Current members

Daehyun Kim

(PI, Associate Professor)

  • Group leader

  • CV

Jihong Moon

(Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Oct 2022-present)

  • Tropical cyclone "seed" disturbances

Mu-Ting Chien

(Joined the group in Sep 2019)

  • Convectively-coupled Kelvin waves in modern reanalysis products

Pedro Angulo-Umana

(Joined the group in Sep 2019)

  • Moisture-precipitation relationship in the tropics

Nelly Emlaw

(Joined the group in Sep 2021)

  • Tropical cyclogenesis

Spencer Ressel

(Joined the group in Sep 2021)

  • Simple models for the MJO

Alumni and past visitors

  • Ph.D. in May 2016

  • Current position: Assistant Professor in the University of Michigan

Min-Seop Ahn

(Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Sep 2017-May 2020)

  • Simulations of the Madden-Julian oscillation in CMIP5 models (Ahn et al., 2017)

  • Role of parameterized mesoscale organization on the simulation of the MJO and the mean state (Ahn et al., 2019)

  • Interaction of the MJO with the Maritime Continent (Ahn et al., 2020)

  • MJO propagation over the Maritime Continent in CMIP5 and CMIP6 models (Ahn et al., 2020)

Soon-Il An

(Visiting scholar, Mar-Dec 2019)

  • Professor at Yonsei University

  • MJO-ENSO interaction during the mid-Holocene

Wei-Yi Cheng

(Joined the group in Sep 2015, Ph. D. thesis defended on Jun 9, 2021)

  • Ph.D. in June 2021

  • Quantification of the degree of convective clustering using ground radar observations (Cheng et al. 2018)

  • Mechanisms of convective clustering (Cheng et al., 2020)

  • CAPE Threshold for Lightning over the Tropical Ocean (Cheng et al. 2021)

Yoo-Geun Ham

(Visiting scholar, Jul 2017, Jul 2018, and Jul 2019)

  • Associate Professor at Chonnam National University

  • Machine-learning-based ENSO and MJO prediction

Jung-Ho Im

(Visiting scholar, Sep 2018-Aug 2019)

  • Associate Professor at UNIST

  • Machine-learning-based examination of MJO impacts

Daehyun Kang

(Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Mar 2019-2021, Visiting student, Jun-Jul 2018)

  • MJO-mean state relationship in CESM2 ensemble simulations (Kang et al. 2020)

  • MJO-mean state relationship in observations (Kang et al. 2021)

  • Mechanism of MJO seasonal cycle (Kang et al. in prep)

Hyerim Kim

(Visiting student, Mar-May 2016)

  • PhD Candidate at UNIST, Ulsan, Korea

  • Mechanism of MJO 'detouring' during boreal winter (D. Kim et al. 2017)

Yuna Lim

(Visiting student, Jan-Feb 2017)

  • PhD candidate at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

  • Model bias and MJO prediction skill in S2S models (Lim et al. 2018)

Aaron Levine

(Postdoctoral Research Scientist)

  • ENSO dynamics and prediction

Yumin Moon

(Research Scientist 4, 2017-2021)

  • Dynamics and simulations of tropical cyclones

  • Process-oriented diagnosis of tropical cyclones in high-resolution models (Moon et al. 2020a, Moon et al. 2022)

  • Resolution-dependent intensity adjustment factor for global climate models (Moon et al, 2020b)

Pengfei Ren

(Visiting student, Feb-Jul 2020)

  • Column-integrated MSE budget of the MJO in reanalysis products (Ren et al. 2021)

  • Moisture-precipitation relationship in reanalysis products (Ren and Kim, in prep)

Stephanie Rushley

(Joined the group in Sep 2014, Ph. D. thesis defended on Mar 13, 2020)

  • Ph.D. in March 2020

  • Moisture-convection coupling in the tropics (Rushley et al. 2018)

  • Madden-Julian oscillation in a warmer climate (Rushley et al. 2019)

  • Effects of orbital forcing on the MJO (Rushley et al., in revision)

Teng Wang

(Visiting student, Jan 2018-Jun 2019)

  • PhD candidate at Sun-Yat Sen University, China

  • Convective self-aggregation and the initiation of the Madden-Julian oscillation