Name: Che Sun
Title：Professor
Research Field: Physical Oceanography
Tel/Fax: 86-532-82898870
E-mail: csun@qdio.ac.cn

Resume:
2004 – present, Professor, Institute of Oceanology, CAS
2001-2003, Research Associate, GFDL/NOAA, Princeton University
1995 – 2001, Research Assistant, GSO, University of Rhode Island
1994 –1995, Assistant Researcher, NMDIS, SOA

Education:
Ph.D., 2001, University of Rhode Island, USA.
M.S., 1994, Ocean University of Qingdao, China.
B.E., 1991, Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, China.

Research Interests:
Fundamental theory of geophysical fluid dynamics and its application in
atmospheric and oceanic flows; Study of shelf circulation and basin-wide gyre
through observational analysis and numerical simulation

Honors and Awards:
CAS One-hundred Talents Program Award, 2004-2008

Selected Publications:
1.Sun C., 2017, Vertical alignment of stagnation points in pseudo-plane ideal flows. AIP Advances, 7, 095314, 1-12
2.Sun C., 2017, Geometric structure of pseudo-plane quadratic flows. Physics of Fluids, 29, 036602.
3.Sun C., 2017, Explicit equations to transform from Cartesian to elliptic coordinates. Mathematical Modelling and Applications, 2, 43-46.
4.Sun C. 2017, Riverine influence on ocean color in the equatorial South China Sea. Continental Shelf Research, 143, 151-158.
5.Sun C. 2016, High-order exact solutions for pseudo-plane ideal flows. Physics of Fluids, 28, 083602.
6.Sun C., Ma X. 2016. Estimating thermohaline variability of the equatorial Pacific Ocean from satellite altimetry. Science China Earth Science, 59, 2213-2222.

7.Yan, X., C. Sun, 2015: An altimetric transport index for Kuroshio inflow northeast of Taiwan Island. Science China Earth Sciences, DOI: 10.1007/s11430-014-5024-z
8.Sun C., H. Zhan, 2012: Interannual and interdecadal variability of East Asian monsoon and its relation to oceanic processes: a review, Chin. J. Oceanol. Limnol., 30(6), 905-907
9.Sun C., X. Yan, and X. Ma, 2012: Interdecadal variations of surface winds over China marginal seas, Chin. J. Oceanol. Limnol., 30(6), 908-921
10.Sun C. and X. Yan, 2012: Interannual variations of surface winds over China marginal seas, Chin. J. Oceanol. Limnol., 30(6), 922-932
11.Zhang L., C. Sun, D. Hu, 2012: Relationship between oceanic heat content and sea surface height on interannual time scale, Chin. J. Oceanol. Limnol., 30(6), 123-129
12.Zhang L and C. Sun, 2012: A geostrophic empirical mode based on altimetric sea surface height. Science China Earth Sciences, 55,1193–1205
13.Zhang, L., C. Sun, and D. Hu, 2012: Interannual variability of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current strength based on merged altimeter data. Chin. Sci. Bull., 57(16), 2015-2021
14.Sun, C., 2008: A baroclinic laminar state for rotating stratified flows. J. Atmos. Sci., 65, 2740–2747
15.Sun C., 2007: Temperature phase tilt in unstable baroclinic waves. J. Atmos. Sci.,
64, 4520-4522
16.Sun, C., 2005: Equivalent-barotropic definition of tropospheric mean temperature. J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 3172-3192
17.Sun, C. and D. Watts, 2002: A pulsation mode in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current south of Australia. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 32, 1459-1479
18.Sun, C. and D. Watts, 2002: Heat flux carried by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current mean flow. J. Geophys. Res., 107, C9, 3119
19.Sun, C.and D. Watts, 2002: A view of ACC fronts in streamfunction space. Deep-Sea Res., 49, 1141-1164
20.Sun, C. and D. Watts, 2001: A circumpolar gravest empirical mode for the Southern Ocean hydrography. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 2833-2856.
21.Sun, C., 2001: The columnar structure in stratified geostrophic flows. Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid Dyn., 95, 55-65
22.Watts, D., C. Sun, and S. Rintoul, 2001: A two-dimensional gravest empirical modes determined from hydrographic observations in the Subantarctic Front. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 31, 2186-2209