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Dr. Junwei Zhao

Research Associate
Solar Observatories Group
Stanford University
Tel: (650)725-9549
Office: Poplar 117
email: junwei at quake.stanford.edu

Dr. Junwei Zhao
Poplar 117, HEPL
491 South Service Road
Stanford, CA94305-4085

Research Interests

  • Involved in SOHO/MDI project and SDO/HMI project
  • Helioseismology and time-distance helioseismology
  • Solar interior structures, rotations and meridional flows
  • Subsurface structures and flow fields beneath active regions, and their connection with solar eruptions
  • Imaging of solar far-side active regions

  • Selected Recent Publcations

    For a full list of my peer reviewed publications, please see My ResearcherID
  • Švanda, M., Kosovichev, A. G., & Zhao, J. 2007, "Speed of Meridional Flows and Magnetic Flux Transport of the Sun", Astrophy. J. Lett., 670, L69 [link to ADS]
  • Zhao, J. 2007, "Time-Distance Imaging of Solar Far-Side Active Regions", Astrophy. J. Lett., 664, L139 [link to ADS]
  • Zhao, J., Georgobiani, D., Kosovichev, A. G., Benson, D., Stein, R. F., Nordlund, Å. 2007, "Validation of Time-Distance Helioseismology by Use of Realistic Simulations of Solar Convection", Astrophy. J., 659, 848 [link to ADS]
  • Georgobiani, D., Zhao, J., Kosovichev, A. G., Benson, D., Stein, R. F., Nordlund, Å. 2007, "Local Helioseismology and Correlation Tracking Analysis of Surface Structures in Realistic Simulations of Solar Convection", Astrophy. J., 657, 1157 [link to ADS]
  • Zhao, J., & Kosovichev, A. G. 2006, "Surface Magnetism Effects in Time-Distance Helioseismology", Astrophy. J., 643, 1317 [link to ADS]
  • Zhao, J., Kosovichev, A. G., & Duvall, T. L., Jr. 2004, "On the Relationship between the Rotational Velocity and the Field Strength of Solar Magnetic Elements", Astrophy. J. Lett., 607, L135 [link to ADS]
  • Zhao, J., & Kosovichev, A. G. 2004, "Torsional Oscillation, Meridional Flows, and Vorticity Inferred in the Upper Convection Zone of the Sun by Time-Distance Helioseismology", Astrophy. J., 603, 776 [link to ADS]
  • Zhao, J., & Kosovichev, A. G. 2003, "Helioseismic Observation of the Structure and Dynamics of a Rotating Sunspot Beneath the Solar Surface", Astrophy. J., 591, 446 [link to ADS]
  • Zhao, J., Kosovichev, A. G., & Duvall, T. L., Jr. 2001, "Investigation of Mass Flows beneath a Sunspot by Time-Distance Helioseismology", Astrophy. J., 557, 384 [link to ADS]

  • Some Links

  • SOHO mission
  • Big Bear Observatory's active region monitor
  • NATURE
  • SCIENCE magazine
  • Astrophysical Journal
  • My Photo Album
  • Jessica S. Zhao's Album