B.S. (Mechanical Engineering), 1965, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
M.S. (Mechanical Engineering), 1970, SUNY at Buffalo
D. Eng. Sci. (Mechanical Engineering), 1973, Columbia University
Professor Wang has a broad background in atmospheric radiative transfer, climate modeling, and climate data analysis. His research focuses on global and regional climate change due to increases of the atmospheric constituents of greenhouse gases, CO2, O3, CH4, N2O, and CFCs, and particles associated with human activities. Prof. Wang has been using a global climate model for understanding the physical and chemical processes concerning the greenhouse effect and stratospheric ozone depletion and for assessing future regional climate changes. He is also engaged in research evaluating the effect and impact of climatic changes on social and economic activities and their policy implications. His research has been funded by U.S. federal agencies including FAA, NASA, DOE, NSF, and AFGL, and by private industry including the Electric Power Research Institute and Chemical Manufacturers Association. In addition to conducting climate research, Professor Wang teaches graduate courses and is very active in graduate education related to global change.
On the international level, he has been an active participant in the United Nations sponsored environmental studies, such as the World Meteorological Organization's Ozone Assessment and the United Nations Environmental Programme's Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Changes. He has organized several international workshops focusing on the issues related to atmospheric ozone and greenhouse gases. Professor Wang has contributed significantly to the scientific exchanges between the United States and the People's Republic of China. He is the U.S. Chief Scientist for three joint research efforts with China; two sponsored by the U. S. Department of Energy and one by the National Science Foundation.
Prof. Wang has over one hundred publications in refereed journals and books, including Science and Nature. A few selected publications of recent years are:
Liang, X.-Z. and W.-C. Wang, 1997: Effect of cloud overlap on GCM climate simulations. J. Geophys. Res., 102, 11,039-11,047.
Liang, X.-Z., K. R. Sperber, W.-C. Wang, and A. N. Samel, 1997: Predictability of SST forced climate signals in two atmospheric general circulation models. Climate Dynamics, 13, 391-415.
Zhang, Y. and W.-C. Wang, 1997: Model simulated northern winter cyclone and anticyclone activity under a greenhouse warming scenario. J. Climate, 10, 1616-1634.
Cess, R. D. (with 36 co-authors), 1997: Comparison of atmospheric general circulation models to satellite observations of the seasonal change in cloud radiative forcing. J. Geophys. Res., 102, 16,593-16,603.
Zhao, Z., Y. Luo, R. Leung, S. Ghan, W.-C. Wang, and H.-L. Wei, 1997: Simulation of summer monsoon over East Asia: Intercomparisons of three regional climate models. Quart. J. Appl. Meteoro., 8, 116-122. (in Chinese)
Wang, W.-C., H.-H. Hsu, W.-S. Kau, X.-Z. Liang, LinHo, C.-T. Chen, A. N. Samel, C.-H. Tsou, P.-H. Lin, and K.-C. Ko, 1998: GCM simulations of the east Asia climate. 473-482. Proceedings of the Third East Asia-West Pacific Meteorology and Climate Conference, (Ed.) C.-P. Chang, World Scientific Publication, Corp. pp562.
Wei, H., C. Fu, and W.-C. Wang, 1998: The effect of lateral boundary treatment of regional climate model on the East Asian summer monsoon rainfall simulation. Sci. Atmos. Sinica., 22, 779-790. (in Chinese)
Liang, X.-Z. and W.-C. Wang, 1998: Associations between China monsoon rainfall and tropospheric jets. Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 124, 2597-2623.
Liang, X.-Z. and W.-C. Wang, 1998: The observed fingerprint of 1980-1997 ENSO evolution in the NCAR CSM equilibrium simulation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 1027-1030.
Samel, A.N., W.-C. Wang, and X.-Z. Liang, 1999: The monsoon rainfall period and interannual variability over China. J. Climate, 12, 115-131.
Fuglestvedt, J., T. K. Berntsen, I. S. A. Isaksen, H. Mao, X.-Z. Liang, and W.-C. Wang, 1999: Climatic forcing of nitrogen oxides through changes in tropospheric ozone and methane: Global 3-D model studies. Atmos. Environ., 33, 961-977.
Leung, L.R., S.J. Ghan, Z.-C. Zhao, Y. Luo, W.-C. Wang, and H.-L. Wei,, 1999: Intercomparison of regional climate simulations of the 1991 summer monsoon in East Asia, J. Geophys. Res. 104, 6425-6454.
Joseph, E. and W,-C. Wang, 1999: An interactive cirrus cloud radiative parameterization for global climate models. J. Geophys. Res., 104, 9501-9515.
Wei, H. and W.-C. Wang, 1999: A regional climate model simulation of summer monsoon over East Asia: A case study of 1991 flood in Yantgze-Huai River Valley. Adv. Atmos. Sci., 15, 489-509.
Prather, M. (with W.-C. Wang and eleven other authors), 1999: Chapter 6. Potential climate change from aviation. 185-216, In Aviation and the Global Atmosphere, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press. Pp373.
Wang, W.-C., W. Gong, and H. Wei, 2000: A regional model simulations of 1991 severe precipitation event over Yantze-Huai river valley. Part I: Precipitation and circulation statistics. J. Climate, 13, 74-92.
Gong, W. and W.-C. Wang, 2000: A regional model simulation of 1991 severe precipitation event over Yangtze-Huai river valley. Part II: Model bias. J. Climate, 13, 93-108.
Riches, M. R., W.-C. Wang, P.-Q. Chen, S.-Y. Tao, S.-G. Zhou, and Y.-H. Ding, 2000: The Joint Agreements on "Global and Regional Climate Change" Studies Between the United States and the Peoples Republic of China. Bull. Am. Meteo. Soc., 81, 491-500.
Wong, S. and W.-C. Wang, 2000: Inter-hemispheric asymmetry in the seasonal variation of the zonal mean tropopause. J. Geophys. Res. (accepted)
Liang, X.-Z., W.-C. Wang, and A. N. Samel, 2000: Biases in AMIP simulations of the East China monsoon system. Climate Dynamics (accepted)