I am an Assistant Professor in the Oceanography
Department and the International Pacific
Research Center (IPRC) at the University of Hawaiʻi at
Mānoa. Both are part of the School of Ocean and
Earth Science and Technology (SOEST).
My Climate Dynamics research group is
working on various aspects of internal climate variability
and forced climate changes (for instance due to changes in
greenhouse gas concentrations) in the past, present, and
future. These range from regional to global scales, from the
tropics to the poles. Among other things, we are for
instance trying to understand how the future climate in the
North Pacific surrounding Hawaiʻi will be shaped by both
local processes and by remote influences from the deep
tropics.
Our tools include statistical analysis of observations
and paleo records as well as hierarchies of climate model
simulations, ranging from very idealized low-order systems
to state-of-the-art high-resolution coupled climate models
and large ensemble projects. High resolution models allow us
to gain a better understanding of regional processes while
large ensembles provide a powerful tool to study changes in
extreme events (such as marine heatwaves and heavy
rainfall).
Furthermore, we are interested in practical applications
of the insights gained from studying fundamental climate
dynamics to seasonal forecasting and society. For instance,
we recently developed a new statistical-dynamical forecast
system for the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD), which exhibits
superior skill to all current operational IOD prediction
systems.
Besides teaching and researching at the University of
Hawaiʻi, I am a contributing author in Working Group I
of the upcoming IPCC
Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) and a member of
the upcoming CLIVAR
research focus group "Tropical basin interaction" (starting
in 2020).
Please contact me regarding potential opportunities to
join the group as a student/postdoc.
Biography
From 2018-2019 I was an Assistant Project Leader at the IBS Center for Climate
Physics (ICCP) and Research Professor at Pusan National
University (PNU) in Busan, South Korea. At ICCP, I was
leading the group "Tropical climate dynamics: past,
present, future". During 2016-2018, I was a NOAA Climate & Global
Change postdoctoral fellow at the University of
Washington Atmospheric Sciences department, hosted by
Cecilia
Bitz. I received my PhD in Meteorology in
2015, working with Fei-Fei
Jin at the University
of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Atmospheric
Sciences department.
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