Shang-Ping Xie

Shang-Ping Xie[a] is a climatology and oceanography researcher who holds the Roger Revelle Chair at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Known best for his research on interaction between the world's oceans and atmosphere and on El Niño–Southern Oscillation, Xie is noted as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate.[2]

Early life and education

Xie was born in Quzhou in 1963.[3] He entered university after the Cultural Revolution had ended, and studied oceanography, though he had never seen the ocean before.[4] His education includes:[5]

• Bachelor of Science, Shandong College of Oceanography (Ocean University of China), 1984[6]
• Study at Dalian College of Foreign Languages, 1984–85
• Master of Science, Tohoku University, 1988
• Doctor of Science, Tohoku University, 1991

He was a visiting scientist to Princeton University from 1991 to 1993, and a research associate for the University of Washington from 1993 to 1994.[5]

Career

Xie had been employed at the University of Hawaiʻi as a professor of meteorology until he joined the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California, San Diego in 2012 as the inaugural Roger Revelle Chair,[b][7] a title named for pioneering researcher Roger Revelle,[8] established with an endowment from the Revelle family.[9] While at Hawaiʻi, he was faculty in the International Pacific Research Center of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology.[10]

In April 2016, as a Scripps professor, Xie returned to the University of Washington as an endowed lecturer—he gave a lecture on El Niño in the Graduate Students' Distinguished Visiting Lecture series.[11]

Research

In 2013, a study co-authored by Xie and published in Nature suggested that the slowdown in global warming was tied to cooling in parts of the Pacific Ocean.[12][13] Further research into the slowdown was published in 2015, in the journal Nature Climate Change.[14][15] Xie has also published research on modeling the role of human activity to global warming; a 2015 co-authored paper in Nature Geoscience modeled the evolution of global temperature, creating a new method of tracking anthropogenic global warming.[16][17] The modelling was reported on again in 2016, when Xie and others modelled human activities' impact on warming.[18] Other papers on climate change have included collaboration with authors affiliated with Duke University and University of Wisconsin–Madison.[19][20] In 2019, Xie published research with scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where they modelled Hadley cells to predict changes in the monsoon season of parts of Asia.[21][22] In a 2022 article published by the World Economic Forum and The Conversation and co-authored by Xie, the authors claim that tropical cyclones have been increasing in intensity over time.[23]

In 2016, Xie was the organizer of a special issue of Advances in Atmospheric Sciences.[c][24]

Xie has been included as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate in the field of geosciences.[25]

Awards

• Sverdrup Gold Medal, conferred by the American Meteorological Society (2017)[d][6]

Notes

1. Simplified Chinese: 谢尚平; traditional Chinese: 謝尚平; Japanese: しゃ しょうへい[1]
2. In full: Roger Revelle Chair in Environmental Science
3. Volume 33, Issue 4 "Unified Perspective of Climate Variability and Change"
4. He was also named a fellow of the society.[26]

References

1. "Shang-Ping Xie". International Pacific Research Center. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
2. "Bio". Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
3. "Around the Pier: Inaugural Roger Revelle Chair En Route to Scripps". Scripps Institution of Oceanography. May 3, 2012. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
4. Sobel, Adam (June 8, 2021). "Episode 10: Shang-Ping Xie". Deep Convection. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
5. "Shang-Ping Xie". University of California San Diego. Retrieved December 26, 2023.
6. Monroe, Robert (October 10, 2016). "Top American Meteorological Society Honors for Two Scripps Researchers". Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
7. Monroe, Robert (May 3, 2012). "First Roger Revelle Chair to Join Scripps". Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
8. Robbins, Gary (May 4, 2012). "SIO recruits a top climate scientist". San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
9. "Scripps gets $2.5 million gift". San Diego Union-Tribune. May 22, 2007. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
10. "Shang-Ping Xie". International Pacific Research Center. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
11. "Graduate Students' Distinguished Visiting Lecture". Department of Atmospheric Sciences (University of Washington). Retrieved December 26, 2023.
12. Kosaka, Yu; Xie, Shang-Ping (August 28, 2013) [September 19 issue date]. "Recent global-warming hiatus tied to equatorial Pacific surface cooling". Nature. 501 (7467): 403–407. doi:10.1038/nature12534. hdl:10125/33072. ISSN 1476-4687.
13. Multiple news sources:
    • McGrath, Matt (August 28, 2013). "Global warming slowdown linked to cooler Pacific waters". BBC News. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
    • Vergano, Dan (August 28, 2013). "Pacific Ocean cools, flattening global warming". USA TODAY. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
    • "Davy Jones's heat locker". The Economist. August 21, 2014 [August 23 issue date]. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
14. Dai, Aiguo; Fyfe, John C.; Xie, Shang-Ping; Dai, Xingang (April 13, 2015) [June issue date]. "Decadal modulation of global surface temperature by internal climate variability". Nature Climate Change. 5 (6): 555–559. doi:10.1038/nclimate2605. ISSN 1758-6798.
15. "UAlbany Study Explains Global Warming 'Hiatus' Since 2000". University at Albany-SUNY. April 14, 2015. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
16. Kosaka, Yu; Xie, Shang-Ping (July 18, 2016) [September issue date]. "The tropical Pacific as a key pacemaker of the variable rates of global warming". Nature Geoscience. 9 (9): 669–673. doi:10.1038/ngeo2770. ISSN 1752-0908.
17. Multiple news sources:
    • City News Service (July 18, 2016). "Scripps Announces Discovery Of Way To Measure Global Warming". KPBS Public Media. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
    • Monroe, Robert (July 21, 2016). "Researchers can now monitor global warming due to human activity in real time". University of California. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
18. University of California San Diego (July 18, 2016). "Researchers create means to monitor anthropogenic global warming in real time". Phys.org. Retrieved December 26, 2023.
19. Lucas, Tim (January 26, 2015). "Climate Models Disagree on Why Temperature "Wiggles" Occur". Nicholas School of the Environment. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
20. Tyrrell, Kelly April (January 4, 2017). "Abrupt climate change could follow collapse of Earth's oceanic conveyor belt". University of Wisconsin–Madison. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
21. Zhou, Wenyu; Xie, Shang-Ping; Yang, Da (October 21, 2019) [November issue date]. "Enhanced equatorial warming causes deep-tropical contraction and subtropical monsoon shift". Nature Climate Change. 9 (11): 834–839. doi:10.1038/s41558-019-0603-9. ISSN 1758-6798.
22. Chao, Julie (November 13, 2019). "Climate Change Expected to Shift Location of East Asian Monsoons". Berkeley Lab. Retrieved December 26, 2023. Source adapted by Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
23. Mei, Wei; Xie, Shang-Ping (December 6, 2022). "Tropical cyclones are increasing in intensity, according to 30 years of research". World Economic Forum. Retrieved December 26, 2023.
24. "Special Issue on Climate Variability and Change". Chinese Academy of Sciences. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
25. Shultz, Steven (November 18, 2021). "51 UC San Diego Researchers among Most Highly Cited in World in 2021 Clarivate Listing". UC San Diego. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
26. "2017 Award Winners and Fellows". American Meteorological Society. Retrieved December 26, 2023.

External links

• Profile at Scripps Institution of Oceanography