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73
Citations
17593
World Ranking
1432
National Ranking
611

Overview

Yang Zhang is affiliated with Northeastern University in the United States and has a body of work primarily focused on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research explores a variety of subfields including Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's publications frequently appear in several notable venues such as Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Atmospheric Environment, Atmosphere, Geoscientific Model Development, and Environmental Research Letters.

Yang Zhang's research covers a range of main topics including:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Recent significant papers authored or coauthored by Zhang include:

  • "Advances in air quality modeling and forecasting," 2020, Global Transitions
  • "Impacts of ozone and climate change on yields of perennial crops in California," 2020, Nature Food
  • "Modeling the smoky troposphere of the southeast Atlantic: a comparison to ORACLES airborne observations from September of 2016," 2020, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • "Identifying Key Drivers of Wildfires in the Contiguous US Using Machine Learning and Game Theory Interpretation," 2021, Earth's Future
  • "The effects of climate factors and human activities on net primary productivity in Xinjiang," 2020, International Journal of Biometeorology

Yang Zhang's collaborative work has involved frequent coauthors such as Michelle L. Bell, L. Ruby Leung, María de Fátima Andrade, Daniel Schuch, and Yang Gao.

Best Publications

  • Role of mineral aerosol as a reactive surface in the global troposphere

    Frank J. Dentener;Gregory R. Carmichael;Yang Zhang;Jos Lelieveld

  • Heterogeneous chemistry: a mechanism missing in current models to explain secondary inorganic aerosol formation during the January 2013 haze episode in North China

    B. Zheng;Q. Zhang;Y. Zhang;Y. Zhang;K. B. He

  • Real-time air quality forecasting, part I: History, techniques, and current status

    Yang Zhang;Yang Zhang;Marc Bocquet;Marc Bocquet;Vivien Mallet;Vivien Mallet;Christian Seigneur

  • The 2013 severe haze over southern Hebei, China: model evaluation, source apportionment, and policy implications

    L. T. Wang;L. T. Wang;Z. Wei;J. Yang;Y. Zhang

  • Online coupled regional meteorology chemistry models in Europe: current status and prospects

    A. Baklanov;K. Schlünzen;P. Suppan;J. Baldasano

  • Mapping Asian anthropogenic emissions of non-methane volatile organic compounds to multiple chemical mechanisms

    M. Li;Q. Zhang;D. G. Streets;K. B. He

  • Impacts of climate change on future air quality and human health in China

    Chaopeng Hong;Qiang Zhang;Yang Zhang;Steven J. Davis;Steven J. Davis

  • MIRAGE: Model description and evaluation of aerosols and trace gases

    Richard C. Easter;Steven J. Ghan;Yang Zhang;Rick D. Saylor

  • Air quality in the megacity of Sao Paulo: Evolution over the last 30 years and future perspectives

    Maria de Fatima Andrade;Prashant Kumar;Edmilson Dias de Freitas;Rita Yuri Ynoue

  • Online-coupled meteorology and chemistry models: history, current status, and outlook

    Y. Zhang

  • Simulating chemistry–aerosol–cloud–radiation–climate feedbacks over the continental U.S. using the online-coupled Weather Research Forecasting Model with chemistry (WRF/Chem)

    Yang Zhang;X.-Y. Wen;C.J. Jang

  • The Role of Mineral Aerosol in Tropospheric Chemistry in East Asia—A Model Study

    Yang Zhang;Gregory R. Carmichael

  • Simulation of Aerosol Dynamics: A Comparative Review of Algorithms Used in Air Quality Models

    Yang Zhang;Christian Seigneur;John H. Seinfeld;Mark Z. Jacobson

  • Development and application of the Model of Aerosol Dynamics, Reaction, Ionization, and Dissolution (MADRID)

    Yang Zhang;Betty Pun;Krish Vijayaraghavan;Shiang-Yuh Wu

  • A comparative review of inorganic aerosol thermodynamic equilibrium modules: similarities, differences, and their likely causes

    Yang Zhang;Christian Seigneur;John H Seinfeld;Mark Jacobson

  • Real-time air quality forecasting, part II: State of the science, current research needs, and future prospects

    Yang Zhang;Marc Bocquet;Vivien Mallet;Christian Seigneur

  • Understanding of regional air pollution over China using CMAQ, part II. Process analysis and sensitivity of ozone and particulate matter to precursor emissions

    Xiao-Huan Liu;Xiao-Huan Liu;Yang Zhang;Jia Xing;Qiang Zhang

  • Evaluation of operational on-line-coupled regional air quality models over Europe and North America in the context of AQMEII phase 2. Part I: Ozone

    Ulas Im;Roberto Bianconi;Efisio Solazzo;Ioannis Kioutsioukis

  • An examination of sensitivity of WRF/Chem predictions to physical parameterizations, horizontal grid spacing, and nesting options

    Chris Misenis;Yang Zhang

  • A comprehensive performance evaluation of MM5-CMAQ for the Summer 1999 Southern Oxidants Study episode—Part I: Evaluation protocols, databases, and meteorological predictions

    Yang Zhang;Ping Liu;Betty Pun;Christian Seigneur

  • Evaluation of operational online-coupled regional air quality models over Europe and North America in the context of AQMEII phase 2. Part II: Particulate matter

    Ulas Im;Roberto Bianconi;Efisio Solazzo;Ioannis Kioutsioukis

Frequent Co-Authors

Kai Wang
Kai Wang Jilin University
Qiang Zhang
Qiang Zhang Peking University
Qiang Zhang
Qiang Zhang Tsinghua University
David G. Streets
David G. Streets Harvard University
Kebin He
Kebin He Tsinghua University
Christian Hogrefe
Christian Hogrefe Environmental Protection Agency
Athanasios Nenes
Athanasios Nenes École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Chaopeng Hong
Chaopeng Hong Tsinghua University
Ge Sun
Ge Sun US Forest Service
Lai-yung Ruby Leung
Lai-yung Ruby Leung Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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