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Donghyun is committed to research understanding of global carbon cycle in adaptive mitigation scenarios under multiple climate forcing agents and methodologies with a focus on interactions with climate policy, adapt existing and develop new research methodologies and materials. His major interest is proposing reliable future projections to policymakers by elaborating remained uncertainties sources from climate models and future projection pathways.

He uses various types of numerical models and keeps collaborating with international teams: regional climate model (RCM: Weather@Home, GRIMs, and CCLM), convection-permitting model (CPM: CCLM), Single Climate Model (SCM: FaIR v1 and v2), and coupled global climate model (GCM: HadCM3) to evaluate model performance and understand the changes in mean and extreme under the various future projection scenarios.

  • Carbon-cycle characteristics determining the residual carbon dioxide emission amounts aimed at the target temperatures (1.5 or 2.0) of the Paris agreement
  • Climate/weather extreme events and their compounding effects
  • Climate forcing attribution experiments and meteorological explanation in a process-based approach
  • Divide and quantify the uncertainty source in future projection

Project

4C (Climate-Carbon interactions in the Current Century) Project

Publications

Lee, D., Sparrow, S., Min, S.-K., Yeh, S.-W. and Allen, M. (2023) “Physically based equation representing the forcing-driven precipitation in climate models”, Environmental Research Letters, 18(9).
Lee, D., Min, S.-K., Ahn, J.-B., Cha, D.-H., Shin, S.-W., Chang, E.-C., Suh, M.-S., Byun, Y.-H. and Kim, J.-U. (2023) “Uncertainty analysis of future summer monsoon duration and area over East Asia using a multi-GCM/multi-RCM ensemble”, Environmental Research Letters, 18(6).
Lee, D., Min, S., Park, I., Ahn, J., Cha, D., Chang, E. and Byun, Y. (2022) “Enhanced Role of Convection in Future Hourly Rainfall Extremes Over South Korea”, Geophysical Research Letters, 49(22).
Park, C., Shin, S.-W., Kim, G., Cha, D.-H., Min, S.-K., Lee, D., Byun, Y.-H. and Kim, J.-U. (2022) “Corrigendum to ‘What determines future changes in photovoltaic potential over East Asia?’ [Renew. Energy 185 (2022) 338–347]”, Renewable Energy, 195, pp. 1480–1480.
Park, C., Shin, S.-W., Kim, G., Cha, D.-H., Min, S.-K., Lee, D., Byun, Y.-H. and Kim, J.-U. (2022) “What determines future changes in photovoltaic potential over East Asia?”, Renewable Energy, 185, pp. 338–347.
Li, D., Feng, J., Zhu, Y., Staneva, J., Qi, J., Behrens, A., Lee, D., Min, S.-K. and Yin, B. (2022) “Dynamical Projections of the Mean and Extreme Wave Climate in the Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea and East China Sea”, FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE, 9.
Sørland, S., Brogli, R., Pothapakula, P., Russo, E., Van de Walle, J., Ahrens, B., Anders, I., Bucchignani, E., Davin, E., Demory, M.-E., Dosio, A., Feldmann, H., Früh, B., Geyer, B., Keuler, K., Lee, D., Li, D., van Lipzig, N., Min, S.-K., Panitz, H.-J., Rockel, B., Schär, C., Steger, C. and Thiery, W. (2021) “COSMO-CLM regional climate simulations in the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) framework: a review”, Geoscientific Model Development, 14(8), pp. 5125–5154.
Min, S., Kim, L., Park, I., Lee, D., Sparrow, S., Wallom, D. and Stone, D. (2019) “Anthropogenic contribution to the 2017 earliest summer onset in South Korea”, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 100(1), pp. S73 - S77.
Nguyen, T.-H., Min, S.-K., Paik, S. and Lee, D. (2018) “Time of emergence in regional precipitation changes: an updated assessment using the CMIP5 multi-model ensemble”, Climate Dynamics, 51(9-10), pp. 3179–3193.
Lee, D., Min, S.-K., Fischer, E., Shiogama, H., Bethke, I., Lierhammer, L. and Scinocca, J. (2018) “Impacts of half a degree additional warming on the Asian summer monsoon rainfall characteristics”, ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 13(4).