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Hyodae Seo

Visiting Assistant Researcher

International Pacific Research Center
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822

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Webpage: http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/~hyodae/

Education

2007 - Ph.D. (Climate Science), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego
2002 - B.S. (Department of Atmospheric Sciences), Yonsei University, South Korea

Research Interests

Air-sea interaction, Ocean circulations, Coastal oceanography
Regional coupled climate modeling, Dynamic downscaling

Professional Experience

Visiting Assistant Researcher, IPRC/SOEST, University of Hawaii, 1/2010-10/2010
NOAA C&GC Postdoctoral Fellowship affiliated with IPRC/Univ. Hawaii, 8/2008–12/2009
NOAA C&GC Postdoctoral Fellowship affiliated with UCLA, 12/2007– 7/2008
Visiting Research Scholar, IPRC/SOEST University of Hawaii, 7/2007–12/2007

Awards and Honors

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

Refereed Publications

Seo, H. and S.-P. Xie: 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, in press.
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. J. Climate, 22, 6577-6596.
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, doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2008.07.003.
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 (3), 274–319.
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.
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.
Seo, H., A.J. Miller, and J.O. Roads, 2007: The Scripps Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Regional (SCOAR) model, with applications in the eastern Pacific sector. J. of Climate, 20 (3), 381–402.
Seo, H., M. Jochum, R. Murtugudde, and A.J. Miller, 2006: Effect of ocean mesoscale variability on the mean state of tropical Atlantic climate. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L09606, doi:10.1029/2005GL25651 2006.