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Curriculum Vitae:

Sun Wong

Education
  • 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
Professional Experience
  • 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).
Selected Awards
  • Article “Suppression of deep convection over the tropical North Atlantic by the Saharan Air Layer” highlighted by Geophys. Res. Lett, (2005)
Selected Publications
  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.

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