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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:
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