Changming Dong, Ph.D
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IGPP, UCLA Office: 3637 Geology Bldg Ongoing Projects |
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Ongoing Research
Regional Climatological Oceanography
Island(headland) Wake and Its Environmental Impact
Data Links
Surface Forcing Data (1): SST and WIND
Surface Forcing Data (2): Heat Flux and Fresh Water Flux
Ocean Climatological State: Levitus World Ocean Atlas 1994
Global Tidal Data (1): WWW Tide & Current Predictor
Global Tidal Data (2): OSU TOPEX/Poseidon Global Inverse Solution
Coastal Observations (1): UCSD Data Zoo
Coastal Observations (2): Santa Monica Bay Buoy, deployed by UCLA
Coastal Observations (3): Coast Watch/NOAA: GEOS-SST, Ocean Color
Climate Data (1): LDEO/Columbia Univeristy Climate Data Library
Model Links
ROMS/UCLA: CESR-ROMS
ROMS/RUTGERS: Rutgers
POM/PINCETON: Tal Ezer
Research Interests
Physical Processes in Regional and Coastal Oceans and Their Effect on Marine Environment
Regional Ocean Circulation Dynamics
Island/Headland Wakes and Their Impact on Environment
Coastal frontal dynamics: tidal fronts and shelfbreak fronts
Data assimilation
Passive tracer
Recent Publications
====================At CESR/IGPP, UCLA (2004- Assistant Researcher)=====================
Changming Dong, James McWilliams and Alexander Shchepetkin, 2005:Island Wakes in Deep Water , submitted to JPO.
Changming Dong and James McWilliams,2006: A numerical study of island wakes in Southern California Bight, submitted to CSR.
Changming Dong , Alex Hall, Mimi Hughes, and James McWilliams,2006: Impact of Wind Resolution on simulation of a mjor coastal upwelling event, submitted to GRL.
Meinte Blaas, Changming Dong,Patrick Marchesiello,James McWilliams, and Keith Stolzenbach,2005:Sediment transport modeling on Southern California Shelves: A ROMS Case Study, submitted to CSR.
Changming Dong, Meinte Blaas, Alex Hall, Mimi Hughes and James McWilliams, 2006:Southern California Bight Current System forced by 1996-2003 MM5 Wind, in preparation.
Clive Dorman, Darko Koracin, Edward Dever,Changming Dong, James McWilliams, 2005: Perturbation of Marine Layer Winds , Wind Stess, Wind Stress Curl-driven Ocean Response Around a Sharp Regional California Coast Bend, submitted to JPO.
====================At AOS, Princton University (2002- 2003, Postdoctor)=====================
Changming Dong, Leo Oey, 2005: Sensitivity of coastal currents near Pt. Conception to forcing by three different winds: ECMWF, COAMPS and blended SSM/I-ECMWF-Buoy winds, JPO, in press) PDF
Xiaofeng Li,Changming Dong, Pablo Clemente_Colon, William Pichel, and Karen Friedman, 2004: Synthenetic aperture radar observation of the sea surface imprints of upstream atmospheric solitons generated by flow impeded by an island, Vol 109, C02016,doi: 1029/2003/JC002168 J. Geoph. Res.. PDF
Hsiao-Ming Hsu, Leo Oey, Changming Dong, Clive Dorman, Richard Hodur, 2003: A regional atmospheric model in a coastal zone with significant wind and wind stress curl: comparison with wind station and satellite observationss ( submitted?) PDF
==============At Lamont, Columbia Unveristy (1997-2002, Graduate Student)==================
Changming Dong, Robert Houghton, Hsien-Wang Ou, Dake Chen and Tal Ezer, 2004: Numerical study of diapycnal flow through a tidal front with passive tracer, J. Geophys. Research (Ocean) Vol 109 C05029, doi:10.1029/2003JC001969, PDF
Changming Dong, Hsien-Wang Ou, Dake Chen and Martin Visbeck, 2004: Tidal induced Cross-frontal Circulation: Analytical Study, Vol 34, 293-305, J. Phys. Oceanogr. PDF
Changming Dong, Hsien-wang Ou, Dake Chen and Martin Visbeck, 2004: Tidal induced Cross-frontal Circulation: Numerical Study, submitted to J. Phys. Oceangr.
Hsien-Wang Ou, Changming Dong, Dake Chen, 2003: Tidal diffusivity: a mechnism fo frontogenesis, J. Phys. Oceanogr.,33, 840-847 PDF
Dake Chen, Hsien-Wang Ou, Changming Dong, 2003: A model study of internal tide in coastal frontal zone, J. Phys. Oceanogr.,33, 170-187 PDF
Hsien-Wang Ou, Changming Dong, Dake Chen, 2000: On tidal-induced property flux: can it be locally counter-gradient?, J. Phys. Oceanogr.,30, 1472-1477 PDF