2026 Soon-Il An: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	57	3376	3226	24	23	240	16012

Soon-Il An 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 Soon-Il An sits on this spectrum.

41 publications 687+

This scientist: 240 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Soon-Il An 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 Soon-Il An sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

1690
Citations
The impact of global warming on the tropical Pacific Ocean and El Nino

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

1434
Citations
El Niño–Southern Oscillation complexity

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

1171
Citations
ENSO and greenhouse warming

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

875
Citations
Nonlinearity and Asymmetry of ENSO(.

Soon Il An;Fei Fei Jin

568
Citations
Interdecadal Change of the Structure of the ENSO Mode and Its Impact on the ENSO Frequency

Soon Il An;Bin Wang

560
Citations
ENSO Atmospheric Teleconnections and Their Response to Greenhouse Gas Forcing

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

508
Citations
The influence of a weakening of the atlantic meridional overturning circulation on ENSO

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

383
Citations
Strong El Niño events and nonlinear dynamical heating

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

336
Citations
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

257
Citations
Thermocline and Zonal Advective Feedbacks Within the Equatorial Ocean Recharge Oscillator Model for ENSO

Fei Fei Jin;Soon Il An

257
Citations
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

236
Citations
Decadal change in relationship between east Asian and WNP summer monsoons

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

211
Citations
A mechanism for decadal changes of ENSO behavior: roles of background wind changes

B. Wang;S. I. An

204
Citations
Why the properties of El Niño changed during the late 1970s

Bin Wang;Soon-Il An

200
Citations
Response of El Niño sea surface temperature variability to greenhouse warming

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

198
Citations
ENSO suppression due to weakening of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation

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

198
Citations
Interannual Variations of the Tropical Ocean Instability Wave and ENSO

Soon Il An

187
Citations
Collective Role of Thermocline and Zonal Advective Feedbacks in the ENSO Mode

Soon Il An;Fei Fei Jin

185
Citations
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

175
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jong-Seong Kug Seoul National University

Fei-Fei Jin University of Hawaii at Manoa

In-Sik Kang Second Institute of Oceanography

Sang-Wook Yeh Hanyang University

Axel Timmermann Pusan National University

Wenju Cai Ocean University of China

Bin Wang University of Hawaii at Manoa

Eric Guilyardi Université Paris Cité

Boris Dewitte Center for Advanced Studies in Arid Zones (CEAZA)

June-Yi Lee Pusan National University

External Links

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