Climate change and climate system

9/1982-7/1987: Bachelor of Science

        Atmospheric Science, University of Sciences and Technology of China,
 Hefei, China

9/1987-7/1990: M.S. program.

Atmospheric Science, Institute of Atmospheric Physics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences. Beijing, China

9/2000-5/2006: Ph. D. program.

       Atmospheric Science, Institute of Atmospheric Physics,
       Chinese Academy of Sciences. Beijing, China

11/2014-present: Professor, LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS

07/2010- 11/2014: Deputy Director-general and Research Scientist (Professor), Training Center /CMA, Beijing, China.

02/2008- 07/2010: Director-general and Research Scientist (Professor), National Climate Center/CMA, Beijing, China.

07/2003- 02/2008: Deputy Director-general and Research Scientist (Professor), Meteorological Bureau of Yunnan Province, Kunming, Yunnan, China;

03/2004- 07/2006: Deputy Director-general and Research Scientist (Professor), National Meteorology Center/CMA, Beijing, China;

01/2001- 07/2003: Director and Research Scientist (Professor), Yunnan Meteorological Science and Technology Institute, Kunming, Yunnan, China;

09/1996- 01/2001: Deputy Director and Senior Engineer, Yunnan Meteorological Observatory, Kunming, Yunnan, China;

10/1995 - 09/1996: Forecaster ranked senior Engineer, Yunnan Meteorological Observatory, Kunming, Yunnan, China;

04/1994 - 10/1995: Assistant Research Scientist, Yunnan Meteorological Science and Technology Institute, Kunming, Yunnan China;

03/1993 - 04/1994: Visiting Scholar, FSL/ERL NOAA, Boulder, Colorado, USA;

09/1990 - 03/1993: Practice Researcher, Yunnan Meteorological Science and Technology Institute, Kunming, Yunnan China;

Awarded as Second level Nature Science award of Chinese Sciences Academy, 1994

Awarded as Second level Nature Science award of Yunnan Province Government, 2000

Awarded as Third level Nature Science award of Yunnan Province Government, 2002 and 2004

Awarded as Meteorology Research and Development prize of CMA 2001

Awarded as Youth Scientist Prize of Yunnan Province 2003

1. Ziniu XIAO, Xiuhua ZHOU,Ping YANG,Hua LIU. Variation and future trends in precipitation over summer and autumn across the Yunnan region[J]. Frontiers of Earth Science, 2016. 10(3): 498-512

2. Xiao Ziniu, Liao Yunchen, and Li Chongyin. Possible impact of solar activity on the convection dipole over the tropical pacific ocean. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 2016, 140: 94-107

3. Xiao Ziniu and Li Delin. Solar wind: A possible factor driving the interannual sea surface temperature tripolar mode over North Atlantic. J. Meteor. Res., 2016, 30(3): 312-327, doi: 10.1007/s13351-016-5087-1.

4. Wenjing Shi, Ziniu Xiao*, Jianjun Xue, 2016: Teleconnected influence of the boreal winter Antarctic Oscillation on Somali Jet: bridging role of sea surface temperature in southern high and middle latitudes. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 33(1): 47-57.

5. Yuefeng Li, Ziniu Xiao, Wenjing Shi, Qi Zhong, Qiguang Wang, Huanlian Li, 2016: Interannual variations in length of day and atmospheric angular momentum, and their seasonal associations with El Niño/Southern Oscillation-like sea surface temperature patterns, Frontiers of Earth Science, doi: 10.1007/s11707-016-0602-3.

6. Yang P, Xiao Z N, Mengshu Y E. Cooling effect of urban parks and their relationship with urban heat islands. Atmospheric & Oceanic Science Letters, 2016:1-22.

7. Wenjuan Huo, Ziniu Xiao. 2016. The impact of solar activity on the 2015/16 El Nino event. Atmospheric Oceanic Science Letters, 9(6), 1-8.

8. Wenjuan Huo, Ziniu Xiao. 2016. Anomalous pattern of ocean heat content during different phases of the solar cycle in the tropical Pacific. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 10:1-8.

9. Xiao Ziniu, Shi Wenjing, and Yang Ping, 2015: Possible causes of the interdecadal transition of the Somali jet around the late 1990s. J. Meteor. Res., 29(2), doi: 10.1007/s13351-015-4103-1

10. Zhou Xiuhua and Xiao Ziniu. 2015. Analysis on the variation characteristics of  summer–autumn precipitation over the surrounding regions of Southwest China and the corresponding circulation [J]. Chinese Journal of Atmospheric Sciences (in Chinese), 39 (4): 000–000

11. Wang Ruili, Xiao Ziniu, Zhu Keyun, et al. 2015. Asymmetric impact of solar activity on the East Asian winter climate and its possible mechanism [J]. Chinese Journal of Atmospheric Sciences (in Chinese), 39 (4): 000–000.

12. Zhou Xiuhua, Xiao Ziniu. 2014. Climate projection over Yunnan Province and the surrounding regions based on CMIP5 data [J]. Climatic and Environmental Research (in Chinese), 19 (5): 601−613

13. Shi, W.-J., and Z.-N. Xiao, 2014: Impact of the preceding boreal winter Southern Annular Mode on the summertime Somali Jet, Atmos. Oceanic Sci. Lett.; 7(6), doi:10.3878 /AOSL20140045 

14. ZHANG Xiao-ling, XIAO Zi-niu and LI Yue-feng. Effects of Indian Ocean SSTA with ENSO on winter rainfall in China.J. Trop. Meteor., 2014, 20(1): 45-56

15. Dai Wei and XIAO Zi-niu: Multi-time scale variation characteristics of Somali jet and its contact with precipitation in China, J. Trop. Meteor.(in Chinese), 2014，30（2），149-157

16. Yang Ping, Shi Wenjing Xiao Ziniu et al., Spatial and Temporal Variations of Atmospheric Angular Momentum and Its Relation to the Earth Length of Day, Acta Meteorologica Sinica.28(1):150-161.2014

17. XU Jingjig, HU Fei, XIAO Ziniu and CHENG Xueling, Bias correction in wind direction forecasting using the circular-circular regression method, Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 2014, 7(2), 87-91

18. Xiao Ziniu, Zhong Qi,Yin Zhiqiang, et al. Advances of impact of decadal solar cycle on modern climate[J]. Advances in Earth Science,2013,28(12):

19. Li, Y., L.R. Leung, Z. Xiao, M. Wei,Q. Li, Interdecadal Connection between Arctic Temperature and Summer Precipitation over the Yangtze River Valley in the CMIP5 Historical Simulations, Journal of Climate, 201326 （10）7464-7488.

20. Yang, F., F. Shi, S. Kang, S. Wang, Z. Xiao, T. Nakatsuka,J. Shi, Comparison of the dryness/wetness index in China with the Monsoon Asia Drought Atlas, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2013: 1-14.

21. Yang, P., Z. Xiao, J. Yang,H. Liu, Characteristics of clustering extreme drought events in China during 1961–2010, Acta Meteorologica Sinica, 2013, 27: 186-198.

Asian Monsoon, sea-air interaction, low-frequency oscillation, subseasonal to seasonal forecast, climate dasaster risk management