Research interests

  • Past I

    •  From 1994 to 1997 I studied Earth Sciences at EWHA Womans University -as the school name implies, I was very keen on Feminism during my univ. period *^^* , but not any more. (also, "womans" is not my typo. When the school was established (1886?), American missionaries used "womans" rather than "women") Because I had to take four compulsory subjects (geology, meteorology, astronomy, oceanograpy), it struck on me that this nature is so well interwoven, and one nature phenomenon occures with many interacting processes with other phenomena. -> This was why I finally decided to do science.

    In 1999, I happened to meet Prof. Ian Simmonds to ask how to get to School of Earth Sciences at Melbourne Univ., and the meeting became the critical point to do meteorology among four subjects. So I did my honours here with Prof. Simmonds, and the title was "The analysis of explosive cyclone,"bomb", in the Southern Hemisphere".

  • Past II

    •  I am studying meteorology for my Ph.D. My topic is "Global changes in synoptic activity with increasing atmospheric CO2". My supervisor is Prof. Ian Simmonds, and NCEP-DOE reanalysis II data set is used as observaton data, and CSIRO MARK II data are provided from Antarctic CRC at Tasmania. I've just finished my confirmation for my first year PhD. Hue~ ^.^; The most interesting part of my first year PhD was collecting information related to the project from various papers and books and getting a sense of what I am doing. If you want to know more about my project, I will let you have a Captine Cook at my report .

    I have done some work on "Changes to the vertical structure of cyclones". During March 24-28 (2003), I attended the 7 ICSHMO. The paper is a short summary of SH results. If you are interested in more results of mine, please e-mail me...

  • Present

    •  FINISHED! I'm writing papers for publication. Do you want to have a look at my three year and eight month old baby?? Click here

  • Presentations and Publications


    • Lim, E.-P. and I. Simmonds - New Perspectives on Explosive Cyclones in the Southern Hemisphere. AMOS conference, Melbourne University, 18-20 February 2002 (honourable mention for best presentation based on Honours project).

    Lim, E.-P., and I. Simmonds, 2001: Meteorological `bombs' over the Southern Hemisphere. Research Activities in Atmospheric and Oceanic Modelling, Report No. 31, WMO/TD-No. 1064. H. Ritchie, Ed., World Meteorological Organization, 2.16-2.17.

    Lim, E.-P. and I. Simmonds 2002 : Explosive Cyclone Development in the Southern Hemisphere and a Comparison with Northern Hemisphere Events. Monthly Weather Review, vol.130, pp.2188-2209

    Lim, E.-P. and I. Simmonds 2002: Global Increase in Explosive Storms. Bull. Ameri. Meteor. Soc., October, pp.1454-1455

    Simmonds, I., Keay, K., and E.-P. Lim 2002 : Synoptic Activity in the Seas around Antarctica Monthly Weather Review, vol.131, pp.272-288

    Lim, E.-P. and I. Simmonds - Changes to the vertical structure of cyclones under global warming. 7th international conference on the SH meteorology and Oceanography, Wellington, 24-28 March 2003

    Lim, E.-P. and I. Simmonds - Changes of SH winter extratropical cyclones with increasing CO2, Antarctic CRC, University of Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia. 23-26 June 2003

    Lim, E.-P. and I. Simmonds - Assessment of extratropical cyclones in the CSIRO Mark2 AOGCM with increasing CO2. Victorian Universities Earth Sciences Conference, Monash University, 5 September 2003 (best oral presentation).

    Lim, E.-P. and I. Simmonds 2004: Assessment of changes in winter extratropical cyclones with increasing CO2. The 84th American Meteorological Society annual meeting, Seattle, USA, 10-15 January

    Lim, E.-P. and I. Simmonds 2004: Assessment of changes in winter extratropical cyclones with increasing CO2. Invited seminar, Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, The University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, 19 January

    Lim, E.-P. and I. Simmonds 2004: Analysis of Southern Hemisphere winter extratropical cyclones simulated under the condition of increasing CO2. International storm conference / the 11th Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society annual meeting / the 25th New Zealand Meteorological Society annual meeting, Brisbane, Australia, 5-9 July

    Lim, E-P. 2005: Global changes in synoptic activity with increasing CO2. PhD valedictory seminar, School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Australia, 9 June

    Lim and Simmonds 2006: Southern Hemisphere winter extratropical cyclone characteristics and vertical organization observed with the ERA-40 reanalysis data in 1979-2001 submitted to Journal of Climate

    Lim and Simmonds 2006: Effect of changes in latitudinal temperature gradient and vertical stability on SH winter extratropical cyclones simulated in a warmer climate submitted to Journal of Climate

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