Assistant Professor
Department of Sustainable Earth Systems Sciences
The University of Texas at Dallas
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In preparation:
Wu, X., A. T. Wittenberg, F. Zeng, B. G. Reichl, and F. Lu, 2025: Pinpointing sources of equatorial Pacific SST biases in a coupled GCM via surface flux adjustments, under GFDL internal review.
Wu, X., A. T. Wittenberg, F. Zeng, 2025: Understanding and improving ENSO simulation via mean-state bias corrections, in prep
Submitted or under review:
Lawman, A., C. Sun, X. Wu, et al. 2025: Tropical rainfall changes in response to a weaker AMOC: Mechanisms and an integrative model-data comparison for Heinrich Stadial 1, submitted.
DiNezio, P. N., T. Shanahan, T. Sun, C. Sun, X. Wu, A. Lawman, D. Lea, and M. Kageyama, U. Merkel, M. Prange, B. Otto-Bliesner, and X. Zhang, 2025: The tropical response to weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, Nature, in revision.
Published:
2024
11. Wu, X, S. G. Yeager, C. Deser, A. Capotondi, A. T. Wittenberg, and M. J. McPhaden, 2024: Predictability of tropical Pacific decadal variability is dominated by oceanic Rossby waves, npj Clim. and Atmos. Sci., 7, 292 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-024-00851-7.
10. Bilbao, R., P. Ortega, D. Swingedouw, L. Hermanson, P. Athanasiadis, R. Eade, M. Devilliers, F. Doblas-Reyes, N. Dunstone, A.-C. Ho, W. Merryfield, J. Mignot, D. Nicolì, M. Samsó, R. Sospedra-Alfonso, X. Wu, and S. Yeager, 2024: Impact of volcanic eruptions on CMIP6 decadal predictions: A multi-model analysis, Earth Syst. Dynam. 15, 501–525, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-501-2024.
2023
9. Wu, X., 2023: Long La Niña events could rise in frequency as the planet warms. Nature, 619, 702–703, https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02331-z. (Invited commentary, not peer-reviewed)
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8. Wu, X., S. G. Yeager, C. Deser, N. Rosenbloom, and G. A. Meehl, 2023: Volcanic forcing degrades multiyear-to-decadal prediction skill in the tropical Pacific. Science Advances, https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.add9364.
7. Maher, N., R. C. J. Wills, P. N. DiNezio, J. Klavans, S. Milinsk, S. C. Sanchez, S. Stevenson, M. F. Stuecker, and X. Wu, 2023: The future of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation: Using large ensembles to illuminate time-varying responses and inter-model differences, Earth Syst. Dynam. 14, 413–431, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-14-413-2023.
2022
6. Yeager, S. G., N. Rosenbloom, A. A. Glanville, X. Wu, I. Simpson, H. Li, M. J. Molina, K. Krumhardt, S. Mogen, K. Lindsay, D. Lombardozzi, W. Weider, W. M. Kim, J. H. Richter, M. Long, G. Danabasoglu, D. Bailey, M. Holland, N. Lovenduski, W. G. Strand, and T. King, 2022: The Seasonal-to-Multiyear Large Ensemble (SMYLE) Prediction System using the Community Earth System Model Version 2. Geosci. Model Dev., 15, 6451–6493, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-6451-2022.
5. Wu, X., Y. M. Okumura, P. N. DiNezio, S. G. Yeager, and C. Deser, 2022: The Equatorial Pacific Cold Tongue Bias in CESM1 and its Influence on ENSO Forecasts. J. Climate, 35, 3261–3277, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0470.1.
2021 and before
4. Wu, X., Y. M. Okumura, C. Deser, and P. N. DiNezio, 2021: Two-year Dynamical Predictions of ENSO Event Duration during 1954–2015. J. Climate. 34, 4069–4087, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0619.1.
3. Wu, X., Y. M. Okumura, and P. N. DiNezio, 2021: Predictability of El Niño Duration based on the Onset Timing. J. Climate. 34, 1351–1366, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0963.1.
2. Wu, X., Y. M. Okumura, and P. N. DiNezio, 2019: What Controls the Duration of El Niño and La Niña Events? J. Climate, 32, 5941–5965, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0681.1.
1. Okumura, Y. M., T. Sun, and X. Wu, 2017: Asymmetric Modulation of El Niño and La Niña and the Linkage to Tropical Pacific Decadal Variability. J. Climate, 30, 4705–4733, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0680.1.