Gyuwon Lee
Kyungpook National University, South Korea
Dr. Gyuwon Lee received the Ph.D. degree in atmospheric sciences with focus on radar meteorology and precipitation physics from McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, in 2003. He is a Professor of atmospheric sciences with the School of Earth System Sciences and the Director of Center for Atmospheric Remote Sensing Research (CARE), Kyungpook National University (KNU), Daegu, South Korea. He was a Research Scientist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and was a Radar Operator with the J. S. Marshall Radar Observatory.
His research areas include quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) and forecasting (QPF), precipitation microphysics, instrumentation development, mesoscale meteorology, and field experiment. Dr. Lee received the Presidential award from the Korean government and the Mooksan award from the Korean Meteorological Society for his service to the community. He is currently a member of the WMO working group on nowcasting and mesoscale research (NMR) and ISO/WMO committee on weather radar and wind profiler.