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Junhong Wang is affiliated with the University at Albany, State University of New York in the United States. Their research encompasses multiple fields including Environmental Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Engineering. Within these broader areas, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Aerospace Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The main topics of their work cover a range of climate and atmospheric-related phenomena. These include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Cryospheric studies and observations, Climate variability and models, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Fire effects on ecosystems, and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate.

Junhong Wang has frequently published in several scientific venues. The most common journals associated with their work include:

  • Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Climate
  • Geoscientific instrumentation, methods and data systems

Among recent papers featuring their contributions are:

  • "A Technical Overview of the New York State Mesonet Standard Network" (2020, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology)
  • "A New Approach to Homogenize Global Subdaily Radiosonde Temperature Data from 1958 to 2018" (2020, Journal of Climate)
  • "Managing the transition from Vaisala RS92 to RS41 radiosondes within the Global Climate Observing System Reference Upper-Air Network (GRUAN): a progress report" (2020, Geoscientific instrumentation, methods and data systems)
  • "Bio-electrocatalyst Fe3O4/Fe@C derived from MOF as a high-performance bioanode in single-chamber microbial fuel cell" (2022, Biochemical Engineering Journal)
  • "Quantifying Human-Induced Dynamic and Thermodynamic Contributions to Severe Cold Outbreaks Like November 2019 in the Eastern United States" (2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society)

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their research, with frequent coauthors being:

  • Jerald A. Brotzge
  • Nathan Bain
  • Bhupal Shrestha
  • Aiguo Dai
  • Chris D. Thorncroft

Best Publications

  • An Overview of the International H2O Project (IHOP_2002) and Some Preliminary Highlights

    Tammy M. Weckwerth;David B. Parsons;Steven E. Koch;James A. Moore

  • A near-global, 2-hourly data set of atmospheric precipitable water from ground-based GPS measurements

    Junhong Wang;Liangying Zhang;Aiguo Dai;Teresa Van Hove

  • Corrections of Humidity Measurement Errors from the Vaisala RS80 Radiosonde—Application to TOGA COARE Data

    Junhong Wang;Harold L. Cole;David J. Carlson;Erik R. Miller

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

  • State of the Climate in 2014

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • Systematic Errors in Global Radiosonde Precipitable Water Data from Comparisons with Ground-Based GPS Measurements

    Junhong Wang;Liangying Zhang

  • Determination of Cloud Vertical Structure from Upper-Air Observations

    Junhong Wang;William B. Rossow

  • Cloud Vertical Structure and Its Variations from a 20-Yr Global Rawinsonde Dataset

    Junhong Wang;William B. Rossow;Yuanchong Zhang

  • Diurnal and Semidiurnal Tides in Global Surface Pressure Fields

    Aiguo Dai;Junhong Wang

  • Global estimates of water‐vapor‐weighted mean temperature of the atmosphere for GPS applications

    Junhong Wang;Liangying Zhang;Aiguo Dai

  • Comparison of GPS radio occultation soundings with radiosondes

    Y.-H. Kuo;Y.-H. Kuo;W. S. Schreiner;J. Wang;D. L. Rossiter;D. L. Rossiter

  • Cloud layer thicknesses from a combination of surface and upper-air observations

    Kirk D. Poore;Junhong Wang;William B. Rossow

  • Diurnal variation in water vapor over North America and its implications for sampling errors in radiosonde humidity

    Aiguo Dai;Junhong Wang;Randolph H. Ware;Teresa Van Hove

  • A New Approach to Homogenize Daily Radiosonde Humidity Data

    Aiguo Dai;Junhong Wang;Peter W. Thorne;David E. Parker

  • Reference Upper-Air Observations for Climate: Rationale, Progress, and Plans

    Dian J. Seidel;Franz H. Berger;Howard J. Diamond;John Dykema

  • State of the Climate in 2016

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • Quality-Controlled Upper-Air Sounding Dataset for DYNAMO/CINDY/AMIE: Development and Corrections

    Paul E. Ciesielski;Hungjui Yu;Richard H. Johnson;Kunio Yoneyama

  • Performance of operational radiosonde humidity sensors in direct comparison with a chilled mirror dew‐point hygrometer and its climate implication

    Junhong Wang;David J. Carlson;David B. Parsons;Terrence F. Hock

  • Effects of Cloud Vertical Structure on Atmospheric Circulation in the GISS GCM

    Junhong Wang;William B. Rossow

  • Global Water Vapor Trend from 1988 to 2011 and Its Diurnal Asymmetry Based on GPS, Radiosonde, and Microwave Satellite Measurements

    Junhong Wang;Aiguo Dai;Carl Mears

  • Reference Upper-Air Observations for Climate: From Concept to Reality

    G.E. Bodeker;Stephan Bojinski;D. Cimini;R.D. Dirksen

  • [Regional Climates] Central South America 2016

    J. A. Marengo;Jhan Carlo Espinoza;L. M. Alves;J. Ronchail

Frequent Co-Authors

Aiguo Dai
Aiguo Dai University at Albany, State University of New York
Carl A. Mears
Carl A. Mears Remote Sensing Systems (United States)
Dale F. Hurst
Dale F. Hurst Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Peter Thorne
Peter Thorne National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Marco Tedesco
Marco Tedesco Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Holger Vömel
Holger Vömel National Center for Atmospheric Research
Johannes W. Kaiser
Johannes W. Kaiser German Meteorological Service
David B. Parsons
David B. Parsons University of Oklahoma
William B. Rossow
William B. Rossow City College of New York
Richard H. Johnson
Richard H. Johnson Colorado State University

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