
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
- Email:
- Phone:
- 206-526-4184
- Location:
- NOAA PMEL, Building 3
Large scale ocean circulation and its role in climate and climate variability. Impacts of changing circulation on marine ecosystem and chemistry. Tropical oceanography and air-sea interaction. High latitude processes that link to Thermohaline Circulation.
Selected publications
Cravatte, S., T. Delcroix, D. Zhang, M. McPhaden, and J. Leloup, 2008: Observed Freshening of the Warming Western Tropical Pacific and extension of the Warm/Fresh Pool in recent decades. submitted to Clim. Dynamics.
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, doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2005.12.005.
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.