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The following is a list of ECHO scientists' most recent publications.

Peer reviewed Papers  

1. Ouzounov D., Pulinets, S., Sun, K., Shen, X., Kafatos, M.C. (2020) Atmosphere Response to Pre-Earthquake Processes Revealed by Satellite and Ground Observations. Case Study for Xinjiang, China (2008-2014), Annals of Geophysics, 63 

2. Eslam El Nebrisi, Dietrich E. Lorke, Luke Howarth, Asma H. Alzaabi, Yang KHS, Frank C. Howarth, Murat Oz (2020) Capsaicin is a negative allosteric modulator of the 5-HT3 receptor. Frontiers in Pharmacology, Frontiers in Pharmacology 31 August 2020  

3. Shenyue Jia, Seung Hee Kim, Son V. Nghiem, Paul Doherty, and Menas C. Kafatos 2020: Patterns of population displacement during mega-fires in California detected using Facebook Disaster Maps.  Environ. Res. Lett. 15, 074029    

4. Liu, J., Lin, C., Chen, Y., Tso-Ren Wu; Meng-Ju Chung; Tien-Chi Liu; Yu-Lin Tsai; Loren C. Chang; C. Chao; D. Ouzounov; K.Hattori (2020)  The source detection of 28 September 2018 Sulawesi tsunami by using ionospheric GNSS total electron content disturbance. Geosci. Lett. 7, 11. 

5. Fu C., L-C. Lee, D.Ouzounov, J-C Jan; (2020) Earth's outgoing longwave radiation variability prior to M ≥ 6.0 earthquakes in the Taiwan area during 2009-2019, Frontiers in Earth Science, Solid Earth Geophysics 

6. Rozhnoi, A., Solovieva, M., Shalimov, S., Ouzounov, D., Gallagher, P., Verth, G., et al. (2020). The effect of the 21 August 2017 total solar eclipse on the phase of VLF/LF signals. Earth and Space Science. 7, e2019EA000839. 

2021 

7. Shabbir W, Yang KHS, Sadek B, and Oz M (2021) Apigenin and Structurally Related Flavonoids Allosterically Potentiate the Function of Human α7-Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Expressed in SH-EP1 Cells. Cells Volume Issue 5.  

8. Pulinets, S.; Tsidilina, M.; Ouzounov, D.; Davidenko, D. From Hector Mine M7.1 to Ridgecrest M7.1 Earthquake. A Look from a 20-Year Perspective. Atmosphere 2021, 12, 262. 

9. Pan X., L.Tong, K.Zhang, X.Shen, R.Battiston, D. Ouzounov, R. Iuppa, D.Crookes, C.Long, H. Zhou, Towards advancing the earthquake forecasting by machine learning of satellite data, ScienceofTheTotalEnvironment,v.771,2021,145256 

10. Parrot M., V. Tramutoli, Tiger J.Y. Liu, S. Pulinets, D. Ouzounov, N. Genzano, M. Lisi, K. Hattori, and A. Namgaladze Atmospheric and ionospheric coupling phenomena associated with largeearthquakes,Eur.Phys.J.SpecialTopics230,197{225(2021),  

11. Ouzounov D, Pulinets S, Davidenko D,Rozhnoi A, Solovieva M, Fedun V, Dwivedi BN, Rybin A, Kafatos M andTaylor P (2021) Transient Effects in Atmosphere and Ionosphere Preceding the 2015 M7.8 and M7.3 Gorkha–Nepal Earthquakes. Front. Earth Sci.  

12. Xiong P, Long C, Zhou H, Battiston R,De Santis A, Ouzounov D, Zhang X and Shen X (2021) Pre-Earthquake Ionospheric Perturbation Identification Using CSES Data via Transfer Learning. Front. Environ. Sci. 9:779255 

13. Di Stefano F., G.Giuliani, D.Ouzounov, D.Cataldi, C. Fidani, A.D'Errico, G. Fioravanti (2021) Prevention And Preparedness Of The Strait Of Messina - Reggio Calabria: An Earthquake Forecasting And Didactic Project, Vol 99,  NO 1 (2021): New Horizons in Teaching Science 2019,A40-A4.12 

14. Mijin Kim, Seung Hee Kim, Woogyung Vincent Kim, Yun Gon Lee, Jhoon Kim, and Menas C. Kafatos 2021: Assessment of Aerosol Optical Depth Under Background and Polluted Conditions Using AERONET and VIIRS Datasets. Atmos. Environ. 245, 117994   

15. Rackhun Son, Hyungjun Kim, Simon S-Y. Wang, Jee-Hoon Jeong, Sung-Ho Woo, Ji-Yoon Jeong, Byung-Doo Lee, Seung Hee Kim, Matthew LaPlante, Chun-Geun Kwon, Jin-Ho Yoon 2021: Changes in climate-driven wildfire risk under 1.5°C and 2.0°C warming, aron. Res. Lett. 16, 034058   

16. Francis M. Fujioka, David R. Weise, Shyh-Chin Chen, Seung Hee Kim, and Menas C. Kafatos 2021: Reaction Intensity Partitioning:  A New Perspective of Fire Danger. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 30, 351-364   

17. Rackhun Son, Simon S-Y Wang, Seung Hee Kim, Hyungjun Kim, Jee-Hoon Jeong, and Jin-Ho Yoon, 2021: Recurrent pattern of extreme fire weather in California, Environ. Res. Lett. 16, 094031  

2022 

18. Sarafoglou, N., Kafatos, M.C., Beall, J.H. (2022) Simultaneity in the Scientific Enterprise, Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 9(4).25-43.  

19. Yang, K-H.S., Kafatos M.C. (2022) The Role of the Exalted Mind in the Observer Observed Quantum Reality. European Society of Medicine. Medical Research Archives, 10(6)  

20. Kak, S., Kafatos M.C. (2022) Black Holes, Disk Structures & Cosmological Implications in e-Dimensional Space. Physics Essays, 35(4). 

21. Oz M, Yang KH, and Mahgoub MO (2022) Effect of cannabinoids on ligand-gated ion channels. Frontiers in Physiology  

22. Shabbir W.  Yang KH, Dogar AM, Isaev D, and Oz M (2022) Probing the ubiquitination-mediated function of Epithelial Sodium Channel in A549 cells. Curr Mol Pharmacol  

23. Isaev D, Yang KH, Shabbir W. Howarth FC, and Oz M (2022) Capsaicin Inhibits Multiple Voltage-Gated Ion Channels in Rabbit Ventricular Cardiomyocytes in TRPV1-Independent Manner. Pharmaceuticals  

24. Karastathis, V.K., Eleftheriou, G., Kafatos, M. , K. Tsinganos , G-Akis Tselentis, E. Mouzakiotis, D.Ouzounov, Observations on the stress-related variations of soil radon concentration in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece. Nature, Scientific reports 12, 5442 (2022).  

25. Ouzounov D, Liu J-Y, Taylor PT, and Hattori K (2022) Editorial: Geospace Observation of Natural Hazards. Front. Earth Sci. 10:836629. 

26. Wang, Y. V., and Sebastian, A. (2022). Equivalent hazard magnitude scale. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 22(12), 4103–4118.  

27. Wang, Y. V., and Sebastian, A. (2022). Murphy Scale: A locational equivalent intensity scale for hazard events. Risk Analysis, 1–19.  

28. Kim, J., Kim, S. H., Seo, H. W., Wang, Y. V., and Lee, Y. G. (2022). Meteorological characteristics of fog events in Korean smart cities and machine learning based visibility estimation. Atmospheric Research, 275, 106239.   

29. Kyungil Lee, Yoonji Kim, Hyun Chan Sung, Seung Hee Kim and Seong Woo Jeon 2022: Surface urban heat island in South Korea’s new towns with different urban planning, Environ Monit Assess, 194, 360   

2023 

30. Isaev D, Yang KHS, Petroianu G, Lorke DE, Oz M (2023) Methylene Blue Inhibits Cromakalim-Activated K+ Currents in Follicle-Enclosed Oocytes. Membranes (Basel) Jan 18;13(2):121. 

31. Wang, Y. V., Kim, S. H., Lyu, G., Lee, C.-L., Lee, G., Min, K.-H., and Kafatos, M. C. (2023). Relative importance of radar variables for nowcasting heavy rainfall: A machine learning approach, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 61, 4100314.  

32. Choo, G. H., Lee, K., Hong, H., Jeong, U., Choi, W., & Janz, S. J. (2023). Highly resolved mapping of NO2 vertical column densities from GeoTASO measurements over a megacity and industrial area during the KORUS-AQ campaign. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 16(3), 625-644.  

33. Kwang Nyun Kim, Seung Hee Kim, Sang Seo Park, and Yun Gon Lee 2023: Feasibility analysis of AERONET lunar AOD for nighttime particulate matter estimation, Environ. Res. Commun., 5, 051004   

34. Yi Victor Wang, Seung Hee Kim, and Menas C. Kafatos 2023: Verifying empirical predictive modeling of societal vulnerability to hazardous events: A Monte Carlo experimental approach, Reliab. Eng. Syst. Saf.  240, 109593  

35. Serin, K., Kim, D., Hong, H., Lim-Seok, C., Lee, H., Kim, D. R., Kim, D., Yu, J. A., Lee, D., Jeong, U., Song, C. K., Kim, S. W., Park, S. S., Kim, J., Hanisco, T., F., Park, J., Choi, W., & Lee, K. (2023). First-time comparison between NO2 vertical columns from Geostationary Environmental Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) and Pandora measurements. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 16(16), 3959-3972.