Dr. Wei-Kuo Tao
Senior Research Meteorologist
Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Branch (Code 613.1)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Email: tao@agnes.gsfc.nasa.gov
Phone: (301) 614-6269

Education
M.S., Computer Science, The Johns Hopkins University, 1987
M.S., Ph.D., Atmospheric Science, University of Illinois, 1978, 1983
B.S., Atmospheric Physics, National Central University, 1974

Employment
1989–Present: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
1984–1989: Senior Research Scientist, General Sciences Corportation
1982–1984: Research Associate, National Research Council/National Academny Science Postdoctoral Fellowship at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
1976–1982: Research Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1974–1976: Chinese (Taiwan) Air Force Weather Wing
2000–Present: Affiliate Faculty, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
2004–Present: Adjunct Professor, Department of Atmospheric Science, Texas A&M

Honors and Awards
Excellent Alumni Award, National Central University, 2006
NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, 2003 (NASA's highest honor for a scientific achievement) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Earth Science Achievement Award (2nd recipient), 2003 (NASA Goddard's highest honor for a scientific achievement in Earth Science)
NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, 1992 (NASA's highest honor for a scientific achievement) Chinese Natural Science and Cultural Scholarship, Ministry of Education, 1973
Who's Who in America since 2002

Membership in Academies, Professional Societies, and Editorships
Member, American Meteorological Society
Member, American Geophysical Union.
Fellow, Royal Meteorological Society (2000)
Fellow, American Meteorological Society (2001)
American Meteorological Society Committee on Mesoscale Processes, 1996-1999
Editor, J. Atmos. Sci. 2001 - 2003
Guest Editor, AMS Meteorological Monographs - Symposium on Cloud Systems, Hurricanes and TRMM, 2000

Membership
NASA TRMM Science Team, since 1991
Working Group for GEWEX Cloud System Study (GCSS), 1992
NASA-Goddard Scientific Colloquium Committee, 1991-1993
Member of Scientific Steering Committee for GEWEX Cloud System Study (GCSS) - Precipitating Convective Cloud Systems (WG4) since 1994
Member, NCEP/NCAR Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) Science Board (2000-)
NASA MAP (Modeling Analysis and Prediction) Science Team, since 200
NASA Energy and Water Cycle Study (NEWS) Science Team, since 2005
DOE/ARM Science Team (2003 -)
Chair, AGU Committee on Precipitation and Cloud, 2001- . Chair, NASA TRMM Latent Heating Committee (2004 - )
Co-Chair, NASA Goddard "Cloud and Precipitation Processes" Cross-Cutting Science Theme (2006 - )

Special Experience
Over 30 years in developing/improving (microphysics, cloud-radiation, advection scheme, surface processes) the Goddard Cumulus Ensemble - a cloud resolving model.
Lead the GCSS WG4 off line (cloud-radiation, air-sea interaction) intercomparison project.
Guest lecture instructor, Department of Mathematics, Monash University, Australia, 1989.
Leader of Mesoscale Processes Branch Modeling and Dynamics Group (consists of 5 civil servants and 13 contractors - 15 Ph. D. and 3 M.S.), since 1995.
Over 40 Invited Talks/Visits by 20 National (US)/Foreign Laboratories and Universities.
Convener: AGU Fall Special Session on Convective Systems observed during TRMM Field Campaigns (2000).

Refereed Publications
More than 130 (60 since 2000) in refereed literature and more than 100 conference presentations, on tropical cloud systems and modeling, applying the cloud resolving model to understand air-sea interaction, convective-stratiform interaction, cloud-radiation interaction, cloud-chemistry interaction, and cloud-large-scale environment interaction, developing the latent heating profile retrieval using satellite data.