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Keeyoon Sung

Education
  • B.A. in English Education, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (1990)
  • B.Sc. in Astronomy and Space Science, Chungnam National University, Daejon, Korea (1996)
  • Course Completion Certificate of M.Sc. in Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (1998)
  • Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences, Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres, State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY (2003)

Research Interests
  • High resolution atmospheric molecular spectroscopy in the infrared with Fourier transform spectrometers
  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing in the Infrared
  • Carbon Cycle Study and long-term climate change
  • Remote sensing of planetary atmosphere

Professional Experience
  • Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Toronto, Canada (2006-2007)
    • Total and partial column retrievals of atmospheric species from Eureka DA8 spectra using the SFIT2 package
  • Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Waterloo, Canada (2003-2006)
    • Atmospheric column retrievals from PARIS-IR Arctic spectra in 2004-5
    • Carbon Cycle Study by FTS (CC-FTS)
    • Atmospheric Chemistry Explorer for Mars (ACE-M)
  • Research Assistant, SUNY at Stony Brook, NY (1998-2003)
    • Laboratory for Atmospheric Spectroscopic Research
    • Photochemical modeling of a planetary ionosphere/thermosphere
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant, Chungnam National University, Korea (1995-1996)
    • Data reduction of Infrared images of the upper atmosphere of Jupiter following impact by Shoemaker-Levy 9

Selected Publications
  1. Sung K, Skelton R, Walker KA, Boone CD, Fu D, and Bernath PF. N2O and O3 Arctic Column Amounts from PARIS-IR Observations: Retrievals, Characterization and Error Analysis. Accepted to JQSRT, 2007.
  2. Fu D, Walker KA, Sung K, Boone CD, Soucy M-A, and Bernath PF. The Portable Atmospheric Research Interferometeric Spectrometer for the InfraRed, PARIS-IR. Accepted to JQSRT, 2006.
  3. Kerzenmacher TE, Walker KA, Strong K, Berman R, Bernath PF, Boone CD, Drummond JR, Fast H, Fraser A, MacQuarrie K, Midwinter C, Sung K, McElroy T, Mittermeier RL, Walker J, Wu H. Measurements of O3, NO2 and temperature during the 2004 Canadian Arctic ACE Validation Campaign. Geophys Res Lett 2005; 32: L16S07, doi:10.1029/2005GL023032.
  4. Sung K and Varanasi P. CO2-broadened half-widths and CO2-induced line shifts of 12C16O relevant to the atmospheric spectra of Venus and Mars, JQSRT 2005; 91: 319 - 332.
  5. Sung K and Varanasi P. Hydrogen-broadened half-widths and hydrogen-induced line shifts of 12C16O relevant to the Jovian atmospheric spectra, JQSRT 2004; 85: 165 - 182.
  6. Sung K and Varanasi P. Intensities, collision-broadened half-widths, and collision-induced line shifts in the second overtone band of 12C16O, JQSRT 2004; 83: 445 - 458.
  7. Nemtchinov V, Sung K, and Varanasi P. Measurements of line intensities and half-widths in the 10 mum bands of 14NH3, JQSRT 2004; 83: 243 - 265.
  8. Fox JL and Sung KY. Solar activity variations of the Venus thermosphere/ionosphere, J Geophys Res 2001; 106: 21305 - 21335.
  9. Kim, YH, Sung, K-Y, Kim, SJ, Cochran WD, Lester DF, Trafton L, Clark BE. An analysis of infrared images of Jupiter impacted by P/Shoemaker-Levy 9, Journal of Korean Astronomical Society 1996; 29: 245 - 253.

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