Research Summary
Lee’s research interests are on the large-scale circulation of the atmosphere, oceans and planetary atmospheres. Her atmospheric research focuses on mid-latitude storm tracks, westerly jet streams, the tropopause and the stratospheric circulation. She studies climate and climate change from the perspective of general circulation theories, specifically on how the equator-to-pole temperature gradient is maintained, and why the east-west gradient in tropical convective heating is likely to increase as the climate warms. She also studies circulations in the Southern Ocean, including the deep mixed layers that are important for carbon and heat exchanges between the atmosphere and the ocean. For planetary atmospheric research, her primary interest is the origin of the eddies and jets in Jupiter’s atmosphere.
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Recent Publications
The role of horizontal temperature advection in arctic amplification
Clark, J. P., Shenoy, V., Feldstein, S. B., Lee, S. & Goss, M., 2021, In: Journal of Climate. 34, 8, p. 2957-2976 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Two Atmospheric Responses to Winter Sea Ice Decline Over the Barents-Kara Seas
Jiang, Z., Feldstein, S. B. & Lee, S., Apr 16 2021, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 48, 7, e2020GL090288.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Classification of wintertime atmospheric teleconnection patterns in the northern hemisphere
Kim, M., Yoo, C., Sung, M. K. & Lee, S., 2021, In: Journal of Climate. 34, 5, p. 1847-1861 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Relationship between boreal summer circulation trend and destructive stationary-transient wave interference in the western hemisphere
Kim, D. W. & Lee, S., Jun 15 2021, In: Journal of Climate. 34, 12, p. 4989-4999 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Toward an understanding of the structure of jupiter s atmosphere using the ammonia distribution and the transformed eulerian mean theory
Lee, S. & Kaspi, Y., Jul 2021, In: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 78, 7, p. 2047-2056 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Is the Stationary Wave Bias in CMIP5 Simulations Driven by Latent Heating Biases?
Park, M. & Lee, S., Feb 28 2021, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 48, 4, e2020GL091678.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
The role of planetary-scale eddies on the recent isentropic slope trend during boreal winter
Park, M. & Lee, S., Sep 2021, In: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 78, 9, p. 2879-2894 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Divergent consensuses on Arctic amplification influence on midlatitude severe winter weather
Cohen, J., Zhang, X., Francis, J., Jung, T., Kwok, R., Overland, J., Ballinger, T. J., Bhatt, U. S., Chen, H. W., Coumou, D., Feldstein, S., Gu, H., Handorf, D., Henderson, G., Ionita, M., Kretschmer, M., Laliberte, F., Lee, S., Linderholm, H. W., Maslowski, W. & 12 others, , Jan 1 2020, In: Nature Climate Change. 10, 1, p. 20-29 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Rossby wave propagation from the arctic into the midlatitudes: Does it arise from in situ latent heating or a trans-arctic wave train?
Gong, T., Feldstein, S. B. & Lee, S., May 2020, In: Journal of Climate. 33, 9, p. 3619-3633 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
A Mechanism for the Midwinter Minimum in North Pacific Storm-Track Intensity From a Global Perspective
Park, M. & Lee, S., Mar 16 2020, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 47, 5, e2019GL086052.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review