In-Sun Song

Research interests

• Global structure of atmospheric wave phenomena
• Middle and upper atmosphere global modeling
• Dynamical processes and numerics in global atmospheric models

Education

• Ph.D. (2005) Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
• M.S. (1999) Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
• B.S. (1997) Department of Astro and Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Research Experience

• 2015-2021: Postdoctoral scientist, Korea Polar Research Institute
• 2011-2015: Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems
• 2007-2011: Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA GSFC
• 2005-2007: Institute of National Science, Yonsei University

Courses

• Computer (Fortran) programming
• Upper atmosphere
• Applied mathematical methods in atmospheric sciences

Selected Publications

• Lee, J.-H., Jee, G., Kwak, Y.-S., Hwang, H., Seppala, A., Song, I.-S., Turunen, E., & Lee, D.-Y. (2021). Polar middle atmospheric responses to medium energy electron (MEE) using numerical model simulations. Atmosphere (Accepted)
• Song, B.-G., Chun, H.-Y., & Song, I.-S. (2020). Role of gravity waves in a vortex-split sudden stratospheric warming in January 2009. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 77(10), 3321-3342. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-20-0039.1
• Song, I.-S., Lee, C., Chun, H.-Y., Kim, J.-H., Jee, G., Song, B.-G., & Bacmeister, J. T. (2020): Propagation of gravity waves and its effects on pseudomomentum flux in a sudden stratospheric warming event. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 20(12), 7617-7644. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-7617-2020
• Yoo, J.-H., Song, I.-S., Chun, H.-Y., & Song, B.-G. (2020). Inertia-gravity waves revealed in radiosonde data at Jang Bogo Station, Antarctica (74o37’S, 164o13’E): 2. Potential sources and their relation to inertia-gravity waves. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125(7), e2019JD032260. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD032260
• Kim, Y.-H., Kiladis, G. N., Albers, J. R., Dias, J., Fujiwara, M., Anstey, J. A., Song, I.-S., Wright, C. J., Kawatani, Y., Lott, F., & Yoo, C. (2019). Comparison of equatorial wave activity in the tropical tropopause layer and stratosphere represented in reanalyses. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19(15), 10027-10050. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-10027-2019
• Yoo, J.-H., Choi, T., Chun, H.-Y., Kim, Y.-H., Song, I.-S., & Song, B.-G. (2018). Inertia-gravity waves revealed in radiosonde data at Jang Bogo Station, Antarctica (74o37’S, 164o13’E): 1. Characteristics, energy and momentum Flux. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123(23), 13305-13331. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD029164
• Lee, J.-H., Jee, G., Kwak, Y.-S., Hong, S.-B., Hwang, H.~J., Song, I.-S., Lee, Y.-S., Turunen, E., & Lee, D.-Y. (2018). Responses of nitrogen oxide to high-speed solar wind stream in the polar middle atmosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123(11), 9788-9801. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JA025161
• Lee, C., Kim, J.-H., Jee, G., & Song, I.-S. (2018). Meteor echo height ceiling effect and the mesospheric temperature estimation from meteor radar observation. Annales Geophysicae, 36(5), 1267-1274. https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-36-1267-2018
• Song, I.-S., Chun, H.-Y., Jee, G., Kim, S.-Y., Kim, J., Kim, Y.-H., & Taylor, M. A. (2018). Dynamic initialization for whole-atmospheric global modeling. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 10(9), 2096-2120. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017MS001213
• Song, I.-S., Byun, U.-Y., Hong, J., & Park, S.-H. (2018). Domain-size and top-height dependence in regional predictions for the Northeast Asia in spring. Atmospheric Science Letters, 19(1), e799. https://doi.org/10.1002/asl.799
• Lee, C., Jee, G., Wu, Q., Shim, J. S., Murphy, D., Song, I.-S., Kwon, H.-J., Kim, J.-H., & Kim, Y. H. (2017). Polar thermospheric winds and temperature observed by Fabry-Perot interferometer at Jang Bogo Station, Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 122(9), 9685-9695. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JA024408
• Song, I.-S., Lee, C., Kim, J.-H., Jee, G., Kim, Y.-H., Choi, H.-J., Chun, H.-Y., & Kim, Y. H. (2017). Meteor radar observations of vertically propagating low-frequency inertia-gravity waves near the southern polar mesopause region. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 122(4), 4777-4800. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JA022978
• Kam, H., Jee, G., Kim, Y., Ham, Y.-B., & Song, I.-S. (2017). Statistical analysis of mesospheric gravity waves over King Sejong Station, Antarctica (62.2oS, 58.8oW). Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 155, 86-94, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2017.02.006
• Lee, C., Kim, J.-H., Jee, G., Lee, W., Song, I.-S., & Kim, Y. H. (2016). New method of estimating temperatures near the mesopause region using meteor radar observations. Geophysical Research Letters, 43(20), 10580-10585. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL071082
• Kim, Y.-H., Chun, H.-Y., Park, S.-H., Song, I.-S., & Choi, H.-J. (2016). Characteristics of gravity waves generated in the jet-front system in a baroclinic instability simulation. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 16(8), 4799-4815. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4799-2016