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Shang-Ping Xie

Shang-Ping Xie

Chinese-born scientist (born 1963)


Shang-Ping Xie[lower-alpha 1] is a climatology and oceanography researcher who holds the Roger Revelle Chair at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Known best for his research on interaction between the world's oceans and atmosphere and on El Niño–Southern Oscillation, Xie is noted as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate.[2]

Early life and education

Xie was born in Quzhou in 1963.[3] He entered university after the Cultural Revolution had ended, and studied oceanography, though he had never seen the ocean before.[4] His education includes:[5]

He was a visiting scientist to Princeton University from 1991 to 1993, and a research associate for the University of Washington from 1993 to 1994.[5]

Career

Xie had been employed at the University of Hawaiʻi as a professor of meteorology until he joined the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California, San Diego in 2012 as the inaugural Roger Revelle Chair,[lower-alpha 2][7] a title named for pioneering researcher Roger Revelle,[8] established with an endowment from the Revelle family.[9] While at Hawaiʻi, he was faculty in the International Pacific Research Center of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology.[10]

In April 2016, as a Scripps professor, Xie returned to the University of Washington as an endowed lecturer—he gave a lecture on El Niño in the Graduate Students' Distinguished Visiting Lecture series.[11]

Research

In 2013, a study co-authored by Xie and published in Nature suggested that the slowdown in global warming was tied to cooling in parts of the Pacific Ocean.[12][13] Further research into the slowdown was published in 2015, in the journal Nature Climate Change.[14][15] Xie has also published research on modeling the role of human activity to global warming; a 2015 co-authored paper in Nature Geoscience modeled the evolution of global temperature, creating a new method of tracking anthropogenic global warming.[16][17] The modelling was reported on again in 2016, when Xie and others modelled human activities' impact on warming.[18] Other papers on climate change have included collaboration with authors affiliated with Duke University and University of Wisconsin–Madison.[19][20] In 2019, Xie published research with scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where they modelled Hadley cells to predict changes in the monsoon season of parts of Asia.[21][22] In a 2022 article published by the World Economic Forum and The Conversation and co-authored by Xie, the authors claim that tropical cyclones have been increasing in intensity over time.[23]

In 2016, Xie was the organizer of a special issue of Advances in Atmospheric Sciences.[lower-alpha 3][24]

Xie has been included as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate in the field of geosciences.[25]

Awards

Notes

  1. Simplified Chinese: 谢尚平; traditional Chinese: 謝尚平; Japanese: しゃ しょうへい[1]
  2. In full: Roger Revelle Chair in Environmental Science
  3. He was also named a fellow of the society.[26]

References

  1. "Shang-Ping Xie". International Pacific Research Center. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
  2. "Bio". Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
  3. Sobel, Adam (June 8, 2021). "Episode 10: Shang-Ping Xie". Deep Convection. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
  4. Monroe, Robert (May 3, 2012). "First Roger Revelle Chair to Join Scripps". Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
  5. Robbins, Gary (May 4, 2012). "SIO recruits a top climate scientist". San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
  6. "Scripps gets $2.5 million gift". San Diego Union-Tribune. May 22, 2007. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
  7. "Graduate Students' Distinguished Visiting Lecture". Department of Atmospheric Sciences (University of Washington). Retrieved December 26, 2023.
  8. Kosaka, Yu; Xie, Shang-Ping (August 28, 2013) [September 19 issue date]. "Recent global-warming hiatus tied to equatorial Pacific surface cooling". Nature. 501 (7467): 403–407. doi:10.1038/nature12534. hdl:10125/33072. ISSN 1476-4687.
  9. Multiple news sources:
  10. Dai, Aiguo; Fyfe, John C.; Xie, Shang-Ping; Dai, Xingang (April 13, 2015) [June issue date]. "Decadal modulation of global surface temperature by internal climate variability". Nature Climate Change. 5 (6): 555–559. doi:10.1038/nclimate2605. ISSN 1758-6798.
  11. Kosaka, Yu; Xie, Shang-Ping (July 18, 2016) [September issue date]. "The tropical Pacific as a key pacemaker of the variable rates of global warming". Nature Geoscience. 9 (9): 669–673. doi:10.1038/ngeo2770. ISSN 1752-0908.
  12. Multiple news sources:
  13. Zhou, Wenyu; Xie, Shang-Ping; Yang, Da (October 21, 2019) [November issue date]. "Enhanced equatorial warming causes deep-tropical contraction and subtropical monsoon shift". Nature Climate Change. 9 (11): 834–839. doi:10.1038/s41558-019-0603-9. ISSN 1758-6798.
  14. Chao, Julie (November 13, 2019). "Climate Change Expected to Shift Location of East Asian Monsoons". Berkeley Lab. Retrieved December 26, 2023. Source adapted by Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
  15. Mei, Wei; Xie, Shang-Ping (December 6, 2022). "Tropical cyclones are increasing in intensity, according to 30 years of research". World Economic Forum. Retrieved December 26, 2023.
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