Zhe Jiang

Research fields

Atmospheric Envrionment

Education

2007-2013 University of Toronto, Canada; Ph. D. in Atmospheric Science

2006-2007 University of Toronto, Canada; M. Sc. in Atmospheric Science

2002-2005 China Academy of Engineering Physics, China; M. Sc. in Theoretical Physics

1998-2002 Shanxi University, China; B. Sc. in Physics

Employment

2017- University of Science and Technology of China, China; Professor

2016-2017 National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), USA; Postdoctoral Scholar

2013-2016 JPL/California Institute of Technology, USA; Postdoctoral Scholar

Major publications

1. Chen, X., Jiang, Z.*, Shen, Y., Li, R., Fu, Y., Liu, J.*, Han, H., Liao, H.*, Cheng, X., Jones, D., Worden, H., and González Abad, G.: Chinese regulations are working - why is surface ozone over industrialized areas still high? Applying lessons from Northeast US air quality evolution, Geophys. Res. Lett., 48, e2021GL092816, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL092816, 2021.

3. Yin, Y., Bloom, A., Worden, J., Saatchi, S. Yang, Y., Williams, M., Liu, J., Jiang, Z., Worden, H., Bowman, K., Frankenberg, C. and Schimel, D.: Fire decline in dry tropical ecosystems enhances decadal land carbon sink, Nature Communications, 11, 1900, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15852-2, 2020.

4. Jiang, Z., McDonald, B., Worden, H., Worden, J., Miyazaki, K., Qu, Z., Henze, D., Jones, D., Arellano, A., Fischer, E., Zhu, L. and Boersma, F.: Unexpected slowdown of US pollutant emission reduction in the past decade, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 115(20), 201801191, doi:10.1073/pnas.1801191115, 2018.

5. Worden, J., Bloom, A., Pandey, S., Jiang, Z., Worden, H., Walker, T., Houweling, S. and Röckmann, T.: Reduced biomass burning emissions reconcile conflicting estimates of the post-2006 atmospheric methane budget, Nature Communications, 8(1), 2227, doi:10.1038/s41467-017-02246-0, 2017.

6. Liu, J., Bowman, K., Schimel, D., Parazoo, N., Jiang, Z., Lee, M., Bloom, A., Wunch, D., Frankenberg, C., Sun, Y., O’Dell, C., Gurney, K., Menemenlis, D., Gierach, M., Crisp, D. and Eldering, A.: Contrasting carbon cycle responses of the tropical continents to the 2015–2016 El Niño, Science, 358(6360), eaam5690, doi:10.1126/science.aam5690, 2017.

7. Jiang, Z., Worden, J. R., Worden, H., Deeter, M., Jones, D. B. A., Arellano, A. F., and Henze, D. K.: A 15-year record of CO emissions constrained by MOPITT CO observations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 4565-4583, doi:10.5194/acp-17-4565-2017, 2017.

8. Jiang, Z., Worden, J., Payne, V., Zhu, L., Fischer, E., Walker, T. and Jones, D.: Ozone export from East Asia: The role of PAN, J. Geophys. Res. Atmospheres, 121(11), 6555–6563, doi:10.1002/2016JD024952, 2016.

9. Jiang, Z., Miyazaki, K., Worden, J., Liu, J., Jones, D. and Henze, D.: Impacts of anthropogenic and natural sources on free tropospheric ozone over the Middle East, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16(10), 6537–6546, doi:10.5194/acp-16-6537-2016, 2016.

10. Jiang, Z., Jones, D., Worden, J., Worden, H., Henze, D. and Wang, Y.: Regional data assimilation of multi-spectral MOPITT observations of CO over North America, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15(12), 6801–6814, doi:10.5194/acp-15-6801-2015, 2015.

11. Jiang, Z., Jones, D., Worden, H. and Henze, D.: Sensitivity of top-down CO source estimates to the modeled vertical structure in atmospheric CO, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15(3), 1521–1537, doi:10.5194/acp-15-1521-2015, 2015.

12. Jiang, Z., Worden, J., Jones, D., Lin, J.-T., Verstraeten, W. and Henze, D.: Constraints on Asian ozone using Aura TES, OMI and Terra MOPITT, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15(1), 99–112, doi:10.5194/acp-15-99-2015, 2015.

13. Jiang, Z., Jones, D., Worden, H., Deeter, M., Henze, D., Worden, J., Bowman, K., Brenninkmeijer, C. and Schuck, T.: Impact of model errors in convective transport on CO source estimates inferred from MOPITT CO retrievals, J. Geophys. Res. Atmospheres, 118(4), 2073–2083, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50216, 2013.

14. Jiang, Z., Jones, D., Kopacz, M., Liu, J., Henze, D. and Heald, C.: Quantifying the impact of model errors on top-down estimates of carbon monoxide emissions using satellite observations, J. Geophys. Res. Atmospheres, 116, D15306, doi:10.1029/2010JD015282, 2011.