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Overview

Seung-Muk Yi is affiliated with Seoul National University in South Korea and conducts research primarily in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including health, toxicology and mutagenesis, atmospheric science, environmental engineering, global and planetary change, and automotive engineering.

Their research focuses on key topics such as air quality and health impacts, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, air quality monitoring and forecasting, climate change and health impacts, vehicle emissions and performance, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and energy and environment impacts.

Seung-Muk Yi has published in a variety of scientific journals, with frequent contributions to Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Environmental Pollution, Chemosphere, The Science of The Total Environment, and Environmental Research.

Among their recent publications are the following papers:

  • Source apportionment of PM2.5 in Seoul, South Korea and Beijing, China using dispersion normalized PMF, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Health Effects of Asian Dust: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, 2020, Environmental Health Perspectives
  • Long term trends of chemical constituents and source contributions of PM2.5 in Seoul, 2020, Chemosphere
  • Fifteen-year trends in carbon species and PM2.5 in Seoul, South Korea (2003-2017), 2020, Chemosphere
  • The impact of organic extracts of seasonal PM2.5 on primary human lung epithelial cells and their chemical characterization, 2021, Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Seung-Muk Yi collaborates regularly with several coauthors, including Jieun Park, Kwonho Jeon, Jongbae Heo, Philip K. Hopke, and Ho Kim. These collaborations indicate a network of researchers working in related fields of air quality and environmental pollution.

Best Publications

  • Mortality risk attributable to high and low ambient temperature: a multicountry observational study

    Antonio Gasparrini;Yuming Guo;Masahiro Hashizume;Eric Lavigne

  • Global variation in the effects of ambient temperature on mortality: a systematic evaluation.

    Yuming Guo;Antonio Gasparrini;Ben Armstrong;Shanshan Li

  • Source apportionment of PM 2.5 in Seoul, Korea

    J.-B. Heo;P. K. Hopke;S.-M. Yi

  • Characteristics of the major chemical constituents of PM2.5 and smog events in Seoul, Korea in 2003 and 2004

    Hyun-Sun Kim;Jong-Bae Huh;Philip K. Hopke;Thomas M. Holsen

  • Cardiovascular Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollution: A Population-Based Study With 900 845 Person-Years of Follow-up.

    Hyeanji Kim;Joonghee Kim;Sunhwa Kim;Si Hyuck Kang

  • Korea National Survey for Environmental Pollutants in the Human Body 2008: heavy metals in the blood or urine of the Korean population.

    Jong Wha Lee;Chae Kwan Lee;Chan Seok Moon;In Ja Choi

  • Measurement of ultrafine particle size distributions from coal-, oil-, and gas-fired stationary combustion sources.

    M C Oliver Chang;Judith C Chow;John G Watson;Philip K Hopke

  • Source apportionment of PM2.5 in Seoul, South Korea and Beijing, China using dispersion normalized PMF.

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  • Asian Dust Storm and pulmonary function of school children in Seoul.

    Yun-Chul Hong;Xiao-Chuan Pan;Su-Young Kim;Kwangsik Park

  • Source apportionment of PM2.5 at the coastal area in Korea

    Jong-kyu Choi;Jong-Bae Heo;Soo-Jin Ban;Seung-Muk Yi

  • Fine particle air pollution and mortality: importance of specific sources and chemical species.

    Jongbae Heo;James J. Schauer;Okhee Yi;Domyung Paek

  • Short-term exposure to fine and coarse particles and mortality: A multicity time-series study in East Asia

    Hyewon Lee;Yasushi Honda;Masahiro Hashizume;Yue Leon Guo

  • Application of receptor modeling to atmospheric constituents at Potsdam and Stockton, NY

    Wei Liu;Philip K. Hopke;Young-ji Han;Seung-Muk Yi

  • Characterization of microbial community during Asian dust events in Korea.

    Sunghee Lee;Bora Choi;Seung-Muk Yi;GwangPyo Ko

  • Characteristics of atmospheric speciated mercury concentrations (TGM, Hg(II) and Hg(p)) in Seoul, Korea

    Seung-Hee Kim;Young-Ji Han;Thomas M. Holsen;Seung-Muk Yi

  • Temporal and spatial variations of the particle size distribution of PAHs and their dry deposition fluxes in Korea

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  • Chemical characteristics of PM2.5 aerosol in Incheon, Korea

    Jong-Kyu Choi;Jong-Bae Heo;Soo-Jin Ban;Seung-Muk Yi

  • Atmospheric particulate mercury: Concentrations and size distributions

    Pyung-Rae Kim;Young-Ji Han;Thomas M. Holsen;Seung-Muk Yi

  • Size-resolved source apportionment of ambient particles by positive matrix factorization at Gosan background site in East Asia

    J. S. Han;K. J. Moon;S. J. Lee;Y. J. Kim

  • Atmospheric gaseous mercury concentrations in New York State: relationships with meteorological data and other pollutants

    Young-Ji Han;Thomas M. Holsen;Soon-Onn Lai;Philip K. Hopke

  • Comparison between back-trajectory based modeling and Lagrangian backward dispersion modeling for locating sources of reactive gaseous mercury.

    Young-Ji Han;Thomas M. Holsen;Philip K. Hopke;Seung-Muk Yi:

  • Comparison of Dry Deposition Predicted from Models and Measured with a Water Surface Sampler

    Seung-Muk Yi;Thomas M. Holsen;Kenneth E. Noll

Frequent Co-Authors

Ho Kim
Ho Kim Seoul National University
Thomas M. Holsen
Thomas M. Holsen Clarkson University
Masahiro Hashizume
Masahiro Hashizume University of Tokyo
Yasushi Honda
Yasushi Honda University of Tsukuba
Kyung-Duk Zoh
Kyung-Duk Zoh Seoul National University
Yun-Chul Hong
Yun-Chul Hong Seoul National University
Haidong Kan
Haidong Kan Fudan University
Philip K. Hopke
Philip K. Hopke Clarkson University
Eric Lavigne
Eric Lavigne University of Ottawa
Yuming Guo
Yuming Guo Monash University

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