Xu Zhou

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
84 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Xu Zhou is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xu Zhou has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Atmospheric Science, 49 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 12 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xu Zhou's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (36 papers), Climate variability and models (35 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (29 papers). Xu Zhou is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (36 papers), Climate variability and models (35 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (29 papers). Xu Zhou collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Xu Zhou's co-authors include Kun Yang, Yingying Chen, Xin Li, Yan Wang, Yaozhi Jiang, Hui Lü, Shankar Sharma, Nitesh Khadka, Huidong Li and Lin Ouyang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Science of The Total Environment and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Xu Zhou

79 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

TPHiPr: a long-term (1979–2020) high-accuracy precipitation dataset (1∕30°, daily) for the Third Pole region based on high-resolution atmospheric modeling and dense observations

2023 126 citations Yaozhi Jiang, Kun Yang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xu Zhou China	23	1.3k	1.1k	330	189	103	84	1.8k
Éric Bazile France	20	1.3k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	358 1.1×	111 0.6×	32 0.3×	43	1.5k
Petri Räisänen Finland	28	1.8k 1.4×	1.9k 1.7×	240 0.7×	74 0.4×	127 1.2×	87	2.3k
Eduardo García‐Ortega Spain	28	1.9k 1.5×	1.8k 1.6×	355 1.1×	210 1.1×	37 0.4×	70	2.3k
K. Lagouvardos Greece	18	877 0.7×	972 0.9×	135 0.4×	102 0.5×	87 0.8×	45	1.2k
Jeffrey H. Copeland United States	5	1.2k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	374 1.1×	95 0.5×	145 1.4×	8	1.6k
Eric James United States	19	1.4k 1.1×	1.3k 1.2×	303 0.9×	58 0.3×	111 1.1×	55	1.8k
Reinhold Steinacker Austria	19	1.4k 1.1×	1.2k 1.0×	380 1.2×	132 0.7×	28 0.3×	50	1.7k
Frédérique Cheruy France	22	1.8k 1.4×	2.1k 1.8×	539 1.6×	247 1.3×	53 0.5×	49	2.6k
Paul Joe Canada	26	2.1k 1.6×	1.5k 1.3×	515 1.6×	197 1.0×	56 0.5×	75	2.5k
Adam K. Kochanski United States	21	753 0.6×	1.1k 0.9×	207 0.6×	83 0.4×	66 0.6×	74	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Xu Zhou

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xu Zhou

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xu Zhou

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhou, Xu, et al.. (2025). Estimating near-surface air temperature in urban functional zones in China using spatial-temporal attention. Building and Environment. 276. 112860–112860. 3 indexed citations

Zhou, Xu, et al.. (2024). Effect of dry-wet alternation on the adsorption of dissolved organic matter by soil minerals. Physicochemical Problems of Mineral Processing.

Yan, Bowen, Xuhong Zhou, Xiao Li, et al.. (2024). An active-controlled multi-blade facility to generate 2-D downburst-like outflows in the boundary layer wind tunnel. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics. 248. 105713–105713. 5 indexed citations

Zhou, Xu, Binbin Wang, Xiaogang Ma, Zhu La, & Kun Yang. (2024). Simulating lake ice phenology using a coupled atmosphere–lake model at Nam Co, a typical deep alpine lake on the Tibetan Plateau. The cryosphere. 18(10). 4589–4605. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Jiarui, Kun Yang, Peili Wu, et al.. (2024). Cloud Radiative Feedback to the Large‐Scale Atmospheric Circulation Greatly Reduces Monsoon‐Season Wet Bias Over the Tibetan Plateau in Climate Modeling. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(14). 3 indexed citations

Zhou, Xu, et al.. (2023). Managing fairness and consensus based on individual consciousness of preventing manipulation. Information Fusion. 102. 102047–102047. 12 indexed citations

Huang, Anning, et al.. (2023). Impact of Sub‐Grid Turbulent Orographic Form Drag on the Summer Monsoon Precipitation Simulation Over China. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(20). 1 indexed citations

Zhou, Xu, et al.. (2023). Expression Recognition Based on Multi-Regional Coordinate Attention Residuals. IEEE Access. 11. 63863–63873. 7 indexed citations

Xu, Xin, Xu Zhou, Kun Yang, et al.. (2023). Reducing Winter Precipitation Biases Over the Western Tibetan Plateau in the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) With a Revised Parameterization of Orographic Gravity Wave Drag. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(22). 3 indexed citations

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Zhou, Xu, Baohong Ding, Kun Yang, et al.. (2023). Reducing the Cold Bias of the WRF Model Over the Tibetan Plateau by Implementing a Snow Coverage‐Topography Relationship and a Fresh Snow Albedo Scheme. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 15(9). 14 indexed citations

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Yang, Kun, Xu Zhou, Yan Wang, et al.. (2023). Observation and Process Understanding of Typical Cloud Holes Above Lakes Over the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(13). 5 indexed citations

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Li, Huidong, et al.. (2022). Improving the WRF/urban modeling system in China by developing a national urban dataset. Geoscience Frontiers. 13(4). 101385–101385. 21 indexed citations

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Ma, Xiaogang, Kun Yang, Zhu La, et al.. (2022). Importance of Parameterizing Lake Surface and Internal Thermal Processes in WRF for Simulating Freeze Onset of an Alpine Deep Lake. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 127(18). 15 indexed citations

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Ouyang, Lin, Hui Lü, Kun Yang, et al.. (2021). Characterizing Uncertainties in Ground “Truth” of Precipitation Over Complex Terrain Through High‐Resolution Numerical Modeling. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(10). 27 indexed citations

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Yue, Siyu, Kun Yang, Hui Lü, et al.. (2021). Representation of Stony Surface‐Atmosphere Interactions in WRF Reduces Cold and Wet Biases for the Southern Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(21). 23 indexed citations

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Huang, Bo, Xiangping Hu, Geir‐Arne Fuglstad, et al.. (2020). Predominant regional biophysical cooling from recent land cover changes in Europe. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1066–1066. 71 indexed citations

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Ouyang, Lin, Kun Yang, Hui Lü, et al.. (2020). Ground‐Based Observations Reveal Unique Valley Precipitation Patterns in the Central Himalaya. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 125(5). 34 indexed citations

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Wang, Yan, Kun Yang, Xu Zhou, et al.. (2019). The Formation of a Dry‐Belt in the North Side of Central Himalaya Mountains. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(5). 2993–3000. 15 indexed citations

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Matthes, Heidrun, Annette Rinke, Xu Zhou, & Klaus Dethloff. (2017). Uncertainties in coupled regional Arctic climate simulations associated with the used land surface model. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 122(15). 7755–7771. 10 indexed citations

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Zhou, Xu, et al.. (2006). Culicoides(Sinocoides) and A New Species from China (Diptera:Ceratopogonidae). Zhongguo meijie shengwuxue ji kongzhi zazhi. 17(6). 467–469. 1 indexed citations

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