Publications

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  • Xie, S.-P., 2023: Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics: From El Niño to Climate Change. Elsevier Science, 400 pages.

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Song, S.-Y., Yeh, S.-W., Allan, R. P., Xie, S.-P., An, S.-I., & Park, H.-S. (2023). Climate sensitivity controls global precipitation hysteresis in a changing CO2 pathway. Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 6(1), 156. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00484-2
Roose, S., Ajayamohan, R. S., Ray, P., Xie, S.-P., Sabeerali, C. T., Mohapatra, M., Taraphdar, S., Mohanakumar, K., & Rajeevan, M. (2023). Pacific decadal oscillation causes fewer near-equatorial cyclones in the North Indian Ocean. Nature Communications, 14(1), 5099. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40642-x
Shi, J., Wijffels, S. E., Kwon, Y., & Xie, S. (2023). Interhemispheric Contrasts of Ocean Heat Content Change Reveals Distinct Fingerprints of Anthropogenic Climate Forcings. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(16), e2023GL102741. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL102741
Tseng, H.-Y., Hwang, Y.-T., Xie, S.-P., Tseng, Y.-H., Kang, S. M., Luongo, M. T., & Eisenman, I. (2023). Fast and Slow Responses of the Tropical Pacific to Radiative Forcing in Northern High Latitudes. Journal of Climate, 36(16), 5337–5349. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0622.1
Hu, S., Xie, S.-P., Seager, R., & Cane, M. A. (2023). Spatial and Seasonal Variations of Sea Surface Temperature Threshold for Tropical Convection. Journal of Climate, 36(15), 4899–4912. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0545.1
Xiang, B., Xie, S.-P., Kang, S. M., & Kramer, R. J. (2023). An emerging Asian aerosol dipole pattern reshapes the Asian summer monsoon and exacerbates northern hemisphere warming. Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 6(1), 77. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00400-8
Gutiérrez Brizuela, N., Alford, M. H., Xie, S.-P., Sprintall, J., Voet, G., Warner, S. J., Hughes, K., & Moum, J. N. (2023). Prolonged thermocline warming by near-inertial internal waves in the wakes of tropical cyclones. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(26), e2301664120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2301664120
Kang, S. M., Shin, Y., Kim, H., Xie, S.-P., & Hu, S. (2023). Disentangling the mechanisms of equatorial Pacific climate change. Science Advances, 9(19), eadf5059. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adf5059
Wang, C.-Y., Zheng, X.-T., & Xie, S.-P. (2023). Enhanced ENSO-Unrelated Summer Variability in the Indo–Western Pacific under Global Warming. Journal of Climate, 36(6), 1749–1765. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0450.1
Peng, Q., Xie, S.-P., Huang, R. X., Wang, W., Zu, T., & Wang, D. (2023). Indonesian Throughflow Slowdown under Global Warming: Remote AMOC Effect versus Regional Surface Forcing. Journal of Climate, 36(5), 1301–1318. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0331.1
Li, Y., Xie, S., Lian, T., Zhang, G., Feng, J., Ma, J., Peng, Q., Wang, W., Hou, Y., & Li, X. (2023). Interannual Variability of Regional Hadley Circulation and El Niño Interaction. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(4). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102016
Liang, Y., Du, Y., & Xie, S.-P. (2023). SST effect on the pre-monsoon intraseasonal oscillation over the South China Sea based on atmospheric-coupled GCM comparison. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-022-1433-6
Luongo, M. T., Xie, S., Eisenman, I., Hwang, Y., & Tseng, H. (2023). A Pathway for Northern Hemisphere Extratropical Cooling to Elicit a Tropical Response. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(2). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100719
Yang, L., Xie, S.-P., Shen, S. S. P., Liu, J.-W., & Hwang, Y.-T. (2023). Low Cloud–SST Feedback over the Subtropical Northeast Pacific and the Remote Effect on ENSO Variability. Journal of Climate, 36(2), 441–452. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0902.1
Cai, W., Gao, L., Luo, Y., Li, X., Zheng, X., Zhang, X., Cheng, X., Jia, F., Purich, A., Santoso, A., Du, Y., Holland, D. M., Shi, J.-R., Xiang, B., & Xie, S.-P. (2023). Southern Ocean warming and its climatic impacts. Science Bulletin, 68(9), 946–960. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2023.03.049
Shin, S., Yeh, S., An, S., Keenlyside, N., Xie, S., & Park, J. (2023). Southern Ocean Control of 2°C Global Warming in Climate Models. Earth’s Future, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF003212
Li, Y., Li, X., Xie, S., Zhang, G., Wang, Z., Wang, W., & Hou, Y. (2022). Regional Perspective of Hadley Circulation and Its Uncertainties Among Different Datasets: Spread in Reanalysis Datasets. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127(24). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD036940
Wang, G., Wu, L., Mei, W., & Xie, S.-P. (2022). Ocean currents show global intensification of weak tropical cyclones. Nature, 611(7936), 496–500. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05326-4
Du, Y., Chen, Z., Xie, S.-P., Zhang, L., Zhang, Y., & Cai, Y. (2022). Drivers and characteristics of the Indo-western Pacific Ocean capacitor. Frontiers in Climate, 4, 1014138. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2022.1014138
Luongo, M. T., Xie, S.-P., & Eisenman, I. (2022). Buoyancy Forcing Dominates the Cross-Equatorial Ocean Heat Transport Response to Northern Hemisphere Extratropical Cooling. Journal of Climate, 35(20), 3071–3090. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0950.1
Kim, J., Kang, S. M., Xie, S.-P., Xiang, B., Kim, D., Zheng, X.-T., & Wang, H. (2022). Large-scale climate response to regionally confined extratropical cooling: effect of ocean dynamics. Climate Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-022-06500-0
Kim, H., Kang, S. M., Kay, J. E., & Xie, S.-P. (2022). Subtropical clouds key to Southern Ocean teleconnections to the tropical Pacific. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(34), e2200514119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2200514119
Liu, J., Song, M., Zhu, Z., Horton, R. M., Hu, Y., & Xie, S.-P. (2022). Arctic sea-ice loss is projected to lead to more frequent strong El Niño events. Nature Communications, 13(1), 4952. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32705-2
Zhang, H., Seager, R., & Xie, S.-P. (2022). How Does Sea Surface Temperature Drive the Intertropical Convergence Zone in the Southern Indian Ocean? Journal of Climate, 35(16), 5415–5432. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0870.1
Li, S., Mei, W., & Xie, S.-P. (2022). Effects of Tropical Sea Surface Temperature Variability on Northern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone Genesis. Journal of Climate, 35(14), 4719–4739. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0084.1
Geng, Y.-F., Xie, S.-P., Zheng, X.-T., Long, S.-M., Kang, S. M., Lin, X., & Song, Z.-H. (2022). CMIP6 Intermodel Spread in Interhemispheric Asymmetry of Tropical Climate Response to Greenhouse Warming: Extratropical Ocean Effects. Journal of Climate, 35(14), 4869–4882. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0541.1
Peng, Q., Xie, S.-P., Wang, D., Huang Rui, X., Chen, G., Shu, Y., Shi, J.-R., & Liu, W. (2022). Surface warming–induced global acceleration of upper ocean currents. Science Advances, 8(16), eabj8394. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abj8394
Zhang, Y., Yu, S. Y., Xie, S. P., Amaya, D. J., Peng, Q. H., Kosaka, Y., Lin, X. P., Yang, J. C., Larson, S. M., Miller, A. J., & Fan, L. (2022). Role of ocean dynamics in equatorial Pacific decadal variability. Climate Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-022-06312-2
Song, X. Z., Xie, X. H., Qiu, B., Cao, H. J., Xie, S. P., Chen, Z. Q., & Yu, W. D. (2022). Air-sea latent heat flux anomalies induced by oceanic submesoscale processes: An observational case study. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.850207
Chapman, W. E., Delle Monache, L., Alessandrini, S., Subramanian, A. C., Ralph, F. M., Xie, S. P., Lerch, S., & Hayatbini, N. (2022). Probabilistic Predictions from Deterministic Atmospheric River Forecasts with Deep Learning. Monthly Weather Review, 150(1), 215–234. https://doi.org/10.1175/mwr-d-21-0106.1
Ding, Y., Xu, L., Xie, S., Sasaki, H., Zhang, Z., Cao, H., & Zhang, Y. (2022). Submesoscale Frontal Instabilities Modulate Large‐Scale Distribution of the Winter Deep Mixed Layer in the Kuroshio‐Oyashio Extension. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127(12). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JC018915
Kim, S.-K., Shin, J., An, S.-I., Kim, H.-J., Im, N., Xie, S.-P., Kug, J.-S., & Yeh, S.-W. (2022). Widespread irreversible changes in surface temperature and precipitation in response to CO2 forcing. Nature Climate Change, 12(9), 834–840. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01452-z
Zhou, S., Huang, P., Xie, S.-P., Huang, G., & Wang, L. (2022). Varying contributions of fast and slow responses cause asymmetric tropical rainfall change between CO2 ramp-up and ramp-down. Science Bulletin, 67(16), 1702–1711. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2022.07.010
Shi, J. R., Talley, L. D., Xie, S. P., Peng, Q. H., & Liu, W. (2021). Ocean warming and accelerating Southern Ocean zonal flow. Nature Climate Change, 11(12), 1090-+. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01212-5
Kang, S. M., Xie, S. P., Deser, C., & Xiang, B. Q. (2021). Zonal mean and shift modes of historical climate response to evolving aerosol distribution. Science Bulletin, 66(23), 2405–2411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2021.07.013
Chen, Z. S., Li, Z. N., Du, Y., Wen, Z. P., Wu, R. G., & Xie, S. P. (2021). Trans-basin influence of southwest tropical Indian Ocean warming during early boreal summer. Journal of Climate, 34(24), 9679–9691. https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-20-0925.1
Hong, Y., Du, Y., Xia, X. Y., Xu, L. X., Zhang, Y., & Xie, S. P. (2021). Subantarctic Mode Water and its long-term change in CMIP6 models. Journal of Climate, 34(23), 9385–9400. https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-21-0133.1
Lu, Y. Q., Liu, Q. Y., & Xie, S. P. (2021). Covariability of Subantarctic Mode Water and the southern branch of the Subtropical Indian Ocean Countercurrent in Argo observations. Journal of Ocean University of China, 20(6), 1316–1324. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11802-021-4677-4
Diao, C. R., Xu, Y. Y., & Xie, S. P. (2021). Anthropogenic aerosol effects on tropospheric circulation and sea surface temperature (1980-2020): separating the role of zonally asymmetric forcings. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21(24), 18499–18518. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-18499-2021
Yang, L., Liu, J. W., Xie, S. P., & Shen, S. S. P. (2021). Transition from fog to stratus over the northwest Pacific Ocean: Large-eddy simulation. Monthly Weather Review, 149(9), 2913–2925. https://doi.org/10.1175/mwr-d-20-0420.1
Li, X. C., Cai, W. J., Meehl, G. A., Chen, D. K., Yuan, X. J., Raphael, M., Holland, D. M., Ding, Q. H., Fogt, R. L., Markle, B. R., Wang, G. J., Bromwich, D. H., Turner, J., Xie, S. P., Steig, E. J., Gille, S. T., Xiao, C. D., Wu, B. Y., Lazzara, M. A., … Song, C. T. (2021). Tropical teleconnection impacts on Antarctic climate changes. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 19. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-021-00204-5
Wang, X. D., Xie, S. P., Guan, Z. Y., & Wang, M. Y. (2021). A common base mode of Asian summer monsoon variability across timescales. Journal of Climate, 34(18), 7359–7371. https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-20-0856.1
Yang, Y., Wu, L. X., Guo, Y., Gan, B. L., Cai, W. J., Huang, G., Li, X. C., Geng, T., Jing, Z., Li, S. J., Liang, X., & Xie, S. P. (2021). Greenhouse warming intensifies north tropical Atlantic climate variability. Science Advances, 7(35), 10. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abg9690
Chapman, W. E., Subramanian, A. C., Xie, S. P., Sierks, M. D., Ralph, F. M., & Kamae, Y. (2021). Monthly modulations of ENSO teleconnections: Implications for potential predictability in North America. Journal of Climate, 34(14), 5899–5921. https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-20-0391.1
Meehl, G. A., Richter, J. H., Teng, H. Y., Capotondi, A., Cobb, K., Doblas-Reyes, F., Donat, M. G., England, M. H., Fyfe, J. C., Han, W. Q., Kim, H., Kirtman, B. P., Kushnir, Y., Lovenduski, N. S., Mann, M. E., Merryfield, W. J., Nieves, V., Pegion, K., Rosenbloom, N., … Xie, S. P. (2021). Initialized Earth System prediction from subseasonal to decadal timescales. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2(5), 340–357. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-021-00155-x
Wei, X. Y., Li, K. Y., Kilpatrick, T., Wang, M. Y., & Xie, S. P. (2021). Large-scale conditions for the record-setting Southern California marine heatwave of August 2018. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(7). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020gl091803
Hu, K. M., Huang, G., Huang, P., Kosaka, Y., & Xie, S. P. (2021). Intensification of El Nino-induced atmospheric anomalies under greenhouse warming. Nature Geoscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00730-3
Ma, J., Xie, S. P., Xu, H. M., Zhao, J. W., & Zhang, L. Y. (2021). Cross-basin interactions between the tropical Atlantic and Pacific in the ECMWF hindcasts. Journal of Climate, 34(7), 2459–2472. https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-20-0140.1
Zhou, Z. Q., Xie, S. P., & Zhang, R. H. (2021). Historic Yangtze flooding of 2020 tied to extreme Indian Ocean conditions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(12). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2022255118
Sun, Q. W., Du, Y., Xie, S. P., Zhang, Y. H., Wang, M. Y., & Kosaka, Y. (2021). Sea surface salinity change since 1950: Internal variability versus anthropogenic forcing. Journal of Climate, 34(4), 1305–1319. https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-20-0331.1