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Jianping Gan is affiliated with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in China. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with notable contributions to Environmental Science. Within these fields, their subfield expertise includes Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Computational Mechanics, and Ecology.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics such as Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Climate Variability and Models, Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, and Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses.

Jianping Gan has published in several prominent scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Progress In Oceanography
  • Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Frontiers in Marine Science

The scientist's recent papers illustrate a focus on coastal and marine environmental dynamics. These papers include:

  • Carbon Fluxes in the Coastal Ocean: Synthesis, Boundary Processes, and Future Trends (2022) in Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Persistent eutrophication and hypoxia in the coastal ocean (2023) in Cambridge Prisms Coastal Futures
  • Dynamics of inorganic carbon and pH in a large subtropical continental shelf system: Interaction between eutrophication, hypoxia, and ocean acidification (2020) in Limnology and Oceanography
  • Vortex and Biogeochemical Dynamics for the Hypoxia Formation Within the Coastal Transition Zone off the Pearl River Estuary (2020) in Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Progress on circulation dynamics in the East China Sea and southern Yellow Sea: Origination, pathways, and destinations of shelf currents (2021) in Progress In Oceanography

Collaborations form an integral part of Jianping Gan's research. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Minhan Dai
  • Zhiqiang Liu
  • Zhongya Cai
  • Zhongming Lu
  • Liuqian Yu

Best Publications

  • Tides and tidal currents in the Pearl River Estuary

    Qingwen Mao;Ping Shi;Kedong Yin;Kedong Yin;Jianping Gan

  • Physical–biological coupling in the Pearl River Estuary

    Paul James Harrison;Kedong Yin;Kedong Yin;Joseph Hun Wei Lee;Jianping Gan

  • Numerical study of the tide and tidal dynamics in the South China Sea

    Tingting Zu;Jianping Gan;Svetlana Y. Erofeeva

  • Interaction of a river plume with coastal upwelling in the northeastern South China Sea

    Jianping Gan;Li Li;Dongxiao Wang;Xiaogang Guo

  • Modeling South China Sea circulation: Response to seasonal forcing regimes

    Jianping Gan;Hongliang Li;Enrique N. Curchitser;Dale B. Haidvogel

  • Carbon Fluxes in the Coastal Ocean: Synthesis, Boundary Processes and Future Trends

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  • Why are some marginal seas sources of atmospheric CO2

    Minhan Dai;Zhimian Cao;Xianghui Guo;Weidong Zhai

  • Nutrient dynamics and biological consumption in a large continental shelf system under the influence of both a river plume and coastal upwelling

    Aiqin Han;Minhan Dai;Shuh-Ji Kao;Shuh-Ji Kao;Jianping Gan

  • Intensified upwelling over a widened shelf in the northeastern South China Sea

    Jianping Gan;Anson Cheung;Xiaogang Guo;Li Li

  • A modeling study of shelf circulation off northern California in the region of the Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment: Response to relaxation of upwelling winds

    Jianping Gan;John S. Allen

  • Current status of emerging hypoxia in a eutrophic estuary: The lower reach of the Pearl River Estuary, China

    Wei Qian;Wei Qian;Jianping Gan;Jinwen Liu;Biyan He

  • Observed three-dimensional structure of a cold eddy in the southwestern South China Sea

    Jianyu Hu;Jianping Gan;Zhenyu Sun;Jia Zhu

  • Biological response to intensified upwelling and to a river plume in the northeastern South China Sea: A modeling study

    Jianping Gan;Zhongming Lu;Minhan Dai;Anson Y. Y. Cheung

  • Eddy heat and salt transports in the South China Sea and their seasonal modulations

    Gengxin Chen;Jianping Gan;Qiang Xie;Xiaoqing Chu

  • A Three-Layer Alternating Spinning Circulation in the South China Sea

    Jianping Gan;Zhiqiang Liu;Chiwing Rex Hui

  • Dynamics of the carbonate system in a large continental shelf system under the influence of both a river plume and coastal upwelling

    Zhimian Cao;Minhan Dai;Nan Zheng;Deli Wang

  • Controls of seasonal variability of phytoplankton blooms in the Pearl River Estuary

    Zhongming Lu;Jianping Gan

  • Coastal jet separation and associated flow variability in the southwest South China Sea

    Jianping Gan;Tangdong Qu

  • A numerical study of coupled estuary–shelf circulation around the Pearl River Estuary during summer: Responses to variable winds, tides and river discharge

    Tingting Zu;Tingting Zu;Jianping Gan

  • Tracing the origin of the oxygen-consuming organic matter in the hypoxic zone in a large eutrophic estuary:the lower reach of the Pearl River Estuary, China

    Jianzhong Su;Minhan Dai;Biyan He;Biyan He;Lifang Wang

  • Numerical investigation on propulsion of the counter-wind current in the northern South China Sea in winter

    Dongxiao Wang;Bo Hong;Jianping Gan;Hongzhou Xu

Frequent Co-Authors

Minhan Dai
Minhan Dai Xiamen University
Zhiqiang Liu
Zhiqiang Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hongbin Liu
Hongbin Liu Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
John S. Allen
John S. Allen Oregon State University
Shuh-Ji Kao
Shuh-Ji Kao Hainan University
R. Grant Ingram
R. Grant Ingram McGill University
Richard J. Greatbatch
Richard J. Greatbatch GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Kedong Yin
Kedong Yin Sun Yat-sen University
Paul J. Harrison
Paul J. Harrison University of Oxford
Tangdong Qu
Tangdong Qu University of California, Los Angeles

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