Complete Research publication list of Wang, Pao K.

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Introduction of New Book：

New Book by Pao K. Wang：Aviation Meteorology



本中心王寳貫院士近日出版一本大學用教科書《航空氣象學》，成大出版社出版。簡介如下：

無論是噴射或螺旋槳引擎的飛機或直升機，都是在大氣中飛行的，因而大氣的狀態就直接影響了飛行的順利與否，尤其是一些特殊天氣現象。要了解造成這些現象的成因，才有可能得出如何解決的方法，這就是《航空氣象學》的由來。

全書共15章，分成三大篇：第一篇：大氣科學基礎。大氣基本物理化學結構及各項氣象要素（溫、濕、壓、風）的物理意義及天氣觀測系統、地表能量平衡、全球及局地風系、鋒面系統、不穩定度、成雲過程等。第二篇：航空天氣進階。對航空有重大影響的天氣現象，如側風、陣風、能見度（霧、霾）、亂流、積冰、雷暴、下爆流、閃電等。第三篇：全球氣候概況。熱帶與信風帶的大陸、海洋、島嶼型天氣，季風區天氣、風切線、熱帶波動、颱風，北極天氣、曙暮光、冰雪、吹雪、白濛天，太空天氣、太陽活動、磁暴、電離層風暴、閃焰無線電中斷等。

本書基本上為航空氣象學的大學用教科書，但內容淺顯易讀，亦可作為航空從業員（機場觀測、飛機駕駛、空服、航管、地勤）乃至航海或任何對基礎航行氣象有興趣之人士參考閱讀。

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Academician Pao K. Wang of Academia Sinica received the Nikolai Dotzek Award
Former director of Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academician Pao K. Wang, received the Nikolai Dotzek Award from European Severe Storm Laboratory (ESSL). This is the most prestigious award in the global severe weather research community. ESSL is not a physical laboratory, rather it is a European multinational research and development consortium. Its main goal is to combine academic research and technological development to perform forecast experiments to promote the advancement of the science and forecast techniques of severe storms. Its current membership consists of 23 meteorological science/tech institutions from 17 countries. Academician Wang’s recent research has been focusing on the thermodynamic and dynamic mechanisms at the top of severe storms. He proposed the theory of cloud top internal gravity wave breaking and utilized both visible and infrared imageries of meteorological satellites to successfully verify it.

ESSL’s citation to Academician Wang for this award is:

“Professor Pao K. Wang, who has used very high-resolution cloud models to simulate the processes at the top of convective storms. Simulations showed that overshooting tops act as obstacles to the anvil-relative wind. Thus, most of the storm top features that we observe from a satellite, such as cold rings, cold-Us, or above-anvil cirrus plumes result from the interaction between overshooting tops and the ambient flow.”

Online link
 Academician Pao K. Wang received the Nikolai Dotzek Award in person on May 10th, 2023, and attended the 11th European Conference on Severe Storms in Bucharest, Romania.

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Introduction of New Book：

New Book by Pao K. Wang：Motions of Ice Hydrometeors in the Atmosphere



The puffy white clouds floating in the blue sky often inspire a leisurely sentiment, yet they actually play a very important role in the earth’s atmosphere. The most familiar to the public is that they may produce rain or snow when they are thick enough, and may even produce thunderstorms that cause severe weather disasters. But relatively few realize that clouds also have huge impact on the long-term climate. This is due to the strong influence of clouds on radiation – be it short wave solar radiation or long wave terrestrial radiation. For example, low clouds tend to act more in reflecting solar visible lights whereas high clouds tend to act more in trapping terrestrial infrared radiation. Consequently, the amount of high clouds and low clouds impacts directly the reception or interception of radiation, and therefore influences the long-term climate. Thus, the cloud amount and how long clouds can exist in the atmosphere have decisive impact on the future trend of climate. In fact, the IPCC reports have identified the cloud factor (along with the cloud interaction with aerosol) as the single largest source of uncertainty when using climate models to predict future climate.

All clouds are ensembles of their constituent particles that may be water drops or ice particles or both. The size, concentration and life span of these particles therefore decide the development stage of the cloud and its longevity. But what controls the growth or dissipation of these particles? Aside from the humidity in the atmosphere, the most important factor is the motion state of these particles. The motions of particles decide on how they can collide and coalesce with each other. How fast they can grow by vapor diffusion or how fast they will evaporate. And diffusion growth and evaporation involve the release or absorption of latent heats which are the energy source driving the cloud dynamical process.

But particles in clouds are very complex – they have many different kinds with milliards of sizes and different shapes and properties, especially those of ice particles. That’s why research on the motion of ice articles has been an important subject of cloud physics. But difficulties in experiments and complexities in theoretical studies had impeded the progress in this aspect.

This book summaries the research results of our group in recent years utilizing the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques to solve numerically the 3-D free fall motions of ice crystals, snowflakes, graupel and hailstones. This is the first time in the world that the detailed theoretical 3-D flow fields around the true freely falling ice particles are obtained. They simulate in great detail the possible motions of these particles, such as rotation, vibration, zigzag, tumbling and spiraling, and these motions all occur in appropriate conditions agreeing with experimental data. In addition, we also provide the ventilation coefficients which are necessary for accurately estimate the diffusion growth or evaporation rates. This book is important to researchers in atmospheric science, especially cloud physics, and may also be useful for fluid dynamicists who are interested in understanding the fluid mechanics of complex bodies.

Publisher webpage：https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789813344303
 

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Professional Experiences

• Atmospheric Physicist (1978-1980), Adjunct Assistant Professor (1980), Atmospheric Science Dept., UCLA
• Asst. Professor (1980-1984), Associate Professor (1984-1988), Professor (1988-date), Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Chair, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UW-Madison (1994-1997)
• Chair, Air Resources Management Program, UW-Madison (1998-2002)
• Chair, Fellowship Committee (Physical Sciences Division), UW-Madison (1997-2002)
• Visiting Professor, Department of Atmospheric Science, UCLA (1988)
• Chair, Cloud Physics Committee, American Meteorological Society (1991-1993)
• Visiting Professor, Dept. of Atmospheric Physics, University of Mainz, Germany (Spring, 1993)
• Visiting Professor, Atmospheric Science, National Taiwan University (Fall, 1993); Adjunct Professor (2013-date)
• Professor (joint appoint.), Space and Remote Sensing Research, National Central University (2015-date)
• Visiting Professor, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sci., MIT     (1997)
• Visiting Professor, Physics Department, University of Ferrara, Italy (2001)
• Visiting Professor, Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany (2003)
• Advisory Committee, Interaction of Cosmic and Atmospheric Particle Systems, European Space Agency, 2001-2009
• Advisory Committee, Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany (2005-2011)
• Consulting Editor, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (2003-date)
• Editor (Geophysics), Il Nuovo Cimento C (2009-2015)
• Associate Editor, Atmospheric Research (2010-date)
• Associate Editor, European Physical Journal Plus (2010-2015)
• International Advisory Board, Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (2011-2014)
• Editorial advisory board, Versita Publishing (Environmental Studies) (2011-date)
• President, Meteorological Society of ROC (2013-2017), Councilor, Chinese Geoscience Union (2013-date)
• Distinguished Research Fellow and Director, Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica (2013-2019); Distinguished Visiting Chair (2020-date)
• Visiting Distinguished Chair Professor, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Cheng Kung University (2021-date)

 
 

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Awards and Honors (in chronological order)

• Samuel C. Johnson Distinguished Fellowship (US), 1992
• Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Award (Germany), 1993
• Fellow, American Meteorological Society, 2005
• Fellow, Meteorological Society of ROC, 2008
• Ten Best Books, China Times (Heaven and Earth, Newton), 1996
• Ta-You Wu Popular Science Good Book Award (Insights, Commonwealth), 2002
• Gold Caldron Good Book Award, Government Information Office (Insights, Commonwealth), 2002
• Gold Caldron Good Book Award, Government Information Office (Big World from a Small Dust, Rhythms), 2005
• Academician, Academia Sinica, 2018