Journal Articles                            (See here for an out-of-date list in chronological order)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 Mediterranean Sea. J. Climate, 15, 1674-1690. Abstract, [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]

 

Vegetation-Climate Interaction

 

·        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., 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 Sahel. Science, 15, 3474-3487. Abstract, Full text

·        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, 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., 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]

 
In the News

New Scientist, May 2008, "Burying biomass to fight climate change" pdf

The New Republic, "Burying Trees: Brilliant or Crazy? "

Science News
, May 2008, "Down with Carbon"

ABC, 1999, "
North African drought may have natural cause

SciDev Net/ENN, 2008, "Aid needed to help China make carbon cuts"


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]

 

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)
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