Zhi-Bo Li (李智博)

Zhi-Bo Li (李智博)

Climatologist

Publications

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Corresponding author: * Supervised student: $ Co-first author: #

Submitted

  1. Zhi-Bo Li, et al. Response of near-surface wind speed to atmospheric CO2 removal.
  2. Zhi-Bo Li, et al. Forty years of tropospheric wind changes: Benchmarking reanalysis with radiosonde observations.
  3. Cheng Shen, Hui-Shuang Yuan$, Zhi-Bo Li, et al. Uncertainty induced by internal variability in South Asian near-surface wind speed projections.
  4. Xiujuan Bao, et al. Quantifying climate conditions for the formation of bauxites and kaolinites.

Peer-reviewed journal papers

2025

  1. Cheng Shen, Zhi-Bo Li*, Fei Liu, Hans W. Chen, Deliang Chen*. A robust reduction in near-surface wind speed after volcanic eruptions: Implications for wind energy generation. The Innovation. 6(1), 100734. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xinn.2024.100734 [Lead Corresponding Author & Cover Paper]
  2. Zhi-Bo Li, Yongyun Hu*, Qiang Fu, Xiujuan Bao, Jian Zhang, Xiang Li, Jiaqi Guo, Qifan Lin, Shuai Yuan, Jiawenjing Lan, Jing Han, Shiyan Zhang, Qiang Wei, Yonggang Liu, Jun Yang, Ji Nie, Zhengtang Guo. Terrestrial aridity and dryland evolutions since Pangea. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 40(1), e2024PA004886. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024PA004886
  3. Zhi-Bo Li, Ming Sun, Cheng Shen*, Deliang Chen. ENSO-driven seasonal variability in near-surface wind speed and wind power potential across China. Geophysical Research Letters. 52, e2025GL115537. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL115537
  4. Peng Hu, Wen Chen*, Shangfeng Chen, Jingliang Huangfu, Yulian Tang, Zhi-Bo Li, Ming Sun, Lin Wang, Yuyun Liu. Distinctive features of tropical waves before and after the South China Sea summer monsoon onset. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(8), e2025GL114763. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL114763
  5. Zelong Li, Panxi Dai, Ji Nie*, Yongyun Hu, Yonggang Liu, Jun Yang, Shuai Yuan, Xiang Li, Jiaqi Guo, Jiawenjing Lan, Xiujuan Bao, Mengyu Wei, Zhi-Bo Li, Kai Man, Zihan Yin. 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
  6. Shiwei Jiang, Wuhong Luo, Xin Zhou*, Zhi-Bo Li, Yong Luo, Anze Chen, Xuanqiao Liu, Hongfei Zhao, Guangcheng Zhang, Juzhong Zhang. Collapse of prehistoric cultures in central-eastern China linked to the El Niño-like states during the 4.2 ka event. Global and Planetary Change. 248, 104772. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2025.104772

2024

  1. Yadong Lei, Zhili Wang*, Yangyang Xu, Xiaochao Yu, Chenguang Tian, Zhi-Bo Li, Lei Li, Junting Zhong, Lifeng Guo, Lin Liu, Deying Wang, Huizheng Che, Xiaoye Zhang*. Global solar droughts due to supply-demand imbalance exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(22), e2024GL112162. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL112162
  2. Qingyu Cai, Wen Chen*, Shangfeng Chen, Tianjiao Ma, Xiadong An, Zhi-Bo Li. Strengthened impact of El Niño-Southern Oscillation on Eurasian teleconnection Pattern since the late-1980s. Journal of Climate. 37(24), 6491-6502. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0402.1
  3. Zhi-Bo Li, Yang Xu$, Hui-Shuang Yuan, Youli Chang, Cheng Shen*. AMO footprint of the recent near-surface wind speed change over China. Environmental Research Letters. 19(11), 114031. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad7ee4
  4. Shiwei Jiang, Xin Zhou*, Jasper F. Kok, Qifan Lin, Yonggang Liu, Tao Zhan, Yanan Shen, Zhi-Bo Li, Xuanqiao Liu, Anze Chen, Luo Wang, Wen Chen, John P. Smol, Zhengtang Guo. Earth-Science Reviews. 250, 104937. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2024.104937
  5. Cheng Shen, Zhi-Bo Li, Yadong Lei, Yue Yu, Deliang Chen*. Increases of offshore wind potential in a warming world. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(14), e2024GL109494. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL109494AGU Featured ResearchThe Guardian
  6. Shuai Yuan, Yonggang Liu, Yongyun Hu*, Jie Mei, Jing Han, Xiujuan Bao, Xiang Li, Qifan Lin, Mengyu Wei, Zhi-Bo Li, Zihan Yin, Kai Man, Jiaqi Guo, Yue Liu, Jiacheng Wu, Jian Zhang, Qiang Wei, Jun Yang, Ji Nei. Controlling factors for the Global Meridional Overturning Circulation: a lesson from the Paleozoic. Science Advances. 10(26), adm7813. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adm7813
  7. Zhi-Bo Li, Yongyun Hu*, Jian Zhang, Xiang Li, Jiaqi Guo, Jiawenjing Lan, Qifan Lin, Shuai Yuan, Mengyu Wei, Zihan Yin, Qiang Wei, Xiujuan Bao, Jing Han, Jun Yang, Yonggang Liu, Ji Nie. The Pacific-North American teleconnection in the Cenozoic. Global and Planetary Change. 235, 104402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104402
  8. Yue Yu$, Zhi-Bo Li*, Zixiang Yan, Huishuang Yuan, Cheng Shen*. Projected emergence season of year-maximum near-surface wind speed. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(2), e2023GL107543. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL107543

2023

  1. Cheng Shen, Huishuang Yuan$, Zhi-Bo Li, Xiaoye Yang, Lorenzo Minola, Youli Chang*, Deliang Chen*. March Near-surface Wind Speed Hiatus over China since 2011. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(15), e2023GL104230. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104230
  2. Shiwei Jiang, Xin Zhou*, Zhi-Bo Li, Luyao Tu, Anze Chen, Xuanqiao Liu, Min Ding, Guangcheng Zhang. Increased effective radiative forcing enhanced the modulating effect of Pacific Decadal Oscillation on late Little Ice Age precipitation in Jiang-Huai region, China. Climate Dynamics. 61, 4173-4183. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-023-06805-8
  3. Shangfeng Chen, Wen Chen*, Bin Yu, Liang Wu, Lin Chen, Zhi-Bo Li, Hasi Aru, Jingliang Huangfu. (2023) Impact of the winter Arctic sea ice anomaly on the following summer tropical cyclone genesis frequency over the western North Pacific. Climate Dynamics. 61, 3971-3988. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-023-06789-5
  4. Shiwei Jiang, Xin Zhou*, Julian Sachs, Zhi-Bo Li, Luyao Tu, Yiyi Lin, Xuanqiao Liu, Anze Chen, Yanan Shen. (2023) The mean state of the tropical Pacific Ocean differed between the Medieval Warm Period and the Industrial Era. Communications Earth & Environment. 4, 74. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00734-4
  5. Jing Han, Ji Nie*, Yongyun Hu*, William Boos, Yonggang Liu, Jun Yang, Shuai Yuan, Xiang Li, Jiaqi Guo, Jiawenjing Lan, Qifan Lin, Xiujuan Bao, Mengyu Wei, Zhi-Bo Li, Kai Man, Zihan Yin. (2023) Continental drift shifts tropical rainfall by altering radiation and ocean heat transport. Science Advances. 9(10).https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adf7209
  6. Xiujuan Bao, Yongyun Hu*, Christopher R. Scotese, Xiang Li, Jiaqi Guo, Jiawenjing Lan, Qifan Lin, Shuai Yuan, Mengyu Wei, Zhi-Bo Li, Kai Man, Zihan Yin, Jing Han, Jian Zhang, Qiang Wei, Yonggang Liu, Jun Yang, Ji Nie. (2023) Quantifying climate conditions for the formation of coals and evaporites. National Science Review. nwad051.https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwad051

2022

  1. Cheng Shen, Jinlin Zha, Zhi-Bo Li, Cesar Azorin-Molina, Kaiqiang Deng, Lorenzo Minola, Deliang Chen*. (2022) Evaluation of global terrestrial near-surface wind speed simulated by CMIP6 models and their future projections. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1518(1), 249-263.https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14910
  2. Tianjiao Ma, Wen Chen*, Shangfeng Chen, Chaim I. Garfinkel, Shuoyi Ding, Lei Song, Zhi-Bo Li, Yulian Tang, Jingliang Huangfu, Hainan Gong, Wei Zhao. (2022) Different ENSO teleconnections over East Asia in early and late winter: role of precipitation anomalies in the tropical Indian Ocean–far western Pacific. Journal of Climate,35(24), 4319-4335.https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D
  3. Shiyan Zhang, Yongyun Hu*, Zhi-Bo Li. (2022) Recent changes and future projection of precipitation in Northwest China (in Chinese). Advances in Climate Change Research.https://doi.org/10.12006/j.issn.1673-1719.2021.281
  4. Xiang Li, Yongyun Hu*, Jiaqi Guo, Jiawenjing Lan, Qifan Lin, Xiujuan Bao, Shuai Yuan, Mengyu Wei, Zhi-Bo Li, Kai Man, Zihan Yin, Jing Han, Jian Zhang, Chenguang Zhu, Zhouqiao Zhao, Yonggang Liu, Jun Yang, Ji Nie. (2022) A high-resolution climate simulation dataset for the past 540 million years. Scientific Data, 9(1), 371.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01490-4
  5. Peng Hu, Wen Chen*, Zhi-Bo Li, Shangfeng Chen, Lin Wang, Yuyun Liu. (2022) Close linkage of the South China Sea summer monsoon onset and extreme rainfall in May over Southeast Asia: role of the synoptic-scale systems. Journal of Climate, 35(13), 4347-4362.https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0740.1
  6. Shangfeng Chen, Wen Chen*, Bin Yu, Zhi-Bo Li. (2022) Impact of internal climate variability on the relationship between spring northern tropical Atlantic SST anomalies and succedent winter ENSO: the role of the North Pacific Oscillation. Journal of Climate, 35(2), 537-559.https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0505.1

2021

  1. Jinlin Zha, Cheng Shen, Zhi-Bo Li, Jian Wu, Deming Zhao*, Wenxuan Fan, Ming Sun, Cesar Azorin-Molina, Kaiqiang Deng. (2021) Projected changes in global terrestrial near-surface wind speed in 1.5-4.0 ℃ global warming levels. Environmental Research Letters, 16(11), 114016. http://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2fdd
  2. Zhi-Bo Li, Ying Sun*, Tim Li, Wen Chen, Yihui Ding. (2021) Projections of South Asian summer monsoon under global warming from 1.5º to 5 ºC. Journal of Climate, 34(19), 7913-7926. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0547.1
  3. Cheng Shen, Jinlin Zha*, Deming Zhao, Jian Wu, Wenxuan Fan, Mengxi Yang, Zhi-Bo Li. (2021) Estimating centennial-scale changes in global terrestrial near-surface wind speed based on CMIP6 GCMs. Environmental Research Letters, 16(8), 084039. http://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac1378
  4. Zhi-Bo Li, Wen Chen*, Shangfeng Chen, Ying Sun*, Danlei Qian. (2021) Uncertainty of central China summer precipitation and related natural internal variability under global warming of 1 to 3ºC. International Journal of Climatology, 41(15), 6640-6653. http://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7217

before 2021

  1. Zhi-Bo Li, Ying Sun*, Tim Li, Yihui Ding, Ting Hu. (2019) Future changes in East Asian summer monsoon circulation and precipitation under 1.5 to 5ºC of warming. Earth’s Future, 7(12), 1391-1406. http://doi.org/10.1029/2019EF001276
  2. Zhi-Bo Li, Jia Liu, Tim Li*, Ying Sun. (2019) Relative roles of dynamic and thermodynamic processes in causing positive and negative global mean SST trends during the past 100 years. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 86(c), 18-32. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2019.02.002