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Overview

Bo Qiu is affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States and has an extensive research record in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work predominantly focuses on Oceanography, with significant contributions to Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. Additional areas of expertise include Mechanical Engineering and Ecology.

The scientist's research covers a range of interconnected topics, including:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Climate variability and models
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Bo Qiu's publication record features numerous papers in several key journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Geophysical Research Letters (17 publications)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans (13 publications)
  • Journal of Physical Oceanography (9 publications)
  • Nature Communications (4 publications)
  • Journal of Climate (4 publications)

Among the recent papers authored by or involving Bo Qiu are:

  • "Tracking the seasonal and inter-annual variations of global gross primary production during last four decades using satellite near-infrared reflectance data," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Strengthening of the Kuroshio current by intensifying tropical cyclones," 2020, Science
  • "Maintenance of mid-latitude oceanic fronts by mesoscale eddies," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Submesoscale Currents in the Subtropical Upper Ocean Observed by Long-Term High-Resolution Mooring Arrays," 2020, Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • "Submesoscale inverse energy cascade enhances Southern Ocean eddy heat transport," 2023, Nature Communications

Bo Qiu collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Zhiwei Zhang (13 co-authored papers)
  • Wei Zhao (11 co-authored papers)
  • Jiwei Tian (11 co-authored papers)
  • Shuiming Chen (9 co-authored papers)
  • Zhengguang Zhang (6 co-authored papers)

Best Publications

  • Enhanced warming over the global subtropical western boundary currents

    Lixin Wu;Wenju Cai;Liping Zhang;Hisashi Nakamura

  • Pacific western boundary currents and their roles in climate

    Dunxin Hu;Lixin Wu;Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Alex Sen Gupta

  • Oceanic mass transport by mesoscale eddies

    Zhengguang Zhang;Wei Wang;Bo Qiu

  • Variability of the Kuroshio Extension Jet, Recirculation Gyre, and Mesoscale Eddies on Decadal Time Scales

    Bo Qiu;Shuiming Chen

  • Global Observations of Fine-Scale Ocean Surface Topography With the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission

    Rosemary Morrow;Lee-Lueng Fu;Fabrice Ardhuin;Mounir Benkiran

  • Seasonal and interannual variability of the North Equatorial Current, the Mindanao Current, and the Kuroshio along the Pacific western boundary

    Bo Qiu;Roger Lukas

  • Role of the Gulf Stream and Kuroshio–Oyashio Systems in Large-Scale Atmosphere–Ocean Interaction: A Review

    Young-Oh Kwon;Michael A. Alexander;Nicholas A. Bond;Claude Frankignoul

  • Seasonal Eddy Field Modulation of the North Pacific Subtropical Countercurrent: TOPEX/Poseidon Observations and Theory

    Bo Qiu

  • Kuroshio Extension Variability and Forcing of the Pacific Decadal Oscillations: Responses and Potential Feedback

    Bo Qiu

  • Western Boundary Currents and Frontal Air–Sea Interaction: Gulf Stream and Kuroshio Extension

    Kathryn A. Kelly;R. Justin Small;R. M. Samelson;Bo Qiu

  • Observed 3D Structure, Generation, and Dissipation of Oceanic Mesoscale Eddies in the South China Sea.

    Zhiwei Zhang;Jiwei Tian;Bo Qiu;Bo Qiu;Wei Zhao

  • Impact of oceanic-scale interactions on the seasonal modulation of ocean dynamics by the atmosphere

    Hideharu Sasaki;Patrice Klein;Bo Qiu;Yoshikazu Sasai

  • Interannual Variability in the Mid- and Low-Latitude Western North Pacific

    Bo Qiu;Terrence M. Joyce

  • Interannual Variability of the Kuroshio Extension System and Its Impact on the Wintertime SST Field

    Bo Qiu

  • Ventilation of the North Atlantic and North Pacific: Subduction Versus Obduction

    Bo Qiu;Rui Xin Huang

  • Eddy-mean flow interaction in the decadally modulating Kuroshio Extension system

    Bo Qiu;Shuiming Chen

  • Interannual-to-Decadal Variability in the Bifurcation of the North Equatorial Current off the Philippines

    Bo Qiu;Shuiming Chen

  • Altimetry for the future: building on 25 years of progress

    Saleh Abdalla;Abdolnabi Abdeh Kolahchi;Michaël Ablain;Susheel Adusumilli

  • Tracking the seasonal and inter-annual variations of global gross primary production during last four decades using satellite near-infrared reflectance data

    Songhan Wang;Yongguang Zhang;Yongguang Zhang;Weimin Ju;Bo Qiu

  • Seasonal Mesoscale and Submesoscale Eddy Variability along the North Pacific Subtropical Countercurrent

    Bo Qiu;Shuiming Chen;Patrice Klein;Hideharu Sasaki

  • Kuroshio And Oyashio Currents

    B. Qiu

  • Upper-Ocean Heat Balance in the Kuroshio Extension Region

    Bo Qiu;Kathryn A. Kelly

  • Interannual Variability of the North Pacific Subtropical Countercurrent and Its Associated Mesoscale Eddy Field

    Bo Qiu;Shuiming Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Niklas Schneider
Niklas Schneider University of Hawaii at Manoa
Hideharu Sasaki
Hideharu Sasaki Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Lixin Wu
Lixin Wu Ocean University of China
Lee-Lueng Fu
Lee-Lueng Fu Jet Propulsion Lab
Toshio Suga
Toshio Suga Tohoku University
Dimitris Menemenlis
Dimitris Menemenlis California Institute of Technology
Yan Du
Yan Du Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ping Chang
Ping Chang Texas A&M University
Daniel L. Rudnick
Daniel L. Rudnick Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Janet Sprintall
Janet Sprintall University of California, San Diego

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