Publications (Selected)

Land Surface Model Development

Miao, X., Guo, W., Qiu, B., Lu, S., Zhang, Y., Xue, Y., & Sun, S., 2022: Accounting for topographic effects on snow cover fraction and surface albedo simulations over the Tibetan Plateau in winter. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14, e2022MS003035. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003035

Huang H., Y. Xue, Ye Liu, F. Li, and G. Okin, 2021: Modeling the short-term fire effects on vegetation dynamics and surface energy in Southern Africa using the improved SSiB4/TRIFFID-Fire model. Geosci. Model Dev. 14, 7639–7657, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-7639-2021

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.

Huang, H., Y. Xue, F. Li, and Y. Liu, 2020: Modeling long-term fire impact on ecosystem characteristics and surface energy using the dynamic global vegetation model SSiB4/TRIFFID-Fire. Geoscientific Modeling Development. 13, 6029–6050, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2020-122

Liu Y., Y. Xue, Q. Li, D. Lettenmaier, and P. Zhao, 2020: Investigation of the variability of near-surface temperature anomaly and its causes over the Tibetan Plateau. J. Geophy. Res. 125, e2020JD032800. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD032800

Fu, A., Y. Xue, M. D. Hartman, W. Li, B. Qiu, Y. Liu, Y. N. Chen & Y. Wang, 2019: Evaluation of the Impacts of Regional Climate Factors and Crop Management on Corn Yields in Different Climate Regimes of China Using the DayCent Model. J. Agricultural Sciences. Vol. 11, No. 15, doi:10.5539/jas.v11n15p35. URL: https://doi.org/10.5539/jas.v11n15p35

Liu, Y., Y. Xue, G. MacDonald,, P. Cox, Z. Zhang, 2019: Global vegetation variability and its response to elevated CO2, global warming, and climate variability – A study using offline SSiB4/TRIFFID model and satellite data. Earth System Dynamics, 10, 9-29, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-10-9-2019

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

Vereecken, H., Lutz Weihermüller, Shmuel Assouline, Jirka Šimůnek, Anne Verhoef, Michael Herbst, Nicole Archer, Binayak Mohanty, Carsten Montzka, Jan Vanderborght, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Michel Bechtold, Aaron Boone, Sarah Chadburn, Matthias Cuntz, Bertrand Decharme, Agnès Ducharne, Michael Ek, Sebastien Garrigues, Klaus Goergen, Joachim Ingwersen, Stefan Kollet, David M. Lawrence, Qian Li, Dani Or, Sean Swenson, Philipp de Vrese, Robert Walko, Yihuan Wu, Yongkang Xue, 2019: Infiltration from the pedon to global grid scales: An overview and outlook for land surface modelling. Vadose Zone Journal. DOI: 10.2136/vzj2018.10.0191

Fisher, J., Hayes, D., Schwalm, C. R., Huntzinger, D., Stofferahn, E., Schaefer, K., Luo, Y., Wullschleger, S., Goetz, S.; Miller, C.; Griffith, P.; Chadburn, S.; Chatterjee, A.; Ciais, P., Douglas, T., Genet, H., Ito, A.; Neigh C., S.R.; Poulter, B.; Rogers, B., Sonnentag, O.; Tian, H.; Wang, W.; Xue, Y.; Yang, Z.-L.; Zeng, N., 2018: Missing pieces to modeling the Arctic-Boreal puzzle. Env. Res. Let., 13, 020202, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa9d9a.

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

Wang, L., Jing Zhou, Jia Qi, Litao Sun, Kun Yang, Lide Tian, Yanluan Lin, Wenbin Liu, Maheswor Shrestha, Yongkang Xue, Toshio Koike, Yaoming Ma, Xiuping Li, Yingying Chen, Deliang Chen, Shilong Piao, Hui Lu, 2017: Development of a land surface model with coupled snow and frozen soil physics. Water Resources Research. 53(6), 5085-5103 DOI: 10.1002/2017WR020451.

Kuo Tzu-Hsien, Jen-Ping Chen, Yongkang Xue, 2016: Stem-root flow effect on soil-atmosphere interactions and uncertainty assessments. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 1509–1522, www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/20/1509/2016/doi:10.5194/hess-20-1509-2016

Qiu, B., W. Guo, Y. Xue, and Q. Dai, 2016, Implementation and evaluation of a generalized radiative transfer scheme within canopy in the soil-vegetationatmosphere transfer (SVAT) model, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121, 12,145–12,163, doi:10.1002/2016JD025328.

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

Shrestha M., T. Koike, Y. Hirabayashi, Y. Xue, L. Wang, G. Rasul, and B. Ahmad, 2015: Integrated simulation of snow and glacier melt in water and energy balance-based, distributed hydrological modeling framework at Hunza River Basin of Pakistan Karakoram region, JGR. 120, 10, 4889–4919, DOI: 10.1002/2014JD022666

Li, Q., S. Sun, and Y. Xue, 2010: Analyses and development of a hierarchy of frozen soil models for cold region study, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmosphere. 115, D03107, doi:10.1029/2009JD012530.

Zhou, WY, PW Guo, T. Luo, KN Liou Y. Gu, YK Xue, 2009: Four-stream Radiative Transfer Parameterization Scheme in a Land Surface Process Model, ACTA METEOROLOGICA SINICA, 23,105-115.

Zhang X., S. Sun, and Y. Xue: 2007: Development of Frozen soil model for climate study. J. Hydrometeorology.8, 690-701.

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.

Xue, Y., S. Sun, D. Kahan, Y. Jiao, 2003: The impact of parameterizations in snow physics and interface processes on the simulation of snow cover and runoff at several cold region sites. J. Geophy. Res.108,D22,8859,doi: 10.1029/2002JD003174.

Slater, A.G., C. A. Schlosser, C. E. Desborough, A.J. Pitman, and others (including Y. Xue): 2001: The representation of snow in land-surface schemes; results from PILPS 2(d). J. Hydrometeorology, 2, 7-25.

Sun S. and Y. Xue, 2001: Implementing a new snow scheme in Simplified Simple Biosphere Model (SSiB), Advance in Atmospheric Sciences, 18, 335-354.

Sun, S.F., J.M. Jin, Y. Xue, 1999: A simplified layer snow model for global and regional studies. J. Geogphy. Res. 104, 19587-19597.

Xue, Y., F. J. Zeng, and C.A. Schlosser, 1996: SSiB and its sensitivity to soil properties — a case study using HAPEX-Mobilhy data. Global & Planetary Change, 13, 183-194.

Xue, Y. and P. J. Sellers, 1993: A brief review of Simple Biosphere Model (SiB). In Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Modeling, (eds. Goodchild, M.F., Parks, L.T.,Steyaert, L.T.), Oxford Univ. Press, 290-295.

Xue, Y., 1991: A two-dimensional coupled Biosphere-Atmosphere model and its application. Adv. in Atmos. Sci., 8, 447-458.

Xue, Y., P. J. Sellers, J.L. Kinter III, and J. Shukla, 1991: A simplified biosphere model for global climate studies. J. Climate, 4, 345-364.

Land Model Validation in Different Regions

Xiao, M., S. P. Mahanama, Y. Xue, F. Chen, and D. P. lettenmaier, 2021: Modeling Snow Ablation over the Western United States Mountains: Patterns and Controlling Factors. J. Hydrometeorology. 22, 297-311. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-19-0198.1

Zhang Z. Q., Y. Xue, P. Zha, H. Deng, 2021: Effects of Dynamic Vegetation on Global Climate Simulation Using the NCEP GFS and SSiB4/TRIFFID, J. Meteor. Res., 35(6), 1041–1056, doi: 10.1007/s13351-021-1099-6

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,47, Issue 7, 2293-2308. DOI 10.1007/s00382-015-2964-8

Getirana Augusto, Emanuel Dutra, Matthieu Guimberteau, Jonghun Kam, Hong-Yi Li, Bertrand Decharme, Zhengqiu Zhang, Agnes Ducharne, Aaron Boone, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Matthew Rodell, Ally M. Toure, Yongkang Xue, Guillaume Drapeau, Kristi Arsenault, Sujay Kumar, L. Ruby Leung, Christa Peters-Lidard, Josyane Ronchail, Justin Sheffield, 2014: Water balance in the Amazon basin from a land surface model ensemble. J. Hydrometeorology, 15, 2586-2614, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-14-0068.1 .

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.

Shrestha M., L. Wang, T. Koike, Y. Xue, and Y. Hirabayashi, 2012: Modeling the spatial distribution of snow cover in the Dudhkoshi region of the Nepal Himalaya. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 13, 204-222.

Ruti, P.M., J E Williams, F Hourdin, F Guichard, A Boone, P Van Velthoven, F Favot, I Musat, M Rumukkainen, M Domínguez, M Á Gaertner, JP Lafore, T Losada, MB Rodriguez de Fonseca, J Polcher, F Giorgi,Y Xue, I Bouarar, K.Law, B. Josse, B. Barret, X. Yang,C Mari, AK Traore, 2011: Modeling the West African climate system: a review of the AMMA inter-comparison initiatives. Atmospheric Sciences Letters,12, 116-122, DOI: 10.1002/asl.305.

Boone, A., I. Poccard-Leclerq, Y. Xue, J. Feng, and P. de Rosnay, 2010 : Evaluation of the WAMME model surface fluxes using results from the AMMA land-surface model intercomparison project. In Special Issue “West African Monsoon and its Modeling”, Climate Dynamics. 35, 127-142. DOI 10.1007/s00382-009-0653-1.

Shrestha M., L. Wang, T. Koike, Y. Xue, and Y. Hirabayashi, 2010: Improving the snow physics of WEB-DHM and its point evaluation at two SnowMIP alpine sites. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 14, 2577–2594, www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/14/2577/2010/doi:10.5194/hess-14-2577-2010.

Boone, A., P. de Rosnay, G. Basalmo, A. Beljaars, F. Chopin, B. Decharme, C. Delire, A. Ducharne, S. Gascoin, F. Guichard, Y. Gusev, P. Harris, L. Jarlan, L. Kergoat, E. Mougin, O. Nasonova, A. Norgaard, T. Orgeval, C. Ottlé, I. Poccard-Leclercq, J. Polcher, I. Sandholt, S. Saux-Picart, C. Taylor, and Y. Xue, 2009: The AMMA Land Surface Model Intercomparison Project (ALMIP). BAMS, 90, 1865–1880. DOI: 10.1175/2009BAMS2786.1.

Rutter, N., R. Essery, J. Pomeroy, N. Altimir, K. Andreadis, I. Baker, A. Barr, P. Bartlett, H. Deng, K. Elder, C. Ellis X. Feng, A. Gelfan, G. Goodbody, Y.y Gusev, D. Gustafsson, R. Hellström, T. Hirota, T. Jonas, V. Koren, W. Li, C. Luce, E. Martin, O. Nasonova, J. Pumpanen, D. Pyles, P. Samuelsson, M. Sandells, G. Schädler, A. Shmakin, T. Smirnova, M. Stähli, R. Stöckli, U. Strasser, H. Su, K. Suzuki, K. Takata, K. Tanaka, E. Thompson, T. Vesala, P. Viterbo, A. Wiltshire, Yongkang Xue, T. Yamazaki, 2009: Evaluation of forest snow processes models (SnowMIP2). J. Geophys. Res-Atmosphere., 114, D06111, doi:10.1029/2008JD011063.

Kahan, D, Y. Xue, and S. Allen, 2006: The impact of vegetation/soil parameters in simulations of surface energy and water balance in the semi-arid Sahel area: a case study using SEBEX and HAPEX-Sahel data, J. Hydrology, 320, issues 1-2, 238-259.

Sun, L. and Y. Xue, 2004: Validation of SSiB model over grassland with CHeRES field experiment data in 2001, Advance in Atmospheric Sciences, 21, 547-556.

Bowling, L. C.; Lettenmaier, D. P.; Nijssen, Bart; and others (including Y. Xue), 2003: Simulation of high latitude hydrological processes in the Torne_Kalix basin: PILPS phase 2(e). 1: Experiment description and summary inter-comparisons, Global & Planetary Change, 38, 1-30.

Luo, L., A. Robock, K. Y. Vinnikov, C. A. Schlosser, A. G. Slater, and others (including Y. Xue), 2003: Effects of frozen soil on soil temperature, spring infiltration, and runoff: Results from the PILPS 2(d) experiment at Valdai, Russia. J. Hydrometeorology, 4, 334-351.

Nijssen, B.; Bowling, L. C.; Lettenmaier, D. P.; and others (including Y. Xue), 2003: Simulation of high latitude hydrological processes in the Torne_Kalix basin: PILPS phase 2(e). 2: Comparison of model results with observations, Global & Planetary Change, 38, 31-53.

Schlosser C. A., and Collaborators (including Y. Xue), 2000: Simulations of a boreal grassland hydrology at Valdai, Russia: PILPS Phase 2(d). Mon. Wea. Rev., 128, 301-321.

Pitman, A. J., A. Henderson-Sellers, C. E. Desborough, Z.-L. Yang, F. Abramopoulos, A. Boone, R. E. Dickinson, N. Gedney, R. Koster, E.Kowalczyk, D. Lettenmaier, X. Liang, J.-F. Mahfouf, J. Noilhan, J. Polcher, W. Qu, A. Robock, C. Rosenzweig, C. A. Schlosser, A. B. Shmakin, J. Smith, M. Suarez, D. Verseghy, P. Wetzel, E. Wood, Y. Xue, 1999: Key results and implications from phase 1(c) of the Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parametrization Schemes Climate Dynamics, 15 , 673-684.

Liang S., and Collaborators (including Y. Xue), 1998: The project for intercomparison of land-surface parameterization schemes (PILPS) phase-2(c) Red-Arkansas River basin experiment: 2. Spatial and temporal analysis of energy fluxes, Global & Planetary Change, 19, 137-159.

Lohmann, D., and Collaborators (including Y. Xue), 1998: The project for intercomparison of land-surface parameterization schemes (PILPS) phase-2(c) Red-Arkansas River basin experiment: 3. Spatial and temporal analysis of water fluxes, Global & Planetary Change, 19, 161-179.

Schulz, J.-P., L. Dumenil, J. Polcher, C.A. Schlosser, and Y. Xue, 1998: Land surface energy and moisture fluxes: comparing three models, J. Appl. meteor., 37, 288-307.

Wood, E.F., and Collaborators (including Y. Xue), 1998: The project for intercomparison of land-surface parameterizations schemes (PILPS) phase-2(c) Red-Arkansas River basin experiment: 1. Experiment description and summary intercomparisons, Global & Planetary Change, 19, 115-135.

Chen, T.H. and Collaborators (including Y. Xue), 1997: Cabauw experimental results from the project for intercommparison of land surface parameterization schemes. J. Climate, 10, 1194-1215.

Schlosser, C.A., A. Robock, K.Y. Vinnikov, N.A. Speranskaya, and Y. Xue, 1997: 18-year land-surface hydrology model simulations for a midlatitude grassland catchment in Valdai, Russia. Mon. Wea. Rev., 125, 3279-3296.

Xue, Y., P.J. Sellers, F.J. Zeng, and C.A. Schlosser, 1997: Comments on “Use of midlatitude soil moisture and meteorological observations to validate soil moisture simulations with biosphere and bucket models”. J. Climate, 10, 374-376.

Chen F., K. Mitchell, J. Schaake, Y. Xue, H.-L. Pan, V. Koren, Q. Duan, and A. Betts, 1996: Modeling of land-surface evaporation by four schemes and comparison with FIFE observations (PILPS). J. Geophy. Res., 101, D3, 7251-7268.

Mahfouf, J.-F., C. Ciret, A. Duchame, P. Irannejad, J. Noilhan, Y. Shao, P. Thornton, Y.Xue, and Z.L. Yang, 1996: Analysis of results from PILPS-RICE workshop, Part III: Transpiration, Global & Planetary Change, 13, 73-88.

Wetzel, P.J., X. Liang, P. Irannejad, A. Boone, J. Nolihan, Y. Shao, C. Skely, Y. Xue, and Z.-L. Yang, 1996: Modeling vadose zone liquid water fluxes: infiltration, runoff, drainage, interflow. Global & Planetary Change, 13, 57-72.

Xue, Y., H.G. Bastable, P. A. Dirmeyer, and P.J. Sellers, 1996: Sensitivity of simulated surface fluxes to changes in land surface parameterization — a study using ABRACOS data. J. Appl. Meteor., 35, 386-400.

Robock, A., K.V. Vinnikov, C.A. Schlosser, N.A. Speranskaya, and Y. Xue, 1995: Use of Russian soil moisture and meteorological observations to validate soil moisture simulations with biosphere and bucket models. J. Climate, 8, 15-35.

Land Cover Change and Climate Anomalies

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.

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

Zhang, Y., Y. Pan, Y. Xue, I. Diallo, X. Zeng, S. Li, J. D Neelin, W. K.M. Lau, A. A. Boone, F Vitart., T. Yao, Q. Tang, T. Sato, M.-S. Koo, C. Ardilouze, S. K. Saha, J. Yang, S. Materia, Z. Lin, X. Qi, Y. Qin, T. Nakamura, P. Nobre, D. Peano, R. Senan, Y. Takaya, H. Wang, H. Zhang, Y. Zhan, M. Zhao , C. R. Mechoso, Q. Bao , M. J. Bottino, S. Hong, Y. Lin, S. Xie, X. Pan, H. P. Nayak, S. C. Chou, W. Guo, 2024: Near-global summer circulation response to the spring surface Temperature anomaly in Tibetan Plateau —- The GEWEX/LS4P First Phase Experiment. Climate Dynamics, 62, 2907-2924. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-024-07210-5

Xue, Y. and W. K-M Lau, 2024: Preface: Subseasonal-to-seasonal predictability of extreme precipitation and land forcing. Climate Dynamics, 62, 2599-2600. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-024-07203-4

Saha, S. K., Y. Xue, S. Krishnakumar, I. Diallo, Y. Shivamurthy, T. Nakamura, Q. Tang and H. Chaudhari, 2023, A Dominant Mode in the First Phase of the Asian Summer Monsoon Rainfall: Role of Antecedent Remote Land Surface Temperature. Climate Dynamics, 61, 2735-2751. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-023-06709-7

Xue Y., I. Diallo, A. A. Boone, Y. Zhang, X. Zeng, W. K.M. Lau, J. D. Neelin, T. Yao , Q. Tang , T. Sato , M.-S. Koo, F. Vitart, C. Ardilouze, S. K. Saha, S. Materia, Z. Lin, Y. Takaya, J. Yang, T. Nakamura, X. Qi, Y. Qin, P. Nobre, R. Senan, H. Wang, H. Zhang, M. Zhao, H. P. Nayak, Y. Pan, X. Pan, J. Feng, C. Shi, S. Xie, M. A. Brunke, Q. Bao, M. J. Bottino, T. Fan, S. Hong, Y. Lin, D. Peano, Y. Zhan, C. R. Mechoso, X. Ren, G. Balsamo, S. C. Chou, P. de Rosnay, P. J. van Oevelen, D. Klocke, M. Ek, X. Li, W. Guo, Y. Zhu, J. Tang, X.-Z. Liang, Y. Qian, P. Zhao, 2023: Remote effects of Tibetan Plateau spring land temperature on global subseasonal to seasonal precipitation prediction and comparison with effects of sea surface temperature: The GEWEX/LS4P Phase I experiment. Climate Dynamics, 62, 2603-2628. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-023-06709-7

Qin Y., Q. Tang, Y. Xue, Y. Liu, and Y. Lin, 2023: Improved subseasonal-to-seasonal precipitation prediction of climate models with nudging approach for better initialization of Tibetan Plateau-Rocky Mountain Circumglobal wave train and land surface conditions. Climate Dynamics, 62, 2645-2658. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-023-07082-1

Diallo, I., Y. Xue, Q. Chen, X. Ren, W. Guo, 2022: Effects of Spring Tibetan Plateau Land Temperature Anomalies on Early Summer Floods/Droughts over the monsoon regions of South East Asia. Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-021-06053-8

Qi, X., Yang, J., Xue, Y., Bao, Q., Wu, G., & Ji, D. (2022). Subseasonal warming of surface soil enhances precipitation over the eastern Tibetan Plateau in early summer. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127, e2022JD037250. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037250

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

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

Xue Y., I. Diallo, A. A. Boone, T. Yao , Y. Zhang, X. Zeng, J. D. Neelin, W. K.M. Lau , Y. Pan, Y. Liu1, X. Pan, Q. Tang, P. J. van Oevelen, T. Sato, M.-S. Koo, S. Materia, C. Shi, J. Yang, C. Ardilouze, Z. Lin, Xin Qi, T. Nakamura, S. K. Saha, R. Senan, Y. Takaya, H. Wang, H. Zhang, M. Zhao, H. P. Nayak, Q. Chen, J. Feng, M. A. Brunke, T. Fan, S. Hong, P. Nobre, D. Peano, Y. Qin, F. Vitart, S. Xie, Y. Zhan, D. Klocke, R. Leung, X. Li, M. Ek, W. Guo, G. Balsamo, Q. Bao, S. C. Chou, P. de Rosnay, Y. Lin, Y. Zhu, Y. Qian, P. Zhao, J. Tang, X.-Z. Liang, J. Hong, D. Ji, Z. Ji, Y. Qiu, S. Sugimoto, K. Yang, M. Yu, 2022: Spring Land Temperature in Tibetan Plateau and Global-Scale Summer Precipitation – Initialization and Improved Prediction. Bulletin of American Meteorological Society. 103, 12, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0270.1, E2756-E2767

Quan, J., Y. Xue, Q. Duan, Z. Liu, K. W. Oleson, Y. Liu, 2021: Numerical Investigation and Uncertainty Analysis of Eastern China’s Large-Scale Urbanization Effect on Regional Climate, J. Meteor. Res., 35(6), 1023–1040, doi: 10.1007/s13351-021-1033-y

Xue, Y., Yao, T., Boone, A. A., Diallo, I., Liu, Y., Zeng, X., Lau, W. K.-M., Sugimoto, S., Tang, Q., Pan, X., van Oevelen, P. J., Klocke, D., Koo, M.-S., Lin, Z., Takaya, Y., Sato, T., Ardilouze, C., Saha, S. K., Zhao, M., Liang, X.-Z., Vitart, F., Li, X., Zhao, P., Neelin, D., Guo, W., Yu, M., Qian, Y., Shen, S. S. P., Zhang, Y., Yang, K., Leung, R., Yang, J., Qiu, Y., Brunke, M. A., Chou, S. C., Ek, M., Fan, T., Guan, H., Lin, H., Liang, S., Materia, S., Nakamura, T., Qi, X., Senan, R., Shi, C., Wang, H., Wei, H., Xie, S., Xu, H., Zhang, H., Zhan, Y., Li, W., Shi, X., Nobre, P., Qin, Y., Dozier, J., Ferguson, C. R., Balsamo, G., Bao, Q., Feng, J., Hong, J., Hong, S., Huang, H., Ji, D., Ji, Z., Kang, S., Lin, Y., Liu, W., Muncaster, R., Pan, Y., Peano, D., de Rosnay, P., Takahashi, H. G., Tang, J., Wang, G., Wang, S., Wang, W., Zhou, X., and Zhu, Y., 2021: Impact of Initialized Land Surface Temperature and Snowpack on Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction Project, Phase I (LS4P-I): Organization and Experimental design, Geosci. Model Dev., 14, 4465–4494, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-4465-2021.

Liu Y. and Y. Xue, 2020: Expansion of the Sahara Desert and shrinking of frozen land of the Arctic. Scientific Reports. (2020) 10:4109 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-61085-0. www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-61085-0.

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.

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, 53(1-2), 1039-1061. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-019-04630-6.

Lee, J., Y. Xue, F. De Sales, I. Diallo, L. Marx, M. Ek, K. R. Sperber, P. J. Gleckler, 2019: Evaluation of multi-decadal UCLA-CFSv2 simulation and impact of interactive atmospheric-ocean feedback on global and regional variability. Climate Dynamics, 52, 3683–3707, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4351-8.

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.

Zhang, Yang, Tao Zou, Y. Xue, 2019: An Arctic-Tibetan connection on subseasonal to seasonal time scale. Geophysical Research Letter, 46, 2790-2799, DOI: 10.1029/2018GL081476.

Zhong, L., Y. Ma, Y. Xue, and S. Piao, 2019: Climate Change Trend and Impact on Vegetation Greening over Tibetan Plateau. Journal Geophysical Research: Atmosphere, 124. 7540–7552. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD030481.

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

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

Li, W., W. Guo, B. Qiu, Y. Xue, P.-C. Hsu, and J. Wei, 2018: Influence of Tibetan Plateau snow cover on East Asian atmospheric circulation at medium-range time scales. Nature Communications, (2018)9:4243 | DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06762-5 | www.nature.com/naturecommunications

Zhang, Yang, Tao Zou, Y. Xue, 2019: An Arctic-Tibetan connection on subseasonal to seasonal time scale. Geophysical Research Letter, 46, 2790-2799, DOI: 10.1029/2018GL081476

Xue Y., I. Diallo, W. Li, J. D. Neelin, P. C. Chu, R. Vasic, W. Guo, Q. Li, D. A. Robinson, Y. Zhu, C. Fu, and C. M. Oaida (2018). Spring land surface and subsurface temperature anomalies and subsequent downstream late spring-summer droughts/floods in North America and East Asia. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123, 5001-5019. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JD028246

Dintwe, K., G. S. Okin, Y. Xue, 2017: Fire-induced albedo change and surface radiative forcing in Sub-Saharan Africa savanna ecosystems: implications for the energy balance. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 122, 6186-6202, DOI: 10.1002/2016JD026318

Xue, Y., 2017: Impact of Land-Atmosphere Interaction on Sahel 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

Huang, H, Y. Gu, Y. Xue, J. Jiang, and B. Zhao, 2018: Assessing aerosol indirect effect on clouds and regional climate of East/South Asia and West Africa using NCEP GFS, Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-018-4476-9

De Sales, F. Y. Xue, G. Okin, 2016: Impact of burned area on the northern African seasonal climate from the perspective of regional modelling. Climate Dynamics 47:3393–3413. 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

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, 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, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-3224-2.

Xue Y. and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2015: Land-atmosphere interactions in monsoon regimes and future prospects for enhancing prediction. CLIVAR Exchanges newsletter – a special issue on the Monsoons. 19, 28-32.

Qian Li and Yongkang Xue, 2014: Analyses of observed and simulated Northwestern China major summer major climate features in Northwestern China. J. Meteorological research, 28, 836-848.

Ma, H-Y., H. Xiao, C. Mechoso, and Y. Xue, 2013: Sensitivity of global tropical climate to land surface processes: Mean state and interannual variability. J. Climate. 26, 1818-1837 doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00142.1

Ma H-Y, C. R. Mechoso, Y. Xue, H. Xiao, J. D. Neelin, and X. Ji, 2013: On the connection between continental-scale land surface processes and the tropical climate in a coupled ocean-atmosphere-land system. J. Climate, 26, 9006-9025 http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00819.1

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 downscaling. Journal Geophysical Research. 117, D11103, doi:10.1029/2012JD017692.

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 Model. Advance 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 climate. Climate Dynamics., 37, 187-203. DOI 10.1007/s00382-010-0813-3.

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., F. De Sales, R. Vasic, C. R. Mechooso, S. D. Prince, A. Arakawa, 2010: Global and temporal characteristics of seasonal climate/vegetation biophysical process (VBP) interactions. J. Climate, 23, 1411–1433.

Kang H.-S., Y. Xue, G. J. Collatz, 2007: Assessment of Satellite-derived Leaf Area Index Datasets using a General Circulation Model: Seasonal Variability. J. Climate, 20, 993-1015

Li, W.-P, Y. Xue, I. Poccard, 2007: Numerical investigation of the impact of vegetation indices on the variability of West African summer monsoon. Journal of Meteorological Society of Japan, 85A, 363-383.

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, D17102, doi:10.1029/2005JD006309.

Guo, Z., P.A. Dirmeyer, R. Koster, et al. (Including Xue), 2006: GLACE: The global land-atmosphere coupling experiment. 2. Analysis J. of Hydrometeorology, 7, 590-610.

Koster, R., Z. Guo, P.A.Dirmeyer, et al.(Including Xue), 2006: GLACE: The global land-atmosphere coupling experiment. I. Overview. J. of Hydrometeorology, 7, 590-610.

Xue, Y., F. De Sales, W. Li, C. R. Mechoso, C. Nobre, and H.-M. H. Juang, 2006: Role of land surface processes in South American monsoon development. J. Climate, 19, 741-762.

Xue, Y., 2006: Interactions and feedbacks between climate and dryland vegetation. In Dryland Ecohydrology. P. D’Odorico and A. Porporato, eds., 85-105, Springer. New York. 1-4020-4261-2.

Li W.-P. and Xue Yongkang, 2005: Numerical Simulation of the impact of vegetation index on the interannual variation of summer precipitation in the Yellow River Basin. Adv. in Atmos. Sci., 22, 865-876.

Xue, Y., 2005: Land surface processes and monsoon. GEWEX Newsletter, February, 5, 6, 20.

Koster, R. D., P. A. Dirmeyer, Z. Guo, G. Bonan, E. Chan, P. Cox, C. T., Gordon, S. Kanae, E. Kowalczyk, D. Lawrence, P. Liu, C.-H. Lu, S. Malyshev, B. McAvaney,K. Mitchell, D. Mocko, T. Oki, K.. Oleson, A. Pitman, Y. C. Sud, C. M. Taylor, D. Verseghy, R.Vasic, Y. Xue, T. Yamada, 2004: Regions of strong coupling between soil moisture and precipitation. Science, 305, 1138-1140.

Xue, Y., H.-M. H. Juang, W. Li, S. Prince, R. DeFries, Y. Jiao, R. Vasic, 2004: Role of land surface processes in monsoon development: Part I – East Asia and West Africa. J. Geophy. Res.109, D03105, doi: 10.1029/2003JD003556.

Zhang, D.-L., W.-Z. Zheng, and Y. Xue, 2003: A numerical study of early summer regional climate and weather over LSA-East: Part I: Model description and verification. Mon. Wea. Rev.,131,1895-1909.

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

Niyogi, D. S., Y. Xue, and S. Raman, 2002: Hydrological feedback in land-atmosphere coupling: Comparison of a tropical and a midlatitudinal regime. J. Hydrometeorology. 3, 39-56.

Xue, Y., F. J. Zeng, K. Mitchell, and Z. Janjic, E. Rogers, 2001: The impact of land surface processes on the simulation of the U.S. hydrological cycle: A case study of 1993 US flood using the Eta/SSiB regional model. Mon. Wea. Rev. , 129, 2833-2860.

Polcher J., and Collaborators (including Y. Xue), 1998: A proposal for a general interface between land-surface schemes and general circulation models. Global & Planetary Change, 19, 261-276.

Xue, Y., F. J. Zeng, C.A. Schlosser, and S. Allen, 1998: A simplified Simple Biosphere Model (SSiB) and its application to land-atmosphere interactions. Chinese Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. 22, 468-480.

Xue., Y., J. Elbers, F.J. Zeng, and A.J. Dolman, 1997: GCM parameterization for Sahelian land surface processes, 289-297. In HAPEX-Sahel West Central Supersite: Methods, Measurements and Selected Results (eds. P. Kabat, S. Prince, L. Prihodko). Rep 130.HM/07.97. The Winand Staring Center for Integrated land, soil and water research. The Netherlands.

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

Xue, Y., M.J. Fennessy, and P.J. Sellers, 1996: Impact of vegetation properties on U.S. summer weather prediction. J. Geophy. Res., 101, D3, 7419-7430.

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

Xue, Y., 1993: The influence and mechanisms of biosphere feedback on African climate. In Macroscale modeling of the hydrosphere, (ed. Wilkinson, W.B.), International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), publication No. 214, 119-124.

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.

CO2 and Aerosol

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

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.

Remote Sensing and Applications

Ganem, K.A.; Xue, Y.; Rodrigues, A.d.A.; Franca-Rocha,W.; Oliveira, M.T.d.; Carvalho, N.S.d.; Cayo, E.Y.T.; Rosa, M.R.; Dutra, A.C.; Shimabukuro, Y.E., 2022: Mapping South America’s Drylands through Remote Sensing—A Review of the Methodological Trends and Current Challenges. Remote Sens. 2022, 14, 736. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14030736.

Gillespie, T.W., A. Madson, C. F. Cusack, Y. Xue, 2019: Changes in NDVI and population in protected areas on the Tibetan plateau. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 51:1, 428-439, DOI: 10.1080/15230430.2019.165054.

Qiu, B., W. Guo, Y. Xue, and Q. Dai, 2016: Implementation and evaluation of a generalized radiative transfer scheme within canopy in the soil-vegetationatmosphere transfer (SVAT) model, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121, 12,145–12,163, doi:10.1002/2016JD025328.

Rishmawi, K., S. D. Prince, and Y. Xue, 2016: Vegetation Responses to Climate Variability in the Northern Arid to Sub-Humid Zones of Sub-Saharan Africa. Remote Sensing, doi:10.3390/rs8110910. www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensin

Rian S., Y. Xue, G. M. MacDonald, M. Touré, Y. Yu, F. De Sales, P. A. Levine, S. Doumbia, C. E. Taylor, 2009: Analysis of Climate and Vegetation Characteristics along the Savanna-Desert Ecotone in Mali using MODIS Data. GIScience and Remote Sensing, 46, Number 4, 424-450.

Kang H.-S., Y. Xue, G. J. Collatz, 2007: Assessment of Satellite-derived Leaf Area Index Datasets using a General Circulation Model: Seasonal Variability. J. Climate., 20, 993-1015.

Li W.-P. and Y. Xue, 2005: Numerical Simulation of the impact of vegetation index on the interannual variation of summer precipitation in the Yellow River Basin. Adv. in Atmos Sci., 22 (1), 865-876.

Goward S.N., Y. Xue, K. Czaykowski, 2002: Evaluating Land Surface Moisture Conditions from Remotely Sensed Temperature/Vegetation Index Measurement: an exploration employing the Simplified Simple Biosphere Model. Remote Sensing of Environment. 79, 225-242.

Fennessy, M.J. and Y. Xue 1997: Impact of vegetation map on GCM seasonal simulations over the United States. Ecological Application,7, 22-33.

Liou, K.N. and Y. Xue, 1988: Exploration of the remote sounding of infrared cooling rates due to water vapor. Meteor. Atmos. Phys., 38, 131-139.

Wei, C., Y. Xue, X. Zhu, and S. Zou, 1984: Determination of atmospheric precipitate water and humidity profiles by a ground-based 1.35 cm radiometer. Adv. in Atmos Sci., 1 (1), 119-127.

Xue, Y., R. Huang, and X. Zhou, 1982: Application of Monte Carlo method to remote sensing humidity profile by atmospheric microwave emission. Scientia Sinica (Series B), XXV (6), 646-657.

Data Analysis

Zhou J., L. Wang, X. Zhong, T. Yao, J. Qi, Y. Wang, Y. Xue, 2022: Quantifying the major drivers for the expanding lakes in the interior Tibetan Plateau. Science Bulletin. 67,474-478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2021.11.010

Zhang, Yang, Tao Zou, Y. Xue, 2019: An Arctic-Tibetan connection on subseasonal to seasonal time scale. Geophysical Research Letter, 46, 2790-2799, DOI: 10.1029/2018GL081476

Li, W., W. Guo, P.-C. Hsu Y. Xue, 2016: Influence of the Madden–Julian oscillation on Tibetan Plateau snow cover at the intraseasonal time-scale. Scientific Report, 6:30456, DOI: 10.1038/srep30456

Dieppois, B., A. Diedhiou, A. Durand, M. Fournier, N. Massei, D. Sebag, Y. Xue, and B. Fontaine, 2013: Quasi-decadal signals of Sahel rainfall and West African monsoon since the mid-twentieth century, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, doi:10.1002/2013JD019681

Chen W., L. Wang, Y. Xue, and S. Sun, 2009: Variabilities of the Spring River Runoff System in eastern China and their Relations to Precipitation and Sea Surface Temperature, Int. J. climatology. 29, 10, 1381-1394.

Xue, Y., S. Sun, J.-M. Lau, J. Ji, I. Poccard, H.-S. Kang, R. Zhang, G. Wu, J. Zhang, J. Schaake, and Y. Jiao, 2004: Multiscale variability of the river runoff system in China and its link to precipitation and sea surface temperature, J. Hydrometeorology, 6, 550-570.

Weng, H.Y., K.M. Lau, and Y.K. Xue, 1999: Long term variations of summer rainfall over China and its possible link to global sea-surface temperature variability. J. Meteor. Soc. Of Japan, 4, 845-857.

Regional Climate & Regional Climate Downscaling

Tang J, Y Xue, M. Long, M. Ma, X-Z Liang, S. Sugimoto, K. Yang, Z. Ji, J. Hong, J. Kim, H. Xu, X. Zhou, T. Sato, H G. Takahashi, S. Wang, G. Wang, S. C. Chou, W. Guo, M. Yu, X. Pa, 2023: Regional climate model intercomparison over the Tibetan Plateau in the GEWEX/LS4P Phase I. Climate Dynamics, 62, 2837-2858. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-023-06992-4

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

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.

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

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., 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

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

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 downscaling. Journal 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 Climatology. 31: 1205-1221. DOI: 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 Model. Advance 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 climate. Climate 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 Dynamics. 35, 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 Dynamics. 35, 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.

Full Publication List

Zhang, Y., Y. Pan, Y. Xue, I. Diallo, X. Zeng, S. Li, J. D Neelin, W. K.M. Lau, A. A. Boone, F Vitart., T. Yao, Q. Tang, T. Sato, M.-S. Koo, C. Ardilouze, S. K. Saha, J. Yang, S. Materia, Z. Lin, X. Qi, Y. Qin, T. Nakamura, P. Nobre, D. Peano, R. Senan, Y. Takaya, H. Wang, H. Zhang, Y. Zhan, M. Zhao , C. R. Mechoso, Q. Bao , M. J. Bottino, S. Hong, Y. Lin, S. Xie, X. Pan, H. P. Nayak, S. C. Chou, W. Guo, 2024: Near-global summer circulation response to the spring surface Temperature anomaly in Tibetan Plateau —- The GEWEX/LS4P First Phase Experiment. Climate Dynamics, 62, 2907-2924.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-024-07210-5
Xue, Y. and W. K-M Lau, 2024: Preface: Subseasonal-to-seasonal predictability of extreme precipitation and land forcing. Climate Dynamics, 62, 2599-2600.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-024-07203-4
Saha, S. K., Y. Xue, S. Krishnakumar, I. Diallo, Y. Shivamurthy, T. Nakamura, Q. Tang and H. Chaudhari, 2023, A Dominant Mode in the First Phase of the Asian Summer Monsoon Rainfall: Role of Antecedent Remote Land Surface Temperature. Climate Dynamics, 61, 2735-2751.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-023-06709-7
Tang J, Y Xue, M. Long, M. Ma, X-Z Liang, S. Sugimoto, K. Yang, Z. Ji, J. Hong, J. Kim, H. Xu, X. Zhou, T. Sato, H G. Takahashi, S. Wang, G. Wang, S. C. Chou, W. Guo, M. Yu, X. Pa, 2023: Regional climate model intercomparison over the Tibetan Plateau in the GEWEX/LS4P Phase I. Climate Dynamics, 62, 2837-2858.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-023-06992-4
Xue Y., I. Diallo, A. A. Boone, Y. Zhang, X. Zeng, W. K.M. Lau, J. D. Neelin, T. Yao , Q. Tang , T. Sato , M.-S. Koo, F. Vitart, C. Ardilouze, S. K. Saha, S. Materia, Z. Lin, Y. Takaya, J. Yang, T. Nakamura, X. Qi, Y. Qin, P. Nobre, R. Senan, H. Wang, H. Zhang, M. Zhao, H. P. Nayak, Y. Pan, X. Pan, J. Feng, C. Shi, S. Xie, M. A. Brunke, Q. Bao, M. J. Bottino, T. Fan, S. Hong, Y. Lin, D. Peano, Y. Zhan, C. R. Mechoso, X. Ren, G. Balsamo, S. C. Chou, P. de Rosnay, P. J. van Oevelen, D. Klocke, M. Ek, X. Li, W. Guo, Y. Zhu, J. Tang, X.-Z. Liang, Y. Qian, P. Zhao, 2023: Remote effects of Tibetan Plateau spring land temperature on global subseasonal to seasonal precipitation prediction and comparison with effects of sea surface temperature: The GEWEX/LS4P Phase I experiment. Climate Dynamics, 62, 2603-2628.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-023-06709-7
Qin Y., Q. Tang, Y. Xue, Y. Liu, and Y. Lin, 2023: Improved subseasonal-to-seasonal precipitation prediction of climate models with nudging approach for better initialization of Tibetan Plateau-Rocky Mountain Circumglobal wave train and land surface conditions. Climate Dynamics, 62, 2645-2658.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-023-07082-1
Diallo, I., Y. Xue, Q. Chen, X. Ren, W. Guo, 2022: Effects of Spring Tibetan Plateau Land Temperature Anomalies on Early Summer Floods/Droughts over the monsoon regions of South East Asia. Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-021-06053-8
Ganem, K.A.; Xue, Y.; Rodrigues, A.d.A.; Franca-Rocha,W.; Oliveira, M.T.d.; Carvalho, N.S.d.; Cayo, E.Y.T.; Rosa, M.R.; Dutra, A.C.; Shimabukuro, Y.E., 2022: Mapping South America’s Drylands through Remote Sensing—A Review of the Methodological Trends and Current Challenges. Remote Sens. 2022, 14, 736. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14030736
Miao, X., Guo, W., Qiu, B., Lu, S., Zhang, Y., Xue, Y., & Sun, S., 2022: Accounting for topographic effects on snow cover fraction and surface albedo simulations over the Tibetan Plateau in winter. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14, e2022MS003035.https://doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003035
Qi, X., Yang, J., Xue, Y., Bao, Q., Wu, G., & Ji, D. (2022). Subseasonal warming of surface soil enhances precipitation over the eastern Tibetan Plateau in early summer. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127, e2022JD037250.https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037250
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
Xue Y., I. Diallo, A. A. Boone, T. Yao , Y. Zhang, X. Zeng, J. D. Neelin, W. K.M. Lau , Y. Pan, Y. Liu1, X. Pan, Q. Tang, P. J. van Oevelen, T. Sato, M.-S. Koo, S. Materia, C. Shi, J. Yang, C. Ardilouze, Z. Lin, Xin Qi, T. Nakamura, S. K. Saha, R. Senan, Y. Takaya, H. Wang, H. Zhang, M. Zhao, H. P. Nayak, Q. Chen, J. Feng, M. A. Brunke, T. Fan, S. Hong, P. Nobre, D. Peano, Y. Qin, F. Vitart, S. Xie, Y. Zhan, D. Klocke, R. Leung, X. Li, M. Ek, W. Guo, G. Balsamo, Q. Bao, S. C. Chou, P. de Rosnay, Y. Lin, Y. Zhu, Y. Qian, P. Zhao, J. Tang, X.-Z. Liang, J. Hong, D. Ji, Z. Ji, Y. Qiu, S. Sugimoto, K. Yang, M. Yu, 2022:Spring Land Temperature in Tibetan Plateau and Global-Scale Summer Precipitation – Initialization and Improved Prediction. Bulletin of American Meteorological Society. 103, 12, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0270.1, E2756-E2767
Zhou J., L. Wang, X. Zhong, T. Yao, J. Qi, Y. Wang, Y. Xue, 2022: Quantifying the major drivers for the expanding lakes in the interior Tibetan Plateau. Science Bulletin. 67,474-478.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2021.11.010
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, Ye Liu, F. Li, and G. Okin, 2021:Modeling the short-term fire effects on vegetation dynamics and surface energy in Southern Africa using the improved SSiB4/TRIFFID-Fire model. Geosci. Model Dev. 14, 7639–7657, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-7639-2021
Quan, J., Y. Xue, Q. Duan, Z. Liu, K. W. Oleson, Y. Liu, 2021:Numerical Investigation and Uncertainty Analysis of Eastern China’s Large-Scale Urbanization Effect on Regional Climate, J. Meteor. Res., 35(6), 1023–1040, doi: 10.1007/s13351-021-1033-y
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.
Lu S., W Guo, Y. Xue, F. Huang, J. Ge, 2021: Simulation of summer climate over Central Asia shows high sensitivity to different land surface schemes in WRF. Climate Dynamics, 57, 2249-2268.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-05876-9.
Xiao, M., S. P. Mahanama, Y. Xue, F. Chen, and D. P. lettenmaier, 2021: Modeling Snow Ablation over the Western United States Mountains: Patterns and Controlling Factors. J. Hydrometeorology. 22, 297-311. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-19-0198.1
Xue, Y., Yao, T., Boone, A. A., Diallo, I., Liu, Y., Zeng, X., Lau, W. K.-M., Sugimoto, S., Tang, Q., Pan, X., van Oevelen, P. J., Klocke, D., Koo, M.-S., Lin, Z., Takaya, Y., Sato, T., Ardilouze, C., Saha, S. K., Zhao, M., Liang, X.-Z., Vitart, F., Li, X., Zhao, P., Neelin, D., Guo, W., Yu, M., Qian, Y., Shen, S. S. P., Zhang, Y., Yang, K., Leung, R., Yang, J., Qiu, Y., Brunke, M. A., Chou, S. C., Ek, M., Fan, T., Guan, H., Lin, H., Liang, S., Materia, S., Nakamura, T., Qi, X., Senan, R., Shi, C., Wang, H., Wei, H., Xie, S., Xu, H., Zhang, H., Zhan, Y., Li, W., Shi, X., Nobre, P., Qin, Y., Dozier, J., Ferguson, C. R., Balsamo, G., Bao, Q., Feng, J., Hong, J., Hong, S., Huang, H., Ji, D., Ji, Z., Kang, S., Lin, Y., Liu, W., Muncaster, R., Pan, Y., Peano, D., de Rosnay, P., Takahashi, H. G., Tang, J., Wang, G., Wang, S., Wang, W., Zhou, X., and Zhu, Y., 2021: Impact of Initialized Land Surface Temperature and Snowpack on Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction Project, Phase I (LS4P-I): Organization and Experimental design, Geosci. Model Dev., 14, 4465–4494, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-4465-2021.
Zhang, Z. Q., Y. K. Xue, P. M. Zhai, et al., 2021:Effects of dynamic vegetation on global climate simulation using the NCEP GFS and SSiB4/TRIFFID. J. Meteor. Res., 35(6), 1041–1056, doi: 10.1007/s13351-021-1099-6.
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.
Huang, H., Y. Xue, F. Li, and Y. Liu, 2020: Modeling long-term fire impact on ecosystem characteristics and surface energy using the dynamic global vegetation model SSiB4/TRIFFID-Fire. Geoscientific Modeling Development. 13, 6029–6050, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2020-122.

163 Liu Y. and Y. Xue, 2020: Expansion of the Sahara Desert and shrinking of frozen land of the Arctic. Scientific Reports. (2020) 10:4109 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-61085-0. www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-61085-0.

Liu Y., Y. Xue, Q. Li, D. Lettenmaier, and P. Zhao, 2020:Investigation of the variability of near-surface temperature anomaly and its causes over the Tibetan Plateau. J. Geophy. Res. 125, e2020JD032800.https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD032800.
Yu, L., Y. Xue, I. Diallo, 2021: Vegetation greening in China and its effect on summer regional climate, Science Bulletin, 66, 13-17. 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.
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, 53(1-2), 1039-1061.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-019-04630-6.
Fu, A., Y. Xue, M. D. Hartman, W. Li, B. Qiu, Y. Liu, Y. N. Chen & Y. Wang, 2019: Evaluation of the Impacts of Regional Climate Factors and Crop Management on Corn Yields in Different Climate Regimes of China Using the DayCent Model. J. Agricultural Sciences. Vol. 11, No. 15, doi:10.5539/jas.v11n15p35. URL: https://doi.org/10.5539/jas.v11n15p35.
Gillespie, T.W., A. Madson, C. F. Cusack, Y. Xue, 2019: Changes in NDVI and population in protected areas on the Tibetan plateau. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 51:1, 428-439, DOI: 10.1080/15230430.2019.165054.
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.
Lee, J., Y. Xue, F. De Sales, I. Diallo, L. Marx, M. Ek, K. R. Sperber, P. J. Gleckler, 2019: Evaluation of multi-decadal UCLA-CFSv2 simulation and impact of interactive atmospheric-ocean feedback on global and regional variability. Climate Dynamics, 52, 3683–3707, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4351-8.
Liu, Y., Y. Xue, G. MacDonald,, P. Cox, Z. Zhang, 2019: Global vegetation variability and its response to elevated CO2, global warming, and climate variability – A study using offline SSiB4/TRIFFID model and satellite data. Earth System Dynamics, 10, 9-29, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-10-9-2019.
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.
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.
Zhang, Yang, Tao Zou, Y. Xue, 2019: An Arctic-Tibetan connection on subseasonal to seasonal time scale. Geophysical Research Letter, 46, 2790-2799, DOI: 10.1029/2018GL081476.
Zhong, L., Y. Ma, Y. Xue, and S. Piao, 2019: Climate Change Trend and Impact on Vegetation Greening over Tibetan Plateau. Journal Geophysical Research: Atmosphere, 124. 7540–7552. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD030481.
Fisher, J., Hayes, D., Schwalm, C. R., Huntzinger, D., Stofferahn, E., Schaefer, K., Luo, Y., Wullschleger, S., Goetz, S.; Miller, C.; Griffith, P.; Chadburn, S.; Chatterjee, A.; Ciais, P., Douglas, T., Genet, H., Ito, A.; Neigh C., S.R.; Poulter, B.; Rogers, B., Sonnentag, O.; Tian, H.; Wang, W.; Xue, Y.; Yang, Z.-L.; Zeng, N., 2018: Missing pieces to modeling the Arctic-Boreal puzzle. Env. Res. Let., 13, 020202, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa9d9a.
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.
Li, W., W. Guo, B. Qiu, Y. Xue, P.-C. Hsu, and J. Wei, 2018:Influence of Tibetan Plateau snow cover on East Asian atmospheric circulation at medium-range time scales. Nature Communications, (2018)9:4243 | DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06762-5 |www.nature.com/naturecommunications.
Xue Y., I. Diallo, W. Li, J. D. Neelin, P. C. Chu, R. Vasic, W. Guo, Q. Li, D. A. Robinson, Y. Zhu, C. Fu, and C. M. Oaida (2018).Spring land surface and subsurface temperature anomalies and subsequent downstream late spring-summer droughts/floods in North America and East Asia.Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123, 5001-5019. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JD028246.
Dintwe, K., G. S. Okin, Y. Xue, 2017: Fire-induced albedo change and surface radiative forcing in Sub-Saharan Africa savanna ecosystems: implications for the energy balance. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 122, 6186-6202, DOI: 10.1002/2016JD026318.
Wang, L., Jing Zhou, Jia Qi, Litao Sun, Kun Yang, Lide Tian, Yanluan Lin, Wenbin Liu, Maheswor Shrestha, Yongkang Xue, Toshio Koike, Yaoming Ma, Xiuping Li, Yingying Chen, Deliang Chen, Shilong Piao, Hui Lu, 2017: Development of a land surface model with coupled snow and frozen soil physics. Water Resources Research. 53(6), 5085-5103 DOI: 10.1002/2017WR020451.
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.
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.
De Sales, F. Y. Xue, G. Okin, 2016: Impact of burned area on the northern African seasonal climate from the perspective of regional modelling. Climate Dynamics 47:3393–3413. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-015-2522-4.
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.
Kuo Tzu-Hsien, Jen-Ping Chen, Yongkang Xue, 2016:Stem-root flow effect on soil-atmosphere interactions and uncertainty assessments. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 1509–1522, www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/20/1509/2016/doi:10.5194/hess-20-1509-2016.
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. 47, Issue 7, 2293–2308. DOI 10.1007/s00382-015-2964-8.
Li, W., W. Guo, P.-C. Hsu Y. Xue, 2016: Influence of the Madden–Julian oscillation on Tibetan Plateau snow cover at the intraseasonal time-scale. Scientific Report, 6:30456, DOI: 10.1038/srep30456.
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.
Qiu, B., W. Guo, Y. Xue, and Q. Dai, 2016, Implementation and evaluation of a generalized radiative transfer scheme within canopy in the soil-vegetationatmosphere transfer (SVAT) model, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121, 12,145–12,163, doi:10.1002/2016JD025328.
Rishmawi, K., S. D. Prince, and Y. Xue, 2016: Vegetation Responses to Climate Variability in the Northern Arid to Sub-Humid Zones of Sub-Saharan Africa. Remote Sensing, doi:10.3390/rs8110910. www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensin.
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.
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. 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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Shrestha M., T. Koike, Y. Hirabayashi, Y. Xue, L. Wang, G. Rasul, and B. Ahmad, 2015:Integrated simulation of snow and glacier melt in water and energy balance-based, distributed hydrological modeling framework at Hunza River Basin of Pakistan Karakoram region, JGR. 120, 10, 4889–4919, DOI: 10.1002/2014JD022666.
1 Xue Y. and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2015:Land-atmosphere interactions in monsoon regimes and future prospects for enhancing prediction. CLIVAR Exchanges newsletter – a special issue on the Monsoons. 19, 28-32.
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.
Getirana Augusto, Emanuel Dutra, Matthieu Guimberteau, Jonghun Kam, Hong-Yi Li, Bertrand Decharme, Zhengqiu Zhang, Agnes Ducharne, Aaron Boone, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Matthew Rodell, Ally M. Toure, Yongkang Xue, Guillaume Drapeau, Kristi Arsenault, Sujay Kumar, L. Ruby Leung, Christa Peters-Lidard, Josyane Ronchail, Justin Sheffield, 2014: Water balance in the Amazon basin from a land surface model ensemble. J. Hydrometeorology, 15, 2586-2614, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-14-0068.1.
Qian Li and Yongkang Xue, 2014: Analyses of observed and simulated Northwestern China major summer major climate features in Northwestern China. J. Meteorological research, 28, 836-848.
Shrestha M., L. Wang, T. Koike, H. Tsutsui, Y. Xue, and Y. Hirabayash, 2014:Correcting basin-scale snowfall in a mountainous basin using a distributed snowmelt model and remote sensing data., Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 18, 747–761www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/18/747/2014/doi:10.5194/hess-18-747-2014.
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.http://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0169809514002002.
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.
Dieppois, B., A. Diedhiou, A. Durand, M. Fournier, N. Massei, D. Sebag, Y. Xue, and B. Fontaine, 2013:Quasi-decadal signals of Sahel rainfall and West African monsoon since the mid-twentieth century, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, doi:10.1002/2013JD019681.
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.
Ma H-Y, C. R. Mechoso, Y. Xue, H. Xiao, J. D. Neelin, and X. Ji, 2013:On the connection between continental-scale land surface processes and the tropical climate in a coupled ocean-atmosphere-land system.J. Climate, 26, 9006-9025 http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00819.1.
Ma, H-Y., H. Xiao, C. Mechoso, and Y. Xue, 2013:Sensitivity of global tropical climate to land surface processes: Mean state and interannual variability.J. Climate. 26, 1818-1837 doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00142.1.
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.
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.
Shrestha M., L. Wang, T. Koike, Y. Xue, and Y. Hirabayashi, 2012: Modeling the spatial distribution of snow cover in the Dudhkoshi region of the Nepal Himalaya. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 13, 204-222.
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 downscaling. Journal 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 Climatology. 31: 1205-1221. DOI: 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 Model. Advance 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 climate. Climate Dynamics., 37, 187-203. DOI 10.1007/s00382-010-0813-3.
Niyogi, D., R. Mera, Yongkang Xue, G. Wilkerson, and F. Booker, 2011: The use of the Alpert-Stein Factor separation methodology for climate variable interaction studies in hydrological land surface models and crop yield models. In “Factor Separation in the Atmosphere – Applications and Future Prospects”, Edited by Pinhas Alpert, and Tatiana Sholokhman, 171-183. Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K. ISBN 978-0-521-19173-9.
Ruti, P.M., J E Williams, F Hourdin, F Guichard, A Boone, P Van Velthoven, F Favot, I Musat, M Rumukkainen, M Domínguez, M Á Gaertner, JP Lafore, T Losada, MB Rodriguez de Fonseca, J Polcher, F Giorgi,Y Xue, I Bouarar, K.Law, B. Josse, B. Barret, X. Yang,C Mari, AK Traore, 2011: Modeling the West African climate system: a review of the AMMA inter-comparison initiatives. Atmospheric Sciences Letters,12, 116-122, DOI: 10.1002/asl.305.
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.
Boone, A., I. Poccard-Leclerq, Y. Xue, J. Feng, and P. de Rosnay, 2010 : Evaluation of the WAMME model surface fluxes using results from the AMMA land-surface model intercomparison project. In Special Issue “West African Monsoon and its Modeling”, Climate Dynamics. 35, 127-142. DOI 10.1007/s00382-009-0653-1.

99.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, 2010: The WAMME regional model intercomparison study. In Special Issue “West African Monsoon and its Modeling”, Climate Dynamics. 35, 175-192. DOI 10.1007/s00382-009-0676-7.

Li, Q., S. Sun, and Y. Xue, 2010:Analyses and development of a hierarchy of frozen soil models for cold region study,Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmosphere. 115, D03107, doi:10.1029/2009JD012530.
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.
Shrestha M., L. Wang, T. Koike, Y. Xue, and Y. Hirabayashi, 2010: Improving the snow physics of WEB-DHM and its point evaluation at two SnowMIP alpine sites. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 14, 2577–2594,www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/14/2577/2010/doi:10.5194/hess-14-2577-2010.
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 Dynamics. 35, 3- 27. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0778-2.
Xue, Y., F. De Sales, R. Vasic, C. R. Mechooso, S. D. Prince, A. Arakawa, 2010: Global and temporal characteristics of seasonal climate/vegetation biophysical process (VBP) interactions.J. Climate, 23, 1411–1433.
Boone, A., P. de Rosnay, G. Basalmo, A. Beljaars, F. Chopin, B. Decharme, C. Delire, A. Ducharne, S. Gascoin, F. Guichard, Y. Gusev, P. Harris, L. Jarlan, L. Kergoat, E. Mougin, O. Nasonova, A. Norgaard, T. Orgeval, C. Ottl, I. Poccard-Leclercq, J. Polcher, I. Sandholt, S. Saux-Picart, C. Taylor, and Y.. Xue, 2009: The AMMA Land Surface Model Intercomparison Project (ALMIP). BAMS, 90, 1865–1880. DOI: 10.1175/2009BAMS2786.1
Chen W., L. Wang, Y. Xue, and S. Sun, 2009:Variabilities of the Spring River Runoff System in eastern China and their Relations to Precipitation and Sea Surface Temperature, Int. J. climatology. 29, 10, 1381-1394.
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.
Rian S., Y. Xue, G. M. MacDonald, M. Touré, Y. Yu, F. De Sales, P. A. Levine, S. Doumbia, C. E. Taylor, 2009:Analysis of Climate and Vegetation Characteristics along the Savanna-Desert Ecotone in Mali using MODIS Data. GIScience and Remote Sensing, 46, Number 4, 424-450.
Rutter, N., R. Essery, J. Pomeroy, N. Altimir, K. Andreadis, I. Baker, A. Barr, P. Bartlett, H. Deng, K. Elder, C. Ellis X. Feng, A. Gelfan, G. Goodbody, Y.y Gusev, D. Gustafsson, R. Hellström, T. Hirota, T. Jonas, V. Koren, W. Li, C. Luce, E. Martin, O. Nasonova, J. Pumpanen, D. Pyles, P. Samuelsson, M. Sandells, G. Schädler, A. Shmakin, T. Smirnova, M. Stähli, R. Stöckli, U. Strasser, H. Su, K. Suzuki, K. Takata, K. Tanaka, E. Thompson, T. Vesala, P. Viterbo, A. Wiltshire,Yongkang Xue, T. Yamazaki, 2009: Evaluation of forest snow processes models (SnowMIP2). J. Geophys. Res-Atmosphere., 114, D06111, doi:10.1029/2008JD011063.
Zhou, WY, PW Guo, T. Luo, KN Liou Y. Gu, YK Xue, 2009: Four-stream Radiative Transfer Parameterization Scheme in a Land Surface Process Model, ACTA METEOROLOGICA SINICA, 23,105-115.
Zhou, WY, PW Guo, T. Luo, KN Liou Y. Gu, YK Xue, 2008: A study on the radiative transfer parameterization scheme within canopy in land surface process model, Acta Meteorologica Sinica, 66, 359-370.
Kang H.-S., Y. Xue, G. J. Collatz, 2007: Assessment of Satellite-derived Leaf Area Index Datasets using a General Circulation Model: Seasonal Variability. J. Climate 20, 993-1015.
Li, W.-P, Y. Xue, I. Poccard, 2007: Numerical investigation of the impact of vegetation indices on the variability of West African summer monsoon. Journal of Meteorological Society of Japan. 85A, 363-383.
Zhang X., S. Sun, and Y. Xue: 2007: Development of Frozen soil model for climate study. J. Hydrometeorology. 8, 690-701.
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.
Alpert, P., D. Niyogi, R.A. Pielke Sr., J.L. Eastman, Y.K. Xue, and S. Raman, 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, 202-208.
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, D17102, 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.
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.
Guo, Z., P.A. Dirmeyer, R. Koster, et al. (Including Yongkang Xue), 2006: GLACE: The global land-atmosphere coupling experiment. 2. Analysis. J. of Hydrometeorology, 7, 611-625.
Kahan, D, Yongkang Xue, and S. Allen, 2006: The impact of vegetation/soil parameters in simulations of surface energy and water balance in the semi-arid Sahel area: a case study using SEBEX and HAPEX-Sahel data. J. Hydrology, 320, issues 1-2, 238-259.
Koster, R., Z. Guo, P.A.Dirmeyer, et al.(Including Yongkang Xue), 2006: GLACE: The global land-atmosphere coupling experiment. I. Overview. J. of Hydrometeorology. 7, 590-610.
Niyogi, D., and Yongkang Xue, 2006: Biological Feedback of Simultaneous Soil Moisture and Atmospheric CO2 Changes on Terrestrial Response in a Biospheric Model. Global & Planetary Change. 54, 94-108.
Xue, Y., 2006: Interactions and feedbacks between climate and dryland vegetation. In Dryland Ecohydrology. P. D’Odorico and A. Porporato, eds., 85-105, Springer. New York. 1-4020-4261-2.
Xue, Yongkang, F. De Sales, W. Li, C. R. Mechoso, C. Nobre, and H.-M. H. Juang, 2006: Role of land surface processes in South American monsoon development. J. Climate. 19, 741-762.
Li W.-P. and Xue Yongkang, 2005: Numerical Simulation of the impact of vegetation index on the interannual variation of summer precipitation in the Yellow River Basin. Adv. in Atmos. Sci., 22, 865-876.
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Xue, Y. and M. Yanai, 2005: Climate of South Asia in Encyclopedia of World Climatology, Ed. J. Oliver. Springer, Netherlands. P115-120.
Koster, R. D., P. A. Dirmeyer, Z. Guo, G. Bonan, E. Chan, P. Cox, C. T., Gordon, S. Kanae, E. Kowalczyk, D. Lawrence, P. Liu, C.-H. Lu, S. Malyshev, B. McAvaney,K. Mitchell, D. Mocko, T. Oki, K.. Oleson, A. Pitman, Y. C. Sud, C. M. Taylor, D. Verseghy, R.Vasic, Y. Xue, T. Yamada, 2004: Regions of strong coupling between soil moisture and precipitation. Science, 305, 1138-1140.
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, Yongkang Xue, 2004: Direct Observations of The Effects of aerosol loading on CO2 exchanges over different landscapes. Geophy. Res. Let., 31, doi:10.1029/2004GL020915. \
Sun, L. and Y. Xue, 2004: Validation of SSiB model over grassland with CHeRES field experiment data in 2001. Advance in Atmospheric Sciences. 21, 547-556.
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, P. A. Dirmeyer, J. H. Gash, L. B. Deguenni, M. Meybeck, R. A. Pielke, sr, C. J. Vorosmarty, R. W. A. Hutjes, and S. Lutkemeier. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, P59-77. PP566.
Xue, Yongkang, H.-M. H. Juang, W. Li, S. Prince, R. DeFries, Y. Jiao, R. Vasic, 2004: Role of land surface processes in monsoon development: East Asia and West Africa. J. Geophy. Res., 109, D03105, doi:10.1029/2003JD003556.PP24.
Xue Y., H.-M. Juang, W.-P. Li, S. D. Prince, R. DeFries, Y. Jiao, 2004: Land-surface effects on monsoon development. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 85. 347-348.
Xue, Y., W.-P. Li, F. de Sales, C. R. Mechoso, H.-M. H. Juang, C. Nobre, 2004: Land surface processes and monsoon. Proceedings CD-ROM of the 6th International Study Conference of GEWEX in Asia and GAME, December 3-5, 2004, Kyoto Japan, GAME CD-ROM Publication NO. 11, T1YX30Jul04034458.
Luo, L., A. Robock, K. Y. Vinnikov, C. A. Schlosser, A. G. Slater, A. Boone, H. Braden, P. Cox, P. de Rosnay, R. E. Dickinson, Y.-J. Dai, Q. Duan, P. Etchevers, A. Henderson-Sellers, N. Gedney, Y. M. Gusev, F. Habets, J. Kim, E. Kowalczyk, K. Mitchell, O. N. Nasonova, J. Noilhan, A. J. Pitman, J. Schaake, A. B. Shmakin, T. G. Smirnova, P. Wetzel, Yongkang Xue, Z.-L. Yang, and Q.-C. Zeng, 2003: Effects of frozen soil on soil temperature, spring infiltration, and runoff: Results from the PILPS 2(d) experiment at Valdai, Russia. J. Hydrometeorology, 4, 334-351.
Marland G., R. A. Pielke Sr., M. Apps, R. Avissar, R. A. Betts, K.J. Davis, P.C. Frumhoff, S.T. Jackson, L. Joyce, P. Kauppi, J., Katzenberger, K.G. MacDicken, R. Neilson, J. O. Niles, D. S. Niyogi, R. J. Norby, N. Pena, N. Sampson, Yongkang 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.
Bowling, Laura C.; Lettenmaier, Dennis P.; Nijssen, Bart; Graham, L. Phil; Clark, Douglas B; El Maayar, Mustapha; Essery, Richard; Goers, Sven; Gusev, Yeugeniy M.; Habets, Florence; van den Hurk, Bart\; Jin, Jiming; Kahan, Daniel; Lohmann, Dag; Ma, Xieyao; Mahanama, Sarith; Mocko, David; Nasonova, Olga; Niu, Guo-Yue; Samuelsson, Patrick; Shmakin, Andrey B.; Takata, Kumiko; Verseghy, Diana; Viterbo, Pedro; Xia, Youlong; Xue, Yongkang; Yang, Zong-Lian, 2003, Simulation of high latitude hydrological processes in the Torne_Kalix basin: PILPS phase 2(e). 1: Experiment description and summary inter-comparisons. Global & Planetary Change, 38, 1-30.
Nijssen, Bart; Bowling, Laura C.; Lettenmaier, Dennis P.; Clark, Douglas B.; El Maayar, Mustapha; Essery, Richard; Goers, Sven; Gusev, Yeugeniy M.; Habets, Florence; van den Hurk, Bart; Jin, Jiming; Kahan, Daniel; Lohmann, Dag; Ma, Xieyao; Mahanama, Sarith; Mocko, David; Nasonova, Olga; Niu, Guo-Yue; Samuelsson, Patrick; Shmakin, Andrey B.; Takata, Kumiko; Verseghy, Diana; Viterbo, Pedro; Xia, Youlang; Xue, Yongkang; Yang, Zong-Liang, 2003, Simulation of high latitude hydrological processes in the Torne_Kalix basin: PILPS phase 2(e). 2: Comparison of model results with observations. Global & Planetary Change, 38, 31-53.
Niyogi D., R. A. Pielke Sr., K. Alapaty, J. Eastman, T. Holt, U. C. Mohanty, S. Raman, T. K. Roy, Y. K. Xue, 2003, Challenges of representing land surface processes in weather and climate models over Tropics: Examples over the Indian subcontinent, in Weather and Climate Modeling, Eds. S.V. Singh, Swati Basu & T.N.Krishnamurti, New Age International (P) Limited,Publishers, New Delhi, pp. 132 – 145.
Xue, Yongkang, S. Sun, D. Kahan, Y. Jiao, 2003: The impact of parameterizations in snow physics and interface processes on the simulation of snow cover and runoff at several cold region sites. J. Geophy. Res. 108, D22, 8859, doi: 10.1029/2002JD003174. PP20.
Zhang, D.-L., W.-Z. Zheng, and Yong-Kang Xue, 2003: A numerical study of early summer regional climate and weather over LSA-East: Part I: Model description and verification. Mon. Wea. Rev., 131, 1895-1909.
Zhan, X., Yongkang Xue, G. J. Collatz, 2003: An analytical approach for estimating CO2 and heat fluxes over the Amazonian region. Ecological Modeling. 162, 97-117.
Chou, S. C., C. A. S. Tanajura, Yongkang Xue, C. A. Nobre, 2002: Simulation of the coupled Eta/SSiB model over South America. J. Geophys. Res. 107, D20, 56-1-21.
Goward S.N., Yongkang Xue, K. Czaykowski, 2002: Evaluating Land Surface Moisture Conditions from Remotely Sensed Temperature/Vegetation Index Measurement: an exploration employing the Simplified Simple Biosphere Model. Remote Sensing of Environment. 79, 225-242.
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.
Niyogi, D. S., Yongkang Xue, and S. Raman, 2002: Hydrological feedback in land-atmosphere coupling: Comparison of a tropical and a midlatitudinal regime. J. Hydrometeorology. 3, 39-56.
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., Yongkang 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.
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Slater, A.G., C. A. Schlosser, C. E. Desborough, A.J. Pitman, and others (including Y. Xue): 2001: The representation of snow in land-surface schemes; results from PILPS 2(d). J. Hydrometeorology, 2, 7-25.
Sun S. and Xue Yongkang, 2001: Implementing a new snow scheme in Simplified Simple Biosphere Model (SSiB), Advance in Atmospheric Sciences, 18, 335-354.
Xue, Y., F. J. Zeng, K. Mitchell, and Z. Janjic, E. Rogers, 2001: The impact of land surface processes on the simulation of the U.S. hydrological cycle: A case study of 1993 US flood using the Eta/SSiB regional model. Mon. Wea. Rev. , 129, 2833-2860.
Schlosser C. A., and Collaborators (including Y. Xue), 2000: Simulations of a boreal grassland hydrology at Valdai, Russia: PILPS Phase 2(d). Mon. Wea. Rev., 128, 301-321.
Pitman, A. J., A. Henderson‑Sellers, C. E. Desborough, Z.‑L. Yang, F. Abramopoulos, A. Boone, R. E. Dickinson, N. Gedney, R. Koster, E.Kowalczyk, D. Lettenmaier, X. Liang, J.‑F. Mahfouf, J. Noilhan, J. Polcher, W. Qu, A. Robock, C. Rosenzweig, C. A. Schlosser, A. B. Shmakin, J. Smith, M. Suarez, D. Verseghy, P. Wetzel, E. Wood, Y. Xue, 1999: Key results and implications from phase 1(c) of the Project for Intercomparison of Land‑surface Parameterization Schemes Climate Dynamics, 15 , 673‑684.
Sun, S.F., J.M. Jin, Y. Xue, 1999: A simplified layer snow model for global and regional studies. J. Geophys. Res. 104, D16, 19587-19597.
Weng, H.Y., K.M. Lau, and Y.K. Xue, 1999: Long term variations of summer rainfall over China and its possible link to global sea-surface temperature variability. J. Meteor. Soc. Of Japan, 77, 845-857.
Xue, Y., D.B. Clark, T. Oki, and R.J. Harding, 1999: Biosphere feedback on rainfall, Surface temperature, and runoff in West Africa. Proceedings of the workshop on the West African Monsoon variability and predictability, WMO/TD No. 1003, 39-42.
Xue, Y., H.H. Juang, S.Y. Hong, M. Kanamitsu, and M. Hansen, 1999: Asian monsoon and vegetation interactions. GEWEX newsletter, 9, 8-9.
Xue, Y., 1999: Deforestation and Climate Effects. Proceedings of Forum “Forests and Atmosphere ‑ Water ‑ Soil”, NNA-Reports, 12, 122-124.
Liang S., and Collaborators (including Y. Xue), 1998: The project for intercomparison of land-surface parameterization schemes (PILPS) phase-2(c) Red-Arkansas River basin experiment: 2. Spatial and temporal analysis of energy fluxes. Global & Planetary Change, 19, 137-159.
Lohmann, D., and Collaborators (including Y. Xue), 1998: The project for intercomparison of land-surface parameterization schemes (PILPS) phase-2(c) Red-Arkansas River basin experiment: 3. Spatial and temporal analysis of water fluxes. Global & Planetary Change, 19, 161-179.
Polcher J., B. McAvaney, P. Viterbo, M.-A. Gaertner, A. Hahmann, J.-F. Mahfouf, J. Noilhan, T. Phillips, A. pitman, C.A. Schlosser, J.-P. Schulz, B. Timbal, D. Verseghy, Y. Xue, 1998: A proposal for a general interface between land-surface schemes and general circulation models. Global & Planetary Change, 19, 261-276.
Schulz, J.-P., L. Dumenil, J. Polcher, C.A. Schlosser, and Y. Xue, 1998: Land surface energy and moisture fluxes: comparing three models, J. Appl. meteor., 37, 288‑307.
Wood, E.F., and Collaborators (including Y. Xue), 1998: The project for intercomparison of land-surface parameterizations schemes (PILPS) phase-2(c) Red-Arkansas River basin experiment: 1. Experiment description and summary intercomparisons. Global & Planetary Change, 19, 115-135.
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.
Xue, Y., F.J. Zeng, Y. Ji, K. Mitchell, and Z. Janjic, 1998: The impact of land surface processes and reanalysis data on the U.S. weather prediction. Proceedings of the First WCRP International Conference on Reanalyses, WMO/TD-NO. 876, 243-246.
Xue, Y., F. J. Zeng, C.A. Schlosser, and S. Allen, 1998: A simplified Simple Biosphere Model (SSiB) and its application to land-atmosphere interactions. Chinese Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. 22, 468-480.
Chen, T.H. and Collaborators (including Y. Xue), 1997: Cabauw experimental results from the project for intercommparison of land surface parameterization schemes. J. Climate, 10, 1194-1215.
Fennessy, M.J. and Y. Xue 1997: Impact of vegetation map on GCM seasonal simulations over the United States. Ecological Application,7, 22-33.
Schlosser, C.A., A. Robock, K.Y. Vinnikov, N.A. Speranskaya, and Y. Xue, 1997: 18-year land-surface hydrology model simulations for a midlatitude grassland catchment in Valdai, Russia. Mon. Wea. Rev., 125, 3279-3296.
Xue, Y., 1997: Biosphere feedback on regional climate in tropical north Africa. Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc, 123, B, 1483-1515.
Xue., Y., J. Elbers, F.J. Zeng, and A.J. Dolman, 1997: GCM parameterization for Sahelian land surface processes, 289-297. In HAPEX-Sahel West Central Supersite: Methods, Measurements and Selected Results (eds. P. Kabat, S. Prince, L. Prihodko). Rep 130.HM/07.97. The Winand Staring Center for Integrated land, soil and water research. The Netherlands.
Xue, Y., P.J. Sellers, F.J. Zeng, and C.A. Schlosser, 1997: Comments on “Use of midlatitude soil moisture and meteorological observations to validate soil moisture simulations with biosphere and bucket models”. J. Climate, 10, 374-376.
Chen F., K. Mitchell, J. Schaake, Y. Xue, H.-L. Pan, V. Koren, Q. Duan, M. Ek, and A. Betts, 1996: Modeling of land-surface evaporation by four schemes and comparison with FIFE observations (PILPS). J. Geophy. Res., 101, D3, 7251-7268.
Mahfouf, J.-F., C. Ciret, A. Duchame, P. Irannejad, J. Noilhan, Y. Shao, P. Thornton, Y.Xue, and Z.L. Yang, 1996: Analysis of results from PILPS-RICE workshop, Part III: Transpiration, Global & Planetary Change, 13, 73-88.
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., H.G. Bastable, P. A. Dirmeyer, and P.J. Sellers, 1996a: Sensitivity of simulated surface fluxes to changes in land surface parameterization — a study using ABRACOS data. J. Appl. Meteor., 35, 386-400.
Xue, Y., M.J. Fennessy, and P.J. Sellers, 1996b: Impact of vegetation properties on U.S. summer weather prediction. J. Geophy. Res., 101, D3, 7419-7430.
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., F. J. Zeng, and C.A. Schlosser, 1996c: SSiB and its sensitivity to soil properties — a case study using HAPEX-Mobilhy data. Global & Planetary Change, 13, 183-194.
Wetzel, P.J., X. Liang, P. Irannejad, A. Boone, J. Nolihan, Y. Shao, C. Skely, Y. Xue, and Z.-L. Yang, 1996: Modeling vadose zone liquid water fluxes: infiltration, runoff, drainage, interflow. Global & Planetary Change, 13, 57-72.
Robock, A., K.V. Vinnikov, C.A. Schlosser, N.A. Speranskaya, and Y. Xue, 1995: Use of Russian soil moisture and meteorological observations to validate soil moisture simulations with biosphere and bucket models. J. Climate, 8, 15-35.
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.
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. and P. J. Sellers, 1993: A brief review of Simple Biosphere Model (SiB). In Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Modeling, (eds. Goodchild, M.F., Parks, B.O.,Steyaert, L.T.), Oxford Univ. Press, 290-295.
Xue, Y., 1993: The influence and mechanisms of biosphere feedback on African climate. In Macroscale modeling of the hydrosphere, (ed. Wilkinson, W.B.), International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), publication No. 214, 119-124.
Xue, Y., 1991: A two-dimensional coupled Biosphere-Atmosphere model and its application. Adv. in Atmos. Sci., 8, 447-458.
Xue, Y., P. J. Sellers, J.L. Kinter III, and J. Shukla, 1991: A simplified biosphere model for global climate studies. J. Climate, 4, 345-364.
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.
Liou, K.N. and Y. Xue, 1988: Exploration of the remote sounding of infrared cooling rates due to water vapor. Meteor. Atmos. Phys., 38, 131-139.
Wei, C., Y. Xue, X. Zhu, and S. Zou, 1984: Determination of atmospheric precipitate water and humidity profiles by a ground-based 1.35 cm radiometer. Adv. in Atmos Sci., 1 (1), 119-127.
Xue, Y. and H. Lin, 1984: A simultaneous numerical solution for ground-based microwave remote sensing of temperature and water vapor profiles in 5 mm oxygen and 1.348 cm water vapor bands. ACTA Meteorologia Sinica. 42 (4), 423-430, (in Chinese).
Xue, Y., R. Huang, and X. Zhou, 1983: The principle and numerical tests of remote sounding of water vapor profiles with statistics method. China Space Science and Technology, 3, 12-16.
Xue, Y., R. Huang, and X. Zhou, 1983: Inversion method of determining vertical profile of water vapor using ground-based sensing. Scientia Atmospherica Sinica, 7 (2), 115-124.
Xue, Y., R. Huang, and X. Zhou, 1982: Application of Monte Carlo method to remote sensing humidity profile by atmospheric microwave emission. Scientia Sinica (Series B), XXV (6), 646-657.