Research

MJO-SSW teleconnection: (summary)

• Kang, W. and E. Tziperman 2017, More Frequent Sudden Stratospheric Warming Events due to Enhanced MJO Forcing Expected in a Warmer Climate, Journal of Climate, 30:21, 8727-8743, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0044.1. (post)
• Kang, W. and E. Tziperman 2018, The role of zonal asymmetry in the enhancement and suppression of sudden stratospheric warming variability by the Madden-Julian Oscillation, Journal of Climate, 31, 2399– 2415, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0489.1. (post)
• Kang, W. and E. Tziperman 2018, The MJO-SSW teleconnection: interaction between MJO-forced waves and the mid-latitude jet, Geophysical Research Letter, 45(9), 4400-4409. (post)

Climate on exoplanet:

• Kang. W. 2019, Wetter Stratospheres on High Obliquity Planets,  Astrophysical Journal Letter, 877:1, doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab1f79. (post)
• Kang, W. 2019, Mechanisms leading to a warmer climate on high obliquity planets, Astrophysical Journal Letter, 876:1, doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab18a8. (post)
• Kang, W., M. Cai and E. Tziperman, 2018, Tropical and Extratropical General Circulation with a Meridional Reversed Temperature Gradient as Expected in a High Obliquity Planet, Icarus, doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2019.04.028. (post)
• Kang. W. 2019, Regime transition between eddy-driven and moist-driven circulation on High Obliquity Planets,  Astrophysical Journal, 884:1, doi: 10.3847%2F1538-4357%2Fab3fa2. (post)
• Kang, W. and R. Wordsworth 2019, Collapse of the general circulation in shortwave-absorbing atmospheres: an idealized model study, Astrophysical Journal Letter, 885:18, doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab4c43 (post)
• Komacek T., W., Kang, J. Lustig-Yaeger, S. Olson, Leveraging models to constrain the climates of rocky exoplanets (under review)

Icy moon oceanography and ice dynamics:

• Kang, W. and G. Flierl 2020, Spontaneous formation of geysers at only one pole on Enceladus’ ice shell, PNAS, doi:10.1073/pnas.2001648117
• Kang, W., S. Bire, T. Mittal, J. Campin, J. Marshall, How does salinity shape ocean circulation and ice geometry on Enceladus and other icy satellites?, Nature Astronomy (under review)
• Kang, W., S. Bire, J. Marshall, The role of ocean circulation in driving hemispheric symmetry breaking of the Enceladus’s ice shell. (about to submit)
• Kang. W., S. Bire, J. Campin, C. Sotin, C. German, A. Thurnherr, J. Marshall, Differing Enceladean ocean circulation and ice shell geometries driven by tidal heating in the ice versus the core (under review)
• Bire S., W. Kang, J. Campin, J. Marshall, Regimes of ocean circulation on Europa-like icy moons (in prep.)

Atmosphere escape from lava planet:

• Kang, W., F. Ding, R. Wordsworth, and S. Seager 2021, Escaping outflows from disintegrating exoplanets: day-side versus night-side escape, ApJ, doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/abcaa7