Dr. Xin Zhang's Webb Page

 

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

University of California, San Diego

La Jolla, CA 92093-0213

 

Tel: 858 534 7153

Email: xzhang@ucsd.edu

 

 

Researches:

Measuring shortwave

Buttom turbulence

IR sea surface features

 

 

 

Recent manuscripts

 

 

Paper list:

 

Zhang, X , Chen, K. and Wan, J. 1987 A Heuristic Method for Feature-Based Scene Matching. ACTA AUTOMATICA SINICA Vol.13, No.1 62-65

Zhang, X and Yun, C. 1989. Computer-Based Feature Extraction and Clustering of Suspended Sediments. ACTA AUTOMATICA SINICA Vol.15, No.2 149-155

Webb, S. C., Zhang, X. and Crawfort, W 1991. Infragravity waves in the deep ocean. J. Geophys. Res. 96:2723-27-36

Jacobs, D.C. , Cox, C.S. and Zhang, X. 1993. Observations of the near-field double frequency pressure spectrum in the upper ocean using the Cartesian Diver profiling instrument, Natural Physical Sources of Underwater Sound, Kluwer, B. Kerman ed., p175-188.

Zhang, X and Cox, C. S. 1994. Measuring the two dimensional structure of a wavy water surface optically: A surface gradient detector, Exp. Fluids 17. Vol. 4, 225-237 ((pdf file))

X. Zhang, Dabiri, D., and Gharib, M., 1994. A Novel Technique for Free-surface Elevation Mapping, Physics of Fluids , Vol. 6, No. 9, s11

Zhang, X and Cox, C. S. 1994. The spectrum of capillary-gravity and capillary wind waves observed in a wave tank. Air-Sea Interface Symposium, Marseille, France, June 24-30,1993, In "The Air-Sea Interface", M.A. Donelan, W.H. Hui, and W.J. Plant, eds. The University of Toronto Press, Toronto. p357-365

Zhang, X 1994. Wavenumber spectra of very short wind waves: an application of 2-D Slepian windows to the spectral estimation. J. Atoms. and Oceanic Tech., Vol.11, No.2, Part II, P489-505. ((pdf file))

M. Gharib, Dabiri, D., and Zhang, X. 1994. Interaction of Small-Scale Turbulence with a Free Surface. In Free Surface Turbulence, Rood EP, Katz J, eds. FED-ASME Vol. 181. New York: Am. Soc. Mech. Eng. p. 97-102.

Zhang, X 1995. Capillary-gravity and capillary waves generated in a wind wave tank: Observations and Theories, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 289,51-82. (pdf file)

Zhang, X., and Cox, C. S., 1995. Feature Correlation for Particle Image Velocimetry: An application of Pattern Recognition, SPIE, VOL. 2546, 47-53. ((pdf file))

Zhang, X. 1995. Color Tomography for 3-D Fluid Density Inversion, SPIE, VOL. 2546, 321-330. ((pdf file))

Zhang, X. 1996. An Algorithm for Calculating Water Surface Elevations from Surface Gradient Image Data, Exp. Fluids 21 43-48. ((pdf file))

Zhang X., D. Dabiri, and M. Gharib 1996. Optical mapping of fluid density interface: concepts and implementations, Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 67, No. 5, pp 1858-1868 ((pdf file))

Longuet-Higgins, M. and X. Zhang, 1997. Experiments on capillary-gravity waves of solitary type on deep water. Phys. Fluids. July,1997 p1963-1968((pdf file))

Dabiri D, X.Zhang, and M. Gharib 1997. Free surface slope and elevations, Atlas in Visualization III, edited by the Visualization Society of Japan, CRC press. p1-22.

Cox, C. S. and Zhang, X., 1997. Optical methods for study of sea surface roughness and microscale turbulence, SPIE, VOL. 3172. ((pdf file))

Zhang, X., C. S. Cox, and X. Wang, 1997. A further evaluation on feature correlation for PIV and PTV, SPIE, VOL. 3172.

Zhang, X. 1999. Observations on waveforms of capillary and gravity-capillary waves. Eur. J. Mech. B/Fluids, Vol. 18, No. 3, 373-388((pdf file))

Zhang, X, J. and C.S. Cox, 1999. Vortical motines under short wind waves, in Wind-Driven Air-Sea Interface, Electromagnetic and Acoustic Sensing, Wave Dynamics and Turbulent Fluxes, Edited by M. L. Banner. pp277-284((pdf file))

Zhang, X, J. Klinke, and B. Jahne, 1999. A study of advection of short wind waves by long waves from surface slope images, in Wind-Driven Air-Sea Interface, Electromagnetic and Acoustic Sensing, Wave Dynamics and Turbulent Fluxes, Edited by M. L. Banner. pp93-100((pdf file))

Zhang, Xin 2002 Enhanced dissipation of short gravity and gravity capillary waves due to parasitic capillaries, Phys. Fluids, 14, 11, L81-84((pdf file))

Zhang, Xin 2003 Surface image velocimetry for measuring short wind wave kinematics, Exp. Fluids, 35,653-665((pdf file))

Zhang, X. 2003, “Observation on modulation of short wind waves”, IEEE IGARSS 2003 Symposium Vol IV, 2697-2699. ((pdf file))

Xin Zhang and Soren Harrison 2004, A laboratory observation of the surface temperature and velocity distributions on a wavy and windy air-water interface, Phys. Fluids, 16, 1, L5-8((pdf file))

Zhang, X and Garbe, C. 2004, Studying dynamical processes of air-sea exchanges with air-water interface image techniques, Recent Res. Devel. Fluid Dynamics, 5(2004) 57-87((pdf file))

Zhang, X. 2005,  short wind waves and surface wind drift, JFM, vol. 541, pp. 345–370. ((pdf file))

Zhang, X and Cai, WJ 2007,  On some biases of estimating the global distribution of air-sea CO2 flux by bulk parameterizations, GRL 34,L01608,doi:10.1029/2006GL027337, (pdf file)

 

Zhang, X, 2007 Comment on 'Measurements of air-sea gas exchange at high wind speeds in the Southern Ocean: Implication for global parameterizations' by D. T. Ho, et. al.  (pdf file)

 

Thesis : A study of capillary and capillary-gravity wind waves: their structures, distributions, and energy balances(pdf file)