Dr. Wen-wen Tung

Assistant Professor

E-mail: wwtung@purdue.edu

Associated Website(s): Climate & Extreme Weather (CLEW), Purdue Climate Change Research Center (PCCRC), Personal Website

Education

Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, 2002

Research Interests

  • Dynamical predictability

  • Multiscale convective systems

  • Tropical dynamics (Monsoons, Waves, Intraseasonal oscillation, etc.)

  • Observational data reduction in geophysics and bioinformatics

  • Multiscale signal processing utilizing spectral analysis, wavelet analysis, principal component analysis, chaos and fractal theories, and other statistical methods.

Teaching Interests

EAS309: Computer-Aided Analysis For Geosciences

EAS534: Tropical Meteorology

EAS536: Introduction to Atmospheric General Circulation

EAS591Y: From Hot Towers to Hurricanes - An intro. to multiscale tropical convective systems

EAS637: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics in A Rotating System

Professional Experience

  • Assistant Professor, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Prudue University January 2005–present

  • Visiting Scientist, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division, NCAR August–December 2004

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Advanced Study Program, NCAR August 2002–July 2004

Selected Publications

  • Tung, W.-w., J.B. Gao, J. Hu, and Y.H. Cao, 2007: Quantifying dynamical prediction utility by relative entropy: the role of Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy, submitted to J. Atmos. Sci.

  • Tung, W.-w., Y. Qi, J.B. Gao, Y.H. Cao, and L. Billings, 2005: Direct characterization of chaotic and stochastic dynamics in a population model with strong periodicity. Chaos, Solitons, and Fractals, 24, 645-652.

  • Tung,W.-w., M.W. Moncrieff, and J. B. Gao, 2004: A systematic view of the multiscale tropical deep convective variability over the tropical western- Pacific warm pool. J. Climate, 17, 2736-2751.

  • Tung, W.-w., and M. Yanai, 2002: Convective momentum transport Observed during the TOGA COARE IOP. Part I: General features. J. Atmos. Sci., 59, 1857? 1871.

  • Tung, W.-w., and M. Yanai, 2002: Convective momentum transport observed during the TOGA COARE IOP. Part II: Case studies. J. Atmos. Sci., 59, 2535?2549.