Kyung-Ja Ha

Kyung-Ja Ha is a climate physicist from South Korea. She has been a professor in IBS Center for Climate Physics since 2017 and the Department of Atmospheric Science at Pusan National University since 1994 and leads the Global Monsoon Climate Lab(GMCL) since 2011. Her research interests include climate physics, monsoon dynamics, planetary boundary layer modeling, hydroclimate, and tropical-extratropical interaction. Prof. Ha's work has been cited about 7,800 times, with an h-index of 46 and an i10-index of 160. She served as president of the Korean Meteorological Society from 2022 to 2023, and has been involved in advisory roles at the Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology of South Korea(2022~2023). Currently, she is co-chair of the Expert Team on Climate Impact on Monsoon Weather in the WMO/WWRP Monsoon Panel since 2017, executive editor at Climate Dynamics Journals since 2021, and chair of the Local Advisory Committee of the 2024 Asia Oceania Geosciences Society. Also, She is chair of local organizing committee for BACO25. Through her research and leadership roles, she has contributed to the understanding of monsoon systems and climate dynamics.