Woo Geun Cheon

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 812 citations indexed

About

Woo Geun Cheon is a scholar working on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Woo Geun Cheon has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 812 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Oceanography, 11 papers in Atmospheric Science and 11 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Woo Geun Cheon's work include Climate variability and models (11 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (11 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (7 papers). Woo Geun Cheon is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (11 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (11 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (7 papers). Woo Geun Cheon collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, United States and Germany. Woo Geun Cheon's co-authors include Yign Noh, Siegfried Raasch, Song‐You Hong, Arnold L. Gordon, Sang‐Ki Lee, Young‐Gyu Park, J. R. Toggweiler, Yanyun Liu, Jong Jin Park and Baek‐Min Kim and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Scientific Reports and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Woo Geun Cheon

11 papers receiving 795 citations

Hit Papers

Improvement of the K-profile Model for the Planetary Boun... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 200 400 600
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. Improvement of the K-profile Model for the Planetary Boundary Layer based on Large Eddy Simulation Data
    2003 621 citations Yign Noh, Woo Geun Cheon et al. Boundary-Layer Meteorology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Woo Geun Cheon South Korea 8 731 634 222 124 30 12 812
Mike Bush United Kingdom 8 850 1.2× 834 1.3× 108 0.5× 111 0.9× 23 0.8× 12 927
Patrick Mascart France 16 738 1.0× 724 1.1× 89 0.4× 149 1.2× 17 0.6× 30 875
Ryoji Nagasawa Japan 5 559 0.8× 493 0.8× 107 0.5× 69 0.6× 13 0.4× 6 644
Ruping Mo Canada 15 530 0.7× 527 0.8× 114 0.5× 55 0.4× 8 0.3× 32 613
Kusuma G. Rao India 12 320 0.4× 322 0.5× 98 0.4× 94 0.8× 21 0.7× 23 411
Chia‐Ying Tu Taiwan 15 557 0.8× 553 0.9× 181 0.8× 36 0.3× 8 0.3× 33 662
Geoffrey J. DiMego United States 12 654 0.9× 573 0.9× 119 0.5× 107 0.9× 6 0.2× 17 727
Kefeng Zhu China 17 861 1.2× 835 1.3× 42 0.2× 125 1.0× 17 0.6× 52 951
Shiori Sugimoto Japan 15 489 0.7× 478 0.8× 79 0.4× 34 0.3× 11 0.4× 47 588
H. M. Helfand United States 6 464 0.6× 448 0.7× 69 0.3× 60 0.5× 15 0.5× 13 505

Countries citing papers authored by Woo Geun Cheon

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Fields of papers citing papers by Woo Geun Cheon

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Woo Geun Cheon. 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 Woo Geun Cheon. The network helps show where Woo Geun Cheon may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Woo Geun Cheon

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Woo Geun Cheon. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Woo Geun Cheon 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 Woo Geun Cheon. Woo Geun Cheon is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

12 of 12 papers shown
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Cheon, Woo Geun. (2020). The Summer/Fall Variability of the Southern East/Japan Sea in the ENSO Period. Ocean Science Journal. 55(3). 341–352. 3 indexed citations
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Cheon, Woo Geun & Arnold L. Gordon. (2019). Open-ocean polynyas and deep convection in the Southern Ocean. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 6935–6935. 44 indexed citations
3.
Cheon, Woo Geun & Jong‐Seong Kug. (2019). The Role of Oscillating Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds: Global Ocean Circulation. Journal of Climate. 33(6). 2111–2130. 1 indexed citations
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Cheon, Woo Geun, et al.. (2017). The Role of Oscillating Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds: Southern Ocean Coastal and Open-Ocean Polynyas. Journal of Climate. 31(3). 1053–1073. 11 indexed citations
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Lee, Sang‐Ki, Denis L. Volkov, Hosmay Lopez, et al.. (2017). Wind‐driven ocean dynamics impact on the contrasting sea‐ice trends around West Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 122(5). 4413–4430. 22 indexed citations
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Cheon, Woo Geun, et al.. (2015). Replicating the 1970s' Weddell Polynya using a coupled ocean‐sea ice model with reanalysis surface flux fields. Geophysical Research Letters. 42(13). 5411–5418. 34 indexed citations
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Cheon, Woo Geun, Young‐Gyu Park, J. R. Toggweiler, & Sang‐Ki Lee. (2013). The Relationship of Weddell Polynya and Open-Ocean Deep Convection to the Southern Hemisphere Westerlies. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 44(2). 694–713. 42 indexed citations
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Cheon, Woo Geun, Young‐Gyu Park, Sang‐Wook Yeh, & Baek‐Min Kim. (2012). Atmospheric impact on the northwestern Pacific under a global warming scenario. Geophysical Research Letters. 39(16). 19 indexed citations
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Cheon, Woo Geun & Achim Stössel. (2009). Oceanic response to interactive momentum flux over Southern Hemisphere sea ice. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 114(C12). 2 indexed citations
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Noh, Yign, Woo Geun Cheon, Song‐You Hong, & Siegfried Raasch. (2003). Improvement of the K-profile Model for the Planetary Boundary Layer based on Large Eddy Simulation Data. Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 107(2). 401–427. 621 indexed citations breakdown →
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Noh, Yign, Woo Geun Cheon, & Siegfried Raasch. (2003). The Role of Preconditioning in the Evolution of Open-Ocean Deep Convection. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 33(6). 1145–1166. 13 indexed citations

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