张羽中 Zhang,Yuzhong
Dr. Yuzhong Zhang is the principle investigator of the Atmospheric Environment Research Group at Westlake University.
Education
- Peking University, B.S., Environmental Sciences, 2006-2010
- Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-2015
- Ph.D., School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
- M.S. in Statistics, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Research Experience
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2017
- Harvard University, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017-2019
- Environmental Defense Fund, Kravis postdoctoral Fellow, 2017-2019
Representative Publications
Methane
- Zhang, Y., D.J. Jacob, X. Lu, J.D. Maasakkers, T.R. Scarpelli, J.-X. Sheng, L. Shen, Z. Qu, M.P. Sulprizio, J. Chang, A.A. Bloom, S. Ma, J. Worden, R.J. Parker, H. Boesch: Attribution of the accelerating increase in atmospheric methane during 2010–2018 by inverse analysis of GOSAT observations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 3643–3666, 2021. [link]
- Yuzhong Zhang, Ritesh Gautam, Sudhanshu Pandey, Mark Omara, Joannes D. Maasakkers, Pankaj Sadavarte, David Lyon, Hannah Nesser, Melissa P. Sulprizio, Daniel J. Varon, Ruixiong Zhang, Sander Houweling, Daniel Zavala-Araiza, Ramon A. Alvarez, Alba Lorente, Steven P. Hamburg, Ilse Aben, Daniel J. Jacob: Quantifying methane emissions from the largest oil-producing basin in the United States from space, Science Advances, 6, eaaz5120, 2020. [link][pdf][Bloomberg] [EDF] [New York Times]
Absorbing Organic Aerosol
- Yuzhong Zhang, Haviland Forrister, Jiumeng Liu, Jack E Dibb, Bruce Anderson, Joshua P Schwarz, Anne E Perring, Jose L Jimenez, Pedro Campuzano-Jost, Yuhang Wang, and others. 2017: Top-of-atmosphere radiative forcing affected by brown carbon in the upper troposphere, Nature Geoscience.[link]
Surface Ozone
- Yuzhong Zhang and Yuhang Wang. 2016: Climate-driven ground-level ozone extreme in the fall over the Southeast United States, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Pp. 201602563. [link]
Atmospheric Oxidation Capacity
- Yuzhong Zhang, Daniel J. Jacob, Joannes D. Maasakkers, Melissa P. Sulprizio, Jian-Xiong Sheng, Ritesh Gautam, and John Worden. 2018: Monitoring global OH concentrations using satellite observations of atmospheric methane, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 18, 21, Pp. 15959-15973. [link]