The instability analysis code that I developed as a part of my thesis work has been
adopted by a number of researchers with applications to the western boundary currents and
coastal/shelf fronts and jets. Over the past few years, we conducted numerical studies of
rapidly developing winter storms, which represents the foremost effort to examine air-sea
interactions between mesoscale atmospheric events and prominent oceanic features using
coupled atmosphere-ocean models. The synchronized coupling algorithm, which uses
concurrent programming, can also be used in other similar coupled systems. The South
China Sea project has fostered strong international collaborations between the PI and
colleagues in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. My latest effort focuses on the development of
the Gulf of Maine nowcast/forecast system, which produces results that are used for
research, management and recreational purposes.

Articles

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A Census of Eddy Activities in the South China Sea During 1993-2007 (with P. Xiu, Fei Chai, L. Shi, and Y. Chao), Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans (2010)

Numerous mesoscale eddies occur each year in the South China Sea (SCS), but their statistical...

 

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Early Life History and a Modeling Framework for Lobster (Homarus Americanus) Populations in the Gulf of Maine (with Lewis Incze, Richard Wahle, N. Wolff, C. Wilson, Robert Steneck, E. Annis, P. Lawton, and Yong Chen), Journal of Crustacean Biology (2006)

Beginning in the late 1980s, lobster (Homarus americanus) landings for the state of Maine and...

 

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Physical-Biological Oceanographic Coupling Influencing Phytoplankton and Primary Production in the South China Sea (with X. Ning, Fei Chai, Y. Cai, C. Liu, and J. Shi), Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans (2004)

Two cruises were carried out in the summer and winter of 1998 to study coupled...

 

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A Model Study of the Circulation in the Pearl River Estuary (PRE) and Its Adjacent Coastal Waters: 1. Simulations and Comparison with Observations (with L. A. Wong, J. Chen, L. X. Dong, J. L. Su, and G. Heinke), Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans (2003)

The Princeton Ocean Model is used to study the circulation features in the Pearl River...

 

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A Model Study of the Circulation in the Pearl River Estuary (PRE) and Its Adjacent Coastal Waters: 2. Sensitivity Experiments (with L. A. Wong, J. C. Chen, L. X. Dong, W. B. Guan, and J. L. Su), Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans (2003)

The Princeton Ocean Model is used to study the circulation in the Pear River Estuary...

 

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