Shang-Ping Xie
CV in English/ Japanese/ Chinese
Research Interest:
My research centers on ocean-atmosphere interactions and their role in climate formation, variability, and change. The ocean's importance for climate is evident from the facts that most of solar radiation absorption occurs at the Earth surface and that the ocean occupies seventy percent of the Earth surface. Examples of ocean-atmosphere interaction effects are abundant, including the spontaneous generation of El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO), and the northward-displaced tropical rain band called the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) in the eastern Pacific and Atlantic. My research contributes to answering such fundamental questions as what determines the spatial distributions of climate, why it varies in time, how preferred patterns of climate variability form, and how predictable climate is.
I carry out both diagnostic and modeling studies, using observations and numerical models of the ocean, atmosphere, and their coupled system. Geographically, my work covers all three major oceans of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian, and monsoons of Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Our research has led to the formulation of the wind-evaporation-sea surface temperature (WES) feedback mechanism and the Indian Ocean capacitor effect, and the discovery of what Science magazine called the longest island wake of the world. The WES feedback is important for the northward displacement of the ITCZ and the tropical meridional mode. For more information, please see narrative research highlights.
Selected Publications
Xie, S.-P., K. Hu, J. Hafner, H. Tokinaga, Y. Du, G. Huang, and T. Sampe, 2009: Indian Ocean capacitor effect on Indo-western Pacific climate during the summer following El Nino. J. Climate, in press. [pdf]
Minobe, S., A. Kuwano-Yoshida, N. Komori, S.-P. Xie, and R.J. Small, 2008: Influence of the Gulf Stream on the troposphere. Nature, 452, 206-209. [Cover & Abstract]
Xie, S.-P., T. Miyama, Y. Wang, H. Xu, S.P. de Szoeke, R.J. Small, K.J. Richards, T. Mochizuki, and T. Awaji, 2007: A regional ocean-atmosphere model for eastern Pacific climate: Towards reducing tropical biases. J. Climate, 20, 1504-1522. [pdf]
Xie, S.-P., H. Xu, N.H. Saji, Y. Wang, and W.T. Liu, 2006: Role of narrow mountains in large-scale organization of Asian monsoon convection. J. Climate, 19, 3420-3429. [pdf]
Xie, S.-P., H. Annamalai, F.A. Schott and J.P. McCreary, 2002: Structure and mechanisms of South Indian Ocean climate variability. J. Climate, 15, 864-878. [pdf]
Xie, S.-P., W.T. Liu, Q. Liu and M. Nonaka, 2001: Far-reaching effects of the Hawaiian Islands on the Pacific Ocean-atmosphere system. Science, 292, 2057-2060. [pdf] >>> Press Coverage
Xie, S.-P., T. Kunitani, A. Kubokawa, M. Nonaka and S. Hosoda, 2000: Interdecadal thermocline variability in the North Pacific for 1958-1997: A GCM simulation. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 30, 2798-2813. [pdf]
Xie, S.-P. and Y. Tanimoto, 1998: A pan-Atlantic decadal climate oscillation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 2185-2188. [pdf]
Xie, S.-P., 1994: On the genesis of the equatorial annual cycle. J. Climate, 7, 2008-2013. [pdf]
Xie, S.-P. and S.G.H. Philander, 1994: A coupled ocean-atmosphere model of relevance to the ITCZ in the eastern Pacific. Tellus, 46A, 340-350. [pdf]
Review Articles
Schott, F.A., S.-P. Xie, and J.P. McCreary, 2008: Indian Ocean circulation and climate variability. Rev. Geophys., in press, doi:10.1029/2007RG000245. [pdf]
Chang, P., T. Yamagata, P. Schopf, S. K. Behera, J.A. Carton, W. S. Kessler, G. Meyers, T. Qu, F.A. Schott, S. Shetye, and S.-P. Xie, 2006: Climate fluctuations of tropical coupled system: The role of ocean dynamics. J. Climate, 19, 5122-5174. [pdf]
Xie, S.-P., 2004: Satellite observations of cool ocean-atmosphere interaction. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 85, 195-208. [Download] >>> BAMS cover
Xie, S.-P., 2004: The shape of continents, air-sea interaction, and the rising branch of the Hadley circulation. In The Hadley Circulation: Past, Present and Future, H. F. Diaz and R. S. Bradley (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 121-152. [pdf]
Wang, C., S.-P. Xie, and J. A. Carton, 2004: A global survey of ocean-atmosphere and climate variability. In Earth Climate: The Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction, C. Wang, S.-P. Xie, and J.A. Carton (eds.), Geophysical Monograph, 147, AGU, Washington D.C., 1-19. [pdf]
Xie, S.-P. and J.A. Carton, 2004: Tropical Atlantic variability: Patterns, mechanisms, and impacts. In Earth Climate: The Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction, C. Wang, S.-P. Xie and J.A. Carton (eds.), Geophysical Monograph, 147, AGU, Washington D.C., 121-142. [pdf]
Previous Affiliations
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Japan, 1994-1999
Research Associate, JISAO, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1993-1994
Visiting Scientist, AOS Program, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1991-1993
Education
D.Sc., Tohoku University, Japan, 1991
M.Sc., Tohoku University, Japan, 1988
Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China, 1984-85
B.Sc., Shandong College of Oceanography, China, 1984
Honors
China Ministry of Education Oversea Scholarship, 1985-1986
Japan Ministry of Education (Monbusho) Scholarship, 1986-1991
The Yamamoto-Shyono Medal for the 1994 Tellus paper on coupled ocean-atmospheric modeling of the Pacific ITCZ, Meteorological Society of Japan, 1996
Ocean University of China President's Special Award for Outstanding Collaborative Research, 2001
The Society Medal for contributions to understanding air-sea interaction and its role in climate formation and variability, Meteorological Society of Japan, 2002
Professional Service
Councilor, the Oceanographical Society of Japan, 2007-
Member, NOAA Climate Prediction Program for the Americas (CPPA) Science Panel, 2006-
Member, US CLIVAR Process Studies and Model Improvement Panel, 2005-07
Member, US CLIVAR Pan American Implementation Panel, 2000-2004
Member, PIRATA Scientific Steering Committee, 2001-
Contributor, United Nations Intergovenmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Assessment Report
Session convener, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting (2005, 2002), AGU Spring Meeting (2004), AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting (2006), AGU Western Pacific Geophysical Meeting (2006, 2004, 2000), Meteorological Society of Japan Spring Meeting (2006, 2004)
Proposal review for US NASA, NSF, NOAA, DOE, NOPP; NSF of China, Chiese Academy of Sciences; UK Natural Environment Research Council
Editorial Service
Editor, Journal of Climate, 2006 -
Editor, Journal of Meteorological Society of Japan (-->Free access to journal papers), 2000-2006
Volume editor, AGU Geophysical Monograph (Vol. 147, pp. 414) entitled "Earth Climate: The Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction", 2003-2004 ( Table of Contents and Preface + Book cover)
Peer reviewer for journals (Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, Atmosphere-Ocean, Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Science Letters, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Climate Dynamics, Climate of the Past, Continental
Shelf Research, Deep Sea Research (Part I and Part II), Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, Geophysical
and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, Geophysical Research Letters, J. Applied
Meteorology, J. Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, J. Atmospheric Sciences,
J. Climate, J. Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, J. Geophysical Research-Oceans, J. Marine Systems, J.
Meteorological Society of Japan, J. Physical Oceanography, J. Oceanography,
Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, Monthly Weather Review,
Nature, Nature Geoscience, Oceanologica Acta, Ocean
Modeling, Ocean Science, Paleoceanography, Progress in Oceanography, Quarterly J. of Royal
Meteorological Society, Science, Theoretical and Applied Climatology);
book chapters (Elsevier Science, Kluwer Academic Publishers)
