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Sang-Wook Yeh

Sang-Wook Yeh

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
50
Citations
13657
World Ranking
4876
National Ranking
38

Overview

Sang-Wook Yeh is affiliated with Hanyang University in South Korea. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a significant concentration in subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Oceanography.

Their work spans several main topics within these fields, including:

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

Among their recent research publications are:

  • Changing El Niño-Southern Oscillation in a warming climate, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • ENSO Atmospheric Teleconnections, 2020, Geophysical Monograph
  • Dynamics and characteristics of dry and moist heatwaves over East Asia, 2022, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Widespread irreversible changes in surface temperature and precipitation in response to CO2 forcing, 2022, Nature Climate Change
  • Hysteresis of the intertropical convergence zone to CO2 forcing, 2021, Nature Climate Change

Frequent co-authors in Sang-Wook Yeh's research include:

  • Soon-Il An
  • Jong-Seong Kug
  • Seung-Ki Min
  • Seok-Woo Son
  • Jongsoo Shin

Their research has been published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Best Publications

  • El Niño in a changing climate

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

  • El Niño–Southern Oscillation complexity

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

  • Understanding ENSO Diversity

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

  • ENSO and greenhouse warming

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

  • Changing El Niño–Southern Oscillation in a warming climate

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

  • ENSO Atmospheric Teleconnections and Their Response to Greenhouse Gas Forcing

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

  • Historical change of El Niño properties sheds light on future changes of extreme El Niño.

    Bin Wang;Bin Wang;Xiao Luo;Young-Min Yang;Young-Min Yang;Weiyi Sun

  • Combined effect of El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Pacific Decadal Oscillation on the East Asian winter monsoon

    Ji-Won Kim;Ji-Won Kim;Sang-Wook Yeh;Eun-Chul Chang

  • The unique 2009–2010 El Niño event: A fast phase transition of warm pool El Niño to La Niña

    WonMoo Kim;Sang-Wook Yeh;Joo-Hong Kim;Jong-Seong Kug

  • ENSO Atmospheric Teleconnections

    Andréa S. Taschetto;Caroline C. Ummenhofer;Caroline C. Ummenhofer;Malte F. Stuecker;Malte F. Stuecker;Dietmar Dommenget;Dietmar Dommenget

  • Recent progress on two types of El Niño: Observations, dynamics, and future changes

    Sang Wook Yeh;Jong Seong Kug;Soon Il An

  • Dynamics and characteristics of dry and moist heatwaves over East Asia

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  • Natural variability of the central Pacific El Niño event on multi-centennial timescales

    Sang Wook Yeh;Ben P. Kirtman;Jong Seong Kug;Wonsun Park

  • Widespread irreversible changes in surface temperature and precipitation in response to CO2 forcing

    Unknown

  • Recent warming in the Yellow/East China Sea during winter and the associated atmospheric circulation

    Sang-Wook Yeh;Cheol-Ho Kim

  • Hysteresis of the intertropical convergence zone to CO2 forcing

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  • On the Relationship between the North Pacific Climate Variability and the Central Pacific El Niño

    Sang-Wook Yeh;Xin Wang;Chunzai Wang;Boris Dewitte

  • Observational evidences of Walker circulation change over the last 30 years contrasting with GCM results

    B. J. Sohn;Sang Wook Yeh;Johannes Schmetz;Hwan Jin Song

  • The role of mean state on changes in El Niño's flavor

    Jung Choi;Soon Il An;Jong Seong Kug;Sang Wook Yeh

  • The North Pacific Climate Transitions of the Winters of 1976/77 and 1988/89

    Sang Wook Yeh;Yune Jung Kang;Yign Noh;Arthur J. Miller

  • Influence of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation on the Relationship between El Niño and the Northeast Asian Summer Monsoon

    Jinhee Yoon;Sang-Wook Yeh

  • Decadal amplitude modulation of two types of ENSO and its relationship with the mean state

    Jung Choi;Soon Il An;Sang Wook Yeh

  • Erratum: El Niño in a changing climate

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Jong-Seong Kug
Jong-Seong Kug Seoul National University
Ben P. Kirtman
Ben P. Kirtman University of Miami
Soon-Il An
Soon-Il An Yonsei University
Boris Dewitte
Boris Dewitte Center for Advanced Studies in Arid Zones (CEAZA)
Rokjin J. Park
Rokjin J. Park Seoul National University
Wenju Cai
Wenju Cai Ocean University of China
Seung-Ki Min
Seung-Ki Min Pohang University of Science and Technology
Yoo-Geun Ham
Yoo-Geun Ham Seoul National University
Fei-Fei Jin
Fei-Fei Jin University of Hawaii at Manoa
In-Sik Kang
In-Sik Kang Second Institute of Oceanography

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