Lee, J.E., B.R. Lintner, C.K. Boyce, and P.J. Lawrence, "Land use change exacerbates tropical South American drought by sea surface temperature variability," Geophy. Res. Lett, accepted. PDF
Fankenberg,C., J. B. Fisher, J. Worden, G. Badgley, S. S. Saatchi, J.E., Lee, G.C. Toon, A. Butz, A. Kuze, T. Yokota, "Direct space-borne observations of global terrestrial photosynthesis using chlorophyll fluorescence", Geophy. Res. Lett, 38, L17706, doi:10.1029/2011GL048738,2011. PDF
Boyce, C.K., and J.E. Lee, "Could land plant evolution have fed the marine revolution?" Paleontological Research, in press.
Boyce, C. K., J.-E. Lee, T. S. Feild, T. J. Brodribb, and M.A. Zwieniecki, "Angiosperms put the rain in the rainforests: The impact of plant physiological evolution on tropical biodiversity," Annals of the Missouri Botanical Gardens, 97, 527-540, doi:10.3417/2009143, 2010. PDF
Lee, J.-E., and C. K. Boyce, "The impact of the hydraulic capacity of plants on water and carbon cycle in tropical South America," J. Geophys. Res., 115, D23123, doi:10.1029/2010JD014568, 2010. PDF
Boyce, C. K., and J.-E. Lee (equal contributions), "A unique role for flowering plants in modifying tropical climate and biodiversity," Proceedings of the Royal Society B, doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.0485, 2010. PDF
Lee, J.E., A. Swann, "Evaluation of using the "amount effect" to interpret speleothem data: Asian monsoon study," IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 9, L23801 (2010).
Lee, J.-E., R. Pierrehumbert, A. Swann, and B.R. Lintner, "Sensitivity of the stable water isotopic values on the convective parameterization schemes," Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L23801, doi:10.1029/2009GL040880, 2009. PDF
Lee, J.-E., K. Johnson, and I. Fung, "Precipitation over South America during the Last Glacial Maximum: An analysis of the "amount effect" with a water isotope-enabled General Circulation Model", Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L19701, doi:10.1029/2009GL039265, 2009. PDF
Lee, J.-E., I. Fung, D.J. DePaolo, B. Otto-Bliesner, "Water isotopes during the Last Glacial Maximum: New GCM calculations," J. Geophys. Res., 113, D19109, doi:10.1029/2008JD009859, 2008. PDF
Angert, A. , J.-E. Lee, and D. Yakir, "Seasonal variations in the isotopic composition of near surface water vapor in the Eastern-Mediterranean," Tellus B, doi:10.1111/j.1600-0889.2008.0037.x, 60, 674-684, 2008. PDF
Lee, J.-E., and I. Fung, "Amount effect of water isotopes and quantitative analysis of post-condensation processes," Hydrological Processes, 2008. PDF
Lee, J.-E., I. Fung, D.J. DePaolo, C. Henning, "Analysis of the global distribution of water isotopes using the NCAR atmospheric general circulation model," J. Geophys. Res., 112, D16306, doi:10.1029/2006JD007657, 2007. PDF
Lee, J.-E., R.S. Oliveira, T.E. Dawson, T.E., and I. Fung, "Root functioning modifies seasonal climate," P. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., 102 (49), 17576-17581 2005. PDF
Kim, J. and Lee, J.-E., "A multi year regional climate hindcast for the western United States using the Mesoscale Atmospheric Simulation Model," J. Hydrometeo, 4, 878-890. PDF
Lee, J.-E. and B. -J. Sohn, "Rainfall estimation over the Korean Peninsula from GMS-5 measurements of infrared radiation," J. Korean Meteo. Soc. 35, 20-29, 1999.
 
 
Education
Ph.D, 2005: Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley
MA, 1998: Science Education, Seoul National University
BS, 1996: Earth Science Education, Seoul National University
Employment
2011/01-Present, Scientist III, JPL
2010/09-2010/12, Instructor, Global carbon cycle with an emphasis on terrestrial systems, University of Chicago
2008/11-2010/12, postdoc, University of Chicago
2006-2008, postdoc, UC Berkeley
1999, Visiting Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
1998, Research Scientist, Korean Meteorological Research Institute
Research interest
-Water isotopes in global precipitation and vapor
-Change of hydrological cycle with human activity
-Biosphere-atmosphere interaction
-Paleoclimate 
 
Publications