Sun‐Seon Lee

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Sun‐Seon Lee is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Sun‐Seon Lee has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Atmospheric Science, 48 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 21 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Sun‐Seon Lee's work include Climate variability and models (45 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (27 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (18 papers). Sun‐Seon Lee is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (45 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (27 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (18 papers). Sun‐Seon Lee collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, United States and China. Sun‐Seon Lee's co-authors include Kyung‐Ja Ha, Bin Wang, Axel Timmermann, Jong‐Ghap Jhun, June‐Yi Lee, Ki‐Young Heo, Malte F. Stuecker, Keith B. Rodgers, Ryohei Yamaguchi and Lei Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Sun‐Seon Lee

54 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Ubiquity of human-induced changes in climate variability 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150 200 250
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.

  1. Ubiquity of human-induced changes in climate variability
    2021 271 citations Keith B. Rodgers, Sun‐Seon Lee et al. Earth System Dynamics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sun‐Seon Lee South Korea 24 1.4k 1.3k 542 76 73 60 1.8k
Hanh Nguyen Australia 19 1.5k 1.1× 1.3k 1.0× 427 0.8× 34 0.4× 106 1.5× 37 1.9k
A. Brett Mullan New Zealand 16 1.2k 0.9× 997 0.8× 558 1.0× 64 0.8× 104 1.4× 23 1.5k
Emilia Sánchez-Gómez France 26 1.8k 1.3× 1.5k 1.2× 703 1.3× 48 0.6× 143 2.0× 48 2.0k
Nicolas Fauchereau South Africa 27 1.7k 1.2× 1.4k 1.0× 812 1.5× 46 0.6× 72 1.0× 44 2.2k
Charline Marzin United Kingdom 15 885 0.6× 1.1k 0.8× 288 0.5× 35 0.5× 88 1.2× 20 1.4k
Kyung‐Sook Yun South Korea 24 1.0k 0.7× 991 0.8× 423 0.8× 55 0.7× 43 0.6× 48 1.3k
Baek‐Min Kim South Korea 28 2.9k 2.1× 3.1k 2.3× 618 1.1× 87 1.1× 65 0.9× 116 3.6k
Haibo Hu China 19 928 0.7× 645 0.5× 379 0.7× 94 1.2× 61 0.8× 70 1.1k
Daohua Bi Australia 19 1.3k 1.0× 1.1k 0.8× 656 1.2× 37 0.5× 75 1.0× 35 1.6k
Liang Ning China 22 1.2k 0.9× 1.1k 0.9× 155 0.3× 86 1.1× 192 2.6× 77 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Sun‐Seon Lee

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sun‐Seon Lee

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sun‐Seon Lee. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Sun‐Seon Lee. The network helps show where Sun‐Seon Lee may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sun‐Seon Lee

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sun‐Seon Lee. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sun‐Seon Lee based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sun‐Seon Lee. Sun‐Seon Lee is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Stuecker, Malte F., Sen Zhao, Axel Timmermann, et al.. (2025). Global climate mode resonance due to rapidly intensifying El Niño-Southern Oscillation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9013–9013.
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Verjans, Vincent, Christian L. E. Franzke, Sun‐Seon Lee, et al.. (2025). Quantifying CO 2 forcing effects on lightning, wildfires, and climate interactions. Science Advances. 11(7). eadt5088–eadt5088. 2 indexed citations
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Kwon, Eun Young, et al.. (2024). Anthropogenically Driven Changes in the Carbon to Phosphorus Ratio of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 38(6). 1 indexed citations
4.
Wang, Bin, et al.. (2024). Climatological Madden-Julian Oscillation during boreal spring leads to abrupt Australian monsoon retreat and Asian monsoon onsets. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 3 indexed citations
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Ha, Kyung‐Ja, et al.. (2023). Impact of greenhouse warming on mesoscale eddy characteristics in high-resolution climate simulations. Environmental Research Letters. 19(1). 14078–14078. 2 indexed citations
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Kim, Ji‐Eun, Ryohei Yamaguchi, Keith B. Rodgers, et al.. (2023). Interannual fires as a source for subarctic summer decadal climate variability mediated by permafrost thawing. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 6(1). 4 indexed citations
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Bódai, Tamás, et al.. (2023). Decadal Indian Ocean Influence on the ENSO‐Indian Monsoon Teleconnection Mostly Apparent. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(15). 3 indexed citations
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Bui, Hien X., et al.. (2023). Emergence of Madden-Julian oscillation precipitation and wind amplitude changes in a warming climate. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 6(1). 10 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
10.
Lee, June‐Yi, et al.. (2023). Increased amplitude of atmospheric rivers and associated extreme precipitation in ultra-high-resolution greenhouse warming simulations. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 12 indexed citations
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Franzke, Christian L. E., et al.. (2023). Northern Hemisphere Extratropical Cyclone Clustering in ERA5 Reanalysis and the CESM2 Large Ensemble. Journal of Climate. 37(4). 1347–1365. 3 indexed citations
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Kay, Jennifer E., Patricia DeRepentigny, Marika M. Holland, et al.. (2022). Less Surface Sea Ice Melt in the CESM2 Improves Arctic Sea Ice Simulation With Minimal Non‐Polar Climate Impacts. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 14(4). 16 indexed citations
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Bui, Hien X., Axel Timmermann, June‐Yi Lee, et al.. (2022). Summer Midlatitude Stationary Wave Patterns Synchronize Northern Hemisphere Wildfire Occurrence. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(18). 5 indexed citations
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Rodgers, Keith B., Sun‐Seon Lee, Nan Rosenbloom, et al.. (2021). Ubiquity of human-induced changes in climate variability. 56 indexed citations
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Rodgers, Keith B., Sun‐Seon Lee, Nan Rosenbloom, et al.. (2021). Ubiquity of human-induced changes in climate variability. Earth System Dynamics. 12(4). 1393–1411. 271 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wengel, Christian, Sun‐Seon Lee, Malte F. Stuecker, et al.. (2021). Future high-resolution El Niño/Southern Oscillation dynamics. Nature Climate Change. 11(9). 758–765. 79 indexed citations
17.
Chu, Jung‐Eun, Sun‐Seon Lee, Axel Timmermann, et al.. (2020). Reduced tropical cyclone densities and ocean effects due to anthropogenic greenhouse warming. Science Advances. 6(51). 56 indexed citations
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Lee, Sun‐Seon & Kyung‐Ja Ha. (2009). Eddy-Mean Flow Interaction and Its Association with Bonin High: Comparison of July and August. Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. 45(4). 483–498. 2 indexed citations
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Kim, Kiyoung, Sun‐Seon Lee, & Kyung‐Ja Ha. (2007). Application of the Optimal-use Weight Function Ensemble (OWFE) Method to DEMETER for the East Asian Summer Monsoon Rainfall. 한국기상학회 학술대회 논문집. 280–281. 1 indexed citations
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Lee, Sun‐Seon, et al.. (2005). Temperature and Water vapor effects on Long-term Relative humidity in Seoul and Busan. 한국기상학회 학술대회 논문집. 196–197.

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