Publications

1. Soong, S.-T.,  and W.-K. Tao, 1980: Response of deep tropical clouds to mesoscale processes.  J. Atmos. Sci. , 37, 2016-2036.
2. Soong, S.-T.,  and W.-K. Tao, 1984: A numerical study of the vertical transport of momentum in a tropical rainband. J. Atmos. Sci., 41, 1049-1061.
3. Tao, W.-K., and J. Simpson, 1984: Cloud interactions and merging: Numerical simulations. J. Atmos. Sci., 41, 2901-2917.
4. Tao, W.-K., and S.-T. Soong, 1986: A study of the response of deep tropical clouds to mesoscale processes: Three-dimensional numerical experiments. J. Atmos. Sci., 43, 2653-2676.
5. Tao, W.-K., J. Simpson, and S.-T. Soong, 1987: Statistical properties of a cloud ensemble: A numerical study. J. Atmos. Sci., 44, 3175-3187.
6. Garstang, M., J. Scala, S. Greco, R. Harriss, S. Beck, E. Browell, G. Sachse, G. Gregory, J. Simpson, W.-K. Tao and A. Torres, 1988: Trace gas exchanges and convective transports over the Amazonian rain forest, J. Geophys. Res., 93, 1528-1550.
7. Tao, W.-K., and J. Simpson, 1989: Modeling study of a tropical squall-type convective line. J. Atmos. Sci., 46, 177-202.
8. Tao, W.-K., J. Simpson and M. McCumber, 1989: An ice-water saturation adjustment. Mon. Wea. Rev., 117, 231-235.
9. Tao, W.-K., and J. Simpson, 1989: A further study of cumulus interaction and mergers: Three-dimensional simulations with trajectory analyses. J. Atmos. Sci., 46, 2974-3004.
10. 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. J. Appl. Meteor., 29, 1232-1244.
11. Scala, J., M. Garstang, W.-K. Tao, K. Pickering, A. Thompson, J. Simpson, V. Kirchhoff, E. Browell, G. Sachse, A. Torres, G. Gregory, R. Rasmussen and M. Khalil, 1990: Cloud draft structure and trace gas transport, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 17015-17030.
12. Tao, W.-K., J. Simpson and S.-T. Soong, 1991: Numerical simulation of a subtropical squall line over Taiwan Strait. Mon. Wea. Rev., 119, 2699-2723.
13. Adler, R. F., H.-Y. Yeh, N. Prasad, W.-K. Tao and J. Simpson, 1991: Microwave rainfall simulations of a tropical convective system with a three-dimensional cloud model,  J. Appl. Meteor., 30, 924-953.
14. Pickering, K. E., A. M. Thompson, J. R. Scala, W.-K. Tao, J. Simpson, and M. Garstang, 1991: Photochemical ozone production in Tropical squall line convection during NASA/GTE/ABLE 2A, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 3099-3114.
15. Pickering, K. E., A. M. Thompson, W.-K. Tao and T. Kucsera, 1991: Ozone production in the tropical upper troposphere as affected by deep convection, EOS, 72, (44), 102.
16. McCumber, M., W.-K. Tao, J. Simpson, R. Penc, and S.-T. Soong, 1991: Comparison of ice-phase microphysical parameterization schemes using numerical simulations of convection. J. Appl. Meteor., 30, 987-1004.
17. Pickering, K., E., A. M. Thompson, J. R. Scala, W.-K. Tao, and J. Simpson, 1992:  Ozone production potential following convective redistribution of biomass emissions, J. Atmos. Chem., 14, 297-313.
18. Pickering, K., E., J. Scala, A. M. Thompson, W.-K. Tao and J. Simpson, 1992: A regional estimate of convective transport of CO from biomass burning,", Geophys Res. Letters., 19, 289-292.
19. Pickering, K. E., A. M. Thompson, J. Scala, W.-K. Tao, R. R. Dickerson and J. Simpson, 1992: Free tropospheric ozone production following entrainment of urban plumes into deep convection, J. Geophys Res., 97, 17985-18000.
20. 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. J. Atmos. Sci., 50, 673-690.
21. Lau, K. M., C. H. Sui and W.-K. Tao, 1993: A preliminary study of the tropical water cycle and its sensitivity to surface warming, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 74, 1313-1321.
22. Tao, W.-K., and J. Simpson, 1993: The Goddard Cumulus Ensemble Model. Part I: Model description. Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 4, 35-72.
23. Simpson, J. and W.-K. Tao, 1993: The Goddard Cumulus Ensemble Model. Part II:  Applications for studying cloud precipitating processes and for NASA TRMM. Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 4, 73-116.
24. 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. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan , 71, 685-700.
25. Pickering, K. E., A. M. Thompson, W.-K Tao and T. L. Kucsera, 1993: Upper tropospheric ozone production following mesoscale convection during STEP/EMEX, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 8737-8749.
26. GEWEX Cloud System Science Team, 1993: The GEWEX Cloud System Study (GCSS), Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 74, 387-399.
27. Sui, C.-H., K. M. Lau, W.-K. Tao, and J. Simpson, 1994: The tropical water and energy cycles in a cumulus ensemble model. Part I: Equilibrium climate,  J. Atmos. Sci., 51, 711-728.
28. Lau, K. M., C.-H. Sui, M.-D. Chou and W.-K. Tao, 1994: An inquiry into the cirrus-cloud thermostat effect for tropical sea Surface temperature, Geophys Res. Letters. 21,1157-1160.
29. Greco, S., J. Scala, J. Halverson, H. L. Massie, Jr., W.-K. Tao, and M. Garstang, 1994: Amazon coastal squall lines. Part II: Heat and moisture transports, Mon. Wea. Rev., 122, 623-635.
30. Thompson, A. M., K. E. Pickering, R. R. Dickerson, W. G. Ellis, D. J. Jacob, J. R. Scala, W.-K. Tao, D. P. McNamara and J. Simpson, 1994: Convective transport over the central United States and its role in the regional CO and Ozone budgets," J. Geophys. Res., 99, 18703-18711.
31. Lau, K. M., C.-H. Sui, M.-D. Chou and W.-K. Tao, 1994: “Reply to the Comment on the paper, An enquiry into the cirrus-cloud thermostat effect for tropical sea surface temperature, by V. Ramanathan, W. D. Collins and B. Subasilar", Geophys Res. Letters, 21, 1187-1188.
32. Tao, W.-K., J. Scala, B. Ferrier and J. Simpson, 1995: The effects of melting processes on the development of squall lines in the tropics and midlatitudes. J. Atmos. Sci . 52, 1934-1948.
33. Prasad, N., H.-Y. M. Yeh, R. F. Adler and W.-K. Tao, 1995: Infrared and microwave simulations of an intense convective system and comparison with aircraft observations, J. Appl. Meteor., 34, 153-174.
34. Yeh, H.-Y. M., N. Prasad, R. Meneghini, W.-K. Tao and R. F. Adler, 1995: Model-based simulation of TRMM spaceborne radar observations, J. Appl. Meteor., 34, 175-197.
35. Pickering, K. E., A. M. Thompson, D. P. McNamara, W.-K. Tao, A. M. Molod and R. B. Rood, 1995: Vertical transport by convective clouds: Comparisons between cloud-scale and global-scale model,  Geophys Res. Letters,  22, 1089-1092.
36. Ferrier, B. S., W.-K. Tao and J. Simpson, 1995: A double-moment multiple-phase four-class bulk ice scheme.  Part II: Simulations of convective storms in different large-scale environments and comparisons with other bulk parameterizations, J. Atmos. Sci., 52, 1001-1033.
37. Wang, Y., W.-K. Tao, K. Pickering, A. Thompson, J. Kain, R. Adler, J. Simpson, P. Keehn and G. Lai, 1996: Mesoscale model (MM5) simulation of TRACE and PRESTORM Convective Systems and Associated Tracer Transport,. J. Geophys. Res., 101, D19, 24013-24027.
38. Wang, Y., W.-K. Tao and J. Simpson, 1996: The impact of ocean surface fluxes on a TOGA COARE convective System, Mon. Wea. Rev.  124, 2100-2125.
39. Simpson, J., C. Kummerow, W.-K. Tao and R. Adler, 1996: On the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Meteor, and Atmos. Phys. 60, 19-36.
40. Ferrier, B. S., J. Simpson and W.-K. Tao, 1996: Factors responsible for different precipitation efficiencies between midlatitude and tropical squall simulations. Mon. Wea. Rev.. 124, 2100-2125.
41. Tao, W.-K., J. Simpson, S. Lang, C.-H. Sui, B. Ferrier, and M.-D. Chou, 1996: Mechanisms of cloud-radiation interaction in the tropics and midlatitudes. J. Atmos. Sci . 53, 2624-2651.
42. Pickering, K.E., , A. Thompson, Y. Wang, W.-K Tao, Bradshaw, Kirchhoff, Alvala, Gregory, Blake, McNamara, Kucsera, 1996: Convective transport of biomass burning emissions over Brazil during TRACE-A, J. Geophys. Res., 101, D19, 23993-24012.
43. Stenchikov, G., R. Dickerson, K. Pickering, W. Ellis, B. Doddridge, S. Kondragunta, O. Pooulida, J. Scala and W.-K. Tao, 1996: Troposphere-stratosphere exchange in a midlatitude mesoscale convective complex: Part 2, Numerical simulations, J. Geophys. Res.,  101, 6823-6836.
44. Halverson, J. B., M. Garstang, J. Scala and W.-K. Tao, 1996: Water and energy budgets of a Florida mesoscale convective system: A combined observational and modeling study, Mon. Wea. Rev., 124, 1161-1180
45. Ellis, W. G., A. M. Thompson, S. Kondragunta, K. Pickering, G. Stenchikov, R. Dickerson, and W.-K. Tao, 1996: Potential ozone production following convective transport based on future emission scenarios, Atmospheric Environment, 30, 667-672.
46. Dharssi, I., R. Kershaw and W.-K. Tao, 1997: Sensitivity of a simulated tropical squall line to longwave radiation. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc.,  123, 187-206.
47. Thompson, A. M., W.-K. Tao, K. E. Pickering, J. R. Scala and J. Simpson, 1997: Tropical deep convection and Ozone formation, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 78, 1043-1054.
48. Kuo, Y.-H., J. Bresch, M.-D. Cheng, J. Kain, D. B. Parsons, W.-K. Tao and D.-L. Zhang, 1997:  Summary of a mini-workshop on cumulus parameterization for mesoscale models,  Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 78, 475-492.
49. Moncrieff, M. W., S. K. Krueger, D. Gregory, J.-L. Redelsperger and W.-K. Tao, 1997: GEWEX Cloud System Study (GCSS) Working Group 4: Precipitating convective cloud systems , Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 78, 831-845.
50. Chen, C., W.-K. Tao, P.-L. Lin, G. S. Lai, S.-F. Tseng  and T.-C. Chen Wang, 1998: The interaction of the low-level jet during the development of mesoscale convective systems in a Mei-Yu front, Mon. Wea. Rev., 126, 349-371.
51. Lynn, B. H., W.-K. Tao and P. Wetzel, 1998: A study of landscape generated deep moist convection.  Mon. Wea. Rev.  126, 928-942.
52. K. E., Pickering, Y. Wang, W.-K Tao and C. Price,, 1998: The vertical distribution of lightning NOx for use in regional and global chemical transport models, J. Geophy. Res., V103, D23, 31203-31216.
53. Tao,W.-K., J. Simpson, C.-H. Sui, C.-L. Shie, B. Zhou, K. M. Lau, and, M. Moncrieff, 1999: On equilibrium states simulated by Cloud-Resolving Models. J. Atmos. Sci.  56, 3128-3139.
54. W. S. Olson, W. S., C. D. Kummerow, Y. Hong, and W.-K. Tao, 1999: Atmospheric latent heating distributions in the Tropics derived from satellite passive microwave radiometer measurements, J. Appl. Meteor., 38, 633-644.
55. Das, S., D. Johnson and W.-K. Tao, 1999: Single-column and cloud ensemble model simulations of TOGA COARE convective systems, J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 77, 803-826.
56. Redelsperger, J. L., P. R. A. Brown, F. Guichard, C. Hoff, M. Kawasima, S. Lang, Th. Montmerle,  K. Nakamura, K. Saito, C. Seman, W.K. Tao and L. J. Donner, 2000: A GCSS model intercomparison  for  a tropical squall line observed during TOGA-COARE.  Part 1: Cloud-Resolving Models." Q. J. R. Met. Soc., 126, 823-864.
57. Tao, W.-K., R. Adler, S. Braun, F. Einaudi, B. Ferrier, J. Halverson,  G. Heymsfield, C. Kummerow, A. Negri and R. Kakar, 2000: Summary of a Symposium on Cloud Systems, Hurricanes and TRMM: Celebration of Dr. Joanne Simpson's Career - The First 50 years, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 81, 2463-2474.
58. 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 in TOGA COARE convective systems using a cloud resolving model, SSM/I and radar data, J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 78, 333-355.
59. Braun, S. A., and W.-K. Tao, 2001: Sensitivity of high-resolution simulations of Hurricane Bob (1991): To planetary boundary layer parameterizations. Mon. Wea. Rev., 128, 3491-3961.
60. Baker, R. D., B. H. Lynn, A. Boone, W.-K. Tao and J. Simpson, 2001:  The influence of soil moisture, coastline curvature, and the land-breeze circulation on sea-breeze initiated precipitation, J. of Hydrometeorology, 2, 193-211.
61. Lynn, B. H., W.-K. Tao and F. Abramopoulos, 2001: A parameterization for the triggering of landscape generated moist convection, Part I: Analyses of high resolution model results.  J. Atmos. Sci., 58, 575-592.
62. Lynn, B. H. and W.-K. Tao, 2001: A parameterization for the triggering of landscape generated moist convection, Part II: Zero order and first order closure. J. Atmos. Sci., 58, 593-607.
63. Lynn, B. H., D. Stauffer, P. Wetzel, W.-K. Tao, P. Alpert, N. Perlin, R. D. Baker, R. Munoz, A. Boone, and Y. Jia, 2001: Improved simulation of Florida summer convection using the PLACE land surface model and a 1.5-order turbulence parameterization coupled to the Penn State/NCAR mesoscale model,  Mon. Wea. Rev., 129, 1441-1461.
64. Peng, L., C.-H. Sui, K.-M. Lau and W.-K. Tao, 2001: Genesis and evolution of super cloud clusters in a 2-d numerical cloud resolving model, J. Atmos. Sci., 58, 877-895.
65. 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, J. Appl. Meteor., 40, 957-982.
66. Tao, W.-K., C.-L. Shie and J. Simpson, 2001: Comments on "The sensitivity study of radiative-convective equilibrium in the Tropics with a convective resolving model,  J. Atmos. Sci., 58, 1328-1333.
67. Olson, W. O., P. Bause, C. D. Kummerow, Y. Hong and W.-K. Tao, 2001: A melting layer model for passive/active microwave remote sensing applications - Part II: Simulation of TRMM observations. J. Appl. Meteor., 40, 1164-1179.
68. Pu, Z.-X. W.-K. Tao, Y. Jia, J. Simpson, S. Braun, J. Halverson, W. Olson and A. Hou, 2002: The impact of TRMM data on mesoscale numerical simulation of Super Typhoon Paka,  Mon. Wea. Rev., 130, 2448-2458.
69. Johnson, D., W.-K. Tao, J. Simpson, and C.-H. Sui, 2002: A Study of the Response of Deep Tropical Clouds to Mesocale Processes, Part I:  Modeling Strategy and Simulation of TOGA COARE Convective Systems, J. Atmos. Sci., 59, 3492-3518.
70. Xu, K.-M., R. T. Cederwall, L. J. Donner, F. Guichard, W. W. Grabowski, D. E. Johnson, M. Khairoutdinov, S. K. Krueger, J. C. Petch, D. A. Randall, C. J. Seman, W.-K. Tao, S. Xie, J. Jio and M.-H. Zhang, 2002: Iintercomparison of cloud-resolving models with the ARM Summer 1997 IOP data, Q. J. R. Met. Soc., 128, 593-624.
71. Zeng, X., Q. Zhang, D. Johnson and W.-K. Tao, 2002:  Parameterization of wind gustiness for the computation of ocean surface fluxes at different spatial scales,  Mon. Wea. Rev., 130, 2125-2133.
72. Mohr, K. I., R. D. Baker, W.-K. Tao and J. S. Famiglietti, 2002: The sensitivity of west African convective lines water budgets to land cover, J. of Hydrometeorology, 4, 62-76.
73. Jorgensen, D. P., Z.-X. Pu, O. Persson and W.-K. Tao, 2003: The structure of a Pacific narrow cold frontal rainband, Mon. Wea. Rev., 131, 2705-2729.
74. Wang, Y., W.-K. Tao, J. Simpson, and S. Lang, 2003: The sensitivity of tropical squall lines (GATE and TOGA COARE) to surface fluxes: 3-D Cloud resolving model simulations,  Q. J. R. Met. Soc., 129, 987-1007.
75. Shie, C.-L., W.-K. Tao, J. Simpson and C.-H. Sui, 2003: Quasi-equilibrium states in the tropics simulated by a cloud-resolving model. Part I: Specific features and budget analysis, J. of Climate, 5, 817-833.
76. Lang, S., W.-K. Tao, J. Simpson, and B. Ferrier, 2003:  Modeling of convective-stratiform precipitation processes: Sensitivity to partitioning methods.  J. Applied. Meteor., 42, 505-527.
77. Shige, S., Y. N. Takayabu, W.-K. Tao and D. Johnson, 2003: Spectral retrieved of latent heating profiles from TRMM PR data.  Part I: Algorithm development with a cloud resolving model.  J. Applied Meteor. 43, 1095-1113.
78. Tao, W.-K., Y. Wang, J. Qian, W. K.-M. Lau, C.-L. Shie and R. Kakar, 2003: Mesoscale Convective Systems during SCSMEX: Simulations with a Regional Climate Model and a Cloud-Resolving Model, Weather and climate Modeling, New Age International (P) Limited, Edited by S.V. Singh, S. Basu and T. N. Krishnamurti, 77-92.
79. Tao, W.-K., C.-L. Shie, R. Johnson, S. Braun, J. Simpson, and P. E. Ciesielski, 2003: Convective Systems over South China Sea:  Cloud-Resolving Model Simulations. J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 2929-2956.
80. Tao, W.-K., D. Starr, A. Hou, P. Newman, and Y. Sud, 2003: Summary of cumulus parameterization workshop. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 84, 1055-1062.
81. 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, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 82, 97-137.
82. Pu, Z., and W.-K. Tao, 2004: Mesoscale assimilation of TRMM rainfall data with 4DCAR: Sensitivity studies. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 82, 1389-1397.
83. Yoshizaki, M., T. Kato, H. Eito, S. Hayashi, and W.-K. Tao, 2004: An overview of the field experiment “Winter Mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) over the Japan Sea 2001”, and comparisons of the cold-air outbreak case (14 January) between analysis and a non-hydrostatic cloud-resolving model. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 82, 1365-1384.
84. Qian, J.-H., W.-K. Tao, and K.-M. Lau, 2004: Mechanisms of torrential rain associated with the Mei-yu development during SCSMEX-98,  Mon. Wea. Rev., 132, 3-27.
85. Rajendran, R., T. N. Krishnamurti, V. Misra and W.-K. Tao, 2004: An empirical cumulus parameterization scheme for a global spectral model,  J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 82, 989-1006.
86. Tao, W.-K., D. Johnson, C.-L. Shie, and J. Simpson. 2004: Atmospheric energy budget and large-scale precipitation efficiency of convective systems during TOGA COARE, GATE, SCSMEX and ARM: Cloud-resolving model simulations, J. Atmos. Sci., 61, 2405-2423.
87. Tao, W.-K., S. Lang, W. Olson, S. Satoh, S. Shige, Y. Takayabu, and S. Yang, 2004: Heating structure derived from TRMM.  The Latent Heating Algorithms Developed from TRMM PR Data, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Earth Observation Research and Application Center, 18-40.
88. Gao, S., F. Ping, X. Li and W.-K. Tao, 2004: A convective vorticity vector associated with tropical convection: A 2D cloud-resolving modeling study, J. Geophys. Res., 109, D14106, doi:10.1029/2004JD004807.
89. Chen, C. S., W.-C. Chen, and W.-K. Tao, 2004: A study of heavy summer rainfall over southwestern Taiwan, J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 82, 1521-1543
90. 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. Applied Meteor., 43, 962-965.
91. Matsui, T., H. Masunaga, R. Pielke, Sr. and W.-K. Tao, 2004: Impact of aerosol and atmospheric thermodynamics on cloud properties within the climate system, Geophys. Res. Letters, 31, L06109, doi10.1029/2003GL01928
92. Li, X., W.-K. Tao, A. Khain, J. Simpson and D. Johnson, 2006: Sensitivity of (bulk vs explicit-bin) microphysics in cloud-resolving model simulated mid-latitude squall line: Part I: Model validation.  J. Atmos. Sci., (accepted)
93. Li, X., W.-K. Tao, A. Khain, J. Simpson and D. Johnson, 2006: Sensitivity of (bulk vs explicit-bin) microphysics in cloud-resolving model simulated mid-latitude squall line: Part II: Interactions of cloud microphysics and storm dynamics.  J. Atmos. Sci., (accepted).
94. 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, 2005: Precipitation and latent heating distributions from satellite passive microwave radiometry Part I: Method and uncertainties. J. Applied Meteor. (in press).
95. Li, X., C.-H. Sui, K.-M. Lau and W.-K. Tao, 2005: Tropical convective responses to microphysical and radiative processes: A sensitivity study with a 2D cloud resolving model, Meteor. Atmos. Physics, doi:10.1007/s00703-004-0088-5.
96. Wang, Y.-S., W.-K. Tao, K.-M. Lau and P. J. Wetzel, 2006: Simulation of the onset of the southeast Asian monsoon  during 1997 and 1998: The impact of surface process.  J. of Hydrometeorology, (accepted).
97. Zeng, X., W.-K. Tao and J. Simpson, 2005: An equation for moist entropy in a precipitating and ice atmosphere.  J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 4293-4309.
98. Houser, P. R., M. Bosilovich, C. Peters-Lidard and W.-K. Tao, 2004: Ultra-high resolution observation-driven land modeling needed to enable the development of global cloud resolving Earth system models.  GEWEX News, 14, No. 3, 8-9.
99. Zeng, X., W.-K. Tao and J. Simpson, 2006: A discrete constraint on Entropy conservation and sound wave in an ideal cloud-resolving model, J. Atmos. Sci., (accepted)
100. Stenchikov, G., K. Pickering, A. Decaria, W.-K. Tao, J. Scala, L. Ott, D. Bartels and T. Matejka, 2005: Simulation of the fine structure of the July 12, 1996 STERAO storm accounting for effects of terrain and interaction with mesoscale flow.  J. Geophy. Res., 110, D14304, doi:10.1029/2004JD005582.
101. Alonge, C. J., K. I. Mohr, and W.-K. Tao, 2006: Numerical case studies of wet vs dry regimes in the West African Sahel, J. Hydrometeor. (in press).
102. Grabowski, W. W., P. Bechtold, A. Cheng, R. Forbes, G. Halliwell, M. Khairoutdinov, S. Lang, T. Nasuno, J. Petch, W.-K. Tao, R. Wong, X. Wu and K.-M. Xu, 2005: Daytime convective developments over land: An idealized model intercomparison case based on LBA observations, Q. J. Roy. Meteorl. Soc., (in press).
103. Tao, W.-K., E. Smith, R. Adler, Z. Haddad, A. Hou, T. Iguchi, R. Kakar, T.N. Krishnamurti, C. Kummerow, S. Lang, R. Meneghini, N. Nakamura, T. Nakazawa, K. Okamoto, W. Olson, S. Satoh, S. Shige, J. Simpson, Y. Takayabu, G. Tripoli, and S. Yang, 2006:  The retrieval of latent heating from TRMM satellite measurements, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., (accepted).
104. Perez, C. L., A. H. Sobel, G. Gu, C.-L. Shie, W.-K. Tao and D. Johnson, 2006: Equilibrium properties of tropical deep convection in cloud-resolving simulations using the weak temperature gradient approximation. J. Atmos. Sci., (accepted).
105. Matsui, T., H. Masunaga, R. A. Pielke, Sr., S. M. Kreidenweis, W.-K. Tao, M. Chin and Y. Kaufman, 2005: Satellite-based assessment of marine low cloud variability associated with aerosol, atmospheric stability and diurnal cycle. J. Geophy. Res., (in press).
106. Li, J.-L. D. E. Waliser, J. H. Jiang, D. L. Wu, W. Read, J. W. Waters, A. Tompkins, L. J. Donner, J. Chern, W.-K. Tao, R. Atlas, Y. Gu, K.L. Liou, A. DelGenio, M. Khairoutdinov, and A. Gettelman, 2005: Comparisons of EOS MLS Cloud Ice Measurements with ECMWF analyses and GCM Simulations: Initial Results. Geophysical Research Letters Vol. 32, No. 18, L18710, 10.1029/2005GL023788.
107. Shie, C.-L., W.-K. Tao, J. Simpson, and C.-L. Sui, 2005: A note on the relationship between temperature and water vapor over oceans, as well as se surface temperature impact.  Adv. Atmos. Sci., 23, 141-148.
108. Gao, S., X. Cui, Y. Zhou, X. Li and W.-K. Tao, 2006: A modeling study of moist and dynamic vorticity vectors associated with 2D tropical convection. J. Geophys. Res., (in press).
109. Tao, W.-K., E. Smith, A. Hou, S. Lang, W. Olson, S. Satoh, S. Shige, Y. Takayabu, and S. Yang, 2006:  Latent heating from TRMM satellite measurements: Algorithm Description, Validation methodology and Application. Mon. Wea. Rev., (submitted).
110. Lang, S., W.-K. Tao, R. Cifelli, W. Olson, J. Halverson, S. Rutledge, and J. Simpson, 2005: Improving simulations of convective system from TRMM LBA: Easterly and Westerly regimes. J. Atmos. Sci., (submitted).
111. Sui, C.-L., X. Li, K.-M. Lau, W.-K. Tao and M.-D. Chou, 2006: Convective-radiative-mixing processes in the Tropical Ocean-Atmosphere.  Recent Progress in Atmospheric Sciences with Applications to the Asia-Pacific Region, World Scientific Publication (submitted).
112. Shige, S., Y. N. Takayabu, W.-K. Tao and C.-L. Shie, 2006: Spectral retrieved of latent heating profiles from TRMM PR data.  Part II: Algorithm improvement and its estimates over the tropical ocean regions.  J. Applied Meteor. (submitted).
113. Eastman, J. L., C. Peters-Lidard, W.-K. Tao, S. Kumar, Y. Tian, S. E. Lang, and X. Zeng, 2006: A meteorological model’s dependence on radiation update frequency. Geophysical Research Letters (submitted).
114. Zeng, X., W.-K. Tao, M. Zhang, S. Lang, C. Peters-Lidard, J. Simpson, S. Xie, S. Kumar, J. V. Geiger,  C.-L. Shie, and J. L.. Eastman, 2006:  Evaluation of long-term cloud-resolving modeling with observational cloud data. J. Atmos. Sci., (submitted).
115. Gao, S., X. Li, W.-K. Tao and C.-L. Shie, 2006: Convective and moist vorticity vectors associated with three-dimensional tropical oceanic convection during KWAJEX. Geophy. Res. Lett. (submitted).
116. Juang, H. M., W.-K. Tao, X. Zeng, C.-L. Shie and J.  Simpson, 2006: Parallelization of a cloud-resolving model for massively parallel computing by using message passing interface, TAO. (accepted).
117. Zeng, X., W.-K. Tao and J. Simpson, 2006: A discrete constraint on Entropy conservation and sound wave in an ideal cloud-resolving model, J. Atmos. Sci., (conditional accepted).
118. Zeng, X., W.-K. Tao and J. Simpson, 2006:  Microphysical timescales in clouds and their application in cloud-resolving model. J. Atmos. Sci., (to be submitted).

BOOKS and MONOGRAPHS

1. Adler, R., N. Prasad, W.-K. Tao, H.-Y. Yeh, R. Mack and J. Simpson, 1988: Microwave observations and modeling of deep convection, In Tropical Rainfall Measurements, A. Deepak Publishing, 185-191.
2. Tao, W.-K., and J. Simpson, 1988: Precipitation statistics using model output, WMO/WCRP-1, Validation of Satellite Precipitation Measurements for the global Precipitation Climatology Project, Ed.  J. C. Wilkerson, 217-226.
3. Pickering, K. E., A. M. Thompson, J. R. Scala, W.-K. Tao and J. Simpson, 1994: Enhancement of free tropospheric ozone production by deep convection, Ozone in the Troposphere and Stratosphere, Ed. R. D. Hudson, 105-108.
4. Tao, W.-K., 1995: Interaction of parameterized convection and explicit stratiform cloud microphysics, WMO/WCRP-90, Cloud Microphysics Parameterizations in Global Atmospheric General Circulation Models, Ed. D. Randall, 199-210.
5. Tao, W.-K., J. Simpson and B. Ferrier, 1997: Cloud Resolving Model Simulations of Mesoscale Convective Systems,  New Insights and Approaches to Convective Parameterization , Ed. D. Gregory, 77-112.
6. Tao, W.-K., Y. Jia, C.-H. Sui and C. Chen "The diurnal cycle in TOGA-COARE: 1998: Regional scale model simulations, WMO/Would Climate Research Program-107, COARE 98, Ed. F. Bradley and R. Lukas, 321-322.Tao, W.-K., D. Johnson and J. Simpson, 1998: Tropical oceanic precipitation processes over the warm pool: 2D and 3D cloud resolving model  simulations. WMO/Would Climate Research Program-107, COARE 98, Ed. F. Bradley and R. Lukas, 197-198.
7. Johnson, D., W.-K. Tao, C-H. Sui and J. Simpson, 1998: A study of the response of deep tropical clouds to large-scale processes. WMO/Would Climate Research Program-107, COARE 98, Ed. F. Bradley and R. Lukas, 407-408.
8. Moncrieff, M. W., and W.-K. Tao, 1999: Cloud-resolving  models, Global Water and Energy Cycles, Ed. by K. Browing and R. J. Gurney, Cambridge University Press, 200-209.
9. Redelsperger, J., L., S. Chen, R. H. Johnson, M. A. LeMone, T. Nakazawa, D. B. Parsons, S. A. Rutledege, W.-K. Tao and M.  Yanai, 2000: Review of convection in TOGA COARE, World Meteorology Organization Monograph, WCRP-107, 16-42.
10. Tao, W.-K., 2003: Goddard Cumulus Ensemble (GCE) model: Application for  understanding precipitation processes, AMS Meteorological Monographs - Cloud Systems, Hurricanes and TRMM.  107-138, 2003.
11. Tao, W.-K., J. Halverson, R. Adler, M. Garstang, R. Houze, Jr., M. LeMone, R. Pielke and W. Woodley,  2003: The Research of Dr. Joanne Simpson: Fifty Years Investigating Hurricanes, Tropical Clouds and Cloud Systems" AMS Meteorological Monographs - Cloud Systems, Hurricanes and TRMM.  1-16.
12. Tao, W.-K., and M. Moncrieff, 2003: Cloud Modeling, Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences, Edited by J. Holton, J. Curry and J. Pyle, 539-548.
13. Tao, W.-K., Y. Wang, J. Qian, W. K.-M. Lau, C.-L. Shie and R. Kakar, 2003: Mesoscale Convective Systems during SCSMEX: Simulations with a Regional Climate Model and a Cloud-Resolving Model, Weather and climate Modeling, New Age International (P) Limited, Edited by S.V. Singh, S. Basu and T. N. Krishnamurti, 77-92.
14. Tao, W.-K., R. Adler, D. Baker, S. Braun, M.-D. Chou, M. F. Jasinski, Y. Jia, R. Kakar, M. Karyampudi, W. K.-M. Lau, B. Lynn, Z.-X. Pu, M. Shepherd, C.-L. Shie, D. Starr, Y. Wang, W. Weinman and P. Wetzel, 2003: Regional Scale Modeling at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Recent Research Developments in Atmospheric Science, Research Signpost, Research Signpost, 2, 1-52.