Soon-Ung Park
Seoul National University, South Korea
Biography
Soon-Ung Park holds a BSc in Meteorology from the Seoul National University in Korea, an MSc in Meteorology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in USA and a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from Oregon State University in USA. He had served at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences of Seoul National University in Korea as a Professor before he retired in 2006. As a Professor Emeritus of Seoul National University, he founded “Center for Atmospheric and Environmental Modeling (CAEM)” to pursue further studies on atmospheric environmental issues including air pollution dispersion, radionuclide dispersion, anthropogenic aerosols, dust aerosols, acidic rain and carbon cycles in forests. He has developed an operational Asian Dust Aerosol Model 2 (ADAM2) that is now used as a forecasting model in Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA). He is interested in the development of an Aerosol Modeling System including both dust and anthropogenic aerosols.