Aixue Hu

13.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
135 papers, 8.9k citations indexed

About

Aixue Hu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Aixue Hu has authored 135 papers receiving a total of 8.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 109 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 93 papers in Atmospheric Science and 76 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Aixue Hu's work include Climate variability and models (105 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (67 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (28 papers). Aixue Hu is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (105 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (67 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (28 papers). Aixue Hu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Aixue Hu's co-authors include Gerald A. Meehl, Julie M. Arblaster, Weiqing Han, Warren M. Washington, John Fasullo, Kevin E. Trenberth, Haiyan Teng, Gary Strand, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner and Jonathan T. Overpeck and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Aixue Hu

131 papers receiving 8.6k citations

Hit Papers

Simulating Arctic Climate Warmth and Icefield Retreat in ... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2006 2011 2005 2005 2013 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Simulating Arctic Climate Warmth and Icefield Retreat in the Last Interglaciation
    2006 764 citations Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Aixue Hu et al. profile →
  2. Model-based evidence of deep-ocean heat uptake during surface-temperature hiatus periods
    2011 552 citations Gerald A. Meehl, Julie M. Arblaster et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  3. How Much More Global Warming and Sea Level Rise?
    2005 513 citations Gerald A. Meehl, Julie M. Arblaster et al. profile →
  4. A model intercomparison of changes in the Atlantic thermohaline circulation in response to increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration
    2005 501 citations Aixue Hu et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →
  5. Externally Forced and Internally Generated Decadal Climate Variability Associated with the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation
    2013 383 citations Gerald A. Meehl, Aixue Hu et al. profile →
  6. CMIP6 Models Predict Significant 21st Century Decline of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
    2020 263 citations Wilbert Weijer, Wei Cheng et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Aixue Hu United States 47 6.1k 5.7k 3.6k 688 649 135 8.9k
Benjamin D. Santer United States 56 10.3k 1.7× 8.6k 1.5× 2.4k 0.7× 880 1.3× 273 0.4× 117 13.1k
Steven R. Hare United States 18 9.2k 1.5× 5.2k 0.9× 4.5k 1.3× 2.6k 3.7× 279 0.4× 52 11.5k
Thierry Fichefet Belgium 40 4.7k 0.8× 6.7k 1.2× 2.3k 0.6× 879 1.3× 939 1.4× 125 8.9k
Lixin Wu China 52 10.0k 1.6× 7.9k 1.4× 7.2k 2.0× 1.6k 2.4× 363 0.6× 322 13.6k
Shingo Watanabe Japan 41 4.5k 0.7× 4.5k 0.8× 1.3k 0.4× 528 0.8× 209 0.3× 154 7.0k
Matthew Huber United States 57 3.0k 0.5× 7.3k 1.3× 2.4k 0.7× 1.9k 2.8× 1000 1.5× 170 10.8k
Julie M. Arblaster United States 58 11.4k 1.9× 9.4k 1.6× 3.3k 0.9× 987 1.4× 230 0.4× 118 14.4k
T. C. Johns United Kingdom 20 6.0k 1.0× 4.8k 0.8× 1.4k 0.4× 707 1.0× 275 0.4× 29 8.2k
Nathan J. Mantua United States 42 12.6k 2.1× 7.0k 1.2× 6.7k 1.9× 4.4k 6.4× 725 1.1× 87 17.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Aixue Hu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Aixue Hu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Aixue Hu based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Aixue Hu. Aixue Hu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Wu, Qigang, et al.. (2025). Pacific sub-decadal sea surface temperature variations contributed to recent Antarctic Sea ice decline trend. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3386–3386. 1 indexed citations
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Richter, Ingo, Ping Chang, Gökhan Danabasoglu, et al.. (2025). The Tropical Basin Interaction Model Intercomparison Project (TBIMIP). Geoscientific model development. 18(9). 2587–2608. 1 indexed citations
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Good, Peter, Laura Jackson, Michel Crucifix, et al.. (2024). Impacts of AMOC Collapse on Monsoon Rainfall: A Multi‐Model Comparison. Earth s Future. 12(9). 8 indexed citations
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Meehl, Gerald A., Christine A. Shields, Julie M. Arblaster, et al.. (2024). Processes that Contribute to Future South Asian Monsoon Differences in E3SMv2 and CESM2. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(14). 2 indexed citations
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Zhao, Bowen, et al.. (2024). Decadal Relationship Between Arctic SAT and AMOC Changes Modulated by the North Pacific Oscillation. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(19). 1 indexed citations
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Lin, Pengfei, Hailong Liu, Bo Wu, et al.. (2024). Emergence of decadal linkage between Western Australian coast and Western–central tropical Pacific. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4458–4458. 4 indexed citations
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Li, Hui, Aixue Hu, & Gerald A. Meehl. (2023). Role of Tropical Cyclones in Determining ENSO Characteristics. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(6). 4 indexed citations
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Hu, Aixue, Gerald A. Meehl, Ayako Abe‐Ouchi, et al.. (2023). Dichotomy between freshwater and heat flux effects on oceanic conveyor belt stability and global climate. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 6 indexed citations
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Han, Weiqing, Lei Zhang, Gerald A. Meehl, et al.. (2022). Sea level extremes and compounding marine heatwaves in coastal Indonesia. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6410–6410. 24 indexed citations
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Allen, Kathryn, Chris Gouramanis, Benjamin Keenan, et al.. (2022). Coupled insights from the palaeoenvironmental, historical and archaeological archives to support social-ecological resilience and the sustainable development goals. Environmental Research Letters. 17(5). 55011–55011. 11 indexed citations
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Wu, Tongwen, Fang Zhang, Jie Zhang, et al.. (2020). Beijing Climate Center Earth System Model version 1 (BCC-ESM1): model description and evaluation of aerosol simulations. Geoscientific model development. 13(3). 977–1005. 82 indexed citations
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Meehl, Gerald A., Aixue Hu, Frédéric Castruccio, et al.. (2020). Atlantic and Pacific tropics connected by mutually interactive decadal-timescale processes. Nature Geoscience. 14(1). 36–42. 112 indexed citations
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Wu, Tongwen, et al.. (2019). New insights into natural variability and anthropogenic forcing of global/regional climate evolution. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 2(1). 32 indexed citations
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He, Chengfei, Zhengyu Liu, & Aixue Hu. (2019). The transient response of atmospheric and oceanic heat transports to anthropogenic warming. Nature Climate Change. 9(3). 222–226. 32 indexed citations
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Little, Christopher M., Aixue Hu, Christopher W. Hughes, et al.. (2019). The Relationship Between U.S. East Coast Sea Level and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: A Review. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 124(9). 6435–6458. 81 indexed citations
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Weijer, Wilbert, Wei Cheng, Sybren Drijfhout, et al.. (2019). Stability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: A Review and Synthesis. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 124(8). 5336–5375. 167 indexed citations
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Han, Weiqing, Detlef Stammer, Gerald A. Meehl, et al.. (2018). Multi-Decadal Trend and Decadal Variability of the Regional Sea Level over the Indian Ocean since the 1960s: Roles of Climate Modes and External Forcing. Climate. 6(2). 51–51. 34 indexed citations
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Bakker, Pepijn, Andreas Schmittner, Jan T. M. Lenaerts, et al.. (2016). Fate of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Strong decline under continued warming and Greenland melting. Geophysical Research Letters. 43(23). 144 indexed citations
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Meehl, Gerald A., Aixue Hu, Benjamin D. Santer, & Shang‐Ping Xie. (2016). Contribution of the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation to twentieth-century global surface temperature trends. Nature Climate Change. 6(11). 1005–1008. 150 indexed citations

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