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Overview

Chunyan Li is a researcher affiliated with Louisiana State University in the United States. Their primary field of study is Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, and Plant Science. Li's research covers a diverse range of topics related to environmental and earth systems.

The main research topics Li has contributed to include:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Underwater Acoustics Research
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics

Li's recent publications demonstrate a breadth of interests across environmental and earth sciences:

  • "Sources of volatile organic compounds and policy implications for regional ozone pollution control in an urban location of Nanjing, East China," 2020, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • "Distribution of carbonate rocks and variation analysis of karst water resources in China," 2020, Carbonates and Evaporites
  • "Starch and Sugar Metabolism Response to Post-Anthesis Drought Stress During Critical Periods of Elite Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Endosperm Development," 2023, Journal of Plant Growth Regulation
  • "A numerical investigation of salinity variations in the Barataria Estuary, Louisiana in connection with the Mississippi River and restoration activities," 2020, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • "Bimetallic Fe-Co chalcogenophosphates as highly efficient bifunctional electrocatalysts for overall water splitting," 2020, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

The venues where Li frequently publishes reflect an interdisciplinary approach integrating marine science and environmental studies. These venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Scientific Reports
  • Research Square (Research Square)

Li is also credited with a book publication via Cambridge University Press titled "Time Series Data Analysis in Oceanography" released in 2022.

Collaborative efforts are an important aspect of Li's scientific work. Frequent co-authors include Wei Huang, Kaiyong Fu, Nazanin Chaichitehrani, Mohammad Nabi Allahdadi, and Xiangchi Zhang, indicating active research partnerships in multidisciplinary projects.

Best Publications

  • Cross-shelf circulation in the Yellow and East China Seas indicated by MODIS satellite observations

    Dongliang Yuan;Jianrong Zhu;Chunyan Li;Dunxin Hu

  • Trends and interannual variability of the South China Sea surface winds, surface height, and surface temperature in the recent decade

    Guohong Fang;Haiying Chen;Zexun Wei;Yonggang Wang

  • Review on current and seawater volume transport through the Taiwan Strait

    Jianyu Hu;Jianyu Hu;Hiroshi Kawamura;Chunyan Li;Chunyan Li;Huasheng Hong

  • Tidally driven residual circulation in shallow estuaries with lateral depth variation

    Chunyan Li;James O'Donnell

  • Physical mechanisms for the offshore detachment of the Changjiang Diluted Water in the East China Sea

    Changsheng Chen;Changsheng Chen;Pengfei Xue;Pingxing Ding;Robert C. Beardsley

  • Nonlinear terms in storm surge predictions: Effect of tide and shelf geometry with case study from Hurricane Rita

    João L. Rego;Chunyan Li;Chunyan Li

  • On the importance of the forward speed of hurricanes in storm surge forecasting: A numerical study

    João Lima Rego;Chunyan Li

  • Complexity of the flooding/drying process in an estuarine tidal‐creek salt‐marsh system: An application of FVCOM

    Changsheng Chen;Changsheng Chen;Jianhua Qi;Chunyan Li;Chunyan Li;Robert C. Beardsley

  • The Effect of Channel Length on the Residual Circulation in Tidally Dominated Channels

    Chunyan Li;James O’Donnell

  • Storm surge propagation in Galveston Bay during Hurricane Ike

    João L. Rego;Chunyan Li;Chunyan Li

  • Does the Taiwan warm current exist in winter

    Jianrong Zhu;Changsheng Chen;Pingxing Ding;Chunyan Li

  • Cold-front-induced flushing of the Louisiana Bays

    Zhixuan Feng;Chunyan Li;Chunyan Li

  • Floods and Cold Front Passages: Impacts on Coastal Marshes in a River Diversion Setting (Wax Lake Delta Area, Louisiana)

    Harry H. Roberts;Ronald D. DeLaune;John R. White;Chunyan Li

  • Linking the historic 2011 Mississippi River flood to coastal wetland sedimentation

    Federico Falcini;Federico Falcini;Nicole S. Khan;Leonardo Macelloni;Benjamin P. Horton

  • Winter‐spring fronts in Taiwan Strait

    Chunyan Li;Jianyu Hu;Sen Jan;Zexun Wei

  • Flow patterns at the Chesapeake Bay entrance

    Arnoldo Valle Levinson;Chunyan Li;Thomas C. Royer;Larry P. Atkinson

  • Sub-mesoscale ocean vortex trains in the Luzon Strait

    Quanan Zheng;Quanan Zheng;Hui Lin;Junmin Meng;Junmin Meng;Xiaomin Hu

  • A two-dimensional analytic tidal model for a narrow estuary of arbitrary lateral depth variation: The intratidal motion

    Chunyan Li;Arnoldo Valle-Levinson

  • Convergence of lateral flow along a coastal plain estuary

    Arnoldo Valle-Levinson;Chunyan Li;Kuo-Chuin Wong;Kamazima M. M. Lwiza

  • Estuarine ecosystem response to three large-scale Mississippi River flood diversion events

    Eric D. Roy;John R. White;Emily A. Smith;Sibel Bargu

  • Wind surge and saltwater intrusion in Atchafalaya Bay during onshore winds prior to cold front passage

    Chunyan Li;Chunyan Li;Harry Roberts;Gregory W. Stone;Eddie Weeks

Frequent Co-Authors

Changsheng Chen
Changsheng Chen University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
John R. White
John R. White Louisiana State University
Arnoldo Valle-Levinson
Arnoldo Valle-Levinson University of Florida
Quanan Zheng
Quanan Zheng University of Maryland, College Park
Samuel J. Bentley
Samuel J. Bentley Louisiana State University
Kehui Xu
Kehui Xu Louisiana State University
Dubravko Justic
Dubravko Justic Louisiana State University
Ya Ping Wang
Ya Ping Wang Nanjing University
Harry H. Roberts
Harry H. Roberts Louisiana State University
William G. Pichel
William G. Pichel National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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