Pao K. Wang
Professor
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1225
Phone: (608)-263-6479
FAX: (608)-262-7482
Email: pao@windy.aos.wisc.edu
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Education
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Ph.D.(Atmospheric Sciences), 1978 --
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M.S.(Atmospheric Sciences), 1975 --
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B.S.(Atmospheric Sciences), 1971 --
Professional Society Membership
* American Meteorological Society
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American Geophysical
* American Association for the Advancement of Science
* American Association for Aerosol Research
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Royal Meteorological Society (
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Employment
* 1988-Date Professor , University of Wisconsin-Madison
* 1984-1988 Associate Professor , University of Wisconsin-Madison
* 1980-1984 Assistant Professor , University of Wisconsin-Madison
* 1980 Adjunct Assistant Professor UCLA
* 1978-1980 Research Atmospheric Physicist, UCLA
* 1973-1978 Graduate Research Meteorologist, UCLA
Professional Associations
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Chairman, Air Resources Management Program, UW-Madison (1998-2002)
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Chairman, Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic sciences, UW-Madison
(1994-1997)
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Chairman, Cloud Physics Committee, American Meteorological Society
(1991-1993)
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Chairman, Fellowship Committee (Physical Sciences), UW-Madison
(1997-2002)
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Visiting Professor, UCLA (1988),
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Visiting Professor/scientist,
University of
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Research Chair Professor,
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Advisory Committee, ICAPS (European Space Agency sponsored project)
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Scientific Committee, RCOM,
* Consulting Editor (Meteorology and Climatology), McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technolohy
* Topic Editor (Geophysics), Il Nuovo Cimento C.
* Editor, European Physical Journal Plus
* Associate Editor, Atmospheric Research
* International Advisory Board, Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
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Advisory Committee, Environmental
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Panelist, NSF Major Research Instrumentation Program
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Panelist, EPA Scientific Review Panel - Atmospheric Physics &
Chemistry (since 1982)
* Associate Chair, Graduate Affairs, Dept. of Meteorology, UW-Madison (1986-1988)
* Associate Chair, Undergrad. Affairs, Dept. of Meteorology, UW-Madison (1990-1992)
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U.S. Delegation member, U.S.-China Cooperation Program for Climate
Studies, 1987.
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NOAA Review Panel for Weather Modification Program
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Technical Consultant (filtration technology), Nelson Industries
Awards and Honors
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S. C. Johnson Distinguished Fellowship, 1992
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Teaching Excellence, Dept. of Meteorology, 1992
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Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Award (
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Best Book Award (Heaven and Earth,
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King-Ting Recommended Book Award, (Insight, Commonwealth
Publishing),
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Ta-You Wu Popular Sciences Book Award (Insight, Commonwealth
Publishing),
* Fellow, American Meteorological Society, 2005
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King-Ting Selected Book Award, (The Science of the Wide World: An Earthling’s Perspective, Rhythms Publishing),
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Publications
Books and Book Chapters
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Wang, P. K., 1985: Air Pollutant Measurements. Chap. 22 in Handbook
of Applied Meteorology, D. D. Houghton, ed., Wiley Interscience,
667-678.
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Wang, P. K., and De'er Zhang, 1991:
Reconstruction of the 18th century precipitation of
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Winkler, M., and P. K. Wang, 1994: The late Pleistocene and Holocene
climate of
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Wang, Pao K., 2002:
Ice Microdynamics. Academic Press, 273pp.
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Wang, Pao K., 2003:
Acid Rain and Precipitation Chemistry. Encyclopedia
of Water Science, Marcel-Dekker.
* Wang, Pao K., 2004: Atmospheric water vapor. McGraw-Hill Year Book of Science & Technology 2004, 14-16.McGraw-Hill.
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Wang, Pao K., 2005:
Isentropic Modeling of Atmospheric Motions. in 2005 Yearbook of Science and Technology, McGraw-Hill (in press)
Papers
Published in Refereed Journals
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Cloud Physics and Dynamics
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Wang, P. K., and H. R. Pruppacher,
1977a: Acceleration to terminal velocity of cloud and rain drops. J. Appl. Meteor., 16, 275-280.
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Martin, J. J., P. K. Wang, H. R. Pruppacher,
and R. L. Pitter, 1981: A numerical study of the effect of
electric charges on the efficiency with which planar ice crystals collect
supercooled water drops. J. Atmos. Sci.,
38, 2462-2469.
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Wang, P. K., 1982: Mathematical description
of the shape of conical hydrometeors. J.
Atmos. Sci.,39, 2615-2622.
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Wang, P. K., and S. M. Denzer,
1983: Mathematical description of the shape of plane hexagonal
snow crystals. J. Atmos. Sci., 40,
1024-1028.
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Wang, P. K., 1983a: On the definition of
collision efficiency of atmospheric particles. J. Atmos. Sci., 40, 1051-1052.
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Wang, P. K., C. H. Chuang, and N. L. Miller, 1985:
Electrostatic, temperature, and vapor density fields surrounding stationary
columnar ice crystals. J. Atmos. Sci., 42,
2371-2379.
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Rasmussen, R.,C. Walcek, H. R. Pruppacher, S. Mitra, J. Lew, V. Levizzani, P.
K. Wang, and U. Barth, 1985: A wind tunnel investigation of the
effect of an external, vertical electric field on the shape of electrically
uncharged rain drops. J. Atmos. Sci., 42,
1647-1652.
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Wang, P. K., 1987: Two dimensional characterization
of polygonally symmetric particles. J. Colloid Interf.
Sci., 117, 271-281.
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Wang, P. K., T. J. Greenwald, and Jianlu
Wang, 1987: A three parameter representation of the shape and
size distributions of hailstones - A case study. J. Atmos. Sci., 44, 1062-1070.
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Wang, P. K., 1988: A convective diffusion model
for the scavenging of submicron particles by snow crystals of arbitrary shapes-
some comments and corrections. Atmos.
Res. 23, 195-198.
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Ji, Wusheng, and P. K. Wang, 1989: Numerical simulation of
three dimensional unsteady viscous flow past hexagonal ice crystals in the air
- Preliminary results. Atmos. Res. 25,
539-557
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Ji, W., and P. K.
Wang, 1991: Numerical simulation of three-dimensional unsteady viscous flow
past finite cylinders in an unbounded fluid at low intermediate Reynolds
numbers. Theor. Compu. Fluid Dynam.,
3, 43-59.
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Wang, P. K., 1992: Theoretical studies on the
convective diffusion around two- and three-dimensional objects. Trends in Heat and Mass Transfer, 2,J. Menon, ed., 173-186.
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Johnson, D. E., P. K. Wang, and J. M. Straka,
1993: Numerical simulation of the 2 August 1981 CCOPE supercell storm
with and without ice microphysics. J.
Appl. Meteor., 32, 745-759.
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Johnson, D. E., and P. K. Wang, and J. M. Straka, 1995: A study of microphysical processes in the 2
August 1981 CCOPE supercell storm. Atmos.
Res. 33, 93-123.
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Magradze, G. J., and
P. K. Wang, 1995: A note on the closed-form mathematical description of the
volume of conical hydrometeors. Atmos.
Res. 39, 275-278.
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Wang, P. K., and Wusheng Ji, 1997: Simulation of three-dimensional
unsteady flow past ice crystals J. Atmos.
Sci. ,54,
2261-2274.
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Wang, P. K., 1997: characterization of ice particles
in clouds by simple mathematical expressions based on successive modification
of simple shapes. J. Atmos. Sci. 54,
2035-2041.
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Lin, Hsin-Mu, and Pao K. Wang, 1997: A
numerical study of microphysical processes in the 21 June 1991
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Ji, Wusheng, and Pao K. Wang, 1998:
On the ventilation coefficients of falling ice crystals at low-intermediate
Reynolds numbers. J. Atmos. Sci.,56,
829-836.
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Wang, P. K., 1999: Three-dimensional
representations of hexagonal ice crystals and hail particles of elliptical
cross-sections , J.
Atmos. Sci., 56, 1089-1093.
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Wang, P. K., and Wusheng Ji, 2000: Collision Efficiencies of Ice
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Wang, P. K., 2002: The
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Wang, P. K., 2002: Shape and Microdynamics of Ice
Particles and Their Effects in Cirrus Clouds. Invited monograph in Advances in Geophysics, Vol. 45,
Academic Press, 1-265.
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Liu, H. C., P. K. Wang, and R. E. Schlesinger, 2003a:
A Numerical Study of Cirrus Clouds. Part I: Model Description. J. Atmos. Sci.
, 60, 1075-1084.
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Liu, H. C., P. K. Wang, and R. E. Schlesinger, 2003b:A Numerical Study of Cirrus Clouds. Part II:
Effects of Ambient Temperature and Stability on Cirrus Evolution. J. Atmos.
Sci. , 60, 1097-1119.
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Chiruta, M.,
and P. K. Wang, 2003: On the capacitance of bullet rosette
crystals. J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 836-846.
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Wang, P. K., 2003: Moisture Plumes above Thunderstorm Anvils and Their
Contributions to Cross Tropopause Transport of Water Vapor in Midlatitudes. J.
Geophys. Res., 108(D6), 4194, doi:
10.1029/2003JD002581, 2003.
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Wang, P. K. 2004:, A cloud model interpretation of jumping
cirrus above storm top, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L18106, doi:10.1029/2004GL020787
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Chiruta, M., and P. K. Wang, 2005: The capacitance
of solid and hollow hexagonal ice columns. Geophys.
Res. Lett., VOL. 32, L05803, doi:10.1029/2004GL021771,
2005.
* Wang, Pao K., 2005: The Wisconsin Dynamical/Microphysical Model (WISCDYMM) and the use of it to interpret satellite-observed storm dynamics., in MEASURING PRECIPITATION FROM SPACE EURAINSAT AND THE FUTURE. Edited by V. Levizzani, et al., bibl. (in press by Kluwer Academic Publishers)
* Setvak, M., R. M. Robin and P. K. Wang, 2007: Contribution of MODIS instrument to the observations of deep convective storms and stratospheric moisture detection in GOES and MSG imagery (accepted for publication in Atmospheric Research)
* Lin, Hsin-mu, Pao K. Wang, and Robert E. Schlesinger, 2005: Three-Dimensional Nonhydrostatic Simulations of Summer Thunderstorms in the Humid Subtropics versus High Plains. Atmos. Res., 78, 103-145.
* Wang, Pao K. 2007: The Thermodynamic Structure atop a Penetrating Convective Thunderstorm. Atmospheric Research, 83, 254-262.
* Setvak, M., D. T. Lindsey, R. Rabin, and P. K. Wang, 2008: Indication of water vapor transport into the lower stratosphere above midlatitude convective storms: Meteosat Second Generation satellite observations and radiative transfer model simulations, Atmos. Res., 89, 170-180.
* Chiou-Jiu Chen and Pao K. Wang, 2009: Diffusion growth of solid and hollow hexagonal ice columns. Il Nuovo Cimento, 124, 87-97.
* Wang, Pao K., M. Setvak, W. Lyons, W. Schmid, and H. Lin, 2009: Further evidence of deep convective vertical transport of water vapor through the tropopause, Atmos. Res., 94, 400-408.
* Martin Setvák, Daniel T. Lindsey, Petr Novák, Pao K. Wang, Michaela Radová, Jochen Kerkmann5, Louie Grasso2, Shih-Hao Su3, Robert M. Rabin6,7, Jindřich Šťástka, Zdeněk Charvát, Hana Kyznarová, 2010: Cold-ring-shaped cloud top features atop convective storms, Atmospherci Research, 97, 80-96.
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Wang, P.
K., M. Setvak, R. M. Rabin, H. M. Lin and S. H. Su,
2010: Ship wave signature at the cloud top of deep convective storms. Atmos. Res., 97, 294-302.
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Flossmann, A. I., V. Levizzani, and P. K. Wang,
2010: On the fundamental role of Hans Pruppacher for
cloud physics and cloud chemistry. Atmos. Res., 97, 393-395.
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Wang, P. K., Hsin-Mu
Lin; Shih-Hao Su., 2010: The Impact of Ice
Microphysical Processes on the Life Span of a Midlatitude Supercell Storm, Atmos. Res. 97, 450-461.
Aerosol Physics and Chemistry
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Wang, P. K., and H. R. Pruppacher,
1977b: An experimental determination of the efficiency with
which aerosol particles are collected by water drops in subsaturated air. J. Atmos. Sci., 34, 1664-1669.
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Wang, P. K., S. N. Grover, and H. R. Pruppacher,
1978: On the effect of electric charges on the scavenging of
aerosol particles by cloud and small rain drops. J. Atmos. Sci., 35, 1735-1743.
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Wang, P. K., 1979a: Particular solutions to the
steady-state diffusion equation and their application to aerosol scavenging
problems. Papers Meteor. Res.,2,
37-42.
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Wang, P. K., and H. R. Pruppacher,
1980a: The effect of an external electric field on the scavenging of aerosol
particles by clouds and small rain drops. J.
Coll. Interf. Sci., 75, 286-297.
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Wang, P. K., and H. R. Pruppacher,
1980b: On the efficiency with which aerosol particles of radius less than one
micron are collected by columnar ice crystals. Pure Appl. Geophys., 118, 1090-1108.
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Martin, J. J., P. K. Wang, and H. R. Pruppacher, 1980a: On the efficiency with which aerosol
particles of radius larger than 0.1 micron are collected by simple ice plates. Pure Appl. Geophys.,
118, 1109-1129.
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Martin, J. J., P. K. Wang, and H. R. Pruppacher,
1980b: A theoretical determination of the efficiency with which
aerosol particles are collected by simple ice plates. J. Atmos. Sci.,37, 1628-1638.
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Martin, J. J., P. K. Wang, and H. R. Pruppacher, 1980c: A theoretical study of the effect of
electric charges on the efficiency with which aerosol particles are collected
by ice crystal plates. J Colloid Interf. Sci., 78, 44-56.
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Walcek, C., P.
K. Wang, J. H. Topalian, S. K. Mitra,
and H. R. Pruppacher, 1981: An
experimental test of a theoretical model designed to determine the rate at
which freely falling water drops scavenge SO2 in air. J. Atmos. Sci., 38, 871-876.
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Wang, P. K., 1983b: Collection of
aerosol particles by conducting spheres in an external electric field - continuum
regime approximation. J. Coll. Interf. Sci., 94, 301-318.
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Wang ,P. K., 1984: An investigation of the
relationship between climatic conditions and the occurrence of flying locusts
infestation in
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Wang, P. K., 1985: Air pollutant measurements.
in Handbook of Applied Meteorology,
D. D. Houghton, Ed., Chap.22, 667-678. Wiley Interscience,
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Wang, P. K., 1985b: A convective diffusion model
for the scavenging of submicron particles by snow crystals of arbitrary shapes. J. de Rech.
Atmos., 19, 185-191.
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Wang, P. K., 1985c: Brownian diffusion of
charged fine particles surrounding a conducting cylinder in the presence of an
external electric field. J. Aerosol Sci.,
17, 201-209.
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Miller, N. L., and P. K. Wang, 1989: A
theoretical determination of the efficiency with which aerosol particles are
collected by falling columnar ice crystals.
J. Atmos. Sci.,46, 1656-1663.
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Sauter, D. P.,
and P. K. Wang, 1989: An experimental study of the scavenging of
aerosol particles by natural snow crystals. J.
Atmos. Sci.,46, 1650-1655.
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Miller, N. L., and P. K. Wang, 1991: Comparison
of the efficiencies with which aerosol particles are collected by planar and
columnar ice crystals. Atmos. Environ.,
25A, 2593-2606.
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Wang, P. K., and T. Jaroszczyk,
1991: The grazing collision angle of aerosol particles colliding with
infinitely long circular cylinders ,
Aerosol Sci. Tech., 15, 149-155.
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Wang, P. K., and Ho Lin, 1995: Comparison
between the collection efficiency of aerosol particles by individual water
droplets and ice crystals in a subsaturated atmosphere. Atmos. Res. 38, 381-390..
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Liu, G. Z., and P. K. Wang, 1996: Numerical
investigation of viscous flow fields around multi-fiber filters. Aerosol Sci. and Tech., 25, 375-391.
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Liu, G. Z., and P. K. Wang, 1997: Pressure drop
and interception efficiency of multi-fiber filters. Aerosol Sci. and Tech., 25,
375-391.
Historical Climate and Geophysical Phenomena
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Wang, P. K., 1979b: Meteorological records
from ancient chronicles of
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Wang, P.K., and G. L. Siscoe,
1980: The ancient Chinese observations on the physical phenomena attending
total solar eclipse. Solar Phys., 66,
187-193.
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Wang, P. K., 1980a: On the possible relationship
between winter thunder and climatic changes in
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Wang, P. K., and J. H. Chu, 1982: Some unusually
lightning events reported in ancient Chinese literature. Weatherwise, 35, 119-122.
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Wang, P. K., and De'er Zhang,
1988: An introduction of some historical governmental weather
records in the 18th and 19th centuries of
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Wang, P. K., with COHMAP Members, 1988: Climatic
changes of the last 18,000 years: Observations and model simulations. Science, 241, 1043-1052.
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Zhang, De'er, and P.
K. Wang, 1989: Reconstruction of the 18th century summer precipitation series
of
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Peng, G., and P. K.
Wang, 1989: Influence of the antarctic sea-ice on the
Northwest Pacific Subtropical High and its ocean-atmosphere circulation
background. Kexue Tongbao, 1989,
No.1,56-58.
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Zhang, De'er, and P.
K. Wang, 1991: A study on the reconstruction of the 18th century meiyu (plum rains) activity of Lower Changjiang(Yangtze)
region of
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Wang, Pao K., and De'er Zhang, 1990: Use of historical documents of
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Wang, P. K., and De'er
Zhang, 1991: Reconstruction of the 18th century precipitation of
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Wang, P. K., and De'er
Zhang, 1992: Recent studies of the reconstruction of East Asian monsoon climate
in the past using historical literature of
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Winkler, M., and P. K. Wang, 1994: The late
Pleistocene and Holocene climate of
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Wang, P. K., and G. L. Siscoe,
1995: Some early descriptions of aurorae in
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Wang, P.
K., 2003: Review of solar-terrestrial relation research in
Fluid Dynamics, Heat & Mass Transfer, and Others
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Wang, P. K., 1980b: A special solution of the
classical diffusion equation for fully ionized plasma. IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci., PS-8, 227-228.
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Wang, P. K., 1984: An Eulerian
variational principle for atmospheric motions in
rotating coordinates. Atmosphere-Ocean,
22,387-392.
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Wang, P. K., 1984: Calculation of the
electrostatic field surrounding finite circular cylindrical conductors. IEEE
Trans. Atenna Propag., AP-32,
956-962.
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Wang, P. K., 1985a: A potential and stream
function analysis of two-dimensional steady-state convective diffusion
equations involving
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Ji, W., and P. K.
Wang, 1991: Numerical simulation of three-dimensional unsteady viscous flow
past finite cylinders in an unbounded fluid at low intermediate Reynolds
numbers. Theor. Compu. Fluid Dynam.,
3, 43-59.
Invited
Book Reviews
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Wang, P. K., 1985: Review of Weather and Climate Responses to Solar
Variations ( B. McCormach, Ed., 1983, Colorado
Associated University Press), EOS,66,
497-498.
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Wang, P. K., 1985: Review of Carbon Dioxide - Current Views and
Developments in Energy/Climate Research (W. Bach et al., Eds., 1983, D. Reidel), Dynamics of
Atmosphere and Oceans, 10, 259-260.
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Wang, P. K., 1986: Review of Quality Assurance for Environmental
Measurements, STP-867 ( J. Taylor and T. Stanley, Eds., 1985, American
Society for Testing and Materials), Bull.
Amer. Meteor. Soc., 67, 569.
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Wang, P. K., 1987: Review of Atmospheric Chemical Compounds: Sources,
Occurrences, and Bioassay ( T. Graedel, D. T.
Hawkins, and L. D. Claxton, Eds., 1986, 732pp, Academic Press), Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 68, 512.
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Wang, P. K., 1989: Review of The Climate of
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Wang, P. K., 1989: Review of Synoptic Meteorology in
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Wang, P. K., 1990: Review of Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War.
Vol. I: Physical and Atmospheric Effects. 2nd Ed.,(Pittock,
Ackerman, Crutzen, McCracken, Sharpiro,
and Turco, eds., 359pp, John Wiley & Sons), Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 71, 1471-1472.
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Wang, P. K., 1992: Review of Global Environmental Change (R. W. Corell and P. A. Anderson, Eds., 1990, 264pp), Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 73, 1290-1291.
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Wang, P. K., 1994: Review of Atmospheric Change-An Earth System
Perspective (by T. E. Graedel and P. J. Crutzen, 1993, 446pp), Bull.
Amer. Meteor. Soc., 74, 2231-2232.
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Wang, P.
K., 1997: Review of Microphysics of
Clouds and Precipitation (by H. R. Pruppacher and
J. D. Klett, 1997, Kluwer Publishing), Aerosol Sci. & Technol 28, 381-382.
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(Wang have also published popular science
articles (in Big-5 fonts only--click here)
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* Jumping Cirrus Movies
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* a. STEPS2000 Denver storm, 20 July 2000 (courtesy of Dr. Walter Lyons)
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* b. 8 August 2003 Bavaria Storm (courtesy of Dr. Willi Schmid)
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