Dr. Sun Wong is a research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. He has experience in research of identifying interactions between the atmospheric constituents and the dynamical systems. He provides first class statistical analysis of many model simulations/assimilations (e.g., GISS, CCM3, CAM3, NCEP, GEOS4, MERRA, MATCH, CARMA, etc.) as well as remote-sensing retrievals (e.g., MODIS aerosols, AIRS temperature and water vapor, Aura MLS water vapor and CO, AVHRR dust index, etc.). He has important publications on the heating effects of Saharan dust, subseasonal to multidecadal variability of temperature, water vapor, and chemical constituents in the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere, and distribution of Saharan dust over the tropical Atlantic.

• Ph.D. in Physics, Columbia University (1999)
• M.A. and M.Phil. in Physics, Columbia University (1995)
• B.S. in Physics (with honor), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (1992)

• Aerosol Climate Effects
• Hydrological and Energy Cycles
• Atmospheric Tracer Transports
• Climate Dynamics

• Research Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, (2009-present).
• Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Atmospheric Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX., (2005-2009).
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, (2003-2005).
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Atmospheric Science Research Center, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY, (1999-2003).

• Convener and chair of the session “The Role of Dust in the Global Climate System” in 2007 AGU spring meeting in Acapulco, Mexico (2007)
• Reviewer for Science, Geophys. Res. Lett. (AGU), J. Geophys. Res. (AGU), J. Appl. Met. and Clim. (AMS), Atmos. Env., and Annales Geophysicae (EGU) (2005 - Present)

• Article “Suppression of deep convection over the tropical North Atlantic by the Saharan Air Layer” highlighted by Geophys. Res. Lett, (2005)

1. Wong, S., E. J. Fetzer, B. H. Kahn, B. Tian, B. H. Lambrigtsen, and H. Ye (2011): Closing the global water budget with AIRS water vapor, MERRA winds, and evaporation, and TRMM precipitation, J. Clim. (accepted).
2. Wong, S., E. J. Fetzer, B. Tian, B. H. Lambrigtsen, and H. Ye (2011): The apparent water vapor sinks and heat sources associated with the intra-seseasonal oscillation of the Indian summer monsoon, J. Clim. In press.
3. Tian, B., D. E. Waliser, R. A. Kahn, and S. Wong (2011): Modulation of Atlantic aerosols by the Madden-Julian Oscillation, J. Geosphys. Res., in press.
4. Liang, C. K., A. Eldering, A. Gettelman, B. Tian, S. Wong, E. J. Fetzer, and K. -N. Liou (2011), Record of tropical interannual variability of temperature and water vapor from a combined AIRS-MLS dataset, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D06103, doi:10.1029/2010JD014841.
5. Wong, S., A. E. Dessler, N. M. Mahowald, P. Yang, and Q. Feng (2009), Maintenance of lower tropospheric temperature inversion in the Saharan Air Layer by dust and dry anomaly, J. Clim. , 22, 5149-5162.
6. A. E. Dessler and S. Wong (2009 J. Climate accepted), Climate model simulations of the water vapor climate feedback during the El Niño Southern Oscillation, J. Clim., 22, 6404-6412.
7. Wong, S., A. E. Dessler, N. M. Mahowald, P. R. Colarco, and A. da Silva (2008), Long-term variability in Saharan dust transport and its link to North Atlantic sea surface temperature, Geophys. Res. Lett. , 35, doi:10.1029/2007GL032297.
8. Wong, S., and A. E. Dessler (2007), Regulation of H₂O and CO in tropical tropopause layer by the Madden-Julian oscillation, J. Geosphys. Res. , 112, D14305, doi:10.1029/2006JD007940.
9. Wong, S., P. R. Colarco, and A. E. Dessler (2006), Principal component analysis of the evolution of the Saharan Air Layer and dust transport: Comparisons between a model simulation and MODIS and AIRS retrievals, J. Geophys. Res. , 111, D20109, doi:10.1029/2006JD007093.
10. Wong, S., and A. E. Dessler (2005), Suppression of deep convection over the tropical North Atlantic by the Saharan Air Layer, Geophys. Res. Lett. , 32, L09808, doi:10.1029/2004GL022295
11. Wong, S., W. -C. Wang, I. S. A. Isaksen, T. K. Berntsen, and J. K. Sundet (2004), A global climate-chemistry model study of present-day tropospheric chemistry and radiative forcing from changes in tropospheric O3 since the preindustrial period, J. Geophys. Res. , 109, D11309, doi:10.1029/2003JD003998.
12. Gauss, M., I. S. A. Isaksen, S. Wong, and W. -C. Wang (2003), Impact of H2O emissions from cryoplanes and kerosene aircraft on the atmosphere, J. Geophys. Res. , 108(D10), 4304, doi:10.1029/2002JD002623.
13. Wong, S., and W. -C. Wang (2003), Tropical-extratropical connection in interannual variation of the tropopause: Comparison between NCEP/NCAR reanalysis and an atmospheric general circulation model. J. Geophys. Res., 108(D2), 4043, doi:10.1029/2001JD002016.
14. Wong, S., and W. -C. Wang (2000), Interhemispheric asymmetry in the seasonal variation of the zonal mean tropopause. J. Geophys. Res. , 105, 26,645-26,659.
15. Wong, S., M. J. Prather, and D. Rind (1999), The seasonal and interannual variability of the budgets of N2O and CCl3F. J. Geophys. Res. , 104, 23,899-23,909.
16. Shindell, D. T., S. Wong, and D. Rind (1997), Interannual variability of the Antarctic ozone hole in a GCM. Part I: The influence of tropospheric wave variability. J. Atmos. Sci. , 54, 2308-2319.