Yafang Zhong

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Yafang Zhong is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Yafang Zhong has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 18 papers in Atmospheric Science and 11 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Yafang Zhong's work include Climate variability and models (21 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (10 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (10 papers). Yafang Zhong is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (21 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (10 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (10 papers). Yafang Zhong collaborates with scholars based in United States, Iceland and China. Yafang Zhong's co-authors include Gifford H. Miller, Zhengyu Liu, Áslaug Geirsdóttir, Marika M. Holland, David A. Bailey, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, John Southon, Scott J. Lehman, Kurt A. Refsnider and Michael Notaro and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Journal of Climate and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Yafang Zhong

32 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.

Abrupt onset of the Little Ice Age triggered by volcanism and sustained by sea‐ice/ocean feedbacks

2012 599 citations Gifford H. Miller, Áslaug Geirsdóttir et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yafang Zhong United States	17	1.1k	1.0k	481	218	146	36	1.8k
Mihai Dima Romania	21	1.0k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	759 1.6×	275 1.3×	128 0.9×	54	1.7k
Davide Zanchettin Italy	29	1.7k 1.6×	1.7k 1.7×	652 1.4×	179 0.8×	130 0.9×	95	2.4k
Trausti Jónsson Iceland	19	1.8k 1.6×	1.6k 1.6×	566 1.2×	274 1.3×	118 0.8×	36	2.4k
Ron Kahana United Kingdom	15	674 0.6×	606 0.6×	230 0.5×	163 0.7×	220 1.5×	25	1.3k
Ryouta O’ishi Japan	15	1.2k 1.1×	1.2k 1.2×	207 0.4×	191 0.9×	155 1.1×	22	1.8k
Ilana Wainer Brazil	24	1.4k 1.2×	1.4k 1.3×	951 2.0×	397 1.8×	82 0.6×	109	2.1k
Kaustubh Thirumalai United States	19	1.1k 1.0×	739 0.7×	450 0.9×	483 2.2×	71 0.5×	75	1.7k
Joachim Ribbe Australia	19	693 0.6×	841 0.8×	652 1.4×	235 1.1×	53 0.4×	45	1.3k
Hanh Nguyen Australia	19	1.3k 1.2×	1.5k 1.5×	427 0.9×	183 0.8×	106 0.7×	37	1.9k
Jürgen Bader Germany	22	2.1k 1.9×	2.1k 2.1×	639 1.3×	151 0.7×	64 0.4×	37	2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Yafang Zhong

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yafang Zhong

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All Works

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Yang, Xingchuan, Lei Shi, Zhiqiang Yang, et al.. (2025). Asymmetric effects of daytime and nighttime warming on vegetation greenness in the Mongolian Plateau. Journal of Arid Environments. 229. 105394–105394.

Xue, Pengfei, Chenfu Huang, Yafang Zhong, et al.. (2025). Enhancing winter climate simulations of the Great Lakes: insights from a new coupled lake–ice–atmosphere (CLIAv1) system on the importance of integrating 3D hydrodynamics with a regional climate model. Geoscientific model development. 18(13). 4293–4316.

Liu, Kai, Yan Zeng, Xinfa Qiu, & Yafang Zhong. (2025). Analysis of Local Water Humidity Effect Characteristics Based on Meteorological Data: A Case Study of Nanjing. Atmosphere. 16(4). 407–407.

Otkin, Jason A., Yafang Zhong, Trent W. Ford, et al.. (2024). Multivariate Evaluation of Flash Drought Across the United States. Water Resources Research. 60(11). 7 indexed citations

Zhong, Yafang, et al.. (2024). Influence of Tropical Cyclones and Cold Waves on the Eastern Guangdong Coastal Hydrodynamics: Processes and Mechanisms. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 12(12). 2148–2148.

Miller, Gifford H., Alexandra Jahn, Yafang Zhong, et al.. (2023). Moss kill dates and modeled summer temperature track episodic snowline lowering and ice cap expansion in Arctic Canada through the Common Era. Climate of the past. 19(11). 2341–2360. 1 indexed citations

Osman, Mahmoud, Benjamin F. Zaitchik, Hamada S. Badr, et al.. (2022). Diagnostic Classification of Flash Drought Events Reveals Distinct Classes of Forcings and Impacts. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 23(2). 275–289. 30 indexed citations

Otkin, Jason A., Yafang Zhong, Eric Hunt, et al.. (2021). Development of a Flash Drought Intensity Index. Atmosphere. 12(6). 741–741. 49 indexed citations

Zhong, Yafang, Michael Notaro, & Stephen J. Vavrus. (2018). Spatially variable warming of the Laurentian Great Lakes: an interaction of bathymetry and climate. Climate Dynamics. 52(9-10). 5833–5848. 28 indexed citations

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Otkin, Jason A., Yafang Zhong, David J. Lorenz, Martha C. Anderson, & Christopher Hain. (2018). Exploring seasonal and regional relationships between the Evaporative Stress Index and surface weather and soil moisture anomalies across the United States. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(10). 5373–5386. 19 indexed citations

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Lorenz, David J., Jason A. Otkin, Mark Svoboda, Christopher Hain, & Yafang Zhong. (2018). Forecasting Rapid Drought Intensification Using the Climate Forecast System (CFS). Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 123(16). 8365–8373. 14 indexed citations

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Miller, Gifford H., Robert S. Anderson, Sarah E. Crump, et al.. (2017). Episodic Neoglacial expansion and rapid 20th century retreat of a small ice cap on Baffin Island, Arctic Canada, and modeled temperature change. Climate of the past. 13(11). 1527–1537. 11 indexed citations

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Santek, David, Anne Sophie Daloz, Yafang Zhong, et al.. (2017). Forecast Impact of Assimilating Aircraft WVSS-II Water Vapor Mixing Ratio Observations in the Global Data Assimilation System (GDAS). Weather and Forecasting. 32(4). 1603–1611. 6 indexed citations

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Notaro, Michael, Michael L. Schummer, Yafang Zhong, et al.. (2016). Projected Influences of Changes in Weather Severity on Autumn-Winter Distributions of Dabbling Ducks in the Mississippi and Atlantic Flyways during the Twenty-First Century. PLoS ONE. 11(12). e0167506–e0167506. 37 indexed citations

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Zhong, Yafang, Michael Notaro, Stephen J. Vavrus, & Michael J. Foster. (2016). Recent accelerated warming of the Laurentian Great Lakes: Physical drivers. Limnology and Oceanography. 61(5). 1762–1786. 100 indexed citations

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Miller, Gifford H., Áslaug Geirsdóttir, Yafang Zhong, et al.. (2012). Abrupt onset of the Little Ice Age triggered by volcanism and sustained by sea‐ice/ocean feedbacks. Geophysical Research Letters. 39(2). 599 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sander, Graham, et al.. (2011). Sustainable soil and water resources: modelling soil erosion and its impact on the environment. Chan, F., Marinova, D. and Anderssen, R.S. (eds) MODSIM2011, 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation.. 13 indexed citations

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Zhong, Yafang, Zhengyu Liu, & Michael Notaro. (2010). A GEFA Assessment of Observed Global Ocean Influence on U.S. Precipitation Variability: Attribution to Regional SST Variability Modes. Journal of Climate. 24(3). 693–707. 18 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhengyu, Steve Vavrus, Feng He, Na Wen, & Yafang Zhong. (2005). Rethinking Tropical Ocean Response to Global Warming: The Enhanced Equatorial Warming*. Journal of Climate. 18(22). 4684–4700. 196 indexed citations

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Wu, Lixin, et al.. (2003). Pacific Decadal Variability: The Tropical Pacific Mode and the North Pacific Mode*. Journal of Climate. 16(8). 1101–1120. 136 indexed citations

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