Education/Work Experience

WORKING EXPERIENCE:

Mar. 2018 – Present: Associate Professor, Oct. 2014 – Feb. 2018: Postdoc Fellow, School of Sep. 2013 – Oct. 2014: Senior Research Assistant, School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. (Atmospheric Science), 2014

M.S. (Physical Oceanography), 2010

Research Direction

Urban Climate, Extreme Weather and Climate, Climate Dynamics

Research Project

Title: Large-Eddy Simulations of Ventilation in Typical Urban Forms and Different Atmospheric Stability Conditions of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area; Funding Source: NSFC; Project No.: 41875010.

Teaching Courses

Representative Paper

1. Wang, W.*, and E. Ng, 2018: Large-eddy simulations of air ventilation in parametric scenarios: comparative studies of urban form and wind direction.Architectural Science Review, 61, 215–225. doi: 10.1080/00038628.2018.1481359
   

2. Wang, W.*, Y. Xu, E. Ng, and S. Raasch, 2018: Evaluation of satellite-derived building height extraction by CFD simulations: A case study of neighborhood-scale ventilation in Hong Kong. Landscape and Urban Planning, 170, 90–102. doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.11.008

3. Wang, W.*, and E. Ng, 2018: Air ventilation assessment under unstable atmospheric stratification — A comparative study for Hong Kong. Building and Environment, 130, 1–13. doi: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2017.12.018

4. Wang, W.*, Y. Xu, and E. Ng, 2018: Large-eddy simulations of pedestrian-level ventilation for assessing a satellite-based approach to urban geometry generation.Graphical Models, 95, 29–41. doi: 10.1016/j.gmod.2017.06.003

5. Wang, W.*, E. Ng, C. Yuan, and S. Raasch, 2017: Large-eddy simulations of ventilation for thermal comfort — A parametric study of generic urban configurations with perpendicular approaching winds. Urban Climate, 20, 202–227. doi: 10.1016/j.uclim.2017.04.007

6. Xu, Y., C. Ren*, P. Ma, J. Ho, W. Wang, K. Lau, H. Lin, and E. Ng, 2017: Urban morphology detection and computation for urban climate research, Landscape and Urban Planning, 167, 212–224. doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.06.018

7. Wang, W., and W. Zhou*, 2017: Statistical modeling and trend detection of extreme sea level records in the Pearl River Estuary. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 34, 383–396. doi: 10.1007/s00376-016-6041-y

8. Wang, W., W. Zhou*, E. Y. Y. Ng, and Y. Xu, 2016: Urban heat island in Hong Kong: Statistical modeling and trend detection. Natural Hazards, 83, 885–907.doi: 10.1007/s11069-016-2353-6

9. Wang, W., W. Zhou*, X. Li, X. Wang, and D. Wang, 2016: Synoptic-scale characteristics and atmospheric controls of summer heat waves in China. Climate Dynamics, 46, 2923–2941. doi: 10.1007/s00382-015-2741-8

10. Wang, W., W. Zhou*, S. K. Fong, K. C. Leong, I. M. Tang, S. W. Chang, and W. K. Leong, 2015: Extreme rainfall and summer heat waves in Macau based on statistical theory of extreme values. Climate Research, 66, 91–101. doi: 10.3354/cr01336

11. Wang, W., W. Zhou*, Y. Li, X. Wang, and D. Wang, 2015: Statistical modeling and CMIP5 simulations of hot spell changes in China. Climate Dynamics, 44, 2859–2872. doi: 10.1007/s00382-014-2287-1

12. Wang, W., W. Zhou*, and D. Chen, 2014: Summer high temperature extremes in Southeast China: bonding with the El Niño-Southern Oscillation and East Asian summer monsoon coupled system. Journal of Climate, 27, 4122–4138. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00545.1

13. Shu, Y., J. Chen, J. Yao, J. Pan, W. Wang, H. Mao, and D. Wang*, 2014: Effects of the Pearl River plume on the vertical structure of coastal currents in the Northern South China Sea during summer 2008. Ocean Dynamics, 64: 1743–1752. doi: 10.1007/s10236-014-0779-5

14. Wang, W., W. Zhou*, X. Wang, S. K. Fong, and K. C. Leong, 2013: Summer high temperature extremes in Southeast China associated with the East Asian jet stream and circumglobal teleconnection. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, 118, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50633

15. Wang, W., D. Wang*, W. Zhou, Q. Liu, Y. Yu, and C. Li, 2011: Impact of the South China Sea throughflow on the Pacific low-latitude western boundary current: A numerical study for seasonal and interannual time scales. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 28(6), 1367–1376. doi: 10.1007/s00376-011-0142-4

16. Wang, D.*, Y. Deng, and W. Wang, 2009: Research Progress in the South China Sea Circulation and Local Air-Sea Interaction during 2003～2006. In Advances in Geosciences, Vol.12: Ocean Science (OS): 145–160. J. Gan et al. (Eds.). World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore.