Gang ChenGang Chen
Building 54, Room 1726
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139
Email: gchenpu at mit dot edu
Phone:(617)324-3918 Fax:(617)253-6208
I am a postdoctral fellow in the Program of Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate (PAOC) at MIT, hosted by Alan Plumb, supported by the NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship, administered by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR/VSP). I received my PhD degree in August 2007 from the Program of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS) at Princeton University, supervised by Isaac Held.
I will start as an assistant professor in the department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS) at Cornell University in fall 2009.
Curriculum VitaeGeneral circulation of the atmosphere and the response to climate change
Stratosphere-troposphere coupling
Tropical-extratropical interactions
Chen, G. and R. A. Plumb: Quantifying the Eddy Feedback and the Persistence of Zonal Index in an Idealized Atmospheric Model. J. Atmos. Sci., accepted.
Chen, G., Lu, J. and D. M. W. Frierson, 2008: Phase Speed Spectra and the Latitude of Surface Westerlies: Interannual Variability and Global Warming Trend. J. Climate, 21, 5942-5959.
Lu, J., Chen, G., and D. M. W. Frierson, 2008: Response of the Zonal Mean Atmospheric Circulation to El Nino versus Global Warming. J. Climate, 21, 5835-5851.
Chen, G., and P. Zurita-Gotor, 2008: The tropospheric jet response to prescribed zonal forcing in an idealized atmospheric model. J. Atmos. Sci., 65, 2254-2271, doi: 10.1175/2007JAS2589.1.
Chen, G., and I. M. Held, 2007: Phase speed spectra and the recent poleward shift of Southern Hemisphere surface westerlies. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L21805, doi:10.1029/2007GL031200.
Frierson, D. M. W., J. Lu, and G. Chen, 2007: Width of the Hadley cell in simple and comprehensive general circulation models, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L18804, doi:10.1029/2007GL031115.
Chen, G., I. M. Held, and W. A. Robinson, 2007: Sensitivity of the latitude of the surface westerlies to surface friction. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 2899-2915, doi:10.1175/JAS3995.1.
Chen, G., 2007: Mechanisms that control the latitude of jet streams and surface westerlies. Ph.D. thesis, Princeton University, 153 pp.
