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Minghuai Wang

Minghuai Wang

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
51
Citations
9785
World Ranking
4734
National Ranking
491

Overview

Minghuai Wang is affiliated with Nanjing University in China and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work primarily focuses on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change, with additional publications that touch on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist has addressed a wide range of topics within their research, including:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric ozone and climate
  • Meteorological phenomena and simulations
  • Air quality and health impacts
  • Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics

Minghuai Wang's recent papers illustrate their research scope and include studies such as:

  • Protecting ice from melting under sunlight via radiative cooling, 2022, Science Advances
  • Emergent constraints on future projections of the western North Pacific Subtropical High, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Aerosol-boundary-layer-monsoon interactions amplify semi-direct effect of biomass smoke on low cloud formation in Southeast Asia, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Surprising similarities in model and observational aerosol radiative forcing estimates, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Development and Assessment of a High-Resolution Biogenic Emission Inventory from Urban Green Spaces in China, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology

The researcher frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Daniel Rosenfeld
  • Yannian Zhu
  • Xinyi Dong
  • Yawen Liu
  • Yuan Liang

Minghuai Wang has also published numerous articles in prominent scientific journals, with multiple contributions to:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (18 publications)
  • Geophysical Research Letters (9 publications)
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (8 publications)
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics (7 publications)
  • Atmospheric Research (6 publications)

Best Publications

  • Enhanced haze pollution by black carbon in megacities in China

    A. J. Ding;X. Huang;W. Nie;J. N. Sun

  • Aerosol indirect effects – general circulation model intercomparison and evaluation with satellite data

    Johannes Quaas;Yi Ming;Surabi Menon;Surabi Menon;T. Takemura

  • Aerosol-driven droplet concentrations dominate coverage and water of oceanic low level clouds

    Daniel Rosenfeld;Daniel Rosenfeld;Yannian Zhu;Minghuai Wang;Youtong Zheng

  • Polar amplification in a coupled climate model with locked albedo

    Rune Grand Graversen;Rune Grand Graversen;Minghuai Wang

  • Protecting ice from melting under sunlight via radiative cooling

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  • Aerosol indirect forcing in a global model with particle nucleation

    M. Wang;J. E. Penner

  • Constraining cloud lifetime effects of aerosols using A‐Train satellite observations

    Minghuai Wang;Steven Ghan;Xiaohong Liu;Tristan S. L'Ecuyer

  • Inclusion of Ice Microphysics in the NCAR Community Atmospheric Model Version 3 (CAM3)

    Xiaohong Liu;Joyce E. Penner;Steven J. Ghan;Minghuai Wang

  • Challenges in constraining anthropogenic aerosol effects on cloud radiative forcing using present-day spatiotemporal variability

    Steven Ghan;Minghuai Wang;Shipeng Zhang;Sylvaine Ferrachat

  • Have Australian rainfall and cloudiness increased due to the remote effects of Asian anthropogenic aerosols

    Leon D. Rotstayn;Wenju Cai;Martin R. Dix;Graham D. Farquhar

  • Sensitivity of remote aerosol distributions to representation of cloud–aerosol interactions in a global climate model

    Hailong Wang;Richard C. Easter;Philip J. Rasch;Minghuai Wang

  • Assessing the effects of anthropogenic aerosols on Pacific storm track using a multiscale global climate model

    Yuan Wang;Minghuai Wang;Renyi Zhang;Steven J. Ghan

  • A numerical study of the effect of different aerosol types on East Asian summer clouds and precipitation

    Yiquan Jiang;Yiquan Jiang;Xiaohong Liu;Xiu-Qun Yang;Minghuai Wang

  • Satellite methods underestimate indirect climate forcing by aerosols.

    Joyce E. Penner;Li Xu;Minghuai Wang

  • Aerosol indirect effects in a multi-scale aerosol-climate model PNNL-MMF

    M. Wang;S. Ghan;M. Ovchinnikov;Xiaohong Liu

  • Constraining the instantaneous aerosol influence on cloud albedo.

    Edward Gryspeerdt;Johannes Quaas;Sylvaine Ferrachat;Andrew Gettelman

  • Constraining the influence of natural variability to improve estimates of global aerosol indirect effects in a nudged version of the Community Atmosphere Model 5

    Gabriel J. Kooperman;Michael S. Pritchard;Steven J. Ghan;Minghuai Wang

  • Effects of aerosol-radiation interaction on precipitation during biomass-burning season in East China

    Xin Huang;Aijun Ding;Lixia Liu;Qiang Liu

  • Uncertainty quantification and parameter tuning in the CAM5 Zhang‐McFarlane convection scheme and impact of improved convection on the global circulation and climate

    Ben Yang;Ben Yang;Yun Qian;Guang Lin;L. Ruby Leung

  • Possible influence of anthropogenic aerosols on cirrus clouds and anthropogenic forcing

    Joyce E. Penner;Yang Chen;Yang Chen;Minghuai Wang;Xiaohong Liu

  • Influence of anthropogenic sulfate and black carbon on upper tropospheric clouds in the NCAR CAM3 model coupled to the IMPACT global aerosol model

    Xiaohong Liu;Joyce E. Penner;Minghuai Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiaohong Liu
Xiaohong Liu Texas A&M University
Steven J. Ghan
Steven J. Ghan Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Joyce E. Penner
Joyce E. Penner University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Yun Qian
Yun Qian Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Hailong Wang
Hailong Wang Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Hugh Morrison
Hugh Morrison National Center for Atmospheric Research
Andrew Gettelman
Andrew Gettelman Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Vincent E. Larson
Vincent E. Larson University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Philip J. Rasch
Philip J. Rasch Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Richard C. Easter
Richard C. Easter Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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