Publication:

• 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, Z., Y. Chao, J.C. McWilliams, and K. Ide 2007: A three-dimensional variational data assimilation scheme for the Regional Ocean Modeling System: Implementation and basic experiments, J. Geophys. Res., in press. (JGR-2007.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.
  
  

Presentation:

• OurOcean - An Integrated Solution to Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting  (Li, Peggy)
  
  Presentation at Ocean 06 MLS/IEEE, Boston, Massachusetts, September 2006.



• Modeling Tides in The Monterey Bay, California  (Wang, Xiaochun)
  
  Presentation at AGU Ocean Science Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, February 2006.



• 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.