June-Yi Lee is an atmospheric scientist at Pusan National University known for her use of models to investigate the atmosphere and the ocean under future climate scenarios.
Lee received a B.S. from Ewha Womans University in 1997. She earned an M.S. (1999) and a Ph.D. (2003) from Seoul National University. She then did postdoctoral work at NASA and the University of Hawaiʻi. [1] As of 2022 she is an associate professor at Pusan National University, [2] and an associate researcher at the University of Hawaii. [1]
Lee's early work examined rainfall patterns [3] and modeling of the Asian-Australian monsoon. [4] She subsequently examined seasonal predictions within coupled ocean-atmosphere models, [5] with a particular focus on seasonal oscillations and the impact on the Asian summer monsoon. [6] More recently she examines how the monsoon is parameterized within the CMIP5 model. [7] In 2021, she was the coordinating lead author for Working Group I, chapter 4 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. [8]
In 2018 Lee received the Climate Change Grand Leaders Award from the Climate Change Center. [9] in 2020 she received the 30th Science and Technology Award from the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Society, [10] in recognition of her paper on the 2016 heat wave in Korea. [11] In 2021 she was named scientist of the year by the Korean Science Journalists Association. [12] [ better source needed ]