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Yu Song is affiliated with Peking University in China and focuses on research within Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work predominantly spans subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, and Automotive Engineering.

The scientist's research topics include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate variability and models, and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate.

Yu Song has published extensively, contributing to various scientific journals. Some recent papers include:

  • Sulfate formation is dominated by manganese-catalyzed oxidation of SO2 on aerosol surfaces during haze events, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Development of an extended STIRPAT model to assess the driving factors of household carbon dioxide emissions in China, 2022, Journal of Environmental Management
  • The formation and mitigation of nitrate pollution: comparison between urban and suburban environments, 2022, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Characteristics of the atmospheric boundary layer and its relation with P2.5 during haze episodes in winter in the North China Plain, 2020, Atmospheric Environment
  • The impacts of the atmospheric boundary layer on regional haze in North China, 2021, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

The scientist has collaborated frequently with co-authors including Xuhui Cai, Hongsheng Zhang, Tong Zhu, Ling Kang, and Mingxu Liu.

Yu Song's research contributions have been published regularly in specific venues, often associated with atmospheric and environmental sciences. These include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment (11 publications)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (7 publications)
  • Atmospheric Research (7 publications)
  • Nature Communications (6 publications)
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics (6 publications)

Best Publications

  • MIX: a mosaic Asian anthropogenic emission inventory under the international collaboration framework of the MICS-Asia and HTAP

    Meng Li;Qiang Zhang;Jun-ichi Kurokawa;Jung-Hun Woo

  • Anthropogenic emission inventories in China: a review

    Meng Li;Meng Li;Huan Liu;Guannan Geng;Chaopeng Hong

  • Enhanced haze pollution by black carbon in megacities in China

    A. J. Ding;X. Huang;W. Nie;J. N. Sun

  • A high‐resolution ammonia emission inventory in China

    Xin Huang;Yu Song;Mengmeng Li;Jianfeng Li

  • Air pollutant emissions from Chinese households: A major and underappreciated ambient pollution source.

    Jun Liu;Denise Leonore Mauzerall;Qi Chen;Qiang Zhang

  • Source apportionment of PM2.5 in Beijing by positive matrix factorization

    Yu Song;Yuanhang Zhang;Shaodong Xie;Limin Zeng

  • Ammonia emission control in China would mitigate haze pollution and nitrogen deposition, but worsen acid rain

    Mingxu Liu;Xin Huang;Yu Song;Jie Tang

  • Characterization and Source Apportionment of PM2.5 in an Urban Environment in Beijing

    Lingda Yu;Lingda Yu;Guangfu Wang;Renjian Zhang;Leiming Zhang;Leiming Zhang

  • High-resolution ammonia emissions inventories in China from 1980 to 2012

    Yaning Kang;Mingxu Liu;Yu Song;Xin Huang

  • Visibility trends in six megacities in China 1973–2007

    Di Chang;Yu Song;Bing Liu

  • Source apportionment of PM2.5 in Beijing using principal component analysis/absolute principal component scores and UNMIX.

    Yu Song;Shaodong Xie;Yuanhang Zhang;Limin Zeng

  • Source apportionment of ambient volatile organic compounds in Beijing.

    Yu Song;Min Shao;Ying Liu;Sihua Lu

  • Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in urban air: How chemistry affects the interpretation of positive matrix factorization (PMF) analysis

    Bin Yuan;Min Shao;Joost de Gouw;Joost de Gouw;David D. Parrish

  • Agricultural ammonia emissions in China: reconciling bottom-up and top-down estimates

    Lin Zhang;Youfan Chen;Yuanhong Zhao;Daven K. Henze

  • Sulfate formation is dominated by manganese-catalyzed oxidation of SO2 on aerosol surfaces during haze events.

    Weigang Wang;Mingyuan Liu;Tiantian Wang;Yu Song

  • Fine particle pH during severe haze episodes in northern China

    Mingxu Liu;Yu Song;Tian Zhou;Zhenying Xu

  • A high-resolution emission inventory of crop burning in fields in China based on MODIS Thermal Anomalies/Fire products

    Xin Huang;Mengmeng Li;Jianfeng Li;Yu Song

  • Contributions of inter-city and regional transport to PM2.5 concentrations in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and its implications on regional joint air pollution control

    Xing Chang;Shuxiao Wang;Bin Zhao;Jia Xing

  • A health-based assessment of particulate air pollution in urban areas of Beijing in 2000-2004.

    Minsi Zhang;Yu Song;Xuhui Cai

  • Comparison of receptor models for source apportionment of volatile organic compounds in Beijing, China.

    Yu Song;Wei Dai;Min Shao;Ying Liu

  • Identifying Ammonia Hotspots in China Using a National Observation Network

    Yuepeng Pan;Shili Tian;Yuanhong Zhao;Lin Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Tong Zhu
Tong Zhu Peking University
Min Hu
Min Hu Peking University
Qiang Zhang
Qiang Zhang Peking University
Qiang Zhang
Qiang Zhang Tsinghua University
Yuanhang Zhang
Yuanhang Zhang Peking University
Shaodong Xie
Shaodong Xie Peking University
Yusheng Wu
Yusheng Wu Hublet Oy
Mei Zheng
Mei Zheng Peking University
Shuxiao Wang
Shuxiao Wang Tsinghua University
Zhijun Wu
Zhijun Wu Peking University

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