Xian Wu

Assistant Professor - Climate Science

I am a climate scientist studying large-scale ocean-atmosphere interactions, climate variability and change in the past and future, and climate predictability using observational data and numerical earth system models.

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Professional Preparation

PhD - Geological Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin - 2020

BS - Atmospheric Sciences
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology - 2015

Research Areas

Climate Dynamics
Climate Prediction
Climate Modeling

Publications

Revisiting Unstable ENSO Teleconnections From a Global Perspective 2025 - Journal Article

Pinpointing sources of equatorial Pacific climatological SST biases in a coupled GCM via surface flux adjustments 2025 - Other

Impact of volcanic eruptions on CMIP6 decadal predictions: a multi-model analysis 2024 - Journal Article

Predictability of tropical Pacific decadal variability is dominated by oceanic Rossby waves 2024 - Journal Article

The future of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation: using large ensembles to illuminate time-varying responses and inter-model differences 2023 - Journal Article

Volcanic forcing degrades multiyear-to-decadal prediction skill in the tropical Pacific 2023 - Journal Article

Long La Niña events could rise in frequency as the planet warms 2023 - Journal Article

The Seasonal-to-Multiyear Large Ensemble (SMYLE) prediction system using the Community Earth System Model version 2 2022 - Journal Article

Awards

Advanced Study Program Postdoctoral Fellowship - NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research [2020]

Outstanding Student Presentation Award - American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting [2019]

Appointments

Assistant Professor
The University of Texas at Dallas [2025–Present]

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Princeton University & NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory [2023–2024]

ASP Postdoctoral Fellow
National Center for Atmospheric Research [2020–2023]

Activities

Associate Editor for Journal of Climate, 07/2023–present

Reviewer for Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, Advances in Climate Change Research, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Climate Dynamics, Geophysical Research Letters, International Journal of Climatology, Journal of Climate, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Journal of Physical Oceanography, One Earth, Nature, Nature Geoscience, Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science Bulletin, Science Advances