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Shang-Ping Xie publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shang-Ping Xie sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 502 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Shang-Ping Xie D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shang-Ping Xie sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 130 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2016 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Shang-Ping Xie is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily addresses several core areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, focusing especially on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Oceanography.

The scientist's work concentrates on topics such as Climate variability and models, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Shang-Ping Xie has published extensively in scientific journals, with notable frequent publication venues that include:

  • Journal of Climate
  • Nature Communications
  • Science Advances
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Shang-Ping Xie feature studies on climate and ocean interactions and their consequences. These publications include:

  • Historic Yangtze flooding of 2020 tied to extreme Indian Ocean conditions (2021) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Physical drivers of the summer 2019 North Pacific marine heatwave (2020) in Nature Communications
  • Climate impacts of a weakened Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in a warming climate (2020) in Science Advances
  • Tropical teleconnection impacts on Antarctic climate changes (2021) in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Initialized Earth System prediction from subseasonal to decadal timescales (2021) in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Throughout their career, Shang-Ping Xie has collaborated frequently with several researchers. Among the most common coauthors are:

  • Sarah M. Kang
  • Yu Kosaka
  • Shineng Hu
  • Qihua Peng
  • Xiao-Tong Zheng

Shang-Ping Xie's contributions have been recognized by the scientific community, including being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Indian Ocean Capacitor Effect on Indo–Western Pacific Climate during the Summer following El Niño

    Shang Ping Xie;Kaiming Hu;Jan Hafner;Hiroki Tokinaga

  • Recent global-warming hiatus tied to equatorial Pacific surface cooling

    Yu Kosaka;Shang-Ping Xie;Shang-Ping Xie;Shang-Ping Xie

  • Indian Ocean circulation and climate variability

    Friedrich A. Schott;Shang Ping Xie;Julian P. McCreary

  • Global warming pattern formation: sea surface temperature and rainfall.

    Shang Ping Xie;Clara Deser;Gabriel Andres Vecchi;Jian Ma

  • Sea surface temperature variability: Patterns and mechanisms

    Clara Deser;Michael A. Alexander;Shang-Ping Xie;Adam S. Phillips

  • A coupled ocean‐atmosphere model of relevance to the ITCZ in the eastern Pacific

    Shang-Ping Xie;S. George H. Philander

  • Structure and Mechanisms of South Indian Ocean Climate Variability

    Shang-Ping Xie;H. Annamalai;Friedrich A. Schott;Julian P. McCreary

  • 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

  • Influence of the Gulf Stream on the troposphere

    Shoshiro Minobe;Akira Kuwano-Yoshida;Nobumasa Komori;Shang-Ping Xie

  • Air–sea interaction over ocean fronts and eddies

    R.J. Small;R.J. Small;S.P. deSzoeke;S.P. deSzoeke;S.P. Xie;L. O’Neill;L. O’Neill

  • Indo-Western Pacific Ocean Capacitor and Coherent Climate Anomalies in Post-ENSO Summer: A Review

    Shang-Ping Xie;Shang-Ping Xie;Yu Kosaka;Yan Du;Kaiming Hu

  • Pantropical Climate Interactions

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

  • Summer upwelling in the South China Sea and its role in regional climate variations

    Shang-Ping Xie;Qiang Xie;Dongxiao Wang;W. Timothy Liu

  • Large-Scale Dynamics of the Meiyu-Baiu Rainband: Environmental Forcing by the Westerly Jet*

    Takeaki Sampe;Shang-Ping Xie

  • Decadal modulation of global surface temperature by internal climate variability

    Aiguo Dai;Aiguo Dai;John C. Fyfe;Shang-Ping Xie;Xingang Dai

  • Role of Air-Sea Interaction in the Long Persistence of El Nino-Induced North Indian Ocean Warming*

    Yan Du;Shang-Ping Xie;Gang Huang;Kaiming Hu

  • Tropical Biases in CMIP5 Multimodel Ensemble: The Excessive Equatorial Pacific Cold Tongue and Double ITCZ Problems*

    Gen Li;Shang-Ping Xie

  • Tropical Atlantic Variability: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Impacts

    Shang-Ping Xie;James A. Carton

  • Satellite Observations of Cool Ocean–Atmosphere Interaction

    Shang-Ping Xie

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Yu Kosaka
Yu Kosaka University of Tokyo
Yan Du
Yan Du Chinese Academy of Sciences
Gang Huang
Gang Huang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yuqing Wang
Yuqing Wang University of Hawaii at Manoa
Youichi Kamae
Youichi Kamae University of Tsukuba
Nathaniel C. Johnson
Nathaniel C. Johnson Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Wei Liu
Wei Liu University of California, Riverside
Arthur J. Miller
Arthur J. Miller University of California, San Diego
Clara Deser
Clara Deser National Center for Atmospheric Research
Hideharu Sasaki
Hideharu Sasaki Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

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