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Overview

Soon-Il An is affiliated with Yonsei University in South Korea and has a significant publication record primarily within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research contributes importantly to understanding climate variability, meteorological phenomena, and oceanographic processes.

The scientist's research focuses on a wide range of topics, including:

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

Soon-Il An's main subfields of study extend across global and planetary change, atmospheric science, oceanography, environmental chemistry, and water science and technology.

They have published extensively in a number of high-profile scientific venues, including:

  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Nature Communications
  • Earth s Future
  • Journal of Climate
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

The scientist has contributed to several recent papers, notable examples are:

  • Global Cooling Hiatus Driven by an AMOC Overshoot in a Carbon Dioxide Removal Scenario (2021, Earth s Future)
  • ENSO Irregularity and Asymmetry (2020, Geophysical monograph)
  • Comparison of past and future simulations of ENSO in CMIP5/PMIP3 and CMIP6/PMIP4 models (2020, Climate of the past)
  • Hysteresis of the intertropical convergence zone to CO2 forcing (2021, Nature Climate Change)
  • Widespread irreversible changes in surface temperature and precipitation in response to CO2 forcing (2022, Nature Climate Change)

Soon-Il An often collaborates with other researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Jong-Seong Kug
  • Sang-Wook Yeh
  • Jongsoo Shin
  • Seung-Ki Min
  • Soong-Ki Kim

In addition to journal publications, Soon-Il An has contributed to scholarly books, including a publication titled Atmosphere-Ocean Modeling (2020) released by World Scientific.

Best Publications

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

    Jong Seong Kug;Fei Fei Jin;Soon Il An

  • The impact of global warming on the tropical Pacific Ocean and El Nino

    Mat Collins;Mat Collins;Soon Il An;Wenju Cai;Alexandre Ganachaud

  • 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

  • Nonlinearity and Asymmetry of ENSO(.

    Soon Il An;Fei Fei Jin

  • Interdecadal Change of the Structure of the ENSO Mode and Its Impact on the ENSO Frequency

    Soon Il An;Bin Wang

  • ENSO Atmospheric Teleconnections and Their Response to Greenhouse Gas Forcing

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

  • The influence of a weakening of the atlantic meridional overturning circulation on ENSO

    Axel Timmermann;Y. Okumura;Soon-Il An;Amy Clement

  • Strong El Niño events and nonlinear dynamical heating

    Fei Fei Jin;Soon Il An;Axel Timmermann;Jingxia Zhao

  • 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

  • Thermocline and Zonal Advective Feedbacks Within the Equatorial Ocean Recharge Oscillator Model for ENSO

    Fei Fei Jin;Soon Il An

  • Linking Emergence of the Central Pacific El Niño to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation

    Jin Yi Yu;Pei Ken Kao;Pei Ken Kao;Houk Paek;Huang Hsiung Hsu

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

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

  • A mechanism for decadal changes of ENSO behavior: roles of background wind changes

    B. Wang;S. I. An

  • Why the properties of El Niño changed during the late 1970s

    Bin Wang;Soon-Il An

  • Response of El Niño sea surface temperature variability to greenhouse warming

    Seon Tae Kim;Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Fei Fei Jin;Agus Santoso

  • ENSO suppression due to weakening of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation

    A. Timmermann;S.-I. An;U. Krebs;Hugues Goosse

  • Interannual Variations of the Tropical Ocean Instability Wave and ENSO

    Soon Il An

  • Collective Role of Thermocline and Zonal Advective Feedbacks in the ENSO Mode

    Soon Il An;Fei Fei Jin

  • The Effect of Orbital Forcing on the Mean Climate and Variability of the Tropical Pacific

    Axel Timmermann;S. J. Lorenz;S. I. An;A. Clement

Frequent Co-Authors

Jong-Seong Kug
Jong-Seong Kug Seoul National University
Fei-Fei Jin
Fei-Fei Jin University of Hawaii at Manoa
In-Sik Kang
In-Sik Kang Second Institute of Oceanography
Sang-Wook Yeh
Sang-Wook Yeh Hanyang University
Axel Timmermann
Axel Timmermann Pusan National University
Wenju Cai
Wenju Cai Ocean University of China
Bin Wang
Bin Wang University of Hawaii at Manoa
Eric Guilyardi
Eric Guilyardi Université Paris Cité
Boris Dewitte
Boris Dewitte Center for Advanced Studies in Arid Zones (CEAZA)
June-Yi Lee
June-Yi Lee Pusan National University

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