Areas of Focus
- Earth System Modeling and Global Change
- Ecological Dynamics
Work Experience
- 2007-12--Present, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Researcher
- 2006-09--2007-09, University of Washington, USA, Research Scientist
- 2003-12--2006-09, University of Arizona, USA, Research Scientist
- 2003-04--2003-11, University of Alberta, Canada, Visiting Professor
- 1999-10--2002-04, RIKEN, Japan, Research Scientist
- 1996-10--2002-07, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Assistant Researcher
- 1993-09--1998-07, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PhD Student
- 1991-08--1996-09, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Research Intern
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1993-09--1998-07 PhD in Biophysics, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 1987-09--1991-07 Bachelor of Science in Physics, Peking University
Publications
- A general model for plant resource competition and population structures, Xiaodong Zeng, 2023
- Changes in the seasonal amplitude of northern ecosystem productivity under future global warming, Xiaodong Zeng, 2023
- Population Exposure Changes to Mean and Extreme Climate Events Over Pakistan and Associated Mechanisms, Xiaodong Zeng, 2023
- Spatial Sensitivity of NDVI Index to Climate Factors, Xiaodong Zeng, 2023
- Mathematical methods for analyzing ecosystem state evolution in ecologically vulnerable area, Xiaodong Zeng, 2022
- Response of terrestrial net primary production to climate change associated with the quadrupling CO2 forcing in CMIP6 models, Xiaodong Zeng, 2022
- Changes in Global Vegetation Distribution and Carbon Fluxes in Response to Global Warming: Simulated Results from IAP-DGVM in CAS-ESM2, Xiaodong Zeng, 2022
- Observed Changes in Crop Yield Associated with Droughts Propagation via Natural and Human-Disturbed Agro-Ecological Zones of Pakistan, Xiaodong Zeng, 2022
- Regional changes in extreme temperature records over Pakistan and their relation to Pacific variability, Xiaodong Zeng, 2021
- Evaluating the performance of CMIP6 Earth system models in simulating global vegetation structure and distribution, Xiaodong Zeng, 2021
- Study on the dominant climatic driver affecting the changes of LAI of ecological fragile zones in China, Xiaodong Zeng, 2021
- Description and Climate Simulation Performance of CAS-ESM Version 2, Xiaodong Zeng, 2020
- The Belt and Road region climate change: facts, impacts and possible risks, Xiaodong Zeng, 2020
- Climate Change Characteristics in Ecological Fragile Zones in China during 1980-2014, Xiaodong Zeng, 2019
- Linkage between tropical terrestrial carbon cycle and precipitation: The two anomalous years of 1979 and 1996, Xiaodong Zeng, 2019
- Allocation of forest net primary production varies by forest age and air temperature, Xiaodong Zeng, 2018
- Response of Tropical Terrestrial Gross Primary Production to the Super El Nino Event in 2015, Xiaodong Zeng, 2018
- Evaluation of the New Dynamic Global Vegetation Model in CAS-ESM, Xiaodong Zeng, 2018
- Study on the Effects of Global and Environment Carrying Fragile Zones in China Change on Resources Capacity in Ecological, Xiaodong Zeng, 2017
- Evaluating the responses of forest ecosystems to climate change and CO2 using dynamic global vegetation models, Xiaodong Zeng, 2017
- Influences of the seasonal growth of vegetation on surface energy budgets over middle to high latitudes, Xiaodong Zeng, 2017
- Development of an Establishment Scheme for a DGVM, Xiaodong Zeng, 2016
- Influences of the interannual variability of vegetation LAI on surface temperature, Xiaodong Zeng, 2016
- Demonstrative Research on Global Land Surface Change of Land Surface Products, Xiaodong Zeng, 2016
- Application of the Intensity-Scale Technique for Verification of Climatological Surface Temperature Simulation, Xiaodong Zeng, 2016
- Evaluation of the individual allocation scheme and its impacts in a dynamic global vegetation model, Xiaodong Zeng, 2016
- Comprehensive Study on the Influence of Evapotranspiration and Albedo on Surface Temperature Related to Changes in the Leaf Area Index, Xiaodong Zeng, 2015
- Research Progress in Dynamic Vegetation Model Phenology Schemes, Xiaodong Zeng, 2015
- A New Scheme for Predicting Leaf Onset in Summer-Green Vegetation in the Northern Hemisphere, Xiaodong Zeng, 2015
- Theoretical Modeling Study on Resource Competition and Coexistence within a Plant Ecosystem, Xiaodong Zeng, 2015
- Overview of Establishment Parameterization in Ecological Dynamic Models, Xiaodong Zeng, 2014
- Investigation of Uncertainties of Establishment Schemes in Dynamic Global Vegetation Models, Xiaodong Zeng, 2014
- Preliminary Assessment of the Common Land Model Coupled with the IAP Dynamic Global Vegetation Model, Xiaodong Zeng, 2014
- Development of the IAP Dynamic Global Vegetation Model, Xiaodong Zeng, 2014
- Comparison of the Influence of Interannual Vegetation Variability between Offline and Online Simulations, Xiaodong Zeng, 2014
- Terrestrial Carbon Cycle: Climate Relations in Eight CMIP5 Earth System Models, Xiaodong Zeng, 2013
- Evaluating the Tree Population Density and Its Impacts in CLM-DGVM, Xiaodong Zeng, 2013
- Impact of vegetation interannual variability on evapotranspiration, Xiaodong Zeng, 2013
- Soil microbial respiration from observations and Earth System Models, Xiaodong Zeng, 2013
- Progress in the Study of the Effects of Land Use and Land Cover Change on the Climate System, Xiaodong Zeng, 2012
- A process-based fire parameterization of intermediate complexity in a Dynamic Global Vegetation Model, Xiaodong Zeng, 2012
- The Impacts of the Interannual Variability of Vegetation on the Interannual Variability of Global Evapotranspiration: A Modeling Study, Xiaodong Zeng, 2012
- Impact of Spin-up Forcing on Vegetation States Simulated by a Dynamic Global Vegetation Model Coupled with a Land Surface Model, Xiaodong Zeng, 2011
- Spatiotemporal relationship of leaf area index simulated by CLM3.0-DGVM and climatic factors, Xiaodong Zeng, 2011
- The impact of interannual climate variability on the mean global vegetation distribution, Xiaodong Zeng, 2011
- Evaluating the Dependence of Vegetation on Climate in an Improved Dynamic Global Vegetation Model, Xiaodong Zeng, 2010
- Growing temperate shrubs over arid and semiarid regions in the Community Land Model-Dynamic Global Vegetation Model, Xiaodong Zeng, 2008
- Research on the Earth System Dynamic Model and Some Related Numerical Simulations, Xiaodong Zeng, 2008
- Transition and pattern diversity in arid and semiarid grassland: A modeling study, Xiaodong Zeng, 2007
- Intermediately Complex Models for the Hydrological Interactions in the Atmosphere-Vegetation-Soil System, Xiaodong Zeng, 2006
- Ecological dynamic model of grassland and its practical verification, Xiaodong Zeng, 2005
- Vegetation-soil water interaction within a dynamical ecosystem model of grassland in semi-arid areas, Xiaodong Zeng, 2005
- Some Studies