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Overview

Yangang Liu is affiliated with Brookhaven National Laboratory in the United States and has established a research profile primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their scholarly output covers 86 publications in Earth and Planetary Sciences and 76 in Environmental Science, with notable contributions across several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Organic Chemistry, Artificial Intelligence, and Materials Chemistry.

The scientist's research topics encompass a range of atmospheric and environmental phenomena. Key areas of focus include:

  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Meteorological phenomena and simulations
  • Climate variability and models
  • Solar radiation and photovoltaics
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Atmospheric ozone and climate

Yangang Liu has contributed extensively to several scientific journals. Their most frequent publication venues are:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (13 publications)
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (7 publications)
  • Solar Energy (7 publications)
  • Geophysical Research Letters (6 publications)
  • Geophysical Monograph (4 publications)

Significant coauthors who have collaborated frequently with Yangang Liu include:

  • Chunsong Lu (20 papers)
  • Sinan Gao (12 papers)
  • Xiaoqi Xu (11 papers)
  • Lei Zhu (10 papers)
  • Shi Luo (10 papers)

The following list highlights some of their recent publications with year and venue:

  • Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (2021), Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Cobalt-Catalyzed Chemo- and Enantioselective Hydrogenation of Conjugated Enynes (2021), Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Reconciling Contrasting Relationships Between Relative Dispersion and Volume-Mean Radius of Cloud Droplet Size Distributions (2020), Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Observational study of relationships between entrainment rate, homogeneity of mixing, and cloud droplet relative dispersion (2023), Atmospheric Research
  • Chiral Bicyclic Imidazole-Catalyzed Acylative Dynamic Kinetic Resolution for the Synthesis of Chiral Phthalidyl Esters (2020), Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Best Publications

  • Long-term impacts of aerosols on the vertical development of clouds and precipitation

    Zhanqing Li;Zhanqing Li;Zhanqing Li;Feng Niu;Jiwen Fan;Yangang Liu

  • Anthropogenic aerosols. Indirect warming effect from dispersion forcing.

    Yangang Liu;Peter H. Daum

  • Relationship of refractive index to mass density and self-consistency of mixing rules for multicomponent mixtures like ambient aerosols

    Yangang Liu;Peter H. Daum

  • Parameterization of the Autoconversion Process. Part I: Analytical Formulation of the Kessler-Type Parameterizations

    Yangang Liu;Peter H. Daum

  • Modeling cirrus clouds. Part II: Treatment of radiative properties

    David L. Mitchell;Yangang Liu;Andreas Macke

  • Marine low cloud sensitivity to an idealized climate change: The CGILS LES intercomparison

    Peter N. Blossey;Christopher S. Bretherton;Minghua Zhang;Anning Cheng

  • Distributions of Raindrop Sizes and Fall Velocities in a Semiarid Plateau Climate: Convective versus Stratiform Rains

    Shengjie Niu;Xingcan Jia;Jianren Sang;Xiaoli Liu

  • THE EFFECT OF REFRACTIVE INDEX ON SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS AND LIGHT SCATTERING COEFFICIENTS DERIVED FROM OPTICAL PARTICLE COUNTERS

    Yangang Liu;Peter H Daum

  • CGILS: Results from the first phase of an international project to understand the physical mechanisms of low cloud feedbacks in single column models

    Minghua Zhang;Christopher S. Bretherton;Peter N. Blossey;Phillip H. Austin

  • New positive feedback mechanism between boundary layer meteorology and secondary aerosol formation during severe haze events

    Quan Liu;Xingcan Jia;Jiannong Quan;Jiayun Li

  • Sensitivity of the first indirect aerosol effect to an increase of cloud droplet spectral dispersion with droplet number concentration

    Leon D. Rotstayn;Yangang Liu

  • Effect of heterogeneous aqueous reactions on the secondary formation of inorganic aerosols during haze events

    Jiannong Quan;Quan Liu;Xia Li;Yang Gao

  • New understanding and quantification of the regime dependence of aerosol-cloud interaction for studying aerosol indirect effects

    Jingyi Chen;Yangang Liu;Yangang Liu;Minghua Zhang;Yiran Peng

  • Size truncation effect, threshold behavior, and a new type of autoconversion parameterization

    Yangang Liu;Peter H. Daum;Robert L. McGraw

  • Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA)

    Jian Wang;Jian Wang;Rob Wood;Michael P. Jensen;J. Christine Chiu

  • The role of adiabaticity in the aerosol first indirect effect

    Byung Gon Kim;Mark A. Miller;Mark A. Miller;Stephen E. Schwartz;Yangang Liu

  • Modeling Cirrus Clouds. Part I: Treatment of Bimodal Size Spectra and Case Study Analysis

    David L. Mitchell;Steven K. Chai;Yangang Liu;Andrew J. Heymsfield

  • A three-dimensional variational data assimilation system for multiple aerosol species with WRF/Chem and an application to PM 2.5 prediction

    Z. Li;Z. Li;Z. Zang;Q. B. Li;Y. Chao

  • A smaller global estimate of the second indirect aerosol effect

    Leon D. Rotstayn;Yangang Liu

  • Dispersion bias, dispersion effect, and the aerosol–cloud conundrum

    Yangang Liu;Peter H Daum;Huan Guo;Yiran Peng

  • Spectral dispersion of cloud droplet size distributions and the parameterization of cloud droplet effective radius

    Yangang Liu;Peter H. Daum

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter H. Daum
Peter H. Daum Brookhaven National Laboratory
Mark A. Miller
Mark A. Miller Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Xiaodong Liu
Xiaodong Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Minghua Zhang
Minghua Zhang Stony Brook University
John Hallett
John Hallett Desert Research Institute
Leo J. Donner
Leo J. Donner Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Guang J. Zhang
Guang J. Zhang Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Alan K. Betts
Alan K. Betts Colorado State University
Christopher S. Bretherton
Christopher S. Bretherton University of Washington
Raymond A. Shaw
Raymond A. Shaw Michigan Technological University

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