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Yunsoo Choi

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M/S 183-601
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA 91109
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818-354-2500
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Yunsoo Choi
Science Team
Atmospheric Modeling

Education
  • B.S. Chemistry, Hanyang University, Korea (1994)
  • M.S. Physical Chemistry, Hanyang University, Korea (1996)
  • M.S. Biophysical Chemistry, University of California, Irvine (1999)
  • Ph.D. Atmospheric Chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology (2007)

Research Interests
  • Impact of anthropogenic and natural sources on chemical and climate components using remote sensing measurements
  • Impact of diverse weather systems (e.g., hot summer, monsoon, and hurricane) on chemical and climate components using remote sensing measurements
  • Impact of cloud convection and lightning activity on chemical and climate components using remote sensing measurements
  • Development of 0D, 1D, and 3D chemical transport model and air quality forecasting system over North America and Asia
  • Data assimilating chemical tracers and dynamical tracers into chemical transport model and forecasting system

Selected Awards
  • Glen Cass Award (2007)

Selected Publications
    Peer-reviewed Publications
  1. Yunsoo Choi, Jinwon Kim, Annmarie Eldering, Gregory Osterman, Yuk L. Yung, and K. N. Liou, Lightning and anthropogenic NOx sources over the United States and the western North Atlantic Ocean: 2. Impact on OLR, radiative forcing, and atmospheric radiative heating rate, 2008, Journal of Geophysical Research, in preparation
  2. Chun Zhao, Yuhang Wang, Tao Zeng, and Yunsoo Choi, Impact of convective transport of lightning NOx production over North America: Dependence on cumulus parameterizations, 2008, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, in preparation
  3. Yunsoo Choi, Annmarie Eldering, Gregory Osterman, Derek Cunnold, Qing Yang, Eric Bucsela, and Kenneth E. Pickering, Lightning and anthropogenic NOx sources over the U.S. and the western Atlantic Ocean: 1. Impact on tropospheric O3 from space-borne observations, 2008, submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research
  4. Yunsoo Choi, Gregory Osterman, Annmarie Eldering, Yuhang Wang, and Eric Edgerton, Understanding enhancements in tropospheric CO from biogenic VOC emissions using TES and MOPITT data, 2008, submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research
  5. Yunsoo Choi, Yuhang Wang, Qing Yang, Derek Cunnold, Tao Zeng, Changsub Shim, Ming Luo, Annmarie Eldering, Eric Bucsela, and James Gleason, Spring to summer northward migration of high O3 over the western North Atlantic, 2008, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L04818, doi:10.1029/2007GL032276
  6. Yunsoo Choi, Yuhang Wang, Tao Zeng, Derek Cunnold, Eun-Su Yang, Randall Martin, and Kelly Chance, Valerie Thouret, and Eric Edgerton, Springtime transition of NO2, CO, and O3 over North America: Model evaluation and analysis, 2008, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, D20311, doi:10.1029/2007JD009632
  7. Burcak Kaynak, Yongtao Hu, Randall Martin, Armistead Russell, Yunsoo Choi, and Yuhang Wang, The effect of lightning NOx production on surface ozone in the continental United States, 2008 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 8, 5151-5159
  8. Serge Guillas, Jinghui Bao, Yunsoo Choi and Yuhang Wang, Statistical correction and downscaling of chemistry-transport model ozone forecasts over Atlanta, 2008, Atmospheric Environments, 42(6), 1338-1348
  9. Yuhang Wang, Yunsoo Choi, Tao Zeng, Douglas Davis, Martin Buhr, L. Gregory Huey, and William Neff, Assessing the photochemical impact of snow NOx emissions over Antarctica during ANTCI 2003, 2007, Atmospheric Environments, 41(19), 3944
  10. Jing Ping, Derek Cunnold, Yunsoo Choi and Yuhang Wang, Summertime tropospheric ozone columns from Aura OMI/MLS measurements versus regional model results over the United States, 2006, Geophysical Research Letters, 33 (17), L17817.
  11. Yuhang Wang, Yunsoo Choi, Tao Zeng, Brian Ridley, Nicola Blake, Donald Blake and Frank Flocke, Late-spring increase of trans-Pacific pollution transport in the upper troposphere, 2006, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L01811.
    This article was chosen as an AGU journal highlight - 13 February 2006: Air from Asia pollutes North America's upper troposphere.
  12. Yunsoo Choi, Yuhang Wang, Tao Zeng, Randall Martin, Thomas Kurosu and Kelly Chance, Evidence of lightning NOx and convective transport of pollutants in satellite observations over North America, 2005 Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L02805.
    This article was chosen for the virtual journal: Editor's Choice: Atmoshperic and Space Electricity.
  13. Changsub Shim, Yuhang Wang, Yunsoo Choi, Paul I. Palmer, Dorian S. Abbot and Kelly Chance, Constraining global isoprene emissions with Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) formaldehyde column measurements, 2005 Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, D24301.
  14. Yuhang Wang, Changsub Shim, Nicola Blake, Donald Blake, Yunsoo Choi, Brian Ridley, Jack Dibb, Anthony Wimmers, Jennie Moody, Frank Flocke, Andrew Weinheimer, Robert Talbot and Elliot Atlas, Intercontinental transport of pollution manifested in the variability and seasonal trend of springtime O3 at northern middle and high latitudes, 2003 Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(D21), 4683.
  15. Yunsoo Choi, Scott Elliott, Isobel J. Simpson, Donald R. Blake, Jonah J. Colman, Manvendra K. dubey, Simone Meinardi, F. Sherwood Rowland, Tomoko Shirai and Felisa A. Smith, Survey of whole air data from the second airborne Biomass Burning and Lightning Experiment using principal component analysis, 2003,Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(D5), 4163.
    This article was chosen for the virtual journal: Editor's Choice: Atmospheric and Space Electricity.
  16. J. Alfredo Freites, Yunsoo Choi and Douglas J. Tobias, Molecular Dynamics Simulations of a Pulmonary Surfactant Protein B Peptide ina Lipid Monolayer, 2003, Biophysical Journal, 84(4), 2169-2180.
  17. Yunsoo Choi, Joo, C., and Won, Y., Simulated Annealing Structure of Met-enkephalin by Molecular Dynamics, 1995, Journal of Natural Science, 14, 269-276.
    Presentations
  18. Qing Yang, Derek M. Cunnold, Yunsoo Choi, and Yuhang Wang, The study of tropospheric ozone column enhancements over North America using a regional model and the current versions of the Aura satelite data, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(23), A33A-05, Jt. Assem. Suppl, 2008.
  19. Yunsoo Choi, Annmarie Eldering, Greg Osterman, Yuhang Wang, and Eric Edgerton, Understanding enhancements in tropospheric CO from biogenic VOC emissions using TES and MOPITT data, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(23), A24A-02, Jt. Assem. Suppl, 2008.
   
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