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Jiwon Kim

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4800 Oak Grove Drive

Pasadena, CA 91109

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Atmospheric Physics And Weather

Postdoctoral Researcher

Biography

Dr. Ji-Won Kim is a climate scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He specializes in the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon, which is the strongest year-to-year climate variability on the planet. Dr. Kim has conducted extensive research on the complex behaviors of ENSO and has uncovered its underlying mechanisms. His ultimate goal is to provide new insights that may challenge conventional consensus and suggest a better theory or physical mechanism for ENSO that will improve its predictability and help prepare for its global impacts on Earth’s climate.

Education

Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

Research Interests

  • El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon
  • Complex ENSO behaviors and their dynamics/impacts/teleconnections
  • Pantropical inter- and intra-basin climate interactions
  • Global climate trend and variability

Selected Awards

NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) Award (on March 2022)

Selected Publications

  1. Kim, J.-W., and J.-Y. Yu (2022): Single- and multi-year ENSO events controlled by pantropical climate interactions. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 5, 88, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-022-00305-y