Publications (Selected)



 

Land surface model development

Land model validation in different regions

Land cover change and climate anomalies

Land-Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions; land surface processes and climate/weather prediction

CO2 and Aerosol

Remote sensing and applications

Data analysis

Regional climate & regional climate downscaling

Qiu, Y., J. Feng, J. Wang, Y. Xue, Z. Xu, 2022: Memory of land surface and subsurface temperature (LST/SUBT) initial anomalies over Tibetan Plateau in different land models. Climate Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-05937-z  

Sugimoto, Shiori, Y. Xue, T. Sato, and H. G. Takahashi, 2022: Influence of convective processes on Weather Research and Forecasting model precipitation biases over East Asia, Climate Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-022-06587-5.  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-022-06587-5 

Xu, H, X-Z Liang, Y. Xue: 2022:  Regional climate modeling to understand Tibetan heating remote impacts on East China precipitation.  Climate Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-022-06266-5 

Li, Q., Xue, Y., and Liu, Y.: Impact of frozen soil processes on soil thermal characteristics at seasonal to decadal scales over the Tibetan Plateau and North China, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 2089–2107, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-2089-2021, 2021.

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.

De Sales F., G. Okin, Y. Xue, K. Dintwe, 2019: On the effects of wildfires on precipitation in Southern Africa.  Climate Dynamics, 52, 951-967, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-018-4174-7.

Yao, T., Y. Xue, D. Chen; F. Chen; L. Thompson; P. Cui; T. Koike; W. Lau; D. Lettenmaier; V. Mosbrugger; R. Zhang; B. Xu; J. Dozier; T. Gillespie; Y. Gu; S. Kang; S. Piao; S. Sugimoto; K. Ueno; L. Wang; W. Wang, F. Zhang; Y. Sheng; W. Guo; Ailikun; X. Yang; Y. Ma; S. Shen; Z. Su; F. Chen; S. Liang; Y. Liu; V. Singh; K. Yang; D. Yang; X. Zhao; Y. Qian, Y. Zhang, Q. Li, 2019: Recent Third Pole's rapid warming accompanies cryospheric melt and water cycle intensification and interactions between monsoon and environment: multi-disciplinary approach with observation, modeling and analysis.  Bulletin of American Meteorological Society.  100.  424- 444.  DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0057.1.

Diallo, I., Y. Xue, Q. Li, F. De Sales, W. Li, 2019: Dynamical downscaling the impact of spring Western U.S. land surface temperature on the 2015 flood extremes at the Southern Great Plains: Effect of domain choice, dynamic cores and land surface parameterization.  Climate Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-019-04630-6.

De Sales F., G. Okin, Y. Xue, K. Dintwe, 2019: On the effects of wildfires on precipitation in Southern Africa.  Climate Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-018-4174-7

Yao, Tandong, Yongkang Xue, Deliang Chen; Fahu Chen; Lonnie Thompson; Peng Cui; Toshio Koike; William Lau; Dennis Lettenmaier; Volker Mosbrugger; Renhe Zhang; Baiqing Xu; Jeff Dozier; Thomas Gillespie; Yu Gu; Shichang Kang; Shilong Piao; Shiori Sugimoto; Kenichi Ueno; Lei Wang; WEicai Wang, Fan Zhang; Yongwei Sheng; Weidong Guo; Ailikun; Xiaoxin Yang; Yaoming Ma; Samuel Shen; Zhongbo Su; Fei Chen; Shunlin Liang; Yimin Liu; Vijay Singh; Kun Yang; Daqing Yang; Xinquan Zhao; Yun Qian, Yu Zhang, Qian Li, 2019: Recent Third Pole's rapid warming accompanies cryospheric melt and water cycle intensification and interactions between monsoon and environment: multi-disciplinary approach with observation, modeling and analysis.  Bulletin of American Meteorological Society.  100.  424- 444.  DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0057.1.

Xue, Y., 2017: Impact of Land-Atmosphere Interaction on African Climate in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.514. Oxford Press.

Xue, Y., Y. Ma, Q. Li, 2017: Land–Climate Interaction Over the Tibetan Plateau in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.59

De Sales, F. Y. Xue, G. Okin, 2016: Impact of burned area on the northern African seasonal climate from the perspective of regional modelling submitted to Climate Dynamics http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-015-2522-4

Gao J., W, Hou, Y. Xue, and S.-H. Wu, 2016: Validating the dynamic downscaling ability of WRF for East Asian summer climate.  Theor. Appl. Climatol., DOI 10.1007/s00704-015-1710-9

Li, W., W. Guo, Y. Xue, C. Fu, B. Qiu, 2016: Sensitivity of a regional climate model to land surface parameterization schemes for East Asian summer monsoon simulation.  Climate Dynamics.  DOI 10.1007/s00382-015-2964-8

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

Xue, Y. C. M. Oaida, I. Diallo, J D. Neelin, S. Li, F. De Sales, Y. Gu, D. Robinson, R. Vasic and L. Yi, 2016: Spring land temperature anomalies in northwestern US and the summer drought over Southern Plains and adjacent areas, Environ. Res. Lett. 11 (2016) 044018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/044018

Xue Y., S. Janicot, W. Lau, 2016 : Variability and predictability of West African monsoon on seasonal and decadal scales. Climate Dynamics, 47, 3391–3392, DOI 10.1007/s00382-016-3429-4

Xue, Y, F. De Sales, W. K-M Lau, A. Boone, K.-M. Kim, C. R. Mechoso, G. Wang, F. Kucharski, K. Schiro, M. Hosaka, S. Li, L. M. Druyan, I. Seidou Sanda, W. Thiaw, N. Zeng, R. E. Comer, Y.-K. Lim, S. Mahanama, G. Song, Y. Gu, S. M Hagos, M. Chin, S. Schubert, P. Dirmeyer, L. R. Leung, E. Kalnay, A. Kitoh, C.-H. Lu, N. M. Mahowald, Z. Zhang, 2016: West African monsoon decadal variability and drought and surface-related forcings: Second West African Monsoon Modeling and Evaluation Project Experiment (WAMME II) in the Special Issue “Decadal variability of West African monsoon, external surface forcings, and their modeling”.  Climate Dynamics,47,3517-3545, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-3224-2. 

Rodriguez-Fonseca B., Elsa Mohino; Roberto C. Mechoso; Cyril Caminade; Michela Biasutti; Marco Gaetani; Javier García-Serrano; Edward K. Vizy; Kerry Cook; Yongkang Xue; Irene Polo; Teresa Losada; Leonard Druyan; Bernard Fontaine; Juergen Bader; Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes; Lisa Goddard; Serge Janicot; Alberto Arribas; William Lau; Andrew Colman; David P. Rowell; Fred Kucharski; Aurore Voldoire, 2015: Variability and Predictability of West African Droughts.  J. Climate.  28, 4034-4060

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. 43, 2765-2775,  DOI 10.1007/s00382-014-2092-x

Xue, Y., Z. Jajnic, J. Dudhia, R. Vasic, F. De Sales, 2014: A review on regional dynamical downscaling in intra-seasonal to seasonal simulation/prediction and major factors that affect downscaling ability. Atmospheric Research. 147-148, 68-85.

De Sales and Y. Xue, 2013: Dynamic downscaling of CFS winter seasonal simulations with the UCLA-ETA regional climate model over the United States Climate Dynamics. 41, 255-275.  http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s00382-012-1567-x.

Sato T. and Y. Xue, 2013: Validating regional climate model’s downscaling ability for East Asian summer monsoon’s interannual variability. Climate Dynamics. 41, 2411-2426, DOI:10.1007/s00382-012-1616-5

Xue, Y., A. Boone, and C. M. Taylor, 2012: Review of Recent Developments and the Future Prospective in West African Atmosphere/Land Interaction Studies in the Special Issue “"Advances in Climate Processes, Feedbacks, Variability, and Change for the West African Climate System",   International Journal of Geophysics., Vol. 2012, doi:10.1155/2012/748921.

Xue, Y., R. Vasic, Z. Janjic, Y. M. Liu, and P. C. Chu, 2012:  The impact of spring subsurface soil temperature anomaly in the Western U.S. on North American summer precipitation – a case study using regional climate model downscalingJournal Geophysical Research. 117, D11103, doi:10.1029/2012JD017692.  

De Sales, F. and Y. Xue, 2011: Assessing the Dynamic Downscaling Ability over South America using a Precipitation Verification Approach. Int. J. of Climatology31: 1205-1221DOI: 10.1002/joc.2139.

Gao, Y., Y. Xue, W. Peng, H.-S. Kang, and D. Waliser, 2011: Assessment of Dynamic Downscaling of the Extreme Rainfall  over East Asia Using Regional Climate ModelAdvance in Atmospheric Sciences, 28, 1077–1098.

Ma, H. -Y., C. R. Mechoso, Y. Xue, H. Xiao, C. -M. Wu, J. -L. Li, and F. De Sales: 2011: Impact of land surface processes on the South American warm season climateClimate Dynamics., 37, 187-203. DOI 10.1007/s00382-010-0813-3.

Waliser, D.E., J. Kim, Y. Xue, Chao, Y., A. Eldering, R. Fovell, A. Hall, Q. Li, K. Liou, J. McWilliams, S. Kapnick, R. Vasic, Fs. De Sale, and Y. Yu, 2011, Simulating the Sierra Nevada snowpack: The impact of snow albedo and multi-layer snow physics, Climatic Change, 109, S59-S117, DOI 10.1007/s10584-011-0312-5.

Xue, Y., F. De Sales, K-M W. Lau, A. Boone, J. Feng, P. Dirmeyer, Z. Guo, K.-M. Kim, A. Kitoh, V. Kumar, I. Poccard-Leclercq, N. Mahowald, W. Moufouma-Okia, P. Pegion, D. Rowell, S. D. Schubert, A. Sealy, W. M. Thiaw, A. Vintzileos, S. Williams, M.-L C. Wu, 2010: Intercomparison and analyses of the climatology of  the West African Monsoon in the West African Monsoon Modeling and Evaluation Project (WAMME) First Model Intercomparison Experiment.  In Special Issue “West African Monsoon and its Modeling”, Climate Dynamics35, 3- 27. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0778-2.

De Sales, F. and Y. Xue, 2009: Assessing the Dynamic Downscaling Ability over South America using a Precipitation Verification Approach. Int. J. of Climatology

Druyan, L.M., J. Feng, K.H. Cook, Y. Xue, M. Fulakeza, S.M. Hagos, A. Konare, W. Moufouma-Okia, D.P. Rowell, and E.K. Vizy, Seidou Sanda Ibrah, 2009: The WAMME regional model intercomparison study.  In Special Issue “West African Monsoon and its Modeling”, Climate Dynamics35, 175-192. DOI 10.1007/s00382-009-0676-7.

Kim, J., Y. Chao, A. Eldering, R. Fovell, A. Hall, Q. Li, K. Liou, J. McWilliams, D. Waliser, Y. Xue, and S. Kapnick, 2009: A projection of the cold season hydroclimate in California in mid-21st century under the SRES-A1B emission scenario, Bienniel California Climate Change Center Report, CEC-500-2009-029-D.

Xue, Y., R. Vasic, Z. Janjic, F. Mesinger, and K. E. Mitchell, 2007: Assessment of dynamic downscaling of the continental U.S. regional climate using the Eta/SSiB Regional Climate Model J. Climate, 20, 4172–4193.

de Goncalves, L. G. G., W. J. Shuttleworth, S. C. Chou, Y. Xue, P. R. Houser, D. L. Toll, J. Marengo, and M. Rodell, 2006: Impact of different initial soil moisture fields on Eta model weather forecasts for South America. J. Geophys. Res., 111, D17111, doi:10.1029/2005JD006309.

De Sales, F., and Y. Xue, 2006: Investigation of seasonal prediction of the South American regional climate using the nested model system, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D20107, doi:10.1029/2005JD006989.

Xue, Y. and M. Yanai, 2005: Climate of South Asia in Encyclopedia of World Climatology, Ed. J. Oliver. Springer, Netherlands. P115-120.

Chou, S. C., C. A. S. Tanajura, Y. Xue, C. A. Nobre, 2002: Validation of the coupled Eta/SSiB model over South America. J. Geophys. Res., 107, D20, 56-1-21.

Xue, Y., F. J. Zeng, K. Mitchell, and Z. Janjic, E. Rogers, 2001: The Impact of Land Surface Processes on Simulations of the U.S. Hydrological Cycle: A Case Study of the 1993 Flood Using the SSiB Land Surface Model in the NCEP Eta Regional Model. Mon. Wea. Rev., 129, 2833-2860.

Xue, Y. and J. Shukla, 1998: Model simulation of the influence of global SST anomalies on the Sahel rainfall. Mon. Wea. Rev., 126, 2782-2792.

Fennessy, M. J., J.L. Kinter III, B. Kirtman, L. Marx, S. Nigam, E. Schneider, J. Shukla, D. Straus, A. Vernekar, Y. Xue, and J. Zhou, 1994: The simulated Indian monsoon: A GCM sensitivity study. J. Climate, 6, 33-43.


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