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Yuqiang Zhang
Yuqiang Zhang
US EPA ORISE Postdoctoral fellow
Computational Exposure Division, National Exposure Research Laboratory
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
109 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Cell: 1-919-259-9408
Office: 1-919-541-2903
Email: [email protected]
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Research Interests
Global and regional air pollutants distribution; interactions between climate changes, air
quality and human health; global and regional atmospheric models application;
intercontinental air pollution transport; dynamical downscaling.
Personal website: https://yuqiang.web.unc.edu/
Google scholar profile: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=A40cvygAAAAJ&hl=en
Education
2016
2011
2008
Ph.D. Environmental Science and Engineering
M.S.
Environmental Science and Engineering
B.S.
Environmental Science and Engineering
UNC-CH, USA
Tsinghua University, China
Shandong University, China
Research Experience
US Environmental Protection Agency
Durham, NC, USA
Postdoctoral research
1.
Green infrastructure on the regional air quality and meteorology
2.
Long-term trends of air quality and nitrogen trends in US
3.
National health burden of PM2.5 and O3 in US
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2016 – present
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Research Assistant (Advisor: Dr. J. Jason West)
2011 – 2016
1.
Investigate co-benefits of global and regional greenhouse gases mitigation on U.S.
air quality and human health at fine resolution using dynamical downscaling.
2.
Interactions between climate change and air quality at global and regional scale.
3.
Global and regional air quality and human health analysis.
4.
Downscale global climate models into regional with WRF.
5.
Process global emission inventory into regional domain with SMOKE.
Yuqiang Zhang
Reviewer
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics; Environmental Pollution; Science of Total
Environment; Atmospheric Environment; Environmental Research; Journal of Atmospheric
Science; Atmospheric Pollution Research.; Air Quality and Atmospheric Health;
In Preparations
2) Zhang Y., Bowden J., Adelman Z., Naik V., Horowitz L. W., Smith S. J., West J. J.
(2016) Co-benefits of global, regional and sectoral greenhouse gas mitigation on U.S.
human health at fine resolution, prepared to be submitted to Environ. Res. Lett.
1) Li Y., Zhang Y., West J, J (2016) Projecting Future Heat-Related Mortality in the
United States under Global Climate Change, prepared to be submitted to Environ.
Res. Lett.
Publications
7) Zhang Y., Cooper O., Gaudel, A., Thompson, A. M., Nédélec, P., Ogino, S. Y., West J.
J. (2016) Tropospheric ozone change from 1980 to 2010 dominated by equatorward
redistribution of emissions, Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/ngeo2827.
6) Zhang Y., Bowden J., Adelman Z., Naik V., Horowitz L. W., Smith S. J., West J. J.
(2016) Co-benefits of global and regional greenhouse gas mitigation on U.S. air quality
in 2050, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 9533-9548, doi:10.5194/acp-16-9533-2016, 2016.
5) West, J. J., Smith S. J., R. Silva A., Naik V., Zhang Y., Adelman Z., Fry M. M.,
Anenberg S., Horowitz L. W., and Lamarque J.-F. (2013) Co-benefits of global
greenhouse gas mitigation for future air quality and human health, Nat. Clim. Chang.,
3, 885-889, doi: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2009.
4) Silva, R. A., West J. J., Zhang Y., Anenberg S. C., Lamarque J.-F., Shindell D. T.,
Bergmann D., Berntsen T. K., Cameron-Smith P., Collins W. J., Ghan S. J., Josse B.,
Nagashima T., Naik V., Plummer D., Rodriguez J. M., Szopa S., and Zeng G. (2013)
Global premature mortality due to anthropogenic outdoor air pollution and the
contribution of past climate change, Environ. Res. Lett., 8, 034005, doi:10.1088/17489326/8/3/034005.
3) Wang Y., Zhang Y., Hao J., and Luo M (2011) Seasonal and spatial variability of
surface ozone over China: contributions from background and domestic pollution,
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 3511-3525, 2011 doi:10.5194/acpd-10-27853-2010,
www.atmos-chem-phys.net/11/3511/2011/.
2) Wang Y. X., Hao J. M., Mcelroy M. B., William J. Munger., Ma H., Nielsen C. P. and Zhang
Y.Q. (2010)Year round measurements of O3 and CO at a rural site near Beijing:
variations in their correlations, Tellus (2010), 62B, 228–241, doi: 10.1111/j.16000889.2010.00464.x
1) Wang, Y. X., Zhang Y.Q., and Hao J. M (2010) Review on the applications of
Tropospheric Emissions Spectrometer to air quality research: perspectives for China,
Front. Environ. Sci. Engin. China, 4(1), 12-19, doi: 10.1007/s11783-010-0012-9,
2010.
Yuqiang Zhang
Presentations at scientific meetings
13) Presentation at Air Quality Applied Sciences Team 10th Semi-Annual Meeting (AQAST
10): Southward redistribution of emissions dominates the 1980 to 2010 tropospheric
ozone change.
12) Presentation at Air Quality Applied Sciences Team 10th Semi-Annual Meeting (AQAST
10): Co-benefits of global and regional greenhouse gas mitigation on US air quality and
human health in 2050.
11) Presentation at 2015 AGU Fall Meeting: Shifting emissions to low latitudes had a greater
influence on global tropospheric ozone than changing emission magnitude, 1980-2010.
10) Presentation at 14th CMAS conference (2015): Influence of changes in the spatial
distributions of emissions on global ozone, 1980-2010.
9) Presentation at 14th CMAS conference (2015): Co-benefits of global and domestic
greenhouse gas mitigation on U.S. air quality and human health in 2050.
8) Presentation at Second Annual Research Computing Symposium (2015): Co-benefits of
Global and Regional Greenhouse Gas Mitigation on U.S. Air Quality in 2050 at Fine
Resolution.
7) Presentation at 2nd UNC Carolina Climate Change Symposium (CCCS) (2015): Cobenefits for avoided air pollution-related human mortality in the U.S. from global,
domestic, and sectoral GHG mitigation in 2050.
6) Presentation at 2014 AGU Fall meeting: The Co-benefits of Global and Regional
Greenhouse Gas Mitigation on U.S. Air Quality at Fine Resolution.
5) Presentation at 13th CMAS conference (2014): Studying the Co-benefits of Global and
Regional GHG Mitigation on US Air Quality at Fine Resolution with Dynamical
Downscaling.
4) Presentation at 1st UNC Carolina Climate Change Symposium (CCCS) (2014): Studying
the Co-benefits of GHGs Mitigation on US Air Quality with Dynamical Downscaling
Techniques.
3) Presentation at 2013 AGU Fall Meeting: The Co-benefits of Domestic and Foreign GHG
Mitigation on US Air Quality.
2) Presentation at 12th CMAS conference (2013): The co-benefits of GHG mitigation for air
quality in the U.S.
1) Presentation at 11th Community Modeling & Analysis System (CMAS) conference (2012):
Effects of changes in emissions and climate change on global air quality: a study of the
air quality co-benefits of GHGs mitigation.
Invited talk & seminars
2) 02/2016, invited talk by China Project, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences: “Co-benefits of Global Greenhouse Gas Mitigation for US Air Quality
and Human Health through Dynamical Downscaling: the application in China”.
1) 01/2016, invited talk at Tsinghua University: “Application of Chemical Transport Models
to Study Global and Regional Air Quality and Human Health”.
Yuqiang Zhang
Award
2014 Koch Travel Award
2015 GPSF Travel Grant
Professional Membership
Members of American Geophysical Union since 2011;