(*: corresponding author; underline: advisee)

Preprints of the papers are avaliable on researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ji_Nie2

61.   Yiting Wang, Yan Yu*, Ji Nie*, et al. 2025: Diverging responses in early-spring dust emission to Northern Hemispheric mid-latitude warming, under review

60.   Yilin Meng, Yan Yu*, Ji Nie*, 2025: Reduced spread of simulated global warming patterns among CMIP6 models with accelerated pace of warming, under review

59.   Mengyu Wei, et al., 2025: Quasi-invariance of Tropical Meridional Surface Temperature Gradient in a Wide Range of Climates, under review

58.   Bolei Yang, William R. Boos, Zhe-Min Tan, and Ji Nie, 2025: Internal Oscillations of Tropical Mesoscale Convective Disturbances, under review 

57.   Bolei Yang, Ji Nie*, Zhe-Min Tan*, and Juan Fang, 2025: Phase Match of Quasi-Periodic Behavior with Diurnal Cycle Accelerates Tropical Cyclone Genesis, under review 

2025

56.   Zhihong Song, Ji Nie*, Panxi Dai, Zhongxi Lin, Jiaqi Guo, Jiawenjing Lan, Xiang Li, Qifan Lin, Zihan Yin, Jun Yang, Yonggang Liu, Haijun Yang, and Yongyun Hu*, 2025: Origin and Evolution of the North Atlantic Oscillation, Nature Communications, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57395-4 (PKU news )

55.   Zelong Li, Panxi Dai, Ji Nie*, Yongyun Hu, Yonggang Liu, JunYang, Shuai Yuan, Xiang Li, Jiaqi Guo, Jiawenjing Lan, Xiujuan Bao, Mengyu Wei, Zhibo Li, Kai Man, and Zihan Yin, 2025: A simple model for the hydrological change over Phanerozoic: untangling contributions from climate and continental evolution, Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2025GL115077. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL115077

54.   Nan Lv, Zhongxi Lin*, Ji Nie*, Zhiyong Meng, Ping Lu, 2025: Meso-scale features of heavy precipitation under favoring synoptic pattern: a lesson from the 2021 Henan extreme precipitation, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, accepted

53.   Ji Nie*, Shuaiqi Tang, Shuguang Wang, Zhongxi Lin, 2025: Single-Column Models, accepted, book chapter in Encyclopedia of Climate System Science - a Major Reference Work (MRW) commissioned by Elsevier

52.   Zhibo Li, et al., 2025: Evolution of Terrestrial Aridity and Dryland since Pangea, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024PA004886  

2024

51.   Panxi Dai, Ji Nie*, Yan Yu, and Renguang Wu, 2024: Constraints on regional projections of mean and extreme precipitation under warming, PNAS, 121,  www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2312400121   (PKU news)(基金委快讯)

50.   Han Qin, Ji Nie*, and Zhiyong Meng, 2024: A Tri-mode of Mock-Walker Cells, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 41, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-023-3032-7

49.   Zhongxi Lin, Ji Nie*, Jun Wang, Yang Chen, and Zhiyong Meng, 2024: Responses of Mesoscale Convective System to Global Warming: A Study on the Henan 2021 Record-breaking Rainfall Event, Journal of Geophysical Research, 129, e2023JD039473, https://doi.org/10.1029/ 2023JD039473.  

48.   聂绩*，林中曦，李普曦，杨邱，丁天，宋丰飞，孟智勇，孙建华，李建，赵传峰，2024: 中尺度对流系统：从年际年代际变率到气候响应，气象学报，DOI: 10.11676/qxxb2025.20240112.  收入《大气科学研究与应用百年进展纪念文集》

47.   Wei Yuan, Bao Wang*, and Ji Nie, 2024: Optimal routes for cross-hemispheric flights under the influence of westerly jet, Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis (in Chinese), 西风带影响下的跨半球航班最优航线分析, 北京大学学报自然科学版, 60(5): 815-821.

46.   Xiang Li, Shineng Hu, Yongyun Hu*, Wenju Cai, Yishuai Jin, Zhengyao Lu, Jiaqi Guo, Jiawenjing Lan, Qifan Lin, Shuai Yuan, Jian Zhang, Qiang Wei, Yonggang Liu, Jun Yang, and Ji Nie, 2024: Persistently active El Niño–Southern Oscillation since the Mesozoic, PNAS, 121, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2404758121

45.   Shuai Yuan, Jie Mei, Yonggang Liu*, Jing Han, Xiujuan Bao, Xiang Li, Qifan Lin, Mengyu Wei, Zhibo Li, Zihan Yin, Kai Man, Jiaqi Guo, Yue Liu, Jiacheng Wu, Jian Zhang, Qiang Wei, Jun Yang, Ji Nie, and Yongyun Hu*, 2024: Controlling Factors of the Strength of Global Meridional Overturning Circulation (GMOC): a Lesson from the Paleozoic, Science Advances, 10, eadm7813, https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adm7813. 

44.   Mengyu Wei, Jun Yang*, Yongyun Hu, Yonggang Liu, Shineng Hu, Xiang Li, Jiawenjing Lan, Jiaqi Guo, Shuai Yuan, and Ji Nie, 2024: Simulated Warming Hole in Paleo-Pacific Oceans, Journal of Climate, DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0431.1

43.   Zhibo Li, Yongyun Hu*, Jian Zhang, Xiang Li, Jiaqi Guo, Jiawenjing Lan, Qifan Lin, Shuai Yuan, Mengyu Wei, Zihan Yin, Qiang Wei, Xiujuan Bao, Jing Han, Jun Yang, Yonggang Liu, and Ji Nie, 2024: The Pacific-North American teleconnection in the Cenozoic, Global and Planetary Change, 235, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104402

2023

42.   Jing Han, Ji Nie*, Yongyun Hu*, William R. Boos, Yonggang Liu, Jun Yang, Shuai Yuan, Xiang Li, Jiaqi Guo, Jiawenjing Lan, Qifan Lin, Xiujuan Bao, Mengyu Wei, Zhibo Li, Kai Man, and Zihan Yin, 2023: Continental drift shifts tropical rainfall by altering radiation and ocean heat transport, Science Advances, 9, http://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adf7209 (PKU news)

41.   Jun Wang, Yang Chen*, Simon F B Tett, Dáithí Stone, Ji Nie, Jinming Feng, Zhongwei Yan, Panmao Zhai, and Quansheng Ge*, 2023: Storyline attribution of human influence on a record-breaking spatially compounding flood-heat event, Science Advances, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi2714. 

40.   Yongyun Hu*, Xiang Li, William Boos, Jiaqi Guo, Jiawenjing Lan, Qifan Lin, Jing Han, Jian Zhang, Xiujuan Bao, Shuai Yuan, Qiang Wei, Yonggang Liu, Jun Yang, Ji Nie, and Zhengtang Guo*, 2023: Emergence of the modern global monsoon from the Pangea Megamonsoon set by paleogeography, Nature Geoscience, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-023-01288-y

39.   Jintai Lin*, Ji Nie, Tao Wang, Xu Yue, Wenjia Cai, Yu Liu, and Qiang Zhang, 2023: Towards carbon-neutral sustainable development of China, Environmental Research Letters, 18, DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/acd12e.

38.   Shiyan Zhang, Yongyun Hu*, Jun Yang, Xiang Li, Wanying Kang, Jian Zhang, Yonggang Liu, and Ji Nie, 2023: The Hadley circulation in the Pangea era, Science Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2023.04.021

37.   Jiawenjing Lan, Jun Yang*, Yongyun Hu, Xiang Li, Jiaqi Guo, Qifan Lin, Jing Han, Jian Zhang, Shuang Wang, and Ji Nie, 2023: Weak Equatorial Superrotation during the Past 250 Million Years, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 80, DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-22-0072.1. 

36.    Xiujuan Bao, Yongyun Hu*, Christopher R Scotese, Xiang Li, Jiaqi Guo, Jiawenjing Lan, Qifan Lin, Shuai Yuan, Mengyu Wei, Zhibo Li, Kai Man, Zihan Yin, Jing Han, Jian Zhang, Qiang Wei, Yonggang Liu, Jun Yang, and Ji Nie, 2023: Quantifying climate conditions for the formation of coals and evaporites, National Science Review, https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwad051

35.   Xiang Li, Yongyun Hu*, Jun Yang, Mengyu Wei, Jiaqi Guo, Jiawenjing Lan, Qifan Lin, Shuai Yuan, Jian Zhang, Qiang Wei, Yonggang Liu, Ji Nie, Yan Xia, and Shineng Hu, 2023: Climate Variations in the Past 250 Million Years and Contributing Factors, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, http://doi.org/10.1029/2022PA004503. (most cited in 2023) 

2022

34.   Bolei Yang, Xi Guo, Jian-Feng Gu, and Ji Nie*, 2022: Radiation Feedback Prevents Tropical Cyclones from Reaching Higher Intensity,  Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100067  

33.   Zihan Yin, and Ji Nie*, 2022: Monsoon seasonality advanced by opposite-hemisphere continental drift, Geophysical Research Letters, http://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100114 

32.   Han Qin., Wei Yuan, Jun Wang, Yang Chen, Panxi Dai, Adam H. Sobel, Zhiyong Meng, and Ji Nie*, 2022: Climate change attribution of the 2021 Henan extreme precipitation: Impacts of convective organization, Science China Earth Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-022-9953-0.  

31.   Panxi Dai, and Ji Nie*, 2022: Robust expansion of extreme midlatitude storms under global warming. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL099007 (highlighted on Nature, highlight.pdf).

30.   Jun Wang, Yang Chen*, Ji Nie, Zhongwei Yan, Panmao Zhai, and Jinming Feng, 2022: On the role of anthropogenic warming and wetting in the July 2021 Henan record-shattering rainfall, Science Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2022.09.011. 

29.   Xiang Li, Yongyun Hu*, Jiaqi Guo, Jiawenjing Lan, Qifan Lin, Xiujuan Bao, Shuai Yuan, Mengyu Wei, Zhibo Li, Kai Man, Zihan Yin, Jing Han, Jian Zhang, Chenguang Zhu, Zhouqiao Zhao, Yonggang Liu, Jun Yang, and Ji Nie, 2022: A high-resolution climate simulation dataset for the past 540 million years, Scientific Data, 9, 371. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01490-4.  

28.   Jintai Lin*, Chunjiang Zhou, Lulu Chen, Gang Huang*, J.-F. Lamarque, Ji Nie, Jun Yang, Kaiming Hu, Peng Liu, Jingxu Wang, Yan Xia, Yang Yang, and Yongyun Hu, 2022: Sulfur emissions from consumption by developed and developing countries produce comparable climate impacts, Nature Geoscience, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-00898-2  

2021

27.   Panxi Dai, and Ji Nie*, 2021: What controls the interannual variability of extreme precipitation? Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL095503

26.   Bolei Yang, Ji Nie*, and Zhe-Min Tan, 2021: Radiation Feedback Accelerates the Formation of Typhoon Haiyan (2013): the Critical Role of Mid-level Circulation, Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094168.  

25.   Zihan Yin., Panxi Dai, and Ji Nie*, 2021: A two-plume convective model for precipitation extremes, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 38, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-021-0404-8.

2020

24.   Junyan Xiong, Jun Yang, and Ji Nie*, 2020: Possible dependence of climate on atmospheric mass: a convection-circulation-cloud coupled feedback, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 77, 3833–3846.

23.   Panxi Dai,  and Ji Nie*, 2020: A Global Quasi-Geostrophic Diagnosis of Extratropical Extreme Precipitation, Journal of Climate, 33, 9629–9642. 

22.   Ji Nie*, Panxi Dai*, and Adam H. Sobel, 2020: Dry and moist dynamics shape regional patterns of extreme precipitation sensitivity, PNAS, 117, 8757-8763. (PKU news)(基金委快讯)

21.   Chenyu Ma, Wei Yuan, and Ji Nie*, 2020: Responses of mean and extreme precipitation to different climate forcing under Radiative-Convective Equilibrium, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 37, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-020-9236-1.

20.   Jianping Guo, Yan Yan, Dandan Chen, Yanmin Lv, Yi Han, Xiaoran Guo, Lin Liu, Yucong Miao, Tianmeng Chen, Ji Nie, Panmao Zhai, 2020: The response of warm-season precipitation extremes in China to global warming: An observational perspective from radiosonde measurements, Climate Dynamics, 54, 3977-3989.

2019

19.   Ji Nie*, and Bowen Fan, 2019: Roles of dynamic forcings and diabatic heating in summer extreme precipitation in East China and the southeastern United States, Journal of Climate, 32, 5815-5831.

18.   Ding Ma, Adam H. Sobel, Zhiming Kuang, Martin S. Singh, and Ji Nie*, 2019: A moist entropy budget view of the South Asia summer monsoon onset, Geophysical Research Letters, 46. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082089.

17.   Ji Nie, Yan Xia, Shineng Hu, Wei Yuan, Jun Yang, and Ding Ma*, 2019: Similarity of atmospheric thermal stratification over elevated surface under Radiative-Convective Equilibrium, Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 3512-3522.

16.   Zane Martin*, Shuguang Wang, Ji Nie, and Adam H. Sobel, 2019: The influence of the quasi-biennial oscillation on the Madden-Julian oscillation in idealized cloud-resolving simulations, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 76, 669-688.

15.  Zhiyong Meng*, Fuqing Zhang, Dehai Luo, Zhe-min Tan, Juan Fang, Jianhua Sun, Xueshun Shen, Yunji Zhang, Shuguang Wang, Wei Han, Kun Zhao, Lei Zhu, Yongyun Hu, Huiwen Xue, Yaping Ma, Lijuan Zhang, Ji Nie, Ruilin Zhou, Sa Li, Hongjun Liu, Yuning Zhu, 2019: Review of Chinese atmospheric science research over the past 70 years: Synoptic meteorology, Science China Earth Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-019-9534-6.

2018

14.   Ji Nie*, Adam H. Sobel, Daniel A. Shaevitz, and Shuguang Wang, 2018: Dynamic amplification of extreme precipitation sensitivity, PNAS, 115, 9467-9472. (PKU news)

13.   Yan Tian*, Zhiming Kuang, Martin Singh, and Ji Nie, 2018: The vertical momentum budget of shallow cumulus convection: insights from a Lagrangian perspective, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018MS001 451.

12.   Neil F. Tandon*, Ji Nie, and Xuebin Zhang, 2018: Strong Influence of eddy length on boreal summertime extreme precipitation projections, Geophysical Research Letters, doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079327.

Before 2017

11.   Ji Nie*, Daniel A. Shaevitz, and Adam H. Sobel, 2016: Forcings and feedback in the 2010 Pakistan flood: modeling extreme precipitation with interactive large-scale ascent, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 8, doi:10.1002/2016MS 000663.

10.   Ji Nie*, Zhiming Kuang, Daniel Jacob, and Jiahua Guo, 2016: Representing effects of aqueous phase reactions in shallow cumuli in global models, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 121, doi:10.1002/2015JD024208. 

9.   Ji Nie* and Adam H. Sobel, 2016: Modeling the interaction between Quasi-Geostrophic vertical motion and convection in a single column, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 73, 1101-1117.

8.   Pierre Gentine*, Alix Garelli, Seung-Bu Park, Ji Nie, Giuseppe Torri, and Zhiming Kuang, 2016: Role of surface heat fluxes underneath cold pools, Geophysical Research Letters, 43, doi:10.1002 /2015GL067262.

7.   Shuguang Wang*, Adam H. Sobel, and Ji Nie, 2016: Modeling the MJO rain rates using parameterized large-scale dynamics: vertical structure, radiation, and horizontal advection of dry air, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 8, doi:10.1002/2015MS000529.  

6.   Ji Nie* and Adam H. Sobel, 2015: Responses of tropical deep convection to the QBO: cloud-resolving simulations, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 72, 3625–3638.

5.   Ji Nie* and Zhiming Kuang, 2012: Beyond bulk entrainment and detrainment rates: a new framework for diagnosing mixing in cumulus convection, Geophysical Research Letters, 39, doi:10.1029/2012GL053992.

4.   Ji Nie* and Zhiming Kuang, 2012: Responses of shallow cumulus convection to large-scale temperature and moisture perturbations: a comparison of large-eddy simulations and a convective parameterization based on stochastically entraining parcels, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 69, 1936-1956, 

3.   Ji Nie, William R. Boos, and Zhiming Kuang*, 2010: Observational evaluation of a convective quasi-equilibrium view of monsoons, Journal of Climate, 23, 4416-4428. 

2.   Ji Nie*, Peng Wang, Wenchang Yang, and Benkui Tan, 2008: Northern hemisphere storm tracks in strong AO anomaly winters, Atmospheric Science Letters, 153-159. 

1.   Wenchang Yang*, Ji Nie, Pu Lin, and Benkui Tan, 2007: Baroclinic wave packets in an extended quasigeostrophic two-layer model, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, doi:10.10 29/2006GL029077.