Assistant Researcher, UCLA Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, working with
Professor Larry
Lyons
Projects
PI: NASA Heliophysics Guest Investigator
Program, 'Effects of solar wind and IMF conditions on the transport and
distribution of ions, electrons, and fields in Earth's plasma sheet.'
PI: NSF Magnetosphere Physics, 'Formation and characteristics of the Harang reversal and relations to substorms: simulations with the Rice Convection Model'.
Co-I: NASA Geospace program, 'Simulations of the physics of the Harang reversal
and its relationship to substorms with the Rice Convection Model'.
Co-I: NASA helipphysics Theory program, 'Modeling the Excitation of Inner Magnetospheric Chorus and EMIC Waves from a
Source Population in the Plasmasheet'.
Co-I: NASA Geospace program, 'Coordinated THEMIS-Radar Evaluation of Region 2 Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling Electrodynamics'.
Education
B.A., 1991, Atmospheric Sciences, National
Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
M.A., 1993, Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Thesis title:
Application of Matrix Mechanics with Dyson Boson Mapping to Nuclear Models.
Ph.D., 2002: Atmospheric Sciences (Space
Physics), University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Dissertation
title: Modeling the Inner Plasma Sheet Protons and Magnetic field.
Research interests
Observations and modeling of the Earth's
plasma sheet, the low latitude boundary layer, and substorms.
Publications
1. Wang, C.-P., L. R. Lyons, T. Nagai, J. M.
Weygand, and A. T. Y. Lui, Transport of cold particles from the flanks and tail by drift and diffusion within the plasma sheet, J. Geophys. Res., 2009, submitted.
2. Wang, C.-P., L. R. Lyons, R. A. Wolf, T. Nagai, J. M.
Weygand, and A. T. Y. Lui, The plasma sheet PV5/3 and nV and associated plasma and energy transport for different convection strengths and AE levels, J. Geophys. Res., 114, A00D02, doi:10.1029/2008JA013849, 2009.
3. Wang, C.-P., L. R. Lyons, V. Angelopoulos , D. E. Larson , J. McFadden , S. Frey , U. Auster , and W. Magnes, THEMIS observations of penetration of the plasma sheet into the ring current region during a magnetic storm, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, l17S14, doi:10.1029/2008GL033375, 2008.
4. Wang, C.-P., L. R. Lyons, T. Nagai,J. M.
Weygand, and R. W. McEntire, Sources, transport, and distributions of plasma sheet ions and electrons and dependences on interplanetary parameters under northward interplanetary magnetic field, J. Geophys. Res., 112, A10224, doi:10.1029/2007JA012522, 2007.
5. Wang, C.-P., L. R. Lyons, J. M.
Weygand, T. Nagai, and R. W. McEntire, Equatorial distributions of the plasma
sheet ions, their electric and magnetic drifts, and magnetic fields under
different interplanetary magnetic field Bz conditions, J. Geophys. Res., 111,
A04215, doi:10.1029/2005JA011545, 2006.
6. Wang, C.-P., L. R. Lyons, T. Nagai, and J. C. Samson, The midnight radial profiles
of the quiet and growth phase plasma sheet: the Geotail observations, J.
Geophys. Res., 109, A12201, doi:10.1029/2004JA010590, 2004.
7. Wang, C.-P., L. R. Lyons, M. W. Chen, and F. R. Toffoletto, Modeling the
transition of the inner plasma sheet from weak to enhanced convection, J.
Geophys. Res., 109, A12202, doi:10.1029/2004JA010591, 2004.
8. Wang, C.-P., L. R. Lyons, M. W. Chen, R. A. Wolf, and F. R. Toffoletto,
Modeling the inner plasma sheet protons and magnetic field under enhanced
convection, J. Geophys. Res., 108(A2), 1074, doi:10.1029/2002JA009620, 2003.
9. Wang, C.-P., L. R. Lyons, M. W. Chen, and R. A. Wolf, Two-dimensional quiet
time equilibrium for the inner plasma sheet protons and magnetic field,
Geophys. Res. Lett., 29(24), 2186, doi:10.1029/2001GL013984, 2002.
10. Wang, C.-P., L. R. Lyons, M. W. Chen, and R. A. Wolf, Modeling the
quiet-time inner plasma sheet protons, J. Geophys. Res. 106, 6161-6178, 2001.
11. Gkioulidou, M., C.-P. Wang, L. R. Lyons, and R. A. Wolf, Formation of the Harang reversal and its dependence on plasma sheet conditions: RCM simulations, J. Geophys. Res., 114, A07204, doi:10.1029/2008JA013955, 2009.
12. Lyons, L. R., C.-P. Wang, T. Nagai, T. Mukai, Y. Saito, and J. C. Samson,
Substorm inner plasma sheet particle reduction, J. Geophys. Res., 108(A12),
1426, doi:10.1029/2003JA010177, 2003.
13. Lyons, L. R., C.-P. Wang, T. Nagai, Substorm onset by plasma sheet
divergence, J. Geophys. Res., 108(A12), 1427, doi:10.1029/2003JA010178, 2003.
14. Lyons, L. R., C.-P. Wang, Matina Gkioulidou, and Shasha Zou, Connections between
plasma sheet transport, region 2 currents, and entropy changes associated with
convection, SMCs, and substorms, J. Geophys. Res., 114, A00D01, doi:10.1029/2008JA013743, 2009.
15. Chen, M. W., C.-P. Wang, M. Schulz, and L. R. Lyons, Solar wind influence
on MLT dependence of plasmasheet conditions and their effects on stormtime ring
current formation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L14112, doi:10.1029/2007GL030189, 2007.
16. Lyons, L. R., D.-Y. Lee, C.-P. Wang, and S. B. Mende, Global auroral
responses to abrupt solar wind changes: Dynamic pressure, substorm, and null
events, J. Geophys. Res., 110, A08208, doi:10.1029/2005JA011089, 2005.
17. Zesta, E., L. R. Lyons, C.-P. Wang, E. Donovan, H. Frey, and T. Nagai,
Auroral Poleward Boundary Intensifications (PBIs): their two-dimensional
structure and the associated dynamics in the Plasma Sheet, J. Geophys. Res.,
111, A05201, doi:10.1029/2004JA010640, 2006.
18. Zou, S., L. R. Lyons, C.-P. Wang, A. Boudouridis, J. Ruohoniemi, P. Anderson, P. Dyson, and J. Devlin,
On the coupling between the Harang reversal evolution and substorm dynamics: a synthesis of SuperDARN,
DMSP and IMAGE observations, J. Geophys. Res., 114, A01205, doi:10.1029/2008JA013449, 2008.
19. Lee, D.-Y., L. R. Lyons, James M. Weygand, C.-P. Wang, Reasons why some solar wind changes do not trigger
substorms, J. Geophys. Res, 112, A06240, doi:10.1029/2007JA012249, 2007.
20. Lyons, L. R., D.-Y. Lee, S. Zou, C.-P. Wang, J. Kozyra , J. Weygand , and S. B. Mende, Dynamic Pressure Enhancements as a Cause of Large-Scale Stormtime Substorms, J. Geophys. Res., 113, A08215, doi:10.1029/2007JA012926, 2008.
21. Liu, W. W., J. Liang, E. F. Donovan, T. Trondsen, G. Sofko, B. Jackel, C.-P. Wang, S. Mende, H. U. Frey, and V. Angelopoulos5Observation of an Isolated High-Speed Auroral Streamer and Its Interpretation as Optical Signatures of Alfvenic Fronts Generated by Bursty Bulk Flows, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L04104, doi:10.1029/2007GL032722, 2007.
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