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Qihua Peng

Associate Professor

Email: qpeng@nju.edu.cn
Website: https://qihuapengclimate.github.io/

Career Overview

Qihua Peng is an Associate Professor at the School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, where he also holds the title of Zhicheng Young Professor and serves as a doctoral advisor. He is a recipient of a national young talent program in China. His research centers on air–sea interaction, ocean dynamics, and climate change, with a particular focus on uncovering new dynamical mechanisms of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and understanding how global warming affects the ocean–atmosphere system. As first author, he has published several papers in leading international journals, including Nature Climate Change, Nature Geoscience, Nature Communications, and Science Advances. His work has been recognized as ESI Hot Papers and Highly Cited Papers, and has been featured by major international media outlets such as Science, NASA, CBS, and NPR. His research has been selected as one of the “Top Ten Scientific and Technological Advances in Oceanography and Limnology in China,” and his doctoral dissertation received the Chinese Academy of Sciences Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, an honor granted to only 100 dissertations nationwide each year. He acts as a reviewer for a number of leading journals, including Nature, Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Journal of Climate, and Geophysical Research Letters.

I am currently recruiting postdoctoral researchers, Ph.D. students, and master's students. Please feel free to contact me via email (qpeng@nju.edu.cn) if you are interested in joining our team.

Education

2013 - 2019	Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2016 - 2018	Joint Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
2009 - 2013	B.Sc. in Ocean Science, Nanjing University

Employment

2026 - present	Associate Professor, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University
2021 - 2025	Postdoctoral Researcher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
2019 - 2021	Assistant Research Scientist, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Research Interests

Air-sea interaction; El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO); Climate change; Ocean dynamics

Publications

Peng, Q., Xie, S. P., Miyamoto, A., Deser, C., Zhang, P., & Luongo, M. T. (2025). Strong 2023–2024 El Niño generated by ocean dynamics. Nature Geoscience, 1-8.

Peng, Q., Xie, S.-P., & Deser, C., (2024). Collapsed upwelling weakens ENSO under sustained warming beyond the 21^st century. Nature Climate Change, 14(8), 815-822.

Peng, Q., Xie, S.-P., Passalacqua, G., Miyamoto A., & Deser, C., (2024). The 2023 extreme coastal El Niño: Atmospheric and air-sea coupling mechanisms. Science Advances, 10(12).

Peng, Q., Xie, S.-P., Huang R., Wang, W., Zu, T., & Wang, D. (2023). Indonesian Throughflow slowdown under global warming: Remote AMOC effect vs. regional surface forcing. Journal of Climate, 36(5),1301-1318.

Peng, Q., Xie, S.-P., Wang, D., Huang R., Chen G., Shu Y., et al. (2022). Surface warming–induced global acceleration of upper ocean currents. Science Advances, 8(16).

Peng, Q., Xie, S.-P., Wang, D., Kamae, Y., Zhang, H., Hu, S., et al. (2020). Eastern Pacific wind effect on the evolution of El Niño: Implications for ENSO diversity. Journal of Climate, 33(8), 3197-3212.

Peng, Q., Xie, S.-P., Wang, D., Zheng, X.-T., & Zhang, H. (2019). Coupled ocean-atmosphere dynamics of the 2017 extreme coastal El Niño. Nature Communications, 10(1), 298.

Xie, S.-P., Peng, Q.#(co-first author), Kamae, Y., Zheng, X.-T., Tokinaga, H., & Wang, D. (2018). Eastern Pacific ITCZ dipole and ENSO diversity. Journal of Climate, 31(11), 4449-4462.

Peng, Q., Huang, R.-X., Wang, W., & Wang, D. (2020). The main heaving modes in the Pacific Ocean. Journal of Tropical Oceanography, 39(2), 1-10.

Zheng, X., Long, S., Zhou Z.Q., Peng, Q., Wang C. (Trans.) (2025). Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics: From El Niño to Climate Change (Chinese Edition). Science Press.

Chen, T., Wang, D., Huang, K. and Peng, Q., 2025. Distinct phase-locked local and remote forcing deepens the summer thermocline in the Southern Bay of Bengal. Ocean Dynamics, 75(11), 95.

Ren Q., Xie, S. P., Peng, Q., Li Y., & Wang F. (2025). Equatorial Atlantic mid-depth warming indicates Atlantic meridional overturning circulation slowdown. Communications Earth & Environment, 6, 819.

Cheng, L., ... Peng, Q., ... & Yuan, H. (2025). Ocean stratification in a warming climate. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 1-19.

Shu, Y., Lu, X., Xia, R., Peng, Q., & Wang, D. (2025). Heaving induced by PDO driving abyssal water decadal variability in the Eastern Philippine Sea. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(19), e2025GL116364.

Taylor, B. A., Shi, J. R., Xie, S. P., Talley, L. D., Luongo, M. T., & Peng, Q. (2025). Warming Band in Southern Ocean’s Indian Sector: The Role of Remote Atlantic Buoyancy Forcing via Poleward-Shifting Circulation Response. Journal of Climate, 38(14), 3219-3238.

Luongo, M. T., Xie, S. P., Eisenman, I., Sun, S., & Peng, Q. (2025). How the Subsurface Tropical Pacific Responds to Subtropical Surface Cooling: Implications for Cross-Equatorial Transport. Journal of Climate.

Luo, X., Yang, L., Chan, J.C., Chen, S., Peng, Q., & Wang, D., (2024). China coasts facing more tropical cyclone risks during the second decaying summer of double-year La Niña events. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 7(1), 198.

Zhou, X., Zhou, W., Wang, D., Xie, Q., Yang, L. and Peng, Q., (2024). Westerlies Affecting the Seasonal Variation of Water Vapor Transport over the Tibetan Plateau Induced by Tropical Cyclones in the Bay of Bengal. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 41(5), 881-893.

Wang, S., Jing, Z., Wu, L., Sun, S., Peng, Q., Wang, H., et al. (2023). Southern hemisphere eastern boundary upwelling systems emerging as future marine heatwave hotspots under greenhouse warming. Nature Communications, 14(1), 28.

Li, Y., Xie, S.P., Lian, T., Zhang, G., Feng, J., Ma, J., Peng, Q., Wang, W., Hou, Y. and Li, X., (2023). Interannual variability of regional Hadley circulation and El Niño interaction. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(4), e2022GL102016.

Chu, X., & Peng, Q. (2023). The role of alongshore wind and ocean wave in generating the northward Somali Current. Journal of Tropical Oceanography, 42(2), 1-8.

Chen, G., Huang, R. X., Peng, Q., & Chu, X. (2022). A time-dependent Sverdrup relation and its application to the Indian Ocean. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 52(6), 1233-1244.

Liang, Z., Zeng, L., Wang, Q., Peng, Q., & Wang, D. (2022). Interpretation of interannual variability of the zonal contrasting thermal conditions in the winter South China Sea. Climate Dynamics, 1-19.

Zhang, Y., Yu, S.-Y., Xie, S.-P., Amaya, D. J., Peng, Q., Kosaka, Y., et al. (2022). Role of ocean dynamics in equatorial Pacific decadal variability. Climate Dynamics, 59(7-8), 2517-2529.

Zhong, Q., Chen, G., Li, Y., Peng, Q., & Chu, X. (2022). Intraseasonal variability of the surface zonal current in the equatorial Indian Ocean: Seasonal differences and causes. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 41(5), 12-26.

Shi, J.-R., Talley, L. D., Xie, S.-P., Peng, Q., & Liu, W. (2021). Ocean warming and accelerating Southern Ocean zonal flow. Nature Climate Change.

Zeng, L., Chen, G., Huang, K., Chen, J., He, Y., Zhou, F., Yang, Y., Liang, Z., Peng, Q., Shi, R. and Gamage, T.P., (2021). A decade of eastern tropical Indian Ocean Observation Network (TIOON). Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102(10), E2034-E2052.