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Xiaojing Du
- Assistant Professor
Contact Info
- Name
- Xiaojing Du
- Preferred Pronouns
- she/her
- Job Title
- Assistant Professor
- Website
- Office Number
- Research Hall 285
Affiliations
Departments
Research Areas
- Climate Dynamics
- Climate Science
- Modeling and Simulation
- Paleoclimate reconstruction
Education
PhD, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan (2020)
About
I am a climate scientist seeking to understand the response of the hydrological cycle to climate changes from the past to the present. Our research group integrates proxy reconstructions, climate model simulations, and instrumental observations to quantitatively characterize the spatiotemporal evolution of hydroclimate changes on interannual to glacial-interglacial timescales and investigate the underlying physical mechanisms. We particularly focus on the tropical hydroclimate changes and the intricate interactions between tropical and extratropical regions, including ENSO and ENSO teleconnections, the dynamics of the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool, and the behavior of monsoon systems.
Selected Publications
Du, X., Russell, J.M., Liu, Z., Otto-Bliesner, B.L., Oppo, D.W., Mohtadi, M., Zhu, C., Galy, V.V., Enno Schefuß, Yan, Y., Yair Rosenthal, Nathalie Dubois, Jennifer Arbuszewski, and Gao, Y., A zonal dipole across the tropical Indian Ocean governed precipitation during Heinrich Stadial 1. Science Advances, (2023). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.add4909
Du, X., Russell, J.M., Liu, Z., Otto-Bliesner, B.L., Gao, Y., Zhu, C., Oppo, D.W., Mohtadi, M., Yan, Y., Galy, V.V. and He, C., (2021). Deglacial trends in Indo-Pacific warm pool hydroclimate in an isotope-enabled Earth system model and implications for isotope-based paleoclimate reconstructions. Quaternary Science Reviews, 270, p.107188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107188
Du, X., Hendy, I., Hinnov, L., Brown, E., Zhu, J., & Poulsen, C. J. (2021). High-resolution interannual precipitation reconstruction of Southern California: Implications for Holocene ENSO evolution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 554, p.116670. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116670
Du, X., Hendy, I., and Schimmelmann, A. (2018). A 9000-year flood history for Southern California: A revised stratigraphy of varved sediments in Santa Barbara Basin. Marine Geology, 397, 29-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2017.11.014
Du, X., Dee, S., Hu, J., Thirumalai, K. (2023). Solar Irradiance Modulates the Asian Summer Monsoon - ENSO Relationship over the Last Millennium. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105708
Awards
AGU 2022 Editor’s citation for Outstanding Reviewer Voss Postdoctoral Fellowship, Brown University, 2020 Geoscience Shell Scholarship, University of Michigan, 2019
Henry N. Pollack Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2016
Contact Info
- Name
- Xiaojing Du
- Preferred Pronouns
- she/her
- Job Title
- Assistant Professor
- Website
- Office Number
- Research Hall 285