For a comprehensive list of publication and presentation, please see my curriculum vitae.

In progress

  • Zheng, Z., Harcourt, R., D’Asaro, E., & Shcherbina A. Scaling Near-Surface Observations of Turbulent Vertical Velocity in the Ocean. Part II: Boundary Layer.

Peer-reviewed Publications

  1. Zheng, Z., Harcourt, R., D’Asaro, E., & Shcherbina A. (2025). Scaling Near-Surface Observations of Turbulent Vertical Velocity in the Ocean. Part I: Surface Layer. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 55(10), 1889-1903. doi:10.1175/JPO-D-24-0179.1

  2. Zheng, Z., Wenegrat, J.O., Fox-Kemper, B., & Brett G.J. (2025). Wind-Catalyzed Energy Exchanges between Fronts and Boundary Layer Turbulence. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 55(9), 1591-1606. doi:10.1175/JPO-D-24-0243.1

  3. Ge, Q., Zheng, Z., Kang, L., Donohoe, A., Roe, G., & Armour, K. (2023). The sensitivity of climate and climate change to the efficiency of atmospheric heat transport. Climate Dynamics, 62(3), 2057–2067. doi:10.1007/s00382-023-07010-3

  4. Zheng, Z., Harcourt, R., & D’Asaro, E. (2021). Evaluating Monin–Obukhov Scaling in the Unstable Oceanic Surface Layer. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 51(3), 911–930. doi:10.1175/JPO-D-20-0201.1

  5. Li, Q., Reichl, B. G., Fox‐Kemper, B., Adcroft, A. J., Belcher, S. E., Danabasoglu, G., Grant, A. L., Griffies, S. M., Hallberg, R., Hara, T., Harcourt, R. R., Kukulka, T., Large, W. G., McWilliams, J. C., Pearson, B., Sullivan, P. P., Van Roekel, L., Wang, P., & Zheng, Z. (2019). Comparing ocean surface boundary vertical mixing schemes including Langmuir Turbulence. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11(11), 3545–3592. doi:10.1029/2019ms001810

Thesis

  • Zheng, Z. (2023). Impacts of Surface Waves on Turbulence in Ocean Surface Boundary Layers: Observations and Scaling. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Washington. doi:hdl.handle.net/1773/50884