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Overview

Yanlin Zhang is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and has a significant research presence in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work spans a number of topics focusing primarily on atmospheric chemistry and aerosols as well as air quality and health impacts.

Their research extensively covers atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, atmospheric ozone and climate, air quality monitoring and forecasting, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, and vehicle emissions and performance.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Yanlin Zhang include Fang Cao, Yu-Chi Lin, Mei-Yi Fan, and Feng Xie. These partnerships reflect a consistent engagement in interdisciplinary atmospheric research.

Yanlin Zhang has published in several specialized venues, with recurring publications in journals such as PubMed, Atmospheric Environment, The Science of The Total Environment, Atmospheric Research, and Environmental Science & Technology.

Selected recent publications highlight the scope and focus of their research:

  • "Ultrasonic-microwave-assisted extraction for enhancing antioxidant activity of Dictyophora indusiata polysaccharides: The difference mechanisms between single and combined assisted extraction," 2023, Ultrasonics Sonochemistry
  • "Atmospheric Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) in China: a Review," 2020, Current Pollution Reports
  • "Characteristics of summertime ambient VOCs and their contributions to O3 and SOA formation in a suburban area of Nanjing, China," 2020, Atmospheric Research
  • "Stable Sulfur Isotopes Revealed a Major Role of Transition-Metal Ion-Catalyzed SO2 Oxidation in Haze Episodes," 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Source apportionments of atmospheric volatile organic compounds in Nanjing, China during high ozone pollution season," 2020, Chemosphere

Best Publications

  • High secondary aerosol contribution to particulate pollution during haze events in China

    Ru Jin Huang;Yanlin Zhang;Carlo Bozzetti;Kin Fai Ho

  • Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in China at a city level

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  • Effects of volatile fatty acid concentrations on methane yield and methanogenic bacteria

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  • Evaluation of the absorption Ångström exponents for traffic and wood burning in the Aethalometer-based source apportionment using radiocarbon measurements of ambient aerosol

    Peter Zotter;Peter Zotter;Hanna Herich;Hanna Herich;Martin Gysel;Imad El-Haddad

  • A versatile gas interface for routine radiocarbon analysis with a gas ion source

    L. Wacker;Simon Fahrni;Simon Fahrni;Simon Fahrni;I. Hajdas;M. Molnar;M. Molnar

  • Fossil vs. non-fossil sources of fine carbonaceous aerosols in four Chinese cities during the extreme winter haze episode of 2013

    Y.-L. Zhang;R.-J. Huang;R.-J. Huang;I. El Haddad;K.-F. Ho;K.-F. Ho

  • Atmospheric Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) in China: a Review

    Ahsan Mozaffar;Yan-Lin Zhang

  • Source Apportionment Using Radiocarbon and Organic Tracers for PM2.5 Carbonaceous Aerosols in Guangzhou, South China: Contrasting Local- and Regional-Scale Haze Events

    Junwen Liu;Jun Li;Yanlin Zhang;Di Liu

  • Water-Soluble Brown Carbon in Atmospheric Aerosols from Godavari (Nepal), a Regional Representative of South Asia

    Guangming Wu;Kirpa Ram;Kirpa Ram;Pingqing Fu;Wan Wang

  • Change in frozen soils and its effect on regional hydrology, upper Heihe basin, northeastern Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

    Bing Gao;Dawen Yang;Yue Qin;Yuhan Wang

  • Assessing Contributions of Agricultural and Nonagricultural Emissions to Atmospheric Ammonia in a Chinese Megacity

    Yunhua Chang;Zhong Zou;Yanlin Zhang;Congrui Deng

  • Characterization and source apportionment of organic aerosol using offline aerosol mass spectrometry

    K. R. Daellenbach;C. Bozzetti;A. Křepelová;F. Canonaco

  • First long-term and near real-time measurement of trace elements in China's urban atmosphere: temporal variability, source apportionment and precipitation effect

    Yunhua Chang;Kan Huang;Mingjie Xie;Congrui Deng

  • On the isolation of OC and EC and the optimal strategy of radiocarbon-based source apportionment of carbonaceous aerosols

    Yanlin Zhang;Yanlin Zhang;Yanlin Zhang;N. Perron;N. Perron;V.G. Ciobanu;P. Zotter

  • Characteristics of summertime ambient VOCs and their contributions to O3 and SOA formation in a suburban area of Nanjing, China

    Ahsan Mozaffar;Yan-Lin Zhang;Meiyi Fan;Fang Cao

  • Seasonal light absorption properties of water-soluble brown carbon in atmospheric fine particles in Nanjing, China

    Yanfang Chen;Xinlei Ge;Hui Chen;Xinchun Xie

  • Stable Sulfur Isotopes Revealed a Major Role of Transition-Metal Ion-Catalyzed SO2 Oxidation in Haze Episodes

    Jianghanyang Li;Yan-Lin Zhang;Fang Cao;Wenqi Zhang

  • Nitrogen isotope fractionation during gas-to-particle conversion of NO x to NO 3 - in the atmosphere - implications for isotope-based NO x source apportionment

    Yunhua Chang;Yanlin Zhang;Chongguo Tian;Shichun Zhang

  • The Use of Levoglucosan and Radiocarbon for Source Apportionment of PM2.5 Carbonaceous Aerosols at a Background Site in East China

    Di Liu;Jun Li;Yanlin Zhang;Yue Xu

  • Source Apportionment of Elemental Carbon in Beijing, China: Insights from Radiocarbon and Organic Marker Measurements

    Yan-Lin Zhang;Jürgen Schnelle-Kreis;Gülcin Abbaszade;Ralf Zimmermann

  • Source apportionments of atmospheric volatile organic compounds in Nanjing, China during high ozone pollution season.

    Mei-Yi Fan;Yan-Lin Zhang;Yu-Chi Lin;Lin Li

  • Radiocarbon-based source apportionment of carbonaceous aerosols at a regional background site on Hainan Island, South China.

    Yan-Lin Zhang;Jun Li;Gan Zhang;Peter Zotter

  • Radiocarbon analysis of elemental and organic carbon in Switzerland during winter-smog episodes from 2008 to 2012 – Part 1: Source apportionment and spatial variability

    Peter Zotter;V.G. Ciobanu;V.G. Ciobanu;Y.L. Zhang;Imad El-Haddad

Frequent Co-Authors

Sönke Szidat
Sönke Szidat University of Bern
André S. H. Prévôt
André S. H. Prévôt Paul Scherrer Institute
Peter Zotter
Peter Zotter Paul Scherrer Institute
Pingqing Fu
Pingqing Fu Tianjin University
Kimitaka Kawamura
Kimitaka Kawamura Chubu University
Gan Zhang
Gan Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Urs Baltensperger
Urs Baltensperger Paul Scherrer Institute
Lukas Wacker
Lukas Wacker ETH Zurich
Xuhui Lee
Xuhui Lee Yale University
Zhiyuan Cong
Zhiyuan Cong Chinese Academy of Sciences

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