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  • 1985 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Ka-Kit Tung is a researcher affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their academic work encompasses fields such as Environmental Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Medicine. Their research often focuses on subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Modeling and Simulation, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's publications reflect an emphasis on topics related to Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate variability and models, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, Influenza Virus Research Studies, Ecosystem dynamics and resilience, and Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Ka-Kit Tung include:

  • Evidence lacking for a pending collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, 2023, Nature Climate Change
  • Adapting to a Foggy Future Along Trans-Arctic Shipping Routes, 2023, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Herd immunity vs suppressed equilibrium in COVID-19 pandemic: different goals require different models for tracking, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Comment on 'On the relationship between Atlantic meridional overturning circulation slowdown and global surface warming', 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Solar cycle as a distinct line of evidence constraining Earth's transient climate response, 2023, Nature Communications

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Xianyao Chen
  • King-Fai Li
  • Yi Li
  • Norden E. Huang
  • Fangli Qiao

Ka-Kit Tung has contributed to multiple scholarly journals and venues such as Nature Climate Change, Geophysical Research Letters, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Environmental Research Letters, and Nature Communications.

In 1985, Ka-Kit Tung was recognized as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Best Publications

  • Varying planetary heat sink led to global-warming slowdown and acceleration

    Xianyao Chen;Xianyao Chen;Ka Kit Tung

  • Banded Convective Activity and Ducted Gravity Waves

    R. S. Lindzen;K. K. Tung

  • 11-Year solar cycle in the stratosphere extracted by the empirical mode decomposition method

    K.T Coughlin;K.K Tung

  • A Theory of Stationary Long Waves. Part I: A Simple Theory of Blocking

    K. K. Tung;R. S. Lindzen

  • Are antarctic ozone variations a manifestation of dynamics or chemistry

    Ka-Kit Tung;Ka-Kit Tung;Malcolm K. W. Ko;José M. Rodriguez;Nien Dak Sze

  • The k−3 and k−5/3 Energy Spectrum of Atmospheric Turbulence: Quasigeostrophic Two-Level Model Simulation

    Ka Kit Tung;Wendell Welch Orlando

  • Global QBO in circulation and ozone. Part 1: Reexamination of observational evidence

    K. K. Tung;H. Yang

  • Global surface warming enhanced by weak Atlantic overturning circulation.

    Xianyao Chen;Ka-Kit Tung

  • The global warming hiatus: Slowdown or redistribution?

    Xiao‐Hai Yan;Tim Boyer;Kevin Trenberth;Thomas R. Karl

  • Using data to attribute episodes of warming and cooling in instrumental records

    Ka-Kit Tung;Jiansong Zhou

  • Surface warming by the solar cycle as revealed by the composite mean difference projection

    Charles D. Camp;Ka Kit Tung

  • The Influence of the Solar Cycle and QBO on the Late-Winter Stratospheric Polar Vortex

    Charles D. Camp;Ka-Kit Tung

  • Interannual and Decadal Variations of Planetary Wave Activity, Stratospheric Cooling, and Northern Hemisphere Annular Mode

    Yongyun Hu;Ka Kit Tung

  • Wave Overreflection and Shear Instability

    R. S. Lindzen;K. K. Tung

  • Stratospheric polar warming by ENSO in winter: A statistical study

    C. D. Camp;C. D. Camp;K.-K. Tung

  • A zonal mean model of stratospheric tracer transport in isentropic coordinates: Numerical simulations for nitrous oxide and nitric acid

    Malcolm K. W. Ko;Ka Kit Tung;Debra K. Weisenstein;Nien Dak Sze

  • Nongeostrophic Theory of Zonally Averaged Circulation. Part I: Formulation.

    Ka Kit Tung

  • On the Two-Dimensional Transport of Stratospheric Trace Gases in Isentropic Coordinates

    Ka Kit Tung

  • Eleven-year solar cycle signal throughout the lower atmosphere

    K. Coughlin;K. K. Tung

  • A Theory of Stationary Long Waves. Part II: Resonant Rossby Waves in the Presence of Realistic Vertical Shears

    K. K. Tung;R. S. Lindzen

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuk L. Yung
Yuk L. Yung California Institute of Technology
Yongyun Hu
Yongyun Hu Peking University
Mao-Chang Liang
Mao-Chang Liang Academia Sinica
Malcolm K. W. Ko
Malcolm K. W. Ko Langley Research Center
Nien Dak Sze
Nien Dak Sze Harvard University
Fangli Qiao
Fangli Qiao Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
Ming Cai
Ming Cai Florida State University
Debra K. Weisenstein
Debra K. Weisenstein Harvard University
Kevin E. Trenberth
Kevin E. Trenberth University of Auckland

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