Publication:

• Xiaochun Wang, Yi Chao, Changming Dong, John Farrara, Zhijin Li, James C. McWilliams, Jeffrey D. Paduan, Leslie K. Rosenfeld: Modeling tides in Monterey Bay, California, Journal title: Deep-Sea Research Part II, Reference: DSRII2394. (Deep-Sea.pdf)
  
  
• Chao, Y., Z. Li, J. D. Farrara, and P. Huang: Blended sea surface temperatures from multiple satellites and in-situ observations for coastal oceans. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 10.1175/2009JTECHO592.1
  
  
• Ramp, S.R, P. Lermusiaux, R. E. Davis, Y. Chao, D. Fratantoni, N.E. Leonard, J.D. Paduan, F. Chavez, I. Shulman, J. Marsden, W. Leslie, and Z. Li: The Autonomous Ocean Sensing Network (AOSN) predictive skill experiment
  
  
• Chao, Y., Z. Li, J. Farrara, J. C. McWilliams, J. Bellingham, X. Capet, F. Chavez, J.-K. Choi, R. Davis, J. Doyle, D. Frantaoni, P. P. Li, P. Marchesiello, M. A. Moline, J. Paduan, S. Ramp: Development, implementation and evaluation of a data-assimilative ocean forecasting system off the central California coast. Deep-Sea Research II, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.08.011, 2009.
  
  
• Wang, X., Y. Chao, C. Dong, J. Farrara, Z. Li, J. C. McWilliams, J. D. Paduan, L. K. Rosenfeld: Modeling tides in Monterey Bay, California. Deep-Sea Research II, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.08.012, 2009.
  
  
• Doyle, J. D., Q. Jiang, Y. Chao, J. Farrara: High-resolution real-time modeling of the marine atmospheric boundary layer in support of the AOSNII field campaign. Deep-Sea Research II, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.08.009, 2009.
  
  
• Li, Z., Y. Chao, J.C. McWilliams, and K. Ide: A Three-Dimensional Variational Data Assimilation Scheme for the Regional Ocean Modeling System. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 25, 2074-2090, 2009.
  
  

• Chao, Yi, Zhijin Li, John D. Farrara, Mark A. Moline, Oscar M. E. Schofield, and Sharanya J. Majumdar: Synergistic applications of autonomous underwater vehicles and the regional ocean modeling system in coastal ocean forecasting. Limnol. Oceanogr. 53: 2251-2263, 2008.
  
  
• Li, Z., Y. Chao, J. C. McWilliams, and K. Ide: A three-dimensional variational data assimilation scheme for the Regional Ocean Modeling System: Implementation and basic experiments. J. Geophys. Res., 113, C05002, doi:10.1029/2006JC004042, 2008.
  
  
• Polovina, J. J., F. Chai, E. A. Howell, D. R. Kobayashi, L. Shi, Yi Chao: Ecosystem dynamics at a productivity gradient: A study of the lower trophic dynamics around the northern atolls in the Hawaiian Archipelago. Progress in Oceanography 77, 217–224, 2008.
  
  

• Pfeiffer-Hoyt, A. S., M.A. McManus, P.T. Raimondi, Y. Chao, and F. Chai: Dispersal of barnacle larvae along the central California coast: A modeling study. Limnol. Oceanogy.,52(4), 1559-1569.
  
  
• Chai, F., M-S Jiang, Y. Chao, R.C. Dugdale, F. Chavez, and R.T. Barber: Modeling Responses of Diatom Productivity and Biogenic Silica Export to Iron Enrichment in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycle, Vol. 21, GB3S90, doi:10.1029/2006GB002804.
  
  
• Li, Z., Y. Chao, J.C. McWilliams, and K. Ide 2007: A three-dimensional variational data assimilation scheme for the Regional Ocean Modeling Scheme in Support of Coastal Ocean Observing System. Proc. of SPIE: Assimilation of Remote Sensing and In Situ Data in Modern Numerical Weather and Environmental Prediction Models, Vol 6685, 66850B1-B12.(spie_3dvar_ps.pdf)
  
  

• Li, P., Y. Chao, Q. Vu, Z. Li, J. farrara, H. Zhang, X. Wang, OurOcean - An Integrated Solution to Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting, Proceedings of 2006 Oceans Conference, Boston, September 2006. (Ocean06-final.pdf)
  
  
• Nghiem, S. V., Y. Chao, G. Neumann, P. Li, D. K. Perovich, T. Street, and P. Clemente-Col (2006), Depletion of perennial sea ice in the East Arctic Ocean, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L17501, doi:10.1029/2006GL027198. (GRL_seaice2006GL027198.pdf)
  
  Additional images and animations can be found at:  http://ourocean.jpl.nasa.gov/beringsea.html
  
  
• Ryan, J.P., I. Ueki, Y. Chao, H. Zhang, P.S. Polito, and F.P. Chavez, 2006: Western Pacific Modulation of Large Phytoplankton Blooms in the Central and Eastern Equatorial Pacific, J. Geophys. Res., 111, G02013, doi:10.1029/2005JG000084.
  
  
• Li, Z., Y. Chao, and J.C. McWilliams, 2006: Computation of the streamfunction and velocity potential for limited and irregular domains. Mon. Weather Rev., 134, 3384-3394. (mwr_2006.pdf)
  
  

• Ping Wang, Y. Tony Song, Yi, Chao, Hongchun Zhang, 2005: Parallel Computation of the Regional Ocean Modeling System, The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, Vol. 19, No. 4,375-385.
  
  

• Wang, Xiaochun, and Yi Chao, 2004: Simulated Sea Surface Salinity variability in the tropical Pacific. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31 (2), L02302, 10.1029/2003GL018146. (2003GL018146.pdf)
  
  

• Chao, Yi; Li, Zhijin; Kindle, John C.; Paduan, Jeffrey D.; Chavez, Francisco P., 2003: A high-resolution surface vector wind product for coastal oceans: Blending satellite scatterometer measurements with regional mesoscale atmospheric model simulations. Geophys. Res. Lett. Vol. 30 No. 1, 10.1029/2002GL015729. (2002GL015729.pdf)
  
  
• Chai, F., M. Jiang, R.T. Barber, R.C. Dugdale, and Yi Chao, Interdecadal Variation of the Transition Zone Chlorophyll Front: A Physical-Biological Model Simulation between 1960 and 1990, Journal of Oceanography, 59, 461-475, 2003.
  
  Eddy-Resolving Pacific Ocean Modeling and its Applications in Physical-Biological Coupling and Regional/Coastal Downscaling
  
  Presentation at AGU Ocean Science Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, February 2006.



• ROMS for Sealion  
  
  Development of Database and Tools to Visualize and Analyze the Oceangraphic data Collected from California Sea Lions.