严幼芳，博士，研究员，曾先后在香港城市大学、美国佛罗里达州立大学、挪威卑尔根大学合作访问研究，在海洋环流热力动力学和海气相互作用等领域取得了一些具有创新性的研究成果，发表研究论文 30余篇；主持国家自然科学基金项目、国家重点基础发展计划项目、中国科学院战略性先导性科技专项子专题若干项。
1. A north-south contrast of subsurface salinity anomalies in the northwestern Pacific from 2002 to 2013. Yan, Y., Svendsen, L., Wang, C., Keenlyside, N., and Xu, D., 2019. (Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC014656.
2. The effects of oceanic barrier layer on the upper ocean response to tropical cyclones. Yan Y, Li L. and Wang C（Journal of Geophysical Research, 122: 4829-4844, 2017.
3. Propagation of the subsurface freshening water and its major source in the northwestern Pacific. Yan Y*, Xu D., Yu K. and Qi Y（Journal of Geophysical Research, 8: 6857-6871, 2017.
4. Could the two anticyclonic eddies during winter 2003/2004 be reproduced and predicted in the northern South China Sea？Xu D., Zhuang W. and Yan Y*（Ocean Science, 15, 97-111, 2019.
5. Role of the South China Sea Summer Upwelling in Tropical Cyclone Intensity. Xu D., Qiu C. and Yan Y* (American Journal of Climate Change, 8, 1-13, 2019.
6. Yu, K., Qu, T. Dong C. and Yan Y., 2015. Effect of subtropical mode water on the decadal variability of the subsurface transport through the Luzon Strait in the western Pacific Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research, 120: 6829-6842.
7. Li Q., Sun L., Liu S., Xian T. and Yan Y., 2014. A new mononuclear eddy identification method with simple splitting strategies. Remote Sensing Letters, 65-72.
8. 二十年南海表层海水的盐度淡化及其机制. 傅圆圆, 程旭华, 张玉红, 严幼芳, 杜岩 (热带海洋学报, 36: 18-24, 2017, 核心刊物)
9. 热带太平洋混合层盐度季节变化、黄国平，严幼芳，齐义泉（热带气象学报, 32: 219-222, 2016, 核心刊物）
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