Atmospheric Environment Laboratory by Professor Wei-Ting Chen
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University
About Prof. Wei-Ting Chen
Tel: +886-2-3366-3914
Email: weitingc@ntu.edu.tw
Education:
• Ph.D., Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology (2009). Advisor: John H. Seinfeld.
• M.S., Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology (2004). Advisor: John H. Seinfeld.
• B.S., Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University (2001)
Research Expertise:
Applying the satellite-retrieved cloud and precipitation products and a hierarchy of atmospheric models (CRM, CESM, SPCAM)
to investigate the multi-scale convections over Asian monsoon regions and their interactions with the large-scale environment
including thermodynamics, dynamics, anthropogenic aerosols:
• Understand the role of the diurnal cycle and convection organization in the cross-scale
convection interactions of monsoon and tropical variability, as well as the representation of
associated physical processes in global models
• Establish satellite-based, high-resolution gridded data sets of aerosol, cloud, precipitation, and
lightning over Taiwan and Asia to investigate the long-term trend of air pollution, the
relationships between aerosols and meteorology, and the occurrence of extreme rainfall systems
• Understand the climate impacts of anthropogenic aerosols over Asian monsoon regions,
including the effects on convection over coastal or complex topography, and the synergistic
effects with land surface changes such as irrigation.
Academic Awards:
• 2023俞家忠教授論文獎
• 2023 Excellent Award of Article in Atmospheric Science (Meteorological Society of the ROC) 大氣科學期刊優良論文獎
• 2020-2022 Taiwan MOST Project for Excellent Junior Research Investigators 科技部年輕優秀學者研究計畫
• 2021 NTU Outstanding Teaching Award (Top 1%) 台大教學傑出教師
• 2014, 2016 and 2017 NTU Excellent Teaching Award (Top 10%) 台大教學優良教師
