Yang Zhang

About

Dr. Zhang specializes in atmospheric and environmental research at the interface of Earth system sciences that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries including energy, air, water, land, ocean, and human health.  Over the years, Dr. Zhang has contributed to the development, improvement, application, and evaluation of major 3-D air quality, climate, and Earth system models on urban, regional, and global scales such as STEM III, GChM, MIRAGE, SCICHEM, CMAQ, CMAQ-MADRID, CAMx, MM5, WRF, and mesoscale and global-through-urban WRF/Chem, WRF/Chem-MADRID, WRF-CAM5, WRF/Chem-ROMS, and CESM/CAM5. Her group has also worked on Street-in-Grid models such as SinG, hydrological models such as WaSSI, and health modeling tools such as BenMAP-CE.

Dr. Zhang has devoted sustained efforts to solve some of the most pressing and challenging environment- and energy-related scientific and technical issues related to air and water pollution, acid deposition, global warming and other adverse climate change, as well as associated adverse human health and ecosystem impacts. Dr. Zhang’s research advances the scientific understanding of major atmospheric and environmental issues by developing and utilizing numerical models and analysis tools at various scales (from local to global) to address relevant science and policy questions pertaining to controlling air pollution, mitigating adverse climate change and human health, and minimizing environmental damages in the entire Earth system.

Selected Publications

• Hong, Chaopeng, Mueller, Nathaniel D., Burney, Jennifer A., Zhang, Yang, AghaKouchak, Amir, Moore, Frances C., Qin, Yue, Tong, Dan, Davis, Steven J. (2020). Impacts of ozone and climate change on yields of perennial crops in California. Nature Food, 1(3),166-172. 10.1038/S43016-020-0043-8
• Yang, P.-L., Y. Zhang, K. Wang, P. Doraiswamy, and S.-H. Cho, 2019, Health Impacts and Cost-Benefit Analyses of Surface O₃ and PM_2.5 over the U.S. under Future Climate and Emission Scenarios, Environmental Research, 178, November 2019, 108687, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2019.108687.
• Hong, C.-P., Q. Zhang, Y. Zhang, S. J. Davis, S. J. Davis, D. Tong, Y.-X. Zheng, Z. Liu, D.-B. Guan, K.-B. He, and H. J. Schellnhuber, 2019, Impacts of climate change on future air quality and human health in China, PNAS, August issue, 1-8, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1812881116.
• Duan, K., P. V. Caldwell, G. Sun, S. G. McNulty, Y. Zhang, E. Shuster, B. Liu, and P. V. Bolstad, 2019, Understanding the role of regional water connectivity in mitigating climate change impacts on surface water supply stress in the United States, Journal of Hydrology, 570: 80-95, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.01.011.
• Goldberg, D.L., P. Gupta, K. Wang, C. Jena, Y. Zhang, Z.-F. Lu, and D. G. Streets, 2019, Using gap-filled MAIAC AOD and WRF-Chem to estimate daily PM_2.5 concentrations at 1 km resolution in the eastern United States, Atmos. Environ., 199, 443-452, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2018.11.049.
• Zhang, J.-X., Y. Gao, K. Luo, L. R. Leung, Y. Zhang, K. Wang and J.-R. Fan, 2018, Impacts of compound extreme weather events on ozone in the present and future, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 9861–987.
• Campbell, P., F. Yan, Z.-F. Lu, Y. Zhang, D. Streets, 2018, Impacts of Transportation Sector Emissions on Future U.S. Air Quality in a Changing Climate. Part II: Air Quality Projections and the Interplay between Emissions and Climate Change, Environmental Pollution, 238:918-930. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.03.016.
• Wang, K., Y. Zhang, X. Zhang, J.-W. Fan, L. R. Leung, B. Zheng, Q. Zhang, and K.-B. He, 2018, Fine-Scale Application of WRF-CAM5 during a dust storm episode over East Asia: Sensitivity to grid resolutions and aerosol activation parameterizations, Atmospheric Environment, 176, 1-20, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.12.014.
• Zhang, Y., J. He, and K. Wang, 2017, Multi-Year Application of WRF-CAM5 over East Asia- Part II. Interannual Variability, Trend Analysis, and Aerosol Indirect Effects, Atmospheric Environment, 165, 222–239, 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.06.029.
• Glotfelty, T., J. He, and Y. Zhang, 2017, Improving Organic Aerosol Treatments in CESM/CAM5: Development, Application, and Evaluation, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 9(2), 1506–1539, DOI: 10.1002/2016MS000874.
• Yahya, K., P. Campbell, and Y. Zhang, 2017, Decadal Application of WRF/Chem for Regional Air Quality and Climate Modeling over the U.S. under the Representative Concentration Pathways Scenarios. Part 2: Current vs. Future simulations, Atmospheric Environment, 152, 584–604, doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2016.12.028.

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