Soong-Ki Kim
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Yale University, New Haven, USA
Contact: soong-ki.kim@yale.edu
Research Interests: Cliamte dynamics, Abrupt climate change, El Niño–Southern Oscillation, Atlantic Overturning Circulation, Dynamical System
Education
March 2020 - February 2023 Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
March 2020 - February 2023 Advisor: Soon-Il An
March 2020 - February 2023 Fulfilled military service obligation as Technical Research Personnel (1 year of out of 3-year service)
September 2017 - August 2019 M.S. in Atmospheric Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
September 2017 - August 2019 Advisor: Soon-Il An
March 2013 - August 2017 B.S. in Atmospheric Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
March 2013 - August 2017 B.S. in Physics, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
March 2013 - August 201 Double Major, Class Rank: 1/30
Professional Experience
March 2025 - Present Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Yale University, New Haven, USA
Host: Alexey Fedorov
March 2023 - February 2025 Postdoctoral Researcher, Irreversible Climate Change Research Center, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Host: Soon-Il An
Fulfilled military service obligation as Technical Research Personnel (2 years of out of 3-year service)
March 2024 - April 2024 Visiting Researcher, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, USA
Host: Fei-Fei Jin
Publications
Publications are listed here
Professional Activities
Member: International CLIVAR Working Group - ENSO Conceptual Models (2020-present)
Project Leader: International CLIVAR Working Group – ENSO Conceptual Models - Community Recharge Oscillator (CRO) project (2024-present)
Coordinator: UTokyo-SNU-Yoseni Univ Joint Workshop on Earth System Interaction under Changing Climate 2024
Session Convener:
· AGU 2025 (OS011: El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Pantropical Climate Interactions: Mechanisms, Predictability, Impacts, and Projections)
· AGU 2024 (OS015: El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Pantropical Climate Interactions: Mechanisms, Predictability, Impacts, and Projections)
Journal Reviewer: Total of 48 Papers.
· Nature (2025)
· Nature Geoscience (2025)
· npj Climate and Atmospheric Science (2023a, 2023b, 2023c, 2024a, 2024b, 2025)
· Communications Earth & Environment (2023, 2025)
· Journal of Climate (2022, 2023, 2024a, 2024b, 2024c, 2024d, 2024e, 2024f, 2025a, 2025b, 2025c)
· Earth System Dynamics (2023, 2024)
· Environmental Research Letters (2023, 2024a, 2024b, 2025a, 2025b, 2025c)
· Environmental Research: Climate (2025)
· Geophysical Research Letters (2023a, 2023b, 2023c, 2024a, 2024b, 2024c, 2025a, 2025b, 2025c)
· Climate Dynamics (2023a, 2023b, 2024)
· International Journal of Climatology (2024)
· Theoretical and Applied Climatology (2025)
· Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres (2024)
· Advances in Atmospheric Sciences (2023, 2024)
· Reports on Progress in Physics (2024)
Reviewer: Outstanding Student Presentation Awards for AGU 2024
Awards
Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, Korean Meteorological Society (2023)
Excellent Academic Paper Award, Yonsei University (2023)
Honors with Excellent Grade, Yonsei University (2016a, 2016b, 2017)
Teaching Experience
Instructor
ENSO Winter School 2025 (Honolulu, USA)
· Day 3: ENSO Recharge Oscillator Practical: Simulations and Forecasting
· Project Team 4: Using reduced-complexity models to diagnose ENSO in CGCMs and future projections
Teaching Assistant
Undergraduate Courses in Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea)
· Climate Dynamics (ATM4105, Fall 2018)
· Air-Sea Interaction (ATM2106, Spring 2018)
· Computational Fluid Dynamics (ATM4103, Fall 2017)
Invited Talks
[5] CN-coESM Workshop "Response and Feedback of Arctic-boreal Permafrost and Wildfires to Climate Change", Beijing, China (October/2024)
[4] BK21 Yonsei Earth Science Seminar, Seoul, South Korea (January/2024)
[3] Young Scientist Special Session at 2023 Korean Meteorological Society Fall Meeting, Busan, South Korea (November/2023)
[2] Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea (July/2023)
[1] Yonsei Young Star Session at Global Engagement & Empowerment Forum, Seoul, South Korea (February/2023)
Conference Proceedings
International
[18] S.-K. Kim, H.-J. Park, S.-I. An, C. Liu, W. Cai, A. Santoso, J.-S. Kug. Decreased Indian Ocean Dipole variability under prolonged greenhouse warming, A42C-08 , AGU, December/2024, USA
[17] C. Liu, S.-I. An, S.-K. Kim, M. F. Stuecker, W. Zhang, F.-F. Jin. Synchronous Decadal Climate in the Central Tropical Pacific and South Atlantic, AS61-A010, AOGS, June/2024, South Korea
[16] Jérôme Vialard and CLIVAR ENSO conceptual model Working Group. The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) recharge oscillator conceptual model : past achievements, future prospects, EGU24-2133, EGU, April/2024, Austria
[15] C. Liu, S.-I. An, S.-K. Kim, M. F. Stuecker, W. Zhang, F.-F. Jin, J.-H. Park, L. Jiang, A. Xue, X. Geng, H.-J. Park, Y.-M. Yang, J.-S. Kug, Synchronous Decadal Climate Variability in the Tropical Central Pacific and Tropical South Atlantic, EGU24-4820, EGU, April/2024, Austria
[14] S. K. Mondal, S.-I. An, S.-K. Min, T. Jiang, B. Su, S. Paik, S.-K. Kim. Global dryness could intensify vegetation failure even after net-negative emission is achieved, EGU24-4814, EGU, April/2024, Austria
[13] S. Paik, S.-I. An, S.-K. Min, A. D. King, S.-K. Kim. Constraining Global to Continental Future Extreme Precipitation Intensification, AS51-A002, AOGS, August/2023, Singapore
[12] S.-I. An, H.-J. Kim, S.-K. Kim. Rate-dependent Hysteresis of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, AS21-A003, AOGS, August/2023, Singapore
[11] S. K. Mondal, S.-I. An, S.-K. Min, S.-K. Kim, J. Shin, S. Paik, N. Im, C. Liu. Hysteresis and Irreversibility of Global Extreme Precipitation to Anthropogenic CO2 Emission, AS21-A002, AOGS, August/2023, Singapore
[10] C. Liu, S.-I. An, F.-F. Jin, J. Shin, J.-S. Kug, W. Zhang, M. F. Stuecker, X. Yuan, A. Xue, X. Geng, S.-K. Kim. Hysteresis of the El Niño-southern Oscillation Characteristics to CO2 Forcing Linked to the ITCZ, AS21-A001, AOGS, August/2023, Singapore
[9] S.-K. Kim, J. Shin, S.-I. An, H.-J. Kim, N. Im, S.-P. Xie, J.-S. Kug, S.-W. Yeh. Irreversible changes in surface temperature and precipitation to CO2 forcing, EGU23-1664, EGU, April/2023, Austria
[8] S.-I. An, H.-J. Park, S.-K. Kim, J. Shin, S.-W. Yeh, J.-S. Jug. Intensity Change of Indian Ocean Dipole Mode Under Global Warming, AS47-A012, AOGS, August/2022, Online
[7] H.-J. Kim, S.-I. An, S.-K. Kim, J.-H. Park. Feedback Processes Modulating the Sensitivity of Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation to Freshwater Forcing Timescales, AS47-A004, AOGS, August/2022, Online
[6] S.-K. Kim, H.-J. Kim, H. Dijkstra, S.-I. An. Slow and Soft Passage Through Tipping Point of the AMOC in a Changing Climate, AS47-A002, AOGS, August/2022, Online
[5] S.-K. Kim, S.-I. An.The Origin of ENSO Phase Locking: Seasonal Gap Theory, OS015-0006, AGU, December/2020, Online
[4] S.-K. Kim, S.-I. An. Understanding El Niño-La Niña Asymmetries Using a Nonlinear Recharge Oscillator Model, AS05-A022, AOGS, July/2020, Online
[3] S.-I. An, S.-K. Kim. Inter-decadal Change of El Nino-La Nina Amplitude Asymmetry Evaluated by Nonlinear Dynamical ENSO Index, OS53C-1537, AGU, December/2019, USA
[2] S.-K. Kim, S.-I. An. Assessing ENSO characteristics in CMIP using nonlinear recharge oscillator, GC33I-1467, AGU, December/2018, USA
[1] S.-I. An, S.-K. Kim. Nonlinear Recharge Oscillator, GC33I-1466, AGU, December/2018, USA
Domestic (South Korea)
[3] C. Liu, S.-I. An, F.-F. Jin, J. Shin, J.-S. Kug, W. Zhang, M. F. Stuecker, X. Yuan, A. Xue, X. Geng, S.-K. Kim, Hysteresis of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation to CO2 forcing, 한국기상학회, April/2023, South Korea
[2] R. Olson, Y. Fan, S.-I. An, S.-K. Kim. A Flexible Data-Driven Cyclostationary Model for the El Niño Southern–Oscillation, 한국기상학회, April/2022, South Korea
[1] S.-K. Kim, S.-I. An. A New Conceptual Model for ENSO: Nonlinear Recharge Oscillator, 한국기상학회, October/2018, South Korea
Mandatory Military Service
Fulfilled mandatory military duty as a technical research personnel (3-year service)
March 2023 - February 2025: Technical research personnel hosted by the Institute of Natural Sciences at Yonsei University
March 2022 - February 2023: Technical research personnel hosted by the Graduate School of Yonsei University