Journal
Articles
(See here for an
out-of-date list in chronological order)
Astrophysics
·
Zeng, N., and White, S. D. M. 1991:
Voids in a
Neutrino-dominated Universe. Astrophysical Journal, 374,
1-5.
Land-Atmosphere Interaction
and
Hydrological Cycle
·
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]
·
Zeng,
N., 1998:
Understanding climate sensitivity to tropical deforestation in a
mechanistic
model. J. Climate, 11, 1969-1975. Abstract
[pdf]
·
Zeng,
N., 1999:
Seasonal cycle and interannual variability
in the
Amazon hydrologic cycle. J. of 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. W. Shuttleworth, and J. Gash, 2000:
Influence of temporal
variability of rainfall on interception loss. J. of Hydrology, 228
3-4, 228-241. Abstract,
[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
·
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]
Vegetation-Climate
Interaction
·
Zeng,
N., J. D. Neelin, K.-M. Lau, and C. J.
Tucker, 1999: Enhancement of interdecadal
climate variability in the
·
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]
·
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]
·
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]
Climate
Dynamics and Climate Variability
·
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]
·
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]
·
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]
·
Zeng,
N., 2003:
Drought in the
·
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., 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. Download paper at ERL
Carbon
Cycle
and Climate: Past, Present and Future
·
Zeng,
N., 2003:
Glacial-Interglacial Atmospheric CO2 Change--The Glacial Burial
Hypothesis. Adv.
Atmos. Sci.,
20,
677-693. Abstract,
[pdf]; Homepage
of AAS
·
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., 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]
·
Friedlingstein, P., and others including N. Zeng, 2006:
Climate-carbon
cycle feedback analysis: results from the C4MIP model intercomparison,
J. Climate, 19, 3337-3353 [pdf]
·
Zeng,
N., 2007:
Quasi-100ky glacial-interglacial cycles triggered by subglacial
burial carbon release. Climate of the Past, 135-153. [pdf]
·
Qian,
H.-F., R. Joseph,
·
Zeng,
N., J. Yoon, A. Vinzileos, G. J. Collatz, E. Kalnay,
A. Mariotti, A. Kumar, A.
Busalacchi, S. Lord, 2008: Dynamical
prediction of
ecosystem and the global carbon cycle: a 25-year hindcast
experiment. Global Biogeochem. Cycles,
in
review.
Solutions to the Climate
Problem: Carbon Sequestration,
Alternative Energy, and Policy
·
Zeng,
N., 2008: Carbon
sequestration via wood burial. Carbon
Balance and Management, 3:1; doi:10.1186/1750-0680-3-1.
[Download from CBM]
·
Zeng,
N., Y. Ding, J.
Pan, H. Wang, J. Gregg, 2008: Climate change: the Chinese challenge. Science, 319, 730-731. [access the article here]
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,
·
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.),
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)
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