Dr. Wei Chen
Dr. Wei Chen
Hydrodynamics and Data Assimilation
ScientistPhone: +49 (0)4152 87-1509
Research Interests
• Data assimilation and Artificial Intelligence
• Circulation in shallow shelf seas
• Estuarine dynamics and physical processes
• Natural and anthropogenic impacts to the Coastal regions
• Coastal hydro-/sediment modelling
• Nature-based-solutions and coastal restoration
• Marine heatwave under climate change and its regional impacts
Current Projects
- Forecasting and observing the open-to-coastal ocean for Copernicus users (FOCCUS). The European Union’s Horizon-HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01-34
- Lab Underlying models for the European Digital Twin Ocean (EDITO-Model Lab) EU Project The European Union’s Horizon 2020 Innovation Action under grant agreement No 101093293
- Predicting risks of the German Bight coast under extreme storm events (Coast-Risks) Geesthacht, Germany Mecator Ocean (EU)
- Large scale RESToration of COASTal ecosystems through rivers to sea connectivity (REST-COAST) EU Project The European Union’s Horizon 2020 Innovation Action under grant agreement No 101037097
- Digital Earth
- ESM Advanced Earth System Modelling Capacity
- Work Experience Since 2017 - Institute of Coastal Systems Analysis and Modeling, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany
2012 - Shanghai Estuarine and Coastal Science Research Center, Ministry of Transport, China - Education PhD in Physical Oceanography (2012-2017): Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht, Utrecht University
MSc in Physical Geography (2009-2012): State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal research, East China Normal University
BSc in Applied Physics (2005-2009): College of Physics and Engineering, Zhengzhou University
- Chen, W., Staneva, J., Jacob, B., Sánchez-Artús, X., & Wurpts, A. (2024): What-if nature-based storm buffers on mitigating coastal erosion. Science of The Total Environment, Vol 928, 172247, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172247
- Chen, W., Jacob, B., Valle-Levinson, A., Stanev, E., Staneva, J., & Badewien, T.H. (2023): Subtidal secondary circulation induced by eddy viscosity-velocity shear covariance in a predominantly well-mixed tidal inlet. Front. Mar. Sci., 10:1105626, doi:10.3389/fmars.2023.1105626
- Ma, M., Zhang, W., Chen, W., Deng, J., & Schrum, C. (2023): Impacts of morphological change and sea-level rise on stratification in the Pearl River Estuary. Front. Mar. Sci., 10:1072080, doi:10.3389/fmars.2023.1072080
- Chen, W., Staneva, J., Grayek, S., Schulz-Stellenfleth, J., & Greinert, J. (2022): The role of heat wave events in the occurrence and persistence of thermal stratification in the southern North Sea. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 1683–1698, doi:10.5194/nhess-22-1683-2022
- Cheng, H.Q., Chen, W., Li, J.F., Jiang, Y.H., Hu, X., Zhang, X.L., Zhou, F.N., Hu, F.X., & Stive, M.J.F. (2022): Morphodynamic changes in the Yangtze Estuary under the impact of the Three Gorges Dam, estuarine engineering interventions and climate-induced sea level rise. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 580, 117385, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117385
- Chen, W., Schulz-Stellenfleth, J., Grayek, S., & Staneva, J. (2021): Impacts of the assimilation of satellite sea surface temperature data on volume and heat budget estimates for the North Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126, e2020JC017059, doi:10.1029/2020JC017059
- Haid, V., Stanev, E.V., Pein, J., Staneva, J., & Chen, W. (2020): Secondary circulation in shallow ocean straits: Observations and numerical modeling of the Danish Straits. Ocean Modelling, Volume 148, 101585, doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2020.101585
- H. Cheng, L. Teng, W. Chen (2019): Dune dynamics in coarse silt, sand and gravel along the main channel from the estuarine front of the Yangtze River to the Three Gorges Dam. MARID V1, 45.
- Chen, W., & Swart, H.E. de (2018): Estuarine residual flow induced by eddy viscosity-shear covariance: Dependence on axial bottom slope, tidal intensity and constituents. Continental Shelf Research, Volume 167, 1 September 2018, Pages 1-13, doi:10.1016/j.csr.2018.07.011
- Chen, W., & Swart, H.E. de (2018): Longitudinal variation in lateral trapping of fine sediment in tidal estuaries: observations and a 3D exploratory model. Ocean Dynamics, pp 1–18, doi:10.1007/s10236-018-1134-z
- Chen, W., & Swart, H.E. de (2016): Dynamic links between shape of the eddy viscosity profile and the vertical structure of tidal current amplitude in bays and estuaries. Ocean Dynamics, 66 (3), pp. 299-312, doi:10.1007/s10236-015-0919-6
- X. Zhang, J. Li, W. Zhu, H. Cheng and W. Chen (2015): The self-regulation process and its mechanism of channels’ bed changes in the Changjiang (Yangtze) Estuary in China. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 34, 123-130