| Multidecadal variability of North China aridity and its relationship to PDO during 1900–2010 C Qian, T Zhou Journal of Climate 27 (3), 1210-1222, 2014 | 325 | 2014 |
| Variations and changes of annual precipitation in Central Asia over the last century Z Hu, Q Zhou, X Chen, C Qian, S Wang, J Li International Journal of Climatology 37, 157-170, 2017 | 185 | 2017 |
| Changes in the amplitude of the temperature annual cycle in China and their implication for climate change research C Qian, C Fu, Z Wu Journal of Climate 24 (20), 5292-5302, 2011 | 85 | 2011 |
| On the secular change of spring onset at Stockholm C Qian, C Fu, Z Wu, Z Yan Geophysical Research Letters 36 (12), 2009 | 82 | 2009 |
| On changing El Niño: A view from time-varying annual cycle, interannual variability, and mean state C Qian, Z Wu, C Fu, D Wang Journal of Climate 24 (24), 6486-6500, 2011 | 77 | 2011 |
| Changes in seasonal cycle and extremes in China during the period 1960–2008 Z Yan, J Xia, C Qian, W Zhou Advances in Atmospheric Sciences 28 (2), 269-283, 2011 | 76 | 2011 |
| Human influences on changes in the temperature seasonality in mid-to-high latitude land areas C Qian, X Zhang Journal of Climate 28 (15), 5908−5921, 2015 | 71 | 2015 |
| The role of changes in the annual cycle in earlier onset of climatic spring in northern China C Qian, C Fu, Z Wu, Z Yan Advances in Atmospheric Sciences 28 (2), 284-296, 2011 | 60 | 2011 |
| On multi-timescale variability of temperature in China in modulated annual cycle reference frame C Qian, Z Wu, C Fu, T Zhou Advances in Atmospheric Sciences 27 (5), 1169-1182, 2010 | 60 | 2010 |
| Human influence on the record-breaking cold event in january of 2016 in Eastern China C Qian, J Wang, S Dong, H Yin, C Burke, A Ciavarella, B Dong, ... Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 99 (1), S118-S122, 2018 | 56 | 2018 |
| Trends in temperature extremes in association with weather-intraseasonal fluctuations in eastern China C Qian, Z Yan, Z Wu, C Fu, K Tu Advances in Atmospheric Sciences 28 (2), 297-309, 2011 | 54 | 2011 |
| 2021: A year of unprecedented climate extremes in Eastern Asia, North America, and Europe XZ Zhou, T. J., W. Zhang, L. Zhang, R. Clark, C. Qian, Q. Zhang, H. Qiu, J ... Adv. Atmos. Sci. 39, 1598–1607, 2022 | 49 | 2022 |
| Climatic changes in the Twenty-four Solar Terms during 1960–2008 C Qian, ZW Yan, CB Fu Chinese Science Bulletin 57 (2-3), 276-286, 2012 | 46 | 2012 |
| Extreme temperature indices in Eurasia in a CMIP6 multi‐model ensemble: evaluation and projection Y Zhao, C Qian, W Zhang, D He, Y Qi International Journal of Climatology 41 (11), 5368-5385, 2021 | 45 | 2021 |
| Linear trends in temperature extremes in China, with an emphasis on non-Gaussian and serially dependent characteristics ZL C Qian, X Zhang Climate Dynamics 53 (1), 533–550, 2019 | 41 | 2019 |
| Conditional attribution of climate change and atmospheric circulation contributing to the record-breaking precipitation and temperature event of summer 2020 in southern China Y Ye, C Qian Environmental Research Letters 16 (4), 044058, 2021 | 38 | 2021 |
| On trend estimation and significance testing for non-Gaussian and serially dependent data: quantifying the urbanization effect on trends in hot extremes in the megacity of Shanghai C Qian Climate Dynamics 47 (1-2), 329-344, 2016 | 36 | 2016 |
| Projection of global mean surface air temperature changes in next 40 years: Uncertainties of climate models and an alternative approach CB Fu, C Qian, ZH Wu Science China Earth Sciences 54 (9), 1400-1406, 2011 | 35 | 2011 |
| Changes in temperature seasonality in China: human influences and internal variability ZX Qian C J. Climate 32 (19), 6237–6249, 2019 | 29 | 2019 |
| Two Approaches for Statistical Prediction of Non-Gaussian Climate Extremes: A Case Study of Macao Hot Extremes during 1912–2012 C Qian, W Zhou, SK Fong, KC Leong Journal of Climate 28 (2), 623-636, 2015 | 28 | 2015 |
