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Overview

Young-Oh Kwon is affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States and has contributed significantly to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their scholarly work spans several interrelated disciplines, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Oceanography, with particular emphasis on Environmental Chemistry and Geology.

Their research topics concentrate on several key areas:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

Kwon has frequently published in a variety of scientific journals, notably:

  • Journal of Climate
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Progress In Oceanography
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Their recent publications include:

  • Decadal predictability of North Atlantic blocking and the NAO (2020) published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Seasonal-to-interannual prediction of North American coastal marine ecosystems: Forecast methods, mechanisms of predictability, and priority developments (2020) in Progress In Oceanography
  • Long-Term SST Variability on the Northwest Atlantic Continental Shelf and Slope (2020) in Geophysical Research Letters
  • An evaluation of eight global ocean reanalyses for the Northeast U.S. Continental shelf (2023) in Progress In Oceanography
  • Seasonal Prediction of Bottom Temperature on the Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf (2021) in Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Young-Oh Kwon collaborates frequently with a group of coauthors, including:

  • Claude Frankignoul
  • Yu-Chiao Liang
  • Guillaume Gastineau
  • Ho Jin Lee
  • Wonsun Park

Best Publications

  • A Review of the Role of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in Atlantic Multidecadal Variability and Associated Climate Impacts

    Rong Zhang;Rowan Sutton;Gokhan Danabasoglu;Young Oh Kwon

  • Role of the Gulf Stream and Kuroshio–Oyashio Systems in Large-Scale Atmosphere–Ocean Interaction: A Review

    Young-Oh Kwon;Michael A. Alexander;Nicholas A. Bond;Claude Frankignoul

  • ENSO and Pacific Decadal Variability in the Community Climate System Model Version 4

    Clara Deser;Adam S. Phillips;Robert A. Tomas;Yuko M. Okumura

  • Western Boundary Currents and Frontal Air–Sea Interaction: Gulf Stream and Kuroshio Extension

    Kathryn A. Kelly;R. Justin Small;R. M. Samelson;Bo Qiu

  • Influence of the meridional shifts of the Kuroshio and the Oyashio Extensions on the atmospheric circulation

    Claude Frankignoul;Nathalie Sennéchael;Young-Oh Kwon;Michael A. Alexander

  • Variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in CCSM4

    Gokhan Danabasoglu;Stephen G. Yeager;Young-Oh Kwon;Joseph J. Tribbia

  • North Pacific decadal variability in the Community Climate System Model version 2

    Young-Oh Kwon;Clara Deser

  • On the Relationship between Synoptic Wintertime Atmospheric Variability and Path Shifts in the Gulf Stream and the Kuroshio Extension

    Terrence M. Joyce;Young-Oh Kwon;Lisan Yu

  • Investigating the Local Atmospheric Response to a Realistic Shift in the Oyashio Sea Surface Temperature Front

    Dimitry Smirnov;Matthew Newman;Michael A. Alexander;Young-Oh Kwon

  • The role of atmospheric forcing versus ocean advection during the extreme warming of the Northeast U.S. continental shelf in 2012

    Ke Chen;Glen G. Gawarkiewicz;Young-Oh Kwon;Weifeng G. Zhang

  • Decadal predictability of North Atlantic blocking and the NAO

    Panos J. Athanasiadis;Stephen Yeager;Young-Oh Kwon;Alessio Bellucci

  • Ocean viscosity and climate

    M. Jochum;G. Danabasoglu;M. Holland;Y.-O. Kwon

  • Estimation of the SST Response to Anthropogenic and External Forcing and Its Impact on the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation

    Claude Frankignoul;Guillaume Gastineau;Young-Oh Kwon

  • North Atlantic Subtropical Mode Water: A history of ocean-atmosphere interaction 1961–2000

    Young-Oh Kwon;Young-Oh Kwon;Stephen C. Riser

  • Silver hake tracks changes in Northwest Atlantic circulation

    Janet A. Nye;Janet A. Nye;Terrence M. Joyce;Young-Oh Kwon;Jason S. Link

  • Seasonal-to-interannual prediction of North American coastal marine ecosystems: Forecast methods, mechanisms of predictability, and priority developments

    Michael G. Jacox;Michael G. Jacox;Michael A. Alexander;Samantha Siedlecki;Ke Chen

  • Surface and bottom temperature and salinity climatology along the continental shelf off the Canadian and U.S. East Coasts

    Benjamin Richaud;Benjamin Richaud;Young-Oh Kwon;Terrence M. Joyce;Paula S. Fratantoni

  • Daily to Decadal Modulation of Jet Variability

    Tim Woollings;Elizabeth Barnes;Brian Hoskins;Brian Hoskins;Young Oh Kwon

  • Long-Term SST Variability on the Northwest Atlantic Continental Shelf and Slope

    Zhuomin Chen;Young‐Oh Kwon;Ke Chen;Paula Fratantoni

  • Stochastically-driven multidecadal variability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in CCSM3

    Young-Oh Kwon;Claude Frankignoul

  • Extratropical Atmosphere–Ocean Variability in CCSM3

    Michael Alexander;Jeffrey Yin;Grant Branstator;Antonietta Capotondi

Frequent Co-Authors

Terrence M. Joyce
Terrence M. Joyce Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Caroline C. Ummenhofer
Caroline C. Ummenhofer Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Claude Frankignoul
Claude Frankignoul Sorbonne University
Gokhan Danabasoglu
Gokhan Danabasoglu National Center for Atmospheric Research
Stephen G. Yeager
Stephen G. Yeager National Center for Atmospheric Research
Michael A. Alexander
Michael A. Alexander National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Antonietta Capotondi
Antonietta Capotondi National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Rong Zhang
Rong Zhang National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
M. Susan Lozier
M. Susan Lozier Georgia Institute of Technology
Clara Deser
Clara Deser National Center for Atmospheric Research

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