Dr. Rui Huang
Scientist Emeritus
Physical Oceanography
Contact Information:
Work: +1 508-289-2532
rhuang@whoi.edu
Building: Clark302A
Mailing Address:
266 Woods Hole Road, MS #21
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Research Interests
Theoretical and numerical study of oceanic general circulation, especially thermocline and thermohaline circulation and their links to climate dynamics.
Publications
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Please send your questions or comments to: rhuang@whoi.edu
- 2021 (JGR) Quantifying Climate Signals: Spicity, Orthogonality, and Distance
- 2020 (Contin. Shelf Res) Wind stress over the Pacific drives the shelf circulation east of China
- 2020 (Nature Comm) Sources and upstream pathways of the densest over flow water in the Nordic Seas
- 2020 (JPO) Using Helmoholtz decomposition to define the overturning streamfunction
- 2020 (JGR) Using the sigma-pi diagram to analyze water masses in South China Sea
- 2019 (Scientia Sinica) Oceanic Roles on climate changes over the drylands
- 2018 (GRL) Topographic Beta Spiral and onshore intrusion of the Kuroshio Current
- 2018 (JGR) New definition of potential spicity by the least square method
- 2018 (Climate Dyn) The roles of tropical and subtropical wind stress anomalies in ENSO
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- 2017 (JC) Thermocline Fluctuations in the Equatorial Pacific
- 2016 (JPO) Tidal mixing in the South China Sea
- 2016 (JRG) Regulation of South China Sea throughflow by pressure difference
- 2016 (J Tropical Ocean) Wind energy input to surface waves in South China Sea
- 2015 (Acta Oceanologica Sinica) Zonal overturning circulation and heat flux
- 2015 (Acta Physica Sinica) Intercomparison of one-dimensional detecting methods of unveiling striations
- 2015 (JC) Robust warming pattern of global subtropical ocean
- 2015 (Clim Dyn) Heaving modes in the world oceans
- 2015 (JGR) Retrieving density and velocity fields of the ocean interior
- 2014 (Acta Ocean Sin) Energetics of layer eddy diffusion/advection: Part IV
- 2014 (Acta Ocean Sin) Energetics of layer eddy diffusion/advection: Part III
- 2014 (Acta Ocean Sin) Energetics of layer eddy diffusion/advection: Part II
- 2014 (Acta Ocean Sin) Energetics of layer eddy diffusion/advection: Part I
- 2014 (J Tropical Ocean) Adiabatic density surface
- 2013 (GRL) Universal structure of mesoscale eddies in the ocean
- 2013 (Science Rep) Horizontal eddy energy flux in the world ocean
- 2013 (Science China) Effect of opening the Drake Passage on the general circulation
- 2013 (J Tropical Ocean) Evolution of oceanic circulation theory: from gyres to eddies
- 2012 (JPO) Effects of Thermohaline Circulation on Wind-driven Circulation in South China Sea
- 2012 (GRL) Mass-induced sea level change in Northwest North Pacific
- 2011 (JC) Global subduction/obduction rates
- 2011 (JMR) Spicity
- 2011 (DSR) Enhancement of subduction/obduction due to hurricane
- 2011 (GRL) Deep South China Sea circulation
- 2010 (Ocean Dyn) Estimate of eddy energy rate in the world ocean
- 2010 (JPO) Three dimensional Steady Circulation of a stationary Hurricane
- 2010 (JC) Interdecadal variability of Eastward Current in South China Sea
- 2008 (Scientia Sinica) Antarctic Circumpolar Current's response to wind stress
- 2008 (JPO) Mechanical energy input to the ocean induced by tropical cyclones (pdf)
- 2008 (JPO) Stommel's box model- extension, role of energy and gyration (pdf)
- 2008 (JGR) Role of gyration in oceanic general circulation: Atlantic Ocean (pdf)
- 2007 (JGR) On the boundary condition applied to the sea-ice coupled model (pdf)
- 2007 (JGR) Role of mixied layer in regulating meridional mass/heat fluxes (pdf)
- 2007 (JPO) Climate varibility in Equatorial Pacific induced by decadal variability in mixing coefficient (pdf)
- 2006 (Acta Ocean.) Meso-scale available Gravitational Potential Energy in the world oceans (pdf)
- 2006 (JPO) Gravitational potential energy balance for a model ocean (pdf)
- 2006 (Tellus) Abyssal stratification and circul. from principle of maximal entropy production (pdf)
- 2006 (DSR) Decadal variability of wind energy (pdf)
- 2006 (Chinese Sci. Bull.) Energy Input due to atmospheric loading (pdf)
- 2005 (JOUC) Contribution of oceanic circulation to the Poleward Heat Flux (pdf)
- 2005 (JPO) Decadal variab. of pycnoc. flows from the subtro. to equator. Pacific (pdf)
- 2005 (JFM) An exper. study on thermal circulation driven by horiz. diff. heating (pdf)
- 2005 (JMR) Available potential energy in the world's oceans (pdf)
- 2004 Entry for the Encyclopedia of energy (pdf)
- 2004 (JPO) wind energy input to surface waves (pdf)
- 2004 (JPO) Wind energy input to Ekman layer (pdf)
- 2003 (Hawaii Meeting) Gravitational potential energy sinks in the oceans (pdf)
- 2003 (JPO) The asymmetic nature of the equator. Undercurrent (pdf)
- 2002 (OM) On aliasing Rossby waves induced by asynchronous time stepping (pdf)
- 2002 (JPO) Sea surface elevation and bottom pressure anomaly, Part I. (pdf)
- 2002 (JPO) Deep circulation in the south Atlantic induced by bottom-inten. mixing (pdf)
- 2001 (JPO) Adjustment of the ventilated thermocline (pdf)
- 2001 (AAS) An oceanic general circulation model in pressure coordinates (pdf)
- 2001 (JPO) An analytical solution of the ideal-fluid thermocline (pdf)
- 2001 (JPO) Interior communication from the subtropical to the tropical oceans (pdf)
- 2000 (GRL) Global adjustment of the thermocline in response to deepwater formation (pdf)
- 2000 (JPO) Climate variability inferred from a continuously stratified model.... (pdf)
- 2000 (JPO) Parameter study of a continously stratified model of the ideal-fluid thermocline (pdf)
- 2000 (JPO) Climate variability induced by anomalous buoyancy forcing in a multilayer... (pdf)
- 1999 (JPO) The relative influence of diapycnal mixing and hydrologic forcing... (pdf)
- 1999 (JPO)Mixing and energetics of the oceanic thermohaline circulation (pdf)
- 1999 (JPO) Climate variability inferred from a layered model of the ventilated thermocline (pdf)
- 1999 (JPO) Seasonal variations of sea surface height in the Gulf Stresm region (pdf)
- 1998 (JPO) The structure of the wind-driven circulation in the subtropical South Pacific Ocean (pdf)
- 1998 (CJAS) On balance of energy in oceanic general circulation (pdf)
- 1998 (JPO) Sensitivity of the GFDL modular ocean model to parameterization of double-diffusive processes.. (pdf)
- 1993 (JPO) Real freshwater flux as a natural boundary condition for the salinity . (pdf)
- 1988 (JPO) On boundary value problems of the ideal-fluid thermocline (pdf)
Essay
These are my own short stories and personal reflection (in Chinese)
- The road to science -- my personal reflection (pdf, last update: Sep. 29, 2012)
- From MIT to Princeton -- my Ph.D and Postdoctorial experience (pdf, last update: Sep. 29, 2012)
- How did I enter oceanography (pdf, last update: Sep. 29, 2012)
- How Stommel do research (pdf, last update: Sep. 29, 2012)
- Quality Quality Quality (pdf, last update: Sep. 29, 2012)
- My Way in Learning English -- the pain and joy (pdf, last update: Sep. 29, 2012)
- SandstromTheorem_100Y_Workshop (pdf, last update: Sep. 28. 20, 2012)
- My First paper (pdf, last update: Sep. 20, 2012)
Ocean Garden
This is a garden where I collect my most recent thought about physics of the ocean
Hope you enjoying reading notes posed in this garden. Please send your questions or comments to: rhuang@whoi.edu
Education
Ph.D. MIT/WHOI Joint Program, 1984, Physical Oceanography
B.S. University of Science and Technology, China, 1965, Fluid Mechanics
Books
Ocean Circulation, Wind-driven and Thermohaline processes
The Chinese eddition, including corrections for typos will be published April, 2012, by High Education press of China
- Book cover (jpg)
- Errata (Last updated on July 1/2012) (pdf)
Heaving, Stretching and Spicing Modes, Climate Variability in the Ocean
Sommel's Autobiography
Family circle
This is a place where I collect my rule of the famous Chinese Majong game. There exist at least several hundreds of rule over the whole world. Over many years I have studied the potential combinations and roughly the probability of these combinations. Ideally, the score should be inversely proportional to these probability. I welcome suggestions and criticism.
Please send your questions or comments
1) Majong rule in Chinese (Last updated 7/12/2010) (pdf)
2) Majong rule in English (Last updated 7/12/2010) (pdf)