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Lei Wang

 

Department of Physics, University of Toronto,

Email: lei(at)atmosp(dot)physics(dot)utoronto(dot)ca

60 St. George Street,

Phone: 1-416-946-7129 (Office)

Toronto, ON, Canada, M5S 1A7

Office: MP704

Education

Ph.D.

Atmospheric Physics

Dept. of Physics, University of Toronto

Aug. 2010, supervised by Prof. Paul Kushner

M.Sc.

Atmospheric Physics

Dept. of Physics, University of Toronto

Aug. 2004, supervised by Prof. Paul Kushner

M.Sc.

Meteorology

Dept. of Atmosphere Sciences, Peking University

Jul. 2002, supervised by Prof. Xiaodong Li

B.Sc.

Atmospheric Sciences

Dept. of  Geophysics, Peking University

Jul. 1999, supervised by Prof. ShiKuo Liu

              

Research interests

Large scale general circulation; chemistry and climate interactions; climate variability and extremes; chaotic dynamics; weather/climate forecast.

              

Publications

Wang, L., Stationary waves in the Stratosphere-Troposphere Circulation. Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 2010.

Wang, L., and P.J. Kushner: Interpreting Stationary Wave Nonlinearity in Barotropic Dynamics.  J. Atmos. Sci., 67(7), 2240–2250, DOI: 10.1175/2010JAS3332.1.

Butchart, N., A.J. Charlton-Perez, I. Cionni, S. C. Hardiman, K. Kruger, P. Kushner, P. Newman, S. M. Osprey, J. Perlwitz, F. Sassi, M. Sigmond, L. Wang: Stratospheric Dynamics. Chapter 4, SPARC CCMVal-2 Report, 2010.

Wang, L., D. J. Kang, and X. D. Li, 2002: Multimode and Its Application in Climate Analysis. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis. Vol.38 No.1 pp.83-89. (In Chinese with abstract in English).

 

Conference presentations and posters

Modeling the Coupled Stratosphere-Troposphere Stationary Wave Response to Climate Change, Wang, L., and P.J. Kushner

 

The 4th Annual C-SPARC Workshop, University of Toronto, Canada, Dec. 07-08, 2009, Talk

2009 MOCA Joint Assembly, Montreal, Canada, July 19-29, 2009, Poster

AGU 2009 Joint Assembly, Toronto, Canada, May 24-27, 2009, Poster

17th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics and 15th Conference on Middle Atmosphere, Stowe, VT, USA, June 08-12, 2009, Poster

The 3rd Annual C-SPARC Workshop, University of Toronto, Canada, Nov. 24-25, 2008, Talk

Stationary Nonlinearity and Stationary Wave Reflection Near the Critical Layer, Wang, L., and P.J. Kushner

 

2009 MOCA Joint Assembly, Montreal, Canada, July 19-29, 2009, Poster

Building a Stratosphere-Troposphere Stationary Wave Model, Wang, L., and P.J. Kushner

 

SPARC CCMVal workshop 2009, University of Toronto, Canada, June 1-5, 2009, Poster

The 1st Annual C-SPARC Workshop, University of Toronto, Canada, Dec 4-5, 2006, Talk

Stationary wave response to climate change in CMAM, Wang, L., and P.J. Kushner

 

The 4th SPARC General Assembly, Bologna, Italy, Aug. 31 - Sep. 05, 2008, Poster

CSPARC Summer School, Banff; May 17-23, 2008, Poster

Stationary wave response to topography in a barotropic model, Wang, L., and P.J. Kushner

 

CMOS 2006 Congress, Toronto; May 29-June 1, 2006, Poster