Sarah M. Kang

6.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
91 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Sarah M. Kang is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah M. Kang has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 63 papers in Atmospheric Science and 33 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Sarah M. Kang's work include Climate variability and models (72 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (23 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (20 papers). Sarah M. Kang is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (72 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (23 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (20 papers). Sarah M. Kang collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, United States and Germany. Sarah M. Kang's co-authors include Dargan M. W. Frierson, Isaac M. Held, Shang‐Ping Xie, Ming Zhao, Yen‐Ting Hwang, Lorenzo M. Polvani, In Cheol Bang, Ji Hyun Kim, Seungwon Lee and Yechul Shin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sarah M. Kang

89 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The Response of the ITCZ to Extratropical Thermal Forcing: Idealized Slab-Ocean Experiments with a GCM

2008 540 citations Sarah M. Kang, Ming Zhao et al. Journal of Climate profile →
Possible shift in controls of the tropical Pacific surface warming pattern

2024 41 citations Masahiro Watanabe, Sarah M. Kang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sarah M. Kang South Korea	32	3.2k	3.0k	1.2k	428	422	91	4.2k
Rui Xin Huang United States	38	2.4k 0.8×	2.1k 0.7×	3.4k 2.9×	224 0.5×	183 0.4×	145	4.3k
Seok‐Woo Son South Korea	43	6.2k 2.0×	6.4k 2.1×	1.2k 1.0×	20 0.0×	84 0.2×	219	7.2k
Carol Anne Clayson United States	21	1.8k 0.6×	1.8k 0.6×	1.6k 1.3×	20 0.0×	67 0.2×	51	2.7k
J. Imberger Australia	27	586 0.2×	783 0.3×	1.7k 1.5×	132 0.3×	248 0.6×	60	3.0k
Timothy Andrews United Kingdom	44	6.5k 2.0×	5.6k 1.9×	1.1k 0.9×	27 0.1×	72 0.2×	90	7.2k
Matthew Lebsock United States	31	3.4k 1.1×	3.7k 1.3×	298 0.3×	26 0.1×	84 0.2×	101	4.4k
Chuntao Liu United States	35	3.6k 1.1×	4.0k 1.4×	250 0.2×	44 0.1×	76 0.2×	132	5.1k
Michael Herzog United Kingdom	31	1.7k 0.5×	1.8k 0.6×	191 0.2×	32 0.1×	46 0.1×	73	2.4k
Markus D. Petters United States	47	7.0k 2.2×	8.5k 2.9×	81 0.1×	45 0.1×	119 0.3×	117	9.1k
O. Weber France	34	212 0.1×	1.3k 0.4×	722 0.6×	167 0.4×	284 0.7×	149	3.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah M. Kang

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20 of 20 papers shown

Jeong, Hyein, Hyo‐Seok Park, Sarah M. Kang, & Eui‐Seok Chung. (2025). The greater role of Southern Ocean warming compared to Arctic Ocean warming in shifting future tropical rainfall patterns. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2790–2790. 2 indexed citations

Kang, Sarah M., et al.. (2025). Common and Distinct Drivers of Convective Mass Flux and Walker Circulation Changes. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(4).

Kang, Sarah M., Angeline G. Pendergrass, Flavio Lehner, et al.. (2025). Higher precipitation in East Asia and western United States expected with future Southern Ocean warming. Nature Geoscience. 18(4). 313–321. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Hai, Xiao‐Tong Zheng, Wenju Cai, et al.. (2024). Atmosphere teleconnections from abatement of China aerosol emissions exacerbate Northeast Pacific warm blob events. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(21). e2313797121–e2313797121. 8 indexed citations

Bloch‐Johnson, Jonah, Maria Rugenstein, Cristian Proistosescu, et al.. (2024). The Green's Function Model Intercomparison Project (GFMIP) Protocol. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 16(2). 21 indexed citations

Liu, Fukai, Yiyong Luo, Wenju Cai, et al.. (2024). Increased Asian aerosols drive a slowdown of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 18–18. 17 indexed citations

Xiang, Baoqiang, Shang‐Ping Xie, Sarah M. Kang, & Ryan J. Kramer. (2023). An emerging Asian aerosol dipole pattern reshapes the Asian summer monsoon and exacerbates northern hemisphere warming. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 6(1). 12 indexed citations

Kang, Sarah M., Paulo Ceppi, Yue Yu, & In‐Sik Kang. (2023). Recent global climate feedback controlled by Southern Ocean cooling. Nature Geoscience. 16(9). 775–780. 23 indexed citations

Kang, Sarah M., et al.. (2023). Disentangling the mechanisms of equatorial Pacific climate change. Science Advances. 9(19). eadf5059–eadf5059. 18 indexed citations

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Kang, Sarah M., Yue Yu, Clara Deser, et al.. (2023). Global impacts of recent Southern Ocean cooling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(30). e2300881120–e2300881120. 47 indexed citations

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Hwang, Yen‐Ting, et al.. (2022). The Role of Clouds in Shaping Tropical Pacific Response Pattern to Extratropical Thermal Forcing. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(11). 12 indexed citations

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Kang, Sarah M., et al.. (2022). Disentangling the effect of regional SST bias on the double-ITCZ problem. Climate Dynamics. 58(11-12). 3441–3453. 5 indexed citations

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Kang, Sarah M., et al.. (2020). Mechanisms of tropical precipitation biases in climate models. Climate Dynamics. 56(1-2). 17–27. 7 indexed citations

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Kang, Sarah M., Matt Hawcroft, Baoqiang Xiang, et al.. (2019). Extratropical–Tropical Interaction Model Intercomparison Project (Etin-Mip): Protocol and Initial Results. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 100(12). 2589–2606. 37 indexed citations

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Kang, Sarah M., Matt Hawcroft, Baoqiang Xiang, et al.. (2019). ETIN-MIP Extratropical-Tropical Interaction Model Intercomparison Project – protocol and initial results. University of Southern Queensland ePrints (University of Southern Queensland). 2 indexed citations

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Swart, Neil C., Julius Busecke, Gaby S. Langendijk, et al.. (2018). Reflections on the CLIVAR Early Career Scientists Symposium 2016. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 1(1). 3 indexed citations

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Xiang, Baoqiang, Ming Zhao, Yi Ming, Weidong Yu, & Sarah M. Kang. (2018). Contrasting Impacts of Radiative Forcing in the Southern Ocean versus Southern Tropics on ITCZ Position and Energy Transport in One GFDL Climate Model. Journal of Climate. 31(14). 5609–5628. 50 indexed citations

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Hwang, Yen‐Ting, Shang‐Ping Xie, Clara Deser, & Sarah M. Kang. (2017). Connecting tropical climate change with Southern Ocean heat uptake. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(18). 9449–9457. 68 indexed citations

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Shin, Yechul, Sarah M. Kang, & Masahiro Watanabe. (2017). Dependence of Arctic climate on the latitudinal position of stationary waves and to high-latitudes surface warming. Climate Dynamics. 49(11-12). 3753–3763. 7 indexed citations

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Kang, Sarah M. & Shang‐Ping Xie. (2014). Dependence of Climate Response on Meridional Structure of External Thermal Forcing. Journal of Climate. 27(14). 5593–5600. 32 indexed citations

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