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Hyungjun Kim

Hyungjun Kim

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
51
Citations
18149
World Ranking
4628
National Ranking
79

Overview

Hyungjun Kim is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and conducts research primarily in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work explores a broad range of topics related to climate variability, hydrology, atmospheric science, and global environmental processes.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the understanding of climate dynamics, focusing on key areas such as climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, and hydrology and drought analysis. Their research also covers plant water relations and carbon dynamics, geophysics and gravity measurements, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

Hyungjun Kim's recent publications reflect a focus on climate change impacts on hydrological systems and environmental conditions globally and regionally. Some notable papers include:

  • Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Abrupt shift to hotter and drier climate over inner East Asia beyond the tipping point, 2020, Science
  • Observed changes in dry-season water availability attributed to human-induced climate change, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • Irrigation in the Earth system, 2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • The timing of unprecedented hydrological drought under climate change, 2022, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors working alongside Hyungjun Kim include Jee-Hoon Jeong, Jin-Ho Yoon, Shih-Yu Wang, Nobuyuki Utsumi, and Sonia I. Seneviratne, indicating collaborative research within a network of specialists.

Regarding publication venues, Hyungjun Kim has a significant presence in journals such as:

  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

The scientist's research subfields highlight expertise in global and planetary change, atmospheric science, water science and technology, environmental engineering, and oceanography. This interdisciplinary approach supports comprehensive study of Earth's climate systems and hydrological processes.

Best Publications

  • Global flood risk under climate change

    Yukiko Hirabayashi;Roobavannan Mahendran;Sujan Koirala;Lisako Konoshima

  • Multimodel assessment of water scarcity under climate change

    Jacob Schewe;Jens Heinke;Jens Heinke;Dieter Gerten;Ingjerd Haddeland

  • A physically based description of floodplain inundation dynamics in a global river routing model

    Dai Yamazaki;Shinjiro Kanae;Hyungjun Kim;Taikan Oki

  • Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change

    Yadu Pokhrel;Farshid Felfelani;Yusuke Satoh;Yusuke Satoh;Julien Boulange

  • Hydrological droughts in the 21st century, hotspots and uncertainties from a global multimodel ensemble experiment

    Christel Prudhomme;Ignazio Giuntoli;Emma L. Robinson;Douglas B. Clark

  • Water scarcity hotspots travel downstream due to human interventions in the 20th and 21st century

    T.I.E. Veldkamp;T.I.E. Veldkamp;Y. Wada;J.C.J.H. Aerts;J.C.J.H. Aerts;P. Döll

  • A yeast functional screen predicts new candidate ALS disease genes

    Julien Couthouis;Michael P. Hart;James Shorter;Mariely DeJesus-Hernandez

  • Therapeutic modulation of eIF2α phosphorylation rescues TDP-43 toxicity in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis disease models

    Hyung-Jun Kim;Alya R Raphael;Eva S LaDow;Leeanne McGurk

  • The role of TDP-43 propagation in neurodegenerative diseases: integrating insights from clinical and experimental studies.

    Myungjin Jo;Shinrye Lee;Yu-Mi Jeon;Seyeon Kim

  • First look at changes in flood hazard in the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project ensemble

    Rutger Dankers;Nigel W. Arnell;Douglas B. Clark;Pete D. Falloon

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

  • Incorporating anthropogenic water regulation modules into a land surface model

    Yadu Pokhrel;Naota Hanasaki;Sujan Koirala;Jaeil Cho

  • State of the Climate in 2014

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • Evaluating the role of the FUS/TLS-related gene EWSR1 in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Julien Couthouis;Michael P. Hart;Michael P. Hart;Renske Erion;Oliver D. King

  • Abrupt shift to hotter and drier climate over inner East Asia beyond the tipping point

    Peng Zhang;Peng Zhang;Jee-Hoon Jeong;Jin-Ho Yoon;Hyungjun Kim

  • Observed controls on resilience of groundwater to climate variability in sub-Saharan Africa

    Mark O. Cuthbert;Richard G. Taylor;Guillaume Favreau;Guillaume Favreau;Martin C. Todd

  • State-of-the-art global models underestimate impacts from climate extremes

    Jacob Schewe;Simon N. Gosling;Christopher Reyer;Fang Zhao

  • Observed changes in dry-season water availability attributed to human-induced climate change

    Ryan S. Padrón;Lukas Gudmundsson;Bertrand Decharme;Agnès Ducharne

  • LS3MIP (v1.0) Contribution to CMIP6: The Land Surface, Snow and Soil Moisture Model Intercomparison Project Aims, Setup and Expected Outcome.

    Bart Van Den Hurk;Hyungjun Kim;Gerhard Krinner;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • State of the Climate in 2018

    M. Ades;R. Adler;Laura S. Aldeco;G. Alejandra

  • Role of rivers in the seasonal variations of terrestrial water storage over global basins

    Hyungjun Kim;Pat J.-F. Yeh;Taikan Oki;Shinjiro Kanae

  • ESM-SnowMIP: assessing snow models and quantifying snow-related climate feedbacks

    Gerhard Krinner;Chris Derksen;Richard Essery;Mark Flanner

  • State of the Climate in 2016

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

Frequent Co-Authors

Taikan Oki
Taikan Oki University of Tokyo
Yoshihide Wada
Yoshihide Wada King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Shinjiro Kanae
Shinjiro Kanae Tokyo Institute of Technology
Dai Yamazaki
Dai Yamazaki University of Tokyo
Dieter Gerten
Dieter Gerten Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Simon N. Gosling
Simon N. Gosling University of Nottingham
Shih-Yu Wang
Shih-Yu Wang Utah State University
Yadu Pokhrel
Yadu Pokhrel Michigan State University
Qiuhong Tang
Qiuhong Tang Chinese Academy of Sciences

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