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- (Division of Earth and Environmental System Sciences)Major of Environmental Atmospheric Sciences
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(Division of Earth and Environmental System Sciences)Major of Environmental Atmospheric Sciences
- Object of Education
The goals of the department are to understand the variational physical, chemical phenomena occurred in the Earth's atmosphere, to explain these phenomena based on the related theories, and to predict the atmospheric phenomena in the future. In addition, the global climatotogical changes, weather prediction.
- Research Area
Development of atmospheric Boundary Layer
Air-Land, Air-Sea Interaction
Atmospheric Turbulence
Doppler Radar and Wind Profiler Network

Development of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models, including RANS (Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes) and LES (Large Eddy Simulation)
Generation of real-time and forecasted meteorological information to facilitate urban air mobility (UAM) operations
Evaluation of urban environments, including wind comfort, thermal comfort, sunlight exposure, and air quality
Development of urban parameterization techniques, incorporating building effects, vehicle-induced changes, and the impact of vegetation
Planning and simulation of urban architecture and landscape designs
Tropospheric chemistry with a focus on photochemical secondary products (e.g., ozone and secondary aerosols).
Urban emissions of particulate/gaseous pollutants: sources, distributions, transport, dynamics/chemistry, and potential impacts on human health.
Built-environmental effects on in-canopy turbulence and urban air quality.
Ultrafine particles (smaller than 100 nm): emissions, number and size distributions, particle dynamics and human exposure.
Analysis of climate change in polar regions and polar-midlatitude teleconnection patterns, has impacts on midlatitude weather and climate variabilities.
To investigate the extreme weather events in midlatitudes, analyze the synoptic-scale motion and use the regional model
Validate and improve the Sub-seasonal/Seasonal forecasting skill, using the GCM (Global Circulation Model).
Conduct the scenario/equilibrium experiments using the earth system model
Statistical mechanics is a mathematical frame to describe the irregular movements of microphysical systems. It has been used in climate science to represent the interaction between chaotic weather and slowly evolving climate. The lab uses atmospheric and oceanic fluid dynamics and climate big data under the frame of statistical mechanics to interpret the current climate and predict near future of climate under global warming.
Our group aims to understand land-atmosphere interactions from observation, satellite, and numerical modeling. To overcome the limitations in the observation and remotely sensed products, a data assimilation system is developed to create a land reanalysis that is used for land initialization to increase prediction skills in the dynamical forecast system. Additionally, the assimilated product is used to understand the physical mechanism of extreme climate events.
Understanding the physical mechanisms of climate extremes
AI-augmented weather/climate modeling
Analyzing secondary impacts on societal and economic systems
Cloud physics: Analysis of cloud dynamics through high-resolution cloud simulation, precipitation formation process, cloud-aerosol-radiation interaction, climate sensitivity of clouds
Climate modeling: Improvement of physical processes of weather/climate models, improvement of prediction and simulation performance of climate variability (typhoons, MJO, ENSO), evaluation of weather/climate models
- Career
- Career
Engineer Air Pollution Environmental, Engineer Meteorology, Engineer Industrial Safety, Engineer Industrial Hygiene.
Korea Meteorological Adiministration, Meteorological Research Institute, Ministry of Environment, Environmental Research Institute, Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime affairs, National Fisheries Research & Development Institute, Korea Water Resources Corporation, Ministry of National Defense, Advanced Institute of Information Technology, Institute Center, Relevant Aeronautical Industry, Pollution Control Facilities Industry, Relevant Industry,