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Overview

Yongkang Xue is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research is primarily situated in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change as key subfields.

The scientist's work primarily addresses topics such as climate variability and models, cryospheric studies and observations, meteorological phenomena and simulations, climate change and permafrost, natural product bioactivities and synthesis, remote sensing in agriculture, and phytochemistry and biological activities.

Yongkang Xue has contributed to a number of publications, including the following recent papers:

  • Quantifying the major drivers for the expanding lakes in the interior Tibetan Plateau, 2021, Science Bulletin
  • Vegetation greening in China and its effect on summer regional climate, 2020, Science Bulletin
  • Impact of Initialized Land Surface Temperature and Snowpack on Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction Project, Phase I (LS4P-I): organization and experimental design, 2021, Geoscientific Model Development
  • Spring Land Temperature in Tibetan Plateau and Global-Scale Summer Precipitation: Initialization and Improved Prediction, 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Assessing Global and Regional Effects of Reconstructed Land-Use and Land-Cover Change on Climate since 1950 Using a Coupled Land-Atmosphere-Ocean Model, 2020, Journal of Climate

Among frequent coauthors who collaborate with Yongkang Xue are Ye Liu, Weidong Guo, Ismaïla Diallo, Wei Zhou, and Hara Prasad Nayak. These collaborations have influenced much of the output in the climate and atmospheric science areas.

The scientist's frequent publication venues illustrate the focus and audience of their research:

  • Climate Dynamics
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Science Bulletin

Best Publications

  • Regions of Strong Coupling Between Soil Moisture and Precipitation

    Randal D. Koster;Paul A. Dirmeyer;Zhichang Guo;Gordon Bonan

  • Modeling of land surface evaporation by four schemes and comparison with FIFE observations

    Fei Chen;Kenneth Mitchell;John Schaake;Yongkang Xue

  • Recent Third Pole’s Rapid Warming Accompanies Cryospheric Melt and Water Cycle Intensification and Interactions between Monsoon and Environment: Multidisciplinary Approach with Observations, Modeling, and Analysis

    Tandong Yao;Yongkang Xue;Deliang Chen;Fahu Chen

  • A Simplified Biosphere Model for Global Climate Studies

    Y. Xue;P. J. Sellers;J. L. Kinter;J. Shukla

  • GLACE: The Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment. Part I: Overview

    Randal D. Koster;Zhichang Guo;Paul A. Dirmeyer;Gordon Bonan

  • Regional Climate Information—Evaluation and Projections

    F. Giorgi;J. Christensen;M. Hulme;H. von Storch

  • Terrestrial biosphere models need better representation of vegetation phenology: results from the North American Carbon Program Site Synthesis

    Andrew D. Richardson;Ryan S. Anderson;M. Altaf Arain;Alan G. Barr

  • The Influence of Land Surface Properties on Sahel Climate. Part 1: Desertification

    Yongkang Xue;Jagadish Shukla

  • Evaluating land surface moisture conditions from the remotely sensed temperature/vegetation index measurements: An exploration with the simplified simple biosphere model

    Samuel N Goward;Yongkang Xue;Kevin P Czajkowski

  • Evaluation of forest snow processes models (SnowMIP2)

    Nick Rutter;Richard Essery;John Pomeroy;Nuria Altimir

  • Cabauw Experimental Results from the Project for Intercomparison of Land-Surface Parameterization Schemes

    T.H. Chen;A. Henderson-Sellers;P.C.D. Milly;A.J. Pitman

  • Glace: The Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment Part 2: Analysis

    Zhichang Guo;Paul A. Dirmeyer;Randal D. Koster;Gordon Bonan

  • The Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parameterization Schemes (PILPS) Phase 2(c) Red–Arkansas River basin experiment:: 1. Experiment description and summary intercomparisons

    Eric F. Wood;Dennis P. Lettenmaier;Xu Liang;Dag Lohmann

  • The Impact of Desertification in the Mongolian and the Inner Mongolian Grassland on the Regional Climate

    Yongkang Xue

  • Use of Midlatitude Soil Moisture and Meteorological Observations to Validate Soil Moisture Simulations with Biosphere and Bucket Models

    Alan Robock;Konstantin Ya Vinnikov;C. Adam Schlosser;Nina A. Speranskaya

  • The climatic impacts of land surface change and carbon management, and the implications for climate-change mitigation policy

    Gregg Marland;Roger A. Pielke;Mike Apps;Roni Avissar

  • Direct observations of the effects of aerosol loading on net ecosystem CO2 exchanges over different landscapes

    Dev Niyogi;Hsin I. Chang;V. K. Saxena;Teddy Holt;Teddy Holt

  • Simulation of high-latitude hydrological processes in the Torne-Kalix basin: PILPS phase 2(e) - 1: Experiment description and summary intercomparisons

    Laura C. Bowling;Dennis P. Lettenmaier;Bart Nijssen;Bart Nijssen;L. Phil Graham

  • A review on regional dynamical downscaling in intraseasonal to seasonal simulation/prediction and major factors that affect downscaling ability

    Yongkang Xue;Zavisa Janjic;Jimy Dudhia;Ratko Vasic

  • Role of land surface processes in monsoon development: East Asia and West Africa

    Yongkang Xue;H.-M. H. Juang;W.-P. Li;S. Prince

  • Simulations of a boreal grassland hydrology at Valdai, Russia: PILPS phase 2(d).

    C. Adam Schlosser;Andrew G. Slater;Alan Robock;Andrew J. Pitman

Frequent Co-Authors

Aaron Boone
Aaron Boone Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Carlos R. Mechoso
Carlos R. Mechoso University of California, Los Angeles
Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Dennis P. Lettenmaier University of California, Los Angeles
Paul A. Dirmeyer
Paul A. Dirmeyer George Mason University
Zong-Liang Yang
Zong-Liang Yang The University of Texas at Austin
Kuo-Nan Liou
Kuo-Nan Liou University of California, Los Angeles
Kenneth E. Mitchell
Kenneth E. Mitchell National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Yukiko Hirabayashi
Yukiko Hirabayashi Shibaura Institute of Technology
Michael Ek
Michael Ek National Center for Atmospheric Research
Peter M. Cox
Peter M. Cox University of Exeter

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