Dongxiao

Dongxiao Zhang

  • Research Scientist
  • Education:
    • PhD, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science,University of Miami, Physical Oceanography and Meteorology 1999

    • MS, Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Science, China, Physical Oceanography 1993
    • BS, Ocean University of China, China, Physical Oceanography 1990
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  • Phone:
    • 206-526-4184
  • Location:
    • NOAA PMEL, Building 3

Research interests

Dr. Zhang’s research interests are: 1) Large scale ocean circulation and its role in climate and climate variability; 2) Impacts of changing circulation on marine ecosystems and chemistry; 3) Tropical oceanography and multiscale multi-process air-sea interaction; 4) Higher latitude processes that modulate air-sea fluxes and Thermohaline Circulation. Dr. Zhang serves as the co-PI and CICOES/PI for NOAA/PMEL’s Ocean Climate Stations and Global Tropical Moored Buoy Array projects and is the PI/co-PI of several Uncrewed Surface Vehicle Saildrone observation projects, including the Integration of Saildrone into the Tropical Pacific Observing System and the Atlantic hurricane observation.

Selected publications

2022:

Miles, T.N., D. Zhang, G.R. Foltz, et al., 2022: Uncrewed ocean gliders and saildrones support hurricane forecasting and research, Frontiers in Ocean Observing: Documenting Ecosystems, Understanding Environmental Changes, Forecasting Hazards: A supplement to Oceanography, 34(4), 78-81, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2021.supplement.02-28.

Foltz, G., C. Zhang, C. Meinig, J. Zhang, D. Zhang 2022: An Unprecedented View Inside a Hurricane, EOS, 103, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EO220228.

DeMott, C.A., A. Subramanian, S. Chen, K. Drushka, Y. Fujii, A. Sutton, J. Sprintall, and D. Zhang, 2022: Focused observations for expanded comprehension: Advancing tropical Pacific coupled modeling and process understanding, BAMS, 103(7), E1644-E1649, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0041.1.

Wang, K., X. Wang, R. Murtugudde, D. Zhang, and R.-H. Zhang, 2022: Sensitivity of asymmetric oxygen minimum zones to mixing intensity and stoichiometry in the tropical Pacific using a basin-scale model (OGCM-DMEC V1.4), Geosci. Model Dev., 15(3), 1017-1035, doi:10.5194/gmd-15-1017-2022.

Katsura, S., J. Sprintall, J.T. Farrar, D. Zhang, and M.F. Cronin, 2022: The barrier layer effect on the heat and freshwater balance from moored observations in the Eastern Pacific fresh pool, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 52(8), 1705-1730, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-21-0243.1.

Nuijens, L., Savazzi, A., Boer, G. de, Brilouet, P.-E., George, G., Lothon, M., & Zhang, D., 2022: The frictional layer in the observed momentum budget of the trades. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4364

Chiodi, A.M., C. Zhang, E.D. Cokelet, Q. Yang, C.W. Mordy, C.L. Gentemann, J.N. Cross, N. Lawrence-Slavas, C. Meinig, M. Steele, D.E. Harrison, P.J. Stabeno, H.M. Tabisola, D. Zhang, E.F. Burger, K.M. O’Brien, and M. Wang, 2022: Exploring the Pacific Arctic Seasonal Ice Zone With Saildrone USVs, Front. Mar. Sci., 8, 640690, doi:10.3389/fmars.2021.640697.

Zhang, C., A.F. Levine, M. Wang, C. Gentemann, C.W. Mordy, E.D. Cokelet, P.A. Browne, Q. Yang, N. Lawrence-Slavas, C. Meinig, G. Smith, A. Chiodi, D. Zhang, P. Stabeno, W. Wang, H.-L. Ren, K.A. Peterson, S.N. Figueroa, M. Steele, N.P. Barton, A. Huang, and H.-C. Shin, 2022: Evaluation of surface conditions from operational forecasts using in situ Saildrone observations in the Pacific Arctic, Monthly Weather Review, 150(6), 1437-1455, doi:10.1175/MWR-D-20-0379.1.

Other selected publications:

Wills, S.M., M.F. Cronin, and D. Zhang, 2021: Cold pools observed by uncrewed surface vehicles in the Central and Eastern Tropical Pacific, Geophys. Res. Lett., 48(10), e2021GL093373, doi:10.1029/2021GL093373.

Wang, J., Q. Ma, F. Wang, and D. Zhang, 2021: Linking seasonal-to-interannual variability of intermediate currents in the Southwest Tropical Pacific to wind forcing and ENSO, Geophys. Res. Lett., 48(5), e2021GL092440, doi:10.1029/2021GL092440.

Zhang, D., M.F. Cronin, C. Meinig, J.T. Farrar, R. Jenkins, D. Peacock, et al. 2019: Comparing Air-sea flux measurements from a new unmanned surface vehicle and proven platforms during the SPURS-2 Field Campaign. Oceanography, 32(2): 122-133, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.220, 2019.

Cheng, W., W. Weijer, W. Kim, G. Danabasoglu, S. G. Yeager, P. R. Gent, D. Zhang, J.C.H. Chiang, and J. Zhang, 2018: Can the salt-advection feedback be detected in internal variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation? J. Clim., 31, 6649-6667

Zhang, D., M. F. Cronin, C. Wen, Y. Xue, A. Kumar, and D. McClurg, 2016: Assessing surface heat fluxes in atmospheric reanalyses with a decade of data from the NOAA Kuroshio Extension Observatory, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, doi:10.1002/2016JC011905.

Zhang, D., M. J. McPhaden, and T. Lee, 2014: Observed Interannual Variability of Zonal Currents in the Equatorial Indian Ocean Thermocline and Their Relation to Indian Ocean Dipole. Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, 7933-7941, doi: 10.1002/2014GL061449.

Cheng, W. J. Chiang, and D. Zhang, 2013: Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) in CMIP5 models: RCP and Historical Simulations, J. Clim.,26, 7187-7197.

Zhang, D., R. Msadek, M.J. McPhaden, and T. Delworth 2011: Multidecadal variability of the North Brazil Current and its connection to the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. J. Geophys. Res., 116, 201110.1029/2010JC006812.

Evans, A., G. Foltz, D. Zhang, and D. Vimont 2011: Influence of African dust on ocean–atmosphere variability in the tropical Atlantic. Nature Geoscience, 4, 762-765.

Cravatte, S., T. Delcroix, D. Zhang, M. McPhaden, and J. Leloup, 2009: Observed Freshening of the Warming Western Tropical Pacific and extension of the Warm/Fresh Pool in recent decades. Clim. Dynamics, 33, 565-589.

Zhang, D., and M.J. McPhaden, 2006: Decadal variability of the shallow Pacific meridional overturning circulation: relation to tropical sea surface temperatures in observations and climate change models. Ocean Modeling, 15, 250-273.

McPhaden, M. J., and D. Zhang, 2004: Pacific Ocean circulation rebounds. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L1830, doi:10.1029/2004GL020727.

Zhang, D., M.J. McPhaden, and W.E. Johns, 2003: Observational evidence for flow between the subtropical and tropical Atlantic: The subtropical cells. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 33, 1783-1797.

Zhang, D., W.E. Johns, T.N. Lee, 2002: The seasonal cycle of meridional heat transport at 24°N in the North Pacific and in the global ocean. J. Geophys. Res., 107, 10.1029/2001JC001011.

McPhaden, M.J., and D. Zhang, 2002: Slowdown of the meridional overturning circulation in the upper Pacific Ocean, Nature, 415, 603-608.