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Environmental Sciences
China
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
104
Citations
36364
World Ranking
298
National Ranking
35

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in China Leader Award

Overview

Min Shao is affiliated with Peking University in China, where their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Within these broad fields, they have concentrated on subfields such as atmospheric science, global and planetary change, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, environmental engineering, and automotive engineering.

The main topics covered in Min Shao's body of work include air quality and health impacts, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, climate variability and models, air quality monitoring and forecasting, meteorological phenomena and simulations, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, and vehicle emissions and performance.

Frequent publication venues featuring Min Shao's research include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Atmosphere
  • Atmospheric Research
  • Remote Sensing

Among recent research outputs, key papers include:

  • Sensitivity of PM2.5 and O3 pollution episodes to meteorological factors over the North China Plain (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Source profiles, emission factors and associated contributions to secondary pollution of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted from a local petroleum refinery in Shandong (2021, Environmental Pollution)
  • Air pollutant emissions from fossil fuel consumption in China: Current status and future predictions (2020, Atmospheric Environment)
  • Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on ambient levels and sources of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in Nanjing, China (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Environmental regulation, local legislation and pollution control in China (2021, Environment and Development Economics)

Min Shao collaborates regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Qili Dai
  • Qin'geng Wang
  • Jianping Tang
  • Qi Zhang
  • Peifeng Zhou

Best Publications

  • Drivers of improved PM2.5 air quality in China from 2013 to 2017.

    Qiang Zhang;Yixuan Zheng;Dan Tong;Min Shao

  • Elucidating severe urban haze formation in China

    Song Guo;Min Hu;Misti L. Zamora;Jianfei Peng

  • Persistent sulfate formation from London Fog to Chinese haze

    Gehui Wang;Gehui Wang;Gehui Wang;Renyi Zhang;Renyi Zhang;Mario E. Gomez;Mario E. Gomez;Lingxiao Yang;Lingxiao Yang

  • Source profiles of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) measured in China. Part I

    Ying Liu;Min Shao;Linlin Fu;Sihua Lu

  • City clusters in China: air and surface water pollution

    Min Shao;Xiaoyan Tang;Yuanhang Zhang;Wenjun Li

  • Amplified trace gas removal in the troposphere.

    Andreas Hofzumahaus;Franz Rohrer;Keding Lu;Keding Lu;Birger Bohn

  • Acid rain in China.

    Thorjorn Larssen;Espen Lydersen;Dagang Tang;Yi He

  • Characteristics of particulate carbon emissions from real-world Chinese coal combustion.

    Yuanxun Zhang;James Jay Schauer;Yuanhang Zhang;Limin Zeng

  • Source apportionment of PM2.5 in Beijing by positive matrix factorization

    Yu Song;Yuanhang Zhang;Shaodong Xie;Limin Zeng

  • Source profiles of volatile organic compounds associated with solvent use in Beijing, China

    Bin Yuan;Min Shao;Sihua Lu;Bin Wang

  • Cloud condensation nuclei in polluted air and biomass burning smoke near the mega-city Guangzhou, China – Part 1: Size-resolved measurements and implications for the modeling of aerosol particle hygroscopicity and CCN activity

    D. Rose;A. Nowak;P. Achtert;A. Wiedensohler

  • High-resolution ammonia emissions inventories in China from 1980 to 2012

    Yaning Kang;Mingxu Liu;Yu Song;Xin Huang

  • Chemical composition, sources, and aging process of submicron aerosols in Beijing: Contrast between summer and winter

    Weiwei Hu;Weiwei Hu;Min Hu;Wei Hu;Jose L. Jimenez

  • Observation and modelling of OH and HO 2 concentrations in the Pearl River Delta 2006: a missing OH source in a VOC rich atmosphere

    K. D. Lu;K. D. Lu;F. Rohrer;F. Holland;H. Fuchs

  • Ground-level ozone in the Pearl River Delta and the roles of VOC and NOx in its production

    Min Shao;Yuanhang Zhang;Limin Zeng;Xiaoyan Tang

  • Mapping Asian anthropogenic emissions of non-methane volatile organic compounds to multiple chemical mechanisms

    M. Li;Q. Zhang;D. G. Streets;K. B. He

  • Radical chemistry at a rural site (Wangdu) in the North China Plain: observation and model calculations of OH, HO 2 and RO 2 radicals

    Zhaofeng Tan;Hendrik Fuchs;Keding Lu;Andreas Hofzumahaus

  • Source apportionment of ambient volatile organic compounds in Beijing.

    Yu Song;Min Shao;Ying Liu;Sihua Lu

  • Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in urban air: How chemistry affects the interpretation of positive matrix factorization (PMF) analysis

    Bin Yuan;Min Shao;Joost de Gouw;Joost de Gouw;David D. Parrish

  • Regional ozone pollution and observation-based approach for analyzing ozone–precursor relationship during the PRIDE-PRD2004 campaign

    Y.H. Zhang;H. Su;L.J. Zhong;Y.F. Cheng

  • Source profiles of particulate organic matters emitted from cereal straw burnings.

    Yuan-xun Zhang;Min Shao;Yuan-hang Zhang;Li-min Zeng

Frequent Co-Authors

Sihua Lu
Sihua Lu Peking University
Keding Lu
Keding Lu Peking University
Xin Li
Xin Li Peking University
Limin Zeng
Limin Zeng Peking University
Yuanhang Zhang
Yuanhang Zhang Peking University
Yusheng Wu
Yusheng Wu Hublet Oy
Min Hu
Min Hu Peking University
Bin Yuan
Bin Yuan Jinan University
Tong Zhu
Tong Zhu Peking University
Chih-Chung Chang
Chih-Chung Chang National Taiwan University

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