Climate scientist
E-mail: kimseo (at) bc.edu
Welcome to my research website! I'm a postdoctoral researcher working with Prof. Yi Ming's group at Boston College.
My research interests are
Large-scale atmospheric circulation dynamics: Dynamics on the Hadley and Walker circulations, and midlatitude jet and their changes under global warming
Weather and climate extremes: Hydrological extreme events (e.g., blocking, floods, droughts) associated with the large-scale circulation changes
Circulation changes from paleo to future: Hadley cell, jet changes in a wide range of climate changes, such as global warming with reduction of aerosols, the Last Glacial Maximum, the geo-engineering scenarios (CO2 removal, Solar radiation management).
Details are found on the Research page. Please contact me if you're interested in these topics or anything else!
Publications
Kim S.-Y., S.-W. Son, M. Kang: Eddy-Zonal Flow Interaction in the Separation of the Hadley cell and the Jet in Response to the Global Cooling-like Climate Forcing, in prep.
Hunt, P., S.-Y. Kim, and Y. Ming: Interconnectivity of Tropical Circulation Patterns. in prep.
Kim S.-Y., and Yi Ming, Hadley and Walker Circulation Weakening under Global Warming. to be submitted.
Shim, K., C. Park, Y.-J. Jun, S.-Y. Kim, and coauthors: Expansion of the East Asian dust source region by regional climate change, submitted.
Kim S.-Y., A. Mohebbi, and Yi Ming: Evaluating WRF ensemble simulations of Nor’easters in New England: Precipitation Performance and Microphysics Sensitivity, under review.
Kim S.-Y., Yi Ming, S.-W. Son, D.C. Hong, and R.J. Park: Accelerated Hadley circulation weakening by aerosol mitigation, under review.
Kim S.-Y., Y. J. Choi, S.-W. Son, K. M. Grise, P. W. Staten, and coauthors: Hemispherically asymmetric responses of the Hadley cell to CO2 removal. Science Advances, 9(30), DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adg1801
Kim S.-Y., and S.-W. Son*, 2023: Opposing shifts of the Hadley Cell and Eddy-driven jet Latitude in the Last Glacial Maximum: a parameter sweep study using a dynamical core GCM, Journal of Climate, 36(3), 885-898. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0989.1
Yook, S.*, D. W. J. Thompson, S. Solomon, and S.-Y. Kim, 2020: The key role of coupled chemistry-climate interactions in tropical stratospheric temperature variability. Journal of Climate, 33(17), 7619-7629.
Kim S.-Y., S.-W. Son: Breakdown of the Linear Relationship between Hadley cell and jet latitude in the Last Glacial Maximum, Journal of Climate, 33, 5713-5725. DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0531.1
Park, H.-S., S.-J. Kim., K.-H. Seo, Andrew L. Stewart, S.-Y. Kim, and S.-W. Son 2018: Disentangling the impacts of Arctic sea ice loss and insolation forcing on mid-Holocene climate, Nature Communications, 9:4571, doi:10.1038/s41467-018-07068-2.
Son, S.-W., B.-R. Han, C. I. Garfinkel, S.-Y. Kim, R. Park, and CCMI PIs, 2018: Tropospheric jet response to Antarctic ozone depletion: An update with Chemistry-Climate Model Initiative (CCMI) models, Environmental Research Letters, 13, 054024.
Son, S.-W., S.-Y. Kim, and S.-K. Min, 2018: Widening of the Hadley cell from Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) to future climate, Journal of Climate, 31, 267-281.
[In Korean] Kim. S.-Y., S. Park*, S.-W. Son, 2021: Evaluation of the Total Column Ozone and Tropospheric Ozone in the CCMI-1 models over East Asia, Journal of Climate Change Research, 12(3).
[In Korean] Lee. J. W., S.-W. Son, S.-Y. Kim, and K. Song*, 2021: The Sensitivity of the Extratropical Jet to the Stratospheric Mean State in a Dynamic-core General Circulation Model, Atmosphere, 31, 171-183.
[In Korean] Cho, J., S.-Y. Kim*, and S.-W. Son 2019: The Response of Hadley Cell and Jet Stream to Earth’s Rotation Rate, The Korean Earth Science Society, 40(3), 203-211. (*corresponding author)
[In Korean] Park, J.-K., S.-Y. Kim*, and S.-W. Son 2019: Evaluation of the Troposphere Ozone in the Reanalysis Datasets: Comparison with Pohang Ozonesonde Observation, Atmosphere, 29(1), 53-59. (*corresponding author)
[In Korean] Kim, S.-W., K. Song, S.-Y. Kim, S.-W. Son, and C. Franzke, 2014: Linear and nonlinear trends of extreme temperatures in Korea, Atmosphere, 24, 379-390.