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Articles
Web of Scicence/Clarivate: Publication: 145, Citation: 18835, H-index: 56 (Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher)
Google Scholar: Citations: 27828, H-index: 71
Six papers in Science (three first author) and three papers in Nature (one first author)
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Carbon Cycle and Climate, Earth System Dynamics
- Zeng, N., Hausmann, H. Wood Vault: remove atmospheric CO2 with trees, store wood for carbon sequestration for now and as biomass, bioenergy and carbon reserve for the future. Carbon Balance Manage 17, 2 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13021-022-00202-0. Access the paper at CBM website
- Zeng, N., F. Zhao, G. J. Collatz, E. Kalnay, R. J. Salawitch, T. O. West, L. Guanter, 2014: Agricultural Green Revolution as a driver of increasing atmospheric CO2 seasonal amplitude. Nature 515, 394–397, doi:10.1038/nature13893. [pdf]
- Zhao,
F. and Zeng, N.: Continued increase in atmospheric CO2 seasonal
amplitude in the 21st century projected by the CMIP5 Earth system
models, Earth Syst. Dynam., 5, 423-439, doi:10.5194/esd-5-423-2014,
2014. [Paper at ESD]
- Le Quéré, C., R. J. Andres, T.
Boden, T. Conway, R. A. Houghton, J. I. House, G. Marland, G. P.
Peters, G. R. van der Werf, A. Ahlström, R. M. Andrew, L. Bopp, J. G.
Canadell, P. Ciais, S. C. Doney, C. Enright, P. Friedlingstein, C.
Huntingford, A. K. Jain, C. Jourdain, E. Kato, R. F. Keeling, K. Klein
Goldewijk, S. Levis, P. Levy, M. Lomas, B. Poulter, M. R. Raupach, J.
Schwinger, S. Sitch, B. D. Stocker, N. Viovy, S. Zaehle, and N. Zeng,
2013: The global carbon budget 1959–2011. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 5, 165-185, 2013. [open access]
- Fisher,
Joshua B., Munish Sikka, Stephen Sitch, Philippe Ciais, Benjamin
Poulter, David Galbraith, Jung-Eun Lee, Chris Huntingford, Nicolas
Viovy, Ning Zeng, Anders Ahlstrom, Mark R. Lomas, Peter E. Levy,
Christian Frankenberg, Sassan Saatchi1 and Yadvinder Malhi, 2013: African tropical rainforest net carbon dioxide fluxes in the twentieth century. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 368 (1625),doi10.1098/rstb.2012.0376. [open access]
- Zeng, N., A.W. King, B. Zaitchik, S.D. Wullschleger, J. Gregg, S. Wang, D. Kirk-Davidoff, 2013: Ecological carbon sequestration via wood harvest and storage: An assessment of its practical harvest potential. Climatic Change. 118 (2), 245-257, DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0624-0.[pdf]
- Piao,
S., Sitch, S., Ciais, P., Friedlingstein, P., Peylin, P., Wang, X.,
Ahlström, A., Anav, A., Canadell, J. G., Cong, N., Huntingford, C.,
Jung, M., Levis, S., Levy, P. E., Li, J., Lin, X., Lomas, M. R., Lu,
M., Luo, Y., Ma, Y., Myneni, R. B., Poulter, B., Sun, Z., Wang, T.,
Viovy, N., Zaehle, S. and Zeng, N. (2013), Evaluation of terrestrial carbon cycle models for their response to climate variability and to CO2 trends. Global Change Biology, 19, 2117-2132. doi: 10.1111/gcb.12187.
- Wang, J., Q. Bao, N. Zeng, Y. M. Liu, G. X. Wu, and D. Y. Ji, 2013: Earth
System Model FGOALS-s2: Coupling a dynamic global vegetation and
terrestrial carbon model with the physical climate system model. Adv. Atmos. Sci., 30(5), doi: 10.1007/s00376-013-2169-1. [open access]
- Murray-Tortarolo, G.,
Alessandro Anav, Pierre Friedlingstein, Stephen Sitch, Shilong Piao,
Zaichun Zhu, Bejamin Poulter, Sonke Zaehle, Anders Ahlstrom, Mark
Lomas, Sam Levis, Nicholas Viovy, Ning Zeng, 2013: Evaluation of DGVMs
in reproducing satellite derived LAI over the Northern Hemisphere. Part
I: Uncoupled DGVMs, Remote Sensing, 2013, 5, 4819-4838. [open access]
- Piao, S. L., A. Ito, S. G. Li, Y.
Huang, P. Ciais, X. H. Wang, S. S. Peng, H. J. Nan, C. Zhao, A.
Ahlström, R. J. Andres, F. Chevallier, J. Y. Fang, J. Hartmann, C.
Huntingford, S. Jeong, S. Levis, P. E. Levy, J. S. Li, M. R. Lomas, J.
F. Mao, E. Mayorga, A. Mohammat, H. Muraoka, C. H. Peng, P. Peylin, B.
Poulter, Z. H. Shen, X. Shi, S. Sitch, S. Tao, H. Q. Tian, X. P. Wu, M.
Xu, G. R. Yu, N. Viovy, S. Zaehle, N. Zeng, and B. Zhu: The carbon
budget of terrestrial ecosystems in East Asia over the last two
decades. Biogeosciences, 9, 3571-3586, 2012. [open access]
- Huntzinger,
D.N., W.M. Post, Y. Wei, A.M. Michalak, T.O. West, A.R. Jacobson, I.T.
Baker, J.M. Chen, K.J. Davis, D.J. Hayes, F.M. Hoffman, A.K. Jain, S.
Liu, A.D. McGuire, R.P. Neilson, Chris Potter, B. Poulter, David Price,
B.M. Raczka, H.Q. Tian, P. Thornton, E. Tomelleri, N. Viovy, J. Xiao,
W. Yuan, N. Zeng, M. Zhao, R. Cook, 2012: North American Carbon Program
(NACP) regional interim synthesis: Terrestrial biospheric model
intercomparison. Ecological Modeling, 232, 144-157. [pdf]
- Ruth, M., E. Kalnay, N. Zeng, R. S. Franklin, J.
Rivas, F. Miralles-Wilhelm, 2011: Sustainable prosperity and societal
transitions: Long-term modeling for anticipatory management. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 1 (2011), 160-165, doi:10.1016/j.eist.2011.03.004. [pdf]
- Qian, H.-F., R. Joseph, N. Zeng, 2010: Enhanced
terrestrial carbon uptake in the northern high latitudes in
the 21st century from the C4MIP model projections. Global
Change Biology ,DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01989.
[pdf]
- Zeng, N., 2009: Climate
change challenges and opportunities for China. Advances in Climate Change
Research, 5(03):163-166. (abstract)
- Zeng, N., Y. Ding, J.
Pan, H. Wang, J. Gregg, 2008: Climate change: the Chinese
challenge. Science, 319, 730-731. [access
the article here]
- Pan, J. H., Zeng N, Ding, Y. H., et al., 2008:
China's energy policy comes at a price - Response. Science,
321(5893), 1156-1157.
- Zeng, N., 2008: Carbon
sequestration via wood burial. Carbon Balance and
Management, 3:1; doi:10.1186/1750-0680-3-1.
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from CBM]
- Zeng, N., J. Yoon, A. Vinzileos, G. J. Collatz, E. Kalnay,
A. Mariotti, A. Kumar, A. Busalacchi, S. Lord, 2008:
Dynamical prediction of terrestrial ecosystems and the
global carbon cycle: a 25-year hindcast
experiment. Global Biogeochem.
Cycles, 22, GB4015, doi:10.1029/2008GB003183. [pdf]
- Qian, H.-F., R. Joseph, N. Zeng, 2008: Response of the terrestrial carbon cycle
to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation. Tellus,
doi:10.1111/j.1600-0889.2008.00360.x, [pdf]
- Zeng, N., 2007:
Quasi-100ky glacial-interglacial cycles triggered by subglacial burial carbon release.
Climate of the Past, 135-153. [pdf]
- Friedlingstein,
P., Cox, P., Betts, R., Bopp, L., von Bloh, W., Brovkin,
V., Cadule, P., Doney, S., Eby, M., Fung, I., Bala, G.,
John, J., Jones, C., Joos, F., Kato, T., Kawamiya, M.,
Knorr, W., Lindsay, K., Matthews, H. D., Raddatz, T.,
Rayner, P., Reick, C., Roeckner, E., Schnitzler, K.-G.,
Schnur, R., Strassmann, K., Weaver, A. J., Yoshikawa,
C., Zeng, N.,2006:
Climate-carbon cycle feedback analysis: results from the
C4MIP model intercomparison,
J. Climate, 19, 3337-3353 [pdf]
- Zeng, N., A. Mariotti, and P. Wetzel, 2005:
Terrestrial mechanisms of interannual
CO2 variability, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 19,
GB1016, doi:10.1029/2004GB002273. [pdf]
- Zeng, N., H. Qian, C. Roedenbeck,
and M. Heimann, 2005: Impact
of 1998-2002 midlatitude
drought and warming on terrestrial ecosystem and the
global carbon cycle. Geophys.
Res. Lett., 32, L22709,
doi:10.1029/2005GL024607. [pdf]
- Zeng, N., H. Qian, E. Munoz, and R. Iacono (2004), How strong is
carbon cycle-climate feedback under global warming? Geophys. Res. Lett., 31 L20203,
doi:10.1029/2004GL020904. [pdf]
- Zeng, N., 2003:
Glacial-Interglacial Atmospheric CO2 Change--The Glacial
Burial Hypothesis. Adv. Atmos.
Sci., 20,
677-693. Abstract,
[pdf]; Homepage of AAS
Vegetation-Land-Atmosphere Interaction and Hydrological Cycle
- Kucharski, F., and N. Zeng, 2013: Positive and negative feedbacks in the vegetation impact on the Sahel Drought. Fisica de la Tierra, revised.
- Kucharski, F., N. Zeng, E. Kalnay, 2012: A further assessment of vegetation feedback on decadal Sahel rainfall variability. Climate Dynamics, DOI 10.1007/s00382-012-1397-x. [pdf]
- Cook, B., N. Zeng, and J. Yoon, 2011: Will Amazonia
dry out?: Magnitude and Causes of change from IPCC climate model
projections. Earth Interaction, 16, 1-27, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2011EI398.1. [pdf]
- Zeng, N., and J.Yoon, 2009: Expansion of the world's
deserts due to vegetation-albedo feedback under global
warming, Geophys. Res.
Lett., 36, L17401, doi:10.1029/2009GL039699. [pdf]
- Zeng, N., J.-H. Yoon, A. Mariotti, and S. Swenson, 2008:
Variability of basin-scale terrestrial water storage from
a P-E-R water budget method: the Amazon and the
Mississippi. J. Climate, 15, 248-265. [pdf]
- Mariotti A, Zeng N, Yoon
JH, Artale V, Navarra A, Alpert P, Li LZX, 2008:
Mediterranean water cycle changes: transition to drier
21st century conditions in observations and CMIP3
simulations Environ. Res. Lett. 3 044001
(8pp) doi:10.1088/1748-9326/3/4/044001.
[pdf]
- Hales, K., J. D. Neelin and N. Zeng, 2006:
Interaction of Vegetation and Atmospheric Dynamical
Mechanisms in the Mid-Holocene African Monsoon. J.
Climate, 19, 4105-4120. [pdf]
- Wei JF, Dickinson RE, Zeng N, 2006:
Climate variability in a simple model of warm climate
land-atmosphere interaction. J. of Geophys. Res., 111 (G3),
G03009. [pdf]
- Hales, K., J. D. Neelin and N. Zeng, 2004:
Sensitivity of Land Climate to Leaf Area Index: Role of
Surface Conductance verses Albedo.
J. Climate, 17, 1459-1473.[pdf]
- Mariotti, A., M.V. Struglia,
N. Zeng, K.-M. Lau, 2002: The hydrological cycle in the
Mediterranean region and implications for the water budget
of the Mediterranean
Sea. J. Climate,
15, 1674-1690. Abstract,
[pdf]
- Zeng, N., K. Hales, and J. D. Neelin, 2002: Nonlinear dynamics
in a Coupled Vegetation-Atmosphere System and Implications
for Desert-Forest Gradient. J. Climate, 15,
3474-3487. Abstract,
[pdf]
- Zeng, N., J. D. Neelin, 2000: The role of
vegetation-climate interaction and interannual
variability in shaping the African Savanna. J. Climate,
13, 2665-2670. Abstract,
[pdf]
- Zeng, N., J. W. Shuttleworth, and J. Gash, 2000:
Influence of temporal variability of rainfall on
interception loss. J. Hydrology, 228 3-4,
228-241. Abstract,
[pdf]
- Zeng, N., 1999: Seasonal
cycle and interannual
variability in the Amazon hydrologic cycle. J. Geophys. Res.. 104,
D8, 9097-9106. Abstract,
[pdf]
- Zeng, N., and J. D. Neelin, 1999: A land-atmosphere
interaction theory for the tropical deforestation problem.
J. Climate, 12, 857-872. Abstract,
[pdf]
- Zeng, N., J. D. Neelin, K.-M. Lau, and C. J.
Tucker, 1999: Enhancement of interdecadal
climate variability in the Sahel by vegetation interaction. Science,
286, 1537-1540. Abstract,
[pdf]
- Zeng, N., 1998:
Understanding climate sensitivity to tropical
deforestation in a mechanistic model. J. Climate,
11, 1969-1975. Abstract
[pdf]
- Zeng, N., R. E.
Dickinson, and X. Zeng, 1996: Climatic impact of Amazon
deforestation--a mechanistic model study. J. Climate,
9, 859-883. Abstract,
[pdf]
Climate
Dynamics and Climate Variability
- Alessandri, A., Fogli, P. G., Vichi, M., and Zeng, N.: Strengthening of the hydrological cycle in future scenarios: atmospheric energy and water balance perspective, Earth Syst. Dynam., 3, 199-212, doi:10.5194/esd-3-199-2012, 2012. [open access]
- Joseph, R. and N. Zeng, 2011: Seasonally modulated
tropical drought induced by volcanic aerosol. J. Climate, 24 (8), 2045-2060, DOI:
10.1175/2009JCLI3170.1. [pdf]
- Yoon, J.-H. and N. Zeng, 2010: An Atlantic influence
on Amazon rainfall. Climate
Dynamics, 2010, 34, 249-264,
doi:10.1007/s00382-009-0551-6. [pdf]
- Schubert, S., D. Gutzler, H. L. Wang, A. Dai, T.
Delworth, C. Deser, K. Findell, R. Fu, W. Higgins, M.
Hoerling, B. Kirtman, R. Koster, A. Kumar, D. Legler, D.
Lettenmaier, B. Lyon, V. Magana, K. Mo, S. Nigam, P. Pegion,
A. Phillips, R. Pulwarty, D. Rind, A. Ruiz-Barradas, J.
Schemm, R. Seager, R. Stewart, M. Suarez, J. Syktus, M. F.
Ting, C. Z. Wang, S. Weaver and N. Zeng: A US CLIVAR Project
to Assess and Compare the Responses of Global Climate Models
to Drought-Related SST Forcing Patterns: Overview and
Results. J. Climate
2009 Oct; 22(19): 5251-5272. [pdf]
- Scaife, A. A., F. Kucharski, C. K. Folland, J.
Kinter, D. Fereday, A. M. Fischer, S. Grainger, E. K. Jin,
I. S. Kang, J. R. Knight, S. Kusonoki, N. C. Lau, M. J.
Nath, T. Nakaegawa, P. Pegion, S. Schubert, P. Sporyshev, J.
Syktus, J. H. Yoon, N. Zeng, and T. Zhou, 2009: The CLIVAR
C20C Project: Selected 20th century climate events, Climate
Dynamics, 33 (5), 603-614,
doi:10.1007/s00382-008-0451-1. [pdf]
- Kucharski, A., Scaife, A. A., J. H. Yoo, C. K.
Folland, J. Kinter, D. Fereday, A. M. Fischer,, E. K. Jin,
J. Kroger, N. C. Lau, T. Nakaegawa, P. Pegion, E. Rozanov,
S. Schubert, P. V. Sporyshev, J. Syktus, A. Voldorie, J. H.
Yoon, N. Zeng, and T. Zhou, 2009: The CLIVAR C20C Project.
Skill of simulating Indian monsoon rainfall on interannual
to decadal timescales. Does GHG forcing play a role?,
Climate Dynamics, 33 (5), 615-627,
doi:10.1007/s00382-008-0462-y. [pdf]
- Zhou, T., B. Wu, A. A. Scaife, L. Li, F. Kucharski,
C. K. Folland, J. Kinter, D. Fereday, A. M. Fischer, E. K.
Jin, J. R. Knight, S. Kusonoki, N. C. Lau, T. Nakaegawa, P.
Pegion, J. Syktus, J. H. Yoon, and N. Zeng, 2009: The CLIVAR
C20C Project. Part 3: Which compoennts of the
Asian-Australian Monsoon variability are forced and
reproducible? Climate Dynamics,
doi:10.1007/s00382-008-0501-8. [pdf]
- Zeng, N., J. Yoon, J.
Marengo, A. Subramaniam, C. Nobre, A. Mariotti,
J. D. Neelin, 2008: Causes
and Impacts of the 2005 Amazon drought. Environ. Res.
Lett., 3, 014002,
doi:10.1088/1748-9326/3/1/014002. [Environemental Research Letters (ERL) Best paper of the year]
- Mariotti, A., Ballabrera-Poy,
J., Zeng, N., 2005: Tropical influence on Euro-Asian
autumn rainfall, Climate Dynamics, 24 (5)
10.1007/s00 382-004-0498-6: 511-521. pdf
- Zeng, N., 2003: Drought
in the Sahel.
Science, 15, 3474-3487. Abstract,
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- Mariotti, A., N. Zeng, and K.-M. Lau, 2002:
Euro-Mediterranean rainfall and ENSO-a seasonally varying
relationship. Geophys.
Res. Lett., 29(12). Abstract,
[pdf]
- Lin, J. W.-B., J. D. Neelin, and N. Zeng, 2000:
Maintenance of tropical intraseasonal
variability: Impact of evaporation-wind feedback and midlatitude storms. J. Atmos. Sci.,
57, 2793-2823. [pdf]
- Neelin, J. D., and N. Zeng, 2000: The
first quasi-equilibrium tropical circulation
model-formulation. J. Atmos.
Sci., 57,
1741--1766. [pdf]
- Zeng, N., J. D. Neelin, and C. Chou, 2000: The
first quasi-equilibrium tropical circulation
model-implementation and simulation. J. Atmos. Sci.,
57, 1767--1796. Abstract,
[pdf]
Astrophysics
- Zeng, N., and White, S. D. M. 1991: Voids in a
Neutrino-dominated Universe. Astrophysical Journal,
374, 1-5.
Book Chapters
Zeng, N., J. D. Neelin, C. Chou, J. W.-B. Lin and H.
Su, 2000: Climate and variability in a quasi-equilibrium
tropical circulation model. In General circulation
Modeling: Past, Present, and Future . D. A. Randall,
ed., Academic Press, San Diego, 416pp. Abstract
Carter, T. R. and others
including N. Zeng, 2001: Developing and Applying Scenarios,
chapter 3 in Climate Change 2001: Working Group II:
Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, Third Assessment
Report of IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change).
J. J. McCarthy (Ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2001. [download
the chapter from IPCC]
Book Review
Zeng, N., March 2009: Review of “CO2
Rising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge” by Tyler
Volk, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
91(3),387-389.
Support
Support from
various sources are gratefully acknowledged including:
The National Science Foundation 2000-present (current NSF
grant ATM0739677)
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
1997-present (current NOAA grants NA04OAR4310091 and
NA04OAR4310114)
NASA 2006-present (current grant 407191AG7)
Department of
Energy 2007-present
The Alexander von Humbolt Foundation, and the Max-Planck
Institute for Meteorology, 2000 and 2008
The International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, and
Italian National Agency for Energy and Environment (ENEA),
Casaccia, 1999-
The K.-C. Wong Fellowship and Visitor's Program of the Chinese
Academy and Sciences, 2007-2008
The Wilderness Research Foundation, New York