June-Yi Lee Explained

June-Yi Lee is an atmospheric scientist at Pusan National University known for her use of models to investigate the atmosphere and the ocean under future climate scenarios.

Education and career

Lee received a B.S. from Ewha Womans University in 1997. She earned an M.S. (1999) and a Ph.D. (2003) from Seoul National University. She then did postdoctoral work at NASA and the University of Hawaiʻi.^[1] As of 2022 she is an associate professor at Pusan National University,^[2] and an associate researcher at the University of Hawaii.

Research

Lee's early work examined rainfall patterns^[3] and modeling of the Asian-Australian monsoon.^[4] She subsequently examined seasonal predictions within coupled ocean-atmosphere models,^[5] with a particular focus on seasonal oscillations and the impact on the Asian summer monsoon.^[6] More recently she examines how the monsoon is parameterized within the CMIP5 model.^[7] In 2021, she was the coordinating lead author for Working Group I, chapter 4 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.^[8]

Selected publications

• Timmermann . Axel . An . Soon-Il . Kug . Jong-Seong . Jin . Fei-Fei . Cai . Wenju . Capotondi . Antonietta . Cobb . Kim M. . Lengaigne . Matthieu . McPhaden . Michael J. . Stuecker . Malte F. . Stein . Karl . July 2018 . El Niño–Southern Oscillation complexity . Nature . 559 . 7715 . 535–545 . 10.1038/s41586-018-0252-6 . Han-Ching . Yang . Ren . Hong-Li . Santoso . Agus . Takahashi . Ken . Todd . Alexander . Wang . Guomin . Wang . Guojian . Xie . Ruihuang . Woo-Hyun . Rashid . Yeh . Sang-Wook . Yoon . Jinho . Zeller . Elke . Zhang . Xuebin . Tobias . Bayr . Kyung-Sook . Yun . Andrew T. . Wittenberg . Harun . Scott . Chikamoto . Sarah . Yoshimitsu . Dewitte . Boris . Dommenget . Dietmar . Grothe . Pamela . Guilyardi . Eric . Ham . Yoo-Geun . Hayashi . Michiya . Ineson . Kang . Power . Tim . Yann . Planton . Shayne . McGregor . Jing-Jia . Luo . Li . Daehyun . June-Yi . Lee . WonMoo . Kim . Sunyong . Chen . Kim. 30046070 . 2018Natur.559..535T . 50784105 .
• Wang . Bin . Xiang . Baoqiang . Lee . June-Yi . 22 January 2013 . Subtropical High predictability establishes a promising way for monsoon and tropical storm predictions . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 110 . 8 . 2718–2722 . 10.1073/pnas.1214626110 . 23341624 . 3581955 . 2013PNAS..110.2718W . 0027-8424. free .
• Lee . June-Yi . Wang . Bin . January 2014 . Future change of global monsoon in the CMIP5 . Climate Dynamics . 42 . 1–2 . 101–119 . 10.1007/s00382-012-1564-0. 2014ClDy...42..101L . 129777682 . free .
• Lee . June-Yi . Wang . Bin . Wheeler . Matthew C. . Fu . Xiouhua . Waliser . Duane E. . Kang . In-Sik . January 2013 . Real-time multivariate indices for the boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation over the Asian summer monsoon region . Climate Dynamics . 40 . 1–2 . 493–509 . 10.1007/s00382-012-1544-4. 2013ClDy...40..493L . 55694944 . free .

Awards and honors

In 2018 Lee received the Climate Change Grand Leaders Award from the Climate Change Center.^[9] in 2020 she received the 30th Science and Technology Award from the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Society,^[10] in recognition of her paper on the 2016 heat wave in Korea.^[11] In 2021 she was named scientist of the year by the Korean Science Journalists Association.^[12]

Notes and References

1. Web site: International Pacific Research Center People June-Yi Lee . 2022-03-13 . iprc.soest.hawaii.edu . en.
2. Web site: June-Yi Lee – IBS Center for Climate Physics . 13 March 2022.
3. Ho . Chang-Hoi . Lee . June-Yi . Ahn . Myoung-Hwan . Lee . Hee-Sang . 2003 . A sudden change in summer rainfall characteristics in Korea during the late 1970s . International Journal of Climatology . 23 . 1 . 117–128 . 10.1002/joc.864 . 2003IJCli..23..117H . 4934614 . 0899-8418.
4. Wang . Bin . Kang . In-Sik . Lee . June-Yi . 2004-02-15 . Ensemble Simulations of Asian–Australian Monsoon Variability by 11 AGCMs . Journal of Climate . EN . 17 . 4 . 803–818 . 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<0803:ESOAMV>2.0.CO;2 . 2004JCli...17..803W . 0894-8755. free .
5. Lee . June-Yi . Wang . Bin . Kang . I.-S. . Shukla . J. . Kumar . A. . Kug . J.-S. . Schemm . J. K. E. . Luo . J.-J. . Yamagata . T. . Fu . X. . Alves . O. . 2010 . How are seasonal prediction skills related to models' performance on mean state and annual cycle? . Climate Dynamics . en . 35 . 2–3 . 267–283 . 10.1007/s00382-010-0857-4 . 2010ClDy...35..267L . 53593833 . 0930-7575.
6. Lee . June-Yi . Wang . Bin . Wheeler . Matthew C. . Fu . Xiouhua . Waliser . Duane E. . Kang . In-Sik . 2013 . Real-time multivariate indices for the boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation over the Asian summer monsoon region . Climate Dynamics . en . 40 . 1–2 . 493–509 . 10.1007/s00382-012-1544-4 . 2013ClDy...40..493L . 55694944 . 0930-7575. free .
7. Lee . June-Yi . Wang . Bin . 2014 . Future change of global monsoon in the CMIP5 . Climate Dynamics . en . 42 . 1–2 . 101–119 . 10.1007/s00382-012-1564-0 . 2014ClDy...42..101L . 129777682 . 0930-7575. free .
8. Book: http://eprints.usq.edu.au/44874/1/WG1AR5_Chapter11_FINAL.pdf . Near-term Climate Change: Projections and Predictability . Climate Change 2013 - The Physical Science Basis . 2014 . Cambridge University Press . Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . Cambridge . 953–1028 . 10.1017/cbo9781107415324.023 . 9781107057999 . 2022-03-13.
9. Web site: June-Yi Lee receiving 2018 Climate Change Grand Leaders Award – IBS Center for Climate Physics . 2022-03-13 . en-US.
10. Web site: June-Yi Lee awarded the 30th Science and Technology Excellence Award 2020 – IBS Center for Climate Physics . 2022-03-13 . en-US.
11. Lee . June-Yi . Kim . Hae-Jeong . Jeong . Yoo-Rim . 2019 . Influence of Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation on the 2016 Heat Wave over Korea . Atmosphere . 29 . 5 . 627–637 . 10.14191/Atmos.2019.29.5.627 . 1598-3560.
12. Web site: June-Yi Lee receives Scientist of the Year Award from the Korea Science Journalists Association – IBS Center for Climate Physics . 2022-03-13 . en-US.