Yang Zhang

zhangyang_gdou@126.com

Education

2012 – 2016: Ph.D in Physical Oceanography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John’s, Canada.

2009 – 2012: M.S. in Physical Oceangraphy, Ocean University of China.

2005 – 2009: B.S. in Marine Science, Ocean University of China.

Work Experience

• 2012-2016，Memorial University of Newfoundland, Graduate Assistant.

•          Fisheries and Oceans Canada, St John’s, NL, Research Assistant.

• 2017-2018, Guangdong Ocean University, Assistant Prof.

• 2018-present, Guangdong Ocean University, Associate Prof.

Teaching

• Geophysical Fluid dynamics, Advanced Physical Oceanography, Ocean Modelling.

Research Interests

• Multiscale dynamics in beta-plane turbulence

• Modelling the submesoscale generation by mesoscale instabilities

• Surface quasi/semi-gesotrophic turbulence, and its high-order invariants

• Rotating thermal convection and its relevance in geophysics.

Publications:

1. Yang Zhang, Y. D. Afanasyev: Quasi-permanent meanders of the Kuroshio Extension: Laboratory experiments with altimetry and numerical simulaitons. Ocean Modelling, 2023.

2. Y. D. Afanasyev, Yang Zhang: Rotating thermal convection observed with altimetry and thermal radiometry. Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid dynamics, 2021.

3. Y. D. Afanasyev, Yang Zhang: Cyclonic circulation of Saturn’s atmosphere due to tilted convection. Nature Geoscience, 2018.

4. Yang Zhang, Y. D. Afanasyev: Baroclinic turbulence on the polar-beta plane in the rotating tank: down to submesoscale. Ocean Modelling, 2016.

5. Ania M. Matulka, Yang Zhang, and Y. D. Afanasyev: Baroclinic and barotropic turbulence on the polar beta-plane studied with optical altimetry. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics , 2015.

6. Yang Zhang and Y. D. Afanasyev: Rossby wave radiation by an eddy on a beta-plane: experiments with laboratory altimetry. Physics of Fluids 27, 076604, 2015.

7. Yang Zhang and Yakov Afanasyev: Beta-plane turbulence: experiments with altimetry. Physics of Fluids, 26, 2014.

8. Xiang Li, Jie Su, Yang Zhang, and Jinping Zhao: Discussion on the Simulation of Arctic Intermediate Water under the NEMO Modeling Framework, The proceedings of the Second International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Hawaii, 2011, 1, 953-957.

9. Su Jie, Li Xiang, Hu Xianmin, Zhang Yang, Shi Jiuxin, Lu Youyu, and Wang Zeliang: The Influence of Pacific inflow to Arctic Sea Ice. Arctic Ocean Model Intercomparison Project (AOMIP report) 2011.

10. Funding

    2019: Laboratory observation of the spectrum evolution during the generation of the submesoscale structures by 2-layer baroclinic instability.(NSFC, China)