New textbook just published

• Xie, S.-P., 2023: Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics: From El Niño to Climate Change. Elsevier, 424 pages. doi: 10.1016/C2021-0-02107-6

Manuscripts under Review:

• Hahn, L.C., N.J. Lutsko, I. Eisenman, M. Luongo, and S.-P. Xie, 2025: Contribution of AMOC decline to uncertainty in global warming via ocean heat uptake and climate feedbacks. J. Climate, submitted.
• Schneider, N., B.D. Cornuelle, L. O'Neill, R. Masunaga, T. Kilpatrick, M. Nonaka, J. Small, and S.-P. Xie, 2025: Anchoring of the Gulf Stream Convergence Zone by the storm track and sea surface temperatures. J. Atmos. Sci., submitted.
• Wang, X., S.-P. Xie, and Z. Guan, 2025: Month-to-month pattern variations of ENSO effects on eastern China summer rainfall: Observation-model simulation synthesis. J. Climate, submitted.
• Wang, Y., M. Satoh, R. Zhan, J. Zhao, and S.-P. Xie, 2025: Tropical sea surface warming patterns and tropical cyclone activity – A review. Adv. Atmos. Sci., submitted.

Refereed Publications:

• Formby-Fernandeza, A., L. Lenain, N. Pizzo, C. Dorman, and S.-P. Xie, 2025: Spatial and temporal structure of the fog life cycle over Atlantic Canada and the Grand Banks. Q.J. Roy. Soc. Meteorol., e4953. [Link to paper]
• Luo, F., S.-P. Xie, J. Ying, Y. Geng, and D. Chen, 2025: Impacts of Antarctic sea ice change on global warming pattern inferred from CMIP6 intermodel spread. Geophys. Res. Lett., 52, e2024GL112323. [Link to paper]
• Luongo, M.T., S.-P. Xie, I. Eisenman, S. Sun, and Q. Peng, 2025: How the subsurface tropical Pacific responds to hemispherically asymmetric temperature forcing: Implications for cross-equatorial mass and heat transport. J. Climate, 38, in press. [Link to paper]
• Miles, E., and S.-P. Xie, 2025: Hurricane Hilary (2023) and rare tropical cyclones in the Southwest United States: Impacts on temperature and precipitation. J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 130, e2024JD042739. [Link to paper]
• Miyamoto, A., and S.-P. Xie, 2025: Low cloud-SST variability over the summertime subtropical Northeast Pacific: Role of extratropical atmospheric modes. J. Climate, 38, 165–180. [Link to paper]
• Peng, Q., S.-P. Xie, A. Miyamoto, C. Deser, P. Zhang, and M.T. Luongo, 2025: Strong 2023-24 El Niño generated by ocean dynamics. Nature Geosci., 18, accepted.
• Taylor, B.A., J.-R. Shi, L.D. Talley, S.-P. Xie, M.T. Luongo, and Q. Peng, 2025: Warming band in Southern Ocean's Indian sector: The role of remote Atlantic buoyancy forcing via poleward-shifting circulation response. J. Climate, 38, in press. [Link to paper]
• Wang, M., S.S.P. Shen, S.-P. Xie, X. Wang, and Y. Du, 2025: An SST-based reconstruction of the Pacific Tropical Instability Wave-associated velocities and SSH since 1981. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 55, in press. [Link to paper]
• Xie, S.-P., A. Miyamoto, P. Zhang, Y. Kosaka, Y. Liang, and N.J. Lutsko, 2025: What made 2023 and 2024 the hottest years in a row? npj Clim. Atmos. Sci., 8, 117. [Link to paper], [News in Science]

• Cai, Q., W. Chen, S. Chen, S.-P. Xie, J. Piao, T. Ma, and X. Lan, 2024: Role of internal climate variability in exceptionally strong warming over the Mongolian Plateau. Nature Geosci., 17, 181-188. [Link to paper]
• Chen, L., X. Zhong, H. Li, J. Wu, B. Lu, D. Chen, S.-P. Xie, L. Wu, Q. Chao, C. Lin, Z. Hu, and Y. Qi, 2024: A machine learning model that outperforms conventional global subseasonal forecast models. Nature Commun., 15, 6425. [Link to paper]
• Chen, S., W. Chen, S.-P. Xie, B. Yu, R. Wu, Z. Wang, X. Lan, and H.F. Graf, 2024: Strengthened impact of boreal winter North Pacific Oscillation on ENSO development in warming climate. npj Clim. Atmos. Sci., 7, 69. [Link to paper]
• Fu, Z.H., W. Zhou, S.-P. Xie, R. Zhang, and X. Wang, 2024: Dynamic pathway linking Pakistan flooding to East Asian heatwaves. Sci. Adv., 10, eadk9250. [Link to paper]; magazine cover
• Gu, Q., M. Gervais, G. Danabasoglu, W.M. Kim, F. Castruccio, E. Maroon, and S.-P. Xie, 2024: Wide range of possible trajectories of North Atlantic climate in a warming world. Nature Commun., 15, 4221. [Link to paper]
• Hou, Y., S.-P. Xie, N.C. Johnson et al., 2024: Unveiling the Indian Ocean forcing on winter eastern warming – western cooling pattern over North America. Nature Commun., 15, 9654. [Link to paper]
• Hwang, Y.-T., S.-P. Xie, P.-J. Chen, H.-Y. Tseng, and C. Deser, 2024: Contribution of anthropogenic aerosols to persistent La Niña-like conditions in the early 21st century. PNAS, 121, e2315124121. [Link to paper], [PNAS commentary]
• Liang, Y., S.-P. Xie, and H. Zhang, 2024: An intrinsic low-frequency atmospheric mode of the Indonesian-Australian summer monsoon. npj Clim. Atmos. Sci., 7, 240. [Link to paper]
• Liu, J.W., L. Yang, and S.-P. Xie, 2024: CALIPSO observed low clouds over the subtropical northeast Pacific: Summer climatology and interannual variability. J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 129, e2023JD039168. [Link to paper]
• Luongo, M.T., N. Brizuela, I. Eisenman, and S.-P. Xie, 2024: Retaining short-term variability reduces biases in wind stress overriding simulations. JAMES, 16, e2023MS003665. [Link to paper]
• Park, I.-H., S.-W. Yeh, S.-K. Min, S.-I. An, S.-P. Xie, and J. Shin, 2024: Irreversible changes in the sea surface temperature threshold for tropical convection to CO2 forcing. Commun. Earth & Environ., 5, 659. [Link to paper]
• Peng, Q., S.-P. Xie, G., Passalacqua, A. Miyamoto, and C. Deser, 2024: The 2023 extreme coastal El Niño: Atmospheric and air-sea coupling mechanisms. Sci. Adv., 10, eadk8646. [Link to paper]
• Peng, Q., S.-P. Xie, and C. Deser, 2024: Collapsed upwelling projected to weaken ENSO under sustained warming beyond the twenty-first century. Nature Clim. Change, 14, 815-822. [Link to paper]
• Song, X., X. Xie, Y. Yan, and S.-P. Xie, 2024: Observed sub-daily variations in air–sea turbulent heat fluxes under different marine atmospheric boundary layer stability conditions in the Gulf Stream. Mon. Wea. Rev., 152, 1223-1238. [Link to paper]
• Song, Z.H., S.-P. Xie, L. Xu, X.T. Zheng, X.P. Lin, and Y.F. Geng, 2024: Deep winter mixed layer anchored by the meandering Antarctic Circumpolar Current: Cross-basin variations. J. Climate, 37, 3741-3757. [Link to paper]
• Wang, H., X.T. Zheng, W. Cai, Z.W. Han, S.-P. Xie, S.M. Kang, Y.F. Geng , F. Liu , C.Y. Wang, Y. Wu, B. Xiang, and L. Zhou, 2024: Atmosphere teleconnections from abatement of China aerosol emissions exacerbate Northeast Pacific warm blob events. PNAS, 121, 2313797121. [Link to paper], [News in Science]
• Wang, M., S.-P. Xie, H. Sasaki, M. Nonaka, and Y. Du, 2024: Intensification of Pacific Tropical Instability Waves over the recent three decades. Nature Clim. Change, 14, 163-170. [Link to paper], [Research Briefing]
• Xie, S.-P., 2024: Coupled atmosphere-ocean dynamics of Asian monsoon variability: Research, international collaborations, and mentoring (Japanese Meteorological Society Fujiwara Award Lecture). Tenki, 71, 229-237 (in Japanese). [Link to paper]
• Zhang, H., S.-P. Xie, R. Seager, and S. Zhao, 2024: Dynamical constraint on precipitation biases over the Indo-Pacific region during boreal summer in AMIP6 models. Geophys. Res. Lett., 51, e2023GL107181. [Link to paper]
• Zhang, P.C., S.-P. Xie, Y. Kosaka, N.J. Lutsko, Y.M. Okumura, and A. Miyamoto, 2024: Why East Asian monsoon anomalies are more robust in post El Niño than in post La Niña summers? Nature Commun., 15, 7401. [Link to paper]
• Zhang, P.C., S.-P. Xie, Y. Kosaka, and N.J. Lutsko, 2024: Non-ENSO precursors for Northwestern Pacific summer monsoon variability with implications for predictability. J. Climate, 37, 199-212. [Link to paper]
• Zhao, J., R. Zhan, Y. Wang, S.-P. Xie, L. Zhang, Y.-P. Guo, and M. Xu, 2024: Lapsed El Niño impact on Atlantic and Northwest Pacific tropical cyclone activity in 2023. Nature Commun., 15, 6706. [Link to paper]
• Zhou, W., L. Leung, S.-P. Xie, and J. Lu, 2024: An analytic theory for the degree of Arctic Amplification. Nature Commun., 15, 5060. [Link to paper]

• Brizuela, N.G., M.H. Alford, S.-P. Xie, J. Sprintall, G. Voet, S.J. Warner, K. Hughes, and J.N. Moum, 2023: Prolonged thermocline warming by near-inertial internal waves in the wakes of tropical cyclones. PNAS, 120, e2301664120. [Link to paper], [Frieman Prize]
• Cai, W., L. Gao, Y. Luo, X. Li, X. Zheng, X. Zhang, X. Cheng, F. Jia, A. Purich, A. Santoso, Y. Du, D.M. Holland, J.R. Shi, B. Xiang, and S.-P. Xie, 2023: Southern Ocean warming and its climatic impacts. Sci. Bull., 68, 946-960. [Link to paper]
• Hu, S., S.-P. Xie, R. Seager, and M.A. Cane, 2023: Spatial and seasonal variations of sea surface temperature threshold for tropical convection. J. Climate, 36, 4899-4912. [Link to paper]
• Jeong, H., H.-S. Park, J.S. Chowdary, and S.-P. Xie, 2023: Triple-dip La Niña contributes to Pakistan flooding and southern China drought in summer 2022. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 104, E1570–E1586. [Link to paper]
• Kang, S.M., Y. Shin, H. Kim, S.-P. Xie, and S. Hu, 2023: Disentangling the mechanisms of equatorial Pacific climate change. Sci. Adv., 9, eadf5059. [Link to paper]
• Kim, J., S.M. Kang, S.-P. Xie, B. Xiang, X.-T. Zheng, and H. Wang, 2023: Large-scale climate response to regionally confined extratropical cooling: Effect of ocean dynamics. Clim. Dyn., 60, 3291-3306. [Link to paper]
• Li, Y., S.-P. Xie, T. Lian, G. Zhang, J. Feng, J. Ma, Q. Peng, W. Wang, Y. Hou, and X. Li, 2023: Interannual variability of regional Hadley circulation and El Niño interaction. Geophys. Res. Lett., 50, e2022GL102016. [Link to paper]
• Liang, Y., Y. Du, and S.-P. Xie, 2023: SST effect on the pre-monsoon intraseasonal oscillation over the South China Sea based on atmospheric-coupled GCM comparison. J. Ocean. Limnol., 41, 409-417. [Link to paper]
• Luongo, M.T., S.-P. Xie, I. Eisenman, Y.-T. Hwang, and H.Y. Tseng, 2023: A dynamic pathway by which Northern Hemisphere extratropical cooling elicits a tropical response. Geophys. Res. Lett., 50, e2022GL100719. [Link to paper]
• Miyamoto, A., H. Nakamura, S.-P. Xie, T. Miyasaka, and Y. Kosaka, 2023: Radiative impacts of Californian marine low clouds on North Pacific climate in a global climate model. J. Climate, 36, 8443-8459. [Yamamoto Medal]; [Link to paper]
• Peng, Q., S.-P. Xie, R.X. Huang, W. Wang, T. Zu, and D. Wang, 2023: Indonesian Throughflow slowdown under global warming: Remote AMOC effect vs. regional surface forcing. J. Climate, 36, 1301-1318. [Link to paper]
• Roose, S., R.S. Ajayamohan, P. Ray, S.-P. Xie et al., 2023: Pacific decadal oscillation causes fewer near-equatorial cyclones in the North Indian Ocean. Nat. Commun., 14, 5099. Indian Meteorological Society Young Scientist Award; [Link to paper]
• Shi, J.R., S.E. Wijffels, Y.O. Kwon, and S.-P. Xie, 2023: Interhemispheric contrasts of ocean heat content change reveals distinct fingerprints of anthropogenic climate forcings. Geophys. Res. Lett., 50, e2023GL102741. [Link to paper]
• Shin, S.-J., S.-W. Yeh, S.-I. An, N. Keenlyside, S.-P. Xie, and J.-H. Park, 2023: Southern Ocean control of 2°C global warming in climate models. Earth's Future, 11, e2022EF003212. [Link to paper]
• Song, S.Y., S.W. Yeh, R.P. Allan, S.-P. Xie, S.I. An, and H.S. Park, 2023: Climate sensitivity controls global precipitation hysteresis in a changing CO2 pathway. npj Clim. Atmos. Sci., 6, 156. [Link to paper]
• Tseng, H.-Y., Y.-T. Hwang, S.-P. Xie, Y.H. Tseng, S.M. Kang, M.T. Luongo, and I. Eisenman, 2023: Fast and slow responses of the tropical Pacific to radiative forcing in northern high latitudes. J. Climate, 36, 5337-5349. [Link to paper]
• Wang, C.-Y., X.-T., Zheng, and S.-P. Xie, 2023: Enhanced ENSO-unrelated summer variability in the Indo-western Pacific under global warming. J. Climate, 36, 1749-1765.[Link to paper]
• Xiang, B.Q., S.-P. Xie, S.M. Kang, and R. Kramer, 2023: An emerging Asian aerosol dipole pattern exacerbates Northern Hemisphere warming. npj Clim. Atmos. Sci., 6, 77. [Link to paper]
• Xie, S.-P., 2023: Ocean-atmosphere interactions in climate formation, variability and change (Japanese Oceanographical Society Medal Lecture). Umi no Kenkyu (Oceanogr. in Japan), 32, 95-107 (in Japanese). [Link to paper]
• Yang, L., S.-P. Xie, S.P. Shen, J.W. Liu, and Y.T. Hwang, 2023: Low cloud-SST feedback over the subtropical Northeast Pacific and the remote effect on ENSO. J. Climate, 36, 441-452. [Link to paper]
• Zhao, J., R. Zhan, H. Murakami, Y. Wang, S.-P. Xie, L. Zhang, and Y.-P. Guo, 2023: Atmospheric modes fiddling the simulated ENSO impact on tropical cyclone genesis over the Northwest Pacific. npj Clim. Atmos. Sci., 6, 213. [Link to paper]
• Zhong, Z., B. He, H.W. Chen et al., 2023: Reversed asymmetric warming of sub-diurnal temperature over land during recent decades. Nat. Commun. 14, 7189. [Link to paper]

• Chapman, W., L.D. Monache, S. Alessandrini, A.C. Subramanian, F.M. Ralph, S.-P. Xie, S. Lerch, and N. Hayatbini, 2022: Machine learning methods for probabilistic weather predictions from deterministic forecasts. Mon. Wea. Rev., 150, 215-234. [Link to paper]
• Ding, Y., L. Xu, S.-P. Xie, H. Sasaki, Z. Zhang, H. Cao, and Y. Zhang, 2022: Submesoscale frontal instabilities modulate large-scale distribution of the winter deep mixed layer in the Kuroshio-Oyashio Extension. J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 127, e2022JC018915. [Link to paper]
• Du, Y., Z. Chen, S.-P. Xie, L. Zhang, Y. Zhang, and Y. Cai, 2022: Drivers and characteristics of the Indo-western Pacific Ocean capacitor. Front. Clim., 4, 1014138. [Link to paper]
• Geng, Y.F., S.-P. Xie, X.T. Zheng, S.M. Long; S.M. Kang, X.P. Lin, and Z.H. Song, 2022: CMIP6 intermodel uncertainty in interhemispheric asymmetry of tropical climate response to greenhouse warming: Extratropical ocean effects. J. Climate, 35, 4869-4882 . [Link to paper]
• Hu, S., S.-P. Xie, and S.M. Kang, 2022: Global warming pattern formation: the role of ocean heat uptake. J. Climate, 35, 1885-1899. [Link to paper]
• Kim, H., S.M. Kang, J.E. Kay, and S.-P. Xie, 2022: Subtropical clouds key to Southern Ocean teleconnections to the tropical Pacific. PNAS, 119, e2200514119. [Link to paper]
• Kim, S.K., J. Shin, S.-I. An, H.J. Kim, N. Im, S.-P. Xie, J.S. Kug, and S.W. Yeh, 2022: Widespread irreversible changes in surface temperature and precipitation to CO2 forcing. Nature Clim. Change, 12, 834-840. [Link to paper], [Research Briefing]
• Li, S., W. Mei, and S.-P. Xie, 2022: Effects of tropical sea surface temperature variability on Northern Hemisphere tropical cyclone genesis. J. Climate, 35, 4719-4739. [Link to paper]
• Li, Y., X. Li, S.-P. Xie, G. Zhang, Z. Wang, W. Wang, and Y. Hou, 2022: Regional perspective of Hadley circulation and Its uncertainties among different datasets: Spread in reanalysis datasets. J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 127, e2022JD036940. [Link to paper]
• Liu, J., M. Song, Z. Zhu, R. Horton, Y. Hu, and S.-P. Xie, 2022: Arctic sea-ice loss is projected to lead to more frequent strong El Niño events. Nature Commun., 13, 4952. [Link to paper]
• Luongo, M.T., S.-P. Xie, and I. Eisenman, 2022: Buoyancy forcing dominates the cross-equatorial ocean heat transport response to northern hemisphere extratropical cooling. J. Climate, 35, 3071-3090. [Link to paper]
• Peng, Q., S.-P. Xie, D. Wang, R.X. Huang, G. Chen, Y. Shu, J.R. Shi, and W. Liu, 2022: Surface warming-induced global acceleration of upper ocean currents. Sci. Adv., 8, eabj8394. [Link to paper], [News in Science]
• Song, X., X. Xie, B. Qiu, H. Cao, S.-P. Xie, Z. Chen, and W. Yu, 2022: Air-sea latent heat flux and anomalies induced by oceanic submesoscale processes: An observational case study. Front. Mar. Sci., 9, 850207. [Link to paper]
• Sun, S., A.F. Thompson, S.-P. Xie, and S.-M. Long, 2022: Indo-Pacific warming induced by a weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. J. Climate, 35, 815-832. [Link to paper]
• Wang, G., L. Wu, W. Mei, and S.-P. Xie, 2022: Ocean currents show global intensification of weak tropical cyclones. Nature, 611, 496-500. [Link to paper], [News & Views], [Nature research highlight]
• Zhang, H., R. Seager, and S.-P. Xie, 2022: How does sea surface temperature drive the Intertropical Convergence Zone in the southern Indian Ocean? J. Climate, 5415-5432. [Link to paper]
• Zhang, Y., S.Y. Yu, S.-P. Xie, D.J. Amaya, Q. Peng, Y. Kosaka, X. Lin, J.C. Yang, S.M. Larson, A.J. Miller, and L. Fan, 2022: Role of ocean dynamics in equatorial Pacific decadal variability. Clim. Dyn., 59, 2517-2529. [Link to paper]
• Zhou, S., P. Huang, S.-P. Xie, G. Huang, and L. Wang, 2022: Varying contributions of fast and slow responses cause asymmetric tropical rainfall change between CO2 ramp-up and ramp-down. Sci. Bull., 67, 1702-1711. [Link to paper]

• Chapman, W., A.C. Subramanian, S.-P. Xie, F.M. Ralph, M.D. Sierks, and Y. Kamae, 2021: Monthly modulation of ENSO teleconnections: Implications for potential predictability in North America. J. Climate, 34, 5899-5921. [Link to paper]
• Chen, Z., Z. Li, Y. Du, Z. Wen, R. Wu, and S.-P. Xie, 2021: Trans-basin influence of southwest tropical Indian Ocean warming during early boreal summer. J. Climate, 34, 9679-9691. [Link to paper]
• Chowdary, J.S., S.-P. Xie and R.S. Nanjundiah, 2021: Drivers of the Indian summer monsoon climate variability. In Indian Summer Monsoon Variability: El Niño-Teleconnections and Beyond, J.S. Chowdary, A. Parekh and C. Gnanaseelan (eds), Elsevier, 1-28. [link to chapter]
• Diao, C., Y. Xu, and S.-P. Xie, 2021: Anthropogenic aerosol effects on tropospheric circulation and sea surface temperature (1980-2020): Separating the role of zonally asymmetric forcings. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 18499-18518. [Link to paper]
• Hong, Y., Y. Du, X. Xia, L. Xu, Y. Zhang, and S.-P. Xie, 2021: Subantarctic Mode Water and its long-term change in CMIP6 models. J. Climate, 34, 9385-9400. [Link to paper]
• Hu, K., G. Huang, P. Huang, Y. Kosaka, and S.-P. Xie, 2021: Intensification of El Niño-induced atmospheric anomalies under greenhouse warming. Nature Geosci., 14, 377-382. [Link to paper]
• Kang, S.M., S.-P. Xie, C. Deser, and B. Xiang, 2021: Zonal mean and shift modes of historical climate response to evolving aerosol distribution. Sci. Bull., 66, 2405-2411. [Link to paper]
• Lu, Y., Q. Liu, and S.-P. Xie, 2021: Covariability of Subantarctic Mode Water and the southern branch of the Subtropical Indian Ocean Countercurrent in Argo observations. J. Ocean Univ. China, 20, 1316-1324. [Link to paper]
• Li, X.C., ..., S.-P. Xie, ..., 2021: Tropical teleconnection impacts on Antarctic climate changes. Nature Rev. Earth Environ., 2, 680-698. [Link to paper]
• Ma, J., S.-P. Xie, H. Xu, J. Zhao, and L. Zhang, 2021: Cross-basin interactions between the tropical Atlantic and Pacific in the ENSEMBLES hindcasts. J. Climate, 34, 2459-2472. [Link to paper]
• Meehl, G.A., J.H. Richter, H. Teng, ..., and S.-P. Xie 2021: Initialized Earth System prediction from subseasonal to decadal timescales. Nature Rev. Earth Environ., 2, 340-357. [Link to paper]
• Meehl, G., A. Hu, F. Castruccio, M. England, S. Bates, G. Danabasoglu, S. McGregor, J. Arblaster, S.-P. Xie, and N. Rosenbloom, 2021: Atlantic and Pacific tropics connected by mutually interactive decadal-timescale processes. Nature Geosci., 14, 36-42. [Link to paper]
• Shi, J., L.D. Tally, S.-P. Xie, Q. Peng, and W. Liu, 2021: Ocean warming and accelerating Southern Ocean zonal flow. Nature Clim. Change, 11, 1090-1097. [Link to paper], [News & Views], [magazine cover]
• Sun. Q., Y. Du, S.-P. Xie, Y. Zhang, M. Wang, and Y. Kosaka, 2021: Sea surface salinity change since 1950: Internal variability versus anthropogenic forcing. J. Climate, 34, 1305-1319. [Link to paper]
• Wang, X., S.-P. Xie, Z. Guan, and M. Wang, 2021: A common base mode of Asian summer monsoon variability across timescales. J. Climate, 34, 7359-7371. [Link to paper]
• Wei, X., K. Li, T. Kilpatrick, M. Wang, and S.-P. Xie, 2021: Large-scale conditions for the record-setting Southern California Marine Heatwave of August 2018. Geophys. Res. Lett., 48, e2020GL091803. [Link to paper]
• Xia, X. L. Xu, S.-P. Xie, Y. Hong, and Y. Du, 2021: Fast and slow responses of the Subantarctic Mode Water in the South Indian Ocean to global warming in CMIP5 extended RCP4.5 simulations. Clim. Dyn., 56, 3157-3171. [Link to paper]
• Xu, L., Y. Ding, and S.-P. Xie, 2021: Recent lightening and weakening of the Subantarctic Mode Water. Geophys. Res. Lett., 48, e2021GL092511. [Link to paper]
• Yang, L., J.W. Liu, S.-P. Xie, and S.P. Shen, 2021: Transition from fog to stratus over the Northwest Pacific Ocean: Large-eddy simulation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 149,, 2913-2925. [Link to paper]
• Yang, Y., ..., and S.-P. Xie, 2021: Greenhouse warming intensifies north tropical Atlantic climate variability. Sci. Adv., 7, eabg9690. [Link to paper]
• Zhang, Y., Y. S. Yu, D.J. Amaya, Y. Kosaka, S. M. Larson, X. Wang, J.-C. Yang, M.F. Stuecker, S.-P. Xie, A.J. Miller, and X. Lin, 2021: Pacific meridional modes without equatorial Pacific influence. J. Climate, 34, 5285-5301. [Link to paper]
• Zheng, Y., Y. Du, J. Chi, Y. Zhang, and S.-P. Xie, 2021: Rapid changes in northeastern tropical Pacific Ocean surface salinity due to trans-basin moisture transport in recent decades. Clim. Dyn., 56, 2245-2257. [Link to paper]
• Zhou, Z.-Q., S.-P. Xie, and R. Zhang, 2021: Historic Yangtze flooding of 2020 tied to extreme Indian Ocean conditions. PNAS, 118, e2022255118. [Link to paper], [Journal highlight]

• Amaya, D.J., A.J. Miller, S.-P. Xie, and Y. Kosaka, 2020: Physical drivers of the summer 2019 North Pacific marine heatwave. Nature Commun., 11, 1903. [Link to paper]
• Geng, Y.F., S.-P. Xie, X.T. Zheng, and C.Y. Wang, 2020: Seasonal dependency of tropical precipitation change under global warming. J. Climate, 33, 7897-7908. [Link to paper]
• Hu, S., S.-P. Xie, and W. Liu, 2020: Global pattern formation of ocean surface heat uptake in a warming climate. J. Climate, 33, 7503-7522. [Link to paper]
• Johnson, N. D.A. Amaya, Q. Ding, Y. Kosaka, H. Tokinaga, and S.-P. Xie, 2020: Multidecadal modulations of key metrics of global climate change. Global Planet. Change, 188, 103149. [Link to paper]
• Ju, W.S., S.M. Long, S.-P. Xie, G. Wang, and Y. Du, 2020: Changes in the North Pacific subtropical gyre under 1.5C low warming scenario. Clim. Dyn., 55, 3117-3131. [Link to paper]
• Kang, S.M., S.-P. Xie, Y. Shin, H. Kim, Y.-T. Hwang, M.F. Stuecker, B. Xiang, and M. Hawcroft, 2020: Walker circulation response to extratropical radiative forcing. Sci. Adv., 6, eabd3021. [Link to paper]
• Liu, W., A. Fedrov, S.-P. Xie, and S. Hu, 2020: Climate impacts of a weakened Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in a warming climate. Sci. Adv., 6, eaaz4876. [Link to paper]
• Long, S.-M., S.-P. Xie, Q. Liu, Y. Du, X.-T. Zheng, G. Huang, K. Hu, and J. Ying, 2020: Effects of ocean slow response under low warming targets. J. Climate, 33, 477-496. [Link to paper]
• Peng, Q., S.-P. Xie, D. Wang, Y. Kamae, H. Zhang, S. Hu, X.-T. Zheng, and W. Wang, 2020: Eastern Pacific wind effect on the evolution of El Nino: Implications for ENSO diversity. J. Climate, 33, 3197-3212. [Link to paper]
• Schamberg, G., W.E. Chapman, S.-P. Xie, and T.P. Coleman, 2020: Direct and indirect effects—An information theoretic perspective. Entropy, 22, 854. [Link to paper]
• Shi, J.R., L.D. Talley, S.-P. Xie, W. Liu, and S.T. Gille, 2020: Effects of buoyancy and wind forcing on Southern Ocean climate change. J. Climate, 33, 10003-10020. [Link to paper]
• Sun, Y., J. Liu, and S. Xie, 2020: North Atlantic Oscillation effect on interannual variability in winter precipitation over the Gulf Stream. J. Climate, 33, 6633-6649. [Link to paper]
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• Xie, S.-P., and Y. Kosaka, 2016: Interannual variability and predictability of summer climate over the Northwest Pacific and East Asia. In Dynamics and Predictability of Large-scale, High-impact Weather and Climate Events (J. Li, R. Swinbank, H. Volkert and R. Grotjahnm, eds.), Cambridge Univ. Press, 333-342. [Link to paper]
• Yan, X.-H., T. Boyer, K. Trenberth, T. R. Karl, S.-P. Xie, V. Nieves, K.-K. Tung, and D. Roemmich, 2016: The global earming hiatus: Slowdown or redistribution? Earth's Future, 4, 472-482, doi: 10.1002/2016EF000417. [Link to paper]
• Zhang, R., S.-P. Xie, L. Xu, and Q. Liu, 2016: Changes in mixed layer depth and spring bloom in the Kuroshio Extension under global warming. Adv. Atmos. Sci., 33, 452-461, doi: 10.1007/s00376-015-5113-8. [Link to paper]
• Zheng, X.T., S.-P. Xie, L.H. Lv, and Z.Q. Zhou, 2016: Inter-model uncertainty in ENSO amplitude change tied to Pacific ocean warming pattern. J. Climate, 29, 7265-7279, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0039.1. [Link to paper]
• Zhou, W., S.-P. Xie, and Z.-Q. Zhou, 2016: Slow preconditioning for abrupt convective jump over the summer Northwest Pacific. J. Climate, 29, 8103-8113, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0342.1. [Link to paper]

• Xie, S.-P., C. Deser, G.A. Vecchi, M. Collins, T. L. Delworth, A. Hall, E. Hawkins, N. C. Johnson, C. Cassou, A. Giannini, and M. Watanabe, 2015: Towards predictive understanding of regional climate change. Nature Clim. Change, 5, 921-930, doi:10.1038/nclimate2689. [Link to paper], [magazine cover], [Highlights by CLIVAR]
• Mei, W., S.-P. Xie, F. Primeau, J. C. McWilliams, and C. Pasquero, 2015: Northwestern Pacific typhoon intensity controlled by changes in ocean temperatures, Science Advances, 1, e1500014, doi:10.1126/sciadv.1500014. [Link to paper]
• Amaya, D., S.-P. Xie, A. Miller, and M. McPhaden, 2015: Seasonality of tropical Pacific decadal trends during the 21st century global warming hiatus. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 120, 6782-6798, doi:10.1002/2015JC010906. [Link to paper]
• Brown, P., W. Li, and S.-P. Xie, 2015: Regions of significant influence on unforced global mean surface air temperature variability in climate models. J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 120, 480-494, doi:10.1002/2014JD022576. [Link to paper]
• Chikamoto, Y., J.-J. Luo, T, Mochizuki, M. Kimoto, M. Watanabe, M. Ishii, S.-P. Xie, and F.-F. Jin, 2015: Skillful multi-year predictions of tropical trans-basin climate variability. Nature Communications, 6, 6869, doi:10.1038/ncomms7869. [Link to paper]
• Chow, C.H., Q. Liu, and S.-P. Xie, 2015: Effects of Kuroshio intrusions on the atmosphere northeast of Taiwan. Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 1465-1470, DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062796. [Link to paper]
• Dai, A., J.C. Fyfe, S.-P. Xie, and X. Dai, 2015: Decadal modulation of global surface temperature by internal climate variability. Nature Climate Change, 5, 555-559, doi:10.1038/nclimate2605. [Link to paper]
• Diao, Y., S.-P. Xie, and D. Luo, 2015: Asymmetry of winter European surface air temperature extremes and the North Atlantic Oscillation. J. Climate, 28, 517-530. [Link to paper]
• Feng, M., H.H. Hendon, S.-P. Xie, A. Marshall, A. Schiller, Y. Kosaka, N. Caputi, and A. Pearce, 2015: Decadal increase in Ningaloo Nino since the late 1990s. Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 104-112, doi:10.1002/2014GL062509. [Link to paper]
• Huang, P., and S.-P. Xie, 2015: Mechanisms of global warming-induced changes in tropical Pacific rainfall variability associated with ENSO. Nature Geosci., 8, 922-926, doi: 10.1038/ngeo2571. [Link to paper]
• Kilpatrick, T., and S.-P. Xie, 2015: ASCAT observations of downdrafts from mesoscale convective systems. Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 1951-1958, DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063025. [Link to paper], [AGU highlight]
• Li, G., S.-P. Xie, and Y. Du, 2015: Monsoon-induced biases of climate models over the tropical Indian Ocean with implications for regional climate projection. J. Climate, 28, 3058-3072. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00740.1. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Li, G., S.-P. Xie, ad Y. Du, 2015: Climate model errors over the South Indian Ocean thermocline dome and their effect on the basin mode of interannual variability. J. Climate, 28, 3093-3098. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Liu, J.-W., S.-P. Xie, and S. Zhang, 2015: Effects of the Hawaiian Islands on the vertical structure of low-level clouds from CALIPSO lidar. J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 120, 215-228, doi:10.1002/2014JD022410. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Liu, W., J. Lu, and S.-P. Xie, 2015: Understanding the Indian Ocean response to double CO2 forcing in a coupled model. Ocean Dyn., 65, 1037-1046. [Link to paper]
• Liu, W., J. Lu, L. R. Leung, S.-P. Xie, Z. Liu and J. Zhu, 2015: The de-correlation of westerly winds and westerly-wind stress over the Southern Ocean during the Last Glacial Maximum. Clim. Dyn., 45, 3157-3168, doi:10.1007/s00382-015-2530-4. [Link to paper]
• Long, S.-M., and S.-P. Xie, 2015: Inter-model variations in projected precipitation change over the North Atlantic: Sea surface temperature effect. Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 4158-4165, DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063852. [Link to paper]
• Mei, W., S.-P. Xie, M. Zhao, and Y. Wang, 2015: Forced and internal variability of tropical cyclone track density in the western North Pacific. J. Climate, 28, 143-167. [Link to paper]
• Mei, W., M. Lie, I.-I. Lin, and S.-P. Xie, 2015: Tropical cyclone-induced ocean response: A comparative study of the South China Sea and tropical Northwest Pacific Ocean. J. Climate, 28, 5952-5968. [Link to paper]
• Qu, X., G. Huang, K. Hu, S.-P. Xie, Y. Du, X.-T. Zheng,and L. Liu, 2015: Equatorward shift of the South Asian high in response to anthropogenic forcing. Theor. Appl. Climatol., 119, 113-122, doi:10.1007/s00704-014-1095-1. [Link to paper]
• Wang, G., S.-P. Xie, R.X. Huang, and C. Chen, 2015: Robust warming pattern of global subtropical oceans and its mechanism. J. Climate, 28, 8574-8584. [Link to paper]
• Xu, Y., and S.-P. Xie, 2015: Ocean mediation of tropospheric response to reflecting and absorbing aerosols. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 5827-5833, doi:10.5194/acp-15-5827-2015. [Link to paper]
• Yang, Y.L., S.-P. Xie, Y. Du, and H. Tokinaga, 2015: Interdecadal difference of interannual variability characteristics of SCS SST associated with ENSO. J. Climate, 28, 7145-7160. [Link to paper]
• Yang, Y., S.-P. Xie, L. Wu, Y. Kosaka, N.-C. Lau, and G.A. Vecchi, 2015: Seasonality and predictability of the Indian Ocean dipole mode: ENSO forcing and internal variability. J. Climate, 28, 8021-8036. [Link to paper]
• Zhou, Z.-Q., and S.-P. Xie, 2015: Effects of climatological model biases on the projection of tropical climate change. J. Climate, 28, 9909-9917. [Link to paper]

• Hu, K., G. Huang, X.-T. Zheng, S.-P. Xie, X. Qu, Y. Du, and L. Liu, 2014: Interdecadal variations in ENSO influences on Northwest Pacific-East Asian summertime climate simulated in CMIP5 models. J. Climate, 27, 5982-5998. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Kang, S.M., I.M. Held, and S.-P. Xie, 2014: Tropical responses to zonally asymmetric thermal forcing. Clim. Dyn., 42, 2033-2043, doi: 10.1007/s00382-013-1863-0. [Link to paper]
• Kang, S.M., and S.-P. Xie, 2014: Dependence of climate response on meridional structure of external thermal forcing. J. Climate, 27, 5593-5600. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Li, G., and S.-P. Xie, 2014: Tropical biases in CMIP5 multi-model ensemble: The excessive equatorial Pacific cold tongue and double ITCZ problems. J. Climate, 27, 1765-1780. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Li, J., S.-P. Xie, and E.R. Cook, 2014: El Nino phases embedded in Asian and North American drought reconstructions. Quaternary Science Reviews, 85, 20-34, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.11.014. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Liu, J.-W., S.-P. Xie, J. Norris, and S. Zhang, 2014: Low-level cloud response to the Gulf Stream front in winter using CALIPSO. J. Climate, 27, 4421-4432. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Liu, L., S.-P. Xie, X.-T. Zheng, T. Li, Y. Du, G. Huang, and W.-D. Yu, 2014: Indian Ocean variability in the CMIP5 multi-model ensemble: The zonal dipole mode. Clim. Dyn., 43, 1715-1730, doi:10.1007/s00382-013-2000-9. [Link to paper]
• Long, S.-M., S.-P. Xie, X.-T. Zheng, and Q. Liu, 2014: Fast and slow response to global warming: Sea surface temperature and precipitation patterns. J. Climate, 27, 285-299. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Maloney, E.D., S. J. Camargo, E. Chang, B. Colle, R. Fu, K. L. Geil, Q. Hu, X. Jiang, N. Johnson, K. B. Karnauskas, J. Kinter, B. Kirtman, S. Kumar, B. Langenbrunner, K. Lombardo, L. N. Long, A. Mariotti, J. E. Meyerson, K. C. Mo, J. D. Neelin, Z. Pan, R. Seager, Y. Serra, A. Seth, J. Sheffield, J. Stroeve, J. Thibeault, S.-P. Xie, C. Wang, B. Wyman, and M. Zhao, 2014: North American climate in CMIP5 experiments: Part III: Assessment of 21st century projections. J. Climate, 27, 2230-2270. [Link to paper]
• Maloney, E., X. Jiang; S.-P. Xie, and J. Benedict, 2014: Process-Oriented diagnosis of East Pacific Warm pool intraseasonal variability. J. Climate, 27, 6305-6324. [Link to paper]
• Mei, W., S.-P. Xie, and M. Zhao, 2014: Variability of tropical cyclone track density in the North Atlantic: Observations and high-resolution simulations. J. Climate, 27, 4797-4814. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Richter, I., S.K. Behera, T. Doi, B. Taguchi, Y. Masumoto, and S.-P. Xie, 2014: What controls equatorial Atlantic winds in boreal spring? Clim. Dyn., 43, 3091-3104, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2170-0. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Richter, I., S.-P. Xie, S.K. Behera, T. Doi, and Y. Masumoto, 2014: Equatorial Atlantic variability and its relation to mean state biases in CMIP5. Clim. Dyn., 42, 171-188, doi:10.1007/s00382-012-1624-5. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Xu, L., S.-P. Xie, J. McClean, Q. Liu, and H. Sasaki, 2014: Mesoscale eddy effects on the subduction of North Pacific mode waters J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 119, 4867-4886, doi:10.1002/2014JC009861. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Zhou, Z.-Q., S.-P. Xie, X.-T. Zheng, Q. Liu, and H. Wang, 2014: Global warming-induced changes in El Nino teleconnections over the North Pacific and North America. J. Climate, 27, 9050-9064, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00254.1. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Zinke, J., A. Rountrey, M. Feng, S.-P. Xie, D. Dissard, K. Rankenburg, J.M. Lough, and M.T. McCulloch, 2014: Corals record long-term Leeuwin current variability including Ningaloo Nino/Nina since 1795. Nature Communications, 5, 3607, doi:10.1038/ncomms4607. [Link to paper]

Contributions as lead author to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report

• IPCC, 2013: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Stocker, T.F., D. Qin, G.-K. Plattner, M. Tignor, S. K. Allen, J. Boschung, A. Nauels, Y. Xia, V. Bex and P.M. Midgley (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, pp. 1-30, doi:10.1017/CBO9781107415324.004. [Link to paper]
• Stocker, T.F., D. Qin, G.-K. Plattner, L.V. Alexander, S.K. Allen, N.L. Bindoff, F.-M. Breon, J.A. Church, U. Cubasch, S. Emori, P. Forster, P. Friedlingstein, N. Gillett, J.M. Gregory, D.L. Hartmann, E. Jansen, B. Kirtman, R. Knutti, K. Krishna Kumar, P. Lemke, J. Marotzke, V. Masson-Delmotte, G.A. Meehl, I.I. Mokhov, S. Piao, V. Ramaswamy, D. Randall, M. Rhein, M. Rojas, C. Sabine, D. Shindell, L.D. Talley, D.G. Vaughan and S.-P. Xie, 2013: Technical Summary. In: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Stocker, T.F., D. Qin, G.-K. Plattner, M. Tignor, S.K. Allen, J. Boschung, A. Nauels, Y. Xia, V. Bex and P.M. Midgley (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, pp. 33-115, doi:10.1017/CBO9781107415324.005. [Link to paper]
• Christensen, J.H., K. Krishna Kumar, E. Aldrian, S.-I. An, I.F.A. Cavalcanti, M. de Castro, W. Dong, P. Goswami, A. Hall, J.K. Kanyanga, A. Kitoh, J. Kossin, N.-C. Lau, J. Renwick, D.B. Stephenson, S.-P. Xie and T. Zhou, 2013: Climate Phenomena and their Relevance for Future Regional Climate Change. In: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Stocker, T.F., D. Qin, G.-K. Plattner, M. Tignor, S.K. Allen, J. Boschung, A. Nauels, Y. Xia, V. Bex and P.M. Midgley (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, pp. 1217-1308, doi: 10.1017/CBO9781107415324.028. [Link to paper]

• Xie, S.-P., B. Lu, and B. Xiang, 2013: Similar spatial patterns of climate responses to aerosol and greenhouse gas changes. Nature Geosci., 6, 828-832, published online 1 September 2013, doi:10.1038/NGEO1931. [Link to paper]
• Kosaka, Y., and S.-P. Xie, 2013: Recent global-warming hiatus tied to equatorial Pacific surface cooling. Nature, 501, 403-407, published online 28 August 2013, doi:10.1038/nature12534. [Link to paper][editorial] [commentary in Nature][news in Science]
• Huang, P., S.-P. Xie, K. Hu, G. Huang, and R. Huang, 2013: Patterns of the seasonal response of tropical rainfall to global warming. Nature Geosci., 6, 357 - 361 (doi:10.1038/NGEO1792). [Link to paper][commentary]
• Kosaka, Y., S.-P. Xie, N.-C. Lau, and G.A. Vecchi, 2013: Origin of seasonal predictability for summer climate over the Northwestern Pacific. PNAS, 110, 7574-7579, doi:10.1073/pnas.1215582110. [Link to paper]
• Li, J., S.-P. Xie, E. Cook, M. Morales, D. Christie, N. Johnson, F. Chen, R. D'Arrigo, A. Fowler, X. Gou, and K. Fang, 2013: El Nino modulations over the past seven centuries. Nature Clim. Change, 3, 822-826, doi:10.1038/NCLIMATE1936. [Link to paper]
• Cheng, X., S.-P. Xie, J.P. McCreary, Y. Qi, and Y. Du, 2013: Intraseasonal variability of sea surface height in the Bay of Bengal. J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 118, 816-830, doi:10.1002/jgrc.20075. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Du, Y., S.-P. Xie, Y.-L. Yang, X.-T. Zheng, L. Liu, and G. Huang 2013: Indian Ocean variability in the CMIP5 multi-model ensemble: The basin mode. J. Climate, 26, 7240-7266. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Feng, M., M.J. McPhaden, S.-P. Xie, and J. Hafner, 2013: La Nina forces unprecedented Leeuwin Current warming in 2011. Scientific Reports, 3, 1277, doi:10.1038/srep01277. [Link to paper]
• Fuckar, N.S., S.-P. Xie, R. Farneti, E. Maroon, and D.M. W. Frierson, 2013: Influence of the extratropical ocean circulation on the intertropical convergence zone in an idealized coupled general circulation model. J. Climate, 26, 4612-4629, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00294.1. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Ito, H., N.C. Johnson, and S.-P. Xie, 2013: Interannual variability in extreme temperature occurrence over East Asia. J. Climate, 26, 9026-9042. [Link to paper]
• Kuwano-Yoshida, Y., B. Taguchi, and S.-P. Xie, 2013: Baiu rainband termination in atmospheric and atmosphere-ocean models. J. Climate, 26, 10111-10124. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Li, C., L. Wu, and S.-P. Xie, 2013: Impacts of interhemispheric asymmetric thermal forcing on tropical Pacific climate: Surface air-sea coupling and subduction. J. Climate, 26, 575-582, DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00743.1. [Link to paper]
• Liu, J.-W., S. Zhang, and S.-P. Xie, 2013: Two types of surface wind response to the East China Sea Kuroshio front. J. Climate, 26, 8616-8627. [Link to paper]
• Ma, J., and S.-P. Xie, 2013: Regional patterns of sea surface temperature change: A source of uncertainty in future projections of precipitation and atmospheric circulation. J. Climate, 26, 2482-2501. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Maloney, E.D., and S.-P. Xie, 2013: Sensitivity of MJO activity to the pattern of climate warming. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 5, 32-47, doi:10.1029/2012MS000171. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Ogata, T., S.-P. Xie, A. Wittenberg, and D.-Z. Sun, 2013: Interdecadal amplitude modulation of El Nino/Southern Oscillation and its impacts on tropical Pacific decadal variability. J. Climate, 26, 7280-7297. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Ogata, T., S.-P. Xie, J. Lan, and X. Zheng, 2013: Importance of ocean dynamics for the skewness of the Indian Ocean Dipole mode. J. Climate, 26, 2145-2159. [Link to paper]
• Park, H.-S., S.-P. Xie, and S.-W. Son, 2013: Poleward stationary eddy heat transport by the Tibetan Plateau and equatorward shift of westerlies during northern winter. J. Atmos. Sci., 70, 3288-3301. [Link to paper]
• Rydbeck, A., E. Maloney, S.-P. Xie, J. Hafner, and J. Shaman, 2013: Remote forcing versus local feedback of East Pacific intraseasonal variability. J. Climate, 26, 3575-3596, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00499.1. [Link to paper]
• Seo, H., and S.-P. Xie, 2013: Impact of ocean warm layer thickness on the intensity of hurricane Katrina in a regional coupled model. Meteor. Atmos. Phys., 122, 19-32. [Link to paper]
• Sheffield, J., S. J. Camargo, R. Fu, Q. Hu, X. Jiang, N. Johnson, K. B. Karnauskas, S. T. Kim, J. Kinter, S. Kumar, B. Langenbrunner, E. Maloney, A. Mariotti, J. E. Meyerson, J. D. Neelin, S. Nigam, Z. Pan, A. Ruiz-Barradas, R. Seager, Y. L. Serra, D.-Z. Sun, C. Wang, S.-P. Xie, J.-Y. Yu, T. Zhang, and M. Zhao, 2013: North American climate in CMIP5 experiments. Part II: Evaluation of historical simulations of intraseasonal to decadal variability. J. Climate, 26, 9247-9290. [Link to paper]
• Takahashi, H., H. Su, J.H. Jiang, Z.J. Luo, S.-P. Xie, and J. Hafner, 2013: Tropical water vapor variations during the 2006-07 and 2009-10 El Ninios: Satellite observation and GCM simulation. J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 118, 8910-8920, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50684. [Link to paper]
• Tomita, H., S.-P. Xie, H. Tokinaga, and Y. Kawai, 2013: Cloud response to the meandering Kuroshio Extension front. J. Climate, 26, 9393-9398. [Link to paper]
• Zheng, X.-T., S.-P. Xie, Y. Du, L. Liu, G. Huang, and Q. Liu, 2013: Indian Ocean Dipole response to global warming in the CMIP5 multi-model ensemble. J. Climate, 26, 6067-6080, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00638.1. [Link to paper][pdf]

• Tokinaga, H., S.-P. Xie, C. Deser, Y. Kosaka and Y. M. Okumura, 2012: Slowdown of the Walker circulation driven by tropical Indo-Pacific warming. Nature, 491, 439-443, doi:10.1038/nature11576. [Link to paper]
• Alexander, M.A., H. Seo, S.-P. Xie, and J.D. Scott, 2012: ENSO's impact on the gap wind regions of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. J. Climate, 25, 3549-565. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Chang, C.-H., S.-P. Xie, N. Schneider, B. Qiu, J. Small, W. Zhuang, B. Taguchi, H. Sasaki, and X. Lin, 2012: East Pacific ocean eddies and their relationship to subseasonal variability in Central American wind jets. J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans., 117, C10001, doi:10.1029/2011JC007315. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Chowdary, J. S., S.-P. Xie, H. Tokinaga, Y. M. Okumura, H. Kubota, N. C. Johnson, and X.-T. Zheng, 2012: Inter-decadal variations in ENSO teleconnection to the Indo-western Pacific for 1870-2007. J. Climate, 25, 1722-744. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Kobashi, F., and S.-P. Xie, 2012: Interannual variability of the North Pacific Subtropical Countercurrent: Role of local ocean-atmosphere interaction. J. Oceanogr., 68, 113-126. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Kosaka, Y., J. S. Chowdary, S.-P. Xie, Y.-M. Min, and J.-Y. Lee, 2012: Limitations of seasonal predictability for summer climate over East Asia and the Northwestern Pacific. J. Climate, 25, 7574-7589. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Li, G., and S.-P. Xie, 2012: Origins of tropical-wide SST biases in CMIP multi-model ensembles. Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L22703, doi:10.1029/2012GL053777. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Li, J., G. Wang, S.-P. Xie, R. Zhang, and Z.Sun, 2012: A winter warm pool southwest of Hainan Island due to the orographic wind wake. J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 117, C08036, doi:10.1029/2012JC008189. [Link to paper]
• Ma, J., S.-P. Xie, and Y. Kosaka, 2012: Mechanisms for tropical tropospheric circulation change in response to global warming. J. Climate, 25, 2979-994. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Nonaka, M., S.-P. Xie, and H. Sasaki, 2012: Interannual variations in low potential vorticity water and the subtropical countercurrent in an eddy-resolving OGCM. J. Oceanogr., 68, 139-150. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Oshima, K., Y. Tanimoto, and S.-P. Xie, 2012: Regional patterns of wintertime SLP change over the North Pacific and their uncertainty in CMIP3 multi-model projections. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 90A, 385-396. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Richter, I., S.-P. Xie, A.T. Wittenberg, and Y. Masumoto, 2012: Tropical Atlantic biases and their relation to surface wind stress and terrestrial precipitation. Clim. Dyn., 38, 985-1001, doi:10.1007/s00382-011-1038-9. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Sasaki, H., S.-P. Xie, B. Taguchi, M. Nonaka, S. Hosoda, and Y. Masumoto, 2012: Interannual variations of the Hawaiian Lee Countercurrent induced by low potential vorticity water ventilation in the subsurface. J. Oceanogr., 68, 93-111. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Tokinaga, H., S.-P. Xie, A. Timmermann, S. McGregor, T. Ogata, H. Kubota, and Y.M. Okumura, 2012: Regional patterns of tropical Indo-Pacific climate change: Evidence of the Walker Circulation weakening. J. Climate, 25, 1689-1710. [Link to paper][pdf][highlight in Nature Geosci.]; 2012 Yamamoto-Shyono Medal from the Meteorological Society of Japan[award citation]
• Wang, D., W. Zhuang, S.-P. Xie, J. Hu, and R. Wu, 2012: Coastal upwelling in summer 2000 in the northeastern South China Sea. J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 117, C04009, doi:10.1029/2011JC007465. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Weller, E., M. Feng, H. Hendon, J. Ma, S.-P. Xie, and N. Caputi, 2012: Interannual variations of wind regimes off the subtropical Western Australia coast during austral winter and spring. J. Climate, 25, 5587-5599. [Link to paper]
• Xu, L.X., S.-P. Xie, and Q. Liu, 2012: Mode water ventilation and subtropical countercurrent over the North Pacific in CMIP5 simulations and future projections. J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 117, C12009, doi:10.1029/2012JC008377. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Xu, L.X., S.-P. Xie, Q. Liu, and F. Kobashi, 2012: Response of the North Pacific Subtropical Countercurrent and its variability to global warming. J. Oceanogr., 68, 127-137, doi:10.1007/s10872-011-0031-6. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Yang, L., Y. Du, S.-P. Xie, and D. Wang, 2012: An inter-decadal change of tropical cyclone activity in the South China Sea in early 1990s. Chinese J.Oceanology Limnology, 30, 953-959. [Link to paper][pdf]

• Xie, S.-P., L.-X. Xu, Q. Liu, and F. Kobashi, 2011: Dynamical role of mode-water ventilation in decadal variability in the central subtropical gyre of the North Pacific. J. Climate, 24, 1212-1225. [Link to paper][pdf]
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• Liu, Q., X. Jiang, S.-P. Xie, and W.T. Liu, 2004: A gap in the Indo-Pacific warm pool over the South China Sea in boreal winter: Seasonal development and interannual variability. J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 109, C07012, doi:10.1029/2003JC002179. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Endoh, T., H. Mitsudera, S.-P. Xie, B. Qiu, 2004: Thermohaline structure in the subarctic North Pacific simulated in a general circulation model. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 34, 360-371. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Hosoda, S., S.-P. Xie, K. Takeuchi and M. Nonaka, 2004: Interdecadal temperature variations in the North Pacific central mode water simulated by an OGCM. J. Oceanogr., 60, 865-877. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Fu, G., Y. Duan, X. Liang and S.-P. Xie, 2004: Observations of a heavy rainfall event in Shanghai on 5 August 2001. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 82, 1793-1803. [Link to paper]

• Xie, S.-P., Q. Xie, D.X. Wang and W.T. Liu, 2003: Summer upwelling in the South China Sea and its role in regional climate variations. J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 108, 3261, doi: 10.1029/2003JC001867. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Inatsu, M., H. Mukougawa, and S.-P. Xie, 2003: Atmospheric response to zonal variations in mid-latitude SST: Transient and stationary eddies and their feedback. J. Climate, 16, 3314-3329. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Okajima, H., S.-P. Xie and A. Numaguti, 2003: Interhemispheric coherence of tropical climate variability: Effect of climatological ITCZ. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 81, 1371-1386. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Nonaka, M. and S.-P. Xie, 2003: Co-variations of sea surface temperature and wind over the Kuroshio and its extension: Evidence for ocean-to-atmospheric feedback. J. Climate, 16, 1404-1413. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Cronin, M.F., S.-P. Xie and H. Hashizume, 2003: Barometric pressure variations associated with eastern Pacific tropical instability waves. J. Climate, 16, 3050-3057. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Small, R.J., S.-P. Xie and Y. Wang, 2003: Numerical simulation of atmospheric response to Pacific tropical instability waves. J. Climate, 16, 3723-3741. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Fujiwara, M., S.-P. Xie, M. Shiotani, H. Hashizume, F. Hasebe, H. Vomel, S.J. Oltmans and T. Watanabe, 2003: Upper tropospheric inversion and easterly jet in the tropics. J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 108, 4797, doi: 10.1029/2003JD003928. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Hafner, J. and S.-P. Xie, 2003: Far-field simulation of the Hawaiian wake: Sea surface temperature and orographic effects. J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 3021-3032. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Yu, Z., N. Maximenko, S.-P. Xie and M. Nonaka, 2003: On the termination of the Hawaiian Lee Countercurrent. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 1215, doi: 10.1029/2002GL016710. [Link to paper]
• Wu, R. and S.-P. Xie, 2003: On equatorial Pacific surface wind changes around 1977: NCEP-NCAR reanalysis versus COADS observation. J. Climate, 16, 167-173. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Annamalai, H.R. Murtugudde, J. Potemra, S.-P. Xie, P. Liu and B. Wang, 2003: Coupled dynamics in the Indian Ocean: Spring initiation of the zonal mode. Deep Sea Res. II, 50, 2305-2330. [Link to paper]

• Xie, S.-P., H. Annamalai, F.A. Schott and J.P. McCreary, 2002: Structure and mechanisms of South Indian Ocean climate variability. J. Climate, 15, 864-878. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Xie, S.-P., J. Hafner, Y. Tanimoto, W.T. Liu, H. Tokinaga and H. Xu, 2002: Bathymetric effect on the winter sea surface temperature and climate of the Yellow and East China Seas. Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, 2228, doi: 10.1029/2002GL015884. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Xie, S.-P., 2002: Rich structures of ocean-atmosphere interaction. Tenki (Bull. Meteor. Soc. Japan), 49, 955-968. [pdf]
• Hashizume, H., S.-P. Xie, M. Fujiwara, M. Shiotani, T. Watanabe, Y. Tanimoto, W. T. Liu, K. Takeuchi, 2002: Direct observations of atmospheric boundary layer response to SST variations associated with tropical instability waves over the eastern equatorial Pacific. J. Climate, 15, 3379-3393. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Inatsu, M., H. Mukougawa and S.-P. Xie, 2002: Tropical and extratropical SST effects on the midlatitude storm track. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 80, 1069-1076. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Tanimoto, Y. and S.-P. Xie, 2002: Inter-hemispheric decadal variations in SST, surface wind, heat flux and cloud cover over the Atlantic Ocean. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 80, 1199-1219. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Tomita, T., S.-P. Xie and M. Nonaka, 2002: Estimates of surface and subsurface forcing for decadal sea surface temperature variability in the mid-latitude North Pacific. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 80, 1289-1300. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Nonaka, M., S.-P. Xie and J.P McCreary, 2002: Decadal variations in the subtropical cells and equatorial Pacific SST. Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, 1116, doi: 10.1029/2001GL013676. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Inatsu, M., H. Mukougawa and S.-P. Xie, 2002: Stationary eddy response to surface boundary forcing: Idealized GCM experiments. J. Atmos. Sci., 59, 1898-1915. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Kubokawa, A. and S.-P. Xie, 2002: Steady response of a ventilated thermocline to enhanced Ekman pumping. J. Oceanogr., 58, 565-575. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Qu, T., S.-P. Xie, H. Mitsudera, and A. Ishida, 2002: Subduction of the North Pacific mode waters in a global high-resolution GCM. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 32, 746-763. [Link to paper]

• Xie, S.-P., W.T. Liu, Q. Liu and M. Nonaka, 2001: Far-reaching Effects of the Hawaiian Islands on the Pacific Ocean-atmosphere system. Science, 292, 2057-2060. [Link to paper][Press Coverage]
• Xie, S.-P. and K. Saito, 2001: Formation and variability of a northerly ITCZ in a hybrid coupled AGCM: Continental forcing and ocean-atmospheric feedback. J. Climate, 14, 1262-1276. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Okumura, Y., S.-P. Xie, A. Numaguti, Y. Tanimoto, 2001: Tropical Atlantic air-sea interaction and its influence on the NAO. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 1507-1510. [Link to paper][ps][pdf]
• Hashizume, H., S.-P. Xie, W.T. Liu and K. Takeuchi, 2001: Local and remote atmospheric response to tropical instability waves: A global view from the space. J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 106, 10 173-10 185. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Hosoda, S., S.-P. Xie, K. Takeuchi and M. Nonaka, 2001: Eastern North Pacific subtropical mode water in a GCM: Formation mechanism and salinity effects. J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 106, 19 671-19 681. [Link to paper]
• Nonaka, M. and S.-P. Xie, 2000: Propagation of North Pacific interdecadal subsurface temperature anomalies in an ocean GCM. Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 3747-3750. [Link to paper][pdf]

• Xie, S.-P., T. Kunitani, A. Kubokawa, M. Nonaka and S. Hosoda, 2000: Interdecadal thermocline variability in the North Pacific for 1958-1997: A GCM simulation. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 30, 2798-2813. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Liu, W.T., X. Xie, P.S. Polito, S.-P. Xie and H. Hashizume, 2000: Atmospheric manifestation of tropical instability waves observed by QuikSCAT and Tropical Rain Measuring Mission. Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 2545-2548. [Link to paper]
• Nonaka, M., S.-P. Xie and K. Takeuchi, 2000: Equatorward spreading of a passive tracer with application to North Pacific interdecadal temperature variations. J. Oceanogr., 56, 173-183. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Inatsu, M., H. Mukougawa and S.-P. Xie, 2000: Formation of subtropical westerly jet in GCMs without mountains. Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 529-532. [Link to paper][pdf]

• Xie, S.-P. and N. Saiki, 1999: Abrupt onset and slow seasonal evolution of summer monsoon in an idealized GCM simulation. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 77, 949-968. [Link to paper]
• Xie, S.-P., Y. Tanimoto, H. Noguchi and T. Matsuno, 1999: How and why climate variability differs between the tropical Pacific and Atlantic. Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 1609-1612. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Xie, S.-P., H. Noguchi and S. Matsumura, 1999: A hemispheric-scale quasi-decadal oscillation and its signature in northern Japan. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 77, 573-582. [Link to paper]
• Tanimoto, Y. and S.-P. Xie, 1999: Ocean-atmospheric variability over the pan-Atlantic basin. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 77, 31-46. [Link to paper]; 2001 Yamamoto-Shyono Medal from the Meteorological Society of Japan [award citation]
• Xie, S.-P., 1999: A dynamic ocean-atmosphere model of the tropical Atlantic decadal variability. J. Climate, 12, 64-70. [Link to paper][pdf]

• Xie, S.-P., M. Ishiwatari, H. Hashizume and K. Takeuchi, 1998: Coupled ocean-atmospheric waves on the equatorial front. Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 3863-3866. [Link to paper]
• Xie, S.-P. and Y. Tanimoto, 1998: A pan-Atlantic decadal climate oscillation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 2185-2188. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Xie, S.-P., 1998: Ocean-atmosphere interaction in the making of the Walker circulation and the equatorial cold tongue, J. Climate, 11, 189-201. [Link to paper]

• Xie, S.-P. and M. Seki, 1997: Causes of equatorial asymmetry in sea surface temperature over the eastern Pacific. Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 2581-2584. [Link to paper]
• Xie, S.-P., 1997: Stability of equatorially symmtetric and asymmetric climates under annual solar forcing. Q.J.R. Meteor. Soc., 123, 1359-1375. [Link to paper]
• Xie, S.-P., 1997: Ocean-atmosphere interaction in the formation of equatorial asymmtery of the tropical climate: Yamamoto-Shyono Medal Lecture. Tenki (Bulletin Meteor. Soc. Japan), 44, 389-398 (in Japanese).[pdf]
• Xie, S.-P., 1997: Unstable transition of the tropical climate to an equatorially asymmetric state in a coupled ocean-atmosphere model. Mon. Wea. Rev., 125, 667-679. [Link to paper]

• Xie, S.-P., 1996: Effects of seasonal solar forcing on latitudinal asymmetry of the ITCZ. J. Climate, 9, 2945-2950. [Link to paper]
• Xie, S.-P., 1996: Westward propagation of latitudinal asymmetry in a coupled ocean-atmosphere model. J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 3236-3250. [Link to paper][pdf]

• Xie, S.-P., 1995: Interaction between the annual and interannual variations in the equatorial Pacific. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 25, 1930-1941. [Link to paper]

• Xie, S.-P., 1994: On the genesis of the equatorial annual cycle. J. Climate, 7, 2008-2013. [Link to paper]
• Xie, S.-P., 1994: The maintenance of an equatorially asymmetric state in a hybrid coupled GCM. J. Atmos. Sci., 51, 2602-2612. [Link to paper]
• Xie, S.-P., 1994: Oceanic response to the wind forcing associated with an ITCZ in the northern hemisphere. J. Geophys. Res. (Oceans), 99, 20393-20402. [Link to paper]
• Xie, S.-P., 1994: On preferred zonal scale of wave-CISK with conditional heating. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 72, 19-30. [Link to paper]
• Xie, S.-P. and S.G.H. Philander, 1994: A coupled ocean-atmosphere model of relevance to the ITCZ in the eastern Pacific. Tellus, 46A, 340-350. [Link to paper][pdf]; 1996 Yamamoto-Shyono Medal from the Meteorological Society of Japan [award citation]
• Liu, Z. and S.-P. Xie, 1994: Equatorward propagation of coupled air-sea disturbances with application to the annual cycle of the eastern tropical Pacific. J. Atmos. Sci., 51, 3807-3822. [Link to paper]

• Xie, S.-P., A. Kubokawa and K. Hanawa, 1993: Evaporation-wind feedback and the organizing of tropical convection on the planetary scale. Part I: Quasi-linear instability. J. Atmos. Sci., 50, 3873-3883. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Xie, S.-P., A. Kubokawa and K. Hanawa, 1993: Evaporation-wind feedback and the organizing of tropical convection on the planetary scale. Part II: Nonlinear evolution. J. Atmos. Sci., 50, 3884-3893. [Link to paper]

• Xie, S.-P. and A. Kubokawa, 1990: On the wave-CISK in the presence of a frictional boundary layer. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 68, 651-657. [Link to paper]

• Xie, S.-P., A. Kubokawa and K. Hanawa, 1989: Oscillations with two feedback processes in a coupled ocean-atmosphere model. J. Climate, 2, 946-964. [Link to paper]

Other Notable Publications:

• Xie, S.-P., 2025: Mode water going round. National Science Review, 12, nwaf114. [Link to paper]
• Xie, S.-P., 2024: Chase the changing winds. Front. Sci., 2, 1430737. [Link to paper]
• Xie, S.-P., 2016: Leading the hiatus research surge. Nature Climate Change, 6, 345-246, doi:10.1038/nclimate2973,[Link to paper], commissioned for the NCC's fifth anniversary.
• Kosaka, Y., and S.-P. Xie, 2015: Tropical Pacific influence on the recent hiatus in surface global warming. Variations (U.S. CLIVAR Newsletter), 13(30), 10-15. [pdf]
• Xie, S.-P., 2013: Unequal equinoxes. Nature, 500, 33-34, doi:10.1038/nature12456. [Link to paper]
• Xie, S.-P., 2012: Book Review "The Atmosphere and Ocean: A Physical Introduction (3rd Ed.)". Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 1729-1732. [pdf]
• Xie, S.-P., A. Kubokawa, F. Kobashi, and H. Mistudera, 2012: New developments in mode-water research: An introduction. J. Oceanogr., 68, 1-3. [Link to paper]
• Xie, S.-P., 2009: Ocean-atmosphere interaction and tropical climate. In Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), submitted. [pdf]
• Tokinaga, H., S.-P. Xie, F. Kobashi, and Y. Tanimoto, 2009: Local and remote influences of the Kuroshio Extension on the atmosphere. Variations (U.S. CLIVAR Newsletter), 7(1), 1-4.
• Sampe, T., and S.-P. Xie, 2008: Reply. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 89, 1380. [pdf]
• Donohue, K.A., N. Bond, S. Chen, M. Cronin, P. Hacker, N.G. Hogg, S.R. Jayne, J.-H. Park, J. McClean, G. Mizuta, H. Mitsudera, B. Qiu, L. Rainville, Y. Tanimoto, K. Tracey, D.R. Watts, M. Wimbush, and S.-P. Xie, 2008: Program studies the Kuroshio Extension. EOS, 89, 161-162. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Xie, S.-P., J. Luo, N.H. Saji, and W. Yu, 2006: Thermocline dome and climate variability over the tropical South Indian Ocean. CLIVAR Exchanges, 11, 11-14. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Xie, S.-P., M. Nonaka, Y. Tanimoto, H. Tokinaga, H. Xu, W. S. Kessler, R. J. Small, W. T. Liu, and J. Hafner, 2004: A fine view from space. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 85, 1060-1062. [Link to paper][pdf]
• Xie, S.-P., 2000: Japanese team measures tropical instability effects. Physics Today, 53-12, 11. [Link to paper]
• Dictionary of Geophysics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy. R. Matzner (Ed.), 526pp, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA (2001).

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