Affiliation: Prof. Zhao Wei

Innovation Centre for Deep Sea Observation Network, SANYA Oceanographic Institution of the Ocean University of CHINA (SOI-OUC).

Email: weizhao@ouc.edu.cn

Education Experience:

09/1997 – 06/2002, Physical Oceanography, Ocean University of China, Ph.D.

09/1993 – 06/1997, Oceanography, Ocean University of China, Bachelor's Degree

Short Bio:

Dr. Wei Zhao, professor at the Sanya Oceanographic Institution, Ocean University of China. Dr. Zhao engaged in the monitoring, investigating and application of multiscale dynamical processes in the South China Sea, such as internal waves, mesoscale eddies, etc. As PI, Dr. Zhao build the South China Sea Mooring Array consisted of 42 subsurface moorings, which is the largest regional ocean observing system in the world, to monitor multiscale ocean processes in the South China Sea. Dr. Zhao is or has been the PI of more than 20 national projects, including the National Key R&D Program of China, the key projects from National High-tech R&D Program of China (863 Program), the NSFC Key Program, etc. Dr. Zhao has published more than 50 SCI papers in international marine professional journals such as Nature Communications, JPO, GRL, JGR etc.; he has authorized 4 international invention patents and 10 national invention patents.
Publications：

1. Zhaoyun Wang, Xiaodong Huang*, Yunchao Yang, Zhiwei Zhang, Chun Zhou, Wei Zhao*, Jiwei Tian, Impacts of subtidal motions and the earth rotation on modal characteristics of the semidiurnal internal tide, Journal of Oceanography, 2019, DOI: 10.1007/s10872-019-00524-7.

2. Zhiwei Zhang, Zhiyu Liu, Kelvin Richards, Gong Shang, Wei Zhao*, Jiwei Tian, Xiaodong Huang, Chun Zhou, Elevated diapycnal mixing by a sub‐thermocline eddy in the western equatorial Pacific, Geophysical Research Letters, 2019, 46(5):2628-2636, DOI: 10.1029/2018GL081512.

3. Chun Zhou, Wei Zhao*, Jiwei Tian, Qingxuan Yang, Xiaodong Huang, Zhiwei Zhang & Tangdong Qu, Observations of Deep Current at the Western Boundary of the Northern Philippine Basin, Scientific Report, 2018, 8(1), DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-32541-9.

4. Xiaodong Huang, Zhaoyun Wang, Zhiwei Zhang, Yunchao Yang, Chun Zhou, Qingxuan Yang, Wei Zhao*, Jiwei Tian, Role of mesoscale eddies in modulating the semidiurnal internal tide: Observation results in the northern South China Sea, Journal of Physical Oceanography,2018, 48(8): 1749-1770, DOI: 10.1175/jpo-d-17-0209.1.

5. Guangzhen Jin, Haidong Pan, Qilin Zhang, Xianqing Lv* & Wei Zhao*, Yuan Gao, Determination of Harmonic Parameters with Temporal Variations: An Enhanced Harmonic Analysis Algorithm and Application to Internal Tidal Currents in the South China Sea, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 2018, 35(7): 1375-1398, DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-16-0239.1.

6. Xiaojiang Zhang, Xiaodong Huang, Zhiwei Zhang, Chun Zhou, Jiwei Tian, Wei Zhao*, Polarity variations of internal solitary waves over the continental shelf of the Northern South China Sea: Impacts of seasonal stratification, mesoscale eddies, and internal tides, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2018, 48(6), DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-17-0069.1.

7. Chun Zhou, Wei Zhao*, Jiwei Tian, Xiaolong Zhao, Yuchao Zhu, Qingxuan Yang, Deep western boundary current in the south china sea, Scientific Reports, 2017, 7(1): 9303, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-09436-2.

8. Xiaodong Huang, Zhiwei Zhang, Xiaojiang Zhang, Hongbao Qian, Wei Zhao*, Jiwei Tian, Impacts of a mesoscale eddy pair on internal solitary waves in the northern south china sea revealed by mooring array observations, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2017, 47(7), DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-16-0111.1.

9. Xiaodong Huang, Zhaohui Chen, Wei Zhao*, Zhiwei Zhang, Chun Zhou, Qingxuan Yang, Jiwei Tian, An extreme internal solitary wave event observed in the northern south china sea, Scientific Reports, 2016, 6: 30041, DOI: 10.1038/srep30041.

10. Zhongbin Sun, Zhiwei Zhang, Wei Zhao*, and Jiwei Tian(2016), Interannual modulation of eddy kinetic energy in the northeastern South China Sea as revealed by an eddy-resolving OGCM,Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 121, DOI:10.1002/2015JC011497.

11. Xiaolong Zhao, Chun Zhou, Wei Zhao*, Jiwei Tian, Xiaobiao Xu, Deepwater overflow observed by three bottom-anchored moorings in the Bashi Channel, Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 2016, 110:65-74, DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2016.01.007.

12. Zhiwei Zhang, Peiliang Li, Lixiao Xu, Cheng Li, Wei Zhao*, Jiwei Tian, Tangdong Qu, Subthermocline eddies observed by rapid-sampling Argo floats in the subtropical northwestern Pacific Ocean in Spring 2014, Geophysical Research Letters, 2015, 42, DOI:10.1002/2015GL064601.

13. Chuan Tian, Z. Daniel Deng, Xiaoyang Xu, Qingxuan Yang, Wei Zhao*, Timed Communication Buoy System: A Subsurface Mooring System for Efficient Sensor Data Recovery, Marine Technology Society, 2015, 49(3): 117-126, DOI: 10.4031/MTSJ.49.3.7.

14. Wei Zhao; Chun Zhou; Jiwei Tian*; Qingxuan Yang; Bin Wang; Lingling Xie; Tangdong Qu, Deep water circulation in the Luzon Strait. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 2014, 119(2), 790-804.