Xubin Zeng

28.2k total citations · 8 hit papers
272 papers, 15.8k citations indexed

About

Xubin Zeng is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xubin Zeng has authored 272 papers receiving a total of 15.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 203 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 174 papers in Atmospheric Science and 48 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xubin Zeng's work include Climate variability and models (134 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (96 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (65 papers). Xubin Zeng is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (134 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (96 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (65 papers). Xubin Zeng collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Xubin Zeng's co-authors include Robert E. Dickinson, Zong‐Liang Yang, Keith W. Oleson, Roger A. Pielke, Gordon B. Bonan, Aihui Wang, Kôichi Sakaguchi, Yongjiu Dai, P. D. Broxton and Samuel Levis and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Xubin Zeng

261 papers receiving 15.3k citations

Hit Papers

The Common Land Model 1998 2026 2007 2016 2003 2011 2011 1998 2004 250 500 750 1000
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. The Common Land Model
    2003 1.1k citations Yongjiu Dai, Xubin Zeng et al. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society profile →
  2. Parameterization improvements and functional and structural advances in Version 4 of the Community Land Model
    2011 1.1k citations Xubin Zeng et al. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems profile →
  3. Parameterization improvements and functional and structural advances in Version 4 of the Community Land Model
    2011 676 citations Xubin Zeng et al. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems profile →
  4. Intercomparison of Bulk Aerodynamic Algorithms for the Computation of Sea Surface Fluxes Using TOGA COARE and TAO Data
    1998 631 citations Xubin Zeng et al. profile →
  5. Technical Description of the Community Land Model (CLM)
    2004 582 citations Yongjiu Dai, Robert E. Dickinson et al. profile →
  6. The Land Surface Climatology of the Community Land Model Coupled to the NCAR Community Climate Model*
    2002 550 citations Xubin Zeng, Yongjiu Dai et al. profile →
  7. COSMOS: the COsmic-ray Soil Moisture Observing System
    2012 427 citations Marek Zreda, W. James Shuttleworth et al. Hydrology and earth system sciences profile →
  8. Improving the representation of hydrologic processes in Earth System Models
    2015 403 citations L. Ruby Leung, Xubin Zeng et al. Water Resources Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Xubin Zeng United States 57 10.9k 8.8k 3.6k 2.9k 1.9k 272 15.8k
Kun Yang China 79 12.4k 1.1× 13.8k 1.6× 4.7k 1.3× 4.4k 1.5× 1.8k 1.0× 494 21.7k
Zong‐Liang Yang United States 63 15.0k 1.4× 12.2k 1.4× 4.2k 1.2× 6.2k 2.1× 1.6k 0.8× 227 21.6k
Keith W. Oleson United States 54 10.6k 1.0× 6.3k 0.7× 4.7k 1.3× 2.0k 0.7× 1.7k 0.9× 84 14.8k
Diego G. Miralles Belgium 63 14.7k 1.4× 7.8k 0.9× 4.3k 1.2× 6.3k 2.1× 2.1k 1.1× 165 19.5k
Paul A. Dirmeyer United States 67 12.2k 1.1× 9.3k 1.1× 4.4k 1.2× 3.5k 1.2× 877 0.5× 212 15.6k
Zhongbo Su Netherlands 60 8.1k 0.7× 5.6k 0.6× 5.9k 1.6× 3.1k 1.1× 2.5k 1.3× 428 13.7k
Richard de Jeu Netherlands 55 8.6k 0.8× 9.4k 1.1× 9.2k 2.5× 3.9k 1.3× 2.1k 1.1× 162 17.3k
Paul R. Houser United States 50 8.8k 0.8× 8.2k 0.9× 6.0k 1.6× 5.1k 1.7× 897 0.5× 171 16.1k
Wouter Dorigo Austria 59 6.8k 0.6× 8.4k 1.0× 8.7k 2.4× 2.8k 1.0× 2.1k 1.1× 202 15.1k
Michael Ek United States 45 13.0k 1.2× 11.8k 1.3× 4.0k 1.1× 3.7k 1.3× 802 0.4× 93 17.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xubin Zeng

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Teixeira, João, Jeffrey R. Piepmeier, Amin R. Nehrir, et al.. (2025). Toward a Global Planetary Boundary Layer Observing System: A Summary. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 106(8). E1566–E1579. 3 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xueyan, Yuanhao Fang, Guo‐Yue Niu, et al.. (2024). Impacts of Topography‐Driven Water Redistribution on Terrestrial Water Storage Change in California Through Ecosystem Responses. Water Resources Research. 60(2). 4 indexed citations
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Schlosser, Joseph S., David Painemal, Brian Cairns, et al.. (2024). Retrievals of aerosol optical depth over the western North Atlantic Ocean during ACTIVATE. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 17(9). 2739–2759. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Shaofeng, Xubin Zeng, Yongjiu Dai, et al.. (2023). Scale‐Dependent Estimability of Turbulent Flux in the Unstable Surface Layer for Land Surface Modeling. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 15(8). 1 indexed citations
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Hu, Yongxiang, Xiaomei Lu, Xubin Zeng, et al.. (2023). Linking lidar multiple scattering profiles to snow depth and snow density: an analytical radiative transfer analysis and the implications for remote sensing of snow. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 3 indexed citations
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Hsu, Chia‐Wei, Charlotte A. DeMott, Mark Branson, J. E. Jack Reeves Eyre, & Xubin Zeng. (2022). Ocean Surface Flux Algorithm Effects on Tropical Indo‐Pacific Intraseasonal Precipitation. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(7). e2021GL096968–e2021GL096968. 8 indexed citations
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Liu, Shaofeng, Xubin Zeng, Yongjiu Dai, et al.. (2022). A Surface Flux Estimation Scheme Accounting for Large‐Eddy Effects for Land Surface Modeling. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(23). 4 indexed citations
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Zeng, Xubin, M. Ďurčík, Luke Pangle, et al.. (2020). Highly sampled measurements in a controlled atmosphere at the Biosphere 2 Landscape Evolution Observatory. Scientific Data. 7(1). 306–306. 2 indexed citations
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Niu, Guo‐Yue, et al.. (2020). Enhancing the Noah‐MP Ecosystem Response to Droughts With an Explicit Representation of Plant Water Storage Supplied by Dynamic Root Water Uptake. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 12(11). 46 indexed citations
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Zeng, Xubin, P. D. Broxton, & Nicholas Dawson. (2018). Snowpack Change From 1982 to 2016 Over Conterminous United States. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(23). 123 indexed citations
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Dadashazar, Hossein, Zhen Wang, Ewan Crosbie, et al.. (2017). Relationships between giant sea salt particles and clouds inferred from aircraft physicochemical data. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 122(6). 3421–3434. 24 indexed citations
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Eyre, J. E. Jack Reeves & Xubin Zeng. (2017). Evaluation of Greenland near surface air temperature datasets. ˜The œcryosphere. 11(4). 1591–1605. 35 indexed citations
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Dawson, Nicholas, P. D. Broxton, & Xubin Zeng. (2016). A New Snow Density Parameterization for Land Data Assimilation. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2016. 2 indexed citations
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Rosolem, Rafael, T. J. Hoar, Avelino F. Arellano, et al.. (2014). Translating aboveground cosmic-ray neutron intensity to high-frequency soil moisture profiles at sub-kilometer scale. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 18(11). 4363–4379. 48 indexed citations
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Rosolem, Rafael, Marek Zreda, C. Zweck, et al.. (2011). Can a COSMOS probe measure other environmental variables other than water content in the soils. AGUFM. 2011. 1 indexed citations
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Brunke, Michael A., Simon P. de Szoeke, Paquita Zuidema, & Xubin Zeng. (2010). A comparison of ship and satellite measurements of cloud properties with global climate model simulations in the southeast Pacific stratus deck. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 10(14). 6527–6536. 17 indexed citations
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Buermann, Wolfgang, Jing Dong, Xubin Zeng, Ranga B. Myneni, & Robert E. Dickinson. (2001). Evaluation of the Utility of Satellite-based Vegetation Leaf Area Index Data for Climate Simulations. OPUS (Augsburg University). 2001. 3 indexed citations
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Zeng, Xubin. (1992). Chaos Theory and its Application in the Atmosphere. Digital Collections of Colorado (Colorado State University). 4 indexed citations

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