Papers Submitted
(*: Student or Postdoc directly advised by Young-Oh Kwon)
Oldenburg, D.*, Y.-O. Kwon, C. Frankignoul, G. Danabasoglu, S. Yeager, and W.M. Kim: Projected Arctic Ocean warming accompanied by a restructuring of the overturning at the Fram Strait and the Barents Sea Opening. J. Climate, submitted.
Lee, H.J., Y.-O. Kwon, S.-Y. Kim, W. Park, S. Jen, and Y.-H. Tseng: Multidecadal variability of sea surface height and volume transport in the northwestern Pacific marginal seas, J. Geophys. Res., submitted.
He, C., C. Patrizio, Y.-O. Kwon, K. Bellomo: North Atlantic sea surface temperature variability: impacts, mechanisms, and challenges. WIREs Climate Change, Submitted.
Papers Published and In-Press
Kim, D.W.*, Y.-O. Kwon, C. Frankignoul, C. Deser, G. Danabasoglu, A. Herrington, and S. Kim, 2026: A synoptic view of the atmospheric circulation response to SST anomalies in the Kuroshio-Oyashio Extension Region: the importance of latent heating structure. Npj Climate Atmos. Sci., 9, 68. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-026-01340-9. [pdf]
He, C.*, A.C. Clement, M.A. Cane, A. Gonzalez, Y.-O. Kwon, J.-R. Shi, J.M. Klavans, and L.N. Murphy: Climate models exaggerate the impact of greenhouse gases on recent interhemispheric temperature contrast and tropical climate. Nat. Comm., in press. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-69783-5 [pdf]
Hall, R.J., A. Czaja, G. Danabasoglu, C. Deser, C. Frankignoul, and Y.-O. Kwon, 2025: A New Robust Frontal Disturbance Index of the Oyashio Extension Sea Surface Temperature Front. Climate, 293-307. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0642.1 [pdf]
Shi, J-R.*, B.D. Santer, Y.-O. Kwon, and S.E. Wijffels, 2025: Enhanced and Weakened Annual Cycle in the Vertical Fingerprint of Ocean Temperature. Climate, 38, 1595–1610, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-24-0418.1. [pdf]
Frankignoul, C., R. Hall, Y.-O. Kwon, and A. Czaja, 2025: On the atmospheric response to Oyashio Extension front disturbance and mesoscale SST variations. Climate, 38, 5055-5066. http://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-25-0083.1. [pdf]
Liu, G.*, Y.-O. Kwon, and Frankignoul, 2025: Investigation of the drivers of sea surface salinity and North Atlantic climate variability using a stochastic model. J. Climate, 38, 5411-5430. http://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-24-0694.1. [pdf]
Liang, Y.-C., N. J. Lutsko, and Y.-O. Kwon, 2025: Exploring the Atmospheric responses to Arctic sea-ice loss in Google's NeuralGCM, Adv. Mod. Earth Sys., 17, e2025MS005264. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025MS005264. [pdf]
Liang, Y.-C.*, Y.-O. Kwon, C. Frankignoul, G. Gastineau, K. Smith, L. Polvani, L. Sun, Y. Peings, C. Deser, R. Zhang, and J. Screen, 2024: The Weakening of the Stratospheric Polar Vortex and the Subsequent Surface Impacts as Consequences to Arctic Sea-ice Loss. Climate, 37, 309-333, DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0128.1. [pdf]
Oldenburg, D.*, Y-O. Kwon, C. Frankignoul, G. Danabasoglu, S. Yeager, and W.M. Kim, 2024: The respective roles of ocean heat transport and surface heat fluxes in driving Arctic Ocean warming and sea-ice decline. J. Climate, 37, 1431-1448. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0399.1. [pdf]
Ghosh, R., E. Manzini, Y. Gao, G. Gastineau, A. Cherchi, C. Frankignoul, Y.-C. Liang, Y.-O. Kwon, L. Suo, E. Tyrlis, J. Mecking, T. Tian, Y. Zhang, and D. Matei, 2024: Observed winter Barents Kara Sea ice variations induce prominent sub-decadal variability and a multi-decadal trend in the Warm Arctic Cold Eurasia pattern. Res. Lett., 19, 024018. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad1c1a. [pdf]
Shi, J-R.*, B.D. Santer, Y.-O. Kwon, and S.E. Wijffels, 2024: The emerging human influence on the seasonal cycle of sea surface temperature. Nature Climate Change, 14, 364-372. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-01958-8. [pdf]
Ren, Q.*, Y.-O. Kwon, J. Yang, R.X. Huang. Y. Li, and F. Wang, 2024: Substantial Warming of the Atlantic Ocean in CMIP6 Models. J. Climate, 37, 3073-3091. DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0418.1. [pdf]
Frankignoul, C., L. Raillard, B. Ferster, and Y.-O. Kwon, 2024: Arctic September sea-ice concentration biases in CMIP6 models and their relationships with other model variables. Climate, 37, 4257-4274, DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0452.1. [pdf]
Liu, G.*, Y.-O. Kwon, C. Frankignoul, and J. Lu, 2023: Understanding the Drivers of Atlantic Multidecadal Variability using a Stochastic Model Hierarchy. J. Climate, 36, 1043-1058. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0309.1. [pdf]
Shi, J.-R.*, Y.-O. Kwon, and S.E. Wijffels, 2023: Subsurface Ocean Temperature Responses to the Anthropogenic Aerosol Forcing in the North Pacific. Geophys. Res. Lett., 50, e2022GL101035. https://doi.org/10.1029/ 2022GL101035. [pdf]
Gastineau, G., C. Frankignoul, Y. Gao, Y.-C. Liang, Y.-O. Kwon, A. Cherchi, R. Ghosh, E. M., D. Matei, J. Mecking, L. Suo, T. Tian, S. Yang, and Y. Zhang, 2023: Forcing and impact of the Northern Hemisphere continental snow cover in 1979-2014. The Cryosphere, 17, 2157–2184, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-2157-2023. [pdf]
Shi, J.-R.*, S.E. Wijffels, Y.-O. Kwon, S.-P. Xie, 2023: Interhemispheric Contrasts of Ocean Heat Content Change Reveal the Distinct Fingerprints of Different Anthropogenic Climate Forcings. 50, Geophys. Res. Lett., e2023GL102741. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL102741. [pdf]
Shi, J.-R.*, S.E. Wijffels, Y.-O. Kwon, L. Talley, S. Gille, 2023: The Competition Between Anthropogenic Aerosol and Greenhouse Gas Climate Forcing is Revealed by North Pacific Water Mass Changes. Sci. Adv., 9(38), eadh7746. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adh7746. [pdf]
Castillo-Trujillo, A.C.*, Y.-O. Kwon, P. Fratantoni, K. Chen, H. Seo, M.A. Alexander, and V.S. Saba, 2023: An evaluation of eight global ocean reanalyses for the Northeast U.S. continental shelf. Prog. Oceanogr., 219, 103126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103126. [pdf]
Liu, G.*, P. Wang, and Y.-O. Kwon, 2023: Physical Insights from the Multidecadal Prediction of North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature Variability Using Explainable Neural Networks. Res. Lett., 50, e2023GL106278. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL106278. [pdf]
Shi, J.-R.*, Y.-O. Kwon, and S.E. Wijffels, 2022: Two distinct modes of climate responses to the anthropogenic aerosol forcing changes. J. Climate, 35, 3445-3457. https://doi.org/ 10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0656.1. [pdf]
Ren, Q.*, Y.-O. Kwon, J. Yang, R.X. Huang, Y. Li, and F. Wang, 2022: Increasing homogeneity of the global oceans. Geophys. Res. Lett., 49, e2021GL097598. http://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL097598. [pdf]
Suo, L., G. Gastineau, Y. Gao, Y.-C. Liang, R. Ghosh, T. Tian, Y. Zhang, Y.-O. Kwon, O.H. Otterå, S. Yang, and D. Matei, 2022: Simulated contribution of the interdecadal Pacific oscillation to the west Eurasia cooling in 1998-2013. Env. Res. Lett., 17, 094021. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac88e5. [pdf]
Kim, S.-Y., Y.-O. Kwon, W. Park, and H.J. Lee, 2022: Multidecadal regime shifts in North Pacific subtropical mode water formation in a coupled atmosphere-ocean-sea ice model. Geophys. Res. Lett., 49, e2022GL099406. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL099406. [pdf]
Liu, F., L. Lu, Y.-O. Kwon, C. Frankignoul, and Y. Luo, 2022: Freshwater flux variability lengthens the period of the low-frequency AMOC variability. Geophys. Res. Lett., 49, e2022GL100136. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100136. [pdf]
Frankignoul, C., and Y.-O. Kwon, 2022: On the statistical estimation of asymmetrical relationship between two climate variables. Geophys. Res. Lett., 49, e2022GL100777. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100777. [pdf]
Suo, L., Y. Gao, G. Gastineau, Y.-C. Liang, R. Ghosh, T. Tian, Y. Zhang, Y.-O. Kwon, D. Matei, O.H. Otterå, and S. Yang, 2022: Arctic tropospheric warming driven by external radiative forcing and modulated by the Pacific and Atlantic. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 127, e2022JD036679. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD036679. [pdf]
Parfitt, R., Y.-O. Kwon, and M. Andres, 2022: A monthly index for the large-scale sea surface temperature gradient across the separated Gulf Stream. Geophys. Res. Lett., 49, e2022GL100914. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100914. [pdf]
Liang, Y.-C.*, Y.-O. Kwon, and C. Frankignoul, 2021: Autumn Arctic Pacific Sea-ice Dipole as a Source of Predictability for Subsequent Spring Barents-Kara Sea-ice Condition. J. Climate., 34, 787-804. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0172.1. [pdf]
Chen, Z.*, Y.-O. Kwon, K. Chen, P. Fratantoni, G. Gawarkiewicz, T.J. Joyce, T.J. Miller, J.A. Nye, V.S. Saba, and B.C. Stock, 2021: Seasonal Prediction of Bottom Temperature on the Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf. J. Geophys. Res., 126, e2021JC017187. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC017187. [pdf]
Liang, Y.-C.*, C. Frankignoul, Y.-O. Kwon, G. Gastineau, E. Manzini, G. Danabasoglu, L. Suo, S. Yeager, Y. Gao, J.J. Attema, A. Cherchi, R. Ghosh, D. Matei, J.V. Mecking, T. Tian, and Y. Zhang, 2021: Impacts of Arctic Sea Ice on Cold Season Atmospheric Variability and Trends Estimated from Observations and a Multimodel Large Ensemble. J. Climate., 34, 8419-8443. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0578.1.[pdf]
Yamamoto, A., M. Nonaka, P. Martineau, A. Yamazaki, Y.-O. Kwon, H. Nakamura, and B. Taguchi, 2021: Oceanic moisture sources contributing to wintertime Euro-Atlantic blocking. Weather and Climate Dyn., 2, 819-840. https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2-819-2021. [pdf]
Cai, C.*, Y.-O. Kwon, Z. Chen*, and P. Fratantoni, 2021: Mixed layer depth climatology over the Northeast U.S. continental shelf (1993-2018). Cont. Shelf Res., 231, 104611. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2021.104611. [pdf]
Kwon, Y.-O., H. Seo, C.C. Ummenhofer, and T.M. Joyce, 2020: Impact of Multidecadal Variability in Atlantic SST on Winter Atmospheric Blocking. J. Climate, 33, 867-892, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0324.1. [pdf]
Liang, Y.-C.*, Y.-O. Kwon, C. Frankignoul, G. Danabasoglu, S. Yeager, A. Cherchi, Y. Gao, G. Gastineau, R. Ghosh, D. Matei, J.V. Mecking, D. Peano, L. Suo, and T. Tian, 2020: Quantification of the Arctic Sea Ice-Driven Atmospheric Circulation Variability in Coordinated Large Ensemble Simulations. Geophys. Res. Lett., 47, doi:1029/2019GL085397. [pdf]
Chen, Z.*, Y.-O. Kwon, K. Chen, P. Fratantoni, G. Gawarkiewicz, and T.M. Joyce, 2020: Long-term SST Variability on the Northwest Atlantic Continental Shelf and Slope. Geophys. Res. Lett., 47, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL085455. [pdf]
Kim, S.-Y., G. Pak, H.J. Lee, Y-O. Kwon, and Y.H. Kim, 2020: Late-1980s regime shift in the formation of the North Pacific subtropical mode water. J. Geophys. Res., 125, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015700. [pdf]
Simon, A., C. Frankignoul, G. Gastineau, and Y.-O. Kwon, 2020: An observational estimate of the direct response of the cold season atmospheric circulation to the Arctic sea ice loss. J. Climate, 33, 3863-3882. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0687.1. [pdf]
Parfitt, R*., and Y.-O. Kwon, 2020: The modulation of Gulf Stream influence on the troposphere by the eddy-driven jet. J. Climate, 33, 4109-4120. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0294.1. [pdf]
Jacox, M. G., M. A. Alexander, S. Siedlecki, K. Chen, Y.-O. Kwon, S. Brodie, I. Ortiz, D. Tommasi, M. J. Widlansky, D. Barrie, A. Capotondi, W. Cheng, E. Di Lorenzo, C. A. Edwards, J. Fiechter, P. Fratantoni, E. L. Hazen, A. J. Hermann, A. Kumar, A. J. Miller, D. Pirhalla, M. Pozo Buil, S. Ray, S. C. Sheridan, A. Subramanian, P. Thompson, L. Thorne, H. Annamalai, S. J. Bograd, R. B. Griffis, H. Kim, A. Mariotti, M. Merrifield, and R. R. Rykaczewski, 2020: Seasonal-to-interannual prediction of U.S. coastal marine ecosystems: Forecast methods, mechanisms of predictability, and priority developments. Progress in Oceanography, 183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102307. [pdf]
Athanasiadis, P., S. Yeager, Y.-O. Kwon, A. Bellucci, D.W. Smith*, and S. Tibaldi, 2020: Decadal predictability of North Atlantic blocking and the NAO. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 3, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-020-0120-6. [pdf]
Small, R.J., R. Msadek, Y.-O. Kwon, J.F. Booth, and C. Zarzycki, 2019: Atmosphere surface storm track response to resolved ocean mesoscale in two sets of global climate model experiments. Climate Dyn., 52, 2067-2089. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4237-9.[pdf]
Joyce, T.M., Y.-O. Kwon, H. Seo and C.C. Ummenhofer, 2019: Meridional Gulf Stream shifts can influence wintertime variability in the North Atlantic Storm Track and Greenland Blocking. Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, 1702– 1708. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL081087. [pdf]
Gan, B., Y.-O. Kwon, T.M. Joyce, K. Chen, and L. Wu, 2019: Influence of the Kuroshio interannual variability on the summertime precipitation over the East China Sea and Adjacent Area. J. Climate, 32, 2185-2205, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0538.1. [pdf]
Zhang, R., R. Sutton, G. Danabasoglu, Y.-O. Kwon, R. Marsh, S.G. Yeager, D.E. Amrhein, and C.M. Little, 2019: A Review of the Role of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in Atlantic Multidecadal Variability and Associated Climate Impacts. Rev. Geophys., 57, doi: 10.1029/2019RG000644. [pdf]
Li, F., M.S. Lozier, G. Danabasoglu, N.P. Holliday, Y.-O. Kwon, A. Romanou, S.G. Yeager, and R. Zhang, 2019: Local and downstream relationships between Labrador Sea Water volume and North Atlantic meridional overturning circulation variability. J. Climate, 32, 3883-3898. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0735.1. [pdf]
Kwon, Y.-O., A. Camacho*, C. Martinez*, and H. Seo, 2018: North Atlantic Winter Eddy-driven Jet and Atmospheric Blocking Variability in the Community Earth System Model Version 1 Large Ensemble Simulations. Climate Dyn., 51, 3275-3289. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4078-6. [pdf]
Woollings, T., E. Barnes, B. Hoskins, Y.-O. Kwon, R.W. Lee, C. Li, E. Madonna, M. McGraw, T. Parker, R. Rodrigues, C. Spensberger, and K. Williams, 2018: Daily to decadal modulation of jet variability. J. Climate, 31, 1297-1314, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0286.1. [pdf]
Révelard, A., C. Frankignoul, and Y.-O. Kwon, 2018: A multivariate estimate of the cold season atmospheric response to North Pacific SST variability. J. Climate, 31, 2771-2796. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0061.1. [pdf]
Jin, X.*, Y.-O. Kwon, C.C. Ummenhofer, H. Seo, F.U. Schwarzkopf, A. Biastoch, C.W. Böning, and J.S. Wright, 2018a: Influences of Pacific Climate Variability on Decadal Subsurface Ocean Heat Content Variations in the Indian Ocean. J. Climate, 31, 4157-4174. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0654.1. [pdf]
Chen, K. and Y.-O. Kwon, 2018: Does Pacific Variability Influence the Northwest Atlantic Shelf Temperature? J. Geophys. Res., 123. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JC013414. [pdf]
Jin, X.*, Y.-O. Kwon, C.C. Ummenhofer, H. Seo, Y. Kosaka, and J.S. Wright, 2018b: Distinct mechanisms of decadal subsurface heat content variations in the eastern and western Indian Ocean modulated by tropical Pacific SST. J. Climate, 31, 7751-7769. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0184.1 [pdf]
Hahn, L.C., C.C. Ummenhofer, and Y.-O. Kwon, 2018: North Atlantic natural variability modulates emergence of widespread Greenland melt in a warming climate. Geophys. Res. Lett., 45, doi: 10.1029/2018GL079682. [pdf]
Davis, X. J.*, T.M. Joyce, and Y.-O. Kwon, 2017: Prediction of silver hake distribution on the Northeast U.S. shelf based on the Gulf Stream path index. Cont. Shelf Res., 138, 51-64, doi:10.1016/j.csr.2017.03.003. [pdf]
Parfitt, R.*, A. Czaja, and Y.-O. Kwon, 2017: The impact of SST resolution change in the ERA-Interim reanalysis on wintertime Gulf Stream frontal air-sea interaction. Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, doi:10.1002/2017GL073028. [pdf]
Booth, J.F., Y.-O. Kwon, S. Ko, R.J. Small, and R. Msadek, 2017: Spatial Patterns and Intensity of the Surface Storm Tracks in CMIP5 Models, J. Climate, 30, 4965-4981, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0228.1. [pdf]
Lee, H.J., M.O. Kwon, S.-W. Yeh, Y.-O. Kwon, W. Park, J.-H. Park, Y.H. Kim, and M.A. Alexander, 2017: Impact of poleward moisture transport from the North Pacific on the acceleration of sea-ice loss in the Arctic since 2002. J. Climate, 30, 6757-6769, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0461.1. [pdf]
Ummenhofer, C., H. Seo, Y.-O. Kwon, R. Parfitt, S. Brands, and T.M. Joyce, 2017: Emerging European winter precipitation pattern linked to atmospheric circulation changes over the North Atlantic region in recent decades. Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1002/2017GL074188. [pdf]
Seo, H., Y.-O. Kwon, T.M. Joyce, and C.C. Ummenhofer, 2017: Predominant nonlinear response of the extratropical atmosphere to meridional shift of the Gulf Stream. J. Climate, 30, 9679-9702. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0707.1. [pdf]
Frankignoul, C., G. Gastineau, and Y.-O. Kwon, 2017: Estimation of the SST response to anthropogenic and external forcing, and its impact on the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. J. Climate, 30, 9871-9895, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0009.1. [pdf]
Révelard, A., C. Frankignoul, N. Sennéchael, Y.-O. Kwon, and B. Qiu, 2016: Influence of the decadal variability of the Kuroshio Extension on the atmospheric circulation in the cold season. J. Climate, 29, 2123-2144, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0511.1. [pdf]
Richaud, B.*, Y.-O. Kwon, T.M. Joyce, P.S. Fratantoni, and S.J. Lentz, 2016: Surface and bottom temperature and salinity climatology along the continental shelf off the Canadian and U.S. East Coasts. Cont. Shelf Res., 124, 165-181, doi:10.1016/j.csr.2016.06.005. [pdf]
Chen, K.*, Y.-O. Kwon, and G. Gawarkiewicz, 2016: Interannual Variability of Winter-Spring Temperature in the Middle Atlantic Bight: Relative Contributions of Atmospheric and Oceanic Processes. J. Geophys. Res., 121, 4209–4227. 10.1002/2016JC011646. [pdf]
Kwon, Y.-O., J.J. Park, S.F. Gary, and M.S. Lozier, 2015: Year-to-year re-outcropping of Eighteen Degree Water in an eddy-resolving ocean simulation. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 45, 1189-1204. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-14-0122.1. [pdf]
Smirnov, D.*, M. Newman, M.A. Alexander, Y.-O. Kwon, and C. Frankignoul, 2015: Investigating the local atmospheric response to a realistic shift in the Oyashio sea surface temperature front. J. Climate, 28, 1126-1147. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00285.1. [pdf]
Chen, K.*, G. Gawarkiewicz, Y.-O. Kwon, and W. G. Zhang, 2015: Role of atmospheric forcing versus ocean advection during the anomalous warming on the Northeast U.S. shelf in 2012, J. Geophys. Res., 120, 4324–4339, doi:10.1002/2014JC010547. [pdf]
Frankignoul, C., G. Gastineau, and Y.-O. Kwon, 2015: Wintertime atmospheric response to North Atlantic ocean circulation variability in a climate model. J. Climate, 28, 7659-7677, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0007.1. [pdf]
Kwon, Y.-O., and C. Frankignoul, 2014: Mechanisms of Multidecadal Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Variability Diagnosed in Depth versus Density Space. J. Climate, 27, 9359-9376. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00228.1. [pdf]
Pak, G., Y.-H. Park, F. Vivier, Y.-O. Kwon, and K.-I. Chang, 2014: Non-stationary relationship between the East Asian winter monsoon and North Pacific Oscillation. J. Climate, 27, 8185–8204. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00500.1.[pdf]
Seo, H., Y.-O. Kwon, and J.-J. Park, 2014: On the effect of marginal sea SST variability on the North Pacific atmospheric circulation. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119, doi: 10.1002/2013JD020523. [pdf]
Grist, J., S.A. Josey, R. Marsh, Y.-O. Kwon, R.J. Bingham, A.T. Blaker, 2014: The Surface-Forced Overturning of the North Atlantic: Estimates from Modern Era Atmospheric Reanalysis Datasets. J. Climate, 27, 3596-3618, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00070.1. [pdf]
Gary, S.F., M.S. Lozier, Y.-O. Kwon, and J.J. Park, 2014: The fate of North Atlantic Subtropical Mode Water in the FLAME model. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 44, 1354–1371. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-13-0202.1. [pdf]
Kwon, Y.-O., and T.M. Joyce, 2013: Northern Hemisphere Winter Atmospheric Transient Eddy Heat Fluxes and the Gulf Stream and Kuroshio-Oyashio Extension Variability. J. Climate, 26, 9839-9859, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00647.1. [pdf]
Frankignoul, C., G. Gastineau, and Y.-O. Kwon, 2013: The influence of the AMOC variability on the atmosphere in CCSM3. J. Climate, 26, 9774-9790, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00862.1. [pdf]
Douglass, E.M., Y.-O. Kwon, and S.R. Jayne, 2013: A Comparison of Subtropical Mode Waters in a Climatologically-Forced Model. Deep-Sea Res II, 91, 139-151, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.02.023. [pdf]
Davis, X.J.*, F. Straneo, Y.-O. Kwon, K.A. Kelly, and J.M. Toole, 2013: Evolution and Formation of North Atlantic Eighteen Degree Water in the Sargasso Sea from Moored Data. Deep-Sea Res. II, 91, 11-24, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.02.024. [pdf]
Fratantoni, D.M., Y.-O. Kwon, B.A. Hodges, 2013: Direct Observation of Subtropical Mode Water Circulation in the Western North Atlantic Ocean. Deep-Sea Res. II, 91, 35-56, doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.02.027. [pdf]
Kwon, Y.-O., and C. Frankignoul, 2012: Stochastically-Driven multi-decadal variability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in CCSM3. Climate Dyn., 38, 895-876, doi:10.1007/s00382-011-1040-2. [pdf]
Deser, C., A. S. Phillips, R. A. Tomas, Y. Okumura, M. A. Alexander, A. Capotondi, J. D. Scott, Y. -O. Kwon, and M. Ohba, 2012: ENSO and Pacific Decadal Variability in Community Climate System Model Version 4. J. Climate, 25, 2609-2621, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00301.1. [pdf]
Danabasoglu, G., S.G. Yeager, Y.-O. Kwon, J.J. Tribbia, A.S. Phillips, and J. Hurrell, 2012: Variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in CCSM4. J. Climate, 25, 5153-5172, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00595.1. [pdf]
Andres, M.*, J. Yang, and Y.-O. Kwon: 2012: Adjustment of a wind-driven two-layer system with mid-basin topography. J. Mar. Res., 70, 851-882. [pdf]
Kwon, Y.-O., C. Deser, and C. Cassou, 2011: Coupled Atmosphere – Mixed Layer Ocean Response to Ocean Heat Flux Convergence along the Kuroshio Current Extension. Climate Dyn., 36, 2295-2312, doi:10.1007/s00382-010-0764-8. [pdf]
Frankignoul, C., N. Sennéchael, Y.-O. Kwon, and M.A. Alexander, 2011: Atmosphere-ocean variability associated with Kuroshio and Oyashio Extension fluctuations. J. Climate, 24, 762-777, doi: 10.1175/2010JCLI3731.1. [pdf]
Andres, M.*, Y.-O. Kwon, and J. Yang., 2011: Observations of the Kuroshio’s barotropic and baroclinic responses to basin-wide wind forcing, J. Geophys. Res., 116, C04011, doi:10.1029/2010JC006863. [pdf]
Nye, J.A., T.M. Joyce, Y.-O. Kwon, and J.S. Link, 2011: Gulf Stream position determines spatial distribution of silver hake. Nature Commun., 2:412, doi:10.1038/ncomms1420. [pdf]
Park, J.-J.*, Y.-O. Kwon, and J.F. Price, 2011: Argo Array Observation of Ocean Heat Content Changes induced by Tropical Cyclones in the North Pacific. J. Geophys. Res., 116, C12025, doi:10.1029/2011JC007165. [pdf]
Kwon, Y.-O., M.A. Alexander, N.A. Bond, C. Frankignoul, H. Nakamura, B. Qiu, L. Thompson, 2010: Role of Gulf Stream and Kuroshio-Oyashio Systems in Large-Scale Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction: A Review. J. Climate, 23, 3249–3281. [pdf]
Kelly, K.A., R.J. Small, R.M. Samelson, B. Qiu, T.M. Joyce, Y.-O. Kwon, and M. Cronin, 2010: Western Boundary Currents and Frontal Air-Sea Interaction: Gulf Stream and Kuroshio Extension. J. Climate, 23, 5644-5667. [pdf]
Thompson, L., and Y.-O. Kwon, 2010: An enhancement of a coupled mode of variability in CCSM3 in the North Pacific owing to ocean model biases. J. Climate, 23, 6221-6233. [pdf]
Kwon, Y.-O., and C. Deser, 2007: North Pacific decadal variability in Community Climate System Model Version 2. J. Climate, 20, 2416–2433. [pdf]
Jochum, M., G. Danabasoglu, M. Holland, Y.-O. Kwon, and W.G. Large, 2008: Ocean viscosity and climate, J. Geophys. Res., 113, C06017, doi:10.1029/2007JC004515. [pdf]
Joyce, T.M., Y.-O. Kwon, and L. Yu, 2009: On the relationship between synoptic wintertime atmospheric variability and path shifts in the Gulf Stream and Kuroshio Extension. J. Climate, 22, 3177-3192. [pdf]
Trossman, D.S., L. Thompson, K.A. Kelly, and Y.-O. Kwon, 2009: Estimates of North Atlantic ventilation and mode water formation for winters 2002-2006. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 39, 2600-2617. [pdf]
Kwon, Y.-O., K. Kim, Y.-G. Kim, and K.-R. Kim, 2004: Diagnosing long-term trends of the water mass properties in the East Sea (Sea of Japan). Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L20306, doi:10.1029/2004GL020881. [pdf]
Kwon, Y.-O., and S.C. Riser, 2004: North Atlantic Subtropical Mode Water: A history of ocean-atmosphere interaction 1961-2000. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L19307, doi:10.1029/2004GL021116. [pdf]
Kwon, Y.-O., and S.C. Riser, 2005: The general circulation of the western subtropical North Atlantic observed using profiling floats. J. Geophys. Res., 110 (C10), C10012, doi:10.1029/2005JC002909. [pdf]
Alexander, M.A. , J. Yin, G. Branstator, A. Capotondi, C. Cassou, R. Cullather, Y.-O. Kwon, J. Norris, J. Scott, and I. Wainer, 2006: Extratropical atmosphere-ocean variability in the CCSM3. J. Climate, 19, 2482-2495. [pdf]
Peng, G., E.P. Chassignet, Y.-O. Kwon, and S.C. Riser, 2006: Investigation of variability of the North Atlantic Subtropical Mode Water using profiling float data and numerical model outputs. Ocean Modelling, 13, 65-85. [pdf]