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87
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690
National Ranking
304

Overview

Yun Qian is affiliated with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans several main fields including Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The primary topics covered in Yun Qian's work include Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Cryospheric studies and observations, and Urban Heat Island Mitigation.

Among Yun Qian's recent publications are the following papers:

  • "Urbanization Impact on Regional Climate and Extreme Weather: Current Understanding, Uncertainties, and Future Research Directions," 2022, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
  • "A review of black carbon in snow and ice and its impact on the cryosphere," 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Dust dominates high-altitude snow darkening and melt over high-mountain Asia," 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • "The Ongoing Need for High-Resolution Regional Climate Models: Process Understanding and Stakeholder Information," 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Precipitation regime changes in High Mountain Asia driven by cleaner air," 2023, Nature

Yun Qian frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable co-authors include L. Ruby Leung, Zhao Yang, TC Chakraborty, Larry K. Berg, and Hailong Wang.

Their work has been published frequently in several key academic venues including the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Geophysical Research Letters, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, and Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Best Publications

  • Recent Third Pole’s Rapid Warming Accompanies Cryospheric Melt and Water Cycle Intensification and Interactions between Monsoon and Environment: Multidisciplinary Approach with Observations, Modeling, and Analysis

    Tandong Yao;Yongkang Xue;Deliang Chen;Fahu Chen

  • Aerosol and monsoon climate interactions over Asia

    Zhanqing Li;Zhanqing Li;W. K.M. Lau;V. Ramanathan;G. Wu

  • The DOE E3SM Coupled Model Version 1: Overview and Evaluation at Standard Resolution

    Jean Christophe Golaz;Peter M. Caldwell;Luke P. Van Roekel;Mark R. Petersen

  • A Regional Climate Change Assessment Program for North America

    Linda O. Mearns;William Gutowski;Richard Jones;Ruby Leung

  • The Art and Science of Climate Model Tuning

    Frédéric Hourdin;Thorsten Mauritsen;Andrew Gettelman;Jean-Christophe Golaz

  • The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program: Overview of Phase I Results

    Linda O. Mearns;Ray Arritt;Sébastien Biner;Melissa S. Bukovsky

  • Mid-Century Ensemble Regional Climate Change Scenarios for the Western United States

    L. Ruby Leung;Yun Qian;Xindi Bian;Warren M. Washington

  • Atmospheric rivers induced heavy precipitation and flooding in the western U.S. simulated by the WRF regional climate model

    L. Ruby Leung;Yun Qian

  • Linking atmospheric pollution to cryospheric change in the Third Pole region: current progress and future prospects

    Shichang Kang;Shichang Kang;Qianggong Zhang;Yun Qian;Zhenming Ji

  • Urbanization Impact on Regional Climate and Extreme Weather: Current Understanding, Uncertainties, and Future Research Directions

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  • More frequent cloud-free sky and less surface solar radiation in China from 1955 to 2000

    Yun Qian;Dale P. Kaiser;L. Ruby Leung;Ming Xu

  • Heavy pollution suppresses light rain in China: Observations and modeling

    Yun Qian;Daoyi Gong;Jiwen Fan;L. Ruby Leung

  • An Overview of the Atmospheric Component of the Energy Exascale Earth System Model

    P. J. Rasch;S. Xie;P.-L. Ma;W. Lin

  • Sensitivity studies on the impacts of Tibetan Plateau snowpack pollution on the Asian hydrological cycle and monsoon climate

    Yun Qian;M G Flanner;Lai-Yung R Leung;Weiguo Wang

  • Responses of East Asian summer monsoon to natural and anthropogenic forcings in the 17 latest CMIP5 models

    Fengfei Song;Tianjun Zhou;Yun Qian

  • Atmospheric River Tracking Method Intercomparison Project(ARTMIP): Project Goals and Experimental Design

    Christine A. Shields;Jonathan J. Rutz;Lai-Yung Leung;F. Martin Ralph

  • Light-absorbing Particles in Snow and Ice: Measurement and Modeling of Climatic and Hydrological impact

    Yun Qian;Teppei J. Yasunari;Teppei J. Yasunari;Sarah J. Doherty;Mark G. Flanner

  • Decreasing trends in sunshine duration over China for 1954–1998: Indication of increased haze pollution?

    Dale P. Kaiser;Yun Qian

  • A review of black carbon in snow and ice and its impact on the cryosphere

    Shichang Kang;Yulan Zhang;Yun Qian;Hailong Wang

  • East Asian Study of Tropospheric Aerosols and their Impact on Regional Clouds, Precipitation, and Climate (EAST-AIRCPC)

    Zhanqing Li;Yuan Wang;Jianping Guo;Chuanfeng Zhao

  • Reply to “Comments on ‘The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program: Overview of Phase I Results'”

    Linda O. Mearns;Melissa S. Bukovsky;Ruby Leung;Yun Qian

  • Sensitivity studies on the impacts of Tibetan Plateau snowpack pollution on the Asian hydrological cycle and monsoon climate

    Y. Qian;M. Flanner;R. Leung;W. Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Lai-yung Ruby Leung
Lai-yung Ruby Leung Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Hailong Wang
Hailong Wang Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Chun Zhao
Chun Zhao University of Science and Technology of China
Maoyi Huang
Maoyi Huang Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Philip J. Rasch
Philip J. Rasch Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Larry K. Berg
Larry K. Berg Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Xiaohong Liu
Xiaohong Liu Texas A&M University
Minghuai Wang
Minghuai Wang Nanjing University
Steven J. Ghan
Steven J. Ghan Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
William I. Gustafson
William I. Gustafson Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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