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Lin Tang

Lin Tang

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Research Scientist

ltang@ou.edu
lin.tang@noaa.gov
National Weather Center 2100


  • PhD,  Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma
  • MS, Physics, University of Oklahoma
  • BS, Physics, SiChuan University, China

  • Stormscale Hydrometerology

Lin is a research scientist at CIWRO/NSSL and a member of the Stormscale Hydrometerology Group. Her research and work focus on improving radar data quality and radar-based quantitative precipitation estimation for the Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor (MRMS) system.


  • Radar Data Quality Control 
  • Radar Quantitative Precipitation Estimation

  • Weather Radar and Observations

  • Chang, P., J. Zhang, Y. Tang, L. Tang, P. Lin, C. Langston, B. Kaney, C. Chen, K. Howard, 2021: An operational Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor QPE system in Taiwan. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102, E555–E577, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0043.1. 
  • Martinaitis, S. M., S. B. Cocks, A. P. Osborne, M. J. Simpson, L. Tang, J. Zhang, K. W. Howard, 2021: The Historic Rainfalls of Hurricanes Harvey and Florence: A Perspective from the Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor System. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 22, 721–738, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-20-0199.1. 
  • Wang, Y., L. Tang, P. Chang, Y. Tang, 2021: Separation of convective and stratiform precipitation using polarimetric radar data with a support vector machine method. Atmos. Meas. Tech, 14, 185–197, doi:doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-185-2021. 
  • Wang, Y., L. Tang, 2021: A Short-Term Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting Approach Using Radar Data and a RAP Model. Geomatics, 1, 310–323, doi:doi.org/10.3390/geomatics1020017. 
  • Tang, L., J. Zhang, M. Simpson, A. Arthur, H. Grams, Y. Wang, C. Langston, 2020: Updates on the radar data quality control in the MRMS quantitative precipitation estimation system. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 37, 1521–1537, doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-19-0165.1. 
  • Zhang, J., L. Tang, S. Cocks, P. Zhang, A. Ryzhkov, K. Howard, C. Langston, B. Kaney, 2020: A dual-polarization radar synthetic QPE for operations. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 22, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-19-0194.1.