Joonsuk M. Kang, PhD
Columbia University
jk5081 at columbia dot edu
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I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University. I received my PhD in 2025 for 'Understanding the storm track trends in the satellite era' from the Department of the Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago. I did my BS and MS at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Seoul National University.
I'm interested in large-scale atmospheric circulation and the climate of the midlatitudes, and how they respond to anthropogenic forcings. In particular, I enjoy expanding existing theories to regional scales to understand the emerging climate signals.Â
Research Interests
Midlatitude storm tracks and cyclones
Observed and projected midlatitude climate change
Arctic impacts and PAMIP
Confronting observations and models
Publications
11. Kang, J. M., Shaw, T. A., & Sun, L. (2026). Using energetic frameworks to assess artificial heating in coupled sea ice loss experiments. Under Review
10. Sarro, G. M., Kang, J. M., Smith, S., Chaudhri, A. T., Mischell, E., & Nakamura, N. (2026). Non-monotonic response of blocking dynamics with increased precipitation in an idealized two-layer quasigeostrophic model. Under Review
9. Kang, J. M., Thomas, R. Dunstone, N. J., Shaw, T. A., & Woollings, T. (2025) Robust impacts of tropical Pacific SST trends on global and regional circulation in boreal winter. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 8(1), 315
8. Simpson, I. R., Shaw, T. A., Ceppi, P., Clement, A. C., Fischer, E., Grise, K. M., Pendergrass A. G., Screen, J. A., Wills, R. C. J., Woollings, T., Blackport R., Kang, J. M., & Po-Chedley, S. (2025). Confronting Earth System Model trends with observations. Science Advances, 11(11), eadt8035.
7. Kang, J. M., Shaw, T. A., & Sun, L. (2024). Anthropogenic aerosols have significantly weakened the regional summertime circulation in the Northern Hemisphere during the satellite era. AGU Advances, 5, e2024AV001318.
6. Kang, J. M., Shaw, T. A., Simpson, I. R., Kang S. M., & Yu Y. (2024). Revisiting the reanalysis-model discrepancy in Southern Hemisphere winter storm track trends. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 7, 252
5. Kang, J. M., Shaw, T. A., & Sun, L. (2023). Arctic sea ice loss weakens Northern Hemisphere summertime storminess but not until the late 21st century. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(9), e2022GL102301.
4. Cho, H. O., Kang, M. J., Son, S. W., Hong, D. C., & Kang, J. M. (2022). A critical role of the North Pacific bomb cyclones in the onset of the 2021 sudden stratospheric warming. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(11), e2022GL099245.
3. Kim, D., Lee, J., Kang, J. M., & Son, S. W. (2021). Synoptic structures and precipitation impact of extratropical cyclones influencing on East Asia megacities: Seoul, Beijing, Tokyo. Atmosphere, 31(1), 45-60.
2. Kang, J. M., & Son, S. W. (2021). Development Processes of the Explosive Cyclones over the Northwest Pacific: Potential Vorticity Tendency Inversion. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 78(6), 1913-1930.
1. Kang, J. M., Lee, J., Son, S. W., Kim, J., & Chen, D. (2020). The rapid intensification of East Asian cyclones around the Korean Peninsula and their surface impacts. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125(2), e2019JD031632.
Resources
Email me if you need collaboration on one of the following techniques
PV tendency inversion (Kang and Son 2021)
Lagrangian cyclone tracking using vorticity and SLP (Kang et al. 2020, Kang et al. 2021, Kang et al. 2023)
PV inversion (Cho et al. 2022)
Two-dimensional energy framework for storm tracks (Kang et al. 2024)
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