Dr. Kaicun Wang

 
Education

Ph.D.   Atmospheric Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China, 2004
M.Sc.   Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, 2001
B.Sc.   Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, 1998

Research Interests

• Global terrestrial evaporation climatology
• Evaporation, urbanization, and global warming
• Estimation of surface net radiation
• Satellite land surface characteristics climatology

The primary research interests of Kaicun Wang are to use satellite and ground-based measurements for the retrieval of surface characteristics (surface albedo, normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), land surface temperature, and soil thermal parameters), surface net radiation (surface downward solar radiation and longwave emission) and land-air interactions (terrestrial interaction and carbon uptake). He developed several methods to estimate terrestrial evaporation from satellite data and conventional meteorological observations. He also developed a method to estimate broadband emissivity from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) narrowband retrievals. Currently he is working on the estimating long-term global land surface energy balance and terrestrial evaporation from current available satellite data, ground-based measurements and model simulations. Kaicun is also interested in the interactions between air pollution, surface solar radiation, terrestrial evaporation and carbon uptake.

Before joining the department of Geography at the University of Maryland in July 2006, Dr. Wang held an assistant researcher position at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2004-2006), and was a visiting scientist at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center at the University of Maryland.

Representative Papers

Wang, K., and S. Liang (2007).

An improved method for estimating global evapotranspiration based on satellite determination of surface net radiation, vegetation index, temperature, and soil moisture. Journal of Hydrometeorology, accepted.

Wang, K., S. Liang, D. Wang, T. Zheng (2007).

Simultaneous estimation of surface photosynthetically active radiation and albedo from GOES, Remote Sensing of Environment, accepted.

Wang, K., P. Wang, Z. Li, M. Sparrow, and M. Cribb (2007).

A simple method to estimate evapotranspiration from a combination of net radiation, vegetation indices and temperatures. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, D15107, DOI: 10.1029/2006JD008351.

Wang, K., J. Wang, P. Wang, M. Sparrow, H. Chen, et al. (2007).

Influences of Urbanization on Surface Characteristics from MODIS: A Case Study for Beijing Metropolitan. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, D22S06, Doi:10.1029/2006JD007997.

Wang, K., Z. Wan, P. Wang, J. Liu, and M. Sparrow (2007).

Evaluation and Improvement of the MODIS Land Surface Temperature/Emissivity Products Using Ground-based Measurements at a Semi-desert Site on the Western Tibetan Plateau. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 28, 2549-2565.

Wang, K., Z. Li and M. Cribb (2006).

Estimation of Evaporative Fraction from a Combination of Day and Night Land Surface Temperatures and NDVI: A New Method to Determine the Priestly-Taylor Parameter. Remote Sensing of Environment, 102, 293-305.

Wang, K., Z. Wan, P. Wang, M. Sparrow, J. Liu, et al.  (2005).

Estimation of land surface upwelling long wave radiation and broadband emissivity using MODIS LST products. Journal of Geophysics Research, 110, D11109, doi: 10.1029/2004JD005566.

Wang, K., P. Wang, J. Liu, M. Sparrow, S. Haginoya, et al. (2005).

Variation of surface albedo and soil thermal parameters with soil moisture content at a semi-desert site on the western Tibetan Plateau. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 116(1), 117-129.

Wang, K., X. Zhou, J. Liu and M. Sparrow (2005).

Estimating surface solar radiation over complex terrain using moderate-resolution satellite sensor data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26(1), 47-58.

Wang, K., J. Liu, X. Zhou, M. Sparrow, M. Ma, et al. (2004).

Validation of the MODIS global land surface albedo product using ground measurements in a semidesert region on the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, D05107, doi: 10.1029/2003JD004229.