Hi, I'm Yong-Yub

Researcher

Experience in ocean dynamical downscaling (ROMS) and S2D earth system predictability (CESM2, NorESM)

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About Me

My introduction

Researcher, with years of experience in ocean dynamical downscaling, developing a seasonal to decadal prediction system using earth system model in ICCP

3+ Years
experience
4+ completed
project
8+ published
paper

Skills

My technical level

Numerical modeler

More than 9 years

ROMS

80%

CESM2

80%

MOM4

40%

Data Analyst

More than 10 years

MATLAB

80%

Shell Script

60%

Ferret

50%

CDO

50%

Python

80%

Qualification

My personal journey
Education
Work

Ocean Science (Bachelor)

Inha University
2009 - 2015

Physical Oceanography (Master)

Seoul National University
2015 - 2017

Physical Oceanography (PhD)

Seoul National University
2017 - 2022

Research trainee

Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST)
2012 - 2018

Postdoctoral Fellow

IBS Center for Climate Physics
2022 - 2025

Postdoc

Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen; Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
2026 -

Publications

Peer review publications

Physical
Oceanography

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Ocean
Physics&Dynamics

  • 13. Kim, C, Y.-J. Tak*, G Kim, S Jung, H K Jung, Y.-Y. Kim and Y.-K. Cho (-). Extreme coastal marine cold spells in the East/Japan Sea intensified by low-salinity water. Under revision, Environmental Research Letters

  • 8. Lee, S. T., Kim, Y. Y.*, Tak, Y. J.*, Chae, S., & Cho, Y. K. (2025). Seasonal and interannual variations in material transport in the Korea Strait originating from the Taiwan Strait. Scientific Reports, 15, 28282.

  • 5. Tak, Y. J., Cho, Y. K.*, Song, H., Chae, S. H., & Kim, Y. Y. (2023). Spatial Similarity between the Changjiang Diluted Water and Marine Heatwaves in the East China Sea during Summer. The Sea Journal of the Korean Society of Oceanography, 28(4), 121-132.

  • 2. Kim, Y. Y., Kim, B. G., Jeong, K. Y., Lee, E., Byun, D. S., & Cho, Y. K.* (2021). Local Sea-level rise caused by climate change in the Northwest pacific marginal seas using dynamical downscaling. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8, 620570.

  • 1. Kim, Y. Y., Cho, Y. K., & Kim, Y. H.* (2018). Role of cold water and beta-effect in the formation of the East Korean Warm Current in the East/Japan Sea: a numerical experiment. Ocean Dynamics, 68, 1013-1023.

Ocean
Ecosystem

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Ocean
Ecosystem

  • 11. Kim, Y. Y., Lien, J.*, Rodgers, K. B., Lee, J. Y., & Jin, F. F. (-). Exploring Marine Biogeochemical Prediction with Linear Dynamical Frameworks. Under revision, Geophysical Research Letters

  • 6. Kim, Y. Y., Lee, S. T., Kim, B. G., Cho, Y. K., Lee, C. I., Kim, S., & Tak, Y. J.* (2024). Severe reduction in spawning days and larval abundance of walleye pollock under future warming in the western East/Japan Sea. Environmental Research Communications, 6, 031006

  • 4. Kim, Y. Y., Kang, Y. K., Lee, S. T., Jung, H. K., Lee, C. I., Kim, S., ... & Cho, Y. K.* (2022). Potential Impact of Late 1980s Regime Shift on the Collapse of Walleye Pollock Catch in the Western East/Japan Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 802748.

  • 3. Tak, Y. J., Cho, Y. K.*, Hwang, J., & Kim, Y. Y. (2022). Assessments of nitrate budgets in the yellow Sea based on a 3D physical-biogeochemical coupled model. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8, 785377.

Earth System
Predictability

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Earth System
Predictability

  • 14. Lien, J.*, Ando, H., Kim, Y. Y., Richter, I. (-). A Moment-Based Approach to Cyclostationary Nonlinear Inverse Modeling under Persistent Noise Forcing. Under revision, Physical Review Research.

  • 12. Hasan, N. A., Chikamoto, Y.*, Zhang, W., McPhaden, M. J., Stuecker, M., Lee, J. Y., Kim, Y. Y. & Lee, S. S. (-). The Role of Tropical Inter-Basin Interactions in Triggering the 2020-2023 La Niña. Under revision, Climate Dynamics.

  • 10. Karwat, A.*, Lee, J. Y.*, Franzke, C. L. E., Kim, Y. Y., Kwon, E. Y., Garrett, R. & Lee, S. S. (-). Marine Heat Waves in Vulnerable Coral Reef Regions are Skillfully Predictable on Multi-year Timescales. Under revision, Nature Communications.

  • 9. Lien, J.*, Ando, H., Kim, Y. Y., Tozuka, T. (2025). A linear inverse modeling approach to estimating Liang-Kleeman information flow in a cyclostationary process under memoryless and persistent noise. Physical Review E, 112(5), 054101.

  • 7. Kim, Y. Y., Lee, J. Y.*, Timmermann, A., Chikamoto, Y.*, Lee, S. S., Kwon, E. Y., Park, W., Hasan, N. A., Bethke, I., Fransner, F., Karwat, A., Subrahmanian, A. R. & Franzke, C. L. E. (2025). Robust Estimates of Earth System Predictability of the 1st kind using the CESM2 Multiyear Prediction System (CESM2-MP). Accepted, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

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