PEOPLE

Chien Wang

Academic Preparation:

B.Sc.: Peking University, August 1982, graduated with honor
M.S.: Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, and the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, March 1985
Ph.D.: Department of Atmospheric Science, State University of New York at Albany, May 1992

Appointments:

Principal Research Scientist, Center for Global Change Studies of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, also with the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT, Cambridge, 2002 - present
Research Scientist, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT, Cambridge, 1994 - 2001
Postgraduate Scientist, Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 1992 - 1994
Assistant Professor, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, 1985 - 1988

Four Recent Publications:

Wang, C., G.-R. Jeong, and N. Mahowald, 2009: Particulate absorption of solar radiation: anthropogenic aerosols vs. dust, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 9, 6571-6595
Kim, D., C. Wang, A.M.L. Ekman, M. C. Barth, and P. Rasch, 2008: Distribution and direct radiative forcing of carbonaceous and sulfate aerosols in an interactive size-resolving aerosolclimate model, J. Geophy. Res., 113, D16309, doi:10.1029/2007JD009756
Wang, C. 2007: Impact of direct radiative forcing of black carbon aerosols on tropical convective precipitation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L05709, doi:10.1029/2006GL028416
Wang, C., 2005: A modeling study on the response of tropical deep convection to the increase of CCN concentration. 1. Dynamics and microphysics, J. Geophys. Res., 110, D21211, doi:10.1029/2004JD005720

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