Xitian Cai

2.1k total citations
42 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Xitian Cai is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xitian Cai has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 21 papers in Water Science and Technology and 14 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xitian Cai's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (20 papers), Climate variability and models (17 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (14 papers). Xitian Cai is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (20 papers), Climate variability and models (17 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (14 papers). Xitian Cai collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Xitian Cai's co-authors include Zong‐Liang Yang, Guo‐Yue Niu, Youlong Xia, Matthew Rodell, Cédric H. David, Zongxue Xu, Eric F. Wood, Zhanling Li, Quanxi Shao and Michael Ek and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Water Resources Research and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Xitian Cai

38 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Peers

Xitian Cai
Étienne Leblois France
Luc Séguis France
Manuela Girotto United States
Jorge Jódar Spain
Bailing Li United States
Zhangli Sun China
Delwyn Moller United States
Michael A. Brunke United States
J.‐F. Mahfouf France
Étienne Leblois France
Xitian Cai
Citations per year, relative to Xitian Cai Xitian Cai (= 1×) peers Étienne Leblois

Countries citing papers authored by Xitian Cai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xitian Cai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xitian Cai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xitian Cai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xitian Cai 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 Xitian Cai. Xitian Cai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Huang, Haijun, et al.. (2025). Impacts of the Grain for Green Project on Soil Moisture in the Yellow River Basin, China. Hydrological Processes. 39(3). 4 indexed citations
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Li, Yanping, Zhenhua Li, Xitian Cai, et al.. (2024). Enhancing Winter Wheat Representation in Noah‐MP‐Crop for Improved Dynamic Crop Growth Simulation in the North China Plain. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 129(8). 1 indexed citations
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Cai, Xitian, Guo Zhang, Jingjing Liang, et al.. (2024). Influence of Terrestrial Nitrogen Dynamics on Mesoscale Near‐Surface Meteorological Fields. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(14).
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Cao, Xuan, et al.. (2024). Optimization of snow-related processes in Noah-MP land surface model over the mid-latitudes of Asian region. Atmospheric Research. 311. 107711–107711.
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Wang, Qiang, Xitian Cai, Jinyun Tang, et al.. (2023). Climate feedbacks associated with land-use and land-cover change on hydrological extremes over the Yangtze River Delta Region, China. Journal of Hydrology. 623. 129855–129855. 12 indexed citations
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Cai, Xitian, Joshua B. Fisher, Zhenzhong Zeng, et al.. (2023). The responses of ecosystem water use efficiency to CO2, nitrogen deposition, and climatic drivers across China. Journal of Hydrology. 622. 129696–129696. 15 indexed citations
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Wang, Dashan, et al.. (2023). Sub‐Grid Representation of Vegetation Cover in Land Surface Schemes Improves the Modeling of How Climate Responds to Deforestation. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(15). 5 indexed citations
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Cai, Xitian, et al.. (2023). Land-Use-Change-Induced Cooling and Precipitation Reduction in China: Insights from CMIP6 Models. Sustainability. 15(16). 12191–12191. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Guo, Jianduo Li, Guangsheng Zhou, et al.. (2021). Effects of Mosaic Representation of Land Use/Land Cover on Skin Temperature and Energy Fluxes in Noah‐MP Land Surface Model Over China. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(13). 8 indexed citations
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Yuan, Kunxiaojia, Qing Zhu, Lei Zhao, et al.. (2021). Deforestation reshapes land-surface energy-flux partitioning. Environmental Research Letters. 16(2). 24014–24014. 31 indexed citations
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Cai, Xitian, W. J. Riley, Qing Zhu, et al.. (2019). Improving Representation of Deforestation Effects on Evapotranspiration in the E3SM Land Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 11(8). 2412–2427. 29 indexed citations
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Ajoy, Ashok, Han Bo-ping, Kristina Liu, et al.. (2019). Hyperpolarized relaxometry based nuclear T1 noise spectroscopy in diamond. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5160–5160. 35 indexed citations
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Cai, Xitian, Ming Pan, Nathaniel W. Chaney, et al.. (2017). Validation of SMAP soil moisture for the SMAPVEX15 field campaign using a hyper‐resolution model. Water Resources Research. 53(4). 3013–3028. 41 indexed citations
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Clark, Martyn, Marc F. P. Bierkens, Luis Samaniego, et al.. (2017). The evolution of process-based hydrologic models: Historical challenges and the collective quest for physical realism. Explore Bristol Research. 7 indexed citations
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Cai, Xitian, et al.. (2016). Integration of nitrogen dynamics into the Noah-MP land surface model v1.1 for climate and environmental predictions. Geoscientific model development. 9(1). 1–15. 40 indexed citations
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Cai, Xitian, et al.. (2010). Climate Change Impact on Meteorological, Hydrological, and Agricultural Drought: A case study of Central Illinois. AGUFM. 2010. 1 indexed citations
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Cai, Xitian, et al.. (2009). Distributed simulation for regional evapotranspiration and verification by using remote sensing.. Nongye gongcheng xuebao. 25(10). 154–160. 4 indexed citations

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