I am an oceanographer at the Laoshan Laboratory in Qingdao, China. Prior to this appointment, I was a postdoc at the California Institute of Technology and an Assistant Professor at Florida State University. I obtained my PhD from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 2019.

Research in my group advances fundamental understanding of climate dynamics, with a particular emphasis on the physical mechanisms governing interactions among the ocean, atmosphere, cryosphere, and marine ecosystems.

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• Bipolar oceanic processes drive Indonesian Throughflow declines under climate warming
  Wang W., S. Sun, and L. Wu
  Geophysical Research Letters, 2026
• Limited impacts of the Agulhas Leakage on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation under present-day climate conditions
  Zhang R., S. Sun, Z. Chen, and L. Wu
  Communications Earth & Environment, 2025
• Transient overturning changes cause global upper-ocean nutrient decline in a warming climate
  Sun, S., A. F. Thompson, J. Yu, and L. Wu
  Nature Communications, 2024 (Editor's Highlight)
• Role of the Labrador Current in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation responses to greenhouse warming
  Shan, X., S. Sun, L. Wu, and M. Spall
  Nature Communications, 2024
• Rapid 21^st century weakening of the Agulhas Current in a warming climate
  Zhang, R., S. Sun, et al.
  Geophysical Research Letters, 2023
• Indo-Pacific warming induced by a weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
  Sun S., A. F. Thompson, S.-P. Xie, and S.-M. Long
  Journal of Climate, 2022
• Observed Antarctic sea ice expansion reproduced in a climate model after correcting biases in sea ice drift velocity
  Sun S. and I. Eisenman
  Nature Communications, 2021
• Centennial changes in the Indonesian Throughflow connected to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: The ocean's transient conveyor belt
  Sun. S. and A. F. Thompson
  Geophysical Research Letters, 2020 (Eos Editor's Highlight)
• Transient overturning compensation between Atlantic and Indo-Pacific basins
  Sun, S., A. F. Thompson, and I. Eisenman
  Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2020