김후명 Who Myung Kim

Visiting Research Fellow

Email: whokim@pusan.ac.kr

Phone: +82 51-510-7863

Research Interests

  • Ocean and climate dynamics, variability, and predictability
  • Ocean and climate modeling
  • AMOC/Atlantic multidecadal variability

Education

2013 Ph.D. Oceanography, Texas A&M University, USA
2007 M.S. Oceanography, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
2002 B.S. Oceanography, Inha University

Work Experience

2018 Present Project Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA
2015 2018 Associate Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA
2013 2015 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, USA
2007 2013 Graduate Research Assistant, Texas A&M University, USA

Fellowships, Awards, and Honors

2025 Brain Pool Research Fellowship (National Research Foundation of Korea)
2001 Honor Student (Inha University)

Publications

Peer-reviewed

  1. Verma, T. W. Weijer, T. Haine, M. Vaneziani, W. M. Kim, and J. Zhang, 2025: Role of ocean circulation changes in the recent increases of Arctic liquid freshwater content. J. Climate, 38, 4677-4697, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-24- 0368.1.
  2. Deser, C. W. M. Kim, R. C. J. Wills, I. R. Simpson, S. Yeager, G. Danabasoglu, K. Rodgers, and N. Rosenbloom, 2025: Effects of macro vs. micro initialization and ocean initial-condition memory on the evolution of ensemble spread in the CESM2 large ensemble. clim. Dynam., 63, 62, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-024-07553-z.
  3. Mogen, S. C., N. S. Lovenduski, S. G. Yeager, A. Capotondi, M. G. Jacox, S. Bograd, E. Di Lorenzo, E. L. Hazen, M. P. Buil, W. Kim, and N. Rosenbloom, 2024: Multi-month forecasts of marine heatwaves and ocean acidification extremes. Nat. Geosci., 17, 1261-1267, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01593-0.
  4. Little, C., S. Yeager, R. Ponte, P. Chang, and W. M. Kim, 2024: Influence of ocean model horizontal resolution on the representation of global annual-to-multidecadal coastal sea level variability. J. Geophys. Res., 129, e2024JC021679, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JC021679.
  5. Gu, Q., M. Gervais, G. Danabasoglu, W. M. Kim, F. Castruccio, E. Maroon, and S.-P. Xie, 2024: Wide range of possible trajectories of North Atlantic climate in a warming world. Nat. Commun., 15, 4221, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48401-2.
  6. Small, R. J., J. Kurian, P. Chang, H. Tsujino, S. Yeager, G. Danabasoglu, W. M. Kim, A. Altuntas, and F. Castruccio, 2024: Eastern boundary upwelling in ocean–sea-ice simulations forced by CORE and JRA55-do: Mean state and variability. J. Climate, 37, 2821-2848, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23- 0511.1.
  7. Kim, W. M., Y. Ruprich-Robert, A. Zhao, S. Yeager, and J. Robson, 2024: North Atlantic response to observed North Atlantic Oscillation surface heat flux in three climate models. J. Climate, 37, 1777- 1796, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0301.1.
  8. Oldenburg, D., Y.-O. Kwon, C. Frankignoul, G. Danabasoglu, S. Yeager, and W. M. Kim, 2024: The respective roles of ocean heat transport and surface heat fluxes in driving Arctic Ocean warming and sea-ice decline. J. Climate, 37, 1431-1448, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0399.1.
  9. Gu, Q., M. Gervais, E. Maroon, W. M. Kim, G. Danabasoglu, and F. Castruccio, 2023: Investigating atmospheric responses to and mechanisms governing North Atlantic sea surface temperature over 10- year periods. J. Climate, 36, 8601-8618, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0093.1.
  10. Kim, W. M., S. Yeager, G. Danabasoglu, and P. Chang, 2023: Exceptional multi-year prediction skill of the Kuroshio Extension in the CESM high-resolution decadal prediction system. NPJ Clim. Atmos. Sci., 6, 118, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00444-w.
  11. Yeager, S. G., N. Rosenbloom, A. A. Glanville, X. Wu, I. Simpson, H. Li, M. J. Molina, K. Krumhardt, S. Mogen, K. Lindsay, D. Lombardozzi, W. Wieder, W. M. Kim, and Coauthors, 2022: The Seasonal-to- Multiyear Large Ensemble prediction system using the Community Earth System Model version 2. Geosci. Model Dev., 15, 6451-6493, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-6451-2022.
  12. Richter, J. H, A. A. Glanville, J. Edwards, B. Kauffman, N. A. Davis, A. Jaye, H. Kim, N. M. Pedatella, L. Sun, J. Berner, W. M. Kim, and Coauthors, 2022: Subseasonal earth system prediction with CESM2. Wea. Forecasting, 37, 797-815, https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-21-0163.1.
  13. Rodgers, K. B., S.-S. Lee, N. Rosenbloom, A. Timmermann, G. Danabasoglu, C. Deser, J. Edwards, J.-E. Kim, I. Simpson, K. Stein, M. Stuecker, R. Yamaguchi, T. Bodai, E.-S. Chung, L. Huang, W. M. Kim, and Coauthors, 2022: Ubiquity of human-induced changes in climate variability. Earth Syst. Dyn., 12, 1393-1411, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-12-1393-2021.
  14. Chiang, J. C. H., W. Cheng, W. M. Kim, and S. Kim, 2021: Untangling the relationship between AMOC variability and North Atlantic upper-ocean temperature and salinity. Geophy. Res. Lett., 48, e2021GL093496, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL093496.
  15. Kim, W. M., S. Yeager, and G. Danabasoglu, 2021: Revisiting the causal connection between the Great Salinity Anomaly of the 1970s and the shutdown of Labrador Sea deep convection. J. Climate, 34, 675- 696, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0327.1.
  16. Richter, J. H, K. Pegion, L. Sun, H. Kim, J. M. Caron, A. Glanville, S. Yeager, W. M. Kim, A. Tawfik, and D. Collins, 2020: Subseasonal prediction with and without a well-represented stratosphere in CESM1. Wea. Forecasting, 35, 2589-2602, https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-20-0029.1.
  17. Chassignet, E. P., S. G. Yeager, B. Fox-Kemper, A. Bozec, F. Castruccio, G. Danabasoglu, C. Horvat, W. M. Kim and Coauthors, 2020: Impact of horizontal resolution on global ocean–sea-ice model simulations based on the experimental protocols of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project phase 2 (OMIP-2). Geosci. Model Dev., 13, 4595-4637, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-4595-2020.
  18. Tsujino, H., L. S. Urakawa, S. M. Griffies, G. Danabasoglu, A. J. Adcroft, A. E. Amaral, T. Arsouze, M. Bentsen, R. Bernardello, C. W. Boning, A. Bozec, E. P. Chassignet, S. Danilov, R. Dussin, E. Exarchou, P. G. Fogli, B. Fox-Kemper, C. Guo, M. Ilicak, D. Iovino, W. M. Kim, and Coauthors, 2020: Evaluation of global ocean–sea-ice model simulations based on the experimental protocols of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project phase 2 (OMIP-2). Geosci. Model Dev., 13, 3643-3708, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-3643-2020.
  19. Stewart, K. D., W. M. Kim, S. Urakawa, A. McC. Hogg, S. Yeager, H. Tsujino, H. Nakano, and G. Danabasoglu, 2020: JRA55-based repeat year forcing datasets for driving ocean–sea-ice models. Ocean Model., 147, 101557, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2019.101557.
  20. Kim, W. M., S. Yeager, and G. Danabasoglu, 2020: Atlantic Multidecadal Variability and associated climate impacts initiated by ocean thermohaline dynamics. J. Climate, 33, 1317-1334, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0530.1.
  21. Kim, W. M., S. Yeager, and G. Danabasoglu, 2018: Key role of internal ocean dynamics in Atlantic Multidecadal Variability during the last half century. Geophy. Res. Lett., 45, 13449-13457, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL080474.
  22. Tsujino, H., S. Urakawa, H. Nakano, R. J. Small, W. M. Kim, and Coauthors, 2018: JRA-55 based surface dataset for driving ocean–sea-ice models (JRA55-do). Ocean Model., 130, 79-139, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2018.07.002.
  23. Cheng, W., W. Wilbert, W. M., Kim, G. Danabasoglu, S. G. Yeager, P. R. Gent, D. Zhang, J. C. H. Chiang, and J. Zhang, 2018: Can the salt-advection feedback be detected in internal variability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation? J. Climate, 31, 6649-6667, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI- D-17-0825.1.
  24. Kim, W. M., S. Yeager, P. Chang, and G. Danabasoglu, 2018: Low-frequency North Atlantic climate variability in the Community Earth System Model Large Ensemble. J. Climate, 31, 787-813, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0193.1.
  25. Zhang, R., R. Sutton, G. Danabasoglu, T. Delworth, W. M. Kim, J. Robson, and S. G. Yeager, 2016: Comment on “the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation without a role for ocean circulation.” Science, 352, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf1660.
  26. Kim, W. M., S. Yeager, P. Chang, and G. Danabasoglu, 2016: Atmospheric conditions associated with Labrador Sea deep convection: new insights from a case study of the 2006/07 and 2007/08 winters. J. Climate, 29, 5281–5297, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0527.1.
  27. Danabasoglu, G., S. G. Yeager, W. M. Kim, and Coauthors, 2015: North Atlantic simulations in Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments phase II (CORE-II). Part II: Inter-annual to decadal variability. Ocean Model., 97, 65-90, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2015.11.007.
  28. Xu, Z., P. Chang, I. Richter, and W. Kim, G. Tang, 2014: Diagnosing southeast tropical Atlantic SST and ocean circulation biases in the CMIP5 ensemble. Clim. Dynam., 43, 3123-3145, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-014-2247-9.

Other publications

  1. Chassignet, E. P., S. G. Yeager, B. Fox-Kemper, A. Bozec, F. Castruccio, G. Danabasoglu, C. Horvat, W. M. Kim and Coauthors, 2020: Impact of horizontal resolution on the energetics of global–sea-ice model simulations. Variations, 18, 23-30, https://doi.org/10.5065/g8w0-fy32.
  2. Yeager, S., W. M. Kim, and J. Robson, 2016: What causes the Atlantic cold blob of 2015? Variations, 14, 24-31, https://doi.org/10.5065/D6M32T7C.
  3. Kim, W. M., 2013: Understanding the long-term change of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) during the late twentieth century. Ph.D. dissertation, Texas A&M University, 116 pp.