Publications
In Progress
A WENO finite-volume scheme for the evolution of potential vorticity in isopycnal ocean models Wenda Zhang, Y. Kuo, S. Silvestri, A. Adcroft, R.W. Hallberg, S.M. Griffies, 2025: Submitted to Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
[Understanding energy cascade in the Northwest Pacific using a submesoscale permitting OGCM] Wang, S., Zhang W., Kido S., Sasaki H., Guo X., 2025: Submitted to SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences
[Implementation of a new parameterization of submesoscale vertical flux in an eddy-resolving model in the North Pacific] Feng, Z., Zhang Z., Zhang J., Zhang W., Yuan M., Jing Z., Zhao W., Tian J., 2025: Submitted to Ocean Modelling
[Mixed transitional layer instability: A mechanism for deep-penetrating submesoscale processes in the subtropical upper ocean] Zhang, Z., J. Chang, X. Zhang, and W. Zhang, 2025: Under revision in Journal of Physical Oceanography
[A scale-dependent vertical structure for mesoscale energy backscatter parameterizations]
Wenda Zhang, A. Adcroft, E. Yankovsky, S.M. Griffies, R.W. Hallberg, 2024:
In preparation for Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
Peer Reviewed
The GFDL-CM4X climate model hierarchy, Part I: model description and thermal properties Griffies, S. M., Adcroft, A., Beadling, R. L., Bushuk, M., Chang, C. Y., Drake, H. F., …, Zhang, W., Zhao, M. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (2025)
The GFDL-CM4X climate model hierarchy, Part II: case studies Griffies, S. M., Adcroft, A., Beadling, R. L., Bushuk, M., Chang, C. Y., Drake, H. F., …, Zhang, W., Zhao, M., 2025: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (2025)
Vertical structure of baroclinic instability in a three-layer quasi-geostrophic model over a sloping bottom M. Lobo, S.M. Griffies, and W. Zhang Journal of Physical Oceanography (2025)
The role of surface potential vorticity in the vertical structure of mesoscale eddies in wind-driven ocean circulations Wenda Zhang, Stephen M. Griffies, Robert W. Hallberg, Yi-Hung Kuo and Christopher L. P. Wolfe Journal of Physical Oceanography (2024)
Inferring tracer diffusivity from coherent mesoscale eddies Wenda Zhang and Christopher L. P. Wolfe Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (2024)
On the Vertical Structure of Oceanic Mesoscale Tracer Diffusivities Wenda Zhang and Christopher L. P. Wolfe Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (2022)
Role of surface-layer coherent eddies in potential vorticity transport in quasigeostrophic turbulence driven by eastward shear Wenda Zhang, Christopher L. P. Wolfe, and Ryan Abernathey Fluids (2020)