· Published in 2026

· Published in 2025

· Published in 2024

· Published in 2023

· Published in 2022

· Selected recent papers

Jae-Sung Choi, Byoung-Ju Choi, Hyoun-Woo Kang, Ok Hee Seo, Wonho Yih, Coupled ocean model based three-dimensional ecological regions and phytoplankton biomass variations in the Yellow Sea, Journal of Marine Systems, Volume 256, 2026, 104256, ISSN 0924-7963, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2026.104256

Yeong Du Yoo, Wonho Yih, Byoung-Ju Choi, Sang-Ho Lee, Jae-Yeop Kim, Moo Joon Lee, Tidal fronts and the associated phytoplankton community variations: Insights from the mid-western coast of Korea, Regional Studies in Marine Science, Volume 98, 2026, 105074, ISSN 2352-4855, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2026.105074

Drevillon, M., and Coauthors, 2025: OceanPredict’24 Symposium: Advancing Ocean Prediction Science for Societal Benefit. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 106, E2479–E2489, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-25-0130.1

Yun Hee Kim, Hyun Jun Yang, Hye Jin Seo, Dohyeop Yoo, Byoung-Ju Choi, Wonchoel Lee, Se Hyeon Jang, Spatiotemporal dynamics of gelatinous and other metazooplankton in the northeastern East China Sea in 2023, highlighting the dietary composition of Salpa fusiformis, Journal of Plankton Research, Volume 47, Issue 6, November/December 2025, fbaf057, https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbaf057 

Park, KA., Cha, NY., Jeong, KY. et al. Long-term water types and satellite chlorophyll a variability in a river discharge environment around Ieodo Ocean Research Station. Sci Rep 15, 28240 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-13428-y 

Kim, H.S., Jang, B., Oh, M.R. et al. Newly Introduced GAMBI and OSTREO Indices for Epiphytic Dinoflagellate Communities. Ocean Sci. J. 60, 29 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12601-025-00225-x 

Kim J-K, Choi B-J, Lee S-H and Son Y-T (2025) Response of the thermohaline front and associated submesoscale features in the Korea Strait to wind variation during autumn. Front. Mar. Sci. 12:1571360. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2025.1571360 

Shin, CW., Min, H.S., Lee, S. et al. Impacts of Along-Strait Winds on Sea Level, Sea Surface Temperature, and Current in the Jeju Strait During Summer 2022. Ocean Sci. J. 60, 8 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12601-024-00204-8 

Ahn, S., Choi, BJ. & Kim, JK. Analysis of Sea Surface Temperature Variations off Wando During Summer Using Multiple Linear Regression. Ocean Sci. J. 59, 64 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12601-024-00190-x

Choi, JS., Choi, BJ., Kwon, K. et al. Assimilation of Surface Geostrophic Currents in the East Sea Using theEnsemble Kalman Filter. Ocean Sci. J. 59, 57 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12601-024-00174-x 

Kim, J.Y., Choi, BJ., Lee, SH. et al. Observation of the West Korea Coastal Current in the Eastern Yellow Sea During Summer. Ocean Sci. J. 59, 51 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12601-024-00176-9 

Edwards CA, De Mey-Fre´ maux P, Barcelo´ -Llull B, Charria G, Choi B-J, Halliwell GR,Hole LR, Kerry C,Kourafalou VH, Kurapov AL,Moore AM, Mourre B,Oddo P, Pascual A,Roughan M, Skandrani C, Storto A,Vervatis V and Wilkin JL (2024) Assessingimpacts of observations on ocean circulation models with examples from coastal, shelf, and marginal +seas.Front. Mar. Sci. 11:1458036.doi: 10.3389/fmars.2024.1458036

Seo JY, Choi B-J, Choi SM, Ryu J and Ha HK (2024) Contribution of coastal seiches to sediment transport in a microtidal semi-enclosed bay. Front. Mar. Sci. 11:1392435. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2024.1392435 

Young-Joo Jung, Byoung-Ju Choi, Jae-Sung Choi, Sung-Gwan Myoung, Joon-Young Yang, Chang-Hoon Han. (2024). Bias-Aware Numerical Surface Temperature Prediction System in Cheonsu Bay during Summer and Sensitivity Experiments. Ocean and Polar Research, 46(1), 17-30. doi:10.4217/OPR.2024005

KIM, J., CHOI, B.-J., CHOI, J.-S., & HA, H. K. (2024). Seasonal Circulation and Estuarine Characteristics in the Jinhae and Masan Bay from Three-Dimensional Numerical Experiments. The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY, 29(2), 77–100. https://doi.org/10.7850/JKSO.2024.29.2.077 

Choi, JS., Kwon, K. & Choi, BJ. Effects of open boundary bias correction and data assimilation in a regional ocean circulation model for the East Sea. Ocean Dynamics 74, 495–509 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10236-024-01615-w 

Jong-Kyu Kim, Byoung-Ju Choi, Influence of warm surface water originating from the East China Sea on surface water temperature off the south coast of Korea in summer, Continental Shelf Research, Volume 276, 2024, 105226, ISSN 0278-4343, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2024.105226.

Lee, S., Y. Cho, J. Jung, B. Choi, Y. Kim, and S. Kim, 2024: Regional Comparison of Performance between EnKF and EnOI in the North Pacific. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 41, 113–125, https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-23-0062.1. 

Choi B-J, Jin HS and Lkhagvasuren B (2024) Applications of the Fourier neural operator in a regional ocean modeling and prediction. Front. Mar. Sci. 11:1383997. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2024.1383997 

Bora Lee, Jong Kyu Kim, Miran Kim, Byoung-Ju Choi, Kwang Young Kim, Myung Gil Park (2023) Northward monement of the tropical dinoflagellate Ornithocercus and Triposolenia genera in Lorean coastal waters is strongly associated with the inflow of ther Jeju Warm Current. Frontiers Marine Science, Vol, 10 - 2023. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1156121 

YOO, D., J.-K. Kim, B.-J. Choi (2023) Distribution and Origin of the Mid-depth Cold Water Pools Observed in the Jeju Strait in the Summer of 2019. The Sea Journal of the Korean Society of Oceanography, 28(1), 19-40. doi:10.7850/jkso.2023.28.1.019 

Kim YH, Seo HJ, Yang HJ, Lee M-Y, Kim T-H, Yoo D, Choi B-J and Jang SH (2023) Protistan community structure and the influence of a branch of Kuroshio in the northeastern East China Sea during the late spring. Front. Mar. Sci. 10:1192529. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1192529  

BYUN, D.-S., & CHOI, B.-J. (2023). The Maritime Geography of Korea Strait: Suggested Nomenclature and Cartographic Boundaries Derived from a Review of Historical and Contemporary Maps. The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY, 28(2), 63–93. https://doi.org/10.7850/JKSO.2023.28.2.063 

Byun D-S, Choi B-J and Hart DE (2023) Overcoming tide-related challenges to successful regional and coastal ocean modeling. Front. Mar. Sci. 10:1150305. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1150305

Su-Ran Kim, Kyung-Ae Park, Do-seong Byun, Kwang-Young Jeong, and Byoung-Ju Choi (2023) Misconception on the Yellow Sea Warm Current in Secondary-School Textbooks and Development of Teaching Materials for Ocean Current Data Visualization. https://doi.rog/10.5467/JKESS.2023.44.1.13

Jung, Y.-J., B.-J. Choi, K. Kwon, S.-H. Lee (2022) Modeling surface low-salinity pools formed by heavy precipitation in the Yellow Sea. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 275: 107987.  doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2022.107987

Song, K., Jung, D., Oh, KH. et al. Spatio-Temporal Variation of the M2 Tidal Current from Field Observations in the Jeju Strait. Ocean Sci. J. 57, 576–591 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12601-022-00084-w 

Kim, J.-H., B.-J. Choi, Rachid Omira (2022) On the Greenspan resurgence of meteotsunamis in the Yellow Sea –insights from the discovered 11-12 June 2009 event. Natural Hazards. doi.org/10.1007/s11069-022-05427-3 

Shin, C.-W., H.S. Min · S. Lee · H.‑W. Kang · B. Ku · D. G. Kim. J. Park, S. Kwon, B.‑J. Choi (2022) Current Structure and Volume Transport in the Jeju Strait Observed for a Year with Multiple ADCP Moorings. Ocean Sci. J. doi.org/10.1007/s12601-022-00079-7 

Yoon, W.-D., B.-J. Choi, H.-S. Yoo, B.-H. Kim (2022) Unusual Mass Appearance of Salpa fusiformis (Thaliacea: Salpida) in Early Spring at a Nuclear Power Plant at Mid-western Boundary of the East Sea. Ocean Sci. J. doi.org/10.1007/s12601-022-00065z

Kim, J.-K., B.-J. Choi, J. Kim, Y.-J. Sun (2022) Wind-driven retreat of cold water pool and abrupt sea temperature rise off the southwest coast of Korea in summer 2017. J. Marine Syst. 231: 103739.

Seo, J.-Y., B.-J. Choi, J.-S. Ryu, H.-K. Ha (2022) Dynamic evolution of a secondary turbidity maximum under various forcing conditions in a microtidal estuary. Marine Geology 446:106760

Kwon, K., B.-J. Choi, S.-G. Myoung, H.-S. Sim (2021) Propagation of a Meteotsunami from the Yellow Sea to the Korea Strait in April 2019. Atmosphere 12: 1083.

Byun, D.-S., B.-J. Choi, H. Kim (2021) Non-astronomical Tides and Monthly Mean Sea Level Variations due to Differing Hydrographic Conditions and Atmospheric Pressure along the Korean Coast from 1999 to 2017. J. Korean Soc. Oceanogr. 26(1):11-36.

Guo, X., B.-J. Choi, F. Qiao (2021) Circulation. In Ishizaka, J., Kim, G., Lee, J.H., Liu, S.M., Yu, F. and Zhang, J. (Eds.) Oceanography of the Yellow Sea and East China Sea. PICES Sci. Rep. No. 62 (pp. 3–32). North Pacific Marine Science Organization, Sidney, BC, Canada, 298 pp.

Kwon, K., B.-J. Choi, Kim, S.-D., Lee, S.-H., Park, K.-A. (2020) Assessment and Improvement of Global Gridded Sea Surface Temperature Datasets in the Yellow Sea Using In Situ Ocean Buoy and Research Vessel Observations. Remote Sens. 12: 759. 

Park, S.J., B.-J. Choi, H.S. Sim, D.-S. Byun (2020) Arrival of long ocean waves and hourly sea level oscillations in Masan Bay, Korea on 19–22 March 2014.  J. Coastal Res. 95:  1510–1514. 

Kim, D., H.-R. Shin, M.-B. Choi, Y.-J. Choi, B.-J. Choi, G.-H. Seo, S.-J. Kwon, B Kang (2020) Simulation of the Ocean Circulation Around Ulleungdo and Dokdo Using a Numerical Model of High-Resolution Nested Grid. Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers 32(6): 587~601.

Kwon, K., B.-J. Choi, K.Y. Kim, K. Kim (2019)  Tracing the trajectory of pelagic Sargassum using satellite monitoring and Lagrangian transport simulations in the East China Sea and Yellow Sea. Algae 34(4): 315-326

Kim, H.M., J. Jo, C. Park, B.-J. Choi, H.-G. Lee, K.Y. Kim (2019) Epibionts associated with floating Sargassum horneri in the Korea Strait. Algae 34(4): 303-313

Byun, D.-S., B.-J. Choi, H. Kim (2019) Estimation of the Lowest and Highest Astronomical Tides along the west and south coast of Korea from 1999 to 2017. J. Korean Soc. Oceanogr. 24(4):495-508.

Park, J.-E. S.-Y. Kim, B.-J. Choi, D.-S. Byun (2019) Estimation of Mean Surface Current and Current Variability in the East Sea using Surface Drifter Data from 1991 to 2017.  J. Korean Soc. Oceanogr. 24: 208-225. 

Kim, J., B.-J. Choi, S.-H. Lee, D.-S. Byun, B. Kang (219) Migration of the Dokdo Cold Eddy in the East Sea. J. Korean Soc. Oceanogr. 24: 351-373. 

Kwon, K., B.-J. Choi, S.-H. Lee (2018) Assimilation of Different SST Datasets to a Coastal Ocean Modeling System in the Yellow and East China Sea. J. Coastal Res. SI 85: 1041–1045. 

Kim, J.-K., B.-J. Choi, S.-H. Lee (2018) Non-seasonal sea level variations in the Korea Strait and regional atmospheric conditions. J. Coastal Res. SI 85: 581–585. 

Kim, M.-J.; Kim, C.-S.; Choi, B.-J., and Lee, S.-H. (2018) Plume Current Change by Seawall Construction for a Harbor Development in South Korea. J. Coastal Res. SI 85: 126–130. 

Chang, Y.S., B.-J. Choi, Y.-G. Park (2018) Seasonal Variation of Submesoscale Flow Features in a Mesoscale Eddy-dominant Region in the East Sea. Ocean Sci. J. doi.org/10.1007/s12601-018-0008-0

Choi, B.-J., S.H. Cho, H.S. Jung, S.-H. Lee, D.-S. Byun, K. Kwon (2018) Interannual variation of surface circulation in the Japan/East Sea due to external forcings and intrinsic variability. Ocean Sci. J. 53:1-16. doi.org/10.1007/s12601-017-0058-8

Byun, D.-S., B.-J. Choi (2018) Nomenclature of the seas around the Korean peninsula derived from analyses of papers in two representative Korean ocean and fisheries science journals: present status and future. J. Korean Soc. Oceanogr. 23(3): 125-151. 

Park, K-A, Park J-E, B.-J. Choi, Lee S-H, Shin H-R, Lee S-R, Byun D-S, Kang B-S, Lee E-I (2017) Schematic maps of ocean currents in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea for science textbooks based on scientific knowledge from oceanic measurements. J. Korean Soc. Oceanogr. 22:151–171

Byun, D.-S., G-H Seo, S-Y Park, K-Y Jeong, J Y Lee, W-J Choi, J-A Shin,  B.-J. Choi (2017) A Technical Guide to Operational Regional Ocean Forecasting Systems in the Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Agency (I): Continuous Operation Strategy, Downloading External Data, and Error Notification, J. Korean Soc. Oceanogr. 22:103-117

Lee, S.-H., M-J Kim, C-S Kim, B-J Choi, H-B Moon (2017) Surface Circulation and Vertical Structure of Current off the Keum River Estuary, Korea in Later Spring 2008. Ocean Sci. J. 52, 307–327

Choi, B.-J., J.A. Lee, J.-G. Park, J.-S. Choi, W. Yih, S.-H. Lee (2017) Influence of the thermocline and tidal mixing front on the phytoplankton community distribution in the eastern Yellow Sea. Chemosphere, 173, 299–306 

Ji, X., K.M. Kwon, B.-J. Choi, G. Liu, K.-S. Park, H Wang, D.-S. Byun, Q. Ji, X. Zhu (2017) Assimilating OSTIA SST into regional modeling systems for the Yellow Sea using ensemble methods. Acta Oceanol. Sin. 36:37–51

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