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Yan Xue is a researcher affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States. Their work spans multiple fields related to earth sciences, environmental science, and biological sciences with a focus on understanding oceanographic and atmospheric processes, climate variability, and marine ecosystems.

Their primary fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

In terms of subfields, Yan Xue's research covers:

  • Oceanography
  • Molecular Biology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

The main research topics associated with Yan Xue include:

  • Ginseng Biological Effects and Applications
  • Climate variability and models
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Agriculture, Soil, Plant Science
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

Yan Xue has contributed to multiple research publications, including the following selected papers:

  • Sources of organic carbon in surface sediments of Hangzhou Bay and Zhejiang coastal area: Implication from total organic carbon, lignin and algal pigments, 2025, Journal of Marine Systems
  • Mapping seamless surface water dynamics over East Africa semimonthly at a 10-meter resolution in 2017-2023 by integrating Sentinel-1/2 data, 2025, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • Global Ocean Monitoring and Prediction at NOAA Climate Prediction Center: 15 Years of Operations, 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • The Importance of Central Pacific Meridional Heat Advection to the Development of ENSO, 2021, Journal of Climate
  • [Climatic ecological suitability and potential distribution for Boletus edulis in mountainous areas of Western Sichuan Plateau, China]., 2020, PubMed

The venues where Yan Xue frequently publishes include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Journal of Marine Systems
  • Journal of Climate
  • PubMed

Yan Xue collaborates with several frequent coauthors, including:

  • Zhefeng Xu
  • Qinghe Zhang
  • Tao Zhang
  • Changbao Chen
  • Yibing Wang

Best Publications

  • The NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis

    Suranjana Saha;Shrinivas Moorthi;Hua-Lu Pan;Xingren Wu

  • Understanding ENSO Diversity

    Antonietta Capotondi;Andrew T. Wittenberg;Matthew Newman;Emanuele Di Lorenzo

  • Antimicrobial Polymeric Materials with Quaternary Ammonium and Phosphonium Salts

    Yan Xue;Huining Xiao;Yi Zhang

  • Interdecadal Changes of 30-Yr SST Normals during 1871–2000

    Yan Xue;Thomas M. Smith;Richard W. Reynolds

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

  • State of the Climate in 2014

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • The Ocean Reanalyses Intercomparison Project (ORA-IP)

    M. A. Balmaseda;F. Hernandez;A. Storto;M. D. Palmer

  • Nanocellulose as a sustainable biomass material: structure, properties, present status and future prospects in biomedical applications

    Yan Xue;Yan Xue;Zihao Mou;Huining Xiao

  • Managing living marine resources in a dynamic environment: The role of seasonal to decadal climate forecasts

    Desiree Tommasi;Charles A. Stock;Alistair J. Hobday;Rick Methot

  • State of the Climate in 2018

    M. Ades;R. Adler;Laura S. Aldeco;G. Alejandra

  • Dominant Factors Influencing the Seasonal Predictability of U.S. Precipitation and Surface Air Temperature

    R. W. Higgins;A. Leetmaa;Y. Xue;A. Barnston

  • NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) 6-hourly Products, January 1979 to December 2010

    Suranjana Saha;Shrinivas Moorthi;Hua-Lu Pan;Xingren Wu

  • Locking of El Nino's Peak Time to the End of the Calendar Year in the Delayed Oscillator Picture of ENSO

    Eli Tziperman;Mark A. Cane;Stephen E. Zebiak;Yan Xue

  • An assessment of the surface climate in the NCEP climate forecast system reanalysis

    Wanqiu Wang;Pingping Xie;Soo-Hyun Yoo;Yan Xue

  • On the prediction of ENSO: a study with a low-order Markov model

    Yan Xue;M. A. Cane;S. E. Zebiak;M. B. Blumenthal

  • Predictability of a Coupled Model of ENSO Using Singular Vector Analysis. Part I: Optimal Growth in Seasonal Background and ENSO Cycles

    Yan Xue;M. A. Cane;S. E. Zebiak

  • An assessment of oceanic variability in the NCEP climate forecast system reanalysis

    Yan Xue;Boyin Huang;Zeng-Zhen Hu;Arun Kumar

  • ENSO Prediction with Markov Models: The Impact of Sea Level

    Yan Xue;Ants Leetmaa;Ming Ji

  • State of the Climate in 2016

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • The NCEP GODAS Ocean Analysis of the Tropical Pacific Mixed Layer Heat Budget on Seasonal to Interannual Time Scales

    Boyin Huang;Yan Xue;Dongxiao Zhang;Arun Kumar

  • The NCEP climate forecast system reanalysis. Bull Am Meteorol Soc

    Suranjana Saha;Shrinivas Moorthi;Hua-Lu Pan;Xingren Wu

  • [Regional Climates] Central South America 2016

    J. A. Marengo;Jhan Carlo Espinoza;L. M. Alves;J. Ronchail

Frequent Co-Authors

Arun Kumar
Arun Kumar National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Wanqiu Wang
Wanqiu Wang National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Timothy P. Boyer
Timothy P. Boyer National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Magdalena Balmaseda
Magdalena Balmaseda European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Zeng-Zhen Hu
Zeng-Zhen Hu National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Tong Lee
Tong Lee California Institute of Technology
Johannes W. Kaiser
Johannes W. Kaiser German Meteorological Service
Lisan Yu
Lisan Yu Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Marco Tedesco
Marco Tedesco Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Rick Lumpkin
Rick Lumpkin Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory

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