Dr. Weile Wang

Research Interests

• Remote Sensing of Vegetation, Radiative Transfer Models
• Ecosystem Modeling and Ecological Forecasting
• Carbon Cycle: Data and Model Synthesis
• Climate Variability and Climate Change, Atmosphere-Surface Interactions

Education and Training

• Ph.D., Physical Geography, Boston University, USA, 05/2006
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China, 07/2001
• Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China, 07/1998

Awards and Honors

• NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow, NASA, 2008 - present
• NASA Earth System Science Fellow, NASA, 2003 - 2006

Publications

Wang, W., K. Ichii, H. Hashimoto, A. Michaelis, P. Thornton, B. Law, and R. Nemani, 2009 : A hierarchical analysis of the terrestrial ecosystem model BIOME-BGC: model calibration and equilibrium analysis. Ecological Modelling (in review).

Hashimoto, H., M. Forrest, K. Ichii, C. Milesi, W. Wang, and R.Nemani, 2009 : Evaluating the impacts of climate and elevated CO2 on tropical rainforests of the western Amazon basin using ecosystem models and satellite data, Global Change Biology, (in press)

Wang, W., B. T. Anderson, Y. Su, D. Huang, N. Phillips, R.K. Kaufmann, and R.B. Myneni, 2007: Intraseasonal interactions between temperature and vegetation over the boreal forests. Earth Interactions.

Huang, D., Y. Knyazikhin, W. Wang, D. W. Deering, P. Stenberg, N. Shabanov, B. Tan, and R. B. Myneni, 2007: Stochastic transport theory for investigating the three-dimensional canopy structure from space measurements. Remote Sens. Environ.

Kaufmann, R. K., K. C. Seto, A. Schneider, L. Zhou, Z. Liu, and W. Wang, 2007: Climate response to rapid urban growth: evidence of a human-induced precipitation deficit. J. Climate.

Wang, W., B. T. Anderson, N. Phillips, R.K. Kaufmann, and R.B. Myneni, 2006: Feedbacks of vegetation on summertime climate variability over the North American Grasslands: 1. Statistical Analysis. Earth Interactions.

Wang, W., B. T. Anderson, D. Entekhabi, D. Huang, R.K. Kaufmann, and R.B. Myneni, 2006: Feedbacks of vegetation on summertime climate variability over the North American Grasslands: 2. A coupled stochastic model. Earth Interactions

Yang, W., N.V. Shabanov, D. Huang, W. Wang, R.E. Dickinson, R.R. Nemani, Y. Knyazikhin, and R.B. Myneni, 2006: Analysis of prototype collection 5 products of leaf area index from Terra and Aqua MODIS sensors. Journal of Geophysical Research.

Wang, W., B. T. Anderson, R. K. Kaufmann, and R.B. Myneni, 2004: On the relation between the North Atlantic Oscillation and SSTs in the North Atlantic basin. J. Climate.