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Xue, Y., 1991: A two-dimensional coupled Biosphere-Atmosphere model and its application. Adv. in Atmos. Sci., 8, 447-458.

Xue, Y. and P. J. Sellers, 1993: A brief review of Simple Biosphere Model (SiB). In Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Modeling, (eds. Goodchild, M.F., Parks, L.T.,Steyaert, L.T.), Oxford Univ. Press, 290-295.

Xue, Y., F. J. Zeng, and C.A. Schlosser, 1996c: SSiB and its sensitivity to soil properties --- a case study using HAPEX-Mobilhy data. Global & Planetary Change, 13, 183-194.

Sun, S.F., J.M. Jin, Y. Xue, 1999: A simplified layer snow model for global and regional studies. J. Geogphy. Res. 104, 19587-19597.

Slater, A.G., C. A. Schlosser, C. E. Desborough, A.J. Pitman, and others (including Y. Xue): 2001: The representation of snow in land-surface schemes; results from PILPS 2(d). J. Hydrometeorology, 2, 7-25.

Sun S. and Y. Xue, 2001: Implementing a new snow scheme in Simplified Simple Biosphere Model (SSiB), Advance in Atmospheric Sciences, 18, 335-354.

Xue, Y., S. Sun, D. Kahan, Y. Jiao, 2003: The impact of parameterizations in snow physics and interface processes on the simulation of snow cover and runoff at several cold region sites. J. Geophy. Res.108,D22,8859,doi: 10.1029/2002JD003174. PP20.

Zhan, X., Y. Xue, G. J. Collatz, 2003: An analytical approach for estimating CO₂ and heat fluxes over the Amazonian region. Ecological Modeling. 162, 97-117.

Zhang X., S. Sun, and Y. Xue: 2007: Development of Frozen soil model for climate study. J. Hydrometeorology.8, 690-701.

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Li, Q., S. Sun, and Y. Xue, 2010: Analyses and development of a hierarchy of frozen soil models for cold region study, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmosphere. 115, D03107, doi:10.1029/2009JD012530.