Wei-Ting Hsiao
I am a soon-to-be postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Wing’s group working on a research project of the ORCESTRA/PICCOLO field campaign. I will be collecting data in-person at Barbados, and then will try to figure out how radiative effects interact with the mesoscale organization of deep convection over the Atlantic ocean!
I started memorizing names of cloud types when I was five, and had not really been aware of my interest in atmospheric science until I was in high school. I then received my Bachelor’s degree in Atmospheric Science from National Taiwan University, where I worked on how cloud-radiative effects shape decadal forced response of sea surface temperature pattern over the Pacific ocean. My Master’s degree in Atmospheric Science is received from Colorado State University (CSU), and I stay at the same department for Ph.D. My soon-to-finish dissertation is about the radiatively driven moistening in the Madden-Julian oscillation and tropical organized convection. While I started doing research from a large-scale climate's perspective, I am more and more interested in the details of how convective clouds interact with radiation, and is excited to go out in field to actually feel and see these phenomena.
I was born and raised in Taipei City, Taiwan. 60% of days are rainy in Taipei, from Springtime “plum rain”, summertime thunderstorms (sometimes tropical cyclones), to wintertime East Asian monsoon. I moved to the United States in Fall 2019 and have been enjoying the drier climate so far. In my spare time, I like to cook, read, and listen to indie music. In particular, I have a taste for shoegaze, math rock, and Mandarin & Taiwanese folk rock.
