Research interests:

Zhang’s expertise is on marine atmospheric boundary layer and fog/stratus. Her research interests cover synoptic, seasonal, and climate scales for the mechanism of the formation of marine fog/stratus, as well as the detection of marine fogs from satellites. Based on shipboard observations，GPS soundings, satellites, reanalyzed data and models, she has made a significant contribution to the understanding of the relations between marine stratus and fogs in the Yellow and East China Seas, the mechanism of the formation of the temperature inversion in the marine atmospheric boundary layer (MABL), the impact of sea surface temperature front on surface winds, marine stratus and vertical structures of the MABL, and the mechanism of seasonal variations of the Yellow Sea fog frequency.

She published over 30 journal articles in recent 5-years. She co-chairs a session in the 6thInternational Conference on Fog, Fog Collection and Dew held in Japan in 2013.

Education:

Positions:

2003 – Present Professor, Department of Meteorology, College of Physical and Environmental Oceanography, Ocean University of China. Teaching: Atmospheric Physics, Introduction of Atmospheric Science, Sea Fog, Climate Change.

1982 – 2002Engineer, Senior Engineer, Researcher, Shandong Metorological Institute. Main tasks were weather research and forecast.

National Projects:

Jan 2012-Dec 2015, Mechanisms of the Variations of the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer and the relations with Stratus/Fogs in the Yellow and East China Sea. Funded by National Natural Scientific Foundation of China.

Jan 2012-Aug 2016, The response of the Indo-Pacific Oceans to global warming and their role in climate change. Funded by Ministry of Science and Technology of China.

Recent international collaborations:
Jörg Bendix (Laboratory for Climatology and Remote Sensing (LCRS), Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany).

Publications:

1. JING -WU LIU, SU-PING ZHANG, SHANG-PING XIE, 2013: Two Types of Surface Wind Response to the East China Sea Kuroshio Front, J. Climate, DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00092.1 (2 citations)

2. Zhang Suping and Yi Li, 2013: A Comprehensive Dynamic Threshold Algorithm for Daytime Sea Fog Retrievalover the Chinese Adjacent Seas. Pure Appl. Geophys. DOI 10.1007/s00024-013-0641-6，2013, 170 （11）,1931-1944

3. Li Man and Zhang Suping, 2013: Impact of Sea Surface Temperature Front on Stratus-Sea Fog over the Yellow and East China Seas – A Case Study withImplications for Climatology, J. Ocean Univ. China  (Oceanic and Coastal Sea Research), DOI 10.1007/s11802-013-2218-5 (2 citations)

4. Zhang Suping, Xie Shangping, Liu Qinyu, Yang Yuqiang, Wang Xingong, Ren Zhaoping, 2009: Seasonal Variations of Yellow Sea Fog: Observations and Mechanisms J.Climate, 22(24), 6758-6772 (34 citations)

5. ZHANG Suping, 2012: Recent Observations and Modeling Study About Sea fog over the Yellow Sea and East China Sea ,  J. Ocean Univ. China (Oceanic and Coastal Sea Research), 11 (4): 465-472

6. Zhang Suping, Liu Jingwu, Xie Shangping, Meng Xiangui, 2011: The formation of a surface anticyclone over the Yellow and East China Seas in spring, 89 (2), Journal of the Meterological Society of Japan. 119–131

7. SUPING ZHANG, MAN LI,XIANGUI MENG, GANG FU, ZHAOPENG REN, and SHANHONG GAO, 2011: A Comparison Study Between Spring and Summer Fogs in the Yellow Sea-ObservationsMechanisms, Pure Appl. Geophys DOI 10.1007/s00024-011-0358-3 (5 citations)

8. Zhang Suping and Wang Bin. 2008: Global Summer Monsoon Rainy Seasons.International Journal of Climatology,. DOI: 10.1002/joc.1659 (18 citations)

9. Zhang Suping, Liu Jingwu, Meng Xiangui, 2010: The Effect of the East China Sea Kuroshio Fronton the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer, J. Ocean Univ. China，9 (3)，210-218

10. Zhang Suping, Ren Zhaopeng, Liu Jingwu, Yang Yuqiang, and Wang Xingong, 2008：Variations in the Lower Level of the PBL Associted with the Yellow Sea Fog—New Obervations by L-band Radar, Journal of Ocean University of China. 7(4),353-361 (8 citations)

Book Chapters:

Contributing author to Chapter 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 of the Understanding of Sea Fog over the China Seas. China Meteorological Press, Beijing, 2012

Editorships:

2012-presentVice editor-in-chief, Transactions of Oceanology and Limnology (in Chinese)