earth science

Shang-Ping Xie

Shang-Ping Xie is a earth science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Shang-Ping Xie rather than just read about it. In short: Shang-Ping Xie is a Chinese-American climatologist and oceanographer who holds the Roger Revelle Chair at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Known best for his research on interaction between the world's oceans and atmosphere and on El Niño–Southern Oscillation, Xie is noted as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate.

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Reference excerpt

Shang-Ping Xie is a Chinese-American climatologist and oceanographer who holds the Roger Revelle Chair at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Known best for his research on interaction between the world's oceans and atmosphere and on El Niño–Southern Oscillation, Xie is noted as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate.

Early life and education Xie was born in Quzhou in 1963. He entered university after the Cultural Revolution had ended, and studied oceanography, though he had never seen the ocean before. His education includes:

Bachelor of Science, Shandong College of Oceanography (1984) Study at Dalian College of Foreign Languages (1984–1985) Master of Science and Doctor of Science, Tohoku University (1988 and 1991) He was a visiting scientist to Princeton University from 1991 to 1993, and a research associate for the University of Washington from 1993 to 1994.

Career Xie was employed at the University of Hawaiʻi as a professor of meteorology until he joined the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, in 2012 as the inaugural Roger Revelle Chair, a title named for researcher Roger Revelle, established with an endowment from the Revelle family. While at Hawaiʻi, he was faculty in the International Pacific Research Center of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology. In April 2016, as a Scripps professor, Xie returned to the University of Washington as an endowed lecturer—he gave a lecture on El Niño in the Graduate Students' Distinguished Visiting Lecture series.

Research In 2013, a study co-authored by Xie and published in Nature suggested that the slowdown in global warming was tied to cooling in parts of the Pacific Ocean. Further research into the slowdown was published in 2015, in the journal Nature Climate Change. Xie has also published research on modeling the role of human activity to global warming; a 2015 co-authored paper in Nature Geoscience modeled the evolution of global temperature, creating a new method of tracking anthropogenic global warming. The modelling was reported on again in 2016, when Xie and others modelled human activities' impact on warming. Other papers on climate change have included collaboration with authors affiliated with Duke University and University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 2019, Xie published research with scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where they modelled Hadley cells to predict changes in the monsoon season of parts of Asia. In a 2022 article published by the World Economic Forum and The Conversation and co-authored by Xie, the authors claim that tropical cyclones have been increasing in intensity over time. In 2016, Xie was the organizer of a special issue of Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. Xie has been included as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate in the field of geosciences.

Awards Sverdrup Gold Medal, conferred by the American Meteorological Society (2017) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2026)

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References

External links Profile at Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Shang-Ping Xie

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Shang-Ping Xie claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In earth science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Shang-Ping Xie before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Shang-Ping Xie ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Shang-Ping Xie

In research: Shang-Ping Xie appears in earth science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Shang-Ping Xie in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Shang-Ping Xie is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1963 births, American environmental scientists, Atmospheric scientists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Shang-Ping Xie outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Because it connects several earth science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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