AMS Fellow Shang-Ping Xie has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors awarded to scientists in the United States.
Xie is a professor of climate sciences and Roger Revelle Chair in Environmental Science whose research has advanced understanding of ocean–atmosphere interactions and their role in climate variability and climate change. His work explores fundamental questions about how climate patterns form, how predictable climate systems are, and how the climate responds to increasing greenhouse gases.
Using both observations and numerical modeling, Xie’s research spans the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans, as well as monsoon systems across Asia, Africa, and the Americas. His contributions have helped deepen scientific understanding of coupled ocean–atmosphere feedback processes and large-scale climate dynamics.
“I’m honored by this recognition,” Xie comments. “It reflects the collective work of my students, postdocs, and collaborators on our journey to understand and predict our changing climate.”
Xie served as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report and has received numerous honors throughout his career, including the Meteorological Society of Japan Medal, the National Science Foundation Special Creativity Award, and the Sverdrup Gold Medal. He is a Fellow of both AMS and the American Geophysical Union and has frequently been recognized as a highly cited researcher by Web of Science.
Election to the National Academy of Sciences follows a rigorous nomination and review process conducted by current Academy members. Those elected this year bring the total number of active members to 2,705, alongside 557 international members.
