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Daiwen Kang is affiliated with the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with particular expertise in atmospheric science and global and planetary change.

The scientist's work spans several interrelated topics including atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, air quality and health impacts, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, atmospheric ozone and climate, air quality monitoring and forecasting, and lightning and electromagnetic phenomena.

The recent publications authored or co-authored by Daiwen Kang include:

  • Significant ground-level ozone attributed to lightning-induced nitrogen oxides during summertime over the Mountain West States, 2020, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • The Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model versions 5.3 and 5.3.1: system updates and evaluation, 2021, Geoscientific model development
  • The Detailed Emissions Scaling, Isolation, and Diagnostic (DESID) module in the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system version 5.3.2, 2021, Geoscientific model development
  • Changes in the ozone chemical regime over the contiguous United States inferred by the inversion of NOx and VOC emissions using satellite observation, 2022, Atmospheric Research
  • Impact of dimethylsulfide chemistry on air quality over the Northern Hemisphere, 2020, Atmospheric Environment

Daiwen Kang frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Rohit Mathur, Golam Sarwar, Christian Hogrefe, Barron H. Henderson, and Robert C. Gilliam. These collaborations have contributed to a significant number of publications.

The scientist's publications are often found in the following venues:

  • Geoscientific model development
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Atmospheric Environment
  • Atmosphere
  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Best Publications

  • The Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model versions 5.3 and 5.3.1: system updates and evaluation.

    K. Wyat Appel;Jesse O. Bash;Kathleen M. Fahey;Kristen M. Foley

  • Description and evaluation of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system version 5.1.

    K. Wyat Appel;Sergey L. Napelenok;Kristen M. Foley;Havala O. T. Pye

  • WRF-CMAQ two-way coupled system with aerosol feedback: software development and preliminary results

    D. C. Wong;J. Pleim;R. Mathur;F. Binkowski

  • Volatile organic compounds in some urban locations in United States

    Mahmoud F. Mohamed;Daiwen Kang;Daiwen Kang;Viney P. Aneja

  • Modelling and analysis of the atmospheric nitrogen deposition in North Carolina

    Sharon B. Phillips;Viney P. Aneja;Daiwen Kang;S. Pal Arya

  • An operational evaluation of the Eta-CMAQ air quality forecast model

    Brian Eder;Daiwen Kang;Rohit Mathur;Shaocai Yu

  • Application of WRF/Chem-MADRID for real-time air quality forecasting over the Southeastern United States

    Ming-Tung Chuang;Yang Zhang;Daiwen Kang

  • Evaluation of real‐time PM2.5 forecasts and process analysis for PM2.5 formation over the eastern United States using the Eta‐CMAQ forecast model during the 2004 ICARTT study

    Shaocai Yu;Rohit Mathur;Kenneth Schere;Daiwen Kang

  • The New England Air Quality Forecasting Pilot Program: Development of an Evaluation Protocol and Performance Benchmark

    Daiwen Kang;Brian K. Eder;Ariel F. Stein;Georg A. Grell

  • Bias adjustment techniques for improving ozone air quality forecasts

    Daiwen Kang;Rohit Mathur;S. Trivikrama Rao;Shaocai Yu

  • A detailed evaluation of the Eta-CMAQ forecast model performance for O3, its related precursors, and meteorological parameters during the 2004 ICARTT study

    Shaocai Yu;Rohit Mathur;Kenneth Schere;Daiwen Kang

  • The impact of chemical lateral boundary conditions on CMAQ predictions of tropospheric ozone over the continental United States

    Youhua Tang;Youhua Tang;Pius Lee;Marina Tsidulko;Ho Chun Huang

  • Assessment of the wintertime performance of developmental particulate matter forecasts with the Eta-Community Multiscale Air Quality modeling system

    Rohit Mathur;Shaocai Yu;Daiwen Kang;Kenneth L. Schere

  • A performance evaluation of the National Air Quality Forecast Capability for the summer of 2007

    Brian Eder;Daiwen Kang;Rohit Mathur;Jon Pleim

  • Eta-CMAQ air quality forecasts for O 3 and related species using three different photochemical mechanisms (CB4, CB05, SAPRC-99): comparisons with measurements during the 2004 ICARTT study

    S. Yu;R. Mathur;G. Sarwar;D. Kang

  • MEASUREMENT AND MODELLING OF AMMONIA EMISSIONS AT WASTE TREATMENT LAGOON-ATMOSPHERIC INTERFACE

    Viney P. Aneja;Brahm P. Malik;Quansong Tong;Daiwen Kang

  • Influence of bromine and iodine chemistry on annual, seasonal, diurnal, and background ozone: CMAQ simulations over the Northern Hemisphere.

    Golam Sarwar;Brett Gantt;Kristen Foley;Kathleen Fahey

  • Real-time bias-adjusted O3 and PM2.5 air quality index forecasts and their performance evaluations over the continental United States

    Daiwen Kang;Rohit Mathur;S. Trivikrama Rao

  • Dynamic evaluation of regional air quality model’s response to emission reductions in the presence of uncertain emission inventories

    Sergey L. Napelenok;Kristen M. Foley;Daiwen Kang;Rohit Mathur

  • The Detailed Emissions Scaling, Isolation, and Diagnostic (DESID) module in the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system version 5.3.2.

    Benjamin N. Murphy;Christopher G. Nolte;Fahim Sidi;Jesse O. Bash

  • A comparison of atmospheric composition using the Carbon Bond and Regional Atmospheric Chemistry Mechanisms

    G. Sarwar;J. Godowitch;B. H. Henderson;K. Fahey

  • An Operational Evaluation of ETA-CMAQ Air Quality Forecast Model

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Frequent Co-Authors

Rohit Mathur
Rohit Mathur Environmental Protection Agency
Shaocai Yu
Shaocai Yu Zhejiang University
George Pouliot
George Pouliot Environmental Protection Agency
Jonathan E. Pleim
Jonathan E. Pleim Environmental Protection Agency
Viney P. Aneja
Viney P. Aneja North Carolina State University
Daniel Tong
Daniel Tong George Mason University
Christian Hogrefe
Christian Hogrefe Environmental Protection Agency
Robert C. Gilliam
Robert C. Gilliam Environmental Protection Agency
Havala O. T. Pye
Havala O. T. Pye Environmental Protection Agency
Jesse O. Bash
Jesse O. Bash Environmental Protection Agency

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