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Mao-Chang Liang

Mao-Chang Liang

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
41
Citations
5396
World Ranking
7836
National Ranking
27

Overview

Mao-Chang Liang is affiliated with Academia Sinica in Taiwan and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on various subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their published work explores a range of topics notable within atmospheric and environmental sciences. Key areas of study include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Astro and Planetary Science.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Mao-Chang Liang cover various aspects of isotopic and atmospheric studies. Notable publications include:

  • "InterCarb: A Community Effort to Improve Interlaboratory Standardization of the Carbonate Clumped Isotope Thermometer Using Carbonate Standards," 2021, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • "Seasonal Variations of Solar-Induced Fluorescence, Precipitation, and Carbon Dioxide Over the Amazon," 2021, Earth and Space Science
  • "A new perspective of probing the level of pollution in the megacity Delhi affected by crop residue burning using the triple oxygen isotope technique in atmospheric CO2," 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • "Impact of Amazonian Fires on Atmospheric CO2," 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "New constraints of terrestrial and oceanic global gross primary productions from the triple oxygen isotopic composition of atmospheric CO2 and O2," 2023, Scientific Reports

Mao-Chang Liang collaborates frequently with other researchers in the field. Regular co-authors include Amzad H. Laskar, Yuk L. Yung, S. K. Bhattacharya, King-Fai Li, and Sally Newman.

Their research has been published repeatedly in venues such as Earth and Space Science, The Science of The Total Environment, Chemical Geology, Geophysical Research Letters, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Best Publications

  • Water vapour in the atmosphere of a transiting extrasolar planet

    Giovanna Tinetti;Giovanna Tinetti;Giovanna Tinetti;Alfred Vidal-Madjar;Mao-Chang Liang;Jean-Philippe Beaulieu

  • Sulfur chemistry in the middle atmosphere of Venus

    Xi Zhang;Mao Chang Liang;Mao Chang Liang;Franklin P. Mills;Denis A. Belyaev

  • High Temperature Photochemistry in the Atmosphere of HD189733b

    Michael R. Line;Mao-Chang Liang;Yuk L. Yung

  • Source of Atomic Hydrogen in the Atmosphere of HD 209458b

    Mao-Chang Liang;Christopher D. Parkinson;Anthony Y.-T. Lee;Yuk L. Yung

  • Development of a multicopter-carried whole air sampling apparatus and its applications in environmental studies

    Chih Chung Chang;Jia Lin Wang;Chih Yuan Chang;Mao Chang Liang

  • Production of hydrogen peroxide in the atmosphere of a Snowball Earth and the origin of oxygenic photosynthesis.

    Mao-Chang Liang;Hyman Hartman;Robert E. Kopp;Joseph L. Kirschvink

  • High-temperature Photochemistry in the Atmosphere of HD 189733b

    Michael R. Line;Mao-Chang Liang;Mao-Chang Liang;Yuk L. Yung

  • Interlaboratory assessment of nitrous oxide isotopomer analysis by isotope ratio mass spectrometry and laser spectroscopy: current status and perspectives.

    Joachim Mohn;Benjamin Wolf;Benjamin Wolf;Sakae Toyoda;Cheng Ting Lin

  • Source of Atomic Hydrogen in the Atmosphere of HD 209458b

    Mao Chang Liang;Christopher D. Parkinson;Anthony Y.T. Lee;Yuk L. Yung

  • PHOTOLYTICALLY GENERATED AEROSOLS IN THE MESOSPHERE AND THERMOSPHERE OF TITAN

    Mao-Chang Liang;Mao-Chang Liang;Yuk L. Yung;Donald E. Shemansky

  • Source of nitrogen isotope anomaly in HCN in the atmosphere of titan

    Mao-Chang Liang;Mao-Chang Liang;Alan N. Heays;Brenton R. Lewis;Stephen T. Gibson

  • On the Insignificance of Photochemical Hydrocarbon Aerosols in the Atmospheres of Close-in Extrasolar Giant Planets

    Mao-Chang Liang;Sara Seager;Christopher D. Parkinson;Anthony Y.-T

  • Absorption Cross Sections of NH3, NH2D, NHD2, and ND3 in the Spectral Range 140-220 nm and Implications for Planetary Isotopic Fractionation

    Bing Ming Cheng;Hsiao Chi Lu;Hong Kai Chen;Mohammed Bahou

  • Infrared transmission spectra for extrasolar giant planets

    Giovanna Tinetti;Mao-Chang Liang;Mao-Chang Liang;Alfred Vidal-Madjar;David Ehrenreich

  • Habitability of Enceladus: Planetary Conditions for Life

    Christopher D. Parkinson;Mao Chang Liang;Mao Chang Liang;Mao Chang Liang;Yuk L. Yung;Joseph L. Kirschivnk

  • On the Insignificance of Photochemical Hydrocarbon Aerosols in the Atmospheres of Close-in Extrasolar Giant Planets

    Mao Chang Liang;Sara Seager;Christopher D. Parkinson;Anthony Y.T. Lee

  • Photolysis of sulphuric acid as the source of sulphur oxides in the mesosphere of Venus

    Xi Zhang;Mao-Chang Liang;Mao-Chang Liang;Franck Montmessin;Franck Montmessin;Jean-Loup Bertaux;Jean-Loup Bertaux

  • Short-period solar cycle signals in the ionosphere observed by FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC

    Mao-Chang Liang;Mao-Chang Liang;King-Fai Li;Run-Lie Shia;Yuk L. Yung

  • Isotopic fractionation of nitrous oxide in the stratosphere: Comparison between model and observations

    C. G. Morgan;C. G. Morgan;M. Allen;M. C. Liang;R. L. Shia

  • Constraints on the microphysics of Pluto's photochemical haze from New Horizons observations

    Peter Gao;Siteng Fan;Michael L. Wong;Mao-Chang Liang

  • The photochemistry of Pluto's atmosphere as illuminated by New Horizons

    Michael L. Wong;Siteng Fan;Peter Gao;Mao-Chang Liang

  • Isotopic ratios of nitrate in aerosol samples from Mt. Lulin, a high-altitude station in Central Taiwan

    Tania Guha;Tania Guha;C. T. Lin;C. T. Lin;S. K. Bhattacharya;A. S. Mahajan

  • Ion densities and composition of Titan's upper atmosphere derived from the Cassini Ion Neutral Mass Spectrometer: Analysis methods and comparison of measured ion densities to photochemical model simulations

    Kathleen E. Mandt;Kathleen E. Mandt;David A. Gell;Mark Perry;J. Hunter Waite

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuk L. Yung
Yuk L. Yung California Institute of Technology
Geoffrey A. Blake
Geoffrey A. Blake California Institute of Technology
Shih-Chieh Hsu
Shih-Chieh Hsu Academia Sinica
Chung-Ho Wang
Chung-Ho Wang National Chung Hsing University
S. K. Bhattacharya
S. K. Bhattacharya Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Charles E. Miller
Charles E. Miller California Institute of Technology
Shaw Chen Liu
Shaw Chen Liu Jinan University
Nathaniel J. Livesey
Nathaniel J. Livesey California Institute of Technology
Michelle L. Santee
Michelle L. Santee California Institute of Technology
David K. Sing
David K. Sing Johns Hopkins University

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