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Zhiyuan Cong is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, having contributed to 52 publications in each of these fields. Within these broader areas, their work is notably concentrated in Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

Their scientific investigations cover several main topics related to atmospheric and environmental processes, including:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact

Zhiyuan Cong has published extensively in a range of scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • Environmental Science & Technology (5 publications)
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics (4 publications)
  • Environmental Pollution (3 publications)
  • Environmental Science & Technology Letters (3 publications)
  • The Science of The Total Environment (3 publications)

Frequent collaborators in Zhiyuan Cong's research include Xin Wan, Shichang Kang, Guangming Wu, Qianggong Zhang, and David Wîdory, with co-authorship counts ranging from 9 to 18 for these individuals.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Zhiyuan Cong are:

  • Fluorescence characteristics of water-soluble organic carbon in atmospheric aerosol, 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • Arctic sea-ice loss intensifies aerosol transport to the Tibetan Plateau, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Loss and Increase of the Electron Exchange Capacity of Natural Organic Matter during Its Reduction and Reoxidation: The Role of Quinone and Nonquinone Moieties, 2022, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Global airborne bacterial community-interactions with Earth's microbiomes and anthropogenic activities, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Trophic Magnification of Short-Chain Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in a Terrestrial Food Chain from the Tibetan Plateau, 2022, Environmental Science & Technology Letters

Best Publications

  • Sources of black carbon to the Himalayan–Tibetan Plateau glaciers

    Chaoliu Li;Carme Bosch;Shichang Kang;August Andersson

  • 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

  • Carbonaceous aerosols on the south edge of the Tibetan Plateau: concentrations, seasonality and sources

    Z. Cong;Z. Cong;S. Kang;S. Kang;K. Kawamura;B. Liu

  • Levoglucosan as a tracer of biomass burning: Recent progress and perspectives

    Hemraj Bhattarai;Eri Saikawa;Xin Wan;Hongxia Zhu

  • Review of brown carbon aerosols: Recent progress and perspectives

    Juping Yan;Xiaoping Wang;Xiaoping Wang;Ping Gong;Chuanfei Wang

  • Penetration of biomass-burning emissions from South Asia through the Himalayas: new insights from atmospheric organic acids.

    Zhiyuan Cong;Kimitaka Kawamura;Shichang Kang;Pingqing Fu

  • Elemental composition of aerosol in the Nam Co region, Tibetan Plateau, during summer monsoon season

    Zhiyuan Cong;Shichang Kang;Xiande Liu;Guangfu Wang

  • Characteristics of PM 2.5 mass concentrations and chemical species in urban and background areas of China: emerging results from the CARE-China network

    Zirui Liu;Wenkang Gao;Yangchun Yu;Bo Hu

  • Atmospheric wet deposition of trace elements to central Tibetan Plateau

    Zhiyuan Cong;Zhiyuan Cong;Shichang Kang;Yulan Zhang;Xiangdong Li

  • Aerosol characteristics and impacts on weather and climate over the Tibetan Plateau.

    Chuanfeng Zhao;Yikun Yang;Hao Fan;Jianping Huang

  • The geochemistry of rare earth elements (REE) in acid mine drainage from the Sitai coal mine, Shanxi Province, North China

    Fenghua Zhao;Fenghua Zhao;Zhiyuan Cong;Hongfu Sun;Deyi Ren;Deyi Ren

  • Light‐absorbing impurities enhance glacier albedo reduction in the southeastern Tibetan plateau

    Yulan Zhang;Shichang Kang;Shichang Kang;Zhiyuan Cong;Zhiyuan Cong;Julia Schmale

  • 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

  • Gradient distribution of persistent organic contaminants along northern slope of central-Himalayas, China

    Xiao-ping Wang;Tan-dong Yao;Zhi-yuan Cong;Xing-liang Yan;Xing-liang Yan

  • Historical Trends of Atmospheric Black Carbon on Tibetan Plateau As Reconstructed from a 150-Year Lake Sediment Record

    Zhiyuan Cong;Shichang Kang;Shaopeng Gao;Yulan Zhang

  • Black carbon and mineral dust in snow cover on the Tibetan Plateau

    Yulan Zhang;Shichang Kang;Shichang Kang;Michael Sprenger;Zhiyuan Cong

  • The historical residue trends of DDT, hexachlorocyclohexanes and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in an ice core from Mt. Everest, central Himalayas, China

    Xiao ping Wang;Bai qing Xu;Shi chang Kang;Zhi yuan Cong

  • Elemental and individual particle analysis of atmospheric aerosols from high Himalayas

    Zhiyuan Cong;Shichang Kang;Shuping Dong;Xiande Liu

  • The Campaign on Atmospheric Aerosol Research Network of China: CARE-China

    Jinyuan Xin;Yuesi Wang;Yuepeng Pan;Dongsheng Ji

  • Baseline continental aerosol over the central Tibetan plateau and a case study of aerosol transport from South Asia

    Xiangao Xia;Xumei Zong;Zhiyuan Cong;Hongbin Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Shichang Kang
Shichang Kang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Qianggong Zhang
Qianggong Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kimitaka Kawamura
Kimitaka Kawamura Chubu University
Chaoliu Li
Chaoliu Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaoping Wang
Xiaoping Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jie Huang
Jie Huang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jinyuan Xin
Jinyuan Xin Chinese Academy of Sciences
Maheswar Rupakheti
Maheswar Rupakheti Research Institute for Sustainability
Mika Sillanpää
Mika Sillanpää University of Johannesburg
Pingqing Fu
Pingqing Fu Tianjin University

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