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Member Since 2006
Sukyoung Lee
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Member, Atmospheric Sciences Fellows Committee
Professional Experience
2025 - Present
Pennsylvania State University Main Campus
Professor
1994 - 2025
Education
Doctorate
1991
Princeton University
Doctorate
Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2021
Citation
For fundamental discoveries in atmospheric dynamics, including self-organization of midlatitude storms and tropical impacts on Arctic climate change.
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Reply to Comment on “Moist Static Energy Transport Trends in Four Global Reanalyses: Are They Downgr...
In a previous study, we investigated whether reanalysis moist static energy (MSE) transport trends over the 1980 through 2018 period are consistent...
August 09, 2023
On the Causes of Synoptic‐Scale Eddy Heat Flux Decline
December 26, 2022
Moist Static Energy Transport Trends in Four Global Reanalys...
October 17, 2022
Drivers of Global Clear Sky Surface Downwelling Longwave Irr...
November 18, 2021
AGU Abstracts
Understanding of precipitation - Transformed Eulerian Mean circulation through Warm Conveyor Belts and Dry Intrusions
THE DYNAMICS OF LARGE-SCALE ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION IN PRESENT AND FUTURE CLIMATES: JET STREAMS, STORM TRACKS, STATIONARY WAVES, AND MONSOONS I POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 12 december 2024
Yunsung Hwang, Changhyun Yoo, Sukyoung Lee
In this study, we attempt to understand the location and structure of warm conveyor belts (WCBs) and dry intrusions (DIs) in the context of the Transf...
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Influence of Subtropical UTLS Eddy Heat Flux on General Circulation
THE DYNAMICS OF LARGE-SCALE ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION IN PRESENT AND FUTURE CLIMATES: JET STREAMS, STORM TRACKS, STATIONARY WAVES, AND MONSOONS I POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 12 december 2024
Pin-Chun Huang, Sukyoung Lee
In the boreal winter climatology, there is an equatorward eddy heat flux (EHF) in the subtropical upper troposphere-lower stratosphere (UTLS) centered...
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How Well Is Tropical Pacific SST Change Predicted By Climatological Cooling Rates?
COUPLED OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE PROCESSES IN THE TROPICAL PACIFIC: PHYSICAL AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL DYNAMICS AND INTERACTIONS III POSTER
ocean sciences | 10 december 2024
Allen Mewhinney, Sukyoung Lee
The tropical Pacific has a strong influence on global climate and thus, understanding how it has changed and will change with climate change has recei...
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Volunteer Experience
2025 - 2026
Member
Atmospheric Sciences Fellows Committee
2022 - 2024
Member
Atmospheric Sciences Fellows Committee
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