Xin-Zhong Liang

@umd.edu

Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center
University of Maryland

Xin-Zhong Liang
209

Scopus Publications

14190

Scholar Citations

62

Scholar h-index

173

Scholar i10-index

Scopus Publications

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Rising Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Global Rice Paddies and Mitigation Strategies
    J Zhang, ...
    Nature Food , 2026
    2026
  • A sub-seasonal to seasonal climate forecast informed irrigation scheduling tool for the Contiguous United States
    H Shi, X Cai, X Hu, A Jamal, D Li, C Sun, XZ Liang
    Environmental Modelling & Software, 106819 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Quantifying aggregated economic damages from “fat-tail” extremes high-temperature events in climate change
    H Deng, X Wu, H Xu, Y Wu, XZ Liang
    Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 75, 108-121 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • Future implications of climate change on maize yield and quality in the Yellow River Basin of China
    W Chen, X Long, J Wang, XZ Liang, D Zhang, H Ju
    Theoretical and Applied Climatology 156 (5), 253 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Impacts of land surface processes on summer extreme precipitation in Eastern China: Insights from CWRF simulations
    C Zhang, Q Li, XZ Liang, L Dong, B Xie, W Li, C Sun
    Atmospheric Research 314, 107783 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 7
  • Impacts of bioenergy crop cultivation on regional climate, hydrology, and water quality in the US Northern high plains
    S Dangol, X Zhang, C Sun, K Liang, XZ Liang
    Water Resources Research 61 (2), e2024WR037782 , 2025
    2025
  • Improved simulation of compound drought and heat extremes in eastern China through CWRF downscaling
    H Zhang, S Zhang, H Xu, G Zhang, Y Dai, XZ Liang
    Environmental Research Letters 19 (12), 124037 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 2
  • A prototype early warning system for diarrhoeal disease to combat health threats of climate change in the asia-pacific region
    R Cruz Cano, H He, S Aryal, M Dhimal, DTA Thu, L Zhang, T Ma, ...
    Environmental Research Letters 19 (11), 114094 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 3
  • CWRF downscaling with improved land surface initialization enhances spring–summer seasonal climate prediction skill in China
    H Zhang, XZ Liang, Y Dai, L Song, Q Li, F Wang, S Zhang
    Journal of Climate 37 (17), 4437-4459 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 4
  • Comparative analysis of gravity wave characteristics in China and the United States using high vertical resolution radiosonde observations
    Q Chen, H Wu, H Long, XZ Liang
    Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 129 (14), e2023JD040492 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 5
  • Improving diurnal precipitation forecasts through coherent coupling of cumulus and planetary boundary layer parameterizations
    H Mei, XZ Liang, M Zeng, Y Yang, C Sun, X Li
    Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 129 (11), e2023JD040295 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 2
  • Enhancing summer extreme precipitation prediction in the Yangtze River Basin through CWRF downscaling and its skillful multi-physics ensemble approach
    Y Zhao, XZ Liang
    Climate Dynamics 62 (6), 5107-5128 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 2
  • Remote effects of Tibetan Plateau spring land temperature on global subseasonal to seasonal precipitation prediction and comparison with effects of sea surface temperature: the …
    Y Xue, I Diallo, AA Boone, Y Zhang, X Zeng, WKM Lau, JD Neelin, T Yao, ...
    Climate Dynamics 62 (4), 2603-2628 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 21
  • Understanding and improving Yangtze River Basin summer precipitation prediction using an optimal multi-Physics ensemble
    Y Zhao, F Qiao, XZ Liang, J Yu
    Frontiers of Earth Science 18 (1), 256-277 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 3
  • DAWN: Dashboard for Agricultural Water Use and Nutrient Management—A Predictive Decision Support System to Improve Crop Production in a Changing Climate
    XZ Liang, D Gower, JA Kennedy, M Kenney, MC Maddox, M Gerst, ...
    Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 105 (2), E432-E441 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 9
  • Balancing Non‐CO 2 GHG Emissions and Soil Carbon Change in U.S. Rice Paddies: A Retrospective Meta‐Analysis and Agricultural Modeling Study
    J Zhang, H Tian, Y You, XZ Liang, Z Ouyang, N Pan, S Pan
    AGU Advances 5 (1), e2023AV001052 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 8
  • Biomass yield potential on U.S. marginal land and its contribution to reach net-zero emission
    Y He, D Jaiswal, SP Long, XZ Liang, ML Matthews
    Global Change Biology-Bioenergy 16, e13128 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 22
  • Net greenhouse gas balance in US croplands: How can soils be part of the climate solution?
    Y You, H Tian, S Pan, H Shi, C Lu, WD Batchelor, B Cheng, D Hui, ...
    Global Change Biology 30 (1), e17109 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 19
  • Advancing the SWAT model to simulate perennial bioenergy crops: A case study on switchgrass growth
    S Dangol, X Zhang, XZ Liang, E Blanc-Betes
    Environmental Modelling & Software 170, 105834 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 8
  • Simulating agroecosystem soil inorganic nitrogen dynamics under long-term management with an improved SWAT-C model
    K Liang, X Zhang, XZ Liang, VL Jin, G Birru, MR Schmer, GP Robertson, ...
    Science of the Total Environment 879, 162906 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 24

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Intercomparison and interpretation of climate feedback processes in 19 atmospheric general circulation models
    RD Cess, GL Potter, JP Blanchet, GJ Boer, AD Del Genio, M Deque, ...
    Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres (1984–2012) 95 (D10), 16601-16615 , 1990
    1990
    Citations: 1194
  • Interpretation of cloud-climate feedback as produced by 14 atmospheric general circulation models
    RD Cess, GL Potter, JP Blanchet, GJ Boer, SJ Ghan, JT Kiehl, H Le Treut, ...
    Science 245 (4917), 513-516 , 1989
    1989
    Citations: 766
  • Observed diurnal cycle climatology of planetary boundary layer height
    S Liu, XZ Liang
    Journal of Climate 23 (21), 5790-5809 , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 588
  • A thermal infrared radiation parameterization for atmospheric studies
    MD Chou, MJ Suarez, XZ Liang, MMH Yan, C Cote
    2001
    Citations: 443
  • Regional climate change projections for the Northeast USA
    K Hayhoe, C Wake, B Anderson, XZ Liang, E Maurer, J Zhu, J Bradbury, ...
    Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 13 (5-6), 425-436 , 2008
    2008
    Citations: 401
  • Associations between China monsoon rainfall and tropospheric jets
    XZ Liang, WC Wang
    Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 124 (552), 2597-2623 , 1998
    1998
    Citations: 341
  • Impact of atmospheric moisture storage on precipitation recycling
    F Dominguez, P Kumar, XZ Liang, M Ting
    Journal of climate 19 (8), 1513-1530 , 2006
    2006
    Citations: 340
  • Determining climate effects on US total agricultural productivity
    XZ Liang, Y Wu, RG Chambers, DL Schmoldt, W Gao, C Liu, YA Liu, ...
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (12), E2285-E2292 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 275
  • Interpretation of snow-climate feedback as produced by 17 general circulation models
    RD Cess, GL Potter, MH Zhang, JP Blanchet, S Chalita, R Colman, ...
    Science 253 (5022), 888-892 , 1991
    1991
    Citations: 258
  • Regional climate model simulation of summer precipitation diurnal cycle over the United States
    XZ Liang, L Li, A Dai, KE Kunkel
    Geophysical Research Letters 31 (24) , 2004
    2004
    Citations: 241
  • Regional climate model simulation of US precipitation during 1982-2002. Part I: Annual cycle
    XZ Liang, L Li, KE Kunkel, M Ting, JXL Wang
    Journal of Climate 17 (18), 3510-3529 , 2004
    2004
    Citations: 237
  • A preliminary synthesis of modeled climate change impacts on US regional ozone concentrations
    CP Weaver, XZ Liang, J Zhu, PJ Adams, P Amar, J Avise, M Caughey, ...
    Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 90 (12), 1843-1863 , 2009
    2009
    Citations: 220
  • Climatic forcing of nitrogen oxides through changes in tropospheric ozone and methane; global 3D model studies
    JS Fuglestvedt, TK Berntsen, ISA Isaksen, H Mao, XZ Liang, WC Wang
    Atmospheric Environment 33 (6), 961-977 , 1999
    1999
    Citations: 210
  • Development of a regional climate model for US Midwest applications. Part I: Sensitivity to buffer zone treatment
    XZ Liang, KE Kunkel, AN Samel
    Journal of Climate 14 (23), 4363-4378 , 2001
    2001
    Citations: 198
  • Regional Climate–Weather Research and Forecasting model
    XZ Liang, M Xu, X Yuan, T Ling, HI Choi, F Zhang, L Chen, S Liu, S Su, ...
    Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc 93, 1363-1387 , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 197
  • Regional climate model downscaling of the U.S. summer climate and future change
    XZ Liang, J Pan, J Zhu, KE Kunkel, JXL Wang, A Dai
    Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 111 (D10) , 2006
    2006
    Citations: 189
  • Regional climate models downscaling analysis of general circulation models present climate biases propagation into future change projections
    XZ Liang, KE Kunkel, GA Meehl, RG Jones, JXL Wang
    Geophysical research letters 35 (8) , 2008
    2008
    Citations: 186
  • Can CGCMs simulate the twentieth-century “warming hole” in the central United States?
    KE Kunkel, XZ Liang, J Zhu, Y Lin
    Journal of Climate 19 (17), 4137-4153 , 2006
    2006
    Citations: 180
  • A general method for validating statistical downscaling methods under future climate change
    M Vrac, ML Stein, K Hayhoe, XZ Liang
    Geophysical Research Letters 34 (18) , 2007
    2007
    Citations: 177
  • The Practitioner's Dilemma: How to Assess the Credibility of Downscaled Climate Projections
    JJ Barsugli, G Guentchev, RM Horton, A Wood, LO Mearns, XZ Liang, ...
    Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 94 (46), 424-425 , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 159