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2025

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
64
Citations
17355
World Ranking
2293
National Ranking
15

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Korea Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Korea Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Korea Leader Award

Overview

Rokjin J. Park is affiliated with Seoul National University in South Korea and conducts research primarily in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work centers on several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, and Automotive Engineering.

The main topics of their research focus on aspects of atmospheric and environmental sciences such as:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Vehicle emissions and performance

Rokjin J. Park has contributed to a range of scientific publications. Some notable recent papers include:

  • "Multi-model intercomparisons of air quality simulations for the KORUS-AQ campaign," 2021, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • "Ozone pollution threatens the production of major staple crops in East Asia," 2022, Nature Food
  • "Investigation of factors controlling PM2.5 variability across the South Korean Peninsula during KORUS-AQ," 2020, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • "Projections of excess mortality related to diurnal temperature range under climate change scenarios: a multi-country modelling study," 2020, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • "Contributions of international sources to PM2.5 in South Korea," 2021, Atmospheric Environment

They publish frequently in journals such as:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Atmospheric Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Harvard Dataverse

Rokjin J. Park often collaborates with several co-authors who have worked on multiple publications together, including:

  • Yujin J. Oak
  • Jaein I. Jeong
  • Jung-Hun Woo
  • Sang-Wook Yeh
  • Chang-Keun Song

Best Publications

  • Natural and transboundary pollution influences on sulfate‐nitrate‐ammonium aerosols in the United States: Implications for policy

    Rokjin J. Park;Daniel James Jacob;Brendan Field;Robert M. Yantosca

  • A Large Organic Aerosol Source in the Free Troposphere Missing from Current Models

    Colette L. Heald;Daniel J. Jacob;Rokjin J. Park;Lynn M. Russell

  • Sources of carbonaceous aerosols over the United States and implications for natural visibility

    Rokjin J. Park;Daniel James Jacob;Mian Chin;Randall Martin

  • Estimating ground-level PM2.5 using aerosol optical depth determined from satellite remote sensing

    Aaron van Donkelaar;Randall V. Martin;Randall V. Martin;Rokjin J. Park

  • The impact of transpacific transport of mineral dust in the United States

    T. Duncan Fairlie;T. Duncan Fairlie;Daniel J. Jacob;Rokjin J. Park

  • Chemical cycling and deposition of atmospheric mercury : Global constraints from observations

    Noelle E. Selin;Daniel J. Jacob;Rokjin J. Park;Robert M. Yantosca

  • Multimodel estimates of intercontinental source-receptor relationships for ozone pollution

    Arlene M. Fiore;F. J. Dentener;O. Wild;C. Cuvelier

  • Sulfate Formation in Sea-Salt Aerosols: Constraints from Oxygen Isotopes

    B. Alexander;Rokjin J. Park;Daniel J. Jacob;Q. B. Li

  • A multi-model assessment of pollution transport to the Arctic

    D. T. Shindell;M. Chin;F. Dentener;R. M. Doherty

  • New Era of Air Quality Monitoring from Space: Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS)

    Jhoon Kim;Ukkyo Jeong;Myoung Hwan Ahn;Jae H. Kim

  • Ozone pollution threatens the production of major staple crops in East Asia

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  • Mapping annual mean ground‐level PM2.5 concentrations using Multiangle Imaging Spectroradiometer aerosol optical thickness over the contiguous United States

    Yang Liu;Rokjin J. Park;Daniel J. Jacob;Qinbin Li

  • Rethinking the global secondary organic aerosol (SOA) budget: stronger production, faster removal, shorter lifetime

    Alma Hodzic;Prasad S. Kasibhatla;Duseong S. Jo;Christopher D. Cappa

  • Transition Metal-Catalyzed Oxidation of Atmospheric Sulfur: Global Implications for the Sulfur Budget

    Becky Alexander;Rokjin J. Park;Daniel J. Jacob;Sunling Gong

  • Modeling of gas and aerosol with WRF/Chem over Europe: Evaluation and sensitivity study

    Paolo Tuccella;Gabriele Curci;Guido Visconti;Bertrand Bessagnet

  • Air-Sea Exchange in the Global Mercury Cycle

    Sarah A. Strode;Lyatt Jaeglé;Noelle E. Selin;Daniel J. Jacob

  • A global simulation of brown carbon: Implications for photochemistry and direct radiative effect

    Duseong S. Jo;Rokjin J. Park;Seungun Lee;Sang Woo Kim

  • Regional Visibility Statistics in the United States: Natural and Transboundary Pollution Influences, and Implications for the Regional Haze Rule

    Rokjin J. Park;Daniel J. Jacob;Naresh Kumar;Robert M. Yantosca

  • Transpacific Transport of Asian Anthropogenic Aerosols and its Impact on Surface Air Quality in the United States

    Colette L. Heald;Colette L. Heald;Daniel J. Jacob;Rokjin J. Park;Becky Alexander;Becky Alexander

  • Convective outflow of South Asian pollution: A global CTM simulation compared with EOS MLS observations

    Qinbin Li;Jonathan H. Jiang;Dong L. Wu;William G. Read

  • Ozone production in transpacific Asian pollution plumes and implications for ozone air quality in California

    R. C. Hudman;Daniel James Jacob;O. R. Cooper;O. R. Cooper;M. J. Evans

  • The Korea–United States Air Quality (KORUS-AQ) field study

    James H. Crawford;Joon-Young Ahn;Jassim Al-Saadi;Limseok Chang

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel J. Jacob
Daniel J. Jacob Harvard University
Jung-Hun Woo
Jung-Hun Woo Seoul National University
Sang-Wook Yeh
Sang-Wook Yeh Hanyang University
Robert M. Yantosca
Robert M. Yantosca Harvard University
Chang-Hoi Ho
Chang-Hoi Ho Seoul National University
Peter Hess
Peter Hess Cornell University
Frank Dentener
Frank Dentener European Commission Joint Research Centre
Drew T. Shindell
Drew T. Shindell Duke University
Guang Zeng
Guang Zeng National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research

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