Soo-Hyun Kim

Affiliation: Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), NASA Ames Research Center (ARC)

Division: Earth Science Division (SG)

Email: soohyun.kim@nasa.gov

Professional Biography

Dr. Soo-Hyun Kim is a NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) Fellow at NASA Ames Research Center starting in May 2024. She specializes in atmospheric turbulence in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere. She has conducted extensive research on the observational characteristics of turbulence detected in numerous in situ aircraft observations, including airborne platforms during field campaigns and commercial aircraft, numerical studies of atmospheric turbulence generation, and climate and other potential impacts to the turbulence generation. Prior to joining NASA Ames Research Center as the NPP Fellow, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Seoul National University (2020-2024) and a postdoctoral associate at Yonsei University (2020). She graduated from Ewha Womans University with a B.S. in Earth Science Education in 2013. She received her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from Yonsei University in 2020.

Education

Ph.D., 2020: Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, South Korea

– Thesis: Application of a convective gravity-wave drag parameterization to development of near-cloud turbulence diagnostics

B.S., 2013: Department of Science Education, Ewha Womans University, South Korea

Research Interests

Airborne-based turbulence observations; Spatiotemporal characteristics and generation mechanisms of atmospheric turbulence in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS); Diagnosis, forecasts, and prospects of UTLS turbulence generation; Relationship between UTLS turbulence and atmospheric composition

Awards/Honors

NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) Award (on May 2024)

2023 Award by Director-General for Aviation Meteorological Office, Korea Meteorological Administration

2020 Ph.D. Thesis Award, Graduate school of Yonsei University

2020 Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, Korean Meteorological Society

Select Publications

Kim, S.-H., J.-H. Kim, H.-Y. Chun, and R. Sharman, 2023: Global response of upper-level aviation turbulence from various sources to climate change, npj. Clim. Atmos. Sci., 6, 92.  

Kim, S.-H., J. Kim, J.-H. Kim, and H.-Y. Chun, 2022: Characteristics of the derived energy dissipation rate using the 1-Hz commercial aircraft quick access recorder (QAR) data, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 15, 2277-2298.

Kim, S.-H., H.-Y. Chun, D.-B. Lee, J.-H. Kim, and R. Sharman, 2021: Improving numerical weather prediction-based near-cloud turbulence forecasts by diagnosing convective gravity wave breaking, Wea. Forecasting, 36, 1735-1757.

Kim, S.-H., H.-Y. Chun, J.-H. Kim, R. Sharman, and M. Strahan, 2020: Retrieval of eddy dissipation rate from derived equivalent vertical gust included in Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay (AMDAR), Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13, 1373-1385.

Kim, S.-H., H-Y. Chun, R. Sharman, and S. Trier, 2019: Development of near-cloud turbulence diagnostics based on a convective gravity-wave drag parameterization, J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 58, 1725-1750.

Kim, S.-H., H.-Y. Chun, and P.-W. Chan, 2017: Comparison of turbulence indicators obtained from in situ flight data, J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 56, 1609-1623.

Kim, S.-H., and H.-Y. Chun, 2016: Aviation turbulence encounters detected from aircraft observations: spatiotemporal characteristics and application to Korean Aviation Turbulence Guidance, Meteorol. Appl., 23, 594-604.