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Shang-Ping Xie
Shang-Ping Xie is a professor of climate science and the inaugural Roger Revelle Chair in Environmental Science at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego. His research contributes to answering such fundamental questions as what determines the spatio-temporal variations of climate, how recurrent patterns of climate variability form, how predictable climate is, and how climate will change in the face of increasing atmospheric greenhouse gases. He discovered wind-evaporation-sea surface temperature (WES) feedback that amplifies north-south asymmetric climate patterns across the equator (e.g., the northward displaced tropical rain band called the intertropical convergence zone, ITCZ). The Indo-western Pacific ocean capacitor (IPOC) his group identified is a regional coupled ocean-atmosphere mode that causes recurrent climate anomalies from India to China in post-El Nino summers. His recent work revealed the importance of ocean surface warming pattern for regional climate change under global warming, and showed that the decadal cooling of the tropical Pacific Ocean—a natural cycle of the climate system—is the major driver of the global warming hiatus or slowdown during 1998-2013.

He was a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report. He received the Sverdrup Gold Medal Award from the American Meteorological Society for "for fundamental contributions to understanding the coupled ocean-atmosphere feedback processes involved in climate variability and climate change", and is among 149 Highly Cited Researchers worldwide in geoscience (h-index = 64 on the Web of Science; 78 in Google Scholar).