Professional Profiles

Mr. Stephen E. Lang
Research Meteorologist
Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Branch (Code 613.1)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Email: lang@agnes.gsfc.nasa.gov
Phone: (301) 614-6331

Education
M.S., Meteorology, The Florida State University, 1991
B.S., Meteorology, Cornell University, 1985
H.S., Albuquerque Academy, 1982

Employment
1990–Present: Research Meteorologist, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., onsite at NASA GSFC
1987–1990: Research Meteorologist, General Sciences Corporation, onsite at NASA GSFC
1985–1987: Research Assistant, Florida State University
1985: Teaching Assistant, Florida State University

Honors and Awards
Best Paper Award (NASA GSFC, Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Branch, 2007)
Group Achievement Award (NASA GSFC, NASA's Hurricane Resource Web Page Team, 2006)
Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award (NASA GSFC, Laboratory for Atmospheres, 2003)
Outstanding Achievement Award (NASA GSFC, Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Branch, 1992, 2002)
Chi Epsilon Pi (Honorary Meteorological Society, Florida State University Chapter)
Dean's List (Cornell University: Spring, 1983; Fall, 1984)
American Meteorological Society (member)

Membership in Academies, Professional Societies, and Editorships
American Meteorological Society (member)

Recent Publications (Journal)
Zeng, X., W.-K. Tao, M. Zhang, A. Y. Hou, S. Xie, S. Lang, X. Li, D. Starr, and X. Li, 2009: A contribution by ice nuclei to global warming. J. R. Met. Soc., (in review)

Ott, L., K. Pickering, G. Stenchikov, D. Allen, A. DeCaria, B. Ridley, R.-F. Lin, S. Lang, and W.-K. Tao, 2009: Production of lightning NOx and its vertical distribution calculated from 3-D cloud-scale chemical transport model simulations. Geophy. Res., (submitted)

Smith, E. A., W.-K. Tao, Z. S. Haddad, A. Y. Hou, R. K. Kakar, M. Katsumata, T .N. Krishnamurti, S. Lang, W. S. Olson, S. Satoh, S. Shige, Y. Takayabu, G. J. Tripoli, and S. Yang, 2009: A review of TRMM satellite latent heating retrieval: Algorithm development, validation, and applications. Meteor. Soc. Japan, (submitted)

Tao, W.-K., J. J. Shi, S. S. Chen, S. Lang, S.-Y. Hong, G. Thompson, C. Peters-Lidard, A. Hou, S. Braun, and J. Simpson, 2009: Studying precipitation processes in WRF with Goddard bulk microphysics in comparison with other microphysical schemes. Wea. Rev., (submitted)

Matsui, T., X. Zeng, W.-K. Tao, H. Masunaga, W. Olson, and S. Lang, 2009: Evaluation of long-term cloud-resolving model simulations using satellite radiance observations and multi-frequency satellite simulators. Atmos. Ocn. Tech., (in press)

Zeng, X., W.-K. Tao, M. Zhang, A. Y. Hou, S. Xie, S. Lang, X. Li, D. Starr, X. Li, and J. Simpson, 2009: An indirect effect of ice nuclei on atmospheric radiation. Atmos. Sci., 66, 41-61.

Tao, W.-K., D. Anderson, R. Atlas, J. Chern, P. Houser, A. Hou, S. Lang, W. Lau, C. Peters-Lidard, R. Kakar, S. Kumar, W. Lapenta, X. Li, T. Matsui, M. Rienecker, B.-W. Shen, J. J. Shi, J. Simpson, and X. Zeng, 2008: A Goddard multi-scale modeling system with unified physics, GEWEX NEWS Letter, 18(1), 6-8.

Zeng, X., W.-K. Tao, S. Lang, A. Y. Hou, M. Zhang, and J. Simpson, 2008: On the sensitivity of atmospheric ensembles to cloud microphysics in long-term cloud-resolving model simulations. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 86A, 45-65.

Zinner, T., A. Marshak, S. Lang, J. V. Martins, and B. Mayer, 2008: Remote sensing of cloud sides of deep convection: towards a three-dimensional retrieval of cloud particle size profiles. Chem. Phys., 8, 4741-4757.

Juang, H.-M., W.-K. Tao, X. Zeng, C.-L. Shie, S. Lang, and J. Simpson, 2007: Parallelization of the NASA Goddard Cumulus Ensemble Model for Massively Parallel Computing. Terr. Atmos. Ocean. Sci., Vol. 18,3, 593-622.

Tao, W.-K., X. Li, A. Khain, T. Matsui, S. Lang, and J. Simpson, 2007: The role of atmospheric aerosol concentration on deep convective precipitation: Cloud-resolving model simulations. J. Geophy. Res., 112, D24S18, doi:10.1029/2007JD008728.

Zeng, X., W.-K. Tao, M. Zhang, C. Peters-Lidard, S. Lang, J. Simpson, S. Kumar, S. Xie, J. L. Eastman, C.-L. Shie, and J. V. Geiger, 2007: Evaluating clouds in long-term cloud-resolving model simulations with observational data.Atmos. Sci., 64, 4153-4177.

Lang., S., W.-K. Tao, R. Cifelli, W. Olson, J. Halverson, S. Rutledge, and J. Simpson, 2007: Improving simulations of convective systems from TRMM LBA: Easterly and westerly regimes. Atmos. Sci., 64, 1141-1164.

Gao, S., X. Li, W.-K. Tao, C.-L. Shie and S. Lang, 2007: Convective and moist vorticity vectors associated with tropical oceanic convection: A three-dimensional cloud-resolving model simulation.Geophy. Res., 112, D01105, doi:10.1029/2006JD007179.

Tao, W.-K., E. Smith, R. Adler, Z. Haddad, A. Hou, T. Iguchi, R. Kakar, T. N. Krishnamurti, C. Kummerow, S. Lang, R. Meneghini, K. Nakamura, T. Nakazawa, K. Okamoto, W. Olson, S. Satoh, S. Shige, J. Simpson, Y. Takayabu, G. Tripoli, and S. Yang, 2006: Latent heating from TRMM satellite measurements. Amer. Met. Soc., 87, 1555-1572.

Grabowski, W.W., P. Bechtold, A. Cheng, R. Forbes, C. Halliwell, M. Khairoutdinov, S. Lang, T. Nasuno, J. Petch, W.-K. Tao, R. Wong, X. Wu, and K.-M. Xu, 2006: Daytime convective development over land: A model intercomparison based on LBA observations. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 132, 317-344.

Olson, W.-S., C. D. Kummerow,, S. Yang, G. W. Petty, W.-K. Tao, T. L. Bell, S. A. Braun, Y. Wang, S. E. Lang, D. E. Johnson and C. Chiu, 2006: Precipitation and latent heating distributions from satellite passive microwave radiometry. Part I: Method and uncertainties. Applied Meteor., 45, 702-720.

Tao, W.-K., S. Lang, W. Olson, S. Satoh, S. Shige, Y. Takayabu, and S. Yang, 2004: Heating structure derived from TRMM. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Earth Observation Research and Application Center, 18-40.

Lang, S., W.-K. Tao, J. Simpson and B. Ferrier, 2004: Reply to 'Comment on "Modeling of convective-stratiform precipitation processes: Sensitivity to partitioning methods" by M. Steiner'. Appl. Meteor., 43, 962-965.

Tao, W.-K., R. Adler, D. Baker, S. Braun, M.-D. Chou, M.F. Jasinski, Y. Jia, R. Kakar, M. Karyampudi, S. Lang, W. Lau, B. Lynn, Z.-X. Pu, M. Shepherd, J. Simpson, D. Starr, Y. Wang, P. Wetzel and J. Weinman, 2003: Regional-scale modeling at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Recent Research Developments in Atmospheric Science, Research Signpost, 2, 1-52.

Lang, S., W.-K. Tao, J. Simpson and B. Ferrier, 2003: Modeling of convective-stratiform precipitation processes: Sensitivity to partitioning methods. Appl. Meteor., 42, 505-527.

Wang, Y., W.-K. Tao, J. Simpson and S. Lang, 2003: The sensitivity of tropical squall lines to surface fluxes: Three-dimensional cloud-resolving model simulations. J. R. Met. Soc., 129, 987-1006.

Tao, W.-K., J. Simpson, D. Baker, S. Braun, M.-D. Chou, B. Ferrier, D. Johnson, A. Khain, S. Lang, B. Lynn, C.-L. Shie, D. Starr, C.-H. Sui, Y. Wang and P. Wetzel, 2003: Microphysics, radiation and surface processes in the Goddard Cumulus Ensemble (GCE) model. Atmos. Phys., 82, 97-137.

Tao, W.-K., S. Lang, W. S. Olson, R. Meneghini, S. Yang, J. Simpson, C. Kummerow, E. Smith and J. Halverson, 2001: Retrieved vertical profiles of latent heat release using TRMM rainfall products for February 1998. Appl. Meteor., 40, 957-982.

Tao, W.-K., S. Lang, J. Simpson, W. S. Olson, D. Johnson, B. Ferrier, C. Kummerow and R. Adler, 2000: Vertical profiles of latent heat release and their retrieval for TOGA COARE convective systems using a cloud resolving model, SSM/I, and ship-borne radar data. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 78, 333-355.

Redelsperger, J. L., P. R. A. Brown, F. Guichard, C. Hoff, M. Kawasima, S. Lang, T. Montmerle, K. Nakamura, K. Saito, C. Seman, W.-K. Tao and L. J. Donner, 1999: A GCSS model intercomparison for a tropical squall line observed during TOGA-COARE. Part 1: Cloud-resolving models. J. R. Met. Soc., 126, 823-863.

Tao, W.-K., S. Lang, J. Simpson, C.-H. Sui, B. Ferrier, and M.-D. Chou, 1996: Mechanisms of cloud-radiation interaction in the Tropics and midlatitudes. Atmos. Sci., 53, 2624-2651.

Tao, W.-K., S. Lang, J. Simpson, and R. Adler, 1993: Retrieval algorithms for estimating the vertical profiles of latent heat release: Their applications for TRMM. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 71, 685-700.

Koch, S. E., F. Einaudi, P. Dorian, S. Lang, and G. Heymsfield, 1993: A mesoscale gravity-wave Eeent observed during CCOPE. Part IV: Stability analysis and doppler-derived wave vertical structure. Wea. Rev., 121, 2483-2510.

Tao, W.-K., J. Simpson, C.-H. Sui, B. Ferrier, S. Lang, J. Scala, M.-D. Chou, and K. Pickering, 1993: Heating, moisture, and water budgets of tropical and midlatitude squall lines: Comparisons and sensitivity to longwave radiation. Atmos. Sci., 50, 673-690.

Tao, W.-K., J. Simpson, S. Lang, M. McCumber, R. Adler, and R. Penc, 1990: An algorithm to estimate the heating budget from vertical hydrometeor profiles. Appl. Meteor., 29, 1232-1244.