Publications
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In Progress
Luongo, M. T., S.-P. Xie, I. Eisenman, S. Sun, Q. Peng. How the Subsurface Tropical Pacific Responds to Hemispherically Asymmetric Temperature Forcing: Implications for Cross-Equatorial Mass and Heat Transport. submitted. [preprint]
Bonan, D.B., A.F. Thompson, T. Schneider, L. Zanna, K.C. Armour, and S. Sun. Constraints imply limited future weakening of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. submitted.
Zhang, R., S. Sun, Z. Chen, and L. Wu. Limited impacts of the Agulhas Leakage on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. submitted.
Peer-reviewed
2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2018 2017 2016 2013-2015
2024
Sun, S., A. F. Thompson, J. Yu, and L. Wu. Transient overturning changes cause global upper-ocean nutrient decline in a warming climate. Nat. Commun., 15, 7727. [publisher’s version, Editors’ Highlights]
Shan, X., S. Sun, L. Wu, and M. Spall. Role of the Labrador Current in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation responses to greenhouse warming. Nat. Commun., 15, 7361. [publisher’s version]
Wang, S., Z. Jing, L. Wu, S. Sun, et al. (2024). A more quiescent deep ocean under global warming. Nat. Clim. Chang. [publisher’s version].
Zhang, B., M. Linz, S. Sun, and A. F. Thompson (2024). A framework for constraining ocean mixing rates and overturning circulation from age tracers. J. Phys. Oceanogr., [publisher’s version].
Long, S-M, S. Zhang, Z. Gao, S. Sun, et al. (2024). Weakened seasonality of the ocean surface mixed layer depth in the Southern Indian Ocean during 1980-2019. Geophys. Res. Lett., 51, e2023GL107644. [publisher’s version]
Yang, H., Z. Chen, S. Sun, et al. (2024). Observations reveal intense air-sea exchanges over submesoscale ocean front. Geophys. Res. Lett., 51, e2023GL106840. [publisher’s version]
Gao, Z., S. Zhao, Q. Liu, S-M Long, and S. Sun (2024). Assessment of the Southern Ocean sea surface temperature biases in CMIP5 and CMIP6 models. J. Ocean Univ. China, accepted.
2023
Zhang, G., R. Chen, L. Li, H. Wei, and S. Sun (2023). Global trends in surface eddy mixing from satellite altimetry. Front. Mar. Sci., 10:1157049. [publisher’s version]
Zhang, R., S. Sun, Z. Chen, H. Yang, and L. Wu (2023). Rapid 21st century weakening of the Agulhas Current in a warming climate. Geophys. Res. Lett., 50, e2022GL102070. [pdf, code & data, publisher’s version].
Zhang, R., S. Sun, Z. Chen, H. Yang, and L. Wu (2023). On the decadal and multi-decadal variability of the Agulhas Current. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 53(4), 1011-1024. [publisher’s version]
Wang, S., Z. Jing, L. Wu, S. Sun, Q. Peng, H. Wang, Y. Zhang, and J. Shi (2023). Southern Hemisphere eastern boundary upwelling systems emerging as future hotspots of marine heatwaves under greenhouse warming. Nat. Commun., 14, 28. [publisher’s version]
2022
Bonan, D. B., A. F. Thompson, E. R. Newsom, S. Sun, and M. Rugenstein (2022). Transient and equilibrium responses of the Atlantic overturning circulation to warming in coupled climate models: the role of temperature and salinity. J. Clim., 35(15), 5173-5193. [publisher’s version]
Wilson, E. A., A. F. Thompson, A. Stewart, and S. Sun (2022). Bathymetric control of subpolar gyres and the overturning circulation in the Southern Ocean. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 52(2), 205-223. [publisher’s version]
Sun, S., A. F. Thompson, S.-P. Xie, and S.-M. Long (2022). Indo-Pacific warming induced by a weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. J. Clim., 35(2), 815-832. [pdf, publisher’s version, code]
2021
Quan, Q., Z. Liu, S. Sun, Z. Cai, Y. Yang, G. Jin, Z. Li, and X.-S. Liang (2021). Influence of the Kuroshio intrusion on deep flow intraseasonal variability in the northern South China Sea. J. Geophys. Res., e2021JC017429. [Publisher’s Version]
Sun, S. and I. Eisenman (2021). Observed Antarctic sea ice expansion reproduced in a climate model after correcting biases in sea ice drift velocity. Nat. Commun., 12, 1060. [pdf, publisher’s version, a news piece, data, a Eos piece]
2020
Sun, S. and A. F. Thompson (2020). Centennial changes in the Indonesian Throughflow connected to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: The ocean’s transient conveyor belt. Geophys. Res. Lett., 47, e2020GL090615. [pdf, publisher’s version, Eos Editors’ Highlight, code]
Sun, S., A. F. Thompson, and I. Eisenman (2020). Transient overturning compensation between Atlantic and Indo-Pacific basins. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 50(8), 2151-2172. [pdf, publisher’s version, a blog piece]
Sun, S., I. Eisenman, L. Zanna, and A. Stewart (2020). Surface constraints on the depth of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Southern Ocean vs North Atlantic. J. Clim., 33(8), 3125-3149. [pdf, publisher’s version]
2018
Sun, S., I. Eisenman, and A. Stewart (2018). Does Southern Ocean surface forcing shape the global ocean overturning circulation? Geophys. Res. Lett., 45, 2413-2423. [pdf, supplement]
2017
Sun, S. and J. Liu (2017). Sensitivity of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current transport to surface buoyancy conditions in the North Atlantic. Ocean Modell., 118, 118–129. [pdf]
Yang, H., L. Wu, S. Sun, and Z. Chen (2017): Role of the South China Sea in Regulating the North Pacific Double-Gyre System. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 47(7), 1617–1635.[pdf]
Yang, H., L. Wu, S. Sun, and Z. Chen (2017): Selective Response of the South China Sea Circulation to Summer Monsoon. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 47(7), 1555–1568. [pdf]
2016
Sun, S., I. Eisenman, and A. Stewart (2016). The influence of Southern Ocean surface buoyancy forcing on glacial-interglacial changes in the global deep ocean stratification. Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 8124-8132. [pdf, supplement]
2013-2015
Yang, H., L. Wu, S. Sun, and Z. Chen (2015): Low-frequency variability of monsoon-driven circulation with application to the South China Sea. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 45(6), 1632–1650. [pdf]
Chen, Z., L. Wu, B. Qiu, S. Sun, and F. Jia (2014): Seasonal variation of the South Equatorial Current bifurcation off Madagascar. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 44(2), 618–631. [pdf]
Sun, S., L. Wu, and B. Qiu (2013): Response of the inertial recirculation to intensified stratification in a two-layer quasigeostrophic ocean circulation model. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 43(7), 1254–1269 [pdf]
Gray Literature
Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, E., I. Eisenman, S. Zhang, S. Sun, and A. Donohoe (2022), New perspectives on the enigma of expanding Antarctic sea ice, Eos, 103. [link]
S. Sun (2019). Surface constraints on the global ocean overturning circulation: Southern Ocean vs North Atlantic. PhD thesis, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, 216 pages.