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Environmental Sciences
China
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
90
Citations
30501
World Ranking
590
National Ranking
61

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Zifa Wang is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has an extensive publication record in environmental and earth sciences. Their research primarily focuses on atmospheric science and related subfields that address various aspects of air quality, atmospheric chemistry, and environmental impacts.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

The primary subfields explored in their work are:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Automotive Engineering

The main research topics covered by their publications are:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

Wang has contributed to several recent scientific papers, including:

  • The Tabula Sapiens: A multiple-organ, single-cell transcriptomic atlas of humans (2022), Science
  • A 6-year-long (2013-2018) high-resolution air quality reanalysis dataset in China based on the assimilation of surface observations from CNEMC (2021), Earth system science data
  • A chemical cocktail during the COVID-19 outbreak in Beijing, China: Insights from six-year aerosol particle composition measurements during the Chinese New Year holiday (2020), The Science of The Total Environment
  • Air pollution could drive global dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes (2020), The ISME Journal
  • Deep Learning for Air Quality Forecasts: a Review (2020), Current Pollution Reports

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Wang include:

  • Yele Sun
  • Xiaole Pan
  • Pingqing Fu
  • Xueshun Chen
  • Jie Li

The most common venues for publishing Wang's research are:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Atmospheric Environment
  • Atmospheric Research

Wang has also published book content, including a title from Springer Nature:

  • Formation Mechanism and Control Strategies of Haze in China (2023)

Best Publications

  • Drivers of improved PM2.5 air quality in China from 2013 to 2017.

    Qiang Zhang;Yixuan Zheng;Dan Tong;Min Shao

  • Asian dust transported one full circuit around the globe

    Itsushi Uno;Kenta Eguchi;Keiya Yumimoto;Toshihiko Takemura

  • 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

  • Air quality during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

    David G. Streets;Joshua S. Fu;Carey J. Jang;Jiming Hao

  • 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

  • Modeling study of regional severe hazes over mid-eastern China in January 2013 and its implications on pollution prevention and control

    Zi Fa Wang;Jie Li;Zhe Wang;Wen Yi Yang

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

    Yele Sun;Wei Du;Pingqing Fu;Qingqing Wang

  • Particulate matter pollution over China and the effects of control policies

    Jiandong Wang;Bin Zhao;Shuxiao Wang;Fumo Yang

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

    Yele Sun;Zifa Wang;Huabin Dong;Ting Yang

  • PM 2.5 in the Yangtze River Delta, China: Chemical compositions, seasonal variations, and regional pollution events

    Lili Ming;Ling Jin;Jun Li;Pingqing Fu

  • 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

  • Acid deposition in Asia: Emissions, deposition, and ecosystem effects

    Lei Duan;Qian Yu;Qiang Zhang;Zifa Wang

  • Dust model intercomparison (DMIP) study over Asia: Overview

    Itsushi Uno;Zifa Wang;M. Chiba;Y. S. Chun

  • Rapid formation and evolution of an extreme haze episode in Northern China during winter 2015

    Yele Sun;Chen Chen;Chen Chen;Yingjie Zhang;Yingjie Zhang;Weiqi Xu

  • Changes in Aerosol Chemistry From 2014 to 2016 in Winter in Beijing: Insights From High-Resolution Aerosol Mass Spectrometry

    Weiqi Xu;Yele Sun;Qingqing Wang;Jian Zhao

  • A deflation module for use in modeling long‐range transport of yellow sand over East Asia

    Zifa Wang;Hiromasa Ueda;Meiyuan Huang

  • Organic molecular compositions and temporal variations of summertime mountain aerosols over Mt. Tai, North China Plain

    Pingqing Fu;Pingqing Fu;Kimitaka Kawamura;Kazuhiro Okuzawa;Shankar Gopala Aggarwal

  • Mixing of Asian mineral dust with anthropogenic pollutants over East Asia: a model case study of a super-duststorm in March 2010

    J. Li;Z. Wang;G. Zhuang;G. Luo

  • Modeling study of the 2010 regional haze event in the North China Plain

    M. Gao;G. R. Carmichael;Y. Wang;P. E. Saide

Frequent Co-Authors

Yele Sun
Yele Sun Chinese Academy of Sciences
Pingqing Fu
Pingqing Fu Tianjin University
Itsushi Uno
Itsushi Uno Kyushu University
Kimitaka Kawamura
Kimitaka Kawamura Chubu University
Gregory R. Carmichael
Gregory R. Carmichael University of Iowa
Hajime Akimoto
Hajime Akimoto National Institute for Environmental Studies
Douglas R. Worsnop
Douglas R. Worsnop University of Helsinki
Yugo Kanaya
Yugo Kanaya Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Nobuo Sugimoto
Nobuo Sugimoto National Institute for Environmental Studies
Guoshun Zhuang
Guoshun Zhuang Fudan University

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