Chilukoti, N. and Y. Xue, 2021: An assessment of potential climate impact during 1948-2010 using historical land use land cover change maps.  International Journal of Climatology.  41, 295-315,  DoI: 10.1002/joc.6621.

 Huang H., Y. Xue, N. Chilukoti, Ye Liu, G Chen, and I. Diallo, 2020: Assessing global and regional effects of reconstructed land use and land cover change since 1950 on climate using a coupled land-atmosphere-ocean model.  J. Climate, 33, 8997-9013.  https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0108.1.

Yu, L., Y. Xue, I. Diallo, 2020:  Vegetation greening in China and its effect on summer regional climate, Science Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2020.09.003.

Boone A, Y. Xue, F. De Sales, R. Comer, S. Hagos, S. Mahanama , K. Schiro, G. Song, G. Wang, S. Li, C.R. Mechoso, 2016: The regional impact of Land-Use Land-cover Change (LULCC) over West Africa from an ensemble of global climate models under the auspices of the WAMME2 project.  Climate Dynamics, 47, 3547–3573. DOI: 10.1007/ s00382-016-3252-y

Wang G., M. Yu, Y. Xue, 2016: Modeling the potential contribution of land use changes to the 20th Climate Dynamics,47,3457-3477.  DOI 10.1007/s00382-015-2812-x

Gao J., W, Hou, Y. Xue, and S.-H. Wu, 2015: Validating the dynamic downscaling ability of WRF for East Asian summer climate.  Theor. Appl. Climatol., DOI 10.1007/s00704-015-1710-9

Hagos, S., L. R Leung, Y. Xue, A. Boone, F. de Sales, N. Neupane, M. Huang, and J.-H. Yoon, 2014: Assessment of Uncertainties in the Response of the African Monsoon Precipitation to Land Use Change simulated by a Regional Model. Climate Dynamics. DOI 10.1007/s00382-014-2092-x

Gao J., Y. Xue, and S.-H. Wu, 2013: Potential impacts on regional climate due to land degradation in the Guizhou Karst Plateau of China. Env. Res. Let. 8, No. 4, 044037, DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/044037

Li Q and Y. Xue, 2010: Simulated impacts of land cover change on summer climate in Tibetan Plateau. Environ. Res. Lett. 5, 015102. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/5/1/015102.

Xue, Y., R.W.A. Hutjes, R.J. Harding, M. Claussen, S. Prince, E. F. Lambin, S. J. Allen, P. Dirmeyer, T. Oki, 2004: The Sahelian Climate (Chapter A5) in Vegetation, Water, Humans and the Climate, Eds, P. Kabat, M. Claussen et al. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, P59-77.

Lambin, E. F., P.S. Chasek, T.E. Downing, C. Kerven, A. Kleidon, R. Leemans, M. Lüdeke, S.D. Prince, Y. Xue, 2002: The interplay between international and local processes affecting desertification in "Global Desertification: Do Humans cause deserts?" Reynolds, J.F., and D.M. Stafford Smith, eds. Dahlem University Press, Berlin, P 387-401.

Xue, Y. and M. D. Fennessy, 2002: Under what conditions does land cover change impact regional climate in "Global Desertification: Do Humans cause deserts?" Reynolds, J.F., and D.M. Stafford Smith, eds. Dahlem University Press , Berlin, P 59-74.

Clark, D.B., Y. Xue, R. Harding, and P. J. Valdes, 2001: Modeling the impact of land surface degradation on the climate of tropical North Africa. J. Climate, 14, 1809-1822.

Xue, Y., 1997: Biosphere feedback on regional climate in tropical north Africa. Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc, 123, B, 1483-1515.

Xue, Y., 1996: The Impact of desertification in the Mongolian and the Inner Mongolian grassland on the regional climate. J. Climate, 9, 2173-2189.

Xue, Y. and J. Shukla, 1996: The influence of land surface properties on Sahel climate. Part II: Afforestation. J. Climate, 9, 3260-3275.

Xue, Y. and J. Shukla, 1993: The influence of land surface properties on Sahel climate. Part I: Desertification. J. Climate , 6, 2232-2245.

Xue, Y., K.N. Liou, and A. Kasahara, 1990: Investigation of the biogeophysical feedback on the African climate using a two-dimensional model. J. Climate, 3, 337-352.