Renewable Energy Scientist

EDUCATION

Yonsei University 

Seoul, Republic of Korea

Ph.D., Department of Atmospheric Sciences, 2011

Ph. D. Thesis: An Observational and Numerical Study of Sea Fog Formation off the West Coast of the Korean Peninsula.  

Yonsei University 

Seoul, Republic of Korea

M.S., Department of Atmospheric Sciences, 2006

Master Thesis: A Feasibility Study of Winter Orographic Cloud Seeding Experiments in the Korean Peninsula.

Yonsei University 

Seoul, Republic of Korea

B.S., Department of Atmospheric Sciences, 2003

CAREER

Principal Researcher, New and Renewable Energy Map Laboratory, Korea Institute of Energy Research, Korea (Jan. 2020 ~ Current)

Senior Researcher, New and Renewable Energy Map Laboratory, Korea Institute of Energy Research, Korea (March. 2016 ~ Jan. 2020)

Research Scientist, Center for Energy Research, University of California San Diego, CA, U.S.A. (Jun. 2015 ~ Feb. 2016)

Post-doc, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A. (Jun. 2013 ~ May. 2015)

Post-doc, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK, U.S.A. (Apr. 2012 ~ May. 2013)

Post-doc, Global Environmental Laboratory, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea (Sep. 2011 ~ Mar. 2012)

HONORS/AWARDS

Fifth Place Award in NREL PV Reliability Workshop 2020 (2020)

Outstanding Research Paper Award in the 31st of the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies, Ministry of Science and ICT, Korea (2021)

PUBLICATIONS

Kim, C. K., H.-G. Kim, M. Oh, B. Kim, and C.-Y. Yun, 2025: Estimation of Spectral Solar Irradiance Toward Deriving Spectral Mismatch Factor Across Diverse Photovoltaic Technologies by Using Aerosol Optical Properties. Remote Sensing, 17, 3093. 

del Pozo Jr., F. E., C. K. Kim, H. G. Kim, and C. Y. Yun, 2025: Designing a Revenue Forecast Scheme for Analog Ensemble Method Applied Solar PV Forecasting in South Korea. International Journal of Energy Research, 2025, 5529459. 

Agoundedemba, M., C. K. Kim, H.-G. Kim, R. Nyenge, and N. Musila, 2025: Modelling and optimization of microgrid with combined genetic algorithm and model predictive control of PV/Wind/FC/battery energy systems. Energy Reports, 13, 238-255.

Dhata, E. F., C. K. Kim, and H.-G. Kim, 2024: Probabilistic approach for site-adaptation and economic performance estimation of a photovoltaic project in South Korea. Energy Strategy Reviews, 54, 101487.

Oh, M., C. K. Kim, B. Kim, and H.-G. Kim, 2024: A novel model to estimate regional differences in time-series solar and wind forecast predictability across small regions: A case study in South Korea. Energy, 291, 130284.

Dhata, E. F., C. K. Kim, M. Oh, and H.-G. Kim, 2024: Toward Improved Site-Adaptation for Direct Normal Irradiance: Exploiting Sky-Condition Classification for Improved Regression-Based, Quantile-Based, and Neural Network Models. Asia-Paci. J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 231-244.

Song, S., S. Kang, S. Lee, and C. K. Kim, 2023: Korean Renewables Management System: Copulas Model-Based Adaptive Droop Control Strategy for Energy Storage Systems. IEEE Access, 11, 134604-134613. 

Agoundedemba, M., C. K. Kim, and H.-G. Kim, 2023: Energy Status in Africa: Challenges, Progress and Sustainable Pathways. Energies, 16, 7708.

del Pozo, F. E., C. K. Kim, and H.-G. Kim, 2023: Refining the Selection of Historical Period in Analog Ensemble Technique. Energies, 16, 7630.

Kim, C. K., H.-G. Kim, Y.-H. Kang, and M. Oh, 2023: Comprehensive Analysis of Spectral Mismatch Factor for Solar Cells Based on In Situ Observation of Aerosol Optical Depth Spectra and Solar Spectral Irradiance in Korea. International Journal of Energy Research, 2023, 2617427. 

Oh, M., C. K. Kim, B. Kim, Y. Kang, and H.-G. Kim, 2023: Real-Time Terrain Correction of Satellite Imagery-Based Solar Irradiance Maps Using Precomputed Data and Memory Optimization. Remote Sensing, 15, 3965.

Dhata, E. F., C. K. Kim, H.-G. Kim, B. Kim, and M. Oh, 2022: Site-Adaptation for Correcting Satellite-Derived Solar Irradiance: Performance Comparison between Various Regressive and Distribution Mapping Techniques for Application in Daejeon, South Korea. Energies, 15. 10.3390/en15239010.

Kim, C. K., H.-G. Kim, and Y.-H. Kang, 2022: Improved Clear Sky Model from In Situ Observations and Spatial Distribution of Aerosol Optical Depth for Satellite-Derived Solar Irradiance over the Korean Peninsula. Remote Sensing, 14, 2167. 

Uwineza, L., H.-G. Kim, J. Kleissl, and C. K. Kim, 2022: Technical Control and Optimal Dispatch Strategy for a Hybrid Energy System. Energies, 15, 2744.

Oh, M., C. K. Kim, B. Kim, C. Yun, J.-Y. Kim, Y. Kang, and H.-G. Kim, 2022: Analysis of minute-scale variability for enhanced separation of direct and diffuse solar irradiance components using machine learning algorithms. Energy, 241, 122921.

Kim, C. K., H.-S. Cho, C.-H. Kim, W. Cho, and H.-G. Kim, 2021: A Feasibility Study of Photovoltaic—Electrolysis—PEM Hybrid System Integrated Into the Electric Grid System Over the Korean Peninsula. Frontiers in Chemistry, 9, 732582. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2021.732582 

Kim, C. K., H.-G. Kim, Y.-H. Kang, C.-Y. Yun, B. Kim, and J. Y. Kim, 2021: Solar Resource Potentials and Annual Capacity Factor Based on the Korean Solar Irradiance Datasets Derived by the Satellite Imagery from 1996 to 2019. Remote Sens., 13, 3422.

Oh, M., C. K. Kim, B. Kim, C. Yun, Y.-H. Kang, and H.-G. Kim, 2021: Spatiotemporal Optimization for Short-Term Solar Forecasting Based on Satellite Imagery. Energies, 14, 2216. 

Oh, M., C. K. Kim, B. Kim, C. Yun, Y.-H. Kang, and H.-G. Kim, 2021: Spatiotemporal Optimization for Short-Term Solar Forecasting Based on Satellite Imagery. Energies, 14, 2216. 

Oh, M., J.-Y. Kim, B. Kim, C.-Y. Yun, C. K. Kim, Y.-H. Kang, and H.-G. Kim, 2021: Tolerance angle concept and formula for practical optimal orientation of photovoltaic panels. Renewable Energy, 167, 384-394.

Uwineza, L., H.-G. Kim, and C. K. Kim, 2021: Feasibility study of integrating the renewable energy system in Popova Island using the Monte Carlo model and HOMER. Energy Strategy Reviews, 33, 100607.

Kim, C. K., H.-G. Kim, Y.-H. Kang, C.-Y. Yun, Y. G.  Lee, 2020:  Intercomparison of Satellite-Derived Solar Irradiance from the GEO-KOMSAT-2A and HIMAWARI-8/9 Satellites by the Evaluation with Ground Observations. Remote Sens., 12, 2149.

Vilanova, A., B.-Y. Kim, C. K. Kim, H.-G. Kim, 2020: Linear-Gompertz Model-Based Regression of Photovoltaic Power Generation by Satellite Imagery-Based Solar Irradiance. Energies, 13, 781.

Kim, C. K., S. S. Yum, H.-G. Kim, Y.-H. Kang, 2019: A WRF modeling study on the effects of land usechanges on fog off the west coast of the Korean Peninsula. Pure Appl. Geophys., 176, 4623-4640.

Kim, C. K., H.-G. Kim, Y.-H. Kang, C.-Y. Yun, and S. Y. Kim, 2019: Probabilistic prediction of direct normal irradiance derived from global horizontal irradiance over the Korean Peninsula by using Monte-Carlo simulation. Solar Energy, 180, 63-74.

Park, S. S., Y. G. Lee, M. Kim, J. Kim, J.-H. Koo, C. K. Kim, J. Um, and J. Yoon, 2019: Simulation of Threshold UV Exposure Time for Vitamin D Synthesis in South Korea. Advances in Meteorology, 2019, 15.

Chae, S., K.-H. Chang, S. Seo, J.-Y. Jeong, B.-J. Kim, C. K. Kim, S. S. Yum, and J. Kim, 2018: Numerical Simulations of Airborne Glaciogenic Cloud Seeding Using the WRF Model with the Modified Morrison Scheme over the Pyeongchang Region in the Winter of 2016. Advances in Meteorology, 2018, 15.

Ghonima, M. S., H. Yang, C. K. Kim, T. Heus, and J. Kleissl, 2017: Evaluation of WRF SCMSimulations of Stratocumulus-Topped Marine and Coastal Boundary Layers and Improvements to Turbulence and Entrainment  Parameterizations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 9, 2635-2653.

Kim, C. K., H.-G. Kim, Y.-H. Kang, and C.-Y. Yun, 2017: Toward Improved Solar Irradiance Forecasts: Comparison of the Global Horizontal Irradiances Derived from the COMS Satellite Imagery Over the Korean Peninsula. Pure Appl. Geophys., 174, 2773-2792.

Kim, C. K., H.-G. Kim, Y.-H. Kang, C.-Y. Yun and S.-N. Lee, 2016: Evaluation of Global Horizontal Irradiance Dervied From CLAVR-x Model and COMS Imagery Over the Korean Peninsula. New and Renewable Energy, 12, 13-20.

Kim, C. K., W. F. Holmgren, M. Stovern, and E. A. Betterton, 2016: Toward Improved Solar Irradiance Forecasts: Comparison of Downwelling Surface Shortwave Radiation in Arizona from Satellite. Pure Appl. Geophys., 173, 2929-2943.

Kim, C. K., W. F. Holmgren, M. Stovern, and E. A. Betterton, 2016: Toward Improved Solar Irradiance Forecasts: Derivation of Downwelling Surface Shortwave Radiation in Arizona from Satellite. Pure Appl. Geophys., 173, 2535-2553.

Kim, C. K. and M. Clarkson, 2016: Toward Improved Solar Irradiance Forecasts: Introduction of post-processing to correct the Direct Normal Irradiance from the Weather Research and Forecasting model. Pure Appl. Geophys., 173, 1751-1763.

Kim, C. K., S. S. Yum, and Y.-S. Park, 2016: A numerical Study of winter orographic seeding experiments in Korea using the Weather Research and Forecasting model. Meteor. and. Atmos. Phys., 128, 23-38.

Kim, C. K., M. Leuthold, W. F. Holmgren, A. D. Cronin, and E. A. Betterton, 2016: Toward Improved Solar Irradiance Forecasts: a Simulation of Deep Planetary Boundary Layer with Scattered Clouds Using the Weather Research and Forecasting Model. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 173, 637-655.

Kim, C. K., M. Stuefer, C. G. Schimitt, A. J. Heymsfield, and G. Thompson, 2014: Numerical modeling of ice fog in Interior Alaska using the Weather Research and Forecasting model. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 171, 1963-1982.

Schmitt, C. G., M. Stuefer, A. J. Heymsfield, and C. K. Kim, 2013: The microphysical properties of ice fog measured in urban environments of Interior Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research, 118, 136–11,147, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50822.

——, 2013: A study on the transition mechanism of a stratus cloud into a warm sea fog using a single column model PAFOG coupled with WRF. Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 49, 2495-257.

——, 2012: A numerical study of sea fog formation over cold sea surface using a one-dimensional turbulence model coupled with WRF. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 143, 481-505.

——, 2012: Marine Boundary Layer Structure for the Sea Fog Formation off the West Coast of the Korean Peninsula. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 169, 1121-1135.

Kim, C. K., and S. S. Yum, 2010: Local meteorological and synoptic characteristics of fogs formed over Incheon international airport in the west coast of Korea. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 27, 761-776.

Kim, C. K., S. S. Yum, S.-N. Oh, J.-C. Nam, and K.-H. Chang, 2005: A Feasibility Study of Winter Orographic Cloud Seeding Experiments in the Korean Peninsula. J. Korean Meteor. Soc., 41, 997-1014. (In Korean with English Abstract)

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