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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
  • 2019 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Lixin Wu is a researcher affiliated with the Ocean University of China. Their work primarily focuses on the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Within these broad areas, Wu's research spans subfields including Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Ecology.

Their scholarly output covers a range of topics related to climate and environmental processes. The main topics of Wu's research include Climate variability and models, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Wu has authored and coauthored numerous papers, some of the recent publications include:

  • "Climate impacts of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation on South America," 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Changing El Niño-Southern Oscillation in a warming climate," 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "An Unprecedented Set of High-Resolution Earth System Simulations for Understanding Multiscale Interactions in Climate Variability and Change," 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Projected Future Changes in Tropical Cyclones Using the CMIP6 HighResMIP Multimodel Ensemble," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Increased ENSO sea surface temperature variability under four IPCC emission scenarios," 2022, Nature Climate Change

The frequent collaborators in Wu's work include Wenju Cai, Zhao Jing, Bolan Gan, Zhaohui Chen, and Haiyuan Yang.

Wu's research has appeared extensively in several publication venues. These include:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Climate
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Journal of Physical Oceanography

Wu's contributions have been recognized through awards such as being named a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2020 and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Increasing frequency of extreme El Niño events due to greenhouse warming

    Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Simon Borlace;Matthieu Lengaigne;Peter van Rensch

  • Impact of the Indian Ocean SST basin mode on the Asian summer monsoon

    Jianling Yang;Qinyu Liu;Shang Ping Xie;Shang Ping Xie;Zhengyu Liu;Zhengyu Liu

  • ENSO and greenhouse warming

    Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Agus Santoso;Guojian Wang;Sang Wook Yeh

  • Enhanced warming over the global subtropical western boundary currents

    Lixin Wu;Wenju Cai;Liping Zhang;Hisashi Nakamura

  • Pantropical Climate Interactions

    Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Lixin Wu;Matthieu Lengaigne;Matthieu Lengaigne;Tim Li

  • Increased frequency of extreme La Niña events under greenhouse warming

    Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Guojian Wang;Guojian Wang;Agus Santoso;Michael J. Mcphaden

  • Pacific western boundary currents and their roles in climate

    Dunxin Hu;Lixin Wu;Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Alex Sen Gupta

  • Climate impacts of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation on South America

    Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Michael J. McPhaden;Alice M. Grimm;Regina R. Rodrigues

  • A global perspective on CMIP5 climate model biases

    Chunzai Wang;Liping Zhang;Liping Zhang;Sang-Ki Lee;Sang-Ki Lee;Lixin Wu

  • Changing El Niño–Southern Oscillation in a warming climate

    Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Agus Santoso;Agus Santoso;Matthew Collins;Boris Dewitte

  • Increased frequency of extreme Indian Ocean Dipole events due to greenhouse warming

    Wenju Cai;Agus Santoso;Guojian Wang;Evan Weller

  • Modeling climate shift of El Nino variability in the Holocene

    Zhengyu Liu;J. Kutzbach;Lixin Wu

  • Western boundary currents regulated by interaction between ocean eddies and the atmosphere

    Xiaohui Ma;Xiaohui Ma;Zhao Jing;Zhao Jing;Ping Chang;Ping Chang;Xue Liu;Xue Liu

  • An Unprecedented Set of High-Resolution Earth System Simulations for Understanding Multiscale Interactions in Climate Variability and Change

    Ping Chang;Shaoqing Zhang;Shaoqing Zhang;Gokhan Danabasoglu;Gokhan Danabasoglu;Stephen G. Yeager;Stephen G. Yeager

  • Projected Future Changes in Tropical Cyclones Using the CMIP6 HighResMIP Multimodel Ensemble.

    Malcolm John Roberts;Joanne Camp;Jon Seddon;Pier Luigi Vidale

  • Atmospheric circulation patterns which promote winter Arctic sea ice decline

    Binhe Luo;Binhe Luo;Dehai Luo;Lixin Wu;Linhao Zhong

  • Pacific Decadal Variability: The Tropical Pacific Mode and the North Pacific Mode*

    L. Wu;Z. Liu;R. Gallimore;R. Jacob

  • Changing Lengths of the Four Seasons by Global Warming

    Jiamin Wang;Jiamin Wang;Yuping Guan;Lixin Wu;Xiaodan Guan

  • Importance of Resolving Kuroshio Front and Eddy Influence in Simulating the North Pacific Storm Track

    Xiaohui Ma;Ping Chang;R. Saravanan;Raffaele Montuoro

  • Atmospheric Response to North Pacific SST: The Role of Ocean-Atmosphere Coupling*

    Zhengyu Liu;Lixin Wu

  • Impact of the Indian Ocean SST Basin Mode on the Asian Summer Monsoon

    Q. Liu;J. Yang;S. Xie;Z. Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Wenju Cai
Wenju Cai Ocean University of China
Zhengyu Liu
Zhengyu Liu The Ohio State University
Ping Chang
Ping Chang Texas A&M University
Bo Qiu
Bo Qiu University of Hawaii at Manoa
Shang-Ping Xie
Shang-Ping Xie University of California, San Diego
Michael J. McPhaden
Michael J. McPhaden Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Eric Guilyardi
Eric Guilyardi Université Paris Cité
Gokhan Danabasoglu
Gokhan Danabasoglu National Center for Atmospheric Research
Stephen G. Yeager
Stephen G. Yeager National Center for Atmospheric Research
Nan Rosenbloom
Nan Rosenbloom National Center for Atmospheric Research

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