Publications

Liu, X. and J.M. Wallace, 2018. ENSO signature in an aquaplanet model. In preparation.
Liu, X., R.H. White, and D.S. Battisti, 2018. The impact of a narrower Atlantic on the climate of South America. In preparation.
Roe, G.H., K. Armour, M. Baker, D.S. Battisti, A. Donohoe, N. Feldl, X. Liu, B. Markle, and N. Siler, 2018. Energetic and heat-engine constraints on the spatial patterns of the mean and perturbed climate. In preparation.

Liu, X., D.S. Battisti, and G.H. Roe, 2017. The effect of cloud cover on the meridional heat transport: Insights from varying rotation rate experiments. J. Climate, 30, 7465-7479. [link]
Liu, X., D.S. Battisti, and A.D. Donohoe, 2017. Tropical precipitation and cross-equatorial ocean heat transport during the mid-Holocene. J. Climate, 30, 3529-3547. [link]
Liu, X. and D.S. Battisti, 2015. The influence of orbital forcing of tropical insolation on the climate and isotopic composition of precipitation in South America. J. Climate, 28, 4841–4862. [link]
Kang, S. M., R. Seager, D. M. W. Frierson, and X. Liu, 2015. Croll revisited: Why is Northern Hemisphere warmer than the Southern Hemisphere? Clim. Dyn. 44(5–6), 1457–1472. [link]
Frierson, D. M. W., Y.-T. Hwang, N. S. Fučkar, R. Seager, S. M. Kang, A. Donohoe, E. A. Maroon, X. Liu, and D. S. Battisti, 2013. Contribution of ocean overturning circulation to tropical rainfall peak in the Northern Hemisphere. Nat. Geosci., 6(11), 940–944. [link]
Ceppi, P., Y.-T. Hwang, X. Liu, D. M. W. Frierson, and D. L. Hartmann, 2013. The relationship between the ITCZ and the Southern Hemispheric eddy-driven jet. J. Geophys. Res., 118, 5136–5146. [link]

“What determines the meridional heat transport: Insight from rotation rate experiments,”

AMS annual meeting, Seattle, WA, Jan. 2017 (oral).

Atmospheric and Climate Dynamics Seminar, Seattle, WA, Jan. 2017 (oral).

AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2016 (poster).

“Tropical precipitation and cross-equatorial ocean heat transport during the mid-Holocene,”

AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2015 (poster).

“Influence of precession on the climate and ẟ18O of precipitation of South America,”

Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Jun. 2015 (invited).

AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2014 (oral).

Atmospheric and Climate Dynamics Seminar, Seattle, WA, Feb. 2014 (oral).

Workshop on Growth of Tibetan Plateau and East Asian climate, Friday Harbor, WA, Sep. 2013 (oral).