Gantuya.G

Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
Position: Professor of Environmental Engineering
E-Mail:  gantuya@gmit.edu.mn

Since 2021
Professor of Environmental Engineering, German-Mongolian Institute for Resources and Technology (GMIT)

2019 – 2021
Senior officer and Head of the Unit, The National Committee on Reducing Environmental Pollution, Ministry of Nature and Environment, Mongolia
2016 – 2018
enior researcher/postdoc, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2015 – 2019
Researcher and Head, Numerical weather prediction and research laboratory, Information and Research Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology, and Environment, Mongolia
2015 – 2015
Postdoctoral fellow, Seoul National University, South Korea
2008 – 2010
Forecaster-engineer, Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Environment, Mongolia

  • Further development of air quality control planning and air quality monitoring of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
  • Modeling of interaction of thermal regime of largest Siberian and Mongolian lakes with regional climate system processes 
  • Quantifying the regional and local contributions to particulate concentrations in deep street canyons
  • Numerical simulations of the relationship between atmosphere, dust storms, and land surface characteristics in Gobi area, Mongolia

Google-Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=up6McWMAAAAJ&hl=en
ResearchGate: www.researchgate.net/profile/Gantuya_Ganbat
 
I. Publications in peer-reviewed international journals
 
  • Lee, H., Ganbat, G., Jin, H.-G., Seo, J.M., Moon, S., Bok, H., J.-J. Baik, 2023: Effects of Lake Baikal on Summertime Precipitation Climatology Over the Lake Surface. Geophysical Research Letter, 50, 10, e2023GL103426. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL103426  
  • Otgonbyamba, O., Ganbat, G., Khuyag, S., Altangerel, E., Ganbold, B., Bayanjargal, A., Bat-Erdene, A., Chuluunbaatar, B., Badrakh, B., and S. Batbaatar, 2023: Health Risk Assessment of Volatile Organic Compounds for Children in Indoor Air, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Aerosol Air Qual. Res. 23, 230028. https://doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.230028
  • Sodnomdarjaa, E., Lehmkuhl, F., Karthe, D., Knippertz, M., and G. Ganbat, 2023: Assessment of soil loss using RUSLE around Mongolian mining sites: a case study on soil erosion at the Baganuur lignite and Erdenet copper–molybdenum mines. Environ Earth Sci 82, 230. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-023-10897-0 
  • Otgonbyamba, O., Altangerel, E., Ganbat, G., Ganbold, B., Sodnomjamts, A., Chuluunbaatar, B., Badrakh, B. & Batbaatar, S. (2023) Unintentional Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Outbreak from 2 to 9 October 2019 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Occupational Diseases and Environmental Medicine, 11, 97-114. doi: 10.4236/odem.2023.112006
  • Ganbat G, Lee H, Jo HW, Jadamba B, and D. Karthe, 2022: Assessment of COVID-19 impacts on air quality in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, based on terrestrial and Sentinel-5P TROPOMI data. Aerosol and Air Quality Research.
  • Soyol-Erdene T.O., G. Ganbat, B. Baldorj, 2021: Urban Air Quality Studies in Mongolia: Pollution Characteristics and Future Research Needs. Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 21, 210163.
  • Ganbat G., Soyol-Erdene, T.O. and B. Jadamba, 2020: Technical Note: Recent Improvement in Particulate Matter (PM) Pollution in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 20, 2280– 2288.
  • Stepanenko V., Repina I, Ganbat G., and G. Davaa, 2019: Numerical Simulation of Ice Cover of Saline Lakes. Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, 55, 129–138.
  • Seo J.-M., Ganbat G., and J.-J. Baik, 2017: Dynamics of reversed urban breeze circulation. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 74(4), 1311–1320.
  • Seo J.-M., Ganbat G., J.-Y. Han, and J.-J. Baik, 2017: Theoretical calculations of interactions between urban breezes and mountain slope winds in the presence of basic-state wind. Theoretical and Applied Climatology,127(3), 865–874.
  • Ganbat G. and J.-J. Baik, 2016: Wintertime local circulations in and around the Ulaanbaatar Metropolitan area in the presence of temperature inversion. Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 52(3), 309–325.
  • Ganbat G., J. M. Seo, J.-Y. Han, and J.-J. Baik, 2015: A theoretical study of the interactions of urban breeze circulation with mountain slope winds. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 121(3–4), 545–555.
  • Ganbat G. and J.-J. Baik, 2015: Local circulations in and around the Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, metropolitan area. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 127(4), 393–406.
  • Ganbat G., J.-J. Baik, and Y.-H. Ryu, 2015: A numerical study of the interactions of urban breeze circulation with mountain slope winds. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 120(1–2), 123–135.
  • Park S.-B., K.-H. Kwak, B.-S. Han, G. Ganbat, H. Lee, J. M. Seo, S.-H. Lee, and J-J. Baik, 2015: Measurement of turbulent flow and ozone at rooftop and sidewalk sites in a high-rise building area. Scientific Online Letters of the Atmosphere, 11, 1–4.
  • Ganbat G., J.-Y. Han, Y.-H. Ryu, and J.-J. Baik, 2013: Characteristics of the urban heat island in a high-altitude metropolitan city, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 49, 535–541.
  • Kabelva H.A., E.V. Kurzeneva, G. Ganbat, and A.V. Senkova, 2008: A study of the underlying surface parameters influence on quality of the hydrodynamic forecasts for the territory of East Africa. Russian Meteorology and Hydrology, 33, 692–701.

II. Proceedings of the international scientific conferences 
 
  • Ganbat G., 2019: Air quality situation, challenges and priorities in Mongolia. South and Southeast Asia - Air Improvements in the Region (SSEA-AIR), Taiyuan, Taiwan (oral).
  • Ganbat G. and D. Jugder, 2019: Observations and transport modeling of dust storm event over Northeast Asia using HYSPLIT: case study. Central Asian DUst Conference (CADUC 2019), Dushanbe, Tajikistan. 
  • Ganbat G., K.Ngan, and K.K.Hon, 2017: Relative Importance of Regional and Local Pollutant Sources in Deep Street Canyons. 14thAnnual Meeting of the Asia-Ocenia Geosciences Society, Singapore (oral).
  • Ganbat G., K.Ngan, and K.K.Hon, 2017: Relative Importance of Regional and Local Pollutant Sources in Deep Street Canyons. Urban Meteorology and Climate Conference, Hong Kong (oral).
  • Seo J.-M., Ganbat G., J.-Y. Han, and J.-J. Baik, 2015: A theoretical study of urban breeze- mountain wind interactions. European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria (oral).
  • Ganbat G. and J.-J. Baik, 2015: Wintertime local circulations in and around the Ulaanbaatar metropolitan area in the presence of temperature inversion. European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria (poster).
  • Seo J.-M., Ganbat G., J.-Y.Han, and J.-J.Baik, 2014: Further study of the interaction of urban breeze circulation with mountain slope winds under the influence of mountain-induced flow. Korean Meteorological Society meeting, Jeju, Korea (oral).
  • Ganbat G. and J.-J.Baik, 2014: A numerical modeling study of local circulations in and around the Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, metropolitan area. Korean Meteorological Society meeting, Jeju, Korea (oral).
  • Seo J. M., Ganbat G., and J.-J. Baik, 2014: A theoretical study of the interactions of urban breeze circulation with mountain slope winds. 16thConference on Mountain Meteorology, San Diego, USA (oral).
  • Ganbat G. and J.-J.Baik, 2014: A numerical modeling study of local circulations in and around a high-altitude, mountainous city, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. 16thConference on Mountain Meteorology, San Diego, USA (poster).
  • Ganbat G., J. M. Seo, J.-Y. Han, and J.-J. Baik, 2014: A theoretical study of the interactions of urban breeze circulation with mountain slope winds. Korean Meteorological Society meeting, Jeju, Korea (oral).
  • Ganbat G. and J.-J.Baik, 2014: An idealized numerical study of the interactions of urban breeze circulation with mountain slope winds. 11thSymposium on the Urban Environment, Atlanta, USA (poster).
  • Ganbat G. and J.-J.Baik, 2013: A numerical study of the interactions of urban breeze circulation with mountain slope winds. Korean Meteorological Society meeting (oral).
  • Ganbat G., J.-Y.Han, Y.-H.Ryu, and J.-J.Baik, 2012: Ulaanbaatar urban heat islands. Korean Meteorological Society meeting (oral).
  • Ganbat G., J.-Y. Han, and J.-J. Baik, 2012: Characteristics of the urban heat island in a high- altitude metropolitan city, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. 8th International Conference on Urban Climate (oral)
III. Books
  • Karthe, D.; Lee, H. & Ganbat, G. (2022): Fragmented Infrastructure Systems in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia: Assessment from an Environmental Resource Nexus and Public Health Perspective. In: Iossifova, D.; Gasparatos, A.; Zavos, S.; Gamal, Y. & Long, Y. (Eds.): Urban Infrastructuring - Reconfigurations, Transformations and Sustainability in the ­Global South, pp. 15-34. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Singapore: Springer. DOI:10.1007/978-981-16-8352-7_2, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-16-8352-7_2

2015
Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Title: Local circulations in mountainous urban areas.
2008
M.Sc. in Meteorology, Russian State Hydrometeorological University, Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation
Title: Impact of parameters of lakes on underlying surface temperature.
2006
B.Sc. in Meteorology, Russian State Hydrometeorological University, Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federatio