Dr. Chao Zhang

Postdoctoral Researcher

Topic 6: Marine and polar Life

RD2: Marine Biogeochemistry
RU CH Chemical Oceanography

WG Water Column Biogeochemistry

Research Focus

• Climatological approaches to ocean productivity dynamics
• Dust-iron fertilization climate effects
• Teleconnections in multisphere interactions

Projects

• NSFC (2023-2025) | Influence of snow cover changes over the Tibetan Plateau on the Arctic sea-ice variability (No. 42305016)
• LASG (2023-2024) | Effect of equatorial Pacific air-sea interactions on harmful algal blooms in the Coastal Waters of China (No. 20230248)

Vita

• 2022 - today: Xiamen University & GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel | Postdoctoral Researcher
• 2018 - 2022: Fudan University | Ph. D.

Publications

For a full list of publications please visit OceanRep.

• Xie, Y., Duan, A., Zhang, C., He, C., Mao, Q., Liu, B. (2025). Reversed link between central pacific ENSO and Greenland–Barents sea ice. npj Clim Atmos Sci, 8, 28.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-025-00912-5
• Zhang, C., Duan, A., Jia, X., Wang, Z., Pan, Z. (2023). A dynamic link between spring Arctic sea ice and the Tibetan Plateau snow increment indicator. npj Clim Atmos Sci, 6, 191.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00505-0
• Zhang, C., Duan, A., Jia, X., Hu, J., Liu, S. (2023). Snow Cover on the Tibetan Plateau and Lake Baikal Intensifies the Winter North Atlantic Oscillation Geophysical Research Letters, 50, 16.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104754
• Zhang, C., Guo, Y., Wen, Z. (2022). Interdecadal change in the effect of Tibetan Plateau snow cover on spring precipitation over Eastern China around the early 1990s. Clim Dyn, 58, 2807–2824.
  DOI: http//doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-06035-w
• Zhang, C., Jia, X., Wen, Z. (2021). Increased Impact of the Tibetan Plateau Spring Snow Cover to the Mei-yu Rainfall over the Yangtze River Valley after the 1990s. Journal of Climate, 34, 14, 5985-5997. 
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0009.1