Wei-Ting Hsiao
Wei-Ting was a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Wing’s group working on a research project of the ORCESTRA/PICCOLO field campaign. Wei-Ting collected data in-person at Barbados, and investigated how radiative effects interact with the mesoscale organization of deep convection over the Atlantic ocean!
Wei-Ting started memorizing names of cloud types when he was five, and had not really been aware of his interest in atmospheric science until he was in high school. He then received my Bachelor’s degree in Atmospheric Science from National Taiwan University, where he worked on how cloud-radiative effects shape decadal forced response of sea surface temperature pattern over the Pacific ocean. His Master’s degree in Atmospheric Science was received from Colorado State University (CSU), and he stayed at the same department for Ph.D. His dissertation was about the radiatively driven moistening in the Madden-Julian oscillation and tropical organized convection. While he started doing research from a large-scale climate's perspective, he is more and more interested in the details of how convective clouds interact with radiation, and was excited to go out in field to actually feel and see these phenomena.
Wei-Ting 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. He moved to the United States in Fall 2019 and enjoyed the drier climate. In his spare time, Wei-Ting likes to cook, read, and listen to indie music. In particular, he has a taste for shoegaze, math rock, and Mandarin & Taiwanese folk rock.
Current Position: Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Publications at FSU
Wing, A.A., M.M. Bell, J.H. Ruppert, Jr., D. Colón-Burgos, W.-T. Hsiao, S. Kennison, M.M. Syrett, R.M. Vargas Martes, C.C. Nam, T. Dao, C. Stoll, M.E. O'Neill, V. Chandrasekar, D. Klocke, PICCOLO: Process Investigation of Clouds and Convective Organization over the Atlantic Ocean, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., in review.
Hsiao, W.-T., A.A. Wing, S.A. Kennison, J.H. Ruppert, Jr., and M.M. Bell, Scale-dependent radiative effects on convective organization in multiple oceanic rain events during ORCESTRA/PICCOLO, J. Geophys. Res., in review.
Kennison, S.A., A.A. Wing,, M.M. Bell, W.-T. Hsiao, and J.H. Ruppert, Jr., Radar-observed relationships between properties of precipitation and its spatial organization in the tropical Atlantic during ORCESTRA/PICCOLO, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., in review.
Winkler, M., M. Rixen, F. Beucher, F. Couvreux, C. C. Nam, P. Peyrillé, H. Schmidt, H. Segura, K.-H. Wieners, E. Alkilani-Brown, A. Aziz Coly, G. Biagioli, M. M. Bell, E. Brito, E. Chauvin, J. Capo, D. Colón-Burgos, A. Dawes, J. Carlos da Luz, Z. Demiralay, V. Douet, V. Ducastin, C. Dufaux, J.-L. Dufresne, F. Favot, T. Fiolleau, E. Fons, G. George, H. M. Gloeckner, S. Gonçalves, L. Gouttesoulard, L. Hayo, W.-T. Hsiao, S. Kennison, M. Kopelman, T.-Y. Lee, E. Le Gall, M. Lovato, E. Luschen, N. Maury, B. McKim, L. Netz, D. Ousseynou, K. Peters-von Gehlen, C. Pope, B. Poujol, N. Rivera Maldonado, N. Robbins Blanch, N. Rochetin, D. Rowe, P. Romero Jure, J. H. Ruppert Jr., J. Segura Bermudez, J. C. Starr, M. Stelzner, C. Stoll, M. Syrett, A. Tekoe, J. Trules, C. Welty, D. Klocke, R. Vogel, S. Bony, A.A. Wing, and B. Stevens (2026): RAPSODI: Radiosonde Atmospheric Profiles from Ship and island platforms during ORCESTRA, collected to Decipher the ITCZ, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1833-1854, doi:10.5194/essd-18-1833-2026.