APPOINTMENTS

• Dept. of Moon Soul Grad. School of Future Strategy, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea  2021 –  Associate Professor
• Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan & Dept. of Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

2017 – 2021 Specially Appointed Associate Professor

2012 – 2017 Assistant Professor

2010 – 2011 Researcher

• UCLA Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, Los Angeles, USA & NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA

2019 – 2020 Associate Project Scientist

2017 – 2019 Associate Visiting Scholar

• UC Center for Hydrologic Modeling, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

2010 – 2012 Postdoctoral Scholar,

• Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

2010 – 2010 Researcher

 

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION

2010    PhD in Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2004    MS in Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
2001    BS in Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITES & SCIENTIFIC OUTREACHES (selected)

Global Soil Wetness Project Phase 3 (GSWP3), Chair (since 2014) ****One of core projects of GLASS/GEWEX as a liaison across broader science communities including ISI-MIP, LUMIP, CLiC/WCRP, GDAP/GEWEX, and CMIP6 (http://hydro.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/GSWP3/)

Land Surface, Snow and Soil-moisture Model Intercomparision Project (LS3MIP), Co-chair (since 2014) A CMIP6-endorsed-MIP to provide a comprehensive assessment of land surface, snow and soil moisture feedbacks on climate variability and climate change, and to diagnose systematic biases in the land modules of current ESMs. (http://www.climate-cryosphere.org/activities/targeted/ls3mip)

Global Land Atmosphere System Study (GLASS), Panel Member (since 2010) A science panel member of Global Energy Water Exchanges Project (GEWEX), one of four core projects of World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) (http://www.gewex.org/panels/global-landatmosphere-system-study-panel/glass-panel/)

Safe Landing Climate WCRP Lighthouse Activity, Member of Science Plan Development Team (since 2021) A member of science plan development team to provide scientific outcomes that are critical to support emergent societal needs for robust and actionable regional to local climate information (https://www.wcrp-climate.org/wcrp-ip-la)

Regional Focal Point of WCRP Climate Research Forums, Co-lead of Asia-Oceania-Eastern Asia Region (since 2021) A regional leadership to facilitate the exchange of information between WCRP and the climate research and support communities, stakeholders, and partners in the region (https://www.wcrp-climate.org/wcrp-ip-consult)

APEC Climate Center (APCC), Science Advisory Committee Member (since 2020) A member of science advisory group for monitoring and causal analysis of climate extremes (https://apcc21.org/abt/net.do)

Today’s Earth Global, Advisory (since 2012) Global pseudo real-time simulation system of land surface, river discharge and flood area fraction co-developed by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency/Earth Observation Research Center (JAXA/EORC), Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan (RESTEC), and The University of Tokyo (https://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/water/TE-global/)

Precipitation Measurement Mission (PMM), Science Team and Application Committee of JAXA (since 2013), Science Team of NASA (2016-2019) Japan-U.S. joint satellite mission of Global Precipitation Measurement/Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (GPM/DPR) (https://pmm.nasa.gov/)

Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT), Science Team of NASA (2016-2018) French-U.S. joint satellite mission for global measurement of terrestrial and ocean water surface elevation (https://swot.jpl.nasa.gov/)

Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment – Follow On (GRACE-FO), Science Team of NASA (since 2020) Follow on mission of the GRACE, a Germany-U.S. joint satellite mission for continuing its legacy of tracking Earth’s water movement across the planet (https://gracefo.jpl.nasa.gov/)

ExtremeX, Participant (since 2018) Numerical experiments to disentangle the role of different climatological drivers for recent extreme events using multiple climate models constraining land surface states and/or atmospheric dynamics.

Soil Parameter Model Intercomparison Project (SP-MIP), Primary Forcing Data Provider & Participant (since 2018) Controlled multi-model global offline experiments to investigate whether simulation spreads of water-balance variables (e.g., evapotranspiration, soil-moisture and runoff) depend on model structure or model parameters.

Half a degree Additional warming, Prognosis and Projected Impacts (HAPPI), Collaborator (since 2016), and for Land (HAPPI-Land), Contributor (since 2017) Multi-model super-ensemble based quantifications of relative risks of extremes under 1.5/2.0°C warming following the Paris Agreement (http://www.happimip.org/) and an extension of HAPPI project to estimate the impact of land use and land cover changes based on different land use scenarios.

African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) Land surface Model Intercomparision Project Phase 2 (ALMIP2), Working Group (since 2013) A project of GLASS/GEWEX to obtain a better understanding of the intra-seasonal and interannual variability of the west-African monsoon (http://www.umr-cnrm.fr/amma-moana/amma_surf/almip2)

Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISI-MIP), Participant (since 2011), Primary Forcing Data Provider for the Phase 2 (2014-2016) Climate-impacts modelling initiative to contribute to a quantitative and cross-sectoral impact assessments of climate change (https://www.isimip.org/)

GEWEX Asian Monsoon Experiment (GAME)-Tibet, Field Campaign Participant (2002), and -Tropics, Field Campaign Participant (2002-2003) Setup eddy covariance tower flux measurements for intensive observation periods and long-term measurement over Tibetan Plateau (prairie) and Thailand (mixed forest)

Organizing committee of an inter-community international symposium of Hydrology delivers Earth System Science to Society (HESSS) – 1st at Tsukuba, Japan, Feb., 2007; 2nd at Tokyo, Japan, Jun., 2010 (jointly with GSWP/GLASS, AsiaFlux/ FLUXNET, and LandFlux-Eval); 3rd at Seoul, Korea, Aug., 2013 (jointly with AsiaFlux annual meeting); 4th at Tokyo, May, 2017 (jointly with science communities across disciplines including GLASS/GEWEX, ILAMB and ISI-MIP) (http://www.gewexevents.org/events/hesss4/); 5th at Saskatoon, Canada, Jun., 2020 (planned), Land Modeling “LandMIP” Workshop at Zurich, Switzerland, Oct., 2015, WCRP Climate Research Forum -East Asia, online, Apr., 2021
(co-) Convener of American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting – Advances in large-scale modeling and remote sensing of climate-hydrology-human interactions toward sustainable land-water resource management (2018), Computational Methods and Tools for Model-Data Integration (2018), Progress in large-scale modeling and remote sensing of the water cycle toward better human water management (2017), Climate Extremes: Trends, Mechanisms, and Prediction (2015), Progress in Large-Scale Modeling and Remote Sensing of the Water Cycle in a Changing World (2015), Land Surface, Snow, and Soil moisture in Land-Climate Feedback and Model Diagnosis (2015); Asia Oceania Geosciences Society – At the Edge of Hydrology: Natural- and Human-induced Changes in Fluxes Across the Land-ocean and Land-atmosphere Interfaces with Impacts on Global and Regional Water Cycle (2018), Water Cycle in a Changing Climate from Observations and Model Simulations, and Implications for Water Resources (2014), Natural- and Human-Induced Changes and the Role of Groundwater in Terrestrial Water Cycle (2014), Global Change Impacts on Hydrological Cycle and Implications for Water Resources (2012); GEWEX Science Conference – Advances in Irrigation Hydrology and Irrigation Impact on Water Cycle: Measurements, Modeling, and Multi-Scale Impacts on Water Resources (2018)

Guest editor of a special collection of Hydrology in Earth System Science and Society (2011) – Journal of Hydrometeorology, AMS (https://journals.ametsoc.org/topic/hesss); Hydrology delivers Earth System Sciences Society 4 (2017) – Water Resources Research, AGU (https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)1944-7973.HESSS4); Integrating Big Data with Earth System Models of Natural and Human Systems: Confronting Models with Observations to Constrain Emergent Behavior (2018) – Frontiers in Big Data (https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/8457/integrating-big-data-with-earth-system-models-of-natural-and-human-systems-confronting-models-with-o); Large-scale Modeling and Remote Sensing of Climate–Hydrology–Human Interactions (2019) – jointly in Atmosphere, Water and Remote Sensing, MDPI

 

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

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