ProfileAlumni

Jinsoo Kim 김진수

Ph.D., 2019

Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, KAIST
Homepage: www.researchgate.net/profile/Jin-Soo-Kim-2

Research Interests

01Terrestrial carbon cycle
02Earth system modelling
03Fire variability

Education

2019Ph.D., Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea
2013M.S., Earth and Environmental Science, Seoul National University, South Korea
2010B.S., Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

Research Experience

2020–Senior Researcher, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2019Post-Doctoral Research Associate, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, UK
2014–2016Researcher, Institute of Environmental and Energy Technology, POSTECH, South Korea
2013–2014Project Based Researcher, Ocean Circulation·Climate Research, KIOST, South Korea

Awards

2020–2021Personal research grant of Fostering the Next Generation of Researchers (Post-Doctoral Overseas Training), National Research Foundation of Korea
2019Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, Korean Meteorological Society
2018Best Thesis Award in the field of Natural Science, 2018 Sung-Kee Chung Thesis Award, POSTECH
2018Excellence and outstanding performance under the Brain Korea 21+ project, Deputy Prime Minister for Society and Education
2017Young Researchers Exchange Program between Korea and Switzerland, State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI), Switzerland
2015Best Poster Award in Climate Session, Korean Meteorological Society Conference
2013Research Training Program between Korea and Japan
2011Best Student Poster Award in Physical Oceanography, Korean Society of Oceanography Autumn Conference

Publications in the lab list 18

Publications

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Shin, J., Kug, J.-S.*, Park, S.-W., Kam, J., An, S.-I., Park, S.-E., Oh, H., Yeh, S.-W., Jeong, S., Park, C.-K., Kim, J.-S. (2026)

Negative CO2 emissions for long-term mitigation of extremes in land hydrological cycle

Nature Communications 17(1), 4347
281

Lee, D., Park, S.-W., Shin, Y., Kim, J.-S., Kam, J., Kug, J.-S. (2025)

Land use change-induced abrupt changes in vegetation and the role of climate factors

Journal of Environmental Management 380, 125097
277

Kim, H.-J., Kim, J.-S., An, S.-I., Shin, J., Oh, J.-H., Kug, J.-S. (2024)

Pervasive fire danger continued under a negative emission scenario

Nature Communications 15(1), 10010
249

Lee, D., Kim, J.-S., Park, S.-W., Kug, J.-S. (2023)

An abrupt shift in gross primary productivity over Eastern China-Mongolia and its inter-model diversity in land surface models

Scientific Reports 13(1), 22971
214

Li, J., Kug, J.-S., Park, S.-W., Zhai, P., Huang, M., Kim, J.-S. (2022)

Distinct magnitude asymmetries of daily extreme anomalies in gross primary productivity between forests and non-forests

Climate Dynamics 59(3-4), 767-784
202

Kim, J.-S., Kug, J.-S., Jeong, S., Yoon, J.-H., Zeng, N., Hong, J., Jeong, J.-H., Zhao, Y., Chen, X., Williams, M., Ichii, K., Schaepman-Strub, G. (2022)

Arctic warming-induced cold damage to East Asian terrestrial ecosystems

Communications Earth & Environment 3(1), 16
195

Park, S.-W., Kug, J.-S., Jun, S.-Y., Jeong, S.-J., Kim, J.-S. (2021)

Role of cloud feedback in continental warming response to CO2 physiological forcing

Journal of Climate, 1-49
190

Kim, I.-W., Stuecker, M. F., Timmermann, A., Zeller, E., Kug, J.-S., Park, S.-W., Kim, J.-S. (2021)

Tropical Indo-Pacific SST influences on vegetation variability in eastern Africa

Scientific Reports 11(1), 10462
175

Park, S.-W., Kim, J.-S., Kug, J.-S. (2020)

The intensification of Arctic warming as a result of CO2 physiological forcing

Nature Communications 11(1), 2098
174

Park, S.-W., Kim, J.-S., Kug, J.-S., Stuecker, M. F., Kim, I.-W., Williams, M. (2020)

Two Aspects of Decadal ENSO Variability Modulating the Long‐Term Global Carbon Cycle

Geophysical Research Letters 47(8), e2019GL086390
173

Li, J., Kim, J.-S., Kug, J.-S. (2020)

The Impact of the 20–50-Day Atmospheric Intraseasonal Oscillation on the Gross Primary Productivity between the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers

Journal of Climate 33(8), 2967-2984
171

Kim, J.-S., Kug, J.-S., Jeong, S.-J., Park, H., Schaepman-Strub, G. (2020)

Extensive fires in southeastern Siberian permafrost linked to preceding Arctic Oscillation

Science Advances 6(2), eaax3308
170

Kim, J.-S., Jeong, S.-J., Kug, J.-S., Williams, M. (2019)

Role of Local Air‐Sea Interaction in Fire Activity Over Equatorial Asia

Geophysical Research Letters 46(24), 14789-14797
165

Kim, J.-S., Kug, J.-S. (2019)

Role of off-equatorial SST in El Niño teleconnection to East Asia during El Niño decaying spring

Climate Dynamics 52(12), 7293-7308
152

Kim, J.-S., Kug, J.-S., Jeong, S.-J. (2017)

Intensification of terrestrial carbon cycle related to El Niño–Southern Oscillation under greenhouse warming

Nature Communications 8(1), 1674
149

Kim, J.-S., Kug, J.-S., Jeong, S.-J., Huntzinger, D. N., Michalak, A. M., Schwalm, C. R., Wei, Y., Schaefer, K. (2017)

Reduced North American terrestrial primary productivity linked to anomalous Arctic warming

Nature Geoscience 10(8), 572-576
144

Kim, J.-S., Kug, J.-S., Yoon, J.-H., Jeong, S.-J. (2016)

Increased Atmospheric CO2 Growth Rate during El Niño Driven by Reduced Terrestrial Productivity in the CMIP5 ESMs

Journal of Climate 29(24), 8783-8805
107

Kim, J.-S., Kug, J.-S., Yeh, S.-W., Kim, H.-K., Park, E.-H. (2014)

Relation between Climate Variability in Korea and Two Types of El Niño, and Their Sensitivity to Definition of Two Types of El Niño

Atmosphere 24(1), 89-99