Soon‐Il An

13.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
214 papers, 9.6k citations indexed

About

Soon‐Il An is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Soon‐Il An has authored 214 papers receiving a total of 9.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 199 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 158 papers in Atmospheric Science and 124 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Soon‐Il An's work include Climate variability and models (191 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (117 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (72 papers). Soon‐Il An is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (191 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (117 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (72 papers). Soon‐Il An collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, United States and China. Soon‐Il An's co-authors include Fei‐Fei Jin, Jong‐Seong Kug, Bin Wang, Axel Timmermann, Sang‐Wook Yeh, Wenju Cai, Éric Guilyardi, Matthew Collins, Jung Ho Choi and In-Sik Kang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Soon‐Il An

197 papers receiving 9.4k 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.

Two Types of El Niño Events: Cold Tongue El Niño and Warm Pool El Niño

2008 1.2k citations Jong‐Seong Kug, Fei‐Fei Jin et al. profile →
The impact of global warming on the tropical Pacific Ocean and El Niño

2010 975 citations Soon‐Il An, Fei‐Fei Jin et al. profile →
ENSO and greenhouse warming

2015 645 citations Guojian Wang, Sang‐Wook Yeh et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
ENSO Atmospheric Teleconnections and Their Response to Greenhouse Gas Forcing

2018 379 citations Sang‐Wook Yeh, Seung‐Ki Min et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Soon‐Il An South Korea	43	8.6k	7.0k	5.5k	452	208	214	9.6k
Sang‐Wook Yeh South Korea	44	7.5k 0.9×	6.1k 0.9×	4.3k 0.8×	451 1.0×	201 1.0×	258	8.5k
Chunzai Wang China	54	9.1k 1.1×	7.7k 1.1×	6.3k 1.1×	678 1.5×	172 0.8×	212	10.5k
Jong‐Seong Kug South Korea	55	11.9k 1.4×	10.1k 1.4×	7.0k 1.3×	498 1.1×	275 1.3×	299	13.2k
Noel Keenlyside Norway	54	9.1k 1.1×	8.0k 1.1×	4.9k 0.9×	366 0.8×	265 1.3×	191	10.4k
E. B. Horton United Kingdom	7	8.6k 1.0×	7.6k 1.1×	4.2k 0.8×	574 1.3×	197 0.9×	11	9.5k
Boris Dewitte France	38	5.6k 0.7×	4.1k 0.6×	4.8k 0.9×	736 1.6×	142 0.7×	142	7.5k
Niklas Schneider United States	45	7.2k 0.8×	5.1k 0.7×	6.1k 1.1×	612 1.4×	107 0.5×	91	8.4k
Shoshiro Minobe Japan	35	5.7k 0.7×	4.5k 0.6×	4.0k 0.7×	671 1.5×	146 0.7×	88	6.9k
Boyin Huang United States	30	6.1k 0.7×	5.0k 0.7×	3.5k 0.6×	461 1.0×	124 0.6×	78	7.1k
Huai‐Min Zhang United States	27	5.4k 0.6×	4.5k 0.6×	3.2k 0.6×	453 1.0×	107 0.5×	62	6.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Soon‐Il An

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20 of 20 papers shown

Park, Jae‐Heung, Jong‐Seong Kug, Su Jung Lee, et al.. (2025). Arctic stratospheric ozone as a precursor of ENSO events since 2000s. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 8(1).

Yeh, Sang‐Wook, et al.. (2024). North Atlantic Warming Hole Modulates Interhemispheric Asymmetry of Future Temperature and Precipitation. Earth s Future. 12(6). 4 indexed citations

An, Soon‐Il, et al.. (2024). Antarctic meltwater reduces the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation through oceanic freshwater transport and atmospheric teleconnections. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 4 indexed citations

Liu, Chao, et al.. (2024). Strong El Niño and La Niña precipitation—sea surface temperature sensitivity under a carbon removal scenario. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 1 indexed citations

Park, Jae‐Heung, Young‐Min Yang, Yoo‐Geun Ham, et al.. (2024). Significant winter Atlantic Niño effect on ENSO and its future projection. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 3 indexed citations

Yang, Young‐Min, Jeong-Hwan Kim, Jae‐Heung Park, et al.. (2023). Exploring dominant processes for multi-month predictability of western Pacific precipitation using deep learning. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 6(1). 6 indexed citations

Paik, Seungmok, Soon‐Il An, Seung‐Ki Min, Andrew D. King, & Soong‐Ki Kim. (2023). Emergent constraints on future extreme precipitation intensification: from global to continental scales. Weather and Climate Extremes. 42. 100613–100613. 14 indexed citations

Paik, Seungmok, Daehyun Kim, Soon‐Il An, & Yoo‐Geun Ham. (2023). Constraining the First Year of Ice‐Free Arctic: Importance of Regional Perspective. Earth s Future. 11(10). 1 indexed citations

Paik, Seungmok, Seung‐Ki Min, Seok‐Woo Son, et al.. (2023). Impact of volcanic eruptions on extratropical atmospheric circulations: review, revisit and future directions. Environmental Research Letters. 18(6). 63003–63003. 7 indexed citations

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Kim, Soong‐Ki, et al.. (2022). Slow and soft passage through tipping point of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in a changing climate. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 5(1). 7 indexed citations

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Kim, Soong‐Ki, Jongsoo Shin, Soon‐Il An, et al.. (2022). Widespread irreversible changes in surface temperature and precipitation in response to CO2 forcing. Nature Climate Change. 12(9). 834–840. 83 indexed citations

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Sung, Mi‐Kyung, et al.. (2021). Decadal phase shift of summertime Arctic dipole pattern and its nonlinear effect on sea ice extent. International Journal of Climatology. 41(9). 4732–4742. 8 indexed citations

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Kug, Jong‐Seong, Soon‐Il An, Sang‐Wook Yeh, et al.. (2021). Hysteresis of the intertropical convergence zone to CO2 forcing. Nature Climate Change. 12(1). 47–53. 68 indexed citations

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Jun, Sang‐Yoon, Joo‐Hong Kim, Jung Ho Choi, et al.. (2020). The internal origin of the west-east asymmetry of Antarctic climate change. Science Advances. 6(24). eaaz1490–eaaz1490. 28 indexed citations

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Kim, Soong‐Ki & Soon‐Il An. (2020). Untangling El Niño‐La Niña Asymmetries Using a Nonlinear Coupled Dynamic Index. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(4). 9 indexed citations

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Kim, Hyojeong, Soon‐Il An, & Daehyun Kim. (2020). Timescale‐dependent AMOC–AMO relationship in an earth system model of intermediate complexity. International Journal of Climatology. 41(S1). 8 indexed citations

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Zhao, Jiuwei, Jong‐Seong Kug, Jae‐Heung Park, & Soon‐Il An. (2020). Diversity of North Pacific Meridional Mode and Its Distinct Impacts on El Niño‐Southern Oscillation. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(19). 22 indexed citations

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Kim, Jiwon & Soon‐Il An. (2018). Origin of early‐spring central Pacific warming as the 1982–1983 El Niño precursor. International Journal of Climatology. 38(6). 2899–2906. 4 indexed citations

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Kim, Jiwon & Soon‐Il An. (2018). Western North Pacific anticyclone change associated with the El Niño–Indian Ocean Dipole coupling. International Journal of Climatology. 39(5). 2505–2521. 18 indexed citations

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Kug, Jong‐Seong, In‐Sik Kang, Fei‐Fei Jin, & Soon‐Il An. (2002). A Nearly Annual Coupled Mode in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean. 대기. 12(3). 118–123. 1 indexed citations

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