Brief introduction of research Direction:
The theoretical framework of semi-arid climate change mechanism research is established. The modulating effect of sea-land thermal difference on global land temperature increase is expounded, and the feedback mechanism of land-gas interaction and temperature increase in arid and semi-arid area is proposed. It is found that this feedback not only causes the semi-arid area to become the most significant area of global land temperature increase in the past hundred years, but also causes the accelerated expansion of global arid and semi-arid area. Some of the results were published in Nature Climate Change and selected as the cover paper.
1. Huang J.*, H. Yu , X. Guan , G. Wang, and R. Guo , 2015:Accelerated dryland expansion under climate change . Nature Climate Change, doi:10.1038/nclimate2837.
2. Huang J.*, Y. Xie, X. Guan, D. Li, F. Ji, 2016:The dynamics of the warming hiatus over the Northern Hemisphere . Climate Dynamics, 1-18, doi: 10.1007/s00382-016-3085-8.
3. Huang J.*, M. Ji, Y. Xie, S. Wang, Y. He, and J. Ran, 2015: Global semi-arid climate change over last 60 years . Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-015-2636-8.
4. Huang J., X. Guan, and F. Ji, 2012: Enhanced cold-season warming in semi-arid regions . Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 12, 5391-5398, doi: 10.5194/acp-12-5391-2012.
5. Huang J., K. Higuchi, and A. Shabbar, 1998: The Relationship between the North Atlantic Oscillation and El Nio-Southern Oscillation . Geophysical Research Letters, 25, 2707-2710, doi: 10.1029/98GL01936.
