Hyodae Seo Physical Oceanography Department Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution hseo@whoi.edu http://www.whoi.edu/science/PO/people/hseo Tel: 508-289-2792, Fax: 508-457-2181 Mailing Address 266 Woods Hole Road., MS#21, Woods Hole, MA 02543

About my work

CV (pdf)

Some useful links

Some model runs

Education

• Ph.D. in Oceanography (2007): Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. Dissertation Title: Mesoscale Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction
  Advisors: Dr. Arthur J. Miller and Dr. John O. Roads
• B.S. in Atmospheric Sciences (2002): Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, South Korea

Employment

• October 2010- Present: Assistant Scientist (tenure-track), Physical Oceanography Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• December 2009 - October 2010: Visiting Assistant Researcher, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii, Manoa
• August 2008 - December 2009: NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship, affiliated with International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii, Manoa. Mentor: Professor Shang-Ping Xie
• December 2007 - August 2008: NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship, affiliated with Dept. Atmospehric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA. Mentor: Professor R. Mechoso
• June-December, 2007: Visiting scholar at International Pacific Research Center of University of Hawaii, Manoa. Supervisor: Professor Niklas Schneider

Research Interest

• Air-sea interactions, Climate dynmics, Ocean circulations, Coastal oceanography, Marine meteorology, Tropical oceanography, Climate modeling and change, Coupled climate modeling

Publications

• Putrasahan, D. A. J. Miller, and H. Se, 2013: Regional coupled ocean-atmosphere downscaling in the Southeast Pacific: Impacts on upwelling, mesoscale air-sea fluxes, and ocean eddies Ocean Dynamics PDF Web

• Subramanian, A, M. Jochum, A. J. Miller, R. Neale, H. Seo, D. Waliser, and R. Murtugudde, The MJO and Global warming: A study in CCSM4 Climate Dynamics, revised

• Seo, H. and S.-P. Xie, Impact of ocean warm layer thickness on the hurricane intensity change in a regional coupled model Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, revised

• Putrasahan, D. A. J. Miller, and H. Seo, 2013: Isolating Mesoscale Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions in the Kuroshio Extension Region Dynamics of Atmosphere and Ocean. 63, 60-78. PDF Web

• Seo, H, K. H. Brink, C. E. Dorman, D. Koracin, and C. A. Edwards, 2012: What determines the spatial pattern in summer upwelling trends on the U.S. West Coast? J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 117, C08012, doi:10.1029/2012JC008016 PDF Web

• Alexander, M.A., H. Seo, S.-P. Xie, and J.D. Scott, 2012: ENSO's impact on the gap wind regions of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean Journal of Climate, 25, 3549-3565. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00320.1 PDF Web

• Seo, H. and S.-P. Xie, 2011: Response and Impact of Equatorial Ocean Dynamics and Tropical Instability Waves in the Tropical Atlantic under Global Warming: A regional coupled downscaling study J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, ,VOL. 116, C03026, doi:10.1029/2010JC006670 PDF Web

• Seo, H., S.-P. Xie, R. Murtugudde, M. Jochum, and A. J. Miller, 2009: Seasonal effects of Indian Ocean freshwater forcing in a regional coupled model. Journal of Climate. 22, 6577-6596. PDF Web


• Seo, H., R. Murtugudde, M. Jochum, and A. J. Miller, 2008: Modeling of Mesoscale Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction and its Feedback to Ocean in the Western Arabian Sea. Ocean Modelling, 25,120-131. PDF Web
  
  
• Seo, H., M. Jochum, R. Murtugudde, A. J. Miller, and J. O. Roads, 2008: Precipitation from African Easterly Waves in a Coupled Model of the Tropical Atlantic.. Journal of Climate, 21, 1417-1431 PDF Web
  
  
• Small, R. J., S. de Szoeke, S. P. Xie, L. O'Neill, H. Seo, Q. Song, P. Cornillon, M. Spall, and S. Minobe, 2008: Air-Sea Interaction over Ocean Fronts and Eddies. Dynamics of Ocean and Atmosphere, 45, 274-319 PDF Web
  


• Seo, H., M. Jochum, R. Murtugudde, A. J. Miller, and J. O. Roads, 2007: Feedback of Tropical Instability Wave - induced Atmospheric Variability onto the Ocean. Journal of Climate, 20(23), 5842-5855 PDF Web


• Seo, H., A. J. Miller and J. O. Roads, 2007: The Scripps Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Regional (SCOAR) model, with applications in theeastern Pacific sector. Journal of Climate, 20, No. 3, 381-402 PDF Web


• Seo, H., M. Jochum, R. Murtugudde and A. J. Miller, 2006: Effect of Ocean Mesoscale Variability on the Mean State of Tropical Atlantic Climate. Geophysical Research Letters. 33, L09606 PDF Web

Academic Experiences and Awards

• Convener, Climate Trends and Projections in the Coastal Environment, American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting 2013
• Committee Member: The AMS Committee on Coastal Environment, 2011-2013
• Convener, Marine Regional Integrated Assessments: Observations, Predictions, and Uncertainty, WCRP Open Science Conference, 2011
• MIT-WHOI Joint Program Faculty, 2010-Present
• Convener, Regional and Mesoscale Coupled Air-Sea Modeling, Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, 2010
• Physical Oceanography Dissertation Symposium, October 5-10, 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii
• NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship: 2007-2009
• NCAR ASP Graduate Student Visiting Program: June-October 2006
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography Frieman Director's Prize for Excellence in Graduate Student Research in 2006
• Outstanding Student Paper Award, Ocean Sciences Meeting 2006

  Manuscript and proposal reviews

• BAMS: 1 (2008)
• Climate Dynamics: 2(2009), 1(2011), 1(2012)
• Journal of Climate: 1(2005), 2(2006), 1(2007), 2(2008), 1(2009), 2(2010), 2(2011), 1(2012)
• Journal of Marine Systems: 1(2010)
• Journal of Geophysical Research- Oceans: 2(2008), 2(2010), 1(2011), 1(2012)
• Journal of Geophysical Research- Atmospheres: 1(2010), 1(2012)
• Journal of Physical Oceanography: 1(2007), 1(2013)
• Geophysical Reearch Letters: 1(2012)
• Asian Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Science: 1(2008)
• Atmospheric Science Letters: 1(2011)
• Ocean Dynamics: 2(2011), 1(2012)
• Ocean Modelling: 1(2011)
• NOAA CPO/CVP: 1(2008)
• NSF PO: 1(2010), 2(2011), 1(2012)
French ANR: 1(2011), Portuguese FCT 1: (2012)

Select presentations and invited talks

• Dynamical response of the Arctic atmopsheric boundary layer process to uncertainties in sea ice concentration? AMS Polar Meeting, Seattle WA, April 29 - May 1, 2013. Recorded Presentation
• What determines the spatial pattern in summer upwelling trends on the U.S. West Coast? AMS Annaul Meeting Austin, TX, Jan. 9, 2013. Recorded Presentation
• Role of Ocean Mesoscale Eddies in Air-Sea Interaction and Regional Climate Change. MIT MSEAS Seminar. Nov. 16. 2012. MIT.
• Role of the East/Japan Sea SST variability in the atmospheric circulation in the North Pacific. AMS 18th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction, Boston. July 12, 2012. Recorded Presentation
• Mesoscale air-sea interactions and regional climate change: the Tropical Instability Waves example KORDI, May 30, 2012
• Role of the East/Japan Sea SST variability in the atmospheric circulation in the North Pacific. KORDI-WHOI Workshop, May 25, 2012
• (Invited) Role of the East-Asian marginal sea SST in the regional predictability and the North Pacific climate variability Japan Geoscience Union Meeting, May 23, 2012
• Regional modeling of ocean-atmosphere interaction: from tropics to mid-latitude. Kyushu University Japan Geoscience Union Meeting, May 21, 2012
• Effect of Seasonal Freshwater Forcing on the Indian Monsoon: A Regional Coupled Modeling Study Bay of Bengal Monsoon Workshop, WHOI, November 16-18, 2011
• Mesoscale air-sea interactions and regional climate change: Tropical Instability Waves in a regional coupled model. Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. October 14, 2011
• (Invited) Regional coupled downscaling: Role of mesoscale ocean eddies in climate- Tropical Instability Waves. International Workshop Development and Application of Regional Climate Models. Korea. October 11-12
• Tropical Instability Waves in the Atlantic: Air-sea interactions and climate change, Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Land Processes in the Tropical Atlantic, Miami, Mar 24, 2011
• Regional coupled downscaling of climate and weather , NRL-Stennis Space Center, May 26, 2010
• Regional coupled downscaling: mesoscale air-sea interaction and regional climate change , UT-Austin, April 26, 2010
• Regional coupled-downscaling of climate and weather , WHOI, March 23, 2010
• Applications of a regional coupled model to studies of global warming and hurricane-ocean interaction, NCAR, March 04, 2010
• Downscaling Global Warming with a Regional Ocean-Atmosphere Model over the Tropical Atlantic Role of equatorial ocean dynamics, AGU Fall, 2009
• Tropical Atlantic response to global warming: Equatorial upwelling and tropical instability waves- International RSM Workshop, Maui, Aug 4, 2009
• Seasonal effects of Indian Ocean freshwater forcing in a regional coupled model-Barrier Layers and Indian Monsoon- IPRC Annual Symposium, Jun 2, 2009
• Mesoscale air-sea interaction and feedback in the western Arabian Sea: CLIVAR Western Boundary Current Workshop, Phoenix, January 15, 2009
• Mesoscale air-sea interaction and feedback in the western Arabian Sea: AMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, January 14, 2009
• Overview of the Scripps Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Regional Model: ONR Coupled Modeling Workshop, Ballston, VA, Dec 12, 2008
• Mesoscale ocean-atmosphere interaction due to the ocean mesoscale eddies: Physical Oceanography Dissertation Symposium V, October 6, 2008
• Coupled modeling of mesoscale ocean-atmosphere interactions: tropical instability waves and ocean eddies: NOAA C&GC Summer Institute, July 14, 2008
• Mesoscale ocean-atmosphere interaction in the western Arabian sea: Dynamic and thermodynamic feedback to the ocean: NCAR CGD Seminar, May 23, 2008
• Mesoscale coupled ocean-atmosphere Interaction; Tropical Instability Waves and Atmospheric Feedback: ESSIC Seminar, University of Maryland. January 18, 2008
• Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction in a High-Resolution Regional Coupled Model: Oceanography Seminar, University of Hawaii, Manoa, August 23, 2007
• Effect of Coupling of Wind and Current on Tropical Instability Waves in the Atlantic Ocean: CLIVAR Tropical Atlantic Variability Meeting, Paris, October 18, 2006
• Tropical Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction in a Regional Coupled High-Resolution GCM: National Center for Atmospheric Research CGD Seminar, August 23, 2006
• Regional Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions in the Eastern Pacific: TIWs, Mesoscale Eddies and Gap Winds: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Seminar (given by Art Miller), April 2006
• Air-sea coupling associated with the TIWs; high-resolution coupled-model study: Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, February 24, 2006
• Air-sea coupling associated with the TIWs; high-resolution coupled-model study: Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, February 24, 2006
• Atmospheric Boundary Layer Response to SST in the Eastern Pacific: AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 2005
• Tropical Instability Waves and Ocean-Atmosphere Feedback: ROMS/TOMS User Workshop, La Jolla, October 2005
• Regional Ocean-Atmospheric Feedback in the Eastern Pacific; Gap Winds, TIWs, and Mesoscale Eddies: UCLA AOS 270 Seminar, UCLA, October 12, 2005
• Regional Air-Sea Interaction in the Eastern Pacific: 6th International RSM workshop, New York, August, 2005
• Development of the Regional Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Model: 85th AMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, January 2005
• Preliminary Simulation of the Regional Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Model in the Southern California Coastal Region: Regional Spectral Model Wrokshop, Yonsei Univerisity, Seoul, Korea, August 2004

Select poster presentations

• Diagnostics of the MJO and upper ocean variability in a regional coupled model MJO Field Data and Science Workshop, Kona, HI, Mar. 4-8, 2013.
• Sensitivity of Arctic surface boundary layer process to sea ice concentrations: WRF atmospheric modeling study AOMIP Workshop, WHOI, Oct. 23-25, 2012.
• What determines the spatial pattern in summer upwelling trends on the U.S. West Coast? Ocean Sciences Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb., 20-24, 2012.
• Trends in coastal upwelling and sea breeze in the California-Oregon Coast: Land-ocean-atmosphere interactions WCRP Open Science Coference, Denver, 2011.
• Impact of upper ocean warm layer thickness on hurricane intensity change in a regional coupled model. AGU Fall Meeting San Francisco, 2010.
• Regional Coupled Downscaling of Global Warming in the Tropical Atlantic: Response in Equatorial Upwelling and Tropical Instability Waves. Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, Oregon, 2010
• Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions in the Eastern Pacific; Coupled Modeling Study. EPOC Meeting, October, 2005
• Atmospheric Boundary Layer Response to SST in the regional air-sea coupled model: EPIC Workshop, Seattle, May, 2005
• Coupling ROMS with RSM: Regional Ocean-Atmosphere Sesitivities: 2nd ROMS/TOMS European Workshop, Venice, Italy, October, 2004

 Workshop and meeting

• AMS Annual meeting, Austin TX. Jan 7-10, 2013
• AMS 18th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction, Boston. July 12, 2012
• Japan Geoscience Union Meeting, May 21, 2012
• Ocean Sciences Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb 20-24, 2012
• Bay of Bengal Monsoon Workshop, WHOI. November 16-18, 2011
• International Workshop Development and Application of Regional Climate Models, Korea 2011
• Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Land Processes in the Tropical Atlantic, Miami, March 22-24, 2011
• Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, Oregon, 2010
• AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December, 2009
• Interannual Regional Spectral Modeling, Maui, HI, August, 2009
• CLIVAR Western Boundary Current Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, Jan 15-17, 2009
• AMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, Jan 11-14, 2009
• PODS V, Honolulu, HI, October 5-9, 2008
• NOAA C&GC Summer Institute. Steamboat Springs, CO, July 13-17, 2008
• VOCALS Modeling Workshop, Boulder, CO, May, 18, 2007
• CLIVAR Tropical Atlantic Variability Meeting, Paris, October 2006
• Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, February 2006
• AMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, January 2006
• AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 2005
• ROMS/TOMS User Workshop, La Jolla, October 2005
• 6th International RSM Workshop, New York, July 2005
• EPIC Workshop, Seattle, May 2005
• 85th AMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, January 2005
• 2nd ROMS/TOMS European Workshop, Venice, October 2004
• 5th International RSM Workshop, Seoul, July 2004
• 4th International RSM Workshop, Los Alamos, New Mexico, July 2002