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Environmental Sciences
Korea
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
59
Citations
29944
World Ranking
3005
National Ranking
1175

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Song-You Hong is affiliated with Yonsei University in South Korea and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research predominantly focuses on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change, with additional work in Environmental Engineering, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Water Science and Technology.

The main topics covered by their work include climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, precipitation measurement and analysis, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, cryospheric studies and observations, and atmospheric aerosols and clouds.

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations are Myung-Seo Koo, Xubin Zeng, Jing Yang, J. David Neelin, and Shaocheng Xie.

Song-You Hong has published several papers in notable journals and venues. Examples of recent papers include:

  • Impact of Initialized Land Surface Temperature and Snowpack on Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction Project, Phase I (LS4P-I): organization and experimental design, 2021, Geoscientific Model Development
  • Spring Land Temperature in Tibetan Plateau and Global-Scale Summer Precipitation: Initialization and Improved Prediction, 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Evaluation and Projection of Regional Climate over East Asia in CORDEX-East Asia Phase I Experiment, 2020, Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences
  • Advancing Weather and Climate Forecasting for Our Changing World, 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Long-term single-column model intercomparison of diurnal cycle of precipitation over midlatitude and tropical land, 2021, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

The preferred publication venues for their work include Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, Weather and Forecasting, Climate Dynamics, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Best Publications

  • A New Vertical Diffusion Package with an Explicit Treatment of Entrainment Processes

    Song You Hong;Yign Noh;Jimy Dudhia

  • The WRF Single-Moment 6-Class Microphysics Scheme (WSM6)

    Song You Hong;Jeong-Ock Jade Lim

  • A Revised Approach to Ice Microphysical Processes for the Bulk Parameterization of Clouds and Precipitation

    Song You Hong;Jimy Dudhia;Shu Hua Chen

  • Nonlocal Boundary Layer Vertical Diffusion in a Medium-Range Forecast Model

    Song You Hong;Hua Lu Pan

  • Development of an Effective Double-Moment Cloud Microphysics Scheme with Prognostic Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) for Weather and Climate Models

    Kyo-Sun Sunny Lim;Song-You Hong

  • Improvement of the K-profile Model for the Planetary Boundary Layer based on Large Eddy Simulation Data

    Y. Noh;W. G. Cheon;S. Y. Hong;S. Raasch

  • Intercomparison of Planetary Boundary-Layer Parametrizations in the WRF Model for a Single Day from CASES-99

    Hyeyum Hailey Shin;Song-You Hong

  • A new stable boundary‐layer mixing scheme and its impact on the simulated East Asian summer monsoon

    Song-You Hong

  • The NCEP Regional Spectral Model: An Update

    Hann-Ming Henry Juang;Song-You Hong;Masao Kanamitsu

  • Representation of the Subgrid-Scale Turbulent Transport in Convective Boundary Layers at Gray-Zone Resolutions

    Hyeyum Hailey Shin;Song-You Hong

  • NCEP dynamical seasonal forecast system 2000

    Masao Kanamitsu;Arun Kumar;Hann-Ming Henry Juang;Jae-Kyung Schemm

  • Convective Trigger Function for a Mass-Flux Cumulus Parameterization Scheme

    Song-You Hong;Hua-Lu Pan

  • Project to Intercompare Regional Climate Simulations (PIRCS): Description and initial results

    Eugene S. Takle;William J. Gutowski;Raymond W. Arritt;Zaitao Pan

  • Implementation of Prognostic Cloud Scheme for a Regional Spectral Model

    Song-You Hong;Hann-Ming Henry Juang;Qingyun Zhao

  • Assessment of future climate change over East Asia due to the RCP scenarios downscaled by GRIMs-RMP

    Ji-Woo Lee;Song-You Hong;Eun-Chul Chang;Myoung-Seok Suh

  • Changes to the 1995 NCEP Operational Medium-Range Forecast Model Analysis-Forecast System

    Peter Caplan;John Derber;William Gemmill;Song-You Hong

  • The Global/Regional Integrated Model system (GRIMs)

    Song-You Hong;Hoon Park;Hoon Park;Hyeong-Bin Cheong;Jung-Eun Esther Kim

  • Evaluation of the WRF Double-Moment 6-Class Microphysics Scheme for Precipitating Convection

    Song-You Hong;Kyo-Sun Sunny Lim;Yong-Hee Lee;Jong-Chul Ha

  • Dynamical downscaling: Fundamental issues from an NWP point of view and recommendations

    Song-You Hong;Masao Kanamitsu

  • Role of sea surface temperature and soil-moisture feedback in the 1998 Oklahoma–Texas drought

    Song-You Hong;Eugenia Kalnay

  • Assessment of the WRF model in reproducing a flash-flood heavy rainfall event over Korea

    Song-You Hong;Ji-Woo Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Dong-Kyou Lee
Dong-Kyou Lee Seoul National University
Jimy Dudhia
Jimy Dudhia National Center for Atmospheric Research
Seung-Ki Min
Seung-Ki Min Pohang University of Science and Technology
Masao Kanamitsu
Masao Kanamitsu University of California, San Diego
John L. McGregor
John L. McGregor Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Jack Katzfey
Jack Katzfey Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
William J. Gutowski
William J. Gutowski Iowa State University
Kei Yoshimura
Kei Yoshimura University of Tokyo
Xuejie Gao
Xuejie Gao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jhoon Kim
Jhoon Kim Yonsei University

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