Curriculum vitae
•Joowan Kim
1J OOWAN K IM
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Kongju National University 56 GONGJUDAEHAK-RO, GONGJU, 32588 South Korea Email: [email protected]; Web: http://www.atmdyn.org
EDUCATION
06/2014 Ph.D., Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, Canada
• Thesis title: The role of dynamics in the formation and maintenance of the tropical cold-point tropopause
02/2004 M.S., Atmospheric Science, Seoul National University, Korea
• Thesis title: The effect of latent heat release on the QG 2-layer model and its short-time predictability
02/2002 B.S., Atmospheric Science, Seoul National University, Korea
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2016 – present Assistant Professor, Kongju National University, South Korea
2014 – 2016 Postdoctoral Researcher, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA
RESEARCH EXPERIENCES
2016 – present Assistant Professor, Kongju National University, South Korea
• Research topics: Dynamics and Transport processes in the troposphere and stratosphere;
Analysis of thermal and chemical variabilities in the UTLS using GPS RO and Aura MLS.
2014 – 2016 Postdoctoral Researcher, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, USA
• Research topics: Analysis of thermal and chemical variabilities in the UTLS using GPS RO and Aura MLS; Convective influence in the tropical tropopause layer.
2009 – 2014 Research Assistant, McGill University, Canada
• Research topics: Investigation of thermal variability at the tropical tropopause using GPS RO and idealized GCM; Evaluation of the tropical tropopause in CMIP5 models.
2004 – 2009 Research Assistant, Seoul National University, Korea
• Research topics: Development of WRF real-time forecasting system for East Asia; Analysis of secondary circulation and energy budget in large-scale precipitation systems.
HONORS & AWARDS
2017 Young atmospheric scientist award, Korean Meteorological Society 2013 Best Poster Presentation, AMS 17th Conference on the Middle Atmosphere
2010 – 2011 Global Environmental and Climate Change Center (GEC3) Graduate Student Stipends 08/2010 Graduate Research Enhancement and Travel (GREAT) award, McGill University 2009 Provost’s Graduate Fellowship, McGill University
Curriculum vitae
•Joowan Kim
2ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES
10/2017 Local organizing committee of SPARC Local Workshop, Songdo, Korea 06/2012 ASP Summer Colloquium at NCAR, Boulder, Colorado, USA
2011 – 2013 Teaching assistant at McGill University
• Waves and Stability in 2012, 2013 winter semester
• Atmospheric and Oceanic Dynamics in 2011 fall semester
• Introduction to Atmospheric Sciences in 2011 winter semester 2008 Teaching assistant at Seoul National University
• Atmospheric analysis and practice in 2008 fall semester
2006 – 2007 Research team leader in Numerical Weather Prediction Group at Seoul National University Role: Leading short-range prediction team and mentoring master students
2006 – 2008 Development of WRF real-time forecasting system at Seoul National University co-working with Prof. Dong-Kyou Lee and Dae-Yong Eom
2006 – 2008 Organizing committee of workshop and tutorial
• The 2nd East Asia WRF Workshop and Tutorial, SNU, Seoul, Korea, 7-11 April, 2008
• The 1st East Asia WRF Workshop and Tutorial, SNU, Seoul, Korea, 16-21 April, 2007
• Lectures on Atmospheric Data Assimilation, SNU, Seoul, Korea, 18-20 July, 2006
PUBLICATIONS
1. Kim, J., S.-W. Son, H. Kim, B. Kim, and C. Yoo*, 2018: SPARC local workshop on “WCRP grand challenges and regional climate change”, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 35, 624-627.
2. Oh, J., S.-W. Son, K. Williams, D. Walters, J. Kim, M. Willett, P. Earnshaw, A. Bushell, Y. Kim, and J.
Kim*, 2018: Ozone sensitivity of tropical upper-troposphere and stratosphere temperature in the MetOffice Unified Model, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 144, 2001-2009.
3. [In Korean] H.-Y. Lee, J. Kim*, I.-G. Park, H. Kang, and H. Ryu, 2018: Local Enhancement Mechanism of Cold Surges over the Korean Peninsula, Atmosphere, 28, 383-392.
4. Martineau*, P., G. Chen, S.-W. Son, and J. Kim, 2018: Lower-stratospheric control of the frequency of sudden stratospheric warming events, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmosphere, 123, 3051-3070.
5. Kim, J., W. J. Randel, and T. Birner, 2018: Convectively-driven tropopause-level cooling and its influences on stratospheric moisture, J. Geophys. Res., 123, 590-606.
6. Choi, Y., D.-H. Cha, and J. Kim, 2017: Tuning of length-scale and observation-error for radar data assimilation using four dimensional variational (4D-Var) method. Atmospheric Science Letters, 18, 441–448.
7. Choi, Y., D.-H. Cha, M.-I. Lee, J. Kim, C.-S. Jin, S.-H. Park, and M.-S. Joh, 2017: Satellite radiance data assimilation for binary tropical cyclone cases over the western North Pacific, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 9, 832–853. web
8. Son, S.-W., Y. Lim, C. Yoo, H. H. Hendon, and J. Kim, 2017: Stratospheric control of Madden-Julian Oscillation, Journal of Climate, 30, 1909-1922.
9. Scherllin-Pirscher, B., W. J. Randel, and J. Kim, 2017: Tropical temperature variability and Kelvin wave activity in the UTLS from GPS RO measurements, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 793–806.
10. Kim, J., W. J. Randel, T. Birner, and M. Abalos, 2016: Spectrum of wave forcing associated with the annual cycle of upwelling at the tropical tropopause, J. Atmos. Sci., 73, 855-868.
11. Kim, J., S.-W. Son, 2015: Formation and maintenance of the tropical cold point in an idealized dry GCM, J. Atmos. Sci., 72, 3097–3115.
12. Kim, J., K. M. Grise, and S.-W. Son, 2013: Thermal characteristics of the cold-point tropopause region
Curriculum vitae
•Joowan Kim
3 in CMIP5 models, J. Geophys. Res., 118, 8827-8841.13. Kim, J. and S.-W. Son, 2012: Tropical Cold-Point Tropopause: Climatology, Seasonal Cycle and Intraseasonal Variability Derived from COSMIC GPS Radio Occultation Measurements, Journal of Climate, 25, 5343–5360.
14. Choi, Y., J. Kim, and D. Lee, 2012: Characteristics and Nonlinear Growth of the Singular Vector Related to a Heavy Rainfall Case over the Korean Peninsula. Adv. Atmos. Sci., 29, 10–28.
15. Gettelman, A., M. I. Hegglin, S.-W. Son, J. Kim, M. Fujiwara, T. Birner, S. Kremser, M. Rex, and SPARC/CCMVal co-authors, 2010: Multi-model Assessment of the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere: Tropics and Trends, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D00M08.
16. Lee, D.-K., D.-Y. Eom, J. Kim, and J.-B. Lee, 2010: High-resolution summer rainfall prediction in the JHWC real-time WRF system. Asia-Pacific J. Atmos. Sci., 46, 341–353.
17. Lee, D.-K., J.-G. Park, and J. Kim, 2008: Heavy Rainfall Events Lasting 18 Days from July 31 to August 17, 1998, over Korea. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 86, 313-333.
