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Environmental Sciences
China
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
102
Citations
48167
World Ranking
326
National Ranking
39

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in China Leader Award

Overview

Yele Sun is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their scholarly output prominently focuses on Atmospheric Science and related subfields, including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, and Automotive Engineering.

The scientist's main research topics encompass Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting, Vehicle emissions and performance, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

Yele Sun has contributed frequently to several publication venues, notably:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Atmospheric Environment

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Zifa Wang
  • Pingqing Fu
  • Weiqi Xu
  • Xiaole Pan
  • Hang Su

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Fast sulfate formation from oxidation of SO2 by NO2 and HONO observed in Beijing haze" (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • "Control of particulate nitrate air pollution in China" (2021), published in Nature Geoscience
  • "Sulfate formation is dominated by manganese-catalyzed oxidation of SO2 on aerosol surfaces during haze events" (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • "Aqueous production of secondary organic aerosol from fossil-fuel emissions in winter Beijing haze" (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Air quality, nitrogen use efficiency and food security in China are improved by cost-effective agricultural nitrogen management" (2020), published in Nature Food

Best Publications

  • Evolution of Organic Aerosols in the Atmosphere

    J. L. Jimenez;M. R. Canagaratna;N. M. Donahue;A. S. H. Prevot

  • Ubiquity and dominance of oxygenated species in organic aerosols in anthropogenically-influenced Northern Hemisphere midlatitudes

    Q. Zhang;Jose L. Jimenez;M. R. Canagaratna;J. D. Allan

  • O/C and OM/OC Ratios of Primary, Secondary, and Ambient Organic Aerosols with High-Resolution Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometry

    Allison C. Aiken;Peter F. DeCarlo;Jesse H. Kroll;Douglas R. Worsnop

  • An Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor (ACSM) for Routine Monitoring of the Composition and Mass Concentrations of Ambient Aerosol

    N. L. Ng;S. C. Herndon;A. Trimborn;M. R. Canagaratna

  • Understanding atmospheric organic aerosols via factor analysis of aerosol mass spectrometry: a review

    Qi Zhang;Jose L. Jimenez;Jose L. Jimenez;Manjula R. Canagaratna;Ingrid M. Ulbrich

  • Chemical characteristics of PM2.5 and PM10 in haze-fog episodes in Beijing.

    Yele Sun;Guoshun Zhuang;A Aohan Tang;Ying Wang

  • The ion chemistry and the source of PM2.5 aerosol in Beijing

    Ying Wang;Ying Wang;Guoshun Zhuang;Guoshun Zhuang;Aohan Tang;Hui Yuan

  • Aerosol and boundary-layer interactions and impact on air quality

    Zhanqing Li;Zhanqing Li;Jianping Guo;Aijun Ding;Hong Liao

  • Investigation of the sources and evolution processes of severe haze pollution in Beijing in January 2013

    Yele Sun;Yele Sun;Qi Jiang;Qi Jiang;Zifa Wang;Pingqing Fu

  • The air-borne particulate pollution in Beijing—concentration, composition, distribution and sources

    Yele Sun;Yele Sun;Guoshun Zhuang;Guoshun Zhuang;Guoshun Zhuang;Ying Wang;Lihui Han

  • Aerosol composition, sources and processes during wintertime in Beijing, China

    Y. L. Sun;Z. F. Wang;P. Q. Fu;T. Yang

  • Characterization of the sources and processes of organic and inorganic aerosols in New York city with a high-resolution time-of-flight aerosol mass apectrometer

    Y.-L. Sun;Y.-L. Sun;Q. Zhang;J. J. Schwab;K. L. Demerjian

  • The impact of relative humidity on aerosol composition and evolution processes during wintertime in Beijing, China

    Yele Sun;Zifa Wang;Pingqing Fu;Qi Jiang;Qi Jiang

  • Long-term real-time measurements of aerosol particle composition in Beijing, China: seasonal variations, meteorological effects, and source analysis

    Y. L. Sun;Z. F. Wang;W. Du;W. Du;Q. Zhang

  • The variation of characteristics and formation mechanisms of aerosols in dust, haze, and clear days in Beijing

    Ying Wang;Ying Wang;Guoshun Zhuang;Guoshun Zhuang;Yele Sun;Zhisheng An

  • Primary and secondary aerosols in Beijing in winter: sources, variations andprocesses

    Yele Sun;Wei Du;Pingqing Fu;Qingqing Wang

  • Highly time-resolved chemical characterization of atmospheric submicron particles during 2008 Beijing Olympic Games using an Aerodyne High-Resolution Aerosol Mass Spectrometer

    X.-F. Huang;L.-Y. He;M. Hu;M. R. Canagaratna

  • Characterization of summer organic and inorganic aerosols in Beijing, China with an Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor

    Yele Sun;Zifa Wang;Huabin Dong;Ting Yang

  • Control of particulate nitrate air pollution in China

    Shixian Zhai;Daniel J. Jacob;Xuan Wang;Zirui Liu

  • Speciation of “brown” carbon in cloud water impacted by agricultural biomass burning in eastern China

    Yury Desyaterik;Yele Sun;Yele Sun;Xinhua Shen;Xinhua Shen;Taehyoung Lee;Taehyoung Lee

  • Fast sulfate formation from oxidation of SO 2 by NO 2 and HONO observed in Beijing haze

    Junfeng Wang;Junfeng Wang;Jingyi Li;Jianhuai Ye;Jian Zhao

  • Effects of Aqueous-Phase and Photochemical Processing on Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation and Evolution in Beijing, China

    Weiqi Xu;Tingting Han;Wei Du;Qingqing Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Pingqing Fu
Pingqing Fu Tianjin University
Zifa Wang
Zifa Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Douglas R. Worsnop
Douglas R. Worsnop University of Helsinki
Guoshun Zhuang
Guoshun Zhuang Fudan University
Zhanqing Li
Zhanqing Li University of Maryland, College Park
Qi Zhang
Qi Zhang Oil Crops Research Institute
Xinlei Ge
Xinlei Ge Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Kimitaka Kawamura
Kimitaka Kawamura Chubu University
Yafang Cheng
Yafang Cheng Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Zongbo Shi
Zongbo Shi University of Birmingham

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