Dr. Ji-Won Kim is a climate scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He specializes in the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon, which is the strongest year-to-year climate variability on the planet. Dr. Kim has conducted extensive research on the complex behaviors of ENSO and has uncovered its underlying mechanisms. His ultimate goal is to provide new insights that may challenge conventional consensus and suggest a better theory or physical mechanism for ENSO that will improve its predictability and help prepare for its global impacts on Earth’s climate.
Education:
- Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University Seoul, South Korea
Research Interests:
- El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon
- Complex ENSO behaviors and their dynamics/impacts/teleconnections
- Pantropical inter- and intra-basin climate interactions
- Global climate trend and variability
Professional Experience:
Reviews for international journals:
- Journal of Climate
- Climate Dynamics
- Geophysical Research Letters
- International Journal of Climatology
- Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, etc
Selected Awards:
NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) Award (on March 2022)
Selected Publications:
- Kim, J.-W., J.-Y. Yu, and B. Tian (2023): Overemphasized role of preceding strong El Niño in generating multi-year La Niña events. Nature Communications, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42373-5
- Kim, J.-W., T.-H. Chang, C.-T. Lee, and J.-Y. Yu (2023): Evaluating ENSO's spatiotemporal complexity in the CWB CFS 1-tiered model hindcasts. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128(14), e2022JD038200. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD038200
- Kim, J.-W., and J.-Y. Yu (2022): Single- and multi-year ENSO events controlled by pantropical climate interactions. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 5, 88, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-022-00305-y
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