Research Interests: Kuroshio-Ryukyu Current System, Seasonal to Century Timescales Ocean Variability, Climate Variability, Response of Northwestern Pacific Ocean to Climate Changes

Ph.D. (March 2016)
Department of Natural History Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Japan

M. Sc. (March 2013)
Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima University, Japan

B. Sc., (March 2011)
College of Marine Engineering, Dalian Ocean University, China

National Natural Science Foundation of China
RMB 240,000 Yuan (January 2020-December 2022)
Observational study on the deep circulation in the northern South China Sea

Scientific Research Fund of the State Key Laboratory of SOED, SIO
RMB 200,000 Yuan (January 2022-December 2023)
Interactions between mesoscale eddies and the Ryukyu Current

Scientific Research Fund of SIO
RMB 100,000 Yuan (July 2016-June 2018)
Tempo-Spatial variations, process and variation mechanisms of the Kuroshio-Ryukyu Current System

Zhao-Jun Liu, Xiao-Hua Zhu, Hirohiko Nakamura, Ayako Nishina, Min Wang, Hua Zheng (2021), Comprehensive observational features for the Kuroshio transport decreasing trend during a recent global warming hiatus, Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL094169.

Zhao-Jun Liu, Xiao-Hua Zhu, Min Wang, Minmo Chen, Hua Zheng, Hirohiko Nakamura, Ayako Nishina, Jae-Hun Park (2020), Variability of the Deep Overflow through the Kerama Gap Revealed by Observational Data and Global Ocean Reanalysis, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 8(6): 0-402.

Zhao-Jun Liu, Hirohiko Nakamura, Xiao-Hua Zhu, Ayako Nishina, Xinyu Guo, Menghong Dong (2019), Tempo-Spatial Variations of the Kuroshio Current in the Tokara Strait Based on Long-Term Ferryboat ADCP Data, Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 124(8): 6030-6049.

Zhao-Jun Liu, Hirohiko Nakamura, Xiao-Hua Zhu, Ayako Nishina, Menghong Dong (2017), Tidal and residual currents across the northern Ryukyu Island chain observed by ferryboat ADCP, Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 122(9): 7198-7217.

Zhao-Jun Liu, Shoshiro Minobe, Yoshi N. Sasaki, Mio Terada (2016), Dynamical downscaling of future sea level change in the western North Pacific using ROMS, Journal of Oceanography, 72(6): 905-922.

Zhao-Jun Liu, Hanna Na, Hirohiko Nakamura, Ayako Nishina, Jae-Hun Park, Karen Tracey, Mark Wimbush (2012), Kerama Gap 2009-2011 data report, GSO Tech. Rep. 2012-02, 34pp., Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, R. I.

Hua Zheng, Xiao-Hua Zhu, Chuanzheng Zhang, Ruixiang Zhao, Ze-Nan Zhu, Zhao-Jun Liu (2021), Propagation of Topographic Rossby Waves in the Deep Basin of the South China Sea Based on Abyssal Current, Journal of Physical Oceanography, DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-21-0051.1

Hua Zheng, Chuanzheng Zhang, Ruixiang Zhao, Xiao-Hua Zhu, Ze-Nan Zhu, Zhao-Jun Liu, Min Wang (2021), Structure and variability of abyssal current in Northern South China Sea based on CPIES observations, Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 126(4), e2020JC016780.

Ru-Xue Cao, Zhao-Jun Liu, Xiao-Hua Zhu (2021), Overview of studies on the dynamics of the dipole off eastern Vietnam and their mechanisms, Marine Sciences. (in Chinese).

Minmo Chen, Zenan Zhu, Chuangzheng Zhang, Xiao-Hua Zhu, Zhao-Jun Liu, Arata Kaneko (2021), Observational of internal tides in the Qiongzhou Strait by Coastal Acoustic Tomography, Journal of Ocean University of China, 20 (5): 1037-1045.

Min Wang, Zhao-Jun Liu, Xiao-Hua Zhu, Xiaomei Yan, Zhongzhe Zhang, Ruixiang Zhao (2019), Origin and formation of the Ryukyu Current revealed by HYCOM reanalysis, Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 38(11): 1-10.

Hirohiko Nakamura, Ayako Nishina, Zhao-Jun Liu, Fumiyo Tanaka, Mark Wimbush, Jae-Hun Park (2013), Intermediate and deep water formation in the Okinawa Trough, Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 118: 1-13.