New NCAR postdoc joins the project

Dr. Yongku Kim has joined the project as a postdoctoral researcher at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. Yongku is from South Korea and he received M.S. (2003) and Ph.D. (2007) degrees in Statistics from The Ohio State University. Yongku will be working with project investigators Rick Katz from NCAR and Balaji Rajagopalan from the Univ. of Colorado (left). He will explore the use of stochastic weather generators based on General Linear Models (GLMs) to downscale projected trends in precipitation in the Pampas. He also will explore whether dry and wet epochs in the Pampas can be modeled using Hidden Markov Models.