Jung-Sub Lim | Cloud Physics & Modeling

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About Me

I study cloud microphysics, focusing on how turbulent entrainment and mixing shape cloud droplet size distributions and influence precipitation. My work bridges high-resolution Lagrangian cloud modeling with observational data to improve our understanding of cloud-climate interactions.

Currently, I am working with Dr. Graham Feingold at NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, where I investigate Arctic mixed-phase cloud stability by validating the Lagrangian Cloud Model framework against observational data from field campaigns like MOSAiC.

Research Interests

Entrainment and mixing in warm cumulus and stratocumulus clouds
Warm rain initiation and the role of giant aerosols
Arctic mixed-phase cloud dynamics and stability
Lagrangian cloud modeling at scales from millimeters to kilometers

News

May 14, 2026	Invited talk at Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul: “From Particle to Planet: What Cloud Droplets Tell Us About Arctic Climate.”
May 06, 2026	Invited talk at Kyungpook National University, Daegu: “Stochastic Cloud Fluctuations and Arctic Winter Radiative Bistability: Bridging Cloud Microphysics and Climate.”
Jan 29, 2026	Session Convener at the 106th AMS Annual Meeting: “Bridging Experiments, Observations, and Models to Develop Process-Level Understanding of Mixed-Phase Clouds,” Third Symposium on Cloud Physics.
Jan 27, 2026	Oral presentation at the 106th AMS Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas: “Regimes of Droplet Size Distribution Evolution in Stratocumulus.”
Jan 26, 2026	Session Chair at the 106th AMS Annual Meeting: “Mixed-Phase Clouds: Lab Studies, Field Studies and Parameterization,” Third Symposium on Cloud Physics.
Jan 01, 2025	Joined CIRES at University of Colorado Boulder as a Postdoctoral Associate, working with Dr. Graham Feingold on Arctic mixed-phase cloud research.
Dec 20, 2024	Ph.D. awarded magna cum laude from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Selected Publications

Aging of Droplet Size Distribution in Stratocumulus Clouds: Regimes of Droplet Size Distribution Evolution

J. S. Lim and F. Hoffmann

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2026

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  title = {Aging of Droplet Size Distribution in Stratocumulus Clouds: Regimes of Droplet Size Distribution Evolution},
  author = {Lim, Jung-Sub and Hoffmann, Fabian},
  journal = {Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics},
  volume = {26},
  pages = {5427--5446},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Copernicus Publications},
  doi = {10.5194/acp-26-5427-2026},
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}

The Critical Number and Size of Precipitation Embryos to Accelerate Warm Rain Initiation

J. S. Lim, Y. Noh, H. Lee, and 1 more author

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2025

Precipitation embryos, such as giant cloud condensation nuclei (GCCN), can accelerate warm rain initiation by bridging the size gap in the cloud droplet size distribution. This study investigates the critical number and size of precipitation embryos required to trigger early rain onset using a Lagrangian cloud model.

@article{lim2025precipitation,
  title = {The Critical Number and Size of Precipitation Embryos to Accelerate Warm Rain Initiation},
  author = {Lim, Jung-Sub and Noh, Yign and Lee, Hyunho and Hoffmann, Fabian},
  journal = {Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics},
  volume = {25},
  number = {10},
  pages = {5313--5329},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {Copernicus Publications},
  doi = {10.5194/acp-25-5313-2025},
  dimensions = {true},
}

Life Cycle Evolution of Mixing in Shallow Cumulus Clouds

J. S. Lim and F. Hoffmann

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2024

@article{lim2024lifecycle,
  title = {Life Cycle Evolution of Mixing in Shallow Cumulus Clouds},
  author = {Lim, Jung-Sub and Hoffmann, Fabian},
  journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres},
  volume = {129},
  number = {10},
  pages = {e2023JD040393},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {Wiley Online Library},
  doi = {10.1029/2023JD040393},
  dimensions = {true},
}

Between Broadening and Narrowing: How Mixing Affects the Width of the Droplet Size Distribution

J. S. Lim and F. Hoffmann

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2023

@article{lim2023broadening,
  title = {Between Broadening and Narrowing: How Mixing Affects the Width of the Droplet Size Distribution},
  author = {Lim, Jung-Sub and Hoffmann, Fabian},
  journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres},
  volume = {128},
  number = {8},
  pages = {e2022JD037900},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {Wiley Online Library},
  doi = {10.1029/2022JD037900},
  dimensions = {true},
}