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Xu, Yangyang Associate Professor
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- Faculty Affiliate, Energy Institute, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)
- Associate Professor, Atmospheric Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences
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Wang, F., Xu, Y., Patel, P. N., Gautam, R., Gao, M., Liu, C., ... McElroy, M. B.
(2024).
Arctic amplification-induced decline in West and South Asia dust warrants stronger antidesertification toward carbon neutrality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
121(14), e2317444121.
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Xiao, X., Liu, R., Yu, Y., Zhang, Z., Knibbs, L. D., Jalaludin, B., ... Yin, C.
(2023).
Evidence of interactive effects of late-pregnancy exposure to air pollution and extreme temperature on preterm birth in China: a nationwide study. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS.
18(9), 094017-094017.
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Kim, Y., Li, D., Xu, Y., Zhang, Y., Li, X., Muhlenforth, L., Xue, S., & Brown, R.
(2023).
Heat vulnerability and street-level outdoor thermal comfort in the city of Houston: Application of google street view image derived SVFs. Urban Climate.
51, 101617-101617.
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Lei, Y., Wang, Z., Wang, D., Zhang, X., Che, H., Yue, X. u., ... Xu, Y.
(2023).
Co-benefits of carbon neutrality in enhancing and stabilizing solar and wind energy. Nature Climate Change.
13(7), 693-+.
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Gao, M., Wang, F., Ding, Y., Wu, Z., Xu, Y., Lu, X., ... McElroy, M. B.
(2023).
Large-scale climate patterns offer preseasonal hints on the co-occurrence of heat wave and O3 pollution in China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
120(26), e2218274120.
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Shao, Z., Wang, H., Geng, Y., Diao, C., Xu, Y., & Zheng, X.
(2023).
East Asian summer monsoon response to anthropogenic aerosols redistribution: contrasting 1950-1980 and 1980-2010 to understand the role of non-Asian forcing. 62(3), 2187-2205.
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Wu, X., Feng, Y., He, C., Kumar, R., Ge, C., Painemal, D., & Xu, Y.
(2023).
Implementing and Improving CBMZ-MAM3 Chemistry and Aerosol Modules in the Regional Climate Model WRF-CAM5: An Evaluation over the Western US and Eastern North Pacific. Atmosphere.
14(7), 1122-1122.
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Diao, C., & Xu, Y.
(2022).
Reassessing the relative role of anthropogenic aerosols and natural decadal variability in driving the mid-twentieth century global "cooling": a focus on the latitudinal gradient of tropospheric temperature. Climate Dynamics.
59(9-10), 2655-2681.
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Fiore, A. M., Milly, G. P., Hancock, S. E., Quinones, L., Bowden, J. H., Helstrom, E., ... Xu, Y.
(2022).
Characterizing Changes in Eastern US Pollution Events in a Warming World. 127(9),
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Xiao, X., Xu, Y., Zhang, X., Wang, F., Lu, X., Cai, Z., Brasseur, G., & Gao, M.
(2022).
Amplified Upward Trend of the Joint Occurrences of Heat and Ozone Extremes in China over 2013-20. Bulletin of The American Meteorological Society - (BAMS).
103(5), E1330-E1342.
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Ramanathan, V., Xu, Y., & Versaci, A.
(2022).
Modelling human-natural systems interactions with implications for twenty-first-century warming. Nature Sustainability.
5(3), 263-+.
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Da, Y., Xu, Y., & McCarl, B.
(2022).
Effects of Surface Ozone and Climate on Historical (1980-2015) Crop Yields in the United States: Implication for Mid-21st Century Projection. 81(2), 355-378.
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Banks, A., Kooperman, G. J., & Xu, Y.
(2022).
Meteorological Influences on Anthropogenic PM2.5 in Future Climates: Species Level Analysis in the Community Earth System Model v2. 10(2),
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Lockley, A., Xu, Y., Tilmes, S., Sugiyama, M., Rothman, D., & Hindes, A.
(2022).
18 Politically relevant solar geoengineering scenarios. 4, 18127-18127.
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Li, X., Zhang, Y., Li, D., Xu, Y., & Brown, R. D.
(2022).
Ameliorating cold stress in a hot climate: Effect of Winter Storm Uri on residents of subsidized housing neighborhoods. BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT.
209, 108646-108646.
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Cheng, W., MacMartin, D. G., Kravitz, B., Visioni, D., Bednarz, E. M., Xu, Y., ... Deng, X.
(2022).
Changes in Hadley circulation and intertropical convergence zone under strategic stratospheric aerosol geoengineering. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science.
5(1), 32.
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Dreyfus, G. B., Xu, Y., Shindell, D. T., Zaelke, D., & Ramanathan, V.
(2022).
Mitigating climate disruption in time: A self-consistent approach for avoiding both near-term and long-term global warming. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
119(22), e2123536119.
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Yao, B., Xu, Y., Dessler, A. E., & Liu, C.
(2022).
Characterizing unforced decadal climate variability in global climate model large ensembles. 58(1-2), 211-222.
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Gul, C., Kang, S., Puppala, S. P., Wu, X., He, C., Xu, Y., ... Dubache, G.
(2022).
Measurement of light-absorbing particles in surface snow of central and western Himalayan glaciers: spatial variability, radiative impacts, and potential source regions. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP).
22(13), 8725-8737.
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Xu, Y., Lin, L., Diao, C., Wang, Z., Bates, S., & Arblaster, J.
(2022).
The Response of Precipitation Extremes to the Twentieth-and Twenty-First-Century Global Temperature Change in a Comprehensive Suite of CESM1 Large Ensemble Simulation: Revisiting the Role of Forcing Agents Vs. the Role of Forcing Magnitudes. 9(1),
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Wang, Z., Feng, J., Diao, C., Li, Y., Lin, L., & Xu, Y.
(2021).
Reduction in European anthropogenic aerosols and the weather conditions conducive to PM2.5 pollution in North China: a potential global teleconnection pathway. 16(10), 104054-104054.
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Xu, Y., Lin, L., Tilmes, S., Dagon, K., Xia, L., Diao, C., ... Burnell, L.
(2021).
Climate engineering to mitigate the projected 21st-century terrestrial drying of the Americas: a direct comparison of carbon capture and sulfur injection
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Hanna, R., Abdulla, A., Xu, Y., & Victor, D. G.
(2021).
Emergency deployment of direct air capture as a response to the climate crisis. Nature Communications.
12(1), 368.
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Yan, Y., Xu, Y., & Yue, S.
(2021).
A high-spatial-resolution dataset of human thermal stress indices over South and East Asia. Scientific data.
8(1), 229.
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Ocko, I. B., Sun, T., Shindell, D., Oppenheimer, M., Hristov, A. N., Pacala, S. W., ... Hamburg, S. P.
(2021).
Acting rapidly to deploy readily available methane mitigation measures by sector can immediately slow global warming. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS.
16(5), 054042-054042.
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Diao, C., Xu, Y., & Xie, S.
(2021).
Anthropogenic aerosol effects on tropospheric circulation and sea surface temperature (1980-2020): separating the role of zonally asymmetric forcings. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP).
21(24), 18499-18518.
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Gul, C., Mahapatra, P. S., Kang, S., Singh, P. K., Wu, X., He, C., ... Puppala, S. P.
(2021).
Black carbon concentration in the central Himalayas: Impact on glacier melt and potential source contribution. Environmental Pollution.
275, 116544-116544.
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Wang, Z., Lin, L., Xu, Y., Che, H., Zhang, X., Zhang, H., ... Xie, B.
(2021).
Incorrect Asian aerosols affecting the attribution and projection of regional climate change in CMIP6 models. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science.
4(1), 2.
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Chen, J., Cui, H., Xu, Y., & Ge, Q.
(2021).
Long-term temperature and sea-level rise stabilization before and beyond 2100: Estimating the additional climate mitigation contribution from China's recent 2060 carbon neutrality pledge. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS.
16(7), 074032-074032.
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Wang, H., Xie, S., Zheng, X., Kosaka, Y. u., Xu, Y., & Geng, Y.
(2020).
Dynamics of Southern Hemisphere Atmospheric Circulation Response to Anthropogenic Aerosol Forcing. Geophysical Research Letters.
47(19),
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Feng, W., Wang, M., Zhang, Y., Dai, X., Liu, X., & Xu, Y.
(2020).
Intraseasonal variation and future projection of atmospheric diffusion conditions conducive to extreme haze formation over eastern China. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters.
13(4), 346-355.
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Xu, Y., Wu, X., Kumar, R., Barth, M., Diao, C., Gao, M., ... Meehl, G. A.
(2020).
Substantial Increase in the Joint Occurrence and Human Exposure of Heatwave and High-PM Hazards Over South Asia in the Mid-21st Century. 1(2),
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Chen, F., Chen, S., Zhang, X. u., Chen, J., Wang, X., Gowan, E. J., ... Liu, J.
(2020).
Asian dust-storm activity dominated by Chinese dynasty changes since 2000 BP. Nature Communications.
11(1), 992.
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Hanna, R., Xu, Y., & Victor, D. G.
(2020).
After COVID-19, green investment must deliver jobs to get political traction. Nature.
582(7811), 178-180.
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Xu, Y., Lin, L., Tilmes, S., Dagon, K., Xia, L., Diao, C., ... Burnell, L.
(2020).
Climate engineering to mitigate the projected 21st-century terrestrial drying of the Americas: a direct comparison of carbon capture and sulfur injection. Earth System Dynamics.
11(3), 673-695.
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Chen, J., Cui, H., Xu, Y., & Ge, Q.
(2020).
An Investigation of Parameter Sensitivity of Minimum Complexity Earth Simulator. Atmosphere.
11(1), 95-95.
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Wu, X., Xu, Y., Kumar, R., & Barth, M.
(2019).
Separating Emission and Meteorological Drivers ofMid-21st-Century Air Quality Changes in IndiaBased on Multiyear Global-RegionalChemistry-Climate Simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Atmospheres.
124(23), 13420-13438.
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Feng, R., Otto-Bliesner, B. L., Xu, Y., Brad, E., Fletcher, T., & Ballantyne, A.
(2019).
Contributions of aerosol-cloud interactions to mid-Piacenzian seasonally sea ice-free Arctic Ocean. 46(16), 9920-9929.
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Chen, H., Wang, H., Sun, J., Xu, Y., & Yin, Z.
(2019).
Anthropogenic fine particulate matter pollution will be exacerbated in eastern China due to 21st century GHG warming. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP).
19(1), 233-243.
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Lin, L., Gettelman, A., Xu, Y., Wu, C., Wang, Z., Rosenbloom, N., Bates, S. C., & Dong, W.
(2019).
CAM6 simulation of mean and extreme precipitation over Asia: sensitivity to upgraded physical parameterizations and higher horizontal resolution. Geoscientific Model Development.
12(8), 3773-3793.
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Lin, L., Xu, Y., Wang, Z., Diao, C., Dong, W., & Xie, S.
(2018).
Changes in Extreme Rainfall Over India and China Attributed to Regional Aerosol-Cloud Interaction During the Late 20th Century Rapid Industrialization. 45(15), 7857-7865.
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Lin, L., Wang, Z., Xu, Y., Fu, Q., & Dong, W.
(2018).
Larger Sensitivity of Precipitation Extremes to Aerosol Than Greenhouse Gas Forcing in CMIP5 Models. 123(15), 8062-8073.
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Lin, L., Wang, Z., Xu, Y., Zhang, X., Zhang, H., & Dong, W.
(2018).
Additional Intensification of Seasonal Heat and Flooding Extreme Over China in a 2C Warmer World Compared to 1.5C. 6(7), 968-978.
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Xu, Y., & Lamarque, J.
(2018).
Isolating the Meteorological Impact of 21st Century GHG Warming on the Removal and Atmospheric Loading of Anthropogenic Fine Particulate Matter Pollution at Global Scale. 6(3), 428-440.
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Xu, Y., & Hu, A.
(2018).
How Would the Twenty-First-Century Warming Influence Pacific Decadal Variability and Its Connection to North American Rainfall: Assessment Based on a Revised Procedure for the IPO/PDO. JOURNAL OF CLIMATE.
31(4), 1547-1563.
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O'Neill, B. C., Done, J. M., Gettelman, A., Lawrence, P., Lehner, F., Lamarque, J., ... Levis, S.
(2018).
The Benefits of Reduced Anthropogenic Climate changE (BRACE): a synthesis. Climatic Change: an interdisciplinary, international journal devoted to the description, causes and implications of climatic change.
146(3-4), 287-301.
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Xu, Y., Lamarque, J., & Sanderson, B. M.
(2018).
The importance of aerosol scenarios in projections of future heat extremes. Climatic Change: an interdisciplinary, international journal devoted to the description, causes and implications of climatic change.
146(3-4), 393-406.
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Xu, Y., Ramanathan, V., & Victor, D. G.
(2018).
Global warming will happen faster than we think. Nature.
564(7734), 30-32.
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Lin, L., Gettelman, A., Fu, Q., & Xu, Y.
(2018).
Simulated differences in 21st century aridity due to different scenarios of greenhouse gases and aerosols. Climatic Change: an interdisciplinary, international journal devoted to the description, causes and implications of climatic change.
146(3-4), 407-422.
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Sanderson, B. M., Xu, Y., Tebaldi, C., Wehner, M., O'Neill, B., Jahn, A., ... Lamarque, J. F.
(2017).
Community climate simulations to assess avoided impacts in 1.5 and 2 C futures. 8(3), 827-847.
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Xu, Y., & Ramanathan, V.
(2017).
Well below 2 C: Mitigation strategies for avoiding dangerous to catastrophic climate changes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
114(39), 10315-10323.
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Liu, J., Rhland, K. M., Chen, J., Xu, Y., Chen, S., Chen, Q., ... Smol, J. P.
(2017).
Aerosol-weakened summer monsoons decrease lake fertilization on the Chinese Loess Plateau. Nature Climate Change.
7(3), 190-+.
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Xu, Y., & Lin, L.
(2017).
Pattern scaling based projections for precipitation and potential evapotranspiration: sensitivity to composition of GHGs and aerosols forcing. Climatic Change: an interdisciplinary, international journal devoted to the description, causes and implications of climatic change.
140(3-4), 635-647.
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Wang, Z., Lin, L., Yang, M., Xu, Y., & Li, J.
(2017).
Disentangling fast and slow responses of the East Asian summer monsoon to reflecting and absorbing aerosol forcings. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP).
17(18), 11075-11088.
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Wang, Z., Lin, L., Zhang, X., Zhang, H., Liu, L., & Xu, Y.
(2017).
Scenario dependence of future changes in climate extremes under 1.5C and 2C global warming. Scientific Reports.
7(1), 46432.
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Wang, Z., Lin, L., Yang, M., & Xu, Y.
(2016).
The effect of future reduction in aerosol emissions on climate extremes in China. Climate Dynamics.
47(9-10), 2885-2899.
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Lin, L., Wang, Z., Xu, Y., & Fu, Q.
(2016).
Sensitivity of precipitation extremes to radiative forcing of greenhouse gases and aerosols. 43(18), 9860-9868.
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Lin, L., Gettelman, A., Xu, Y., & Fu, Q.
(2016).
Simulated responses of terrestrial aridity to black carbon and sulfate aerosols. 121(2), 785-794.
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Xu, Y., Ramanathan, V., & Washington, W. M.
(2016).
Observed high-altitude warming and snow cover retreat over Tibet and the Himalayas enhanced by black carbon aerosols. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP).
16(3), 1303-1315.
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Pendergrass, A. G., Lehner, F., Sanderson, B. M., & Xu, Y.
(2015).
Does extreme precipitation intensity depend on the emissions scenario?. Geophysical Research Letters.
42(20), 8767-8774.
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Xu, Y., Ramanathan, V., & Washington, W. M.
(2015).
Observed high-altitude warming and snow cover retreat over Tibet and the Himalayas enhanced by black carbon aerosols. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions.
15(13), 19079-19109.
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Xu, Y., & Xie, S.
(2015).
Ocean mediation of tropospheric response to reflecting and absorbing aerosols. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP).
15(10), 5827-5833.
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Xu, Y., Bahadur, R., Zhao, C., & Leung, L. R.
(2013).
Estimating the radiative forcing of carbonaceous aerosols over California based on satellite and ground observations. 118(19), 11148-11160.
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Hu, A., Xu, Y., Tebaldi, C., Washington, W. M., & Ramanathan, V.
(2013).
Mitigation of short-lived climate pollutants slows sea-level rise. Nature Climate Change.
3(8), 730-734.
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Xu, Y., Zaelke, D., Velders, G., & Ramanathan, V.
(2013).
The role of HFCs in mitigating 21st century climate change. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP).
13(12), 6083-6089.
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Bahadur, R., Praveen, P. S., Xu, Y., & Ramanathan, V.
(2012).
Solar absorption by elemental and brown carbon determined from spectral observations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
109(43), 17366-17371.
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Xu, Y., & Ramanathan, V.
(2012).
Latitudinally asymmetric response of global surface temperature: Implications for regional climate change. 39(13),
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Ramanathan, V., & Xu, Y.
(2010).
The Copenhagen Accord for limiting global warming: criteria, constraints, and available avenues. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
107(18), 8055-8062.
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Xu, Y., Liu, S., Hu, F., Ma, N., Wang, Y., Shi, Y., & Jia, H.
(2009).
Urbanization, Layer Structure of boundary, at The Characteristics of underlying Layer, Profile, Aerodynamic the Parameter. 33(4), 859-867.
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Diao, C., & Xu, Y.
Attribution of the relative contributions of anthropogenic aerosols and decadal variability to the mid-20th century global cooling: a focus on tropospheric temperature latitudinal gradient
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Xiao, X., Liu, R., Yu, Y., Zhang, Z., Knibbs, L. D., Jalaludin, B., ... Yin, C.
Independent and Combined Effects of Late-Pregnancy Exposure to Air Pollution and Extreme Temperature on Preterm Birth in China: A Nationwide Cohort Study
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Wang, F., Xu, Y., Patel, P. N., Gautam, R., Gao, M., Liu, C., ... McElroy, M. B.
(2024).
Arctic amplification-induced decline in West and South Asia dust warrants stronger antidesertification toward carbon neutrality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
121(14), e2317444121.
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institutional repository document
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Xu, Y., & Ramanathan, V.
(2023).
Amplification of Future Warming Trends due to Feedbacks between Adaptation and Mitigation
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Xu, Y., Ribar, N. P., Schade, G. W., Lockley, A. J., Zhang, Y. G., Sachnik, J., ... Velders, G.
(2023).
Possible Mitigation of Global Cooling due to Supervolcanic Eruption via Intentional Release of Fluorinated Gases
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Wu, X., Feng, Y., He, C., Kumar, R., Ge, C., Painemal, D., & Xu, Y.
(2023).
Implementing and Improving CBMZ-MAM3 Chemistry and Aerosol Modules in the Regional Climate Model WRF-CAM5: An Evaluation over the Western US and Eastern North Pacific
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Gul, C., Kang, S., Puppala, S. P., Wu, X., He, C., Xu, Y., ... Dubache, G.
(2021).
Measurement of Light absorbing particles in surface snow of central and western Himalayan glaciers: spatial variability, radiative impacts, and potential source regions
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Fiore, A. M., Milly, G. P., Quiones, L., Bowden, J., Hancock, S. E., Helstrom, E., ... Xu, Y.
(2021).
Characterizing Changes in Eastern U.S. Pollution Events in a Warming World
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Diao, C., Xu, Y., & Xie, S.
(2021).
Anthropogenic Aerosol effects on Tropospheric Circulation and Sea Surface Temperature (19802020): Separating the role of Zonally Asymmetric Forcings
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Lockley, A. J., Xu, Y., & Tilmes, S.
(2020).
Politically relevant geoengineering scenarios
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Xu, Y., Lin, L., Tilmes, S., Dagon, K., Xia, L., Diao, C., ... Burnell, L.
(2020).
Climate engineering to mitigate the projected 21st-century terrestrial drying of the Americas: Carbon Capture vs. Sulfur Injection?
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Lin, L., Gettelman, A., Xu, Y., Wu, C., Wang, Z., & Dong, W.
(2019).
CAM6 simulation of mean and extreme precipitation over Asia: Sensitivity to upgraded physical parameterizations and higher horizontal resolution
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Chen, H., Wang, H., Sun, J., Xu, Y., & Yin, Z.
(2018).
Anthropogenic Fine Particulate Matter Pollution Will Be Exacerbated in Eastern China Due to 21st-Century GHG Warming
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Wang, Z., Lin, L., Yang, M., Xu, Y., & Li, J.
(2017).
Disentangling fast and slow responses of the East Asian summer monsoon to reflecting and absorbing aerosol forcings
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Sanderson, B. M., Xu, Y., Tebaldi, C., Wehner, M., O'Neill, B., Jahn, A., ... Lamarque, J. F.
(2017).
Community Climate Simulations to assess avoided impacts in 1.5C and 2C futures
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Xu, Y., & Xie, S.
(2015).
Ocean mediation of tropospheric response to reflecting and absorbing aerosols
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Xu, Y., Zaelke, D., Velders, G., & Ramanathan, V.
(2012).
Avoiding HFC growth is critical for keeping global warming below 2 C during the 21st century
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Diao, C., Xu, Y., Hu, A., & Wang, Z.
Contrasting the roles of regional anthropogenic aerosols from the western and eastern Hemispheres in driving the 19802020 Pacific multi-decadal variations
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Xu, Y., & Ramanathan, V.
(2023).
Amplification of Future Warming Trends due to Feedbacks between Adaptation and Mitigation
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- ATMO321 Comp App Atmos Science Instructor
- ATMO324 Phys & Regnl Climatology Instructor
- ATMO484 Internship Instructor
- ATMO491 Research Instructor
- ATMO602 Atmos Physics I Instructor
- ATMO631 Climate Modeling Instructor
- ATMO681 Seminar Instructor
- ATMO691 Research Instructor
Background
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- Ph.D. in Earth Sciences, University of California, San Diego - (San Diego, California, United States) 2014
- M.S. in Oceanography, University of California, San Diego - (San Diego, California, United States) 2011
- B.S. in Atmospheric Sciences, Peking University - (Beijing, Beijing, China) 2008
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