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By Dr Zhi Li
Journal articles
, 2026, 'High-latitude Southern Ocean warming hotspot induced by ocean mesoscale eddies', Nature Climate Change, 16, pp. 690 - 695, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41558-026-02652-7
, 2025, 'Eddy-Induced Subduction of the Subantarctic Mode Water in the Southern Ocean from 2004 to 2023', Journal of Physical Oceanography, 55, pp. 2297 - 2311, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-24-0118.1
, 2025, 'Eddies Redistribute Ocean Warming Hotspots in the East Australian Current Southern Extension', Geophysical Research Letters, 52, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025GL116772
, 2025, 'Drivers of the extreme North Atlantic marine heatwave during 2023', Nature, 642, pp. 636 - 643, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08903-5
, 2025, 'Ocean heat content in 2024: Climate chronicles', Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, 6, pp. 249 - 251, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43017-025-00655-0
, 2025, 'Tropical to Circum-Antarctic Oceanic Teleconnections of Subantarctic Mode Water Variability', Journal of Climate, 38, pp. 6427 - 6444, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-24-0510.1
, 2023, 'Recent acceleration in global ocean heat accumulation by mode and intermediate waters', Nature Communications, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42468-z
, 2022, 'The Origin and Fate of Antarctic Intermediate Water in the Southern Ocean', Journal of Physical Oceanography, 52, pp. 2873 - 2890, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-21-0221.1
, 2021, 'The Origin and Fate of Subantarctic Mode Water in the Southern Ocean', Journal of Physical Oceanography, 51, pp. 2951 - 2972, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0174.1
, 2021, 'Antarctica and the Southern Ocean', Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102, pp. s317 - s356, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-21-0081.1
, 2021, 'State of the climate in 2020', Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102, pp. 1 - 481, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2021BAMSStateoftheClimate.1
, 2020, 'Natural carbon release compensates for anthropogenic carbon uptake when Southern Hemispheric westerlies strengthen', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10504120.1
, 2018, 'Response of the Tropical Indian Ocean to Greenhouse Gases and Aerosol Forcing in the GFDL CM3 Coupled Climate Model', Atmosphere Ocean, 56, pp. 40 - 54, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07055900.2018.1427040
Preprints
, 2021, Natural carbon release compensates for anthropogenic carbon uptake when Southern Hemispheric westerlies strengthen, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10508109.1
, Multi-decadal weakening of the Atlantic Overturning from a physics and observation-based reconstruction, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-7916884/v1
Other
, 2026, Can we trust ocean memory trends? , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu26-18274
, 2025, Drivers of the unprecedented North Atlantic marine heatwave during 2023, Copernicus Publications, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-7537