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  1. Surface water pCO2 and air-sea fluxes in the southeastern coast of Mainland China: Synthesis of a 22-year dataset of field observation

    Article • Progress In Oceanography, January 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  2. Combining summertime freshwater inputs and oxygen consumption impacts on coastal low aragonite saturation state: Case of the Pearl River Estuary, South China

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, October 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  3. Potential buffering capacity of naturally distributed carbonate minerals against future rises in atmospheric CO2 and coastal acidification: the Yellow Sea and three major estuaries in China

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, October 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  4. A stable-carbon-isotope-based constraint of bulk particulate organic carbon dynamics and budgets in the Yellow Sea: Combining field surveys and isotope fractionation modeling

    Article • Progress In Oceanography, August 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  5. Microbial responses to ocean deoxygenation: Revisiting the impacts on organic carbon cycling

    Article • iScience, July 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  6. The Yellow Sea always serves as a weak sink of atmospheric CO2 during 2000s - 2010s

    Article • Progress In Oceanography, June 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  7. Effects of flood and cold wave on interannnual variations in coastal stable carbon isotope

    Article • Marine Chemistry, March 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  8. Pacific Ocean–originated anthropogenic carbon and its long-term variations in the South China Sea

    Article • Science Advances, September 2024, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  9. Contribution of phytoplankton cell death to settleable particulate organic carbon

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, April 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  10. The Bohai Sea proper acts as a very weak net CO2-absorbing area on an annual scale

    Article • Continental Shelf Research, April 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  11. Bohai Sea eutrophication mitigation in the 2010s

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, December 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  12. Identifying algal cell viability based on digital holography and deep learning

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, April 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  13. Legacy Effects of Late Macroalgal Blooms on Dissolved Inorganic Carbon Pool through Alkalinity Enhancement in Coastal Ocean

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, January 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  14. Temperature is a better predictor of stable carbon isotopic compositions in marine particulates than dissolved CO2 concentration

    Article • Communications Earth & Environment, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  15. Anthropogenic CO2 in the Philippine Sea, northwestern Pacific: Distribution, storage, and decadal variations

    Article • Progress In Oceanography, September 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  16. δ13C_DIC dynamics were coupled with seasonal hypoxia in the central Bohai Sea

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, September 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  17. Coupling biological–physical oceanographic processes on POM dynamics in the South Yellow Sea

    Article • Frontiers in Marine Science, August 2022, Frontiers

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  18. A nitrate budget of the Bohai Sea based on an isotope mass balance model

    Article • Biogeosciences, May 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  19. Coupling AOU and DIC in the South Yellow Sea cold water mass from spring to autumn

    Article • Frontiers in Marine Science, May 2022, Frontiers

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  20. Surface pCO2 in the Kuroshio Extension and its recirculation regions in late spring 2018

    Article • Acta Oceanologica Sinica, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  21. The role of subtropical mode water transportation in redistributing anthropogenic CO2

    Article • Fundamental Research, May 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  22. Acidification in the seasonally stratified North Yellow Sea over the past 40 years

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, April 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  23. Seasonal Variability and Future Projection of Ocean Acidification on the East China Sea Shelf off the Changjiang Estuary

    Article • Frontiers in Marine Science, December 2021, Frontiers

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  24. Understanding the eutrophication in the Bohai and Yellow seas

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, November 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  25. Reconstructing coastal subsurface Ωarag values from common hydrochemical data

    Article • Marine Chemistry, May 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  26. The Yellow Sea is a sink of atmospheric CO2, rather than the previously thought source

    Article • Continental Shelf Research, April 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  27. Identification of living and dead microalgae cells with digital holography and verified in the East China Sea

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, February 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  28. The carbonate system of the northern South China Sea: Seasonality and exchange with the western North Pacific

    Article • Progress In Oceanography, February 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  29. A reactive nitrogen budget of the Bohai Sea based on an isotope mass balance model

    Article • December 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  30. Supplementary material to "A reactive nitrogen budget of the Bohai Sea based on an isotope mass balance model"

    Article • December 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  31. New insight into N/P ratio and nutrient sources in the central Bohai Sea

    Article • Environmental Pollution, December 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  32. Comparing Subsurface Seasonal Deoxygenation and Acidification in the Yellow Sea and Northern East China Sea Along the North-to-South Latitude Gradient

    Article • Frontiers in Marine Science, August 2020, Frontiers

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  33. Partial pressure of CO2 and air-sea CO2 fluxes in the South China Sea: Synthesis of an 18-year dataset

    Article • Progress In Oceanography, March 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  34. Diagnosing shallow-water CH4 sources based on relationship between dissolved CH4 and oxygen

    Article • Frontiers in Marine Science, February 2020, Frontiers

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  35. Changing nutrients, dissolved oxygen and carbonate system in the Bohai and Yellow Seas, China

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  36. Carbonate fluxes discharged from Changjiang Estuary to the East China Sea, and its effects and fate

    Article • Earth and Space Science, November 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  37. Summertime Hypoxia and Acidification in the Central Bohai Sea

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, September 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  38. On the seasonal acidification from spring to autumn in the North Yellow Sea

    Article • Continental Shelf Research, September 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  39. Incorporation of Microbial Functional Traits in Biogeochemistry Models Provides Better Estimations of Benthic Denitrification and Anammox Rates in Coastal Oceans

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, October 2018, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  40. Seasonal acidification in the Yellow Sea

    Article • Science in China Series D Earth Sciences, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  41. Coupled chemical dynamics of carbonate and DIN systems in the inner Changjiang Estuary

    Article • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, October 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  42. Mechanisms of carbon storage and the coupled carbon, nitrogen and sulfur cycles in regional seas in response to global change

    Article • Science in China Series D Earth Sciences, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  43. Effects of stratification, organic matter remineralization and bathymetry on summertime oxygen distribution in the Bohai Sea, China

    Article • Continental Shelf Research, February 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  44. Reviews and Syntheses: Ocean acidification and its potential impacts on marine ecosystems

    Article • Biogeosciences, March 2016, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  45. Sediment oxygen consumption and benthic organic carbon mineralization on the continental shelves of the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea

    Article • Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography, February 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  46. Air–sea re-equilibration-implied ocean surface CO2 accumulation

    Article • Journal of Engineering Physics and Thermophysics, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  47. Aragonite corrosive water in the North Yellow Sea

    Article • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, December 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  48. Spatial distribution of dissolved cadmium in the Jiulong river–estuary system: Relevance of anthropogenic perturbation

    Article • Continental Shelf Research, December 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  49. Air–sea CO2 fluxes in the East China Sea based on multiple-year underway observations

    Article • Biogeosciences, September 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  50. Isotopic evidence on multiple sources of nitrogen in the northern Jiulong River, Southeast China

    Article • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, September 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  51. Spring and autumn living coccolithophores in the Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea, China

    Article • Acta Oceanologica Sinica, August 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Jun Sun, Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  52. Reviews and Syntheses: Ocean acidification and its potential impacts on marine ecosystems

    Article • Biogeosciences Discussions, July 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  53. Supplementary material to "Reviews and Syntheses: Ocean acidification and its potential impacts on marine ecosystems"

    Article • July 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  54. Shallow-ocean methane leakage and degassing to the atmosphere: triggered by offshore oil-gas and methane hydrate explorations

    Article • Frontiers in Marine Science, May 2015, Frontiers

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  55. Coupling the chemical dynamics of carbonate and dissolved inorganic nitrogen systems in the eutrophic and turbid inner Changjiang (Yangtze River) Estuary

    Article • Biogeosciences Discussions, April 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  56. Air–sea CO<sub>2</sub> fluxes in the East China Sea based on multiple-year underway observations

    Article • Biogeosciences Discussions, April 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  57. Supplementary material to "Air–sea CO2 fluxes in the East China Sea based on multiple-year underway observations"

    Article • April 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  58. A mechanistic semi-analytical method for remotely sensing sea surface p CO2 in river-dominated coastal oceans: A case study from the East China Sea

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, March 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  59. Phytoplankton communities and its controlling factors in summer and autumn in the southern Yellow Sea, China

    Article • Acta Oceanologica Sinica, February 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Jun Sun, Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  60. Intrusion of the Pearl River plume into the main channel of the Taiwan Strait in summer

    Article • Journal of Sea Research, January 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  61. Net subterranean estuarine export fluxes of dissolved inorganic C, N, P, Si, and total alkalinity into the Jiulong River estuary, China

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, January 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  62. Hypoxia in the upper reaches of the Pearl River Estuary and its maintenance mechanisms: A synthesis based on multiple year observations during 2000–2008

    Article • Marine Chemistry, December 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  63. Spring carbonate chemistry dynamics of surface waters in the northern East China Sea

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, September 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  64. A 1-D examination of decadal air–sea re-equilibration induced ocean surface anthropogenic CO<sub>2</sub> accumulation: present status, changes from 1960s to 2000s, and future scenarios

    Article • Biogeosciences Discussions, July 2014, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  65. Satellite views of the episodic terrestrial material transport to the southern Okinawa Trough driven by typhoon

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, July 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  66. Runoff-mediated seasonal oscillation in the dynamics of dissolved organic matter in different branches of a large bifurcated estuary-The Changjiang Estuary

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, May 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  67. Enhanced methane emissions from oil and gas exploration areas to the atmosphere – The central Bohai Sea

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, April 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  68. Seasonal variations of pH and aragonite saturation state in the North Yellow Sea

    Article • Biogeosciences, February 2014, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  69. Seasonal variations of sea–air CO2 fluxes in the largest tropical marginal sea (South China Sea) based on multiple-year underway measurements

    Article • Biogeosciences, November 2013, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  70. Some marginal seas are source of atmospheric CO2

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, May 2013, Wiley

    Prof. Zhiyu Liu, Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  71. Subsurface low pH and carbonate saturation state of aragonite on China side of the North Yellow Sea: combined effects of global atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> increase, regional environmental changes, and local biogeochemical processes

    Article • Biogeosciences Discussions, February 2013, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  72. Occurrences of dissolved trace metals (Cu, Cd, and Mn) in the Pearl River Estuary (China), a large river-groundwater-estuary system

    Article • Continental Shelf Research, December 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  73. On the variations of sea surfacepCO2in the northern South China Sea: A remote sensing based neural network approach

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, August 2012, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  74. Photo-production of dissolved inorganic carbon from dissolved organic matter in contrasting coastal waters in the southwestern Taiwan Strait, China

    Article • Journal of Environmental Sciences, July 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  75. Distribution, fluxes and decadal changes of nutrients in the Jiulong River Estuary, Southwest Taiwan Strait

    Article • Chinese Science Bulletin, April 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  76. Nutrient dynamics and biological consumption in a large continental shelf system under the influence of both a river plume and coastal upwelling

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography, March 2012, Wiley

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  77. Coastal acidification in summer bottom oxygen-depleted waters in northwestern-northern Bohai Sea from June to August in 2011

    Article • Chinese Science Bulletin, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  78. Acidification of subsurface coastal waters enhanced by eutrophication

    Article • Nature Geoscience, October 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Steven Lohrenz, Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  79. Dynamics of the carbonate system in a large continental shelf system under the influence of both a river plume and coastal upwelling

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, May 2011, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  80. Cyclone-driven deep sea injection of freshwater and heat by hyperpycnal flow in the subtropics

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, November 2010, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai, Dr. JINYU Terence YANG

  81. Distribution, degradation and dynamics of dissolved organic carbon and its major compound classes in the Pearl River estuary, China

    Article • Marine Chemistry, April 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  82. On the seasonal variation of air – sea CO2 fluxes in the outer Changjiang (Yangtze River) Estuary, East China Sea

    Article • Marine Chemistry, December 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  83. Coupling of surface pCO2 and dissolved oxygen in the northern South China Sea: impacts of contrasting coastal processes

    Article • Biogeosciences, November 2009, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  84. CO2flux and seasonal variability in a large subtropical estuarine system, the Pearl River Estuary, China

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, September 2009, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  85. Satellite-derived surface water pCO2 and air–sea CO2 fluxes in the northern South China Sea in summer

    Article • Progress in Natural Science Materials International, June 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  86. Diurnal variations of surface seawater pCO2 in contrasting coastal environments

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography, May 2009, Wiley

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  87. Short-term dynamics of nutrients influenced by upwelling in a small oligotrophic coastal ecosystem, Gan Bay, in the northwest Philippines

    Article • Progress in Natural Science Materials International, May 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  88. Nitrification and inorganic nitrogen distribution in a large perturbed river/estuarine system: the Pearl River Estuary, China

    Article • Biogeosciences, September 2008, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  89. A comparative overview of weathering intensity and HCO3− flux in the world's major rivers with emphasis on the Changjiang, Huanghe, Zhujiang (Pearl) and Mississippi Rivers

    Article • Continental Shelf Research, July 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Steven Lohrenz, Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  90. Effects of an estuarine plume-associated bloom on the carbonate system in the lower reaches of the Pearl River estuary and the coastal zone of the northern South China Sea

    Article • Continental Shelf Research, July 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  91. Riverine input and air–sea CO2 exchanges near the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Estuary: Status quo and implication on possible future changes in metabolic status

    Article • Continental Shelf Research, July 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  92. Seasonal variations in the inorganic carbon system in the Pearl River (Zhujiang) estuary

    Article • Continental Shelf Research, July 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  93. Carbonate system and CO2 degassing fluxes in the inner estuary of Changjiang (Yangtze) River, China

    Article • Marine Chemistry, December 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  94. Erratum to “The partial pressure of carbon dioxide and air–sea fluxes in the northern South China Sea in spring, summer and autumn” [Marine Chemistry 96 (2005) 87–97]

    Article • Marine Chemistry, January 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  95. Oxygen depletion in the upper reach of the Pearl River estuary during a winter drought

    Article • Marine Chemistry, November 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  96. The partial pressure of carbon dioxide and air–sea fluxes in the northern South China Sea in spring, summer and autumn

    Article • Marine Chemistry, August 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  97. High partial pressure of CO2 and its maintaining mechanism in a subtropical estuary: the Pearl River estuary, China

    Article • Marine Chemistry, January 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai

  98. The biogeochemistry of inorganic carbon and nutrients in the Pearl River estuary and the adjacent Northern South China Sea

    Article • Continental Shelf Research, August 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Wei-Dong Zhai