Yurui Zhang

Associate Professor
Research fields：Paleoceanography & paleoclimatology

Address： Room C3-116, Xiping Building,Xiamen University Xiang’an Campus, Xiamen 361102, China
Email：yuruizhang@xmu.edu.cn

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Brief CV 

2021.01 — Associated Professor in Xiamen University  

2018.01 —2020.04: post-doc in IFRMER & Université de Bretagne Occidentale (Brest), France

2017.10 —2017.12: post-doc in University of Helsinki, Finland.

2014.06 —2017.11: Joint-PhD, VU Amsterdam University, the Netherlands.
2013.09 —2017.09: PhD, University of Helsinki, Finland.

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Research Interests

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Selected Publications

Zhang, Y., Grima, N., Huck, T. 2021 Fates of northward-flowing Southern Ocean deepwater during the early Eocene―based on Lagrangian analysis on IPSL simulation, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 36, e2019PA003845.

Zhang, Y., Huck, T., Lique, C., Donnadieu, Y., Ladant, JB. Rabineau, M., Aslanian, D. 2020 Early Eocene vigorous ocean overturning and its contribution to a warm Southern Ocean. Clim. Past. 16, 1263–1283.

Zhang, Y., Renssen, H., Seppä, H., Valdes, PJ, Li J. 2020 Spatial contrasts of Holocene wetness across East Asia. Quaternary Science Review. 227, 106036

Masters, J., Genin, F., Zhang, Y., Pellen, R., Thierry, H., Mazza, P., Marina Rabineau, M., Aslanian, D. 2020 Biogeographic mechanisms involved in the colonisation of Madagascar by terrestrial vertebrates: rifting, rafting and runways. jbi.1432

J. C. Masters, F. Génin, R. Pellen, P. P. A. Mazza, Y. Zhang, T. Huck, M. Rabineau, and D. Aslanian. Geo-dispersal as a Biogeographic Mechanism for Cenozoic Exchanges between Madagascar and Africa. [book chapter] The Natural History of Madagascar edited by Steve Goodman and Jonathan Benstead. (in press).

Zhang, Y., Renssen, H., Seppä H. 2016 Effects of melting ice sheets and orbital forcing on the early Holocene warming in the extratropical Northern Hemisphere, Clim. Past, 12, 1119–1135.

Zhang, Y., Renssen, H., Seppä, H., Valdes, PJ. 2017 Holocene temperature evolution in the Northern Hemisphere high latitudes – data-model comparisons, Quaternary Science Reviews. 173, 101–113.

Zhang, Y., Renssen, H., Seppä, H., Valdes, PJ. 2018 Holocene temperature trends in the extratropical Northern Hemisphere based on inter-model comparisons. J Quaternary Science, 33, 464–476.

Kuosmanen, N., Marquer, L., Tallavaara, M., Molinari, C., Zhang, Y., Alenius, T., Edinborough, K., Pesonen, P., Reitalu, T., Renssen, H., and Seppä, H. 2018. The role of climate, forest fires and human population size in Holocene vegetation dynamics in Fennoscandia. J Vegetation Science, 1–11.