Publications

Prenatal and postnatal exposure to traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) and childhood cancer: Systematic review and meta-analysis, Jongmin Oh, Surabhi Shah, Jieun Min, Sohee Wang, Ji Hyen Lee, Yi Jun Kim, Byungmi Kim, Logan G. Spector, Philip J. Landrigan, Eun Sun Yoo, Eunhee Ha, Environmental research, vol. 292, Article 123646, doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2025.123646, 2026

Systemic risk: Opportunities for inter- and transdisciplinary science to improve societal resilience, Jana Sillmann, Alessio Ciullo, Christian L.E. Franzke, Jürgen Scheffeln, iScience, vol. 29, 1, article 114369, doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.114369 (2026)

Forced response and internal variability changes in the hydrological cycle and general circulation in a hot world beyond 2100 in the Community Earth System Model, Christian L.E. Franzke, Sun-Seon Lee, Yu Huang, Susmit S. Satpathy, Environmental Research Letters, vol. 21, 1, article 014026, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ae2f73 (2026)

Precipitation bursts in northern Australia with and without preceding heatwaves, Sarthak Mohanty, Nikhil Grag, Nandini Ramesh, Mahesh Prakash, Weather and Climate Extremes, vol. 51, article 100845, doi: 10.1016/j.wace.2025.100845 (2026)

Atmospheric Stabilization Weakened Proto-Low-Level Jet Over the Indian Ocean During the Eocene Hothouse, Pratik Kad, Sebastian Steinig, Agatha de Boer, Wing-Le Chan, David Hutchinson, Kyung-Ja Ha, Kaustubh Thirumalai, Daniel J. Lunt, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, vol. 41, 1, e2025PA005244, doi:10.1029/2025PA005244 (2025)

Exploring the nexus of climate change and vector-borne disease transmission, Sundeep Kumar Baraik, Ruchi Singh Parihar, Sarah Sparrow, Popat Salunke, IScience, vol. 28, 11, Article 113835, doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.113835 (2025)

Irreversible phytoplankton community shifts over Subpolar North Atlantic in response to CO2 forcing, Dong-Geon Lee, Eun Young Kwon, Jonghun Kim, Jong-Seong Kug, Earth System Dynamics, vol. 16, 6, pp. 2101-2111, doi: 10.5194/esd-16-2101-2025 (2025)

The role of sea ice in present and future Arctic amplification, Eui-Seok Chung, Seong-Joong Kim, Kyung-Ja Ha, Malte F. Stuecker, Sun-Seon Lee, Joo-Hong Kim, Sang-Yoon Jun, Tamás Bódai, Communications Earth and Environment, vol. 6, 1, article 910, doi: 10.1038/s43247-025-02834-9 (2025)

Waiting Time and Clustering of Indian Summer Monsoon Daily Precipitation Extremes, Suneet Dwivedi, B. N. Goswami, Christian L.E. Franzke, International Journal of Climatology, vol. 45, 13, article e70067, doi: 10.1002/joc.70067 (2025)

A Brief Note on Supercooled Glacial Deep Waters, Miho Ishizu, Axel Timmermann, Kyungsook Yun, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, vol. 40, 12, doi: 10.1029/2024PA005091 (2025)

Seasonal ITCZ control on ENSO Responses to Extratropical Volcanic Forcing, Shih-Wei Fang, Francesco S. R. Pasata, Roberta D’Agostino, Myriam Khodri, Davide Zanchettin, Claudia Timmreck, Journal of Climate, vol. 38, 21, pp. 6061-6079, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-24-0554.1 (2025)

The origin of the modern-like East Asian Monsoon: insights from new proxy data synthesis and climate modelling, Zhilin He, Zhongshi Zhang, Zhengtang Guo, Ning Tan, Zijian Zhang, Chunxia Zhang, Haibin Wu, Chenglong Deng, Earth-Science Reveiws, vol. 271, Article 105297, doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2025.105297 (2025)

Linear-inverse-modeling approach to estimating Liang-Kleeman information flow in a cyclostationary process under memoryless and persistent noise, Justin Lien, Hiroyasu Ando, Yong-Yub Kim, Tomoki Tozuka. Physical Review E, vol. 112, article 054101. doi: https://doi.org/10.1103/5cd4-5cb4, 2025

Future mesoscale horizontal stirring in polar oceans intensified by sea ice decline, Gyuseok Yi, June-Yi Lee, Eun Young Kwon, Sun-Seon Lee, Myong-Hyeon Kim, Wonsun Park, Karl Stein, Axel Timmermann, Nature Climate Change, vol.15, pp. 1315-1323, doi: 10.1038/s41558-025-02471-2

A new late Neanderthal from Crimea reveals long-distance connections across Eurasia, Emily M. Pigott, Konstantina Cheshmedzhieva, Elke Zeller, Laura G. van der Sluis, Manasij Pal Chowdhury, Maddalena Gianni, Emese Végh, Thorsten Uthmeier, Victor Chabai, Marylène Patou-Mathis, Petra G. Šimková, Jana N. Voglmayr, Gerhard W. Weber, Ron Pinhasi, Axel Timmermann, Martin Kuhlwilm, Katerina Douka, and Thomas Higham, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 122, 45, e2518974122, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2518974122, 2025

Robust Estimates of Earth System Predictability of the First Kind Using the CESM2 Multiyear Prediction System (CESM2-MP), Yong-Yub Kim, June-Yi Lee, Yoshimitsu Chikamoto, Axel Timmermann, Sun-Seon Lee, Eun Young Kwon, Wonsun Park, Nahid A. Hasan, Ingo Bethke, Filippa Fransner, Alexia Karwat, Abhinav R. Subrahmanian, Christian L.E. Franzke, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, vol. 106, 10, pp. E2087-E2109, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0329.1, 2025

Projection of temperature-related severe injuries under climate change: a nationwide study of South Korea, Jieun Oh, Whanhee Lee, Jiwoo Park, Cinoo Kang, Yewon Seo, Ho Kim, Seungsik Hwang, BMC Public Health, vol. 25, 1, article 3516, doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-24844-0, 2025

Southern Ocean influence on Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation across climate states, Zhaoyang Song, Mojib Latif, Wonsun Park, Yuming Zhang, Nature Communications, vol. 16, 1, article 9230, doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-64268-3, 2025

Assessing AMOC stability using a Bayesian nested time-dependent autoregressive model, Luc Hallali, Eirik Myrvoll-Nilsen, and Christian L.E. Franzke, Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, vol. 32, 4, pp. 383-395, doi: 10.5194/npg-32-383-2025, 2025

Application of quality-controlled sea level height observation at the central East China Sea: Assessment of sea level rise, Taek-Bum Jeong, Yong Sun Kim, Hyeonsoo Cha, Kwang-Young Jeong, Jin-Yong Jeong, Jae-Ho Lee, Ocean Science, vol. 21, 5, pp. 2085 – 2099, doi: 10.5194/os-21-2085-2025, 2025

Global climate mode resonance due to rapidly intensifying El Niño-Southern Oscillation, Malte F. Stuecker, Sen Zhao, Axel Timmermann, Rohit Ghosh, Tido Semmler, Sun-Seon Lee, Ja-Yeon Moon, Fei-Fei Jin, and Thomas Jung, Nature Communications, vol. 16, article 9013, doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-64619-0 (2025)

Uneven impacts of divergent El Niño and Indian Ocean Dipole on Equatorial Asian fires, Hyeonho Lee, Kyung-Ja Ha, Environmental Research Letters, vol. 20, 10, article 104002, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/adf869 (2025)

The First Emergence of Unprecedented Global Water Scarcity in the Anthropocene, Vecchia P. Ravinandrasana and Christian L.E. Franzke, Nature Communications, vol. 16, 1, article 8281, doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-63784-6 (2025)

Recent asymmetric tropic ocean warming has altered regional propagation of Madden-Julian Oscilaltion, Hye-Ryeom Kim, Kyung-Ja Ha, Mathew Koll Roxy, Eui-Seok Chung, Bin Wang, Sun-Seon Lee, Ja-Yeon Moon, Communications Earth and Environment, vol. 6, article 663, doi: 10.1038/s43247-025-02652-z (2025)

Multi-centennial climate change in a warming world beyond 2100, Sun-Seon Lee, Sahil Sharma, Nan Rosenbloom, Keith B. Rodgers, Ji-Eun Kim, Eun Youn Kwon, Christian L.E. Franzke, In-Won Kim, Mohanan Geethalekshmi Sreeush, Karl Stein, Earth System Dynamics, vol. 16, 5, pp. 1427-1451, doi: 10.5194/esd-16-1427-2025 (2025)

Impact of horizontal resolution and model time step on European precipitation extremes in the OpenIFS 43r3 atmospheric model, Yingzue Liu, Joakim Kjellsson, Abhishek Savita, Wonsun Park, Geoscientific Model Development, vol. 18, 17, pp. 5435-5449, doi: 10.5194/gmd-18-5435-2025 (2025)

Potential predictability of the tropical pacific and Indian Ocean sea surface temperature in CMIP6 DCPP models, Jasti S. Chowdary, Gopinadh Konda, Amol Vibhute, Anante Parekh, C. Gnanaseelan, Climate Dynamics, vol. 63, Article 324, doi: 10.1007/s00382-025-07822-5 (2025)

Modulation of 10-30 day Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation and Associated Rainfall Events by El Niño, Doo Young Lee, June-Yi Lee, Young-Min Yang, Pang-Chi Hsu, A-Young Lim, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, vol. 42, pp. 1798-1812, doi: 10.1007/s00376-025-4170-x (2025)

Improved summer monsoon rainfall extreme indices over India from CMIP6 simulations and projections, Naha L. Hikare, Gopinadh Konda, Jasti S. Chowdary, C. Gnanaseelan, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, vol. 156, 7, article 392, doi: 10.1007/s00704-025-05614-9 (2025)

Application and comparison of chronostratigraphic methods for dating eolian deposits, Chaoqin Chen, Zhongshi Zhang, Zhengtang Guo, Long Chen, Ze Zhang, Zijian Zhang, Zhilin He, Science China_Earth Sciences, vol. 68, 7, pp. 2383- 2396, doi: 10.1007/s11430-025-1603-7 (2025)

Earth’s future climate and its variability simulated at 9 km global resolution, Ja-Yeon Moon, Jan Streffing, Sun-Seon Lee, Tido Semmler, Miguel Andrés Martínez, Jiao Chen, Eun-Byeol Cho, Jung-Eun Chu, Christian L.E. Franzke, Jan P. Gärtner, Rohit Ghosh, Jan Hegewald, Songyee Hong, Dae-Won Kim, Nikolay Koldunov, June-Yi Lee, Zihao Lin, Chao Liu, Svetlana Loza, Wonsun Park, Woncheol Roh, Dmitry V. Sein, Sahil Sharma, Dmitry Sidorenko, Jun-Hyeok Son, Malte F. Stuecker, Qiang Wang, Gyuseok Yi, Martina Zapponini, Thomas Jung, Axel Timmermann, Earth System Dynamics, vol. 16, 4, pp. 1103-1134, doi: 10.5194/esd-16-1103-2025 (2025)

Timing of the Recent Migration and Intensification of the Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds, Dieter R. Tetzner, Claire S. Allen, Elizabeth R. Thomas, Eric W. Wolff, Christian L.E. Franzke, Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 52, 13, e2024GL113672, doi: 10.1029/2024GL113672 (2025)

Earth’s Energy Imbalance More Than Doubled in Recent Decades, Thorsten Mauritsen, Yoko Tsushima, Benoit Meyssignac, Norman G. Loeb, Maria Hakuba, Peter Pilewskie, Jason Cole, Kentaroh Suzuki, Thomas P. Ackerman, Richard P. Allan, Timothy Andrews, Frida A.-M. Bender, Jonah Bloch-Johnson, Alejandro Bodas-Salcedo, Anca Brookshaw, Paulo Ceppi, Nicolas Clerbaux, Andrew E. Dessler, Aaron Donohoe, Jean-Louis Dufresne, Veronika Eyring, Kirsten L. Findell, Andrew Gettelman, Jake J. Gristey, Ed Hawkins, Patrick Heimbach, Helene T. Hewitt, Nadir Jeevanjee, Colin Jones, Sarah M. Kang, Seiji Kato, Jennifer E. Kay, Stephen A. Klein, Reto Knutti, Ryan Kramer, June-Yi Lee, Daniel T. McCoy, Brian Medeiros, Linda Megner, Angshuman Modak, Tomoo Ogura, Matthew D. Palmer, David Paynter, Johannes Quaas, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Mark Ringer, Karina von Schuckmann, Steven Sherwood, Bjorn Stevens, Ivy Tan, George Tselioudis, Rowan Sutton, Aiko Voigt, Masahiro Watanabe, Mark J. Webb, Martin Wild, Mark D. Zelinka, AGU Advances, vol. 6, 3, e2024AV001636, doi: 10.1029/2024AV001636 (2025)

Substantial shift in phase and amplitude of Indian rainfall beyond 2100, Sahil Sharma, Kyung-Ja Ha, Keith B. Rodgers, Eui-Seok Chung, Sun-Seon Lee, Arjun Babu Nellikkattil, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, vol. 8, article 236, doi: 10.1038/s41612-025-01126-5 (2025)

Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence, Piers M. Forster, Chris Smith, Tristram Walsh, William F. Lamb, Robin Lamboll, Christophe Cassou, Mathias Hauser, Zeke Hausfather, June-Yi Lee, Matthew D. Palmer, Karina von Schuckmann, Aimée B. A. Slangen, Sophie Szopa, Blair Trewin, Jeongeun Yun, Nathan P. Gillett, Stuart Jenkins, H. Damon Matthews, Krishnan Raghavan, Aurélien Ribes, Joeri Rogelj, Debbie Rosen, Xuebin Zhang, Myles Allen, Lara Aleluia Reis, Robbie M. Andrew, Richard A. Betts, Alex Borger, Jiddu A. Broersma, Samantha N. Burgess, Lijing Cheng, Pierre Friedlingstein, Catia M. Domingues, Marco Gambarini, Thomas Gasser, Johannes Gütschow, Masayoshi Ishii, Christopher Kadow, John Kennedy, Rachel E. Killick, Paul B. Krummel, Aurélien Liné, Didier P. Monselesan, Colin Morice, Jens Mühle, Vaishali Naik, Glen P. Peters, Anna Pirani, Julia Pongratz, Jan C. Minx, Matthew Rigby, Robert Rohde, Abhishek Savita, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Peter Thorne, Christopher Wells, Luke M. Western, Guido R. van der Werf, Susan E. Wijffels, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, and Panmao Zhai, Earth System Science Data, vol. 17, 6, pp. 2641-2680, doi: 10.5194/essd-17-2641-2025 (2025)

Time of Emergence and Future Projections of Extremes of Malaria Infections in Africa, Christian L.E. Franzke, Ruchi Singh Parihar, GeoHealth, vol. 9, 6, e2025GH001356, doi: 10.1029/2025GH001356 (2025)

Decreasing sensitivity of human populations to temperature variability during 50-10 ka in China, Zinan Lin, Dan Zhu, Jiayi Zhou, Yuhan Gao, Zhen Wang, Eric Galbraith, Jiaoyang Ruan, Jiafu Zhang, Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 363, article 109459, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109459 (2025)

Global Fire Emissions Linked to Madden-Julian Oscillation, Young-Min Yang, Doo Young Lee, Jae-Heung Park, June-Yi Lee, Kyung-Sook Yun, Soon-Il An, Tim Li, Bing Wang, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, vol. 42, pp. 1273-1284, doi: 10.1007/s00376-025-4447-0 (2025)

Evidence for preferred propagating terrestrial heatwave pathways due to Rossby wave activity, Mingzhao Wang, Yu Huang, Christian L.E. Franzke, Naiming Yuan, Zuntao Fu, Niklas Boers, Nature Communications, vol. 16, 1, article 4742, doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-60104-w (2025)

Notes on Parameterized Energy Pathways in the Ocean: Insights From Stochastic and Deterministic Kinetic Energy Injection, Ekaterina Bagaeva, Christian L.E. Franzke, Sergey Danilov, Kirthana Vijay, and Stephan Juricke, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES), vol. 17, 5, e2024MS004513, doi: 10.1029/2024MS004513 (2025)

The Tropical Basin Interaction Model Intercomparison Project (TBIMIP), Ingo Richter, Ping Chang, Pin-Gin Chiu, Gokhan Danabasoglu, Takeshi Doi, Dietmar Dommenget, Guillaume Gastineau, Zoe E. Gillett, Aixue Hu, Takahito Kataoka, Noel S. Keenlyside, Fred Kucharski, Yuko M. Okumura, Wonsun Park, Malte F. Stuecker, Andréa S. Taschetto, Chunzai Wang, Stephen G. Yeager, and Sang-Wook Yeh, Geoscientific Model Development, vol. 18, 9, pp. 2587-2608, doi: 10.5194/gmd-18-2587-2025 (2025)

Variability of upper troposphere-lower stratosphere ozone over East Asia from a perspective of atmospheric stationary waves, Jae-Heung Park, Su-Jung Lee, Taegyung Lee, Sang Seo Park, Kyung-Hwan Kwak, Joowan Kim, Uju Shin, Jun-Hyeok Son, Sang-Wook Yeh, Jong-Seong Kug, Ja-Ho Koo, Environmental Research Letters, vol. 20, 4, article 044051, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/adc28e (2025)

Climate-driven systemic risk to the sustainable development goals, Alessio Ciullo, Christian L.E. Franzke, Jürgen Scheffran, Jana Sillmann, PLOS climate, vol. 4, 4, e0000564, doi: 10.1371/journal.pclm.0000564 (2025)