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35
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4443
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9335
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68

Kyong-Hwan Seo 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 Kyong-Hwan Seo sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 143 publications — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Kyong-Hwan Seo 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 Kyong-Hwan Seo sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Kyong-Hwan Seo is affiliated with Pusan National University in South Korea. Their research predominantly spans Earth and Planetary Sciences with a significant focus on Environmental Science. Within these broader fields, Seo has contributed extensively to subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Oceanography, and Geophysics.

The scientist's scholarly work covers diverse main topics, such as Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, and Climate change and permafrost.

Seo's recent published papers include the following:

  • How Does the Tibetan Plateau Dynamically Affect Downstream Monsoon Precipitation? (2020), Geophysical Research Letters
  • Validation of International Reference Ionosphere model (IRI-2016) for F-region peak electron density height (hmF2): Comparison with Incoherent Scatter Radar (ISR) and ionosonde measurements at Millstone Hill (2020), Advances in Space Research
  • MJO Influence on Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Prediction in the Northern Hemisphere Extratropics (2023), Journal of Climate
  • Dominant wintertime surface air temperature modes in the Northern Hemisphere extratropics (2020), Climate Dynamics
  • How Does Indian Monsoon Regulate the Northern Hemisphere Stationary Wave Pattern? (2021), Frontiers in Earth Science

Seo frequently publishes in several scientific venues, including:

  • Climate Dynamics
  • Atmosphere
  • Journal of Climate
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Collaborations have been an integral part of Seo's research, with frequent co-authors including Chalachew Kindie Mengist, Won-il Lim, Hyo-Seok Park, S. Eswaraiah, and Jun-Hyeok Son.

Best Publications

  • Impact of stratospheric ozone on Southern Hemisphere circulation change: A multimodel assessment

    S.-W. Son.;E. P. Gerber;J. Perlwitz;J. Perlwitz;L. M. Polvani

  • Vertical structure and physical processes of the Madden-Julian oscillation: exploring key model physics in climate simulations

    Xianan Jiang;Xianan Jiang;Duane E. Waliser;Duane E. Waliser;Prince K. Xavier;Jon Petch

  • The Global Atmospheric Circulation Response to Tropical Diabatic Heating Associated with the Madden–Julian Oscillation during Northern Winter

    Kyong-Hwan Seo;Seok-Woo Son

  • Evaluation of MJO Forecast Skill from Several Statistical and Dynamical Forecast Models

    Kyong-Hwan Seo;Wanqiu Wang;Jon Gottschalck;Qin Zhang

  • Assessing Future Changes in the East Asian Summer Monsoon Using CMIP5 Coupled Models

    Kyong-Hwan Seo;Jung Ok;Jun-Hyeok Son;Dong-Hyun Cha

  • The Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation Simulated in the NCEP Climate Forecast System: The Effect of Sea Surface Temperature

    Kyong-Hwan Seo;Jae-Kyung E. Schemm;Wanqiu Wang;Arun Kumar

  • Propagation and initiation mechanisms of the Madden-Julian oscillation

    Kyong-Hwan Seo;Kyong-Hwan Seo;Kwang-Yul Kim

  • Mid-Holocene Northern Hemisphere warming driven by Arctic amplification

    Hyo-Seok Park;Seong-Joong Kim;Andrew L. Stewart;Seok-Woo Son

  • Mechanisms for a PNA-Like Teleconnection Pattern in Response to the MJO

    Kyong-Hwan Seo;Hyun-Ju Lee

  • Changes in weather and climate extremes over Korea and possible causes: A review

    Seung Ki Min;Seok Woo Son;Kyong Hwan Seo;Jong Seong Kug

  • Unraveling the Teleconnection Mechanisms that Induce Wintertime Temperature Anomalies over the Northern Hemisphere Continents in Response to the MJO

    Kyong-Hwan Seo;Hyun-Ju Lee;Dargan M. W. Frierson

  • The Madden–Julian Oscillation Simulated in the NCEP Climate Forecast System Model: The Importance of Stratiform Heating

    Kyong-Hwan Seo;Wanqiu Wang

  • Predictability of the Madden-Julian Oscillation Estimated Using Observational Data

    Ruiqiang Ding;Jianping Li;Kyong-Hwan Seo

  • Influence of the QBO on MJO prediction skill in the subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction models

    Yuna Lim;Seok-Woo Son;Andrew G. Marshall;Harry H. Hendon

  • A mechanism for future changes in Hadley circulation strength in CMIP5 climate change simulations

    Kyong-Hwan Seo;Dargan M. W. Frierson;Jun-Hyeok Son

  • Forecast skill of the tropical intraseasonal oscillation in the NCEP GFS dynamical extended range forecasts

    K. H. Seo;J. K. E. Schemm;C. Jones;S. Moorthi

  • Estimate of the Predictability of Boreal Summer and Winter Intraseasonal Oscillations from Observations

    Ruiqiang Ding;Jianping Li;Kyong-Hwan Seo

  • Responses of the Tropical Atmospheric Circulation to Climate Change and Connection to the Hydrological Cycle

    Jian Ma;Robin Chadwick;Kyong-Hwan Seo;Changming Dong;Changming Dong

  • The Record-Breaking Heat Wave in 2016 over South Korea and Its Physical Mechanism

    Sang-Wook Yeh;You-Jin Won;You-Jin Won;Jin-Sil Hong;Kang-Jin Lee

  • Climate change over the Mediterranean and current destruction of marine ecosystem

    Go-Un Kim;Kyong-Hwan Seo;Deliang Chen

  • The long-term variability of Changma in the East Asian summer monsoon system: A review and revisit

    June-Yi Lee;MinHo Kwon;Kyung-Sook Yun;Seung-Ki Min

Frequent Co-Authors

Seok-Woo Son
Seok-Woo Son Seoul National University
Kyung-Ja Ha
Kyung-Ja Ha Pusan National University
June-Yi Lee
June-Yi Lee Pusan National University
Bin Wang
Bin Wang University of Hawaii at Manoa
Wanqiu Wang
Wanqiu Wang National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Arun Kumar
Arun Kumar National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Sang-Wook Yeh
Sang-Wook Yeh Hanyang University
Jong-Seong Kug
Jong-Seong Kug Seoul National University
Yoo-Geun Ham
Yoo-Geun Ham Seoul National University
Seung-Ki Min
Seung-Ki Min Pohang University of Science and Technology

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