I am generally interested in the near-term predictions of the global carbon cycle and the carbon-climate feedbacks. My major research focus is on understanding the processes in regulating variation and predictability of the global carbon cycle and climate in the context of the Earth system. I am using large ensemble simulations based on Earth system model to disentangle the internal variability from the variability generated by anthropogenic perturbations. In the meanwhile, I pursue to improve the near-term predictions of ocean carbon uptake and relevant processes by initializing the Earth system model with observations and by improving the representation of meso-scale processes with high resolution models.

ORCID: 0000-0003-2912-1837

• Ilyina, T., Li, H., Spring, A., Müller, W., Bopp, L., Chikamoto, M., Danabasoglu, G., Dobrynin, M., Dunne, J., Fransner, F., Friedlingstein, P., Lee, W.-S., Lovenduski, N., Merryfield, W., Mignot, J., Park, J.-Y., Séférian, R., Sospedra-Alfonso, R., Watanabe, M. & Yeager, S. (2021). Predictable variations of the carbon sinks and atmospheric CO2 growth in a multi-model framework. Geophysical Research Letters, 48: e2020GL090695. doi:10.1029/2020GL090695
• Li, H., Ilyina, T., Müller, W. & Landschützer, P.(2019). Predicting the variable ocean carbon sink. Science Advances, 5: eaav6471. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aav6471
• Li, H., Ilyina, T., Müller, W. & Sienz, F. (2016). Decadal predictions of the North Atlantic CO2 uptake. Nature Communications, 7: 11076. doi:10.1038/ncomms11076