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2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
107
Citations
41891
World Ranking
242
National Ranking
110

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2003 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Yuk L. Yung is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States and conducts research primarily in environmental science, physics and astronomy, and earth and planetary sciences. Their work extensively covers subfields including astronomy and astrophysics, atmospheric science, global and planetary change, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, and aerospace engineering.

The scientist's research topics include atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, astro and planetary science, atmospheric ozone and climate, planetary science and exploration, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, and stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

Yung has authored multiple scientific papers published in notable venues, such as:

  • Unexpected air pollution with marked emission reductions during the COVID-19 outbreak in China, 2020, Science
  • Scattering and absorbing aerosols in the climate system, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Long-term drying of Mars by sequestration of ocean-scale volumes of water in the crust, 2021, Science
  • Societal shifts due to COVID-19 reveal large-scale complexities and feedbacks between atmospheric chemistry and climate change, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • From COVID-19 to future electrification: Assessing traffic impacts on air quality by a machine-learning model, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The venues in which Yuk L. Yung frequently publishes include:

  • Icarus
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
  • Earth and Space Science

Yung often collaborates with several researchers, including Zhao-Cheng Zeng, Vijay Natraj, Siteng Fan, Yuan Wang, and Stanley P. Sander, each with a notable number of joint publications.

Throughout their career, Yuk L. Yung has been recognized as a Fellow of distinguished organizations: the American Geophysical Union (2003), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2005), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2011).

Best Publications

  • Atmospheric Radiation: Theoretical Basis

    Richard M. Goody;Y. L. Yung

  • Photochemistry of the atmosphere of Titan: comparison between model and observations.

    Yuk L. Yung;Mark Allen;Joseph P. Pinto

  • The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) mission

    D Crisp;RM Atlas;FM Breon;LR Brown

  • Unexpected air pollution with marked emission reductions during the COVID-19 outbreak in China.

    Tianhao Le;Yuan Wang;Lang Liu;Jiani Yang

  • Greenhouse effects due to man-made perturbations of trace gases

    W. C. Wang;Y. L. Yung;A. A. Lacis;T. Mo

  • Water vapour in the atmosphere of a transiting extrasolar planet

    Giovanna Tinetti;Giovanna Tinetti;Giovanna Tinetti;Alfred Vidal-Madjar;Mao-Chang Liang;Jean-Philippe Beaulieu

  • Scattering and absorbing aerosols in the climate system

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  • The chemistry of atmospheric bromine

    Steven C. Wofsy;Michael B. McElroy;Yuk Ling Yung

  • Precision Requirements for Space-based XCO2 Data

    C. E. Miller;D. Crisp;P. L. DeCola;S. C. Olsen

  • Photochemistry of planetary atmospheres

    Yuk L. Yung;William B. Demore

  • Atmospheric Bromine and Ozone Perturbations in the Lower Stratosphere

    Y. L. Yung;J. P. Pinto;R. T. Watson;S. P. Sander

  • Potential Environmental Impact of a Hydrogen Economy on the Stratosphere

    Tracey K. Tromp;Run-Lie Shia;Mark Allen;John M. Eiler

  • Ethane ocean on Titan

    Jonathan I. Lunine;David J. Stevenson;Yuk L. Yung

  • A chemical survey of exoplanets with ARIEL

    Giovanna Tinetti;Pierre Drossart;Paul Eccleston;Paul Hartogh

  • A photochemical model of the martian atmosphere

    Hari Nair;Mark Allen;Ariel D. Anbar;Yuk L. Yung

  • Vertical transport and photochemistry in the terrestrial mesosphere and lower thermosphere (50–120 km)

    Mark Allen;Yuk L. Yung;Joe W. Waters

  • Photochemistry of the stratosphere of Venus: Implications for atmospheric evolution☆☆☆

    Yuk L. Yung;W.B. Demore

  • The ACOS CO 2 retrieval algorithm – Part II: Global X CO 2 data characterization

    D. Crisp;B. M. Fisher;C. O'Dell;C. Frankenberg

  • The Vertical Distribution of Ozone in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere

    Mark Allen;Jonathan I. Lunine;Yuk L. Yung

  • MOLECULAR SIGNATURES IN THE NEAR-INFRARED DAYSIDE SPECTRUM OF HD 189733b

    M. R. Swain;G. Vasisht;G. Tinetti;J. Bouwman

  • Water, Methane, and Carbon Dioxide Present in the Dayside Spectrum of the Exoplanet HD 209458b

    M. Swain;G. Tinetti;G. Vasisht;P. Deroo

  • WATER, METHANE, AND CARBON DIOXIDE PRESENT IN THE DAYSIDE SPECTRUM OF THE EXOPLANET HD 209458b

    M. R. Swain;G. Tinetti;G. Vasisht;P. Deroo

Frequent Co-Authors

Mao-Chang Liang
Mao-Chang Liang Academia Sinica
Charles E. Miller
Charles E. Miller California Institute of Technology
Jonathan H. Jiang
Jonathan H. Jiang California Institute of Technology
David Crisp
David Crisp California Institute of Technology
Paul O. Wennberg
Paul O. Wennberg California Institute of Technology
Michael B. McElroy
Michael B. McElroy Harvard University
Yuan Wang
Yuan Wang California Institute of Technology
Duane E. Waliser
Duane E. Waliser Jet Propulsion Lab
Hui Su
Hui Su Jet Propulsion Lab
Ignasi Ribas
Ignasi Ribas Institute of Space Sciences

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