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Joon Kim is affiliated with Seoul National University in South Korea and specializes in environmental science, with a particular focus on global and planetary change, ecology, water science and technology, nature and landscape conservation, and health. Their work spans several key research topics including atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, climate variability and models, remote sensing in agriculture, hydrology and watershed management studies, forest ecology, management, and vaccine coverage and hesitancy.

Their recent publications illustrate a broad engagement with environmental monitoring, agricultural ecosystems, and climate-related processes:

  • Inferring CO2 fertilization effect based on global monitoring land-atmosphere exchange with a theoretical model, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Paddy rice methane emissions across Monsoon Asia, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Evaluation of forest carbon uptake in South Korea using the national flux tower network, remote sensing, and data-driven technology, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Applying the Theory of Motivated Information Management to the Context of Conflicting Online Health Information: Implications for Childhood Vaccination Communication with Parents, 2020, International Journal of Strategic Communication
  • Radiation, Energy, and Entropy Exchange in an Irrigated-Maize Agroecosystem in Nebraska, USA, 2020, Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Joon Kim frequently collaborates with a number of researchers, indicating a networked approach to interdisciplinary topics. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Minseok Kang
  • Woo-Kyun Lee
  • Kazuhito Ichii
  • Yohana Maria Indrawati
  • Youngjin Ko

Their work is published in a variety of academic venues, particularly journals focused on climate, environmental, and agricultural sciences. Key publication venues include:

  • Journal of Climate Change Research
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • International Journal of Strategic Communication

Joon Kim's research integrates remote sensing technologies and data-driven methods to address questions in plant-water dynamics, carbon cycling, and methane emissions. Their exploration of both biophysical and social dimensions of health communication appears in interdisciplinary journals.

Best Publications

  • Carbon dioxide and methane fluxes from an intermittently flooded paddy field

    Akira Miyata;Ray Leuning;Owen Thomas Denmead;Joon Kim

  • Turbulent flux transfer over bare-soil surfaces: Characteristics and parameterization

    Kun Yang;Kun Yang;Toshio Koike;Hirohiko Ishikawa;Joon Kim

  • Carbon dioxide exchange in a peatland ecosystem

    N. J. Shurpali;S. B. Verma;J. Kim;T. J. Arkebauer

  • Surface energy fluxes of Phragmites australis in a prairie wetland

    G.G Burba;S.B Verma;J Kim;J Kim

  • Seasonal variation in methane emission from a temperate Phragmites‐dominated marsh: effect of growth stage and plant‐mediated transport

    JooN. Kim;JooN. Kim;Shashi B. Verma;David P. Billesbach

  • Gap‐filling approaches for eddy covariance methane fluxes: A comparison of three machine learning algorithms and a traditional method with principal component analysis

    Yeonuk Kim;Mark S. Johnson;Sara H. Knox;T. Andrew Black

  • Surface exchange of water vapour between an open sphagnum fen and the atmosphere

    Joon Kim;Joon Kim;Shashi B. Verma

  • On the temporal upscaling of evapotranspiration from instantaneous remote sensing measurements to 8-day mean daily-sums

    Youngryel Ryu;Youngryel Ryu;Dennis D. Baldocchi;T. Andrew Black;Matteo Detto

  • Momentum, water vapor, and carbon dioxide exchange at a centrally located prairie site during FIFE

    Shashi B. Verma;Joon Kim;Robert J. Clement

  • Modeling of surface energy partitioning, surface temperature, and soil wetness in the Tibetan prairie using the Simple Biosphere Model 2 (SiB2)

    Zhiqiu Gao;Zhiqiu Gao;Namyi Chae;Joon Kim;Jinkyu Hong

  • Upscaling fluxes from tower to landscape: Overlaying flux footprints on high-resolution (IKONOS) images of vegetation cover

    J. Kim;J. Kim;Q. Guo;D.D. Baldocchi;M.Y. Leclerc

  • New data-driven estimation of terrestrial CO2 fluxes in Asia using a standardized database of eddy covariance measurements, remote sensing data, and support vector regression

    Kazuhito Ichii;Kazuhito Ichii;Kazuhito Ichii;Masahito Ueyama;Masayuki Kondo;Masayuki Kondo;Nobuko Saigusa

  • Evaluation of land surface radiation balance derived from moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) over complex terrain and heterogeneous landscape on clear sky days

    Youngryel Ryu;Sinkyu Kang;Sang-Ki Moon;Joon Kim

  • Response of surface air temperature to small-scale land clearing across latitudes

    Mi Zhang;Xuhui Lee;Guirui Yu;Shijie Han

  • Soil surface CO2 flux in a Minnesota peatland

    Joon Kim;Shashi B. Verma

  • Carbon dioxide exchange in a temperate grassland ecosystem

    Joon Kim;Shashi B. Verma

  • Eddy correlation measurements of methane flux in a northern peatland ecosystem

    Shashi B. Verma;Frank G. Ullman;David Billesbach;Robert J. Clement

  • Diel variation in methane emission from a midlatitude prairie wetland: Significance of convective throughflow in Phragmites australis

    J. Kim;S. B. Verma;D. P. Billesbach;R. J. Clement

  • Components of surface energy balance in a temperate grassland ecosystem

    Joon Kim;Shashi B. Verma

  • Modeling canopy stomatal conductance in a temperate grassland ecosystem

    Joon Kim;Shashi B. Verma

  • Source/sink distributions of heat, water vapour, carbon dioxide and methane in a rice canopy estimated using Lagrangian dispersion analysis

    R Leuning;O.T Denmead;A Miyata;J Kim

  • Upscaling fluxes from tower to landscape: Overlaying flux footprints on high resolution (IKONOS) images of vegetation cover

    Joon Kim

Frequent Co-Authors

Shashi B. Verma
Shashi B. Verma University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Yowhan Son
Yowhan Son Korea University
Robert Clement
Robert Clement University of Edinburgh
Kazuhito Ichii
Kazuhito Ichii Chiba University
Ki-Hyun Kim
Ki-Hyun Kim Hanyang University
Takashi Hirano
Takashi Hirano Hokkaido University
Takeshi Ohta
Takeshi Ohta Nagoya University
Dennis D. Baldocchi
Dennis D. Baldocchi University of California, Berkeley
Youngryel Ryu
Youngryel Ryu Seoul National University
Shenggong Li
Shenggong Li Chinese Academy of Sciences

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