Education

• Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Climate Science, University of Washington, 2025
  • Dissertation: The Multiscale Nature of Tropical Convection in Observations and Models
  • Advisors: Peter Blossey and Daehyun Kim
• M.S. in Atmospheric and Climate Science, University of Washington, 2022
  • Thesis: The Enhancement of Precipitation due to Mesoscale Convective Organization
  • Advisor: Daehyun Kim
• B.S. in Physics and Mathematics, cum laude, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 2019
  • Thesis: Geometric analysis and reassembly of bone fragments in anthropology
  • Advisors: Peter Olver and Jeff Calder

Positions

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Seoul National Unversity, 2025 - Current

• Graduate Researcher, University of Washington, 2019 - 2025

Publications

Manuscripts in preparation & in press

• Do-Yeon Kim, Daehyun Kim, and Pedro. Angulo-Umana: Tropical convective rain becomes more localized under global warming (In preparation)
• Pedro Angulo-Umana, Daehyun Kim, Peter N. Blossey, Do-Yeon Kim: The Morphology of Extreme Tropical Precipitation: Insights from Observations and Models (In preparation)
• Sara Shamekh, Pedro Angulo-Umana, Paul O’Gorman: Data-driven Modeling of Stratiform and Convective Rain Area (Submitted)
• Pedro Angulo-Umana, Daehyun Kim, Peter N. Blossey, and Marat Khairoutdinov: Multiscale convective circulations and scale interactions in a global storm-permitting model, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst. (Accepted)

Published articles

• Pedro Angulo-Umana and Daehyun Kim: Mesoscale convective clustering enhances tropical precipitation, Science Advances DOI:10.1126/sciadv.abo5317

Conference Presentations

• “Multiscale Convective Circulations in a Global Storm-Resolving Model”, presented at 4th Workshop on Convective Organization and Precipitation Extremes, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, June 2024.
• “Multiscale Controls on Oceanic Tropical Precipitation in Observations and Models”, presented at 36th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Long Beach, California, May 2024. https://ams.confex.com/ams/36Hurricanes/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/442335
• “Investigating the Influence of Mesoscale Convective Organization on Tropical Precipitation in a Global Cloud Resolving Model”, presented at the 103rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, Jan. 2023. (Poster)
• “Mesoscale Convective Clustering Enhances Tropical Precipitation”, presented at the 35th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 2022. https://ams.confex.com/ams/35Hurricanes/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/401654
• “Quantifying the Enhancement of Tropical Precipitation due to Mesoscale Convective Organization,” presented at the 102nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Virtual, Jan. 2022. https://ams.confex.com/ams/102ANNUAL/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/397298
• “Automatic Classification of Anthropological Bone Samples,” presented at Joint Mathematics Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and Mathematical Association of America, Baltimore, Maryland, Jan. 2019. (Poster) Awarded Outstanding Poster for the MAA Student Poster Session.

Chaired Sessions

• Co-Chair, “Convection III”, 35th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 9-13, 2022
• Co-Chair, “Precipitation”, University of Washington Program on Climate Change Virtual Summer Institute on Climate Extremes and Climate and Environmental Equity, Sept. 14-18, 2020.

Awards and Service

• Distinguished Service Award, UW Department of Atmospheric Sciences, 2022
• Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, 2021.
• University of Minnesota Maroon and Gold Leadership Award.
• Erwin Marquit and Doris Grieser Marguit Undergraduate Scholarship in Physics, 2017.
• Undergraduate Mathematics Department Scholarship, 2017.
• Undergraduate Research Opportunities Award, Spring 2017.
• Participant, Minnesota Multicultural Summer Research Opportunities Program, Summer 2018.
• Eagle Scout