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Research Interests:
Dr. Wang's research interests include aerosol physics and chemistry, cloud dynamics, microphysics, and chemistry, interaction between cloud-scale and large-scale processes, aerosol-cloud-climate interactions, and atmospheric chemistry. He and his group have developed a three-dimensional cloud-resolving model to simulate the dynamical, microphysical, and chemical processes of clouds, especially of deep convective clouds. They have also developed a three-dimensional global aerosol-climate model to study the roles of atmospheric aerosols as well as aerosol-cloud interaction in climate processes. He is also working on a global interactive chemistry and climate model and using this model to study the sensitivity of climate change to atmospheric chemical processes. 

Selected Publications:

Grandey, B. S., H.-H. Lee, and C. Wang, 2016: Radiative effects of inter-annually varying versus inter-annually invariant aerosol emissions from fires, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 14495-14513, doi:10.5194/acp-16-14495-2016, 2016.

Snider, G., et al., 2016: Variation in global chemical composition of PM2.5: emerging results from SPARTAN, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 9629-9653, doi:10.5194/acp-16-9629-2016.

Alvarado, M. J, et al., 2016: Evaluating model parameterizations of submicron aerosol scattering and absorption with in situ data from ARCTAS 2008, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 9435-9455, doi:10.5194/acp-2015-935.

Grandey, B., H. Cheng, and C. Wang, 2016: Transient climate impacts for scenarios of aerosol emissions from Asia: a story of coal versus gas. J. Climate, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0555.1.

Rothenberg, D., and C. Wang, 2016: Metamodeling of droplet activation for global climate models. J. Atmos. Sci., 73, 1255-1272, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-15-0223.1.

Wang, C., 2015: Anthropogenic aerosols and the distribution of past large-scale precipitation change, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 10,876–10,884, doi: 10.1002/2015GL066416.

Lee, S.-Y., and C. Wang, 2015: The response of the South Asian summer monsoon to temporal and spatial variations in absorbing aerosol radiative forcing, J. Climate, 28, 6626-6646, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00609.1.

Grandey, B. S., and C. Wang, 2015: Enhanced marine sulphur emissions offset global warming and impact rainfall, Nature: Scientific Reports, 5, Article number: 13055 (2015), doi:10.1038/srep13055.

Kim, D., C. Wang, A. M. L. Ekman, M. C. Barth, and D.-I. Lee, 2014: The responses of cloudiness to the direct radiative effect of sulfate and carbonaceous aerosols, J. Geophys. Res., 119, 1172-1185, doi:10.1002/2013JD020529.

Wang, C., 2013: Impact of anthropogenic absorbing aerosols on clouds and precipitation: A review of recent progresses, Atmos. Res., 122, 237-249.

Lee, S.-Y., H.-J. Shin, and C. Wang, 2013: Nonlinear effects of coexisting surface and atmospheric forcing by anthropogenic absorbing aerosols: Impact on the South Asian monsoon onset, J. Climate, 26, 5594–5607

Cohen, J. B., and C. Wang, 2013: Estimating global black carbon emissions using a top-down Kalman filter approach, J. Geophys. Res., 119, 307-323, doi:10.1002/2013JD019912.

Wang, C., 2013: Impact of anthropogenic absorbing aerosols on clouds and precipitation: A review of recent progresses, Atmospheric Research, 122: 237-249

Wang, C. and R.G. Prinn, 2011: Potential climatic impacts and reliability of large-scale offshore wind farms. Environmental Research Letters, 6(2): 025101

Jeong, G.-R. and C. Wang, 2010: Climate effects of seasonally varying Biomass Burning emitted Carbonaceous Aerosols (BBCA). Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 8373-8389

Wang, C., and R.G. Prinn, 2010: Potential climatic impacts and reliability of very large-scale wind farms, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 10, 2053-2061

Wang, C., D. Kim, A.M.L. Ekman, M. C. Barth, and P. Rasch, 2009: The impact of anthropogenic aerosols on Indian summer monsoon, Geophysical Research Letters, 36(21): L21704

Huang, J., A. Adams, C. Zhang, and C. Wang, 2009: Black Carbon and West African Monsoon precipitation: observations and simulations, Annales Geophysicae, 27: 4171-4181

Wang, C., 2009: The sensitivity of tropical convective precipitation to the direct radiative forcings of black carbon aerosols emitted from major regions. Ann. Geophys, 27, 3705-3711

Wang, C., G.-R. Jeong, and N. Mahowald, 2009: Particulate absorption of solar radiation: anthropogenic aerosols vs. dust. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 9(12): 3935-3945

Engström, A., Ekman, A. M. L., Krejci, R., DeReus, M., Ström, J., Wang, C., 2008: Observational and modelling evidence of tropical deep convective clouds as a source of mid-tropospheric accumulation mode aerosols. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L23813