summer 2018. Acta Oceanologica Sinica. 39(9). 50–59. 5 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiujun, et al.. (2014). Characterizing Air Temperature Changes in the Tarim Basin over 1960–2012. PLoS ONE. 9(11). e112231–e112231. 9 indexed citations

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Saha, Suranjana, Shrinivas Moorthi, Xingren Wu, et al.. (2013). The NCEP Climate Forecast System Version 2. Journal of Climate. 27(6). 2185–2208. 2599 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wu, Xingren & Robert Grumbine. (2010). Sea Ice In the NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis. 1 indexed citations

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Wu, Xingren. (2006). Sea Ice in the NCEP Climate Forecast System. AGUFM. 2015. 1 indexed citations

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Bi, Daohua, William Budd, Anthony C. Hirst, & Xingren Wu. (2002). Response of the antarctic circumpolar current transport to global warming in a coupled model. Geophysical Research Letters. 29(24). 23 indexed citations

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Massom, Robert A., Hajo Eicken, Martin O. Jeffries, et al.. (2001). Snow on Antarctic sea ice. Reviews of Geophysics. 39(3). 413–445. 263 indexed citations

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Wu, Xingren, W. F. Budd, & T. H. Jacka. (1999). Simulations of Southern Hemisphere warming and Antarctic sea-ice changes using global climate models. Annals of Glaciology. 29. 61–65. 16 indexed citations

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Wu, Xingren & W. F. Budd. (1998). Modelling global warming and Antarctic sea-ice changes over the past century. Annals of Glaciology. 27. 413–419. 2 indexed citations

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Budd, W. F., Xingren Wu, & Phillip Reid. (1997). Physical characteristics of the Antarctic sea-ice zone derived from modelling and observations. Annals of Glaciology. 25. 1–7. 2 indexed citations

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Budd, W. F., Ian Simmonds, & Xingren Wu. (1991). The physical basis for a dynamic Antarctic sea-ice model for use with an atmospheric GCM. Annals of Glaciology. 15. 196–203. 4 indexed citations

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Budd, W. F., Ian Simmonds, & Xingren Wu. (1991). The physical basis for a dynamic Antarctic sea-ice model for use with an atmospheric GCM. Annals of Glaciology. 15. 196–203. 12 indexed citations

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