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Overview

Soon Keat Tan is affiliated with Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on global and planetary change, environmental engineering, atmospheric science, water science and technology, and computational mechanics.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics including flood risk assessment and management, urban stormwater management solutions, land use and ecosystem services, hydrology and watershed management studies, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, urban green space and health, and urban heat island mitigation.

Soon Keat Tan has published in several journals and publication venues where they have multiple contributions. Frequent venues include:

  • Ecological Indicators
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Sustainable Cities and Society
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Sustainability

Co-authors frequently collaborating with Soon Keat Tan include Mo Wang, Dongqing Zhang, Qiuyi Rao, Ming Liu, and Shiqi Zhou.

Recent research papers authored by Soon Keat Tan include:

  • Assessing and optimizing the hydrological performance of Grey-Green infrastructure systems in response to climate change and non-stationary time series, 2023, Water Research
  • Assessing urban flooding risk in response to climate change and urbanization based on shared socio-economic pathways, 2023, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Assessing hydrological performance for optimized integrated grey-green infrastructure in response to climate change based on shared socio-economic pathways, 2023, Sustainable Cities and Society
  • Life-cycle cost analysis and resilience consideration for coupled grey infrastructure and low-impact development practices, 2021, Sustainable Cities and Society
  • Phytoremediation of pharmaceutical-contaminated wastewater: Insights into rhizobacterial dynamics related to pollutant degradation mechanisms during plant life cycle, 2020, Chemosphere

Best Publications

  • Municipal solid waste management in China: Status, problems and challenges

    Dong Qing Zhang;Soon Keat Tan;Richard M. Gersberg

  • A review on removing pharmaceutical contaminants from wastewater by constructed wetlands: design, performance and mechanism

    Yifei Li;Guibing Zhu;Wun Jern Ng;Soon Keat Tan

  • Removal of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in aquatic plant-based systems: A review

    Dongqing Zhang;Richard M. Gersberg;Wun Jern Ng;Soon Keat Tan

  • Application of constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment in developing countries--a review of recent developments (2000-2013).

    Dong Qing Zhang;K.B.S.N. Jinadasa;Richard M. Gersberg;Yu Liu

  • Impact of climate variability and human activity on streamflow decrease in the Miyun Reservoir catchment

    Huan Ma;Dawen Yang;Soon Keat Tan;Bing Gao

  • Velocity Distribution and Dip-Phenomenon in Smooth Uniform Open Channel Flows

    Shu-Qing Yang;Soon-Keat Tan;Siow-Yong Lim

  • Constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment in cold climate - A review.

    Mo Wang;Dong Qing Zhang;Jian Wen Dong;Soon Keat Tan

  • Application of constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment in tropical and subtropical regions (2000-2013).

    Dong-Qing Zhang;K.B.S.N. Jinadasa;Richard M. Gersberg;Yu Liu

  • Near-wake flow characteristics of a circular cylinder close to a wall

    X.K. Wang;S.K. Tan

  • Tsunami hazard from the subduction megathrust of the South China Sea: Part I. Source characterization and the resulting tsunami

    Kusnowidjaja Megawati;Felicia Shaw;Kerry Sieh;Zhenhua Huang

  • Removal of pharmaceutical compounds in tropical constructed wetlands

    Dong Qing Zhang;Soon Keat Tan;Richard M. Gersberg;Sara Sadreddini

  • Assessing hydrological effects and performance of low impact development practices based on future scenarios modeling

    Mo Wang;Dong Qing Zhang;Jin Su;Jian Wen Dong

  • Two-phase SPH simulation of fluid–structure interactions

    Kai Gong;Songdong Shao;Songdong Shao;Songdong Shao;Hua Liu;Benlong Wang

  • Application of constructed wetlands for treating agricultural runoff and agro-industrial wastewater: a review

    Mo Wang;Dongqing Zhang;Jianwen Dong;Soon Keat Tan

  • Assessing cost-effectiveness of bioretention on stormwater in response to climate change and urbanization for future scenarios

    Mo Wang;Mo Wang;Dongqing Zhang;Appan Adhityan;Wun Jern Ng

  • Pharmaceutical removal in tropical subsurface flow constructed wetlands at varying hydraulic loading rates.

    Dong Qing Zhang;Richard M. Gersberg;Tao Hua;Junfei Zhu

  • Comparison of flow patterns in the near wake of a circular cylinder and a square cylinder placed near a plane wall

    X.K. Wang;S.K. Tan

  • Nutrient removal in tropical subsurface flow constructed wetlands under batch and continuous flow conditions.

    Dong Qing Zhang;Soon Keat Tan;Richard M. Gersberg;Junfei Zhu

  • Assessing performance of porous pavements and bioretention cells for stormwater management in response to probable climatic changes.

    Mo Wang;Mo Wang;Dongqing Zhang;Yuning Cheng;Soon Keat Tan

  • Assessing and optimizing the hydrological performance of Grey-Green infrastructure systems in response to climate change and non-stationary time series.

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  • Reply to comment by M. Bayani Cardenas and John L. Wilson on "Flow resistance and bed form geometry in a wide alluvial channel"

    Shu-Qing Yang;Soon-Keat Tan;Siow-Yong Lim

  • Experimental investigation of the interaction between a plane wall jet and a parallel offset jet

    X. K. Wang;S. K. Tan

Frequent Co-Authors

Dongqing Zhang
Dongqing Zhang Nanyang Technological University
Richard M. Gersberg
Richard M. Gersberg San Diego State University
Songdong Shao
Songdong Shao University of Sheffield
Nian-Sheng Cheng
Nian-Sheng Cheng Zhejiang University
Zhongmin Xiao
Zhongmin Xiao Nanyang Technological University
Teik-Thye Lim
Teik-Thye Lim Nanyang Technological University
Shouqi Yuan
Shouqi Yuan Jiangsu University
David C. Stuckey
David C. Stuckey Imperial College London
Guibing Zhu
Guibing Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Michael Givskov
Michael Givskov University of Copenhagen

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