2026 Jin-Yi Yu: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	55	3794	3624	1447	1333	148	14019

Overview

Jin-Yi Yu is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a considerable focus on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Oceanography. Additional areas of study include Artificial Intelligence and Ecology within environmental contexts.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics linked to climate and atmospheric phenomena. Key themes in their research include:

Climate variability and models
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
Marine and coastal ecosystems
Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Jin-Yi Yu has published extensively in several scientific journals, with frequent appearances in:

Geophysical Research Letters
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
Journal of Climate
Nature Communications
Climate Dynamics

Some of their recent research papers include:

"The Interdecadal Shift of ENSO Properties in 1999/2000: A Review" (2020, Journal of Climate)
"Multi-year El Niño events tied to the North Pacific Oscillation" (2022, Nature Communications)
"Single- and multi-year ENSO events controlled by pantropical climate interactions" (2022, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science)
"A Control of ENSO Transition Complexity by Tropical Pacific Mean SSTs Through Tropical-Subtropical Interaction" (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)
"MicroNiche: an R package for assessing microbial niche breadth and overlap from amplicon sequencing data" (2020, FEMS Microbiology Ecology)

The scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers, with notable coauthors including:

Ruiqiang Ding
Yong-Fu Lin
Ji-Won Kim
Min-Hui Lo
Shih-Wei Fang

Best Publications

Contrasting Eastern-Pacific and Central-Pacific Types of ENSO

Hsun-Ying Kao;Jin-Yi Yu

1949
Citations
Understanding ENSO Diversity

Antonietta Capotondi;Andrew T. Wittenberg;Matthew Newman;Emanuele Di Lorenzo

1157
Citations
Pantropical Climate Interactions

Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Lixin Wu;Matthieu Lengaigne;Matthieu Lengaigne;Tim Li

736
Citations
El Niño and Southern Oscillation (ENSO): A Review

Chunzai Wang;Clara Deser;Jin-Yi Yu;Pedro Nicolas DiNezio

508
Citations
STOIC: a study of coupled model climatology and variability in tropical ocean regions

M. K. Davey;M. Huddleston;K. R. Sperber;P. Braconnot

442
Citations
Decadal changes of ENSO persistence barrier in SST and ocean heat content indices: 1958–2001

Jin-Yi Yu;Hsun-Ying Kao

434
Citations
Relationships between extratropical sea level pressure variations and the central Pacific and eastern Pacific types of ENSO

Jin-Yi Yu;Seon Tae Kim

367
Citations
ENSIP: The El Niño simulation intercomparison project

Mojib Latif;K. Sperber;J. Arblaster;P. Braconnot

362
Citations
Subtropics-Related Interannual Sea Surface Temperature Variability in the Central Equatorial Pacific

Jin-Yi Yu;Hsun-Ying Kao;Tong Lee

336
Citations
The changing impact of El Niño on US winter temperatures

Jin-Yi Yu;Yuhao Zou;Seon Tae Kim;Tong Lee

332
Citations
The two types of ENSO in CMIP5 models

Seon Tae Kim;Jin-Yi Yu

307
Citations
Why were the 2015/2016 and 1997/1998 extreme El Niños different?

Houk Paek;Jin-Yi Yu;Chengcheng Qian

278
Citations
El Niño-Southern Oscillation and its impact in the changing climate

Song Yang;Zhenning Li;Jin-Yi Yu;Xiaoming Hu

272
Citations
Linking Emergence of the Central Pacific El Niño to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation

Jin Yi Yu;Pei Ken Kao;Pei Ken Kao;Houk Paek;Huang Hsiung Hsu

236
Citations
Enhanced biennial variability in the Pacific due to Atlantic capacitor effect.

Lei Wang;Jin-Yi Yu;Houk Paek

216
Citations
Identifying the types of major El Niño events since 1870

Jin-Yi Yu;Seon Tae Kim

200
Citations
Three evolution patterns of Central-Pacific El Niño.

Jin-Yi Yu;Seon Tae Kim

176
Citations
Links between Annual Variations of Peruvian Stratocumulus Clouds and of SST in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific

Jin-Yi Yu;Carlos R. Mechoso

172
Citations
Zonal Flow Vacillation and Eddy Forcing in a Simple GCM of the Atmosphere.

Jin-Yi Yu;Dennis L. Hartmann

172
Citations
North American Climate in CMIP5 Experiments. Part II: Evaluation of Historical Simulations of Intraseasonal to Decadal Variability

Justin Sheffield;Suzana J. Camargo;Rong Fu;Qi Hu

167
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos R. Mechoso University of California, Los Angeles

Min-Hui Lo National Taiwan University

Tong Lee California Institute of Technology

James T. Randerson University of California, Irvine

Wenju Cai Ocean University of China

Efi Foufoula-Georgiou University of California, Irvine

Michael J. McPhaden Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory

Matthieu Lengaigne University of Montpellier

Tim Li University of Hawaii at Manoa

Stephen E. Zebiak Columbia University

External Links

Personal website of Jin-Yi Yu

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