Welcome to the Laboratory of Mangifera coreana! My name is Dr. Jaemyeong Mango Seo.

I am an atmospheric scientist who works with numerical models across scales. I trained in mesoscale dynamics and cloud physics at Seoul National University, where my Ph.D. combined linear theory and simulations of flows forced by cities, mountains and convective heating, and the precipitation they produce.

As a postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology I studied convective cold pools with storm-resolving simulations and the FESSTVaL observation network. At Los Alamos National Laboratory I moved into physics-based wildland fire modeling with HIGRAD/FIRETEC, studying how slope, wind and vegetation steer fire spread.

Since 2025 I have been at the Climate Prediction Research Center at Seoul National University working on the development of the Korean Climate Model (K-CM) as part of the national climate prediction system (국가기후예측시스템) project team, and continuing physics-based wildland fire research, including a national-scale fuel map for fire models. I also enjoy explaining weather and climate to the public, and teaching data analysis and AI tools.

Education

2018  Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science, Seoul National University — Dissertation: Dynamics and modeling of thermally and orographically forced flows and convection (advisor: Jong-Jin Baik)

2009  B.S. in Atmospheric Science, Seoul National University

Positions

2026.08 – present  Research Assistant Professor — Climate Prediction Research Center / School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University

2025.04 – 2026.07  Principal Researcher — Climate Prediction Research Center / School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University

2023.07 – 2025.01  Postdoctoral Fellow — Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

2023.01 – 2023.06  Senior Researcher — School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University

2019.07 – 2022.12  Postdoctoral Fellow — Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany

2018.03 – 2019.07  Postdoctoral Fellow — School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University

2010.08 – 2012.02  Aviation Weather Manager (LTJG) — Republic of Korea Navy 6th Air Wing (military service)

Teaching

2026.09  Instructor, Fire-Fire tutorial — National University of Mongolia

2026.08–09  Lead Instructor, AI-Assisted Weather and Climate Data Analysis Academy — project-based course on research formulation, data processing, AI-assisted coding, visualization and scientific reporting (Bomin Consulting)

2026.04  Lead Instructor, Analysis and Visualization of NWP Data — Python analysis of Korea Integrated Model output for operational staff, Korea Meteorological Administration

2012–2016  Teaching Assistant — Cloud Physics, Mesoscale Meteorology, Atmospheric Thermodynamics (Seoul National University)

Research interests

Diagnosis, modeling and reduction of wildfire risk

Global-scale integrated climate modeling 

Thermally and orographically forced mesoscale flows and gravity waves

Mountain meteorology

Cloud microphysics and aerosol–cloud–precipitation interactions

Urban flow, convection and air quality

Dynamics of convective cold pools

Nonlinear dynamics and chaos of thermal convection

Tools

KIM/K-CM, WRF, WRF-SFIRE, HIGRAD/FIRETEC, QUIC-Fire, FARSITE · Python, Fortran, MATLAB, NetCDF, Mathematica