Eun Pa Lim

Senior Research Scientist

Current work and responsibilities

Eun-Pa's research interest is in the variability, predictability and prediction of Australian seasonal climate and associated large-scale oceanic and atmospheric circulations such as El-Nino and the Southern Oscillation, the Indian Ocean Dipole Mode and the Southern Annular Mode. To understand the variability of Australian seasonal climate and mechanisms behind it, she analyses observational data and conducts idealised model experiments. She also works on the verification of the Bureau of Meteorology's new subseasonal to seasonal forecast system, ACCESS-S's forecasts for Australian climate and associated large-scale climate drivers.

Eun-Pa was one of the primary investigators in the South Eastern Australian Climate Initiative (SEACI) and the Victorian Climate Initiative (VicCI).

Career background

Education:

• 1998: Ewha Womans University, Republic of Korea, BSc
• 2000: The University of Melbourne, Australia, BSc (Hons)
• PhD, University of Melbourne, Australia, (2005)

Professional Positions

• Dec 2005 - June 2006: Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
• July 2006 - Oct 2009: Professional Officer (level 2), Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, Melbourne, Australia
• Oct 2009 - Dec 2010: Senior Professional Officer (level C), Center for Australian Weather and Climate Research, Melbourne, Australia
• Dec 2010 - current: Research Scientist, R&D Branch, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia

Selected Publications

• Lim, E.-P. , H. H. Hendon and D. W. J. Thompson 2018: Seasonal Evolution of Stratosphereâ€Troposphere Coupling in the Southern Hemisphere and Implications for the Predictability of Surface Climate. J. Geophy. Res., 123, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD029321
• Lim, E.-P. and H. H. Hendon 2017: Causes and Predictability of the Negative Indian Ocean Dipole and Its Impact on La Niña during 2016 Sci. Rep., 7, 12619
• Lim, E.-P., H. H. Hendon, M. Zhao and Y. Yin 2017: Inter-decadal variations in the linkages between ENSO, the IOD and south-eastern Australian springtime rainfall in the past 30 years Clim. Dyn.DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-3328-8
• Lim, E.-P., H. H. Hendon, J. M. Arblaster, F. Delage, H. Nguyen, S.-K. Min, and M. C. Wheeler 2016: The impact of the Southern Annular Mode on future changes in Southern Hemisphere rainfall. Geophys. Res. Lett., 43 (13), 7160-7167, doi: 10.1002/2016GL069453
• Lim, E.-P., H. H. Hendon, J. M. Arblaster, C. Chung, A. F. Moise, P. Hope, G. Young and M. Zhao 2016: Interaction of the recent SST trend and La Niña 2010: Amplification of the Southern Annular Mode and Australian springtime rainfall Clim. Dyn.DOI:10.1007/s00382-015-2963-9
• Lim, E.-P. and H. H. Hendon 2015: Understanding the contrast of Australian springtime rainfall of 1997 and 2002 in the frame of two flavors of El Niño J. Clim., 28, 2804-2822