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Overview

Xiaohong Liu is a researcher affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a specific concentration on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change among other subfields.

The research contributions of Xiaohong Liu prominently feature studies related to atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, and atmospheric ozone and climate. They also investigate atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, as well as air quality and health impacts.

Key recent publications by Xiaohong Liu include:

  • Biomass burning aerosols in most climate models are too absorbing, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA), 2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • The global dust cycle and uncertainty in CMIP5 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5) models, 2020, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Exploring dimethyl sulfide (DMS) oxidation and implications for global aerosol radiative forcing, 2022, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Drivers of recent decline in dust activity over East Asia, 2022, Nature Communications

The researcher frequently collaborates with a group of coauthors, including Zheng Lu, Chenglai Wu, Hailong Wang, Shaocheng Xie, and Xi Zhao. The number of collaborations with these coauthors ranges from 16 to 24 joint works, reflecting ongoing research partnerships.

Xiaohong Liu has published extensively in several scientific venues known for atmospheric and earth sciences research. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Best Publications

  • Predicting global atmospheric ice nuclei distributions and their impacts on climate

    Paul J. DeMott;Anthony J. Prenni;Xiaohong Liu;Sonia M. Kreidenweis

  • Analysis and quantification of the diversities of aerosol life cycles within AeroCom

    C. Textor;M. Schulz;S. Guibert;S. Kinne

  • Global dust model intercomparison in AeroCom phase I

    N. Huneeus;M. Schulz;Y. Balkanski;J. Griesfeller

  • Radiative forcing of the direct aerosol effect from AeroCom Phase II simulations

    Gunnar Myhre;Bjørn Hallvard Samset;M. Schulz;Y. Balkanski

  • Toward a Minimal Representation of Aerosols in Climate Models: Description and Evaluation in the Community Atmosphere Model CAM5

    Xiaohong Liu;Richard C. Easter;Steven J. Ghan;Rahul A. Zaveri

  • An AeroCom Initial Assessment - Optical Properties in Aerosol Component Modules of Global Models

    S. Kinne;M. Schulz;C. Textor;S. Guibert

  • The Beijing Climate Center Climate System Model (BCC-CSM): the main progress from CMIP5 to CMIP6

    Tongwen Wu;Yixiong Lu;Yongjie Fang;Xiaoge Xin

  • Review of Aerosol–Cloud Interactions: Mechanisms, Significance, and Challenges

    Jiwen Fan;Yuan Wang;Daniel Rosenfeld;Xiaohong Liu

  • Radiative forcing by aerosols as derived from the AeroCom present-day and pre-industrial simulations

    M. Schulz;C. Textor;S. Kinne;Yves Balkanski

  • Description and evaluation of a new four-mode version of the Modal Aerosol Module (MAM4) within version 5.3 of the Community Atmosphere Model

    X. Liu;X. Liu;P.-L. Ma;Hailong Wang;S. Tilmes

  • Evaluation of black carbon estimations in global aerosol models

    D. Koch;D. Koch;M. Schulz;S. Kinne;C. McNaughton

  • The AeroCom evaluation and intercomparison of organic aerosol in global models

    K. Tsigaridis;K. Tsigaridis;N. Daskalakis;N. Daskalakis;M. Kanakidou;P. J. Adams

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

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

  • Radiative forcing in the ACCMIP historical and future climate simulations

    D.T. Shindell;J.-F. Lamarque;M. Schulz;M. Flanner

  • Global simulations of ice nucleation and ice supersaturation with an improved cloud scheme in the Community Atmosphere Model

    A. Gettelman;Xiaohong Liu;S.J. Ghan;H. Morrison

  • Toward a Minimal Representation of Aerosols in Climate Models: Comparative Decomposition of Aerosol Direct, Semidirect, and Indirect Radiative Forcing

    Steven J. Ghan;Xiaohong Liu;Richard C. Easter;Rahul A. Zaveri

  • Intercomparison of model simulations of mixed-phase clouds observed during the ARM Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment. I: single-layer cloud

    Stephen A. Klein;Renata B. McCoy;Hugh Morrison;Andrew S. Ackerman

  • An Overview of the Atmospheric Component of the Energy Exascale Earth System Model

    P. J. Rasch;S. Xie;P.-L. Ma;W. Lin

  • The spatial distribution of mineral dust and its shortwave radiative forcing over North Africa: modeling sensitivities to dust emissions and aerosol size treatments

    Chun Zhao;Xiaohong Liu;Lai-Yung R. Leung;Ben Johnson

  • Western boundary currents regulated by interaction between ocean eddies and the atmosphere

    Xiaohui Ma;Xiaohui Ma;Zhao Jing;Zhao Jing;Ping Chang;Ping Chang;Xue Liu;Xue Liu

  • Urban heat island effect on annual mean temperature during the last 50 years in China

    Q. Li;H. Zhang;X. Liu;J. Huang

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard C. Easter
Richard C. Easter Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Steven J. Ghan
Steven J. Ghan Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Susanne E. Bauer
Susanne E. Bauer Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Joyce E. Penner
Joyce E. Penner University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Minghuai Wang
Minghuai Wang Nanjing University
Trond Iversen
Trond Iversen Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Michael Schulz
Michael Schulz Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Philip Stier
Philip Stier University of Oxford
Toshihiko Takemura
Toshihiko Takemura Kyushu University
Hailong Wang
Hailong Wang Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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