Publications

Published

  • Bao, Xiyuan, Wamba, Mathurin D. and Stracke, Andreas (2026). A joint geophysical-geochemical deep-mantle zoning map beneath East Africa and the Indian Ocean. Science.

  • Coulson, Sophie, Lloyd, Andrew, Bao, Xiyuan, Mitrovica, Jerry X., Dangendorf, Sönke, Pan, Linda, Valencic, Natasha, Tamisiea, Mark E., Al-Attar, David and Heathcotte, Daniel (2026). Inverting Sea Surface Height Data Yields Greenland Ice Mass Changes (1993-2019): A Proof of Concept. Geophysical Journal International. Link

  • Lucas, Erica, Richards, Fred, Cederberg, Gabriel, Bao, Xiyuan, Hoggard, Mark J., Tsuji, Stephen R. J., Latychev, Konstantin, Tsuji, Leonard J. S. and Mitrovica, Jerry (2026). Emergence of Antarctic mineral resources in a warming world. Nature Climate Change.

  • Bao, Xiyuan and Lithgow-Bertelloni, Carolina R. (2024). Self-correction of the optical distortion effect of thermal plumes in particle image velocimetry. Physics of Fluids. Link

  • Bao, Xiyuan (2024). PhD Thesis: Hotspots from Top to Bottom. Link

  • Bao, Xiyuan (2024). Giant impact and Earth’s mysterious blobs: An interdisciplinary revelation. Science Bulletin. Link

  • Bao, Xiyuan, Mittal, Tushar and Lithgow-Bertelloni, Carolina R. (2024). Determining Mid-Ocean Ridge Geography from Upper Mantle Temperature. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Link

  • Xubo Zhang, Eric L. Brown, Jinchang Zhang, Jian Lin, Xiyuan Bao and William W. Sager (2023). Magmatism of Shatsky Rise controlled by plume-ridge interactions. Nature Geoscience. Link

  • Li, Shaohua, Li, Jiaqi, Ferrand, Thomas P, Zhou, Tong, Lv, Mingda, Xi, Ziyi, Maguire, Ross, Han, Guangjie, Li, Juan, Bao, Xiyuan and others (2023). Deep geophysical anomalies beneath the Changbaishan Volcano. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. Link

  • Bao, Xiyuan, Lithgow-Bertelloni, Carolina R., Jackson, Matthew G and Romanowicz, Barbara (2022). On the relative temperatures of Earth’s volcanic hotspots and mid-ocean ridges. Science. Link

Manuscripts submitted

  • Bao, Xiyuan and Lithgow-Bertelloni, Carolina R.. A method for measuring and analyzing four-dimensional flow fields in viscous Rayleigh-Benard Convection. Revision Under Review

  • Bao, Xiyuan and Lithgow-Bertelloni, Carolina R.. Morphology, interactions, and evolution of laminar thermal plumes revealed by four-dimensional velocity measurements and analysis: Application to Earth’s mantle. Revision Under Review

  • Cai, Ronghua, Bao, Xiyuan, Foley, Stephen F., Giuliani, Andrea, Jiang, Shihao, Pearson, D. Graham and Liu, Jingao. Evidence for a highly fusible fundamental constituent in the convective mantle. In Revision

  • Powell, Robert, Cederberg, Gabriel, Dangendorf, Sönke, Lucas, Erica, Bao, Xiyuan, Creveling, Jessica, Tsuji, Steven, Tsuji, Leonard and Mitrovica, Jerry X.. Disproportionate sea level rise in small island developing states of the Pacific and Indian Oceans driven by Greenland and Antarctic ice mass loss. Under review at Communications Earth & Environment

  • Acquadro, Jake, Bao, Xiyuan and Deng, Jie. Machine-Learned Local Environments Reveal Framework Controls on MgSiO3 Liquid-Crystal Similarity. Under review at PNAS NEXUS

Manuscripts in preparation

  • Bao, Xiyuan, Cao, Zebin, Gourley, Kenneth Christopher, Gutierrez, Sara, Liang, Yuanyuan, Zhou, Dongyuan, Buffett, Bruce A, Mittal, Tushar, Li, Jie, Pierrehumbert, Raymond, Schaefer, Laura, Orman, James Van and Foley, Bradford J. Coupled Evolution of Earth’s Hydrogen Distribution and Thermal History.

  • Bao, Xiyuan, Coulson, Sophie, Valencic, Natasha, Mitrovica, Jerry, Dangendorf, Sönke, Mousavi, Mostafa and Lloyd, Andrew. Inverting Sea Level Fingerprints for Ice Mass Changes Using Neural Operators: How Much Can We Recover and How Unique Is It?

  • Wei Wang, Xubo Zhang, Feng Xu, Zihua Cheng, Xiyuan Bao, Andreas Stracke, Caicai Zha, Fan Zhan and Jian Lin. Ultra-depleted mantle beneath the Marion Rise and its implications for ocean rise uplift.