物理海洋学

李元龙研究员,博士,博士生导师,1983年生。专业为物理海洋学。近年来主要从事海洋热力学过程与气候变化方向的研究,聚焦大洋的年代际和多年代际温盐变化,在变异特征、物理机制和气候效应等方面取得了一系列成果。在Nature Climate Change、Nature Review Earth & Environment、JPO、JC、GRL、JGR-Oceans等物理海洋学权威期刊共发表论文100多篇,其中第一/通讯作者论文60多篇,累计被引用3400多次。担任海洋热力学过程与气候变化研究组组长,获得山东省杰出青年基金资助,现担任国际知名期刊《JGR-Oceans》编委、《海洋学报》中英文版青年编委、中国气象学会常务理事、中国海洋学会海-气相互作用专委会委员。

一、研究领域 

1. 海洋热力学过程及其气候环境效应

2. 海洋环流变异的气候效应

二、招生专业及方向

专业:物理海洋学

方向:海洋环流与气候环境效应

三、研究室及联系方式

研究室:海洋环流与波动重点实验室

邮箱:liyuanlong@qdio.ac.cn

办公电话:82893903

四、承担的主要科研项目

•科技部重点研发专项课题:三大洋相互作用的“海洋通道”过程机制,2019-2024,主持

•国家自然科学基金面上项目:季节内振荡对东南印度洋海洋热浪的影响,2025-2028,主持

•崂山实验室科技创新项目课题: 海-气系统年代际变化规律与机理,2022-2025,主持

•中国科学院战略性先导科技专项(B类)子课题:东印度洋与印尼海物质能量交换过程,2020-2024,主持

•山东省杰出青年基金项目:印度洋温盐变化,2021-2023,主持

•中国科学院战略性先导科技专项子课题:东印度洋与印尼海物质能量交换过程,2020-2024,主持

•中科院海洋大科学研究中心重点部署项目:印度洋中层水团长期变化:物理海洋与古气候学联合研究,2019-2022,主持

•国家自然科学基金面上项目:东南印度洋海温长期变化及其对“海洋热浪”事件的影响,2018-2021,主持

•国家自然科学基金青年项目:副热带东南印度洋年代变异及其气候效应,2019-2021,主持

五、研究成果及奖励        

主要研究成果包括:1)揭示了印度洋热含量的年代际振荡特征及其三维结构,指明了印尼贯穿流的重要作用,系统阐释了其振荡机理;2)发现了东南印度洋的热量集聚现象,指出了其对“海洋热浪”和澳洲洪涝灾害的促进作用;3)探明了调控热带印度洋海温和盐度季节内变异的关键过程,提出了南亚季风季节内振荡的海气耦合理论模型;4)发现了孟加拉湾盐度对南亚季风季节内振荡的影响,阐释了盐度通过改变海洋层结影响季风变异事件发展的完整过程。

主要奖励:

1. 2019年山东省自然科学一等奖,“热带西太平洋暖池热盐结构与变异的关键过程和气候效应”,完成人:王凡、李元龙、杨光、郑飞、张文君。

2. 2017 年获得中国科学院杰出科技成就奖,“热带西边界流集体”,在主要完成人中排名第九。

六、近期代表性论文及著作(*为通许作者)

1.  Song, Y., Li, Y.*, et al., 2025: Inter-basin contrast in the Southern Ocean warming, Nature Communications, 16, 9063, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-64112-8

2.  Duan, J., Li, Y.*, Lyu, Y., Jing, Z., Wang, F., 2025: Emergence of the North Pacific heat storage pattern delayed by decadal wind-driven redistribution. Nature Communications. 16, 668, doi:10.1038/s41467-025-56005-7

3.  Lu, Y., Li, Y.*, Lin, P., Cheng, L., Ge, K., Liu, H., Duan, J., Wang, F.*, 2024: North Atlantic-Pacific salinity contrast enhanced by winds and ocean warming, Nature Climate Change, 14, 723–731, doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02033-y(入选“2024年度中国海洋与湖沼十大科技进展”;入选“2024年度中国气候研究重大突破”)

4.  Li, Y.*, Duan, J.*, Lyu, Y., Li, R., Cui, Z., & Wang, F., 2025: Increasing heat pile-up events in the southeast Indian Ocean linked to multi-year La Niña conditions. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2025GL116678. https://doi.org/10.1029/ 2025GL116678 

5.  Ren, Q.*, Xie, SP., Peng, Q. Li, Y.*, Wang, F., 2025: Equatorial Atlantic mid-depth warming indicates Atlantic meridional overturning circulation slowdown. Commun. Earth Environ. 6, 819. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02793-1

6.  Ren, Q., Li, Y.*, et al., 2025: Heat Storage Pattern Linked to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Slowdown. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2025GL116801, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL116801

7.  Gao, X., Li, Y.*, Lin, P., Zhang, L., Lu, Y., Ren, Q., et al. (2025). The decadal Twin Dipoles in the Southern Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2025GL115115. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL115115

8.  Li, R., Li, Y.*, Lyu, Y., Sprintall, J., & Wang, F.* (2025). Role of the Indian Ocean wind‐driven dynamics in the Indonesian Throughflow variability. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 130, e2025JC022503. https://doi.org/10.1029/ 2025JC022503

9.  Li, R., Sprintall, J., Li, Y.*, Lyu, Y.*, & Wang, F. (2025). Suppressed changes of the Makassar Strait Throughflow during the 2020–2023 “triple-dip” La Niña by Indian Ocean winds. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2025GL115721. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL115721

10. Zhou, J., Li, Y.*, Du, Y., Hong, Y., Lu, L., Lu, Y., Wang, W.-L., Wang, F., Indian Ocean intermediate water masses and their simulations by CMIP6 models, Journal of Climate, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0667.1

11. Cui, Z., Li, Y.*, Guo, Y., Wang, F., 2024: Impacts of the Madden-Julian Oscillation on Marginal Sea Heatwaves of the Southeastern Tropical Indian Ocean, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129, e2023JC020867. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC020867

12. Liu, L.-L., Li, Y.*, Wang, F., Ren, Q., 2024: Heat transport into the interior ocean induced by water-mass subduction, Environmental Research Letters, 19, 074002, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ad50ef

13. Song, Y., Li, Y.*, Hu, A., Cheng, Li., Forget, G., Chen, X., Duan, J., Wang, F., 2024: Decadal thermal variability of the upper Southern Ocean: zonal asymmetry, Journal of Climate, 37, 3117–3132, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0649.1

14. Jin, Y., Li, Y.*, Cheng, L., Duan, J., Li, R., Wang, F., 2024: Ocean heat content increase of the Maritime Continent since the 1990s, Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2023GL107526. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL107526

15. Ren, Q.*, Kwon, Y., Yang, J., Huang, R. X. , Li, Y.*, and Wang, F., 2024: Substantial Warming of the Atlantic Ocean in CMIP6 Models. Journal of Climate, 37, 3073–3091, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0418.1

16. Wang, F.*, Li, X., Tang, X., Sun, X., Zhang, J., Yang, D., Xu, L., Zhang, H., Wang, Y., Yao, Y., Wang, C., Guo, Y., Ren, Q., Li, Y.*, Zhang, R., Wang, X., Zhang, B., Sha, Z., 2023, The seas around China in a warming climate, Nature Review Earth & Environment, 4, 535–551. DOI: 10.1038/s43017-023-00453-6(入选“2023年度中国海洋与湖沼十大科技进展”;入选“2023年度国家自然科学基金委优秀资助成果”)

17. Guo, Y., Li, Y.*, Cheng, Li., Chen, G., Liu, Q.-Y., Tian, T., Hu, S., Wang, J., Wang, F., 2023: An updated estimate of the Indonesian Throughflow geostrophic transport: inter-annual variability and salinity effect, Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL103748.

18. Guo, Y., Li, Y.*, Wang, F., 2023: Destinations and pathways of the Indonesian Throughflow water in the Indian Ocean, Journal of Climate, 36(11), 3717–3735, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0631.1

19. Gao, X., Li, Y.*, Lin, P., Zhang, L., Ren, Q., Lu, Y., Wang, F., 2023: Origins of Multidecadal SST Variations in the Southern Atlantic and Indian Oceans since the 1960s, Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL101735,

20. Duan, J., Li, Y.*, Cheng, L., Lin, P., Wang, F. 2023: Heat Storage in the Upper Indian Ocean: the Role of Wind-Driven Redistribution. Journal of Climate, 36(7), 2221-2242.

21. Ge, K., Li, Y.*, Lyu, Y.*, Lin, P., Cheng, L., Wang, F., 2023: Surface salinity changes of the tropical and subtropical oceans since 1970 and their relationship with surface freshwater fluxes,  Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128, e2023JC020207,https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC020207

22. Li, J., Li, Y.*, Guo, Y., Li., G., Wang, F. 2023: Decadal variability of sea surface salinity in the southeastern Indian Ocean: roles of local rainfall and the Indonesian throughflow, Frontiers in Marine Science, 9:1097634, doi:10.3389/fmars.2022.1097634

23. Li, Y.*, Guo, Y., Zhu, Y., Kido, S., Zhang, L., & Wang, F., 2022: Variability of Heat Content and Eddy Kinetic Energy in the Southeast Indian Ocean: Roles of the Indonesian Throughflow and Local Wind Forcing. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 52(11), 2789-2806.

24. Lu, Y., Li, Y.*, Duan, J., Lin, P., & Wang, F., 2022: Multidecadal Sea-level Rise in the Southeast Indian Ocean: The Role of Ocean Salinity Change. Journal of Climate, 35(5), 1479-1496, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0288.1

25. Liu, L.-L., Li, Y.*, & Wang, F. 2022: Reduction of Equatorial Obduction by Atmospheric Intraseasonal Oscillations in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean,  Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, 127, e2021JC017901,

26. Lv, M., Wang, F.*, Li, Y.*, Zhang, Z., & Zhu, Y., 2022: Structure of Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Induced by Mesoscale Eddies in the North Pacific Ocean, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, 127, e2021JC017581, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC017581

27. Zhu, Y., Li, Y.*, Zhang, Z., Qiu, B., & Wang, F.*, 2021: The observed Agulhas Retroflection behaviors during 1993-2018. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, 126, e2021JC017995, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC017995

28. Duan, J., Li, Y.*, Wang F., Hu, A., Han, W., Zhang, L., Lin, P., Rosenbloom, N., Meehl, G. A. 2021: Rapid Sea-Level Rise in the Southern-Hemisphere Subtropical Oceans. Journal of Climate, 34(23), 9401-9423. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0248.1

29. Guo, Y., Li, Y.*, Wang, F., & Wei, Y., 2021: Ocean Salinity Aspects of the Ningaloo Niño, Journal of Climate, 34(15), 6141-6161.

30. Liu, L.-L., Li, Y.*, & Wang, F. 2021: MJO-induced Intraseasonal Mixed Layer Depth Variability in the Equatorial Indian Ocean and Impacts on Subsurface Water Obduction. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 51(4), 1247-1263. doi:10.1175/JPO-D-20-0179.1

31. Li, Y.*, Han, W., Wang, F., Zhang, L., & Duan, J., 2020: Vertical Structure of the Upper Indian Ocean Thermal Variability. Journal of Climate, 33 (17), 7233–7253, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0851.1

32. Guo, Y., Li, Y.*, Wang, F., Wei, Y., & Xia, Q., 2020: Importance of Resolving Mesoscale Eddies in the Model Simulation of Ningaloo Niño, Geophysical Research Letters, 47(14), e2020GL087998, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087998

33. Guo, Y., Li, Y.*, Wang, F., Wei, Y., & Rong, Z., 2020: Processes Controlling Sea Surface Temperature Variability of Ningaloo Niño, Journal of Climate, 33(10), 4369-4389, https://dio.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0698.1

34. Duan, J., Li, Y.*, Zhang, L., & Wang, F., 2020: Impacts of the Indian Ocean Dipole on Sea Level and Gyre Circulation of the Western Tropical Pacific Ocean, Journal of Climate, 33, 4207-4288.