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Xin Zhao

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Edmonds J.A., X. Zhao, P.L. Patel, D. Sheng, E.N. Lochner, C.J. Bertram, and G.C. Iyer, et al. 2025. "Sensitivity of future regional and global energy markets and macroeconomic activity to a hypothetical global energy market disruption." iScience 28, no. 1:Art. No. 111449. PNNL-SA-205842. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2024.111449
Yarlagadda B.N., X. Zhao, G.C. Iyer, T.B. Wild, N. Hultman, and J.R. Lamontagne. 2025. "Emissions leakage and economic losses may undermine deforestation-linked oil crop import restrictions." Nature Communications 16:Art. No. 1520. PNNL-SA-196760. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-56693-1
Zhao X., M. Chepeliev, N. Escobar, M.T. Binsted, P.L. Patel, P. Kyle, and M.A. Wise. 2025. "Traceable and Scalable Food Balance Sheets from Agricultural Commodity Supply and Utilization Accounts (2010-2022)." Scientific Data 12:Art. No. 834. PNNL-SA-207685. doi:10.1038/s41597-025-05137-y

Durga S., S.A. Speizer, X. Zhao, S.T. Waldhoff, and J.A. Edmonds. 2024. "Pathways for the US food processing sector under economy-wide net zero in a multisector dynamic framework." Energy and Climate Change 5, no. _:Art. No.100150. PNNL-SA-195024. doi:10.1016/j.egycc.2024.100150
Luo M., A. Daigneault, X. Zhao, D. Hao, and M. Chen. 2024. "Impacts of Forest Management-Induced Productivity Changes on Future Land Use and Land Cover Change." Earth's Future 12, no. 8:e2024EF004878. PNNL-SA-201363. doi:10.1029/2024EF004878
Rouhette T., N. Escobar, X. Zhao, M. Sanz, and D.P. Van De Ven. 2024. "Limits to Forests-based Mitigation in Integrated Assessment Modelling: Global Potentials and Impacts under Constraining Factors." Environmental Research Letters 19, no. 11:Art. No. 114017. PNNL-SA-201362. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ad7748
Zhao X., B. Mignone, M.A. Wise, and H.C. McJeon. 2024. "Trade-Offs in Land-Based Carbon Removal Measures under 1.5°C and 2°C Futures." Nature Communications 15. PNNL-ACT-SA-10779. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-46575-3
Zhao X., M. Chepeliev, P.L. Patel, M.A. Wise, K.V. Calvin, K. Narayan, and C.R. Vernon. 2024. "gcamfaostat: An R package to prepare, process, and synthesize FAOSTAT data for global agroeconomic and multisector dynamic modeling." Journal of Open Source Software 9, no. 96:Art. No. 6388. PNNL-SA-192383. doi:10.21105/joss.06388

Yarlagadda B.N., T. Wild, X. Zhao, L. Clarke, R. Cui, Z. Khan, and A. Birnbaum, et al. 2023. "Trade and Climate Mitigation Interactions Create Agro-Economic Opportunities with Social and Environmental Trade-offs in Latin America and the Caribbean." Earth's Future 11, no. 4:Art. No. e2022EF003063. PNNL-SA-175593. doi:10.1029/2022EF003063

Calvin K.V., A.C. Snyder, X. Zhao, and M.A. Wise. 2022. "Modeling Land Use and Land Cover Change: Using a Hindcast to Estimate Economic Parameters in gcamland v2.0." Geoscientific Model Development 15, no. 2:429-447. PNNL-SA-156913. doi:10.5194/gmd-15-429-2022
Zhao X., M.A. Wise, S.T. Waldhoff, P. Kyle, J.E. Huster, C.W. Ramig, and L. Rafelski, et al. 2022. "The impact of agricultural trade approaches on global economic modeling." Global Environmental Change 73. PNNL-SA-153428. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102413

Zhao X., F. Taheripour, R. Malina, M.D. Staples, and W.E. Tyner. 2021. "Estimating induced land use change emissions for sustainable aviation biofuel pathways." Science of the Total Environment 779. PNNL-SA-158626. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146238
Zhao X., K.V. Calvin, M.A. Wise, and G.C. Iyer. 2021. "The role of global agricultural market integration in multiregional economic modeling: using hindcast experiments to validate an Armington model." Economic Analysis and Policy 72. PNNL-SA-158709. doi:10.1016/j.eap.2021.07.007
Zhao X., K.V. Calvin, M.A. Wise, P.L. Patel, A.C. Snyder, S.T. Waldhoff, and M.I. Hejazi, et al. 2021. "Global agricultural responses to interannual climate and biophysical variability." Environmental Research Letters 16, no. 10:104037. PNNL-SA-150812. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ac2965

Taheripour F., X. Zhao, M. Horridge, and W.E. Tyner. 2020. "Land Use in Computable General Equilibrium Models." Journal of Global Economic Analysis 5, no. 2:63 - 109. PNNL-SA-143144. doi:10.21642/JGEA.050202AF
Zhao X., D. Van Der Mensbruggh, R.M. Keeney, and W.E. Tyner. 2020. "Improving the way land use change is handled in economic models." Economic Modelling 84. PNNL-SA-142335. doi:10.1016/j.econmod.2019.03.003
Zhao X., K.V. Calvin, and M.A. Wise. 2020. "The critical role of conversion cost and comparative advantage in modeling agricultural land use change." Climate Change Economics 11, no. 1:Article No. 2050004. PNNL-SA-142333. doi:10.1142/S2010007820500049
Zhao X., K.V. Calvin, P.L. Patel, A.C. Snyder, M.A. Wise, S.T. Waldhoff, and M.I. Hejazi, et al. 2020. "Impacts of climate and biophysical variability on global agriculture markets." In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis (GTAP 2020), June 17-19, 2020, Virtual, Online. West Lafayette, Indiana:Center for Global Trade Analysis. PNNL-SA-153062.

Zhao X., K.V. Calvin, and M.A. Wise. 2019. "The critical role of conversion cost and comparative advantage in modeling agricultural land use change." In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, June 19-21, 2019, Warsaw, Poland. West Lafayette, Indiana:Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP). PNNL-SA-142313.