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Overview

Minha Choi is affiliated with Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea and focuses primarily on environmental science. Their research spans multiple subfields including global and planetary change, environmental engineering, water science and technology, atmospheric science, and civil and structural engineering.

Key topics in Minha Choi's work include:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Climate variability and models
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Climate change and permafrost

Recent publications demonstrate contributions to the understanding of hydrological processes, urban climate phenomena, and irrigation water use. Examples of recent papers include:

  • The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade (2021), published in Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • Urban Heat Island associated with Land Use/Land Cover and climate variations in Melbourne, Australia (2021), published in Sustainable Cities and Society
  • Satellite-based global-scale irrigation water use and its contemporary trends (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • The urban heat island and thermal heat stress correlate with climate dynamics and energy budget variations in multiple urban environments (2023), published in Sustainable Cities and Society
  • Inter-comparison of evapotranspiration datasets over heterogeneous landscapes across Australia (2020), published in Advances in Space Research

Minha Choi frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable co-authors include:

  • Jongjin Baik
  • Jaehwan Jeong
  • Yuefeng Hao
  • Seulchan Lee
  • Nurul Syahira Mohammad Harmay

Their work is regularly published in a range of scientific journals, with multiple papers appearing in:

  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • Sustainable Cities and Society

Best Publications

  • The International Soil Moisture Network: Serving Earth system science for over a decade

    Wouter Dorigo;Irene Himmelbauer;Daniel Aberer;Lukas Schremmer

  • Stand-alone uncertainty characterization of GLEAM, GLDAS and MOD16 evapotranspiration products using an extended triple collocation approach

    Muhammad Sarfraz Khan;Umar Waqas Liaqat;Jongjin Baik;Minha Choi

  • Soil moisture variability of root zone profiles within SMEX02 remote sensing footprints

    Minha Choi;Jennifer M. Jacobs

  • Evaluation of topographical and seasonal feature using GPM IMERG and TRMM 3B42 over Far-East Asia

    Kiyoung Kim;Jongmin Park;Jongjin Baik;Minha Choi

  • Downscaling of AMSR-E soil moisture with MODIS products using machine learning approaches

    Jungho Im;Seonyoung Park;Jinyoung Rhee;Jongjin Baik

  • Validation of MODIS 16 global terrestrial evapotranspiration products in various climates and land cover types in Asia

    Hyun Woo Kim;Kyotaek Hwang;Qiaozhen Mu;Seung Oh Lee

  • Global-scale assessment and combination of SMAP with ASCAT (active) and AMSR2 (passive) soil moisture products

    Hyunglok Kim;Robert Parinussa;Alexandra G. Konings;Wolfgang Wagner

  • An intercomparison of three remote sensing-based surface energy balance algorithms over a corn and soybean production region (Iowa, U.S.) during SMACEX

    Minha Choi;William P. Kustas;Martha C. Anderson;Richard G. Allen

  • Evaluation of drought indices via remotely sensed data with hydrological variables

    Minha Choi;Jennifer M. Jacobs;Martha C. Anderson;David D. Bosch

  • Assessment of water quality based on Landsat 8 operational land imager associated with human activities in Korea

    Jisang Lim;Minha Choi

  • A microwave-optical/infrared disaggregation for improving spatial representation of soil moisture using AMSR-E and MODIS products

    Minha Choi;Yoomi Hur

  • Large scale measurements of soil moisture for validation of remotely sensed data: Georgia soil moisture experiment of 2003☆

    David D. Bosch;V. Lakshmi;T. J. Jackson;Minha Choi

  • Regional scale spatio-temporal variability of soil moisture and its relationship with meteorological factors over the Korean peninsula

    Eunsang Cho;Minha Choi

  • Impact of soil moisture on dust outbreaks in East Asia: Using satellite and assimilation data

    Hyunglok Kim;Minha Choi

  • The urban heat island and thermal heat stress correlate with climate dynamics and energy budget variations in multiple urban environments

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  • Scaled spatial variability of soil moisture fields

    Minha Choi;Jennifer M. Jacobs;Michael H. Cosh

  • Urban Heat Island associated with Land Use/Land Cover and climate variations in Melbourne, Australia

    Nurul Syahira Mohammad Harmay;Daeun Kim;Minha Choi

  • Assessment of clear and cloudy sky parameterizations for daily downwelling longwave radiation over different land surfaces in Florida, USA

    Minha Choi;Jennifer M. Jacobs;William P. Kustas

  • Satellite-based global-scale irrigation water use and its contemporary trends

    Muhammad Zohaib;Minha Choi

  • Dual-model approaches for evapotranspiration analyses over homo- and heterogeneous land surface conditions

    Kyuhyun Byun;Umar Waqas Liaqat;Minha Choi

  • An assessment of remotely sensed surface and root zone soil moisture through active and passive sensors in northeast Asia

    Eunsang Cho;Minha Choi;Wolfgang Wagner

  • Global-scale Assessment and Combination of SMAP with ASCAT (Active) and AMSR2 (Passive) Soil Moisture Products

    Hyunglok Kim;Robert Parinussa;Alexandra Konings;Wolfgang Wagner

Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer M. Jacobs
Jennifer M. Jacobs University of New Hampshire
William P. Kustas
William P. Kustas Agricultural Research Service
David D. Bosch
David D. Bosch Agricultural Research Service
Michael H. Cosh
Michael H. Cosh Agricultural Research Service
Robert Parinussa
Robert Parinussa University of New South Wales
Devendra M. Amatya
Devendra M. Amatya US Forest Service
Qiaozhen Mu
Qiaozhen Mu Science Systems & Applications, Inc.
Martha C. Anderson
Martha C. Anderson Agricultural Research Service
Dennis Timlin
Dennis Timlin Agricultural Research Service
Moon Sung Kang
Moon Sung Kang Sogang University

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