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Overview

Yoo-Geun Ham is affiliated with Chonnam National University in South Korea. The scientist's research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial emphasis on Environmental Science. Their work engages deeply with subfields like Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Environmental Engineering, and Environmental Chemistry.

The main topics covered by Yoo-Geun Ham's research include Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Marine and coastal ecosystems, and Cryospheric studies and observations.

Frequent publication venues for their work are npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, Geophysical Research Letters, Nature Communications, Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems, and the Journal of Climate.

Some of the recent papers associated with or closely related to Yoo-Geun Ham's research interests are:

  • Climate impacts of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation on South America, 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Changing El Niño-Southern Oscillation in a warming climate, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • MJO Propagation Across the Maritime Continent: Are CMIP6 Models Better Than CMIP5 Models?, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Hysteresis of the intertropical convergence zone to CO2 forcing, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Deep learning for bias correction of MJO prediction, 2021, Nature Communications

Yoo-Geun Ham has collaborated frequently with researchers such as Jeong-Hwan Kim, Hyun-Su Jo, Jong-Seong Kug, Daehyun Kim, and Tim Li. These coauthors have contributed to multiple publications alongside Ham, indicating ongoing collaborative research efforts.

Best Publications

  • Deep learning for multi-year ENSO forecasts

    Yoo-Geun Ham;Jeong-Hwan Kim;Jing-Jia Luo;Jing-Jia Luo

  • El Niño–Southern Oscillation complexity

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

  • Pantropical Climate Interactions

    Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Lixin Wu;Matthieu Lengaigne;Matthieu Lengaigne;Tim Li

  • Climate impacts of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation on South America

    Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Michael J. McPhaden;Alice M. Grimm;Regina R. Rodrigues

  • Changing El Niño–Southern Oscillation in a warming climate

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

  • Sea surface temperature in the north tropical Atlantic as a trigger for El Niño/Southern Oscillation events

    Yoo-Geun Ham;Yoo-Geun Ham;Jong-Seong Kug;Jong-Yeon Park;Fei-Fei Jin

  • How well do current climate models simulate two types of El Nino

    Yoo-Geun Ham;Yoo-Geun Ham;Jong-Seong Kug

  • Two distinct roles of Atlantic SSTs in ENSO variability: North Tropical Atlantic SST and Atlantic Niño

    Yoo-Geun Ham;Yoo-Geun Ham;Jong-Seong Kug;Jong-Yeon Park

  • Are there two types of La Nina

    Jong-Seong Kug;Yoo-Geun Ham;Yoo-Geun Ham

  • MJO Propagation Across the Maritime Continent: Are CMIP6 Models Better Than CMIP5 Models?

    Min-Seop Ahn;Min-Seop Ahn;Daehyun Kim;Daehyun Kang;Jiwoo Lee

  • Hysteresis of the intertropical convergence zone to CO2 forcing

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  • El Niño–La Niña Asymmetry in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Simulations*

    Soon Il An;Yoo Geun Ham;Jong Seong Kug;Fei Fei Jin

  • Changes in El Niño and La Niña teleconnections over North Pacific-America in the global warming simulations

    Jong Seong Kug;Soon Il An;Yoo Geun Ham;In Sik Kang

  • Improved simulation of two types of El Niño in CMIP5 models

    Jong-Seong Kug;Yoo-Geun Ham;Yoo-Geun Ham;June-Yi Lee;Fei-Fei Jin

  • Changes in the Tropical Pacific SST Trend from CMIP3 to CMIP5 and Its Implication of ENSO

    Sang-Wook Yeh;Yoo-Geun Ham;June-Yi Lee

  • Successive Modulation of ENSO to the Future Greenhouse Warming

    Soon Il An;Jong Seong Kug;Yoo Geun Ham;In Sik Kang

  • On the Role of SST Forcing in the 2011 and 2012 Extreme U.S. Heat and Drought: A Study in Contrasts

    Hailan Wang;Siegfried Schubert;Randal Koster;Yoo-Geun Ham

  • Assessment of the APCC coupled MME suite in predicting the distinctive climate impacts of two flavors of ENSO during boreal winter

    Hye-In Jeong;Hye-In Jeong;Doo Young Lee;Doo Young Lee;Karumuri Ashok;Joong-Bae Ahn

  • The weakening of the ENSO–Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) coupling strength in recent decades

    Yoo-Geun Ham;Jun-Young Choi;Jong-Seong Kug

  • Deep learning for bias correction of MJO prediction

    H. Kim;Y. G. Ham;Y. S. Joo;S. W. Son

  • The Record-Breaking Heat Wave in 2016 over South Korea and Its Physical Mechanism

    Sang-Wook Yeh;You-Jin Won;You-Jin Won;Jin-Sil Hong;Kang-Jin Lee

  • Improvement of ENSO Simulation Based on Intermodel Diversity

    Yoo-Geun Ham;Jong-Seong Kug

  • Corrigendum: Improved simulation of two types of El Niño in CMIP5 models

    Jong-Seong Kug;Yoo-Geun Ham;Yoo-Geun Ham;June-Yi Lee;Fei-Fei Jin

Frequent Co-Authors

Jong-Seong Kug
Jong-Seong Kug Seoul National University
In-Sik Kang
In-Sik Kang Second Institute of Oceanography
Wenju Cai
Wenju Cai Ocean University of China
Fei-Fei Jin
Fei-Fei Jin University of Hawaii at Manoa
Sang-Wook Yeh
Sang-Wook Yeh Hanyang University
Soon-Il An
Soon-Il An Yonsei University
June-Yi Lee
June-Yi Lee Pusan National University
Siegfried D. Schubert
Siegfried D. Schubert Goddard Space Flight Center
Matthieu Lengaigne
Matthieu Lengaigne University of Montpellier
Axel Timmermann
Axel Timmermann Pusan National University

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