Physical phenology of air-sea heat budget in the Beaufort Sea autumn freeze-up
Poster at Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024, New Orleans, US
Curriculum Vitae
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Education
- Ph.D in Dynamics and Physics of the Atmosphere and Ocean
- Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
- Advisor: Sabrina Speich
- Degree obtained in summer 2022
- M.Sc. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, Montréal
- Advisors: David Straub and Louis-Philippe Nadeau
- Degree obtained in spring 2019
- B.Sc. in Marine Sciences
- School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou
- Degree obtained in summer 2016
Research experiences
- Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole (Sep 2022 until now)
- Postdoc investigator
- Advisor: Lisan Yu
- Research focus: The imprint of ocean mesoscale dynamics on air-sea momentum and buoyancy fluxes.
- Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, École Normale Supérieure, Paris (Dec 2018-Sep 2022)
- Graduate student (research assistant)
- Advisor: Sabrina Speich
- Research focus: The role of ocean mesoscale dynamics in the ocean heat and carbon uptake.
- EUREC4A campagne R/V L’Atalante, south of Barbados (Jan-Feb 2020)
- Scientific crew member
- Chief scientist: Sabrina Speich
- Workload: Deployment of several instruments and detection of homogeneous water masses with the proceeding shipborne data.
- Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, Montréal (Sep 2016-Dec 2018)
- Graduate student (research assistant)
- Advisors: David Straub and Louis-Philippe Nadeau
- Research focus: Nonlinear Ekman theory and its interaction with near-inertial waves.
- Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton (May 2015-Sep 2015)
- Summer research intern
- Advisor: Paul Myers
- Workload: Comparison of several numerical simulations to understand the potential impact of freshwater processes and surface atmospheric conditions on the ocean and sea ice around Greenland.
- Institute of Coastland Estuarine Research, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou (Jan 2015-Jun 2016)
- Undergraduate research assistant
- Thesis advisors: Qingshu Yang and Huayang Cai
- Thesis project: Combination of a one-dimensional analytical model for tidal hydrodynamics with a statistical method of joint probability distribution to analyze the response of water levels to river discharge and tidal range in estuaries.
- Center for Coastal Ocean Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou (May 2014-May 2015)
- Undergraduate research assistant
- Advisor: Jiaxue Wu
- Workload: Analysis of turbulence characteristics within the bottom boundary layer of the Pearl River Estuary.
Presentations
Physical phenology of air-sea heat budget in the Beaufort Sea autumn freeze-up
Talk at CAMAS Workshop, Santa Fe, US
Signature of mesoscale eddies on air-sea heat fluxes: strong compensation between SSH-SST coherent and incoherent eddies
Talk at Eddy Energy Annual Meeting, Woods Hole, US
Signature of mesoscale eddies on air-sea heat fluxes: strong compensation between SSH-SST coherent and incoherent eddies
Poster at Mesoscale and Frontal-Scale Air-Sea Interactions Workshop, Boulder, US
Sound waves in water
Creation at Imaginary Futures Workshop (Arts and Sciences), Paris, France
The role of ocean in the warming climate
Talk at Laws of Nature Conference (Philosophy), Munich, Germany
Water mass subduction in the isopycnic coordinate
Poster at FDSE Summer School, Paris, France
Water mass subduction in the isopycnic coordinate
Talk at EUREC4A-OA Workshop, Paris, France
Global mode water detection and its representation in heat transport
Talk at BGC-Argo Science Webinar (SOCCOM), Online
Global mode water detection and its representation in heat transport
Talk at Ocean Sciences Meeting 2022, Online
Formation and transport of the South Atlantic subtropical mode water in eddy-permitting observations
Poster at TRIATLAS General Assembly 2021, Online
The South Atlantic subtropical mode water in eddy-permitting observations
Talk at LMD Webinar: Mesoscale dynamics and air-sea interactions, Online
Effect of mesoscale eddies on mode water formation, transport and heat uptake in the world ocean
Talk at AGU Fall Meeting 2020, Online
Effect of mesoscale eddies on subtropical mode water formation and ocean heat storage
Talk at EGU General Assembly 2020, Online
The effect of mesoscale eddies on air-sea interactions
Talk at EUREC4A Planning Workshop 2019, Paris, France
Flow-dependent Ekman theory and its application to shallow water models
Talk at EGU General Assembly 2019, Vienna, Austria
Flow-dependent Ekman theory
Talk at McGill AOS Student Seminar 2018, Montreal, Canada
Flow-dependent Ekman theory
Poster at Ocean Mixing Gordon Research Conference 2018, Andover, US
Flow-dependent Ekman theory
Talk at Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
The application of flow-dependent Ekman transport to a two-layer shallow water model
Poster at Ocean Mesoscale Eddy Interactions with the Atmosphere Workshop 2018, Portland, US
A shallow water model forced by flow-dependent Ekman pumping
Poster at 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, US
Wind-driven Ekman transport of curvilinear flows
Talk at Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Frequency analysis of wind forcing over ocean gyres
Poster at 51st CMOS Congress 2017, Toronto, Canada
Comparison of different ANHA simulations and analysis of time series for straits near Greenland
Poster at Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Publications
Signature of mesoscale eddies on air-sea heat fluxes in the North Indian Ocean
Chen and Yu (2024).
Mesoscale meridional heat transport inferred from sea surface observations
Chen and Yu (2024).
September equinox shift in Arctic surface energy budget: Beaufort-Chukchi Seas case study
Carrigg et al (2024).
Dry air outbreak and significant surface turbulent heat loss during hurricane Ian: satellite and saildrone observations
Yu et al (2023).
Role of mesoscale eddies in global mode water distribution and ventilation
Chen and Speich (2022).
Formation and transport of the South Atlantic subtropical mode water in eddy-permitting observations
Chen, Speich and Laxenaire (2021).
EUREC4A
Stevens et al (2021).
Interaction of nonlinear Ekman pumping, near-inertial oscillations, and geostrophic turbulence in an idealized coupled model
Chen, Straub and Nadeau (2021).