Dr. Kaah Promise Menang

Profil

Derzeitige StellungProfessor W-1 und Äquivalente
FachgebietMeteorologie,Atmosphärenphysik
Keywordsradiative transfer calculations, climate sensitivity, radiative feedbacks, Radiative-convective equilibrium, water vapour continuum

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

LandKamerun
OrtBuea
Universität/InstitutionUniversity of Buea
Institut/AbteilungFaculty of Science/Department of Physics

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

Prof. Dr. Stefan A. BühlerMeteorologisches Institut (MI), Universität Hamburg, Hamburg
Prof. Robin HoganEuropean Centre For Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading
Beginn der ersten Förderung01.03.2023

Programm(e)

2022Humboldt-Forschungsstipendien-Programm für erfahrene Forschende

Publikationen (Auswahl)

2025Menang, K. P.: Dependence of longwave broadband clear-sky radiative fluxes and heating rates on water vapour continuum model updates. In: Bull. of Atmos. Sci.& Technol., 6, 2025,
2025Roemer, F. E., S. A. Buehler and K. P. Menang: How to think about the clear-sky shortwave water vapor feedback. In: npj Clim Atmos Sci, 8, 2025,
2025Menang, K. P.: Recent Revision of the Water Vapour Continuum Model and Impact on Clear-Sky Shortwave Broadband Radiative Transfer Calculations. In: Atmos. Sci. Lett., 26:e1318, 2025,
2025Menang, K. P., S. A. Buehler, S, L. Kluft, R. J. Hogan, and F. E. Roemer: Variation in shortwave water vapour continuum and impact on clear-sky shortwave radiative feedback. In: Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 2025, 11689–11701
2024 Menang, K. P., S. A. Buehler, S, L. Kluft, R. J. Hogan, and F. E. Roemer: Variation in shortwave water vapour continuum and impact on clear-sky shortwave radiative feedback. In: EGUsphere [preprint], 2024,
2021Menang, K. P., I. E. Gbode and O. E. Adeyeri: The effect of the differences in near- infrared water vapour continuum models on the absorption of solar radiation. In: Meteorol. Atmos. Phys., 133, 2021, 781-788
2020Elsey, J., M. D. Coleman, T. D. Gardiner, K. P. Menang and K. P. Shine: Atmospheric observations of the water vapour continuum in the near-infrared windows between 2500 and 6600 cm-1. In: Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13, 2020, 2335-2361
2019Gbode, I. E., O. E. Adeyeri, K. P. Menang, J. D. K. Insitful, V. O. Ajayi, J. A. Omotosho and A. A. Akinsanola: Observed changes in climate extremes in Nigeria. In: Meteorol. Appl., 26, 2019, 642-654
2019Menang, K. P.: Sensitivity of near-infrared transmittance calculations for remote sensing applications to recent changes in spectroscopic information. In: Atmos. Sci. Lett., 20, 2019, e942
2019Menang, K. P.: Updates of HITRAN spectroscopic database from 2008 to 2016 and implications for near-infrared radiative transfer calculations. In: Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 145, 2019, 1281-1289
2018Menang, K. P.: Assessment of the Impact of Solar Spectral Irradiance on Near Infrared Clear-sky Atmospheric Absorption and Heating Rates. In: J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 123, 2018, 6460- 6468
2017Menang, K. P.: Climate extreme indices derived from observed daily precipitation and temperature data over Cameroon: The need for further assessments. In: Meteorol. Appl., 24, 2017, 167-171
2015Avila, F. B., S. Dong, K. P. Menang, J. Rajczak, M. Renom, M. G. Donat and L. V. Alexander: Systematic investigation of gridding-related scaling effects on annual statistics of daily temperature and precipitation maxima: A case study for south-east Australia. In: Weather Clim. Extremes, 9, 2015, 6-16
2013Menang, K. P., M. D. Coleman, T. D. Gardiner, I. V. Ptashnik and K. P. Shine: A high-resolution near-infrared extraterrestrial solar spectrum derived from ground-based Fourier transform spectrometer measurements. In: J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 2013, 5319-5331
2013Menang, K. P. and K. P. Shine: The effect of chosen extraterrestrial solar spectrum on clear-sky atmospheric absorption and heating rates in the near infrared. In: Cahalan, R.F. and Fischer, J., AIP Conf. Proc. American Institute of Physics, 2013. 520-523