Air Quality vs. Climate

climate patterns and biomass burning in Southeast Asia

Huang, H.-S., S.-H. Wang, K.-M. Lau, S.-Y. Wang, A. M. de Salva, 2023: Impact of regional climate patterns on the biomass burning emissions and transport over Peninsular Southeast Asia, 2000-2019. Atmospheric Research, 297, 107067.

trends of summer PM2.5 in West US

Chikamoto, Y., W. Zhang, L. Hipps, S.-Y. Wang, et al., 2023: Interannual Variability and Trends of Summertime PM2.5-based Air Quality in the Intermountain West. Environmental Research Letters, DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/acc6e0 

air stagnation and PM in Korea

Lee, D., S.-Y.  Wang, L. Zhao☃, H. C. Kim, K. Kim, and J.-H. Yoon, 2020: Long-term increase in atmospheric stagnant conditions over northeast Asia and the role of greenhouse gases-driven warming. Atmospheric Environment, DOI:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2020.117772

Indo-Gangetic plains' inversion and air quality

Fosu, B., S.-Y. Wang, S.-H. Wang, R. Gillies, and L. Zhao, 2017: Greenhouse Gases Stabilizing Winter Atmosphere in the Indo-Gangetic Plains May Increase Aerosol Loading. Atmospheric Sciences Letters, DOI: 10.1002/asl.739. 

aerosol and a tropical cyclone

Zhao, L., S.-Y. Wang,  E. Becker, J.-H. Yoon, and A. Mukherjee, 2020: Cyclone Fani: The tug-of-war between regional warming and anthropogenic aerosol effects. Environmental Research Letters, DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/ab91e7

winter inversion change in western U.S. and implication on air quality

Wang, S.-Y., L. Hipps, O.-Y. Chung, R. R. Gillies, and R. Martin, 2015: Long-term winter inversion properties in a mountain valley of the western U.S. and implication on air quality. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-15-0172.1

mountain valley inversion and winter PM2.5 

Gillies, R. R., S.-Y. Wang, and M. R. Booth, 2010: Atmospheric scale interaction on wintertime Intermountain West low-level inversions. Wea. Forecasting, 25, 1196–1210.