쉬웨이 팡 Shih-Wei Fang

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Email: shihweif@pusan.ac.kr

Research Interests

  • Paleo climates
  • Large-scale climate variability
  • ENSO dynamics
  • Volcanic climate impacts
  • Human migrations from climates

Education

2020 Ph.D. Earth System Science, The University of California, Irvine, CA, U.S.A.
2017 M.S. Earth System Science, The University of California, Irvine, CA, U.S.A.
2015 M. S. Computer Science, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona‎, CA, U.S.A.
2010 B. S. Mathematical Sciences, National Chengchi University, Taipei City, Taiwan

Work Experience

2020 2023 Postdoctoral Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
2015 2015 Internship at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CA, U.S.A.

Publications

Peer-reviewed papers

  1. Fang, S. W., D’Agostino R., Khodri M., Pausata F. S. R., Zanchettin, D., and Timmreck C..  Seasonal ITCZ Control on ENSO Responses to Volcanic Forcing. (In prep.).
  2. Schmidt, H., Rast, S., Bao, J., Fang, S.-W., Jimenez-de la Cuesta, D., Keil, P., Kluft, L., Kroll, C., Lang, T., Niemeier, U., Schneidereit, A., Williams, A. I. L., and Stevens, B.: Effects of vertical grid spacing on the climate simulated in the ICON-Sapphire global storm-resolving model, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1575, 2023.
  3. Timmreck, C., Olonscheck, D., Ballinger, A. P., D’Agostino, R., Fang, S.-W., Schurer, A. P., et al. Linearity of the climate response to increasingly strong tropical volcanic eruptions in a large ensemble framework. (submitted to Journal of Climates).
  4. Fang, S. W., Sigl M., Jungclaus J, Toohey M., Zanchettin, D, and Timmreck C.. The role of small to moderate volcanic eruptions in the early 19th century climate. (Minor revision in Geophysical Research Letters).
  5. Zanchettin, D., Fang, S. W., Khodri, M., Omrani, N. E., Rubinetti, S., Rubino, A., … & Jungclaus, J. H. (2023). Thermohaline patterns of intrinsic Atlantic Multidecadal Variability in MPI-ESM-LR. Climate Dynamics, 1-23..
  6. Villamayor, J., Khodri, M., Fang, S. W., Jungclaus, J. H., Timmreck, C., & Zanchettin, D. (2023). Sahel droughts induced by large volcanic eruptions over the last millennium in PMIP4/Past1000 simulations. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(5), e2022GL101478.
  7. Fang, S. W., Timmreck, C., Jungclaus, J., Krüger, K., & Schmidt, H. (2022). On the additivity of climate responses to the volcanic and solar forcing in the early 19th century. Earth System Dynamics, 13(4), 1535-1555.
  8. Chen, J., Yu, J.Y., Chen S., Wang, X., Xiao, Z., and Fang, S. W.. (2022). Tropical and Subtropical Pacific Sources of the Asymmetric El Niño‐La Niña Decay and Their Future Changes. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(8), e2022GL097751.
  9. Zanchettin, D. et al., (…, Fang, S. W., 21 in total). (2022). Effects of forcing differences and initial conditions on inter-model agreement in the VolMIP volc-pinatubo-full experiment, Model Dev., 15, 2265–2292, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-2265-2022, 2022.
  10. Fang, S. W., Khodri, M., Timmreck, C., Zanchettin, D., & Jungclaus, J. (2021). Disentangling internal and external contributions to Atlantic multidecadal variability over the past millennium. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(23), e2021GL095990.
  11. Chen, M., Chang, T. H., Lee, C. T., Fang, S. W., & Yu, J. Y. (2021). A study of climate model responses of the western Pacific subtropical high to El Niño diversity. Climate Dynamics, 56(1), 581-595.
  12. Fang, S. W. & Yu, J. Y. (2020) Contrasting transition complexity between El Niño and La Niña: Observations and CMIP5/6 models. Geophysical Research Letters, 10.1029/2020GL088926, 47, 16, (2020).
  13. Fang, S. W. & Yu, J. Y. (2020) A Control of ENSO Transition Complexity by Tropical Pacific Mean SSTs through Tropical‐Subtropical Interaction. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL087933. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087933
  14. He, S., Yu, J. Y., Yang, S., & S-W Fang (2020) Why does the CP El Niño less frequently evolve into La Niña than the EP El Niño?. Geophysical Research Letters, e2020GL087876.
  15. He, S., J.-Y. Yu, S. Yang, &-W. Fang, (2020). ENSO’s impacts on the tropical Indian and Atlantic Oceans via tropical atmospheric processes: observations versus CMIP5 simulations. Climate Dynamics, 1-14.
  16. Yu, J. Y., & Fang, S. W. (2018). The Distinct Contributions of the Seasonal Footprinting and Charged‐Discharged Mechanisms to ENSO Complexity. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(13), 6611-6618.
  17. Liang, Y. C., Mazloff, M. R., Rosso, I., Fang, S. W., & Yu, J. Y. (2018). A Multivariate Empirical Orthogonal Function Method to Construct Nitrate Maps in the Southern Ocean. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 35(7), 1505-1519.
  18. Fang, S. W., Rajamanthri D., & Husain M. I. (2015). Facebook Privacy Management Simplified. 12th International Conference on Information Technology-New Generations. IEEE.

Book Chapter

  1. Fang, S. W., Portante, A., & Husain, M. I. (2015). Moving target defense mechanisms in cyber-physical systems. Securing Cyber-Physical Systems, 63.

Thesis

  1. Understanding ENSO Transition Complexity and its Underlying Dynamics. Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2020
  2. Game-Theoretic Model of Moving-Target Defense S. Cal. Poly. University, Pomona, 2015