Yign Noh

Research interests

• Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
• Turbulence
• Suspension
• Lagrangian Cloud Model
• Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Physical Oceanography
• Ocean Mixed Layer
• OGCM
• LES

Education

• Ph.D. (1987) Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences,The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
• M.Sc. (1982) Department of Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
• B.Sc. (1980) Department of Oceanography, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.

Work Experience

• 1993-present : Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, Korea
• 1992-1993 : Full-time lecturer, Kunsan National University, Korea
• 1987-1992 : Researcher, Arizona State University in U.S.A

Courses

• Fluid Dynamics
• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Physical oceanography
• Geophysical Fluid dynamics
• Turbulence

Selected Publications

• Ok, H., Y. Noh, and Y. Choi, “Influence of Pycnocline Smoothing and Subgrid-Scale Variability of Density Profiles on the Determination of Mixed Layer Depth”, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 34, 2083-2101, doi: 10.1175/JTECH-D-17-0016.1, 2017.
• Hoffmann, F., Y. Noh, & S. Raasch, “The Route to Raindrop Formation in a Shallow Cumulus Cloud Simulated by a Lagrangian Cloud Model”, J. Atmos. Sci., 74, 2125-2142, doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-16-0220.1, 2017.
• Noh, Y., H. Ok, E. Lee, T. Toyoda, & N. Hirose, “Parameterization of Langmuir circulation in the ocean mixed layer model using LES and its application to the OGCM”, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 46, 57-78, 2016.
• Ling, T., M. Xu, X. Z. Liang, J. X. L. Wang & Y. Noh, “A multi-level ocean mixed layer model resolving the diurnal cycle: development and validation”, J. Adv. Model. Earth System, 07, doi:10.1002/2015MS000476, 2015.
• Lee, E., Y. Noh, B. Qiu & S. Yeh, “Seasonal variation of the upper ocean responding to surface heating in the North Pacific”, J. Geophys. Res., 120, 5631-5647, 10.1002/2015JC010800, 2015.
• Hoffmann, F., S. Raasch, & Y. Noh, “Entrainment of aerosols and their activation in a shallow cumulus cloud studied with a coupled LCM-LES approach”, Atmos. Res. 156, 43-57, 2015.
• Lee, J. H., Y. Noh, S. Raasch, T. Riechelmann & L. P. Wang, “Investigation of droplet dynamics in a convective cloud using a Lagrangian cloud model”, Meteorol. Atmos. Phys. DOI10.1007/s00703-014-0311-y, 2014.
• Goh, G. & Y. Noh, ²Influence of the Coriolis force on the formation of a seasonal thermocline ², Ocean Dyn. 63, 1083-1092, 2013.
• Lee, E., Y. Noh & N. Hirose, ²A new method to produce sea surface temperature using satellite data assimilation into an atmosphere-ocean mixed layer coupled model², J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech. 30, 2926-2943, 2013.
• Yim, B., Y., Y. Noh, S. -W., Yeh, J. -S. Kug, H. S. Min, & B. Qiu, “Ocean mixed layer processes in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation in coupled general circulation models”, Clim. Dyn. doi 10.1007/s0038-012-1630-7, 2013.
• Shin, H. H., S. Y. Hong, Y. Noh & J. Dudhia, “Derivation of turbulent kinetic energy from a first-order nonlocal planetary boundary layer parameterization”, J. Atmos. Sci. 70, 1795-1805, 2013.
• Ham, S., S. Y. Hong, Y. Noh, S. I. An, Y. H. Byun, H. S. Kang, J. Lee, and W. T. Kwon, ²Effects of freshwater runoff on a tropical Pacific climate in the HadGEM2², A. P. J. Atmos. Sci., 48, 457-463, 2012.
• Im, S. H., S. I. An, M. Lengaigne, and Y. Noh, ²Seasonality of tropical instability waves and its feedback to the seasonal cycle in the tropical eastern Pacific², The Sci. World J., 612048, doi:10.1100/2012/612048., 2012.
• Riechelmann, T., Noh, Y., and Raasch, S., “A new method for large-eddy simulations of clouds with Lagrangian droplets including the effects of turbulent collision”, New Journal of Physics, 14(6), 065008. 2012.
• Noh, Y., Lee, E., Kim, D. H., Hong, S. H., Kim, M.J., and Ou, M. L., “Prediction of the diurnal warming of sea surface temperature using an atmosphere-ocean mixed layer coupled model”, J. Geophys. Res., 116, C11023, doi:10.1029/2011JC006970, 2011.
• Yim, B. Y., Y. Noh & S. W. Yeh, “Role of the ocean mixed layer processes in the response of the North Pacific winter SST and MLD to global warming in CGCMs”, Climate Dyn., DOI 10.1007/s00382-011-1120-3, 2011.
• Noh, Y., G. Goh & S. Raasch, “Influence of Langmuir circulation on the deepening of the wind-mixed layer”, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 41, 472-484, 2011.
• Yeh, S. W., Y. J. Kang, Y. Noh & J. Miller, “The North Pacific Climate Transitions of the Winters of 1976/77 and 1988/89” J. Climate, 24, 1170-1183, 2011.
• Kang, Y. J., Y. Noh & S. W. Yeh, “Processes that influence the mixed layer deepening during winter in the North Pacific”, J. Geophys. Res., 115, doi:10.1029/2009JC005833, 2010.
• Yeh, S. W., B. Dewitte, B. Y. Yim, & Y. Noh, “Role of the upper ocean temperature structure in the response of the tropical Pacific to global warming”, Climate Dyn., doi: 10.1007/s00382-010-0849-4, 2010.
• Noh, Y., G. Goh & S. Raasch, “Examination of the mixed layer deepening process during convection using LES”, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 40, 2189-2195, 2010.
• Noh, Y. & S. Nakada, “Estimation of the particle flux from the convective mixed layer by large eddy simulation”, J. Geophys. Res., 115, C05007, doi:10.1029/2009JC005669, 2010.
• Yim, B Y., Y. Noh, S. H. You, and J. H. Yoon, and B. Qiu, “The vertical structure of eddy heat transport simulated by an eddy-resolving OGCM”, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 40, 340-353, 2010.
• Noh, Y., G. Goh, S. Raasch, & M. Gryschka, “Formation of a diurnal thermocline in the ocean mixed layer simulated by LES”, J. Phys. Oceanogr. 39, 1244-1257, 2009.
• Yim, B. Y., S.-W. Yeh, Y. Noh, B.-K. Moon, & Y.-G. Park, “Sea surface salinity Variability and its relation to El Nino in a CGCM”, Asia-Pacific J. Atmos. Sci., 44, 2, 173-189, 2008.
• Noh, Y. & W. S. Lee, “Mixed and Mixing Layer Depths simulated by an OGCM”, J. Oceanogr. 64, 217-225, 2008.
• Noh, Y., B. Y. Yim, S. H. You, J. H. Yoon, & B. Qiu, “Seasonal variation of eddy kinetic energy of the North Pacific Subtropical Countercurrent simulated by an eddy-resolving OGCM”, Geophys. Res. Lett. 34, L07601, 2007.
• Hong, S. Y., Y. Noh & J. Dudhia, “A new vertical diffusion package with an explicit treatment of entrainment processes”, Mon. Wea. Rev., 134, 2318-2341, 2006.
• Noh, Y., I. S. Kang, M. Herold & S. Raasch, “Large eddy simulation of particle settling in the ocean mixed layer”, Phys. Fluids 18, 085109, 2006.
• Beare, R.J., M.K. MacVean, A.A.M. Holtslag, J. Cuxart, I. Esau, J.C. Golaz, M.A. Jimenez, M. Khairoudinov, B. Kosovic, D. Lewellen, T.S. Lund, J.K. Lundquist, A. McCabe, A.F. Moene, Y. Noh, S. Raasch, and P. Sullivan, “An intercomparison of large eddy simulations of the stable boundary layer”, Boundary Layer Meteorol. doi 10.1007/s10546-004-2820-6, 2006.
• Noh, Y., Y. J. Kang, T. Matsuura & S. Iizuka, “Effect of the Prandtl number in the parameterization of vertical mixing in an OGCM of the tropical Pacific”, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L23609, 2005.
• Noh, Y., “Sensitivity to wave breaking and the Prandtl number in the ocean mixed layer model and its dependence on latitude”, Geophys. Res. Lett. 31, L23305, 2004.
• Min, H.S. & Y. Noh, “Influence of the surface heating on Langmuir circulation”, J. Phys. Oceanogr. 34, 2630-2641, 2004.
• Noh, Y., H.S. Min & S. Raasch, “Large eddy simulation of the ocean mixed layer: the effects of wave breaking and Langmuir circulation”, J. Phys. Oceanogr. 34, 720-735, 2004.
• Kim, H.J., Y. Noh & S. Raasch, “Interaction between wind and temperature fields under the heterogeneous heat flux in the planetary boundary layer, Boundary Layer Meteorol. 111, 225-246, 2004.
• Noh, Y., W.G. Cheon, & S. Raasch, “Patterns of open-ocean deep convection”, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 84, 574-575,2003.
• Noh, Y., W.G. Cheon, & S. Raasch, “The role of preconditioning on the evolution of open-ocean deep convection”, J. Phys. Oceanogr. 32, 1284-1307, 2003.
• Noh, Y., W.G. Cheon, S.Y. Hong & S. Raasch, “The improvement of the K-profile model for the PBL using LES”, Boundary Layer Meteorol. 107, 401-427, 2003.
• Noh, Y., C.J. Jang, T. Yamagata, P.C. Chu & C.H. Kim, “Simulation of more realistic upper ocean process from OGCM with a new ocean mixed layer model”, J. Phys. Oceanogr. 32, 1284-1507, 2002.
• Noh, Y., “Sedimentation of a particle cloud across a density interface”, Fluid Dyn. Res. 129-142, 2000.
• Yeh, S. W., B. Y. Yim, Y. Noh, and B. Dewitte, “Changes in mixed layer depth under climate change projections in two CGCMs”, Climate Dyn. 33, 199-213, doi 10.1007/s00382-009-0503-y, 2009.
• Noh, Y. & H.J. Kim, “Simulation of temperature and turbulence structure of the oceanic boundary layer with the improved near-surface process”, J. Geophys. Res. 104, 15621-15634, 1999.
• Noh, Y., C.J. Jang & J.W. Kim, “Large eddy simulation of open ocean deep convection with application to the deep water formation in the East Sea (Japan Sea)”, J. Oceanogr. 55, 347-367, 1999.
• Noh, Y., Jang, C.J., Kim, C.H. & Yoon, J.H., “Embedding an oceanic mixed layer into an ocean general circulation model of the East Sea (Japan Sea)”, La Mer 34, 21-33, 1996.
• Noh, Y., “The dynamics of diurnal thermocline formation in the oceanic mixed layer,” J. Phys. Ocean. 26, 2183-2195, 1996.
• Noh, Y. & Fernando, H.J.S., “Onset of stratification in the mixed layer subjected to the stabilizing buoyancy flux”, J. Fluid Mech. 304, 26-46, 1995.
• Ching, C.Y., Fernando, H.J.S. & Noh, Y., “Interaction of a negatively buoyant line plume with a density interface,” Dyn. Atmos. & Ocean 19, 367-388, 1993.
• Noh, Y. & Fernando, H.J.S., “Transition in the sedimentation pattern of a particle cloud,” Phys. Fluids A 5(12), 3049-3055, 1993.
• Noh, Y., “A numerical model for the onset of stratification in the shear-free turbulence,” Geophys. & Astrophys. Fluid Dyn., 72, 35-56, 1993.
• Noh, Y. & Fernando, H.J.S., “A numerical model of the fluid motion at a density front in the presence of background turbulence,” J. Phys. Ocean. 23(6), 1142-1153, 1993.
• Noh, Y. & Fernando, H.J.S., “The role of molecular diffusion in the deepening of the mixed layer,” Dyn. Atmos. & Ocean. 17, 187-215, 1993.
• Noh, Y., Fernando, H.J.S. & Ching, C.Y., “Flows induced by the impingement of a two-dimensional thermal on a density interface”, J. Phys. Ocean. 22(10), 1207-1220, 1992.
• Noh, Y. & Fernando, H.J.S., “The motion of a buoyant cloud along an incline in the presence of boundary mixing”, J. Fluid Mech. 235(2), 557-577, 1992.
• Noh, Y. & Fernando, H.J.S., “Gravity current propagation along an incline in the presence of boundary mixing”, J. Geophys. Res. 96(7), 12586-12592, 1991 .
• Noh, Y. & Fernando, H.J.S., “Dispersion of suspended particles in turbulent flow”, Phys. Fluids A 3(7), 1730-1740, 1991.
• Noh, Y. & Fernando, H.J.S., “A numerical study on the formation of a thermocline in shear-free turbulence”, Phys. Fluids A, 3(3), 422-426, 1991.
• Noh, Y. & Long, R.R., “Turbulent mixing in a rotating, stratified fluid”, Geophys. & Astrophys. Fluid Dyn. 53, 125-143, 1990.