Mr. Tao Wang

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Recent work:

Ph.D. - Water vapor transport in the upper troposphere and stratosphere and its feedback on the climate. Currently we are using trajectory calculations driven by reanalysis winds to simulate water vapor behavior in the UTLS.

M.S. - Formation mechanism of cirrus clouds in the tropical tropopause layer (TTL), mainly focused on the TTL cirrus formed from deep convection detrainment.

Previous work:

Lightning physics and lightning location. Mainly focused on the development of lightning location algorithms; participated in the multiple-station system hardware deployment and data acquisition (DAQ).

Dual-Polarized radar observation and calibration, participated in the development of displaying software.

PUBLICATIONS

CONFERENCE PROCEDDINGS

• Wang, T., W. Dong, Y. Zhang, H. Liu, D. Zheng, A New Total Lightning Detection and Location System and Preliminary Observation Results: I. VLF/LF System. Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Lightning Protection (ICLP’ 2008), pp. 2-06, Uppsala, Sweden, June 23-26 2008.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• Schoeberl, M., A. Dessler, T. Wang, Simulation of Stratospheric Water Vapor Using Three Re-analysis Data Sets, Vol. 14, EGU2012-12910-1. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 2012.
• Wang, T., A. E. Dessler, Convectively Originated Cirrus in the Tropical Tropopause Layer (TTL). 2011 International Year of Chemistry (IYC) Symposium on Stratosphere Ozone and Climate Change, poster presentation, Washington D.C., 2011.
• Wang, T., Uncertainty Quantification of a 3-D domain filling TTL trajectory model. 2011 Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) Climate Modeling Opening Workshop of the 2011-12 Program on Uncertainty Quantification, poster presentation, Pleasanton, CA, 2011.
• Wang, T. and A. E. Dessler, Analysis of the Tropical Tropopause Layer Cirrus from CALIPSO and MLS data. 2011 Gordon Conference on Radiation & Climate, poster presentation, Colby College in Waterville, ME, 2011.
• Wang, T. and A. E. Dessler, Identification of Convective Cirrus Clouds in the TTL. 2010 A-Train Symposium, poster presentation, New Orleans, LA, 2010.
• Sonnenfeld, R. G., Eack, K., Eastvedt, E., Edens, H. E., Hager, W. W., Hunyady, S., Alvidrez, V., Lapierre, J., Morris, K., Vaive, G., Wang, T., Zhang, J., Development of the Langmuir Electric Field Array (LEFA), poster presentation, San Francisco, CA, 2009.
• Wang, T., W. Dong, Y. Zhang, VLF-VHF Dual Band Lightning Detection and Location Network (LDLN): Find Where the Lightning Radiation Events Occurred. 2009 International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS), oral presentation, Montréal, Québec, Canada, 2009.
• Wang, T., W. Dong, Y. Zhang, etc. Development of VLF/VHF 3-D Lightning Locating System and the Preliminary Results. The 6^th International Lightning Conference in China, poster presentation, Chengdu, China, 2007.
• Liu, H., W. Dong, T. Wang, Y. Zhang, S. Qiu, The Classification and Automatic Recognition of Lightning Electric Field Change Waveform Based on Time Domain Analysis. 6^th International Lightning Conference in China, poster presentation, Chengdu, China, 2007.

TRAVEL AWARDS

• Texas A&M University GSC (Graduate Student Council) travel award, 2012.
• NOAA travel grant for the workshop on The Physics of Weather and Climate Models, Pasadena, CA, 2012.
• Travel grant for the 2011 International Year of Chemistry (IYC) Symposium on Stratosphere Ozone and Climate Change, Washington D.C., 2011.
• Travel award for the workshop on Uncertainty Quantification of Geosciences, SAMSI (Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute) 2011-12 Program on UQ, North Carolina Research Triangle, NC, 2011.
• Travel award for the workshop on Uncertainty Quantification of Climate Modeling, SAMSI (Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute) 2011-12 Program on UQ, Pleasanton, CA, 2011.
• Travel award for the 2011 Gordon Conference on Radiation & Climate, Colby College, Waterville, ME, 2011.
• NASA Travel grant for the 2010 A-Train symposium, New Orleans, LA.

ORGANIZATION AFFILIATIONS

2011-present Atmospheric Sciences Graduate Student Council: International Student Representative.

2009-present Student member of American Meteorological Society.

2008-present Student member of American Geophysical Union.