BIN WANG

Affiliation

Department of Meteorology and International Pacific Research Center (IPRC)
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii
Address:    1680 East-west Rd, POST Bldg. 401, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
Tel:            (808) 956-2563
Fax:           (808) 956-9425
E-mail:       wangbin@hawaii.edu
Web:         http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/~bwang

Education

  • Ph. D. (1984), Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Florida State University.
  • M. S. (1981), Meteorology, University of Science and Technology of China, Beijing.
  • B. S. (Equivalent) (1966), Physical Oceanography, Shangdong College of Oceanography.

Professional Experience

  • 01/99 - Co-Leader for IPRC Asian-Australian Monsoon Theme
  • 07/92 - Present: Professor, Meteorology, University of Hawaii.
  • 01/88 - Present: Senior Fellow, JIMAR, NOAA/UH
  • 07/89 - 06/92: Associate professor, Meteorology, University of Hawaii.
  • 01/87- 06/89: Assistant Professor, Meteorology, University of Hawaii.
  • 11/84 - 12/96: Visiting Scientist, GFDP, Princeton University.
  • 08/84- 11/84: Research Associate, GFDI, Florida State University.
  • 0581 - 08/84: Research Assistant, Meteorology and GFDI, Florida State University.
  • 10/78-05/81: Assistant researcher, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • 09/75-07/78: Invited lecturer, Ocean University of China.

I. RESEARCH

I-1 Science Interests

Primary Fields are Tropical Meteorology, Climate Dynamics, and Large-scale Atmospheric and Oceanic Dynamics.

     Current research themes include Tropical intraseasonal oscillation, Monsoons, ENSO, climate predictability and prediction, tropical cyclones, climate change, wave and instability, large-scale air-sea interaction, Intermediate modeling of tropical climate.

Research approaches involve theoretical, numerical modeling, and observational analyses. Research efforts focus on   understanding of the fundamental physics governing variations of weather and climate.

 

I-2 REFEREED PUBLICATIONS (1985-Present)

I-3 Current Research Awards and Grants

NSF.  Title: Dynamics and moist thermodynamics of the boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation. PI: Bin Wang, Co-PI: T. Li. And X. Fu, Amount founded $525,000. Contract period: 3/1/2007-2/28/2010 Contract Code: ATM06-47995.

ONR: Title: Dynamical control of rapid tropical cyclone intensification by environmental shears, PI: Bin Wang, Co-PI: Li, T, Y. Wang, Amount founded $598,000. Period: 09/2005-08/2008,Contract Code: N00014-02-0532.

NOAA/PACIFIC: Title: Biennial and interdecadal variations of the Tropical Pacific Ocean. PI: Bin Wang, Co-PI: S.-I. An. Amount founded, $363,000, Period: Nov. 2003- October 2006, Contract coded: NA17RJ1230.

Korea Science Technology Agency: Title: Analysis of climate change in Korea and East Asian area and study of the atmospheric and ocean effects”. PI: Bin Wang and Yign Noh. Amount funded $200,000, Period: June 1 2004-May 2007.

 

APEC/APCC Title: Climate Prediction and its Application to Society, an international project in support of APEC Climate Center. PI: Bin Wang, University of Hawaii, Co-PI: In-Sik Kang at Seoul National University, J. Shukla, COLA, L. Magaard, ICCS/UH. April 2005- June 2006, $280,000. Participation Institutions: IPRC/UH, ICCS/UH, GFDL, NCEP/CPC, NASA/NISIP, COLA, FSU, SNU, KMA, FRCGC/JAMSTEK.

 

II. RECOGNITION

II-1 Honors and Awards

  • Visiting Professorship, Center Of Excellence for Earth-Sun relation research, Nagoya University, 2004
  • Visiting Professorship, Center for Climate System Research, University of Tokyo, 2001
  • Visiting Scholar Award, Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship, Chaired by Dr. Yuan-Tseh Lee Nobel Laureate, 2000-2001.
  • Visiting professorship, City University of Hong Kong, 2000
  • Sabbatical study leave, Max-Planck Institute, Hamburg, 1994
  • Sabbatical study leave, National Meteorological Center/Climate Prediction Center, 1993-1994
  • Visiting Scientist fellowship, GFDP/ Princeton University, 1984-1986.

II-2. Keynote /Distinguished lecture

  • ICTP workshop on Seasonal Climate Prediction August 7-18 2006, Trieste, Key lecture.
  • First ECCE summer school of advanced study in climate and environment: Modeling of the Climate System, July 30-August 12, 2006, Beijing. Key lecture.
  • Winter MONEX: A Quarter Century and Beyond, April 4-7 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Key note (Dominant modes of Asian-Australian Monsoon interannual variability in Observation and climate prediction models)
  • Workshop on Tropical Convection and MJO, March 14-18 2006, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, Keynote lecture. (Fundamental processes of the Madden-Julian Oscillation).
  • International Symposium on Active Geosphere, November 8-11, 2005, Wuhan, China. Keynote speech.
  • Distinguished lecture, Nov. 2002, PAOS/Colorado University.
  • Asian Monsoons and Global linkages on Milankovitch and sub-Milankovitch time scales. Beijing, May 9-14, 2001.
  • International Conference on Ocean and Atmosphere, June 2000, Taipei, Taiwan, Keynote speech.
  • WMO Commission for Atmospheric Sciences XII session (98), Skopje, Macedonia. Keynote lecture.

II-3 Invited Talks (1999-2005)

  • Second Earth System Science Partnership Conference, 9-12 2006,  Beijing. Invited talk
  • The Third Asian Pacific Hydrology and water Cycle Conference, 16-18 APWH 10-16-18 Bangkok, invited talk.
  • International workshop on Tibetan Plateau water and energy cycle, Lhasa, Tibet, China, September 4-7 2006.
  • Opening Ceremony and Scientific Symposium for APEC Climate Center, Bussan, Korea. November 18-21, 2005.
  • IAMA’2005, August 2-11, 2005. Beijing, China.
  • IAPSO/IABO/IAG International symposium: Dynamic Earth, Session P1, Aug. 2005, Cairns, Australia.
  • International Symposium on Tropical Weather and Climate, November 8-12, 2004, Guangzhou, China.
  • American Geophysical Union (AGU) Western Pacific Meeting, August 2004, Honolulu, Hawaii.
  • Asia Oceania Geophysical Society (AOGS) meeting, July 5-9 2004, Singapore.
  • International Conference on High-Impact Weather and Climate: Understanding, prediction and Socio-Economic Consequences (ICHWC2004), March 22-26 2004, Seoul, Korea.
  • International workshop on sub-seasonal climate variability, ECMWF, Reading, England, Nov. 3-6 2003.
  • APEC climate network (APCN) Symposium on the Multi-Model Ensemble for Climate Prediction, 7-11 October 2003, Jeju, Korea.
  • IUGG General Assembly, June 30-July 11 2003, Sapporo, Japan.
  • Atmospheric and oceanic processes, dynamics, and climate change, sponsored by SPIE, the International Society of Optical Engineering, Oct. 22-27, 2002, Hangzhou, China.
  • The Thirteen Workshop on Numerical modeling: Understanding the climate of the Australia and the Indo-Pacific region. 14-16th November 2001, Melbourne, Australia.
  • 8th Scientific Assembly of IAMAS, 10 -18 July 2001, Innsbruck, Austria.
  • The Scientific Conference on the South China Sea Monsoon Experiment, April 17-20, 2001. Shanghai, China.
  • Symposium on Global Change Research: New findings and Future Direction, FRSGC, Tokyo, January 2001.
  • The Present and Future of Modeling Global Environmental Change, The 14th Toyota Conference, Oct. 2000, Mikkabi, Japan.
  • Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, June 2000, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Monsoon Symposium and CLIVAR Monsoon Workshop, December 2000, Honolulu, HI, USA.
  • WMO (World Meteorological Organization) International Workshop on Long-Range Weather Forecast (99), Nanjing, China.
  • International Workshop on Frontiers of Science and NSFC Priority Setting (99), Beijing.
  • IUGG 99, Nonlinear Dynamics and Climate Prediction (99), Birmingham, UK.
  • WMO International Tropical Cyclone Workshop (98) Haiko, China.

II-4 Editorship

  • Editor, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, American Meteorological Society, 08/05-present.
  • Associated Editor, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 01/02-present.
  • Editor, Journal of the Korean Meteorological Society, 01/04-present.
  • Member, Editorial Board, Acta Meteorologica Sinica, Chinese Meteorological Society, 01/99-presendent.
  • Editor, Korean Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 01/04-12/05.
  • Advisory board, World Scientific Publishing Company's Book Series on East Asian Meteorology, 01/02-presendent.
  • Member, Editorial Board, Trends in Atmospheric Science, India.
  • Member, Editorial Committee, Chinese Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 01/00-presedent.
  • Member, Editorial Board, Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 01/02-presendent.
  • Member, Editorial Committee, Journal of Ocean University of China, 01/00-present.

II-5 Guest Professorship

  • Leading professor and Ph D advisor Ocean university of China/ Marine Environmental College.
  • Guest Professor and PhD advisor, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Science.
  • Guest Professor, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China
  • Guest Professor, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences
  • Guest Professor, National Climate Center of China

 

III. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

III-1 International Boards and Committees

  • 06/2005-present: Co-Chair, Asian-Australian Monsoon Panel (AAMP)CLIVAR/WCRP.
  • 04/2005-present: PI, International project “Climate Prediction and its Societal Application”(CliPAS) in support of Asian-Pacific economic cooperation (APEC) Climate Center (APCC).
  • 06/2004-present: Member, CLIVAR/WCRP Science Steering Group.
  • 10/2004-present: Member, Science Steering Committee, START/ MAIRS (Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study.
  • 01/2001-present: Co-Chair, Academic committee, National Key Laboratory for Atmospheric Science and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
  • 2000-2005: American Meteorological Society (AMS)/Committee on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere.
  • 2001-: Member of committee for US- China Joint Ph D Program
  • 2001-: Regional director, COAA (International Chinese ocean and Atmospheric association)
  • 1999-: Science Steering Committee, AMIP GCM Simulation of East Asian Climate.

Organizer/ Convener/ Chairs, International Conferences

  • Co-Chair, Organizing Committee, Decadal-Centennial Variability of East asian monsoon, July 7-9 2006, Qingdao, China.
  • International Science committee, Winter MONEX: A Quarter Century and Beyond, April 4-7 2006, Kuala Lumpur.
  • Session Chair, AMS 14th Conference on Interactions of atmosphere and Sea, January 2006, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Academic committee of organization, International Symposium on Active Geosphere, November 8-11, 2005, Wuhan, China .
  • Co-Convener, session C1, IAMAS2005 Conference 2-11 August, Beijing, China.
  • Academic Committee, International Symposium on Tropical Weather and Climate, November 8-12, 2004, Guangzhou, China.
  • Vice- Chair, WMO 3rd International Workshop on Monsoon (IWM-3), November 1-5, 2004, Hangzhou, China.
  • Organizing Committee and Session Chair, AMS 13th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere, August 9-13, 2004, Portland, Maine.
  • Session Chair, AGU western Pacific Meeting, August 2004, Honolulu, US.
  • Academic Committee, Third International Ocean-Atmosphere Conference, July 14-16, 2004, Beijing, China.
  • Organization Committee Chair, International Asian Monsoon Symposium, February 18-20, 2004, Honolulu, Hawaii.
  • Discussion Panelist and Session Chair, APCN Symposium on the Multi-Model Ensemble for Climate Prediction, , October 7-11, 2003, Jeju, Korea.
  • Session co-convener, IUGG 2003 General Assembly, June 30-July 11, 2003, Sapporo, Japan.
  • Organizing Committee and Session Chair, AMS 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere, February 9-13, 2003, Long beach, CA, USA.
  • Rapporteur, Fifth WMO/ICSU international workshop on tropical cyclones, Dec. 2-13, 2002, Cairns, Australia.
  • Organizing Committee and Session Chair, 25th Hurricane and Tropical Meteorology Conference, AMS, April 29-May 3, 2002, San Diego, California, USA.
  • Session Chair, IAMAS, 8th Scientific Assembly, 10-18 July 2001 Innsbruck, Austria.
  • Session Convener, AMS 11th conference on interaction of air and sea, May 14-18 2001, San Diego.
  • Session Chair, Scientific Conference on the South China Sea Monsoon Experiment (SCSMEX), April 17-20, 2001,Shanghai, China.
  • Co-Organizer, Workshop on Intraseasonal to Interdecadal variability of the East Asian monsoon, March 17-18, 2001, Taipei, Taiwan.

III-2 Professional Organizations

III-3 Referees

Served as referees for 27 professional journals, which include: Science, Nature, J. Atmos. Sci., J. Climate, J. Geophys. Res., Mon. Wea. Rev., Tellus, Climate Dynamics, Meteor. and Atmos. phys., J. Phys. Oceanogr., Bull. A. M. S., Geophys. Res. Let., Deep Sea Research, J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, J. Applied Meteorol., Dynamics. Atmos. Oceans, Weather and Forecasting, Theoret. Appl. Climatol., Atmos. and Oceans, Acta Meteorologica Sinica, Atmosfera, Annales Geophysicae, Advances in Atmos. Sci., Terrestial and Atmos. Sci., Chinese Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, Journal of polar research, Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology. Reviewing proposals for NSF, NOAA, NASA, DOE, ONR, FRD. External examiner of Ph D dissertations for universities in Australia, South Africa, China, and Hong Kong.

 

IV. TEACHING

IV-1. COURSES TAUGHT

  • MET 450: Synoptic Analysis
  • MET 650: Advanced theoretical meteorology I
  • MET 651: Advanced theoretical meteorology II
  • MET 600: Atmospheric dynamics I
  • MET 601: Atmospheric dynamics II
  • MET 610: Tropical climate and weather
  • MET 745: Dynamics in midlatitude
  • MET 746: Tropical dynamics
  • MET 752: Special topics: Climate Dynamics
  • OCN 760: Atmosphere-Ocean interaction and climate
  • MET 699: Directed individual studies
  • MET 765b: Seminar in meteorology: general
  • MET 765c: Seminar in meteorology: research results

    IV-2 Postdoctoral fellows/Graduate students

  • Mentor to 7 active postdoctoral fellows: Kazu Kikuchi, Ja-Yeon Moon, Bo Yang, Hyung-Jin Kim, Hong-Wei Yang, Justin Ventham, June-Yi Lee,
  • Major professor to 9 active graduate students: Thomas Dunn, Qinghua Ding, Xiaqing Zhou, Suhong Ma, Na Lan, Jing Yang, Qing Bao, Cai-Yun Zhang, Seong-Chan Park.
  • 12 Ph D students graduated: Tim Li, Xiaofan Li, Xiaosu Xie, Xiouhua Fu, Renguang Wu, Liguang Wu, Karen Lee Drohblav, Heidi Teng, Zhuo Wang, Bo Yang, Justin Ventham.
  • 10 MS students graduated: H. Rui, C. Wan, Y. Wang, X. Wang, P. Goda, H. Teng, Z. Wang, C. Orndoff,  Q. Ding, Kevin Mallan,
  • Served on 18 Ph. D. committees and 15 M. S. committees in the last ten years.
  • 30 visiting professor/scientists (longer than one month) have been sponsored for their visits since 1990.

V. SERVICES AT UH

  • Search Advisory Committee for the Dean of SOEST, 2004.
  • Steering Committee, International Pacific Research Center, 1999-.
  • Research Council, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, UH, 1996-present.
  • Chair, Department Personnel Committee, Dept. of Meteorology, 1997-1998.
  • Chair, Department computing committee (2001-2003).
  • Chair, Meteorology Graduate Program, UH, 1993-1997.
  • Graduate Council Member, University of Hawaii, 1993-1997.
  • Chair, Department Personnel Committee, Dept. of Meteorology, 1990-1993.
  • Council member of JIMAR UH/NOAA, 1988-present.
  • UH Tenure and Promotion Recommendation Committee member, 1991, 1995.
  • SOEST/UH Computing Committee, 1990.
  • Chair, SOEST Faculty Searching Committee , 1992-93.
  • Associate Director of the Meteorology and Physical Oceanography division, SOEST, 1991.
  • Chair, Graduate Curriculum and Examination Committee, Dept. of Meteorology, 1989-1990.