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
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).

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

Recent Publications (Journal)
Lang., S., W.-K. Tao, R. Cifelli, W. Olson, J. Halverson, S. Rutledge, and J. Simpson, 2006:  Improving Simulations of Convective Systems from TRMM LBA:  Easterly and Westerly Regimes.  J. Atmos. Sci., (accepted).

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.  Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., (accepted).

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.  Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 132, 317-344.

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'.  J. Appl. Meteor., 43, 962-965.

Lang, S., W.-K. Tao, J. Simpson and B. Ferrier, 2003:  Modeling of  Convective-Stratiform Precipitation Processes:  Sensitivity to Partitioning Methods.  J. Appl. Meteor., 42, 505-527.