Jae Min Yeom

Research interests

• Cloud Physics
• Cloud microphysical processes
• Aerosol-cloud interactions
• Cloud observation and modeling
• Cloud chamber experiment

Education

• Ph.D. (2020) in Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
• B.S. (2013) in Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Research Experience

• 2022.9 – 2026.8: Research Assistant Professor, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States
• 2020.3 – 2022.8: Postdoctoral Researcher, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States

Courses

• Atmospheric Physics
• Statistical Analysis in Meteorology
• Cloud and Precipitation Processes
• Meteorological Data Processing

Selected Publications

• Shaw, R.A., Chandrakar, K.K., Krueger, S., Ren, Y., Yang, F, and Yeom, J.M., 2026. Unifying Observations, Simulations, and Theory for Drizzle Size Distribution Tails. Geophys. Res. Lett., 53(16), e2026GL125405. https://doi.org/10.1029/2026GL125405.
• Yeom, J.M., Singh,S. P., Yang, F., Fahandezh Sadi, H., Anderson, J., Sua, Y.M., Rajagopal, M., Krueger, S. K., Cantrell, W., and Shaw, R. A., 2026. High-Resolution Lidar Observations for Coupled Effects of Dry-Air Entrainment and Haze-Cloud Interactions on Cloud Vertical Structure. Geophys. Res. Lett., 53(15), e2026GL123212. https://doi.org/10.1029/2026GL123212.
• Shaw, R.A. and Coauthors, 2026. Overview of a convection-cloud chamber to study aerosol-cloud-drizzle interactions. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 107.6: E1226-E1247.
• Fahandezh Sadi H., Lewis, E.R., Gali, K.F., Yang, F., Anderson, J., Singh, S.P., Yeom, J.M., Cantrell, W., and Shaw, R.A., 2026. Large aerosol particles favor haze conditions through limitations on water budget and activation kinetics. Geophys. Res. Lett., 53, e2025GL117310, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL117310.
• Yang, F., Sua, Y.M., Zheng, Z., Anderson, J., Sadi, H.F., Yeom, J.M., Singh, S.P., Hou, P., Cantrell, W.H., Lewis, E.R., Kostinski, A.B., and Shaw, R.A., 2025. High-resolution lidar observations of sedimentation-induced size sorting of droplets near a laboratory cloud top. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 122 (50), e2505421122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2505421122.
• La, I., Shaw, R.A., Siebert, H., Ehrlich, A., Yeom, J.M., and Yum, S.S., 2025. Cloud-Top Entrainment Instability in Marine Stratocumulus Clouds: Observational Evidence from Collocated Microphysical, Turbulence, and Radiation Measurements. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 130(23), e2025JD044582. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JD044582.
• Yeom, J. M., Allwayin, N., Ghate, V.P., Lamer, K., and Shaw, R.A., 2025. Investigation of isobaric mixing as a mechanism for boundary‐layer cloud formation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 52(11), e2025GL115587. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL115587.
• Yeom, J. M., Fahandezh Said, H., Anderson, J.C., Yang, F., Cantrell, W., and Shaw, R.A., 2025. Cloud microphysical response to entrainment of dry air containing aerosols, npj Clim. Atmos. Sci., 8(8), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-024-00889-7.
• Wang, A., Ovchinnikov, M., Yang, F., Cantrell, W., Yeom, J.M., and Shaw, R.A., 2024. The Dual Nature of Entrainment-Mixing Signatures Revealed Through Large-Eddy Simulations of a Convection-Cloud Chamber. J. Atmos. Sci., https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-24-0043.1.
• Yeom, J.M., Szodry, K.E., Siebert, H., Ehrlich, A., Mellado, J.P., Shaw, R.A., and Yum, S.S., 2024. High-resolution measurements of microphysics and entrainment in marine stratocumulus clouds. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4586.
• Yeom, J.M., Helman, I., Prabhakaran, P., Anderson, J., Yang, F., Shaw, R.A., and Cantrell, W., 2023. Cloud microphysical response to entrainment and mixing is locally inhomogeneous and globally homogeneous: Evidence from the lab. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.,120(42), e2307354120.
• La, I., Yum, S.S., Yeom, J.M., and Shaw, R.A., 2022. Influence of entrainment on centimeter-scale cloud microphysics in marine stratocumulus clouds observed during CSET. J. Atmos. Sci. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-21-0195.1.
• Wang, J. and Coauthors, 2022. Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA). Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 103.2: E619-E641.
• Yeom, J.M., Yum, S.S., Shaw, R.A., La, I., Wang, J., Lu, C., Liu, Y., Mei, F., Schmid, B., and Matthews, A., 2021. Vertical variation of cloud microphysical relationships in marine stratocumulus clouds observed during the ACE-ENA campaign. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 126(24), e2021JD034700.
• Choi, K.O., Yum, S.S., Chang, D.Y., Yeom, J.M., and Lee, S.S., 2020. A study of the effect of regenerated CCN on marine stratocumulus cloud development using the WRF-LES model with spectral bin microphysics scheme. Atmos. Res. 246, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.105100.
• La, I., Yum, S.S., Gultepe, I., Yeom, J.M., Song, J.I., and Cha J.W., 2020. Influence of Quasi-Periodic Oscillation of Atmospheric Variables on Radiation Fog over A Mountainous Region of Korea. Atmosphere. 11(3), 230. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11030230.
• Yeom, J.M., Yum, S.S., Mei, F., Schmid, B., Comstock, J., Machado, L.A.T., and Cecchini, M.A., 2019. Impact of secondary droplet activation on the contrasting cloud microphysical relationships during the wet and dry seasons in the Amazon. Atmos. Res. 230, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2019.104648.
• Yeom, J.M., Yum, S.S., Liu, Y., and Lu, C., 2017. A study on the entrainment and mixing process in the continental stratocumulus clouds measured during the RACORO campaign. Atmos. Res. 194, 89-99.
• Yum, S.S., Wang, J., Liu, Y., Senum, G., Springston, S., McGraw, R., and Yeom, J.M., 2015. Cloud microphysical relationships and their implication on entrainment and mixing mechanism for the stratocumulus clouds measured during the VOCALS project. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 120, 5047–5069.