Huang, H, Y. Gu, Y. Xue, J. Jiang, and B. Zhao, 2019: Assessing aerosol indirect effect on clouds and regional climate of East/South Asia and West Africa using NCEP GFS, Climate Dynamics.  52, 5759–5774.  DOI: 10.1007/s00382-018-4476-9.

 Vereecken, H., L. Weihermüller, S. Assouline, J. Šimůnek, A. Verhoef, M. Herbst, N. Archer, B. Mohanty, C. Montzka, J. Vanderborght, G. Balsamo, M. Bechtold, A. Boone, S. Chadburn, M. Cuntz, B. Decharme, A. Ducharne, M. Ek, S. Garrigues, K. Goergen, J. Ingwersen, S. Kollet, D. M. Lawrence, Q. Li, D. Or, S. Swenson, P. de Vrese, R. Walko, Y. Wu, Y. Xue, 2019: Infiltration from the pedon to global grid scales: An overview and outlook for land surface modelling. Vadose Zone Journal. 18, 180191, DOI: 10.2136/vzj2018.10.0191.

Huang, H, Y. Gu, Y. Xue, J. Jiang, and B. Zhao, 2019: Assessing aerosol indirect effect on clouds and regional climate of East/South Asia and West Africa using NCEP GFS, Climate Dynamics.  52, 5759–5774.  DOI: 10.1007/s00382-018-4476-9

Qiu B., Yongkang Xue, Joshua B. Fisher, Weidong Guo, Joseph A Berry, Yongguang. Zhang, 2018: Satellite Chlorophyll Fluorescence and Soil Moisture Observations Lead to Advances in the Predictive Understanding of Global Terrestrial Coupled Carbon-Water Cycles. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 32, 360-375, 10.1002/2017GB005744

Gu Y., K. N. Liou, J. H. Jiang, R. Fu, Sarah Lu, Y. Xue, 2016: A GCM Investigation of Impact of Aerosols on the Precipitation in Amazon during the Dry to Wet Transition.  Climate Dynamics. DOI :10.1007/s00382-016-3211-7

Gu Y., Y. Xue, F. De Sales, and K. N. Liou: 2016: A GCM Investigation of Dust Aerosol Impact on Regional Climate of North Africa and South/East Asia in the Special Issue “Decadal variability of West African monsoon, external surface forcings, and their modeling”.  Climate Dynamics, 46, 2353–2370, http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-015-2706-y

Lokupitiya E., S. Denning, K. Schaefer, D. Ricciuto, R. Anderson, M. A. Arain, I. Baker, A. G. Barr, G. Chen, J.M. Chen, P. Ciais, D.R. Cook, M. Dietze, M. El Maayar, M. Fischer, , R. Grant, D. Hollinger, C. Izaurralde, A. Jain,  C. Kucharik, Z. Li, S. Liu, L. Longhui, R. Matamala, P. Peylin, D. Price, A.D. Richardson, S.W. Running, A. Sahoo, M. Sprintsin, A.E. Suyker, H. Tian, C. Tonitto, M. Torn, H. Verbeeck, S.B. Verma, Y. Xue, 2016: Carbon and Energy Fluxes in Cropland Ecosystems: A Model-Data Comparison.  Biogeochemistry, 123,53-76. DOI 10.1007/s10533-016-0219-3

Oaida C. M., Yongkang Xue, Mark G. Flanner, S. McKenzie Skiles, Fernando De Sales , Thomas H. Painter, 2015: Investigating physical snow processes including aerosol using an enhanced WRF/SSiB model.  J.  Geophy.  Res.  3228-3248, 120, DOI: 10.1002/2014JD022444

Zhang Z., Yongkang Xue, Glen MacDonald, Peter M. Cox and G. James Collatz, 2015: Investigation of North American vegetation variability under recent climate – A study using the SSiB4/TRIFFID biophysical/dynamic vegetation model.   J.  Geophy.  Res.  120, 4, 1300-1321, DOI: 10.1002/2014JD021963

Richardson, A. D. , Ryan S. Anderson, M. Altaf Arain, Alan G. Barr, Gil Bohrer, Guangsheng Chen,  Jing M. Chen, Philippe Ciais, Kenneth J. Davis, Ankur R. Desai, Michael C. Dietze, Danilo Dragoni, Mustapha El Maayar, Steven Garrity, Christopher M. Gough, Robert Grant, David Y. Hollinger, Hank A. Margolis, Harry McCaughey,  Mirco Migliavacca, Russell K. Monson, J. William Munger, Benjamin Poulter, Brett M. Raczka, Daniel M. Ricciuto, Youngryel Ryu, Kevin Schaefer, Hanqin Tian, Rodrigo Vargas, Hans Verbeeck, Jingfeng Xiao, Yongkang Xue, 2012:  Terrestrial biosphere models need better representation of vegetation phenology:  Results from the North American Carbon Program Site Synthesis.  Global Change Biology.  18, 566-584. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02562.x.

Alpert P., Niyogi D., Pielke R.A. Sr., Eastman J.L., Xue Y.K., Raman S., 2006: Evidence for Carbon Dioxide and Moisture Synergies from the Leaf Cell up to Global scales: Implications to Human-Caused Climate Change., Global and Planetary Change, 54, Special Issue: Land-use/land-cover change and its impact on climate, 202-208.

Gu, Y., K. N. Liou, Y. Xue, C. R. Mechoso, W. Li, and Y. Luo, 2006: Climatic effects of different aerosol types in China simulated by the UCLA general circulation model, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D15201, doi:10.1029/2005JD006312.

Niyogi D. and Yongkang Xue, 2006: Soil moisture regulates the biological response of elevated atmospheric CO₂ concentrations in a coupled atmosphere biosphere model. Global and Planetary Change, 54, Special Issue: Land-use/land-cover change and its impact on climate, 94-108.

Niyogi, D., H.-I. Chang, V. K. Saxena, C. J. Crabbe, T. Holt, K. Alapaty, F. Booker, F. Chen, D.J. Kenneth, B. Holben T. Matsui, T. Meyers, W. C. Oechel, R. A. Pielke, Sr, R. Wells, K. Wilson, Y. Xue, 2004: Direct Observations of The Effects of aerosol loading on CO₂ exchanges over different landscapes. Geophy. Res. Let., 31,doi:10.1029/2004GL020915.

Marland, G., R. A. Pielke, Sr. , M. Apps, R. Avissar, R. A. Betts, K. J. Davis, P. C. Frumhoff, S. T. Jackson, L. A. Joyce, P. Kauppi, J. Katzenberger, K. G. MacDicken, R. P. Neilson, J. O. Niles, Dev dutta S. Niyogi, R. J. Norby, N. Pena, N. Sampson, Y. Xue, 2003: The climatic impacts of land surface change and carbon management , and the implications for climate-change mitigation policy Climate Policy. 3, 149-157.

Zhan, X., Y. Xue, G. J. Collatz, 2003: An analytical approach for estimating CO₂ and heat fluxes over the Amazonian region. Ecological Modeling. 162, 97-117.