The 6th International Conference on Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Change

Wei-Kuo Tao, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Senior scientist of  NASA Goodard Space Center. His research is concerned with tropical cloud systems and modeling, applying the cloud resolving model to understand cloud-precipitation-aerosol interaction, -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.  He has more than 185 publications [90 (25 as 1^st author) since 2003] in refereed literature, encyclopedia, books and monographs, Geophy. Review and more than 100 conference presentations.  He received numerous awards including the William Nordberg Award (the highest NASA Goddard award in the Earth sciences). He is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society and Royal Meteorological Society.