Chih-Ping Wang

Associate Researcher, UCLA Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, working with Professor Larry Lyons and Ph.D. students Matina Gkioulidou and Chao Yue


Projects

PI: NSF Geospace environment modeling program, 'Collaborative Research: GEM--Plasma Pressure and Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Mapping in the Substorm Growth Phase'.

PI: NASA Heliophysics Geospace Program, 'Observational verification of dominant physical processes associated with the ring current formation'

PI: NSF GEM, 'Plasma Pressure and Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Mapping in the Substorm Growth Phase'.


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., M. Gkioulidou, L. R. Lyons, R. A. Wolf, V. Angelopoulos, T. Nagai, J. M. Weygand, and A. T. Y. Lui, Spatial distributions of ions and electrons from the plasma sheet to the inner magnetosphere: comparisons between THEMIS-Geotail statistical results and the Rice Convection Model, J. Geophys. Res., 116, A11216, doi:10.1029/2011JA016809, 2011.

2. Gkioulidou, M., C.-P. Wang, and L. R. Lyons, Effect of self-consistent magnetic field on plasma sheet penetration to the inner magnetosphere: RCM simulations combined with modified Dungey force-balanced magnetic field solver, J. Geophys. Res., 116, A11216, doi:10.1029/2011JA016810, 2011.

3. Wang, C.-P., L. R. Lyons, T. Nagai, J. M. Weygand, and A. T. Y. Lui, Evolution of plasma sheet particle content under different interplanetary magnetic field conditions, J. Geophys. Res., 115, A06210, doi:10.1029/2009JA015028 2010.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. 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.

22. 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.

23. 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.

24. Chen, L., R. Thorne, V. Jordanova , C.-P. Wang , M. Gkioulidou , L. Lyons , and R. Horne, Global simulation of EMIC wave excitation during the 2001 April 21st storm from coupled RCM-RAM-HOTRAY modeling, J. Geophys. Res., 115, A07209, doi:10.1029/2009JA015075, 2010.


 


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