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Dong-Hyun Cha Postdoctoral Fellow[Past Staff] International Pacific Research Center School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology University of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Email: |
Education
- 2009 - Ph.D. (Unified course), Atmospheric Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea
- 2001 - B.A., Atmospheric Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea
Research Interests
- Development and Improvement of Numerical Models
- Regional Climate Modeling
- Monsoon and Tropical Cyclone
- Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Coupling
- Regional Climate Change Scenario
Professional Experience
- Postdoctoral Fellow, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii, January 2011 – present
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Brain Korea 21 program, Seoul National University, Korea, December 2009 – December 2010
- Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea , March 2009 – November 2009
Awards
- October 2009 - Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, the Korean Meteorological Society
- March 2010 - KMA Administrator Awards, Korea Meteorological Administration
Selected Publications
- Cha, D.-H., C.-S. Jin, and D.-K. Lee, 2011: Impact of local SST anomaly over the western North Pacific on extreme East Asian summer monsoon. Clim. Dyn., 37, 1691-1705, doi:10.1007/s00382-010-0983-z.
- Cha, D.-H., C.-S. Jin, and D.-K. Lee, and Y.-H.. Kuo, 2011: Impact of intermittent spectral nudging on regional climate simulation using Weather Research and Forecasting model. J. Geophys. Res., 116, D10103, doi:10.1029/2010JD015069.
- Cha, D.-H., and D.-K. Lee, 2009: Reduction of systematic errors in regional climate simulations of the summer monsoon over East Asia and the western North Pacific by applying the spectral nudging technique. J. Geophys. Res., 114, D14108, doi:10.1029/2008JD011176.
- Zhang, J., D.-H. Cha, and D.-K. Lee, 2009: Investigating the role of MODIS leaf area index and vegetation-climate interaction in regional climate simulations over Asia. J. Terres. Atmos .Ocea. Sci., 20, DOI:10.3319/TAO.2008.04.03.01(A).
- Cha, D.-H., D.-K. Lee, and S.-Y. Hong, 2008: Impact of boundary layer processes on seasonal simulation of the East Asian summer monsoon using a regional climate model. Meteorol. Atmos .Phys., 100, 53-72.
- Choi, S.-J., D.-H. Cha, and D.-K. Lee, 2008: Simulation of the 18-day summer heavy rainfall over East Asia using a regional climate model. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D12101, doi:10.1029/2007JD009213.
- Lee, Y.-H., D.-H. Cha, and D.-K. Lee, 2008: Impact of horizontal resolution of regional climate model on precipitation simulation over the Korean Peninsula. Atmosphrere, 18, 387-395.
- Yoon, S.-C., S. W. Kim, J. Kim, B.-J. Sohn, A. Jefferson, S.-J. Choi, D.-H. Cha, D.-K. Lee, T.L. Anderson, S.J. Doherty and R.J. Weber, 2006: Enhanced Water Vapor in Asian Dust Layer: Entrainment Processes and Implication for Aerosol Optical Properties. Atmospheric Environment, 40, 2409-2421.
- Lee, D.-K., D.-H. Cha, and S.-J. Choi, 2005: A sensitivity study of regional climate simulation to convective parameterization schemes for 1998 East Asian summer monsoon. J. Terres. Atmos .Ocea. Sci., 16, 989-1015.
- Kang, H.-S., D.-H. Cha, and D.-K. Lee, 2005: Evaluation of the MM5/LSM coupled model for East Asian summer monsoon simulations. J. Geophys. Res., 110, D10105, 1029/2004JD0005266.
- Lee, D.-K., D.-H. Cha, and H.-S. Kang, 2004: Regional climate simulation of the 1998 summer flood over East Asia. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 82, 1735-1753.