Journal Articles
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]
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
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]
Cook, B., N. Zeng, and J. Yoon, 2009: Future drying of the southern
Amazon and central Brazil.
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]
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
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]
T. Zhou, 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.
Yoon, J.-H. and N. Zeng, 2009: An Atlantic influence on Amazon
rainfall. Climate Dynamics accepted on 28 Feb 2009,
doi:10.1007/s00382-009-0551-6.
Joseph, R. and N. Zeng, 2009: Seasonally modulated tropical drought
induced by volcanic aerosol. J. Climate, revised.
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., 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., 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 terrestrial ecosystems and the
global carbon cycle: a
25-year hindcast experiment. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 22, GB4015, doi:10.1029/2008GB003183.
Qian, H.-F., R. Joseph, N. Zeng, 2009: 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]
Climate Change Mitigation: 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]
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., 2009: Climate change challenges and opportunities for China. Advances in Climate Change Research,
5(03):163-166. (PDF in
Chinese, abstract in English).
曾宁, 2009: 气候变化：中国的困境、机遇和对策,《气候变化研究进展》5 (03): 163-166. [摘要] [HTML] [PDF]
Nature Reports Climate Change,
September 2009, "Expanding
Sands"
Discovery News, August 2009, "Deserts Expand Faster as Earth
Brightens"
New Scientist, May 2008, "Burying biomass to fight
climate
change" pdf
The New Republic, "Burying
Trees: Brilliant or Crazy? "
Globalwarmingisreal.org,
"How
To Curb Forests’ CO2 Emissions"
Science News, May 2008, "Down
with Carbon"
The San Diego Union-Tribune, August 2008, "Leaves
of gas"
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,
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