2002 - Ph.D., Meteorology, University of Hawaii
Dissertation: Mechanism of the intraseasonal oscillation in the south Asian summer
monsoon region.
1997 - M.S., Meteorology, University of Hawaii
Thesis: The annual cycle of latent heat fluxes over the equatorial Pacific Ocean
using TAO buoy observations.
1995 - B.S., Earth Science Education, Ewha Womans University,
Seoul, South Korea
Research Interests
Intraseasonal oscillation
Indian Ocean dipole mode
South Asian summer monsoon
Professional Experience
Postdoctoral fellow, IPRC/SOEST, 2008 – present
Postdoctoral researcher, COLA (IGES), 2006 – 2007
Postdoctoral fellow, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e
Vulcanologia, Italy, 2004 – 2006
Research assistant and postdoctoral academic trainee,
University of Hawaii, 1997 – 2003
NASA graduate student, Goddard Space Flight
Center (summer program), 1997
Selected Publications
Drbohlav, H.-K., and V. Krishnamurthy, 2007: Spatial structure,
Forecast error and Predictability of South Asian Monsoon in CFS
Monthly Retrospective Forecasts. COLA technical report, No. 252,
38pp.
Drbohlav, H.-K., and B. Wang, 2007: Horizontal and Vertical
Structures of the Northward Propagating Intraseasonal Oscillation in
the South Asian Monsoon Region simulated by an Intermediate Model.
J. Climate, 20, 4278 – 4286.
Drbohlav, H.-K., S. Gualdi, and A. Navarra, 2007: A diagnostic
study of the Indian Ocean dipole mode in El Nino and non-El Nino
years. J. Climate, 20, 2961 – 2977.
Drbohlav, H.-K., and B. Wang, 2005: Mechanism of the northward
propagating intraseasonal oscillation: insight from a zonally
symmetric model. J. Climate, 18, 952 – 972.
Lee, H.-K., P.-S. Chu, C.-H. Sui, and K.-M. Lau, 1998: On the
annual cycle of latent heat flux over the equatorial Pacific using
TAO buoy observations. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 76,
909 – 923.