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Peter K.K. Louie is affiliated with the Hong Kong Environmental Protection Department in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work focuses primarily on atmospheric science, health toxicology and mutagenesis, and environmental engineering, with a notable emphasis on atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, air quality, and related health impacts.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Vehicle emissions and performance
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • COVID-19 impact on air quality
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Maritime Transport Emissions and Efficiency

Peter K.K. Louie has published across a variety of journals with frequent publications in Atmospheric Environment, The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Environmental Sciences, Atmospheric Pollution Research, and Nature Communications.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Role of export industries on ozone pollution and its precursors in China, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Combined effects of increased O3 and reduced NO2 concentrations on short-term air pollution health risks in Hong Kong, 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • Protocol development for real-time ship fuel sulfur content determination using drone based plume sniffing microsensor system, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Air quality and synergistic health effects of ozone and nitrogen oxides in response to China's integrated air quality control policies during 2015-2019, 2020, Chemosphere
  • Spread of SARS-CoV-2 aerosols via two connected drainage stacks in a high-rise housing outbreak of COVID-19, 2022, Journal of Hazardous Materials

The scientist collaborates frequently with several colleagues, including Alexis K.H. Lau, Jimmy Chi Hung Fung, Jian Zhen Yu, Kenneth K. M. Leung, and Dasa Gu, reflecting a network of cooperation primarily in the environmental and atmospheric research communities.

Best Publications

  • Applications of low-cost sensing technologies for air quality monitoring and exposure assessment: How far have they gone?

    Lidia Morawska;Phong K. Thai;Xiaoting Liu;Akwasi Asumadu-Sakyi

  • Atmospheric levels and cytotoxicity of PAHs and heavy metals in TSP and PM2.5 at an electronic waste recycling site in southeast China

    Wenjing Deng;P. K. K. Louie;W. K. Liu;X. H. Bi

  • Source apportionment of ambient non-methane hydrocarbons in Hong Kong: application of a principal component analysis/absolute principal component scores (PCA/APCS) receptor model.

    Hai Guo;Tao Wang;P. K.K. Louie

  • Oxidative capacity and radical chemistry in the polluted atmosphere of Hong Kong and Pearl River Delta region: analysis of a severe photochemical smog episode

    Likun Xue;Rongrong Gu;Tao Wang;Xinfeng Wang

  • Seasonal characteristics and regional transport of PM2.5 in Hong Kong

    Peter K.K. Louie;John G. Watson;Judith C. Chow;Antony Chen

  • Which emission sources are responsible for the volatile organic compounds in the atmosphere of Pearl River Delta

    Hai Guo;H.R. Cheng;Z.H. Ling;P.K.K. Louie

  • Ground-level ozone in the Pearl River Delta region: Analysis of data from a recently established regional air quality monitoring network

    Junyu Zheng;Liuju Zhong;Tao Wang;Peter K.K. Louie

  • Characteristics and health impacts of VOCs and carbonyls associated with residential cooking activities in Hong Kong

    Yu Huang;Steven Sai Hang Ho;Steven Sai Hang Ho;Kin Fai Ho;Shun Cheng Lee

  • Impact Analysis of Temperature and Humidity Conditions on Electrochemical Sensor Response in Ambient Air Quality Monitoring.

    Peng Wei;Zhi Ning;Sheng Ye;Li Sun

  • Ambient Ozone Control in a Photochemically Active Region: Short-Term Despiking or Long-Term Attainment?

    Jiamin Ou;Zibing Yuan;Junyu Zheng;Zhijiong Huang

  • Characterization of PM2.5 Major Components and Source Investigation in Suburban Hong Kong: A One Year Monitoring Study

    X. H. Hilda Huang;Qijing Bian;Wai Man Ng;Peter K.K. Louie

  • Emissions of gas- and particle-phase polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the Shing Mun Tunnel, Hong Kong

    Kinfai Ho;Steven Sai Hang Ho;Steven Sai Hang Ho;Sichen Lee;Yan Cheng

  • Chemically-speciated on-road PM2.5 motor vehicle emission factors in Hong Kong

    Y. Cheng;Shuncheng Lee;K. F. Ho;J. C. Chow

  • Vehicular emission of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from a tunnel study in Hong Kong

    K. F. Ho;K. F. Ho;Shuncheng Lee;W. K. Ho;D. R. Blake

  • Identification and spatiotemporal variations of dominant PM10 sources over Hong Kong

    Zibing Yuan;Alexis Kai-Hon Lau;Hongyi Zhang;Jianzhen Yu

  • Seasonal variation of carbonyl compound concentrations in urban area of Hong Kong

    K.F. Ho;S.C. Lee;Peter K.K. Louie;S.C. Zou

  • Observations of nitryl chloride and modeling its source and effect on ozone in the planetary boundary layer of southern China

    Tao Wang;Yee Jun Tham;Likun Xue;Qinyi Li

  • PM2.5 chemical composition in Hong Kong: urban and regional variations.

    Peter K.K. Louie;Judith C. Chow;L.-W. Antony Chen;John G. Watson

  • Nitrous acid (HONO) in a polluted subtropical atmosphere: Seasonal variability, direct vehicle emissions and heterogeneous production at ground surface

    Zheng Xu;Zheng Xu;Tao Wang;Tao Wang;Jueqi Wu;Likun Xue

  • Increasing external effects negate local efforts to control ozone air pollution: a case study of Hong Kong and implications for other Chinese cities.

    Likun Xue;Tao Wang;Peter K. K. Louie;Connie W. Y. Luk

  • Ozone source apportionment (OSAT) to differentiate local regional and super‐regional source contributions in the Pearl River Delta region, China

    Ying Li;Alexis K H Lau;Jimmy C H Fung;Junyu Zheng

  • Abundance and seasonal characteristics of elemental and organic carbon in Hong Kong PM10

    Jian Zhen Yu;Joanne Wai Ting Tung;Alan Wai Man Wu;Alexis Kai Hon Lau

Frequent Co-Authors

Jian Zhen Yu
Jian Zhen Yu Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Alexis K.H. Lau
Alexis K.H. Lau Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Kin-Fai Ho
Kin-Fai Ho Chinese University of Hong Kong
Tao Wang
Tao Wang Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Steven Sai Hang Ho
Steven Sai Hang Ho Desert Research Institute
Donald R. Blake
Donald R. Blake University of California, Irvine
Shuncheng Lee
Shuncheng Lee Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Hai Guo
Hai Guo Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Likun Xue
Likun Xue Shandong University
Junyu Zheng
Junyu Zheng Jinan University

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