Dr. Shenfu Dong Associate Research Scientist UM/CIMAS/RSMAS NOAA/AOML/PHOD 4301 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL 33149, USA Phone: (305) 361-4372 shenfu.dong@noaa.gov

Research Interests

• Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, in particular its characteristics in the South Atlantic.
• Water mass formation/subduction and its climate impact.
• Satellite oceanography from altimeter, microwave SST, etc.
• Upper ocean salinity processes.

Current Work

• Dynamics of Eighteen Degree Water from CLIMODE Observations and its Climate Implications. (NSF, funded)
• Assessing the Sensitivity of Northward Heat Transport/Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation to Forcing in Existing Numerical Model Simulations. (NOAA/CPO, funded)
• Monitoring South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

Publications

Baringer, M. O., W. E. Johns, G. McCarthy, J. Willis, S. Garzoli, M. Lankhorst, C. S. Meinen, U. Send, W. R. Hobbs, S. A. Cunningham, D. Rayner, D. A. Smeed, T. O. Kanzow, P. Heimbach, E. Frajka-Williams, A. Macdonald, S. Dong and J. Marotzke, 2013. Meridional Overturning Circulation and Heat Transport Observations in the Atlantic Ocean. [Global Oceans] Meridional Overturning Circulation and Heat Transport Observations in the Atlantic Ocean [in State of the Climate in 2011], Bull. Am. Met. Soc., in press.

Dong, S., and K. A. Kelly, 2013: How Well Do Climate Models Reproduce North Atlantic Subtropical Mode Water? Journal of Physical Oceanography, in press.

Kelly, K.A., and S. Dong, 2013: The Contributions of atmosphere and ocean to North Atlantic Subtropical Mode Water volume anomalies. Deep-Sea Res., 91:111-127(doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2013,02. 020). [pdf]

Garzoli, S.,M.O. Baringer, S. Dong, R. Perez, and Q. Yao, 2012: South Atlantic meridional fluxes. Deep-Sea Res., Part I, 71:21-32, doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2012.09.003. [pdf]

Wang, C., S. Dong, A. T. Evan, G.R. Foltz, and S.-K. Lee, 2012: Multidecadal covariability of North Atlantic sea surface temperature, African dust, Sahel rainfall and Atlantic hurricanes. J. Clim., 25:5404-5415, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00413.1. [pdf]

Dong, S., M. Baringer, G. Goni, and S. Garzoli, 2011: Importance of the assimilation of Argo Float Measurements on the Meridional Overturning Circulation in the South Atlantic. Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L18603, doi:10.1029/2011GL048982. [pdf]

Dong, S., S.L. Garzoli, and M.O. Baringer, 2011: The role of inter-ocean exchanges on decadal variations of the northward heat transport in the South Atlantic. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 41(8):1498-1511. [pdf]

Dong, S., S. T. Gille, J. Sprintall, and E. J. Fetzer (2010): Assessing the potential of the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) surface temperature and specific humidity in turbulent heat flux estimates in the Southern Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 115, C05013, doi:10.1029/2009JC005542. [pdf]

Wang, C., and S. Dong, 2010: Is the basin-wide warming in the North Atlantic Ocean related to atmospheric carbon dioxide and global warming? Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L08707, doi:10.1029/2010GL042743. [pdf]

Wang, C., S. Dong, and E. Munoz, 2010: Seawater density variations in the North Atlantic and the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. Clim. Dynam., 34:953-968, doi:10.1007/s00382-009-0560-5 [pdf]

Dong, S. S. L. Garzoli, M. O. Baringer, C. S. Meinen, and G. J. Goni, 2009: Interannual variations in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and its relationship with the net northward heat transport in the South Atlantic. Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L20606, doi:10.1029/2009GL039356. [pdf]

Dong, S., S. L. Garzoli, and M. O. Baringer, 2009: An Assessment of the Seasonal Mixed-Layer Salinity Budget in the Southern Ocean. J. Geophys. Res., 114, C12001, doi:10.1029/2008JC005258. [pdf]

Wang, C.,Z. Song, F. Qiao, and S. Dong, 2009: What signals are removed and retained by using an anomaly field in climatic research? Int. J. Oceanogr., 2009, Article ID 329754, 7 pages, doi:10.1155/2009/329754. [pdf]

Xu, Y., J. Li, and S. Dong, 2009: Ocean circulation from altimetry: Progress and challenges. In Ocean Circulation and El Nino: New Research, J.A. Long and D.S. Wells (ed.). Nova Science Publishers, New York, Inc. 291pp. [pdf]

Dong, S., J. Sprintall, S.T. Gille, and L. Talley, 2008: Southern Ocean mixed-layer depth from Argo float profiles. J. Geophys. Res., 113(C6):C06013, doi:10.1029/2006JC004051. [pdf]

Dong, S., S.L. Hautala, and K.A. Kelly, 2007: Interannual variations in upper-ocean heat content and heat transport convergence in the western North Atlantic. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 37(11):2682-2697. [pdf]

Dong, S., S.T. Gille, and J. Sprintall, 2007: An assessment of the Southern Ocean mixed layer heat budget. J. Clim., 20(17):4425-4442. [pdf]

Dong, S., J. Sprintall, and S. T. Gille, 2006. Location of the Polar Front from AMSR-E Satellite sea surface temperature measurements. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 36:2075-2089.

Dong, S., S. T. Gille, J. Sprintall, and C. L. Gentemann, 2006. Validation of the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for the Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) sea surface temperature in the Southern Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111:C04002, doi:10.1029/2005JC002934.

Kelly, K. A., and S. Dong, 2004. The Relationship of Western Boundary Current Heat Transport and Storage to Mid-Latitude Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction, in . Earth's Climate: The Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction, edited by C. Wang, S.-P. Xie, and J. A. Carton, pp. 347-363, American Geophysical Union Geophysical Monograph 147.

Dong S., and K. A. Kelly, 2004. Heat budget in the Gulf Stream region: the importance of heat storage and advection. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 34:1214-1231.

Dong S., and K. A. Kelly, 2003. Annual and interannual variations in geostrophic velocity in the Middle Atlantic Bight. Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(c6), doi:10.1029/2002JC001357, 3172-3180.

Frankignoul C., G. D. Coetlogon, T. M. Joyce, and S. Dong, 2001. Gulf Stream variability and ocean -atmosphere interaction. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 31:3516-3529.

Du, Y., H. Lu, S. Dong, and T. Ling, 1999. Observation and fuzzy mathematics analysis of the skin-bulk temperature difference in the coastal area of Qingdao. Oceanologia et Limnologia Sinica, 30(1):81-87.

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