2026 Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
In 2025, the Earth oceans stored more heat than ever before — about 23 Zetta Joules (ZJ).
Citation: Pan, Y. Y., and Coauthors: 2026: Ocean Heat Content Sets Another Record in 2025. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences,1-19
2025 Nature Climate Change
It is important to understand the combined effects of multiple changes on the ocean. Here, we use time of emergence to highlight the increases in impacts of individual and compound changes globally from the surface to the deeper ocean, identifying areas most affected.
Citation: Tan, Z., K. v. Schuckmann, S. Speich, L. Bopp, J. Zhu, and L. Cheng. (2025): Observed large-scale and deep-reaching compound ocean state changes over the past 60 years. Nature Climate Change. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02484-x
2025 Nature Climate Change
气候变化已经引发了海洋大范围且深层次的复合气候状态变化
Citation: Tan, Z., K. v. Schuckmann, S. Speich, L. Bopp, J. Zhu, and L. Cheng. (2025): Observed large-scale and deep-reaching compound ocean state changes over the past 60 years. Nature Climate Change. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02484-x
2025 Scientific Data
This paper is about a quality-controlled global ocean salinity profiles dataset (CODC-S) used to support diverse oceanographic and climatic research
Citation: Tan Z, Zhu Y, Cheng L, Gouretski V, Pan Y, Yuan H, Wang Z, Li G, Song X, Zhang B, Bao S, Li Y, Zhu J. 2025. CODC-S: A quality-controlled global ocean salinity profiles dataset. Scientific Data, 12: 917. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05172-9
2025 Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
This paper is about the sea surface temperatures and deeper water temperatures reached a new record high in 2024
Citation: Cheng L. J. Abraham, K. E. Trenberth, J. Reagan, H.-M. Zhang, A. Storto, K. von Schuckmann, Y. Pan, Y. Zhu, M. E. Mann, J. Zhu, F. Wang, F. Yu, R. Locarnini, J. Fasullo, B. Huang, G. Graham, X. Yin, V. Gouretski, F. Zheng, Y. Li, B. Zhang, L. Wan, X. Chen, D. Wang, L. Feng, X. Song, Y. Liu, F. Reseghetti, S. Simoncelli, G. Chen, R. Zhang, A. Mishonov, Z. Tan, W. Wei, H. Yuan, G. Li, Q. Ren, L. Cao, Y. Lu, J. Du, K. Lyu, A. Sulaiman, M. Mayer, H. Wang, Z. Ma, S. Bao, H. Yan, Z. Liu, C. Yang, X. Liu, Z. Hausfather, T. Szekely, F. Gues: 2025: Record High Temperatures in the Ocean in 2024. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
2024 Frontiers of Marine Sciences
This paper is about the duplicate checking of global ocean databases
Citation: Song X†, Tan Z†, Locarnini R, Simoncelli S, Cowley R, Kizu S, Boyer T, Reseghetti F, Castelao G, Gouretski V, Cheng L, 2024: DC_OCEAN: an open-source algorithm for identification of duplicates in ocean databases. Front. Mar. Sci. 11.
2024 Earth System Science Data
This paper is about the release of the IAP temperature grid data (version 4)
Citation: Cheng, L., Pan, Y., Tan, Z., Zheng, H., Zhu, Y., Wei, W., Du, J., Yuan, H., Li, G., Ye, H., Gouretski, V., Li, Y., Trenberth, K., Abraham, J., Jin, Y., Reseghetti, F., Lin, X., Zhang, B., Chen, G., Mann, M., and Zhu, J., 2024: IAPv4 ocean temperature and ocean heat content gridded dataset, Earth Syst. Sci. Data.
2023 Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers
This paper is about the development of the ocean data quality control algorithm (CODC-QC)
Citation: Tan Z, Cheng L*, Gouretski V, Zhang B, Wang Y, Li F, Liu Z, and Zhu J., 2023: A new automatic quality control system for ocean profile observations and impact on ocean warming estimate. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 194, 103961
2022 Scientia Sinica Terrae
This paper is about the review of quality control for ocean observations
Citation: Tan, Z., B. Zhang, X. Wu, M. Dong, L. Cheng*, 2021: Quality control for ocean observations: From present to future. Scientia Sinica Terrae
2021 Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
This paper is about the advance of instrument correction scheme of XBT data
Citation: Tan Z., Reseghetti F*, Abraham J, Cowley R, Chen K, Zhu J, Zhang B, Cheng L, 2021: Examining the Influence of Recording System on the Pure Temperature Error in XBT Data. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 38, 759-776.