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Jong-Seong Kug publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jong-Seong Kug sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 397 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Jong-Seong Kug D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jong-Seong Kug sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Korea Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Korea Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Korea Leader Award

Overview

Jong-Seong Kug is affiliated with Seoul National University in South Korea and has a research focus spanning Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work primarily aligns with global and planetary change and atmospheric science within these broader fields.

The scientist's recent papers demonstrate a focus on climate variability, meteorological phenomena, and oceanographic and atmospheric processes. Notable publications include:

  • Changing El Niño-Southern Oscillation in a warming climate (2021) published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Decadal climate variability in the tropical Pacific: Characteristics, causes, predictability, and prospects (2021) published in Science
  • Extensive fires in southeastern Siberian permafrost linked to preceding Arctic Oscillation (2020) published in Science Advances
  • Widespread irreversible changes in surface temperature and precipitation in response to CO2 forcing (2022) published in Nature Climate Change
  • ENSO Diversity (2020) published in Geophysical Monograph

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, which include Soon-Il An, Sang-Wook Yeh, Jongsoo Shin, Ji-Hoon Oh, and Jae-Heung Park.

Jong-Seong Kug has contributed extensively to several publication venues. The most frequent venues include:

  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Journal of Climate
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Nature Communications

Their research covers various topics central to understanding climate dynamics and environmental processes. The major topics addressed include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics

Best Publications

  • El Niño in a changing climate

    Sang Wook Yeh;Jong Seong Kug;Boris Dewitte;Min Ho Kwon

  • Two Types of El Niño Events: Cold Tongue El Niño and Warm Pool El Niño

    Jong Seong Kug;Fei Fei Jin;Soon Il An

  • El Niño–Southern Oscillation complexity

    Axel Timmermann;Axel Timmermann;Soon Il An;Jong Seong Kug;Fei Fei Jin

  • ENSO and greenhouse warming

    Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Agus Santoso;Guojian Wang;Sang Wook Yeh

  • Pantropical Climate Interactions

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

  • Two distinct influences of Arctic warming on cold winters over North America and East Asia

    Jong-Seong Kug;Jee-Hoon Jeong;Yeon-Soo Jang;Baek-Min Kim

  • Changing El Niño–Southern Oscillation in a warming climate

    Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Agus Santoso;Agus Santoso;Matthew Collins;Boris Dewitte

  • Sea surface temperature in the north tropical Atlantic as a trigger for El Niño/Southern Oscillation events

    Yoo-Geun Ham;Yoo-Geun Ham;Jong-Seong Kug;Jong-Yeon Park;Fei-Fei Jin

  • Current status of ENSO prediction skill in coupled ocean-atmosphere models

    Emilia K. Jin;James L. Kinter;B. Wang;C.-K. Park

  • Advance and prospectus of seasonal prediction: assessment of the APCC/CliPAS 14-model ensemble retrospective seasonal prediction (1980–2004)

    Bin Wang;June Yi Lee;In Sik Kang;J. Shukla

  • ENSO Atmospheric Teleconnections and Their Response to Greenhouse Gas Forcing

    Sang Wook Yeh;Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Seung Ki Min;Michael J. McPhaden

  • Interactive Feedback between ENSO and the Indian Ocean

    Jong-Seong Kug;In-Sik Kang

  • Propagating versus Nonpropagating Madden–Julian Oscillation Events

    Daehyun Kim;Jong-Seong Kug;Adam H. Sobel

  • Warm Pool and Cold Tongue El Nino Events as Simulated by the GFDL 2.1 Coupled GCM

    Jong Seong Kug;Jung Choi;Soon Il An;Fei Fei Jin

  • How well do current climate models simulate two types of El Nino

    Yoo-Geun Ham;Yoo-Geun Ham;Jong-Seong Kug

  • El Niño and La Niña sea surface temperature anomalies: Asymmetry characteristics associated with their wind stress anomalies

    In-Sik Kang;Jong-Seong Kug

  • Decadal change in relationship between east Asian and WNP summer monsoons

    Min Ho Kwon;Jong Ghap Jhun;Bin Wang;Soon Il An

  • Two distinct roles of Atlantic SSTs in ENSO variability: North Tropical Atlantic SST and Atlantic Niño

    Yoo-Geun Ham;Yoo-Geun Ham;Jong-Seong Kug;Jong-Yeon Park

  • Are there two types of La Nina

    Jong-Seong Kug;Yoo-Geun Ham;Yoo-Geun Ham

  • Decadal climate variability in the tropical Pacific: Characteristics, causes, predictability, and prospects.

    Scott Power;Scott Power;Matthieu Lengaigne;Antonietta Capotondi;Antonietta Capotondi;Myriam Khodri

  • Erratum: El Niño in a changing climate

    Sang Wook Yeh;Jong Seong Kug;Boris Dewitte;Min Ho Kwon

Frequent Co-Authors

In-Sik Kang
In-Sik Kang Second Institute of Oceanography
Yoo-Geun Ham
Yoo-Geun Ham Seoul National University
Fei-Fei Jin
Fei-Fei Jin University of Hawaii at Manoa
Soon-Il An
Soon-Il An Yonsei University
Sang-Wook Yeh
Sang-Wook Yeh Hanyang University
June-Yi Lee
June-Yi Lee Pusan National University
Wenju Cai
Wenju Cai Ocean University of China
Daehyun Kim
Daehyun Kim University of Washington
Tim Li
Tim Li University of Hawaii at Manoa
Seung-Ki Min
Seung-Ki Min Pohang University of Science and Technology

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