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Yunsoo Choi

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
  • Modeling analysis of the springtime transition and summertime trends on the basis of in-situ and satellite observations
  • Characterization of the effects of a lightning NOx production, convection and scavenging processes on ozone and its precursors in the model
  • Spring and summertime photochemical reaction in a remote region, the Antarctica or Arctic
Selected Awards
  • Glen Cass Award (2007)
Selected Publications
  1. Yunsoo Choi, Annmarie Eldering, Gregory Osterman, Yuhang Wang, and Eric Edgerton, Understanding enhancements in tropospheric CO from biogenic VOC emissions using TES and MOPITT data, 2008, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, in preparation.
  2. Chun Zhao, Yuhang Wang, Tao Zeng, and Yunsoo Choi, Modeling the impacts of convective transport of lightning NOx production over North America: Dependence on cumulus parameterizations, 2008, Journal of Geophysical Research, in preparation.
  3. 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.
  4. Yansoo 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, in review.
  5. Burcak Kaynak, Yongtao Hu, Randall V. Martin, Armistead Russell and Yunsoo Choi, The effect of lightning NOx production on surface ozone in the continental United States, 2008, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussion, acpd-2008-0038.
  6. Serge Guillas, Jinghui Bao, Yunsoo Choi and Yuhang Wang, Downscaling of chemistry-transport model ozone forecasts over Atlanta, 2008, Atmospheric Environments, 42(6), 1338-1348.
  7. 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, 2006, Atmospheric Environments, in press.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Yunsoo Choi, Joo, C., and Won, Y., Simulated Annealing Structure of Met-enkephalin by Molecular Dynamics, 1995, Journal of Natural Science, 14, 269-276.

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