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Kyu-Myong Kim is a researcher affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, focusing on various subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Aerospace Engineering, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

Their scientific output includes multiple papers investigating atmospheric phenomena, climate variability, and aerosol dynamics. Frequent themes in their research encompass climate variability and models, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, meteorological phenomena and simulations, atmospheric ozone and climate, and tropical and extratropical cyclones research.

Some of the notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Kim include:

  • Relationship between circum-Arctic atmospheric wave patterns and large-scale wildfires in boreal summer, 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • Impact of Dust-Cloud-Radiation-Precipitation Dynamical Feedback on Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Variability of the Asian Summer Monsoon in Global Variable-Resolution Simulations With MPAS-CAM5, 2020, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Interannual variation of the East Asia Jet Stream and its impact on the horizontal distribution of aerosol in boreal spring, 2020, Atmospheric Environment
  • Recent Trends in Transport of Surface Carbonaceous Aerosols to the Upper-Troposphere-Lower-Stratosphere Linked to Expansion of the Asian Summer Monsoon Anticyclone, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • An Investigation on Seasonal and Diurnal Cycles of TOA Shortwave Radiations from DSCOVR/EPIC, CERES, MERRA-2, and ERA5, 2021, Remote Sensing

Kim has published in several scientific venues with repeated contributions, particularly in:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Remote Sensing
  • Atmosphere
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Frontiers in Earth Science

Collaboration is an integral part of Kim's research, as evidenced by frequent coauthors such as Dong L. Wu, Young-Kwon Lim, William K. M. Lau, Jae N. Lee, and L. Ruby Leung. These collaborations underline interdisciplinary engagement within atmospheric and environmental sciences.

Best Publications

  • Asian summer monsoon anomalies induced by aerosol direct forcing: the role of the Tibetan Plateau

    K. M. Lau;M. K. Kim;K. M. Kim

  • Observational relationships between aerosol and Asian monsoon rainfall, and circulation

    K.-M. Lau;K.-M. Kim

  • The 2010 Pakistan Flood and Russian Heat Wave: Teleconnection of Hydrometeorological Extremes

    William K. M. Lau;Kyu-Myong Kim

  • Enhanced Surface Warming and Accelerated Snow Melt in the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau Induced by Absorbing Aerosols

    William K M Lau;Maeng-Ki Kim;Kyu-Myong Kim;Woo-Seop Lee

  • Midweek increase in U.S. summer rain and storm heights suggests air pollution invigorates rainstorms

    Thomas L. Bell;Daniel Rosenfeld;Kyu-Myong Kim;Jung-Moon Yoo

  • Accumulation of aerosols over the Indo-Gangetic plains and southern slopes of the Himalayas: distribution, properties and radiative effects during the 2009 pre-monsoon season

    R. Gautam;R. Gautam;N. C. Hsu;S. C. Tsay;K. M. Lau

  • Robust Hadley Circulation changes and increasing global dryness due to CO2 warming from CMIP5 model projections

    William K. M. Lau;Kyu-Myong Kim

  • A canonical response of precipitation characteristics to global warming from CMIP5 models

    William K.-M. Lau;H.-T. Wu;K.-M. Kim

  • Impact of radiatively interactive dust aerosols in the NASA GEOS-5 climate model: Sensitivity to dust particle shape and refractive index

    Peter R. Colarco;Edward Paul Nowottnick;Cynthia A. Randles;Cynthia A. Randles;Bingqi Yi

  • Intercomparison and analyses of the climatology of the West African Monsoon in the West African Monsoon Modeling and Evaluation project (WAMME) first model intercomparison experiment

    Yongkang Xue;Fernando De Sales;W. K.-M. Lau;Aaron Boone

  • A GCM study of the response of the atmospheric water cycle of West Africa and the Atlantic to Saharan dust radiative forcing

    K. M. Lau;K. M. Kim;Y. C. Sud;G. K. Walker

  • The North Pacific as a Regulator of Summertime Climate over Eurasia and North America

    K.-M. Lau;J.-Y. Lee;K.-M. Kim;I.-S. Kang

  • Weekly Cycle of Lightning: Evidence of Storm Invigoration by Pollution

    Thomas L. Bell;Daniel Rosenfeld;Kyu-Myong Kim;Kyu-Myong Kim

  • Cooling of the Atlantic by Saharan dust

    K. M. Lau;K. M. Kim

  • Integrated modeling of aerosol, cloud, precipitation and land processes at satellite-resolved scales

    Christa D. Peters-Lidard;Eric M. Kemp;Toshihisa Matsui;Joseph A. Santanello

  • Fingerprinting the impacts of aerosols on long‐term trends of the Indian summer monsoon regional rainfall

    William K. M. Lau;Kyu-Myong Kim

  • Impact of snow darkening via dust, black carbon, and organic carbon on boreal spring climate in the Earth system

    Teppei J. Yasunari;Teppei J. Yasunari;Teppei J. Yasunari;Randal D. Koster;William K. M. Lau;William K. M. Lau;Kyu-Myong Kim

  • How nature foiled the 2006 hurricane forecasts

    William K. M. Lau;Kyu-Myong Kim

  • Dynamics of monsoon-induced biennial variability in ENSO

    K.-M. Kim;K.-M. Lau

  • Amplification of ENSO effects on Indian summer monsoon by absorbing aerosols

    Maeng-Ki Kim;William K. M. Lau;Kyu-Myong Kim;Jeong Sang

  • A northward shift of the North Atlantic Ocean Intertropical Convergence Zone in response to summertime Saharan dust outbreaks

    Eric M. Wilcox;K. M. Lau;Kyu-Myong Kim

Frequent Co-Authors

William K. M. Lau
William K. M. Lau University of Maryland, College Park
Myong-In Lee
Myong-In Lee Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Arlindo da Silva
Arlindo da Silva Goddard Space Flight Center
Sarith Mahanama
Sarith Mahanama National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mian Chin
Mian Chin Goddard Space Flight Center
Yongkang Xue
Yongkang Xue University of California, Los Angeles
Siegfried D. Schubert
Siegfried D. Schubert Goddard Space Flight Center
Brent N. Holben
Brent N. Holben Goddard Space Flight Center
Akio Kitoh
Akio Kitoh University of Tsukuba
Natalie M. Mahowald
Natalie M. Mahowald Cornell University

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