Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts2019 - Present
PhD candidate in Climate Science
Advisor: Dr. Susan Solomon
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin2015 - 2019
B.S. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
B.S. in Applied Mathematics
Certificate in Computer Science
Advisor: Dr. Tracey Holloway
Jun Zhang, Peidong Wang, Douglas Kinnison, Susan Solomon, Jian Guan, Yunqian Zhu. Stratospheric chlorine processing after the unprecedented Hunga Tonga eruption. Geophysical Research Letters (under review). [Preprint Link]
Glenn Liu, Peidong Wang, Young-Oh Kwon. Physical Insights from the Multidecadal Prediction of North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature Variability Using Explainable Neural Networks. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(24), 2023. [Paper Link]
Peidong Wang, Susan Solomon, Megan Lickley, Jeffery Scott, Ray Weiss, Ronald Prinn. On the influence of hydroxyl radical changes and ocean sinks on estimated HCFC and HFC emissions and banks. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(18), 2023. [Paper Link]
Peidong Wang, Susan Solomon, Kane Stone. Stratospheric chlorine processing after the 2020 Australian wildfires derived from satellite data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(11), 2023. [Paper Link]
Susan Solomon, Kane Stone, Pengfei Yu, Daniel Murphy, Doug Kinnison, AR Ravishankara, Peidong Wang. Chemical impacts of wildfire smoke on stratospheric chlorine and ozone depletion. Nature, 615(7951), 2023. [Paper Link] [MIT News]
Peidong Wang, Janni Yuval, Paul A. O’Gorman. Non-local parameterization of atmospheric subgrid processes with neural networks. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14(10), 2022. [Paper Link]
Peidong Wang, Tracey Holloway, Matilyn Bindl, Monica Harkey, Isabelle De Smedt. Ambient Formaldehyde over the United States from Ground-Based (AQS) and Satellite (OMI) Observations. Remote Sensing, 14(9), 2022. [Paper Link]
Glenn Liu, Peidong Wang, Matthew Beveridge, Young-Oh Kwon, Iddo Drori. Predicting Atlantic Multidecadal Variability. NeurIPS 2021 Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning. [Best Paper Award] [Preprint Link]
Megan Lickley, Susan Solomon, Doug Kinnison, Paul Krummel, Jens Mhle, Simon O’Doherty, Ronald Prinn, Matthew Rigby, Kane A. Stone, Peidong Wang, Ray Weiss, Dickon Young. Quantifying the Imprints of Stratospheric Contributions to Interhemispheric Differences in Tropospheric CFC-11, CFC-12, and N2O Abundances. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(15), 2021. [Paper Link]
Peidong Wang, Jeffery R. Scott, Susan Solomon, John Marshall, Andrew R. Babbin, Megan Lickley, David W. J. Thompson, Timothy DeVries, Qing Liang, Ronald G. Prinn. On the Effects of the Ocean on Atmospheric CFC-11 Lifetimes And Emissions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(12), 2021. [Paper Link] [MIT News]
Jule Charney Fellowship, PAOC, MIT Dec 2023
7th SPARC General Assembly Early Career Scientist Best Oral Presentation Oct 2022
Norman C. Rasmussen Fellowship, EAPS, MIT Sep 2022
John H. Carlson Fellowship, EAPS, MIT Oct 2020
Jule Charney Prize, PAOC, MIT Sept 2019
MIT Presidential Fellowship Sept 2019
Theodore Herfurth Award for Initiative and Efficiency, UW-MadisonApr 2019
Phi Beta Kappa Membership Apr 2019
2019 UW-Madison University Book Store Academic Excellence AwardApr 2019
Horn Scholarship Award, AOS, UW-Madison Apr 2018
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Summer Student Fellowship Mar 2018
2017-2018 Wisconsin Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship Apr 2017
“Chlorine processing after the 2020 Australian wildfire”. Oral. Stratosphere-troposphere Processes And their Role in Climate (SPARC) 7th General Assembly, Boulder, Colorado, Oct. 2022.
“Predicting Atlantic Multidecadal Variability”. Spotlight Talk. NeurIPS 2021 Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning, virtual, Dec. 2021.
“On the effects of the ocean on atmospheric CFCs lifetimes and emissions”. Poster Presentation. Quadrennial Ozone Symposium, virtual, Oct. 2021.
“Synthesis of Tree-Ring Records and Coupled Climate Model Simulations to Understand North Atlantic Hydroclimate Responses to Volcanic Eruptions in the Last Millennium”. Poster Presentation. 2018 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Washington D.C., Dec. 2018.
“The Role of Volcanic Forcing in the North Atlantic Hydroclimate Over the Last Millennium”. Poster Presentation. Understanding and Modeling the Earth’s Climate: A symposium in honor of Isaac Held, Princeton University, NJ, Oct. 2018.
“Linking Atmospheric Chemistry to Climate Change”. Oral Presentation. AOS Deparement Seminar, UW- Madison, WI, Sept. 2018.
“North Atlantic Hydroclimate Responses to Volcanic Eruptions”. Oral Presentation. Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA, Aug. 2018.
“Ambient Formaldehyde over the United States from Ground-based and Satellite Observations”. Oral Presentation. 2018 Annual Undergraduate Symposium, UW- Madison, WI, Apr. 2018.
“Satellite Observations of Ambient Formaldehyde and Comparisons to Ground Measurements”. Oral Presentation. Climate, People, and Environment Program (CPEP) seminar, Madison, WI, Feb. 2018
“Formaldehyde Trend Analysis from Satellite Observations and Ground Measurements”. Poster. NASA Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (HAQAST) - 3 Meeting, Columbia University, NY, Nov. 2017
“Characterizing Ambient Formaldehyde over the United States”. Poster. 11th Annual Nelson Institute Earth Day Conference: Hope and Renewal in the Age of Apocalypse, Madison, WI, Apr. 2017
12.003 Introduction to Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics, MIT Fall 2021
CS200 Programming I, UW-Madison Fall 2017
CS302 Introduction to Programming, UW-Madison Spring 2017
Computer Science: Python Fortran Java Matlab NCL HTML Linux/Unix
Editing: LaTex Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel Microsoft PowerPoint
Design: Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator