Publication

Journal publication

In review

• Lee et al., Wildfire aerosols in Southeast Asia and Southern China disrupt the Hadley circulation, Nature Communications.

• Lee et al., Impacts of urban aerosols and land use on clouds and precipitation in urban and adjacent non-urban areas, Urban Climate

2025

• K.-H., Seo, J.-H., Choi, S. S. Lee, et al., Aerosol effects on Maritime Continent precipitation: Oceanic intensification and land diurnal cycle delay, npj climate and atmospheric science, accepted (S. S. Lee acts as a corresponding author).

• Lee, S. S., Jung, C. H., Choi, J., Yoon, Y. J., Um, J., Zheng, Y., Guo, J., Manoj, M. G., and Song, S.-K., Role of a key microphysical factor in mixed-phase stratocumulus clouds and their interactions with aerosols, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 705–726, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-705-2025, 2025.

• S.-H. Moon, Y.-K. Lim, S.-K. Song, S. S. Lee, C.-Y. Kang, E.-A. Ko, K.-H. Chang, 2025, Effects of cloud seeding on precipitation and seasonal case analyses based on long-term numerical simulations, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences.

2024

• Park et al., Impacts of nonsphericity of ice crystals on determining microphysical properties of ice clouds, ACPD, accepted.

• Kim et al., On the calculation of single-scattering properties of frozen droplets and frozen droplet aggregates observed in deep convective clouds, ACPD, accepted.

• Song et al., A case study on the impact of real‑time land cover changes in the intertidal zone on coastal meteorological predictions using a coupled atmosphere–ocean model, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00703-024-01009-z.

• Shaji, A., Manoj, M.G., Johny, K. et al., Investigation of moist thermodynamical processes of a tropical thunderstorm using 205 MHz VHF radar and WRF model. Model. Earth Syst. Environ. 10, 4497–4511, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40808-024-01997-2

2023

• Zhang et al., Stratocumulus-surface decoupling prolongs cloud lifetime: the mechanism, Geophy. Res. Lett.,  https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101663.

• Lee et al., Impacts of an aerosol layer on a mid-latitude continental system of cumulus clouds: how do these impacts depend on the vertical location of the aerosol layer?, Atmos. Chem. Phys., https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-273-2023

• Jung et al., Parameterization of polydisperse aerosol optical properties during hygroscopic growth, Aerosol Science and Technology., 57, 713-726.

2022

• Jung et al.,  Parameterization of below-cloud scavenging for polydisperse fine mode aerosols as a function of rain intensity, Journal of Environmental Sciences, 132, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jes.2022.07.031

• Jang et al.,  Theoretical calculations of directional scattering intensities of small nonspherical ice crystals: implications for forward scattering probes, Remote Sens., 14, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14122795

• Jang et al., The impacts of single-scattering and microphysical properties of small ice particles on the bulk radiative properties of tropical cirrus, Remote Sens, 14, 3002; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14133002

• Chen et al.,Elucidating the Impact of High- and Low-Pressure Systems on Temperature Inversion from Nine Years of Radiosonde Observations in Beijing, Atmos Res., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2022.106115.

• Lee, S. S., et al., Examination of aerosol impacts on convective clouds and precipitation in two metropolitan areas in East Asia; how varying depths of convective clouds between the areas diversify those aerosol effects? , Atmos. Chem. Phys., https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-9059-2022.

2021

• Cho et al., Cold-season atmospheric conditions associated with sudden changes in PM10 concentration over Seoul, Korea, Atmospheric Pollution Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.2021.03.004.

• Zheng, Y., et al., Idealized large-eddy simulations of stratocumulus advecting over cold water. Part 1: Boundary layer decoupling, J. Atmos. Sci., https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-21-0108.1.

• Lee, S. S., et al., Mid-latitude mixed-phase stratocumulus clouds and their interactions with aerosols: how ice processes affect microphysical, dynamic and thermodynamic development in those clouds and interactions?, Atmos. Chem. Phys., https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-16843-2021.

• Manoj et al., Competing aerosol effects in triggering deep convection over the Indian Region, Climate Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-020-05561-3

2020

• Um et al., Mass extinction efficiency approximation for polydispersed aerosol using harmonic mean-type approximation, Applied Science, 10, 8637,doi:10.3390/app10238637

• Jung et al., Approximated expression of the hygroscopic growth factor for polydispersed aerosols, Journal of Aerosol Science, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaerosci.2020.105670

• Choi et al., A study of the effect of regenerated CCN on marine stratocumulus cloud development using the WRF-LES model with spectral bin microphysics, Atmospheric Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.105100

• Han et al., The mechanisms and seasonal differences of the impact of aerosols on daytime surface urban heat island effect, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 6479–6493, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-6479-2020

• Zheng et al., Theoretical understanding of the linear relationship between convective updrafts and cloud-base height for shallow cumulus clouds. Part II: Continental conditions, J. Atmos. Sci., 77,1313-1328

• Lee, S. S., et al., Examination of effects of aerosol on a pyroCb and their dependence on fire intensity and aerosol perturbation using a cloud-system resolving model, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 3357–3371.

2019

• • Li et al., East Asian Study of Tropospheric Aerosols and Impact on Regional Cloud, Precipitation, and Climate, JGR, 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD030758

  • Jung, C. H., J. Y. Lee, J. Um, S. S. Lee, et al., 2019, Estimation of source-based aerosol optical properties for polydisperse aerosols from receptor models, Applied Sciences, 9, 1443.

• • Jung, C. H., et al., Approximation of most-penetrating-particle size for fibrous filters considering Cunningham slip correction factor, Environmental Engineering Research, 25, 439-445.

  • Lee, S. S., et al., Comparisons of simulations of updraft mass fluxes and their response to increasing aerosol concentration between a bin scheme and a bulk scheme in a deep-convective cloud system, Adv. Meteo., ID 9292535. 

2018

• • Lee, H.-J., et al., Combined effect of the Arctic oscillation and Madden-Julian oscillation on cold temperature over East Asia, APJAS, 55,75-89.

  • Kablick, P., et al., The Great Slave Lake pyroCb of 5 August 2014: observations, simulations, comparisons with regular convection, and impact on UTLS water vapor, JGR, 123, 12332-12352.

  • Jung, C. H., et al.,Technical Note: Analytic expression for the aerosol mass efficiencies for polydispersed accumulation mode, Aerosol Air. Qual. Res., 18, 1503-1514.

  • Lee, S. S., et al., Aerosol as a potential factor to control the increasing torrential rain events in urban areas over the last decades, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 12531-12550.

  • Mok, J., et al., Three-way comparisons of spectral aerosol absorption in Seoul, South Korea, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 11, 2295-2311.

  • Um, J., et al., Microphysical characteristics of frozen droplet aggregates from deep convective clouds, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 16915-16930.

  • Lee, S. S., B.-G. Kim, H.-G. Nam, et al., Factors that control heavy snowfalls in the eastern coast of Korea, Terr. Atmos. Ocean. Sci, 29, 301-304.

  • Lee, S. S., Z. Li, et al., Effects of model resolution and parameterizations on the simulations of clouds, precipitation, and their interactions with aerosols, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18-13-19.

  • Chung, J. H., J. Y. Lee, J. Um, S. S. Lee, Y. P. Kim, Chemical composition based aerosol optical properties according to size distribution and mixture types during Smog and Asian dust events in Seoul, Korea, APJAS, 54,19-32.

2017

• • Lee, S. S., Z. Li, and J. Mok, Interactions between aerosol absorption, thermodynamics, dynamics, and microphysics and their impacts on clouds and precipitation in a multiple-cloud system, Clim. Dyn., 49, 3905-3921.

2016

• Lee, S. S.,  J. M. Guo  and Z. Li, Delaying precipitation by air pollution over the Pearl River Delta. Part II: Model simulations , J. Geophys. Res., 121, 11739-11760.

• Li, Z., et al., Aerosol and monsoon climate interactions in Asia, Rev. Geophy., 54,866-929.

• Guo, J., M. Deng, S. S. Lee, et al., Delaying precipitation and lightning by air pollution over the Pearl River Delta. Part I: Observational analyses, J. Geophys. Res., 11, 6472-6488.

• Lee, S. S., B. -G. Kim, S. S. Yum, et al., Effect of aerosol on evaporation, freezing and precipitation in a multiple cloud system, Clim. Dyn., 48, 1069-1087.

2015

• Kamruzzaman, M., et al., PM10 dispersion in adelaide and its relationship with rainfall, Water. Air. Soil. Poll., 226, DOI:10.1007/s11270-015-2662-5.

• Um, J., G. McFarquhar, Y. P. Hong, S. S. Lee, S. Kim and K. Yaffe, Dimensions and aspect ratios of natural ice crystals, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 3933-3956, 2015.

2014

• Chung, J. H., J. Um, Y. H. Shin, S. S. Lee, Y. G. Lee, S. Y. Bae, Y. P. Kim, Minimum collection efficiency diameter during snow scavenging process, Particulate science and technology, DOI:10.1080/02726351.2014.970311, 2014

•  Lee, S. S., G. Feingold, I. Koren, H. Yu, T. Yamaguchi, and A. McComiskey, Effect of gradients in biomass burning aerosol on circulations and clouds, J. Geophys. Res, 119, 9948-9964, 2014

• Nam, H.-G., B.-G. Kim, S.-O. Han, C. Lee, and S. S. Lee, Characteristics of Easterly-induced snowfall in Yeongdong and its Relationship to air-sea temperature difference, Asia-Pac. J. Atmos. Sci., 50, 1-12, 2014 

• Lee, S. S., W.-K. Tao, and C. H. Jung, 2014, Aerosol effects on instability, circulations, clouds and precipitation, Advances in Meteorology, Article ID 683950.

• Lee, H., S. S. Yum, and S. S. Lee, 2014, A modeling study of the aerosol effects on ice microphysics in convecctive cloud and precipitation development under different thermodynamic conditions, Atmos. Res., 145-146, 112-129.

 2013

• • Lee, S. S., B. -G. Kim, C. Lee, S. S. Yum, and D. Posselt, 2013, Aerosol effects on thermodynamic conditions, Clim. Dyn., in press 

  •  Kim, Y. J., S.-Y. Han, C. Lee, S. S. Lee, and B.-G. Kim, 2013, Effect of aerosol on the vertical develpment of stratiform  clouds, Atmosphere, 23, 1-9.      

  • C. H. Jung, S. S. Lee, S. Y. Bae, and Y. P. Kim, 2013, Minimum collection efficiency particle diameter during precipitation as a function of rain intensity, Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 13, 1070-1077.  

  • Lee, S. S., and G. Feingold, 2013, Aerosol effects on the cloud-field properties of tropical convective clouds, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 6713-6726.

  • Lee, S. S., 2013, Aerosols, clouds and climate, Bulletin of the Korean Meteorological Society (invited article for a special edition to celebrate the Society's 50th anniversary).  

2012

• • Lee, S. S., G. Feingold, and P. Y. Chuang, 2012, Effect of aerosol on cloud-environment interactions in trade cumulus, J. Atmos. Sci., 69, 3607-3632. 

  • Lee, S. S., 2012, Dependence of aerosol effects on ice clouds on environmental large-scale updrafts, Atmos. Res., 111, 79-89. 

  • Lee, S. S., 2012, Effect of aerosol on circulations and precipitation in deep convective clouds, J. Atmos. Sci., 69, 1957-1974.

2011

• • Lee, S. S., 2011, Aerosols, clouds and climate, Nature Geoscience, 4, 826-827 (Invited article).  

  • Lee, S. S., and J. E. Penner, 2011, Dependence of aerosol-cloud interactions in stratocumulus clouds on liquid-water path, Atmos. Env.,  45, 6337-6346.

  • Lee, S. S., 2011, Dependence of aerosol-precipitation interactions on humidity in a multiple-cloud system, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 2179-2196.

  • Lee, S. S., and L. J. Donner, 2011, Effects of cloud parameterization on radiation and precipitation: Comparison between single-moment microphysics and double-moment microphysics, Terr. Atmos. Ocean. Sci , 22, 403-420. 

2010 

• • Lee, S. S., and G. Feingold, 2010, Precipitating cloud-system response to aerosol perturbations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, doi:10.1029/2010GL045596. 

  • Lee, S. S., L. J. Donner, and J. E. Penner, 2010, Thunderstorm and stratocumulus: How does their contrasting morphology affect their interactions with aerosols?, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 6819-6837. 

  • Lee S. S., and J. E. Penner, 2010, Comparison of a global-climate model simulation to a cloud-system resolving model simulation for long-term thin stratocumulus clouds in a response to the transition from the preindustrial condition to the present-day condition, Atmos. Chem. Phys, 10, 6371-6389. 

  • Lee, S. S., and J. E. Penner, 2010, Aerosol effects on ice clouds: Can the traditional concept of aerosol indirect effects be applied to aerosol-cloud interactions in cirrus clouds?, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 10345-10358. 

2009  

• • Lee, S. S., and J. E. Penner, 2009, Impacts of solar radiation on aerosol-cloud interactions in thin clouds, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss, 9, 23791-23833. 

  • Lee S. S., and J. E. Penner, 2009, Factors determining the effect of aerosols on cloud mass and their dependence on liquid-water path, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 9, 19313-19350. 

  • Lee S. S., J. E. Penner, and M. Wang, 2009, Comparison of a global-climate model simulation to a cloud-system resolving model simulation for long-term thin stratocumulus clouds, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 6497-6520. 

  • Lee, S. S., L. J. Donner, and V T J Phillips, 2009: Impacts of aerosol chemical composition on microphysics and precipitation in deep convection, Atmos. Res., 94, doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2009.05.015 

  • Lee S. S., J. E. Penner, and S. M. Saleeby, 2009, Aerosol effects on liquid-water path of thin stratocumulus clouds, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D07204, doi:10.1029/2008JD010513 (This paper was selected by the editors as an American Geophysical Union Journal Highlight) 

  • Lee, S. S., L. J. Donner, and V T J Phillips, 2009: Sensitivity of aerosol and cloud effects on radiation to cloud types: comparison between deep convective clouds and warm stratiform clouds over one-day period. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 2555-2575. 

2008 

• • Lee, S. S., L. J. Donner, V T J Phillips, and Y. Ming, 2008: The dependence of aerosol effects on clouds and precipitation on cloud-system organization, shear and stability. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D16202, doi:10.1029/2007JD009224 

  • Lee, S. S., L. J. Donner,V T J Phillips, and Y. Ming, 2008: Examination of aerosol effects on precipitation in deep convective clouds during the 1997 ARM summer experiment. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 134(634), doi: 10.1002/qj.287 

2001

• • Lee, S. S., T-. Y. Lee, S-. M. Lee, and S-. Y. Hong, 2001: The effects of nucleation rate of cloud ice on the development of cloud and precipitation, Journal of the Korean Meteorological Society, 37, 239-252. 

Thesis

• • Lee, S. S., 2007, Aerosol Effects on Clouds and Their Sensitivity to Numerical Representation of Microphysics, Ph.D dissertation, Princeton University 

  • Lee, S. S., 2001, Effect of nucleation rate of cloud ice on cloud development. M.S. thesis, Yonsei University, Korea 

  • Lee, S. S., 1999, Numerical study of vertical evolution of droplet spectrum. B.S. thesis, Yonsei University, Korea