Jun-Hong Liang headshotJun-Hong Liang

Position: Associate Professor, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences, (Center for Computation and Technology)

Phone: 225-578-7031

E-mail: [email protected] 

Office: 3137 ECE Building

Bachelor's Degree(s): B.Sc., Mechanics, Zhongshan University

Master's Degrees(s): M.Phil. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Ph.D.(s): Ph.D. Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Website

Research Interests

Physical Oceanography; Ocean Biogeochemical Dynamis; Ocean modeling

Classes Taught

OCS1005/1006 Introduction to Oceanography
OCS2007 Introduction to Marine Science: Geological and Physical
OCS4170 Physical Oceanography

Awards and Honors

NSF CAREER Award, 2020-2025
LSU Alumni Associate Rising Faculty Research Award, 2020
UCLA AOS Jacob Bjerknes Award, 2010
NASA Earth System Science Fellowship, 2008-2011

Recent Publications

Google Scholar Profile

Liang, J. H., Yuan, J., Wan, X., Liu, J., Liu, B., Jang, H., & Tyagi, M. (2022). Exploring the use of machine learning to parameterize vertical mixing in the ocean surface boundary layer. Ocean Modelling, 176, 102059. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1463500322000890

Liang, J. H., Liu, J., Benfield, M., Justic, D., Holstein, D., and co-authors (2021). Including the effects of subsurface currents on buoyant particles in Lagrangian particle tracking models: Model development and its application to the study of riverborne plastics over the Louisiana/Texas shelf. Ocean Modelling, 167, 101879. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1463500321001323

Abolfazli, E., Liang, J. H., Fan, Y., Chen, Q. J., Walker, N. D., & Liu, J. (2020). Surface gravity waves and their role in ocean‐atmosphere coupling in the Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125(7), e2018JC014820. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018JC014820 

Liu, J., Liang, J. H., Xu, K., Chen, Q., & Ozdemir, C. E. (2019). Modeling sediment flocculation in Langmuir turbulence. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124(11), 7883-7907. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019JC015197

Liang, J. H., D'Asaro, E. A., McNeil, C. L., Fan, Y., Harcourt, R. R., Emerson, S. R., Yang, B., & Sullivan, P. P. (2020). Suppression of CO2 outgassing by gas bubbles under a hurricane. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(18), e2020GL090249.

Liu, J., Liang, J. H., Xu, K., Chen, Q., & Ozdemir, C. E. (2019). Modeling sediment flocculation in Langmuir turbulence. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124(11), 7883-7907.

Abolfazli, E., Liang, J. H., Fan, Y., Chen, Q. J., Walker, N. D., & Liu, J. Surface Gravity Waves and Their Role in Ocean‐Atmosphere Coupling in the Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125, e2018JC014820.

Fan, Y., Yu, Z., Savelyev, I., Sullivan, P. P., Liang, J. -H., Haack, T., Terrill, E., de Paolo, Tony, Shearman, K. (2020). The effect of Langmuir turbulence under complex real oceanic and meteorological forcing. Ocean Modelling, 149.

Gao, X., Dong, C., Liang, J., Yang, J., Li, G., Wang, D., McWilliams, J. C. (2019). Convective instability-induced mixing and its parameterization using large eddy simulation. Ocean Modelling, 137, 40-51.

Liu, J., Liang, J.-H., Xu, K., Chen, Q. J., Ozdemir, C. (2019). Modeling Sediment Flocculation in Langmuir Turbulence. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124(11), 7883-7907.

Dai, H.-J., McWilliams, J. C., Liang, J.-H (2019). Wave-driven mesoscale currents in a marginal ice zone. Ocean Modelling, 134, 1-17.

Liu, J., Liang, J. -H., McWilliams, J. C., Sullivan, P. P., Fan, Y., Chen, Q. J. (2018). Effect of Planetary Rotation on Oceanic Surface Boundary Layer Turbulence. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 48(9), 2057-2080.

Liang, J. -H., Wan, X., Rose, K. A., Sullivan, P. P., McWilliams, J. C. (2018). Horizontal Dispersion of Buoyant Materials in the Ocean Surface Boundary Layer. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 48(9), 2103-2125.

Fan, Y., Jarosz, E., Yu, Z., Rogers, W. E., Jensen, T. G., Liang, J. -H. (2018). Langmuir turbulence in horizontal salinity gradient. Ocean Modelling, 129, 93-103.

Cram, J. A., Weber, T., Leung, S. W., McDonnell, Andrew M. P., Liang, J. -H., Deutsch, C. (2018). The Role of Particle Size, Ballast, Temperature, and Oxygen in the Sinking Flux to the Deep Sea. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 32(5), 858-876.

Liang, J. -H., Emerson, S., D'Asaro, E. A., McNeil, C. L., Haircourt, R. R., Sullivan, P. P., Yang, B., Cronin, M. F. (2017). On the role of sea-state in bubble-mediated air-sea gas flux during a winter storm. Journal of Geophysical Research (Oceans), 122(4), 2671-2685.

Renault, L., Deutsch, C., McWilliams, J. C., Frenzel, H., Liang, J. -H., Colas, F. (2016). Partial decoupling of primary productivity from upwelling in the California Current System. Nature Geoscience, 11, 5381-5398.

DeVries, T., Liang, J. -H., Deutsch, C. (2014). A mechanistic particle flux model applied to the oceanic phosphorus cycle. Biogeosciences, 11(19), 5381 - 5398.

McWilliams, J. C., Huckle, E., Liang, J., Sullivan, P. P. (2014). Langmuir Turbulence in Swell. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 44(3), 870 - 890.