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	NASA Air Quality Study to Use KU Professor’s Air Pollutant Emissions Data
	관리자		1059		2016.03.29

On March 28, 2016, Konkuk University announced that an air pollutant emissions database developed by the Atmospheric Information Systems Lab led by Professor Jung Hun Woo will be used in KORUS-AQ: An International Cooperative Air Quality Field Study in Korea. The National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) of Korea and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States will jointly conduct research in May and June with observations of ground sites, aircrafts, ships, and satellites. According to NASA’s lead scientist, James Crawford, it will be the first time the organization will undertake a field study overseas with local scientists. NASA’s DC-8 flying laboratory as well as 400 researchers from the United States will be visiting Korea for the study. In addition to NIER and NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Harvard University, California Institute of Technology and 20 other research institutes from the United States will be participating. From Korea, researchers from the National Institute of Meteorological Sciences and Seoul National University will be joining the study. At the request of NIER, Professor Woo’s lab developed the Comprehensive Regional Emissions Inventory for Atmospheric Transport Experiments (CREATE), which is designated as the official database for KORUS-AQ. Professor Woo’s lab is expected to monitor air quality, model pollution, and analyze satellite data during the field study period. Professor Woo and graduate students from the lab plan to visit the U.S. Airforce base in Osan to give briefings on forecast models and hold discussions on the flight route for DC-8 and how to further research utilizing the results. An authority in climate and air quality management, Professor Woo said CREATE will not only improve forecasting, but will also have ramification for environmental policies. “If domestic and international scientists use CREATE for KORUS-AQ, I expect we can deepen our understanding of the impact of pollutants from China and North Korea, which currently add uncertainty in forecasting air quality in Korea,” he said.

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