Dr. Tong DANG

Dr. Tong DANG

Space and planetary physics

Associate Professor at University of Science and Technology of China

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Work Experience

School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China

Funded Research

  1. Investigation of the coupling between ionosphere and middle-upper atmosphere and the related escape processes at Mars, PI, NSFC, 2023-2026
  2. Investigation of the solar eclipse effect on the coupled ionosphere-thermosphere-magnetosphere system, PI, NSFC, 2022-2025
  3. Investigation of the effect of polar tongue of ionization on the thermosphere during geomagnetic storms, PI, NSFC, 2020-2022
  4. High-resolution simulation of the coupled magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere system, PI, National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents, 2018-2020
  5. High-resolution simulations on the polar ionospheric response to geomagnetic storms, PI, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, 2018-2020
  6. Meso-scale structures of polar ionosphere during geomagnetic storms, PI, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, 2019-2020

Publications

  1. Zhai, C., Dang, T.*, Yao, Y., Kong, J., Chen, Y., and Cheng, X. (2023). Three-dimensional ionospheric evolution and asymmetry of the electron density depletion generated by the 21 June 2020 annular solar eclipse. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128, e2023JA031725. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JA031725
  2. Wang, W., Zhang, J., Wang, C., Chen, J., Dang, T., Lei, J., and Ruohoniemi, J. M. (2023). Statistical characteristics of mid-latitude ionospheric F-region backscatter observed by the SuperDARN Jiamusi radar. Radio Science, 58, e2022RS007634. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022RS007634
  3. Chen, J., Wang, W., Lei, J., and Dang, T. (2023). Solar cycle variations in equatorial ionospheric zonal electric fields near sunrise. Earth and Planetary Physics, 7(3), 378–388. https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2023037
  4. Dang, T., Zhang, B., Yan, M., Lyon, J., Yao, Z., Xiao, S., Zhang, T., and Lei, J. (2023). A New Tool for Understanding the Solar Wind–Venus Interaction: Three-dimensional Multifluid MHD Model. The Astrophysical Journal, 945, 91. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acba88
  5. Li, R., Lei, J., Kusche, J., Dang, T., Huang, F., Luan, X., et al. (2023). Large-scale disturbances in the upper thermosphere induced by the 2022 Tonga volcanic eruption. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL102265. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102265
  6. Gu, S.-Y., Yang, Z., Qin, Y., Teng, C.-K., Dou, X., Lei, J., Huang, F., Dang, T., and Sun, W., (2023). Ionospheric TEC variation and gravity waves signatures during the solar eclipse on 21 June 2020 over southern China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128, e2022JA030758. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JA030758
  7. Yan, M., Dang, T.*, Cao, Y., Cui, J., Zhang, B., Liu, Z., Lei, J.* (2022). A Comparative Study of Ionospheric Response to Solar Flares at Earth, Venus, and Mars. The Astrophysical Journal, 939, 10. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac92ff
  8. Tan, Y., Dang, T.*, Lei, J., Zhang, B., Wang, W., Yang, Z., et al. (2022). Interplanetary control of high-latitude thermospheric winds: Results from HIWIND and model simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127, e2022JA030394. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JA030394
  9. Dang, T., Li, X., Luo, B., Li, R., Zhang, B., Pham, K., et al. (2022). Unveiling the space weather during the Starlink satellites destruction event on 4 February 2022. Space Weather, 20, e2022SW003152. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022SW003152
  10. Liu, X., Chen, J., Han, P., Lei, J., Dang, T., Huang, F., et al. (2022). The Response of Geomagnetic Daily Variation and Ionospheric Currents to the Annular Solar Eclipse on 21 June 2020. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127, e2022JA030494. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JA030494
  11. Dang, T., Lei, J., Zhang, B., Zhang, T., Yao, Z., Lyon, J., et al. (2022). Oxygen ion escape at Venus associated with three-dimensional Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2021GL096961. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL096961
  12. Pham, K. H., Zhang, B., Sorathia, K., Dang, T., Wang, W., Merkin, V., et al. (2022). Thermospheric density perturbations produced by traveling atmospheric disturbances during August 2005 storm. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127, e2021JA030071. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JA030071
  13. Chen, X., Dang, T.*, Zhang, B., Lotko, W., Pham, K., Wang, W., et al. (2021). Global Effects of a Polar Solar Eclipse on the Coupled Magnetosphere-Ionosphere System. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL096471. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL096471
  14. Chen, J., Lei J., Wang W., Liu, J., Maute, A., Qian, L., Zhang, R., Dang, T. (2021). Ionospheric electrodynamic response to solar flares in September 2017. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2021JA029745. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JA029745
  15. Li, R., Lei, J., Dang, T. (2021). The solar eclipse effects on the upper thermosphere. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL094749. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094749
  16. Dang, T., Zhang, B., Lei, J., Wang, W., Burns, A., Liu, H., Pham, K., and Sorathia, K. A. (2021). Azimuthal averaging–reconstruction filtering techniques for finite-difference general circulation models in spherical geometry. Geoscientific Model Development, 14, 859–873. http://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-859-2021
  17. Wang, N., Dang, T., Lei, J., Wang, W., and Datta-Barua, S. (2021). Alignment of high-latitude ionospheric and thermospheric Lagrangian coherent structures. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2020JA029028. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA029028
  18. Yan, M., Dang, T., Lei, J., Wang, W., Zhang, S.-R., and Le, H. (2021). From bow waves to traveling atmospheric disturbances: Thermospheric perturbations along solar eclipse trajectory. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2020JA028523. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028523
  19. Aryal, S., Evans, J. S., Correira, J., Burns, …, Dang, T., … (2020). First global-scale synoptic imaging of solar eclipse effects in the thermosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 125, e2020JA027789. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA027789
  20. Dang, T., Lei, J. H., Wang, W. B., Yan, M. D., Ren, D. X., and Huang, F. Q. (2020). Prediction of the thermospheric and ionospheric responses to the 21 June 2020 annular solar eclipse. Earth and Planetary Physics, 4(3), 231–237. http://doi.org/10.26464/epp2020032
  21. Yang, Z., Zhang, B., Lei, J., and Dang, T. (2020). Nonlinear response of the cross polar cap potential to solar wind density under northward interplanetary magnetic field. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL087559. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087559
  22. Chen, J., Wang, W., Lei, J., and Dang, T. (2020). The physical mechanisms for the sunrise enhancement of equatorial ionospheric upward vertical drifts. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 125, e2020JA028161. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028161
  23. Chen, J., Lei, J., Zhang, S., Wang, W., and Dang, T. (2020). A simulation study on the relationship between field-aligned and field-perpendicular plasma velocities in the ionospheric F region. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 125, e2019JA027350. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027350
  24. Huang, F., Lei, J., Zhang, R., Li, N., …, Dang, T., et al. (2020). Prominent daytime TEC enhancements under the quiescent condition of January 2017. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL088398. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088398
  25. Ren, D., Lei, J., Zhou, S., Li, W., Huang, F., Luan, X., Dang, T., and Liu Y. (2020). High-speed solar wind imprints on the ionosphere during the recovery phase of the August 2018 geomagnetic storm. Space Weather, 18, e2020SW002480. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020SW002480
  26. Lu, G., Zakharenkova, I., Cherniak, I., and Dang, T. (2020). Large-scale ionospheric disturbances during the 17 March 2015 storm: A model-data comparative study. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 125, e2019JA027726. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027726
  27. Dang, T., et al. (2019). Formation of double tongues of ionization during the 17 March 2013 geomagnetic storm. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124, 10619–10630. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027268.
  28. Qin, Y., Gu, S.-Y., Dang, T., and Dou, X. (2019). Interhemispheric Asymmetry Induced by Planetary Wave Under Solar Minimum Condition. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA026968
  29. Wang, W., Dang, T., Lei, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, B., and Burns, A. (2019). Physical processes driving the response of the F2 region ionosphere to the 21 August 2017 solar eclipse at Millstone Hill. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124, 2978–2991. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA025479
  30. Zhang, K., Wang, W., Wang, H., Dang, T., Liu, J., and Wu, Q. (2018). The longitudinal variations of upper thermospheric zonal winds observed by the CHAMP satellite at low and midlatitudes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123, 9652– 9668. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA025463
  31. Dang, T., Lei, J., Wang, W., Burns, A., Zhang, B., and Zhang, S.-R. (2018). Global responses of the coupled thermosphere and ionosphere system to the August 2017 great American solar eclipse, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123, 7040-7050. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA025566
  32. Lei, J., Dang, T., Wang, W., Burns, A., Zhang, B., and Le, H. (2018). Long-lasting response of the global thermosphere and ionosphere to the 21 August 2017 solar eclipse. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123, 4309–4316. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA025460
  33. Dang, T., Lei, J., Wang, W., Burns, A., Zhang, B., and Zhang, S.-R. (2018). Suppression of the polar tongue of ionization during the 21 August 2017 solar eclipse. Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 2918–2925. https://doi.org/10.1002/2018GL077328
  34. Dang, T., Zhang, B., Wiltberge, M., Wang, W., Varney, R., Dou, X., . . . Lei, J. (2018). On the relation between soft electron precipitations in the cusp region and solar wind coupling functions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123, 211–226. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JA024379
  35. Dang, T., Wang, W., Burns, A., Dou, X., Wan, W., and Lei, J. (2017). Simulations of the ionospheric annual asymmetry: Sun-Earth distance effect. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 122, 6727–6736. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JA024188
  36. Dang, T., Lei, J., Dou, X., and Wan, W. (2017). A simulation study of 630 nm and 557.7 nm airglow variations due to dissociative recombination and thermal electrons by high-power HF heating. Earth and planetary physics, 1, 44-52. https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2017006
  37. Dang, T., Luan., X., Lei, J., Dou, X., and Wan, W.(2016). A numerical study of the interhemispheric asymmetry of the equatorial ionization anomaly in solstice at solar minimum. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 121, 9099-9110. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JA023012
  38. Luan, X., Lei, J., Dou, X., and Dang, T. (2016). Double crests of peak height in the equatorial ionospheric F2 layer observed by COSMIC. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 121, 529-537. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JA021611
  39. Dang, T., Lei, J., Dou, X., and Wan, W. (2015). Feasibility study on the derivation of the O+- O collision frequency from ionospheric field-aligned observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 120, 6029-6035. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JA020987

Selected Conference Presentations

  1. Dang, T. et al. (2022), Global Effects of a Polar Solar Eclipse on the Coupled Magnetosphere-Ionosphere System (invited talk), CEDAR 2022, 19-24, Jun.
  2. Dang, T. et al. (2021), Geospace response to 10 June 2021 polar solar eclipse (invited talk), AGU Fall Meeting 2021, 13-17 Dec.
  3. Dang, T. et al. (2021), Magnetosphere-ionosphere response to 10 June 2021 polar solar eclipse (invited talk), CEDAR 2021, 20-25, Jun.
  4. Dang, T. et al. (2019), Impacts of polar tongues of ionization and Patches on high-latitude upper thermosphere (oral), AGU Fall Meeting abstract, San Francisco, CA, 9-13 Dec.
  5. Dang, T. et al. (2018), Dynamic evolution of polar tongues of ionization and patches in the coupled Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere system (oral), AGU Fall meeting abstract SA32A-03, Washington, D.C., 10-14 Dec.
  6. Dang, T. et al. (2018), The global thermospheric and ionospheric responses to the 2017 Great American Solar Eclipse (Invited talk), AOGS 2018 meeting abstract ST17-A010, Honolulu, HI, 03-08 Jun.
  7. Dang, T. et al. (2017), Unusual behavior of tongue of ionization (TOI) simulated by the high-resolution Thermosphere Ionosphere Electrodynamics General Circulation Model (oral), AGU Fall meeting abstract SA34A-04, New Orleans, LA, 11-15 Dec.

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