Hi!

I’m Dong, a physical oceanographer, currently a PhD student at University of East Anglia. My research focuses on understanding the ocean circulation and its interaction with climate variability. I use a combination of observational data and numerical modeling to investigate ocean-ice-atmosphere interactions. I am also interested in operational polar oceanopraphy, noval observations, deep-sea mining, etc.

• Have a look at the Nordic Seas Ocean Circulation
• Interactively check out water masses in the Nordic Seas
• Reach me via LinkedIn or email

Posts

• April 1, 2026
  A note on ocean modeling with MITgcm

Publications

• Jian, D., Zhai, X., Stevens, D. P., & Renfrew, I. A. (2026). Oceanic Heat Transport Along the Norwegian Atlantic Slope Current and the Role of Eddies. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. DOI

Selected presentations

• Modelling the Nordic Seas. Challenger Society in Marine Science Ocean Modeling Meeting, Liverpool, England, 2025.
• Oceanic heat transport along the Norwegian Atlantic Current. ENV colloquium, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, 2025.
• Adjoint Sensitivity. Uni Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 2022.
• ENSO Recharge oscillator. Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 2021.
• Data assimilation and predictability. Uni Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 2021..

Education/Employment

• PhD in Physical Oceanography (Oct 2023 - Present), University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
• MSc in Ocean and Climate Physics (Oct 2020 - Dec 2022), University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, with an exchange semester at Utrecht University, the Netherlands
• BSc in Marine Science (Sep 2016 - Jun 2020), Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
• Intern (Jan 2023 - Jul 2023), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
• Intern (Jul 2019 - Oct 2019), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy