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Overview

Kitack Lee is affiliated with Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea. Their research spans primarily the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science with a focus on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, and Ecology.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Some of Kitack Lee's recent papers are:

  • "Differing Mechanisms of New Particle Formation at Two Arctic Sites", 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Feeding diverse prey as an excellent strategy of mixotrophic dinoflagellates for global dominance", 2021, Science Advances
  • "Best Practice Data Standards for Discrete Chemical Oceanographic Observations", 2022, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "Dimethyl Sulfide-Induced Increase in Cloud Condensation Nuclei in the Arctic Atmosphere", 2021, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • "Anthropogenic nitrogen is changing the East China and Yellow seas from being N deficient to being P deficient", 2020, Limnology and Oceanography

The venues where Kitack Lee frequently publishes include:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Marine Chemistry
  • Science Advances

Among their frequent coauthors are:

  • Ja-Myung Kim
  • Ki-Tae Park
  • Young Jun Yoon
  • In-Seong Han
  • Young Ho Ko

Best Publications

  • The oceanic sink for anthropogenic CO2.

    Christopher L. Sabine;Richard A. Feely;Nicolas Gruber;Robert M. Key

  • Impact of Anthropogenic CO2 on the CaCO3 System in the Oceans

    Richard A. Feely;Christopher L. Sabine;Kitack Lee;Will Berelson

  • A global ocean carbon climatology: Results from Global Data Analysis Project (GLODAP)

    Robert Key;Alexander Kozyr;Chris Sabine;K. Lee

  • Testing the iron hypothesis in ecosystems of the equatorial Pacific Ocean

    J. H. Martin;K. H. Coale;K. S. Johnson;K. S. Johnson;S. E. Fitzwater

  • The universal ratio of boron to chlorinity for the North Pacific and North Atlantic oceans

    Kitack Lee;Tae Wook Kim;Robert H. Byrne;Frank J. Millero

  • Global relationships of total alkalinity with salinity and temperature in surface waters of the world's oceans

    Kitack Lee;Lan T. Tong;Frank J. Millero;Christopher L. Sabine

  • Distribution of alkalinity in the surface waters of the major oceans.

    Frank J Millero;Kitack Lee;Mary Roche

  • Titration alkalinity of seawater

    Frank J. Millero;Jia Zhong Zhang;Kitack Lee;Douglas M. Campbell

  • Increasing N abundance in the northwestern Pacific Ocean due to atmospheric nitrogen deposition.

    Tae Wook Kim;Kitack Lee;Raymond G. Najjar;Hee Dong Jeong

  • A reevaluation of the magnitude and impacts of anthropogenic atmospheric nitrogen inputs on the ocean

    T. D. Jickells;E. Buitenhuis;K. Altieri;A. R. Baker

  • In situ calcium carbonate dissolution in the Pacific Ocean

    R. A. Feely;Chris Sabine;K. Lee;F. J. Millero

  • Relating estimates of CaCO3 production, export, and dissolution in the water column to measurements of CaCO3 rain into sediment traps and dissolution on the sea floor: A revised global carbonate budget

    W. M. Berelson;W. M. Balch;R. Najjar;R. A. Feely

  • Differing Mechanisms of New Particle Formation at Two Arctic Sites

    Lisa J. Beck;Nina Sarnela;Heikki Junninen;Heikki Junninen;Clara J. M. Hoppe

  • Dissociation constants for carbonic acid determined from field measurements

    Frank J. Millero;Denis Pierrot;Kitack Lee;Kitack Lee;Rik Wanninkhof

  • Increasing anthropogenic nitrogen in the North Pacific Ocean

    Il Nam Kim;Kitack Lee;Nicolas Gruber;David M. Karl

  • The effect of seawater CO2 concentration on growth of a natural phytoplankton assemblage in a controlled mesocosm experiment

    Ja-Myung Kim;Kitack Lee;Kyoungsoon Shin;Jung-Hoon Kang

  • Global net community production estimated from the annual cycle of surface water total dissolved inorganic carbon

    Kitack Lee

  • Approaches and tools to manipulate the carbonate chemistry

    J. P. Gattuso;K. Lee;Bjoern Rost;K. G. Schulz

  • Heterotrophic feeding as a newly identified survival strategy of the dinoflagellate Symbiodinium

    Hae Jin Jeong;Yeong Du Yoo;Nam Seon Kang;An Suk Lim

  • Distribution of anthropogenic CO2 in the Pacific Ocean

    C. L. Sabine;R. A. Feely;R. M. Key;J. L. Bullister

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard A. Feely
Richard A. Feely University of Washington
Hae Jin Jeong
Hae Jin Jeong Seoul National University
Frank J. Millero
Frank J. Millero University of Miami
Christopher L. Sabine
Christopher L. Sabine University of Hawaii at Manoa
Rik Wanninkhof
Rik Wanninkhof Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Robert M. Key
Robert M. Key Princeton University
John L. Bullister
John L. Bullister National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Tsung-Hung Peng
Tsung-Hung Peng Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Peter S. Liss
Peter S. Liss University of East Anglia
Andrew G. Dickson
Andrew G. Dickson University of California, San Diego

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