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Overview

Ning Zeng is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily falls within Environmental Science, with a significant focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Molecular Biology.

Their research encompasses a range of main topics including:

  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability

Ning Zeng has published extensively with frequent contributions to notable venues such as:

  • Carbon Balance and Management
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • PubMed
  • Research Square
  • Science

The collaboration network of Ning Zeng includes frequent coauthors such as:

  • Pengfei Han
  • Qixiang Cai
  • Zhiqiang Liu
  • Jun Wang
  • Cun Hu

Recent publications by Ning Zeng include:

  • The Chinese Carbon-Neutral Goal: Challenges and Prospects, 2022, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
  • Recent global decline of CO 2 fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis, 2020, Science
  • Assessing the recent impact of COVID-19 on carbon emissions from China using domestic economic data, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • National CO 2 budgets (2015-2020) inferred from atmospheric CO 2 observations in support of the global stocktake, 2023, Earth System Science Data
  • Calibrations of Low-Cost Air Pollution Monitoring Sensors for CO, NO2, O3, and SO2, 2021, Sensors

Best Publications

  • Global Carbon Budget 2016

    Corinne Le Quere;Robbie M. Andrew;Josep G. Canadell;Stephen Sitch

  • Climate–Carbon Cycle Feedback Analysis: Results from the C4MIP Model Intercomparison

    Pierre Friedlingstein;P. Cox;Richard A. Betts;Laurent Bopp

  • Global Carbon Budget 2015

    C. Le Quéré;R. Moriarty;R. M. Andrew;J. G. Canadell

  • Global carbon budget 2014

    C. Le Quéré;R. Moriarty;R. M. Andrew;G. P. Peters

  • Greening of the Earth and its drivers

    Zaichun Zhu;Zaichun Zhu;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Ranga B. Myneni;Mengtian Huang

  • Reduced carbon emission estimates from fossil fuel combustion and cement production in China

    Z Liu;Dabo Guan;Wei Wei;Steven J Davis

  • The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO2 sink

    Anders Ahlström;Anders Ahlström;Michael R. Raupach;Guy Schurgers;Benjamin Smith

  • Recent trends and drivers of regional sources and sinks of carbon dioxide

    S. Sitch;P. Friedlingstein;N. Gruber;S. D. Jones

  • Detection and Attribution of Vegetation Greening Trend in China over the Last 30 Years

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Guodong Yin;Jianguang Tan;Lei Cheng

  • Evaluation of terrestrial carbon cycle models for their response to climate variability and to CO2 trends.

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Stephen Sitch;Philippe Ciais;Pierre Friedlingstein

  • The global carbon budget 1959-2011

    C. Le Quere;R.J. Andres;T.A. Boden;T. Conway

  • Compensatory water effects link yearly global land CO2 sink changes to temperature

    Martin Jung;Markus Reichstein;Christopher R. Schwalm;Christopher Huntingford

  • Enhancement of Interdecadal Climate Variability in the Sahel by Vegetation Interaction.

    Ning Zeng;J. David Neelin;K.-M. Lau;Compton J. Tucker

  • Recent global decline of CO2 fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis

    Songhan Wang;Songhan Wang;Yongguang Zhang;Yongguang Zhang;Yongguang Zhang;Weimin Ju;Weimin Ju;Jing M. Chen;Jing M. Chen

  • Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Huijuan Nan;Chris Huntingford;Philippe Ciais

  • Causes and impacts of the 2005 Amazon drought

    Ning Zeng;Jin-Ho Yoon;Jose A Marengo;Ajit Subramaniam

  • The Hydrological Cycle in the Mediterranean Region and Implications for the Water Budget of the Mediterranean Sea

    Annarita Mariotti;Maria Vittoria Struglia;Ning Zeng;K.-M. Lau

  • Terrestrial mechanisms of interannual CO2 variability

    N. Zeng;A. Mariotti;A. Mariotti;P. Wetzel

  • A U.S. CLIVAR Project to Assess and Compare the Responses of Global Climate Models to Drought-Related SST Forcing Patterns: Overview and Results

    Siegfried Schubert;David Gutzler;Hailan Wang;Hailan Wang;Aiguo Dai

  • A Quasi-Equilibrium Tropical Circulation Model—Formulation *

    J. David Neelin;Ning Zeng

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin Poulter
Benjamin Poulter Goddard Space Flight Center
Atul K. Jain
Atul K. Jain University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Shushi Peng
Shushi Peng Peking University
Hanqin Tian
Hanqin Tian Auburn University
Nicolas Viovy
Nicolas Viovy French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Deborah N. Huntzinger
Deborah N. Huntzinger Northern Arizona University
Christopher R. Schwalm
Christopher R. Schwalm Woodwell Climate Research Center
Stephen Sitch
Stephen Sitch University of Exeter
Pierre Friedlingstein
Pierre Friedlingstein University of Exeter
Anna M. Michalak
Anna M. Michalak Stanford University

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