Professor

o Degrees

- Ph.D. Texas A&M University, Atmospheric Sciences

(Professor Emeritus Thomas Wilheit , Texas A&M University )

- M.S. Texas A&M University, Atmospheric Sciences

(Professor Emeritus Thomas Wilheit , Texas A&M University )

- M.S. Seoul National University, Physics

(Professor Choonkyu Lee, Seoul National University)

- B.S. Seoul National University, Earth Sciences

o Dissertation (Ph.D.)

- Uncertainty of microwave radiative transfer computations in rain

o Work Experience

- Sejong University, Environment, Energy, and Geoinfomatics, Assistant professor (2015 ~ present)

- KMA, NMSC, Senior research scientist (2009 ~ 2015)

- KMA, NIMR, Senior research scientist (2008 ~ 2009)

- NOAA, STAR, Research Scientist (2006 ~ 2008)

o Awards

- The Len Curtis Award (2015) - Best scientific paper

(Taylor & Francis and The Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society)

- 환경부 장관상 (2014)

- 기상청장상 (2014)

o Selected Publications

- Sungwook Hong, Hwa-Jeong Seo, Nari Kim, and Inchul Shin, 2015, Physical retrieval of tropical ocean surface wind speed under rain-free conditions using spaceborne microwave radiometers, Remote Sensing Letters, 6, 380–389.

- Sungwook Hong, 2013, Polarization conversion for specular components of surface reflection, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 10, 1469–1472.

- Sungwook Hong and Inchul Shin, 2011, A physically-based inversion algorithm for retrieving soil moisture in passive microwave remote sensing, Journal of Hydrology, 405, 24–30.

- Sungwook Hong and Inchul Shin, 2010, Global trends of sea ice: small-scale roughness and refractive index, Journal of Climate, 23, 4669–4676

- Sungwook Hong, 2010, Global retrieval of small-scale roughness over land surfaces at microwave frequency, Journal of Hydrology, 389, 121–126

- Sungwook Hong, 2010, Surface roughness and polarization ratio in microwave remote sensing, International Journal of Remote Sensing,31, 2709–2716

- Sungwook Hong, 2010, Detection of small-scale roughness and refractive index of sea ice in passive satellite microwave remote sensing, Remote Sensing of Environment, 114, 1136–1140

- Sungwook Hong, 2010, Decomposition of unpolarized emissivity, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 31, 2109–2114

- Sungwook Hong, 2009, Asian dust (Hwangsa) detection over Yellow sea by decomposition of unpolarized infrared emissivity,Atmospheric Environment, 43, 5887–5893.

- Sungwook Hong, 2009, Retrieval of refractive index over specular surfaces for remote sensing applications, Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 3(1), 033560.

- Sungwook Hong, 2009, Effects of vertical resolution in plane-parallel atmospheric model on brightness temperature, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 6, 602–605.