Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Hongbin Yu

(Rsch AST, Climate and Radiation Std)

Hongbin Yu's Contact Card & Information.
Email: hongbin.yu-1@nasa.gov
Phone: 301.614.6209
Org Code: 613
Address:
NASA/GSFC
 Mail Code 613
 Greenbelt, MD 20771
Employer:
NASA

Brief Bio

Dr. Hongbin Yu is a Research Physical Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). Through his career, Dr. Yu has studied the dispersion, transport, and environmental impacts of both airborne gases and particles on scales ranging from urban complexes and land-sea transition zones to continents and globe. His recent research focuses on characterizing the long-range transport of mineral dust and aerosol and assessing their roles in the Earth system through integrating satellite remote sensing observations and numerical models. He serves as a member of the MODIS and CALIPSO/CloudSat Science Teams.


Dr. Yu's publications cover a wide range of topics, including the aerosol intercontinental transport, aerosol data assimilation, aerosol interactions with radiation and clouds, impacts of aerosols on the land-atmosphere interactions and atmospheric boundary layer, tropospheric ozone chemistry, atmospheric dispersion modeling, and boundary layer meteorology over complex terrains. His publication list and citation metrics can be found at ResearchID and GoogleScholar.


Dr. Yu received a PhD in atmospheric chemistry (with a minor in Computer Science) from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees both in atmospheric physics from the Nanjing University in China. Prior to pursuing the PhD in USA, he was faculty member for four years at the Nanjing University when he studied and taught atmospheric boundary layer and air pollution meteorology in complex terrains.

Research Interests

Aerosol long-range transport; Dust cycle and impacts on ecosystems; Aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions; Aerosol assimilation; Atmospheric boundary layer; Land-atmosphere interactions

Earth Science: Aerosols & Clouds


Current Projects

Developing a Comprehensive and Augmented Multi-decadal Remote-sensing Observations of Dust (CAMRO-Dust) Data Record for Earth Science Research and Applications

Aerosols

Characterizing the Variability of Dust Mineralogy, Dust-borne Nutrients and Direct Radiative Effect Over the Last Two Decades

Aerosol Remote Sensing and Modeling

Atmospheric nourishment of global ocean ecosystems on a changing planet

Ocean Biochemistry

Integrating Explainable Machine Learning with Physics for Enhanced Wildfire Detection in Observation-Constrained Environments

Fire

Recent decadal trend of the Pacific westerly jet in response to anthropogenic aerosol emissions and its impact on trans-Pacific aerosol transport

Revealing Complex Changes in Global Air Pollution

Positions/Employment

Research Physical Scientist

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, Maryland

January 2017 - Present

Acting Program Manager for Modeling, Analysis and Prediction (MAP) program

NASA HQ - Washington DC

February 2023 - May 2024

Research Scientist

University of Maryland - College Park, Maryland

September 2015 - January 2017

Associate Research Scientist

Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland - College Park, Maryland

June 2010 - September 2015

Associate Research Scientist

Goddard Earth Science and Technology (GEST) Center, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, - Baltimore, Maryland

October 2007 - June 2010

Assistant Research Scientist

Goddard Earth Science and Technology Center (GEST), University of Maryland at Baltimore County - Baltimore, Maryland, USA

October 2004 - September 2007

Teaching Experience

Nanjing University (1992-1996): Atmospheric Boundary Layer, Air Pollution Meteorology, FORTRAN Programing

Education

  • Ph.D., Atmospheric Chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
  • M.S.,  Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
  • B.S.,  Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Professional Societies

American Geophysical Unit

Member

1998 - Present

American Meteorological Society (AMS)

Member

2001 - Present

Professional Service

  • Lead and contributing author for chapters in in “Atmospheric Aerosols and Their Climate Impacts”, US Climate Change Science Program’s Synthesis and Assessment Product.
  • Co-lead of Atmospheric Composition of the Climate Societal Benefit Area of the 2nd National Earth Observation Assessment (EOA 2016), Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).
  • Member of the Regional Steering Group (RSG) of the Pan American node of the World Meteorological Organization Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System (WMO SDS-WAS), 10/2017 - present.
  • Member of MODIS Science Team.
  • Member of CALIPSO Science Team.
  • Contributing author of 2010 Assessment Report of United Nations Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution.
  • Co-convener of the session "Advances in observational and modeling studies of role of mineral dust in the Earth system", the AMS Annual Meeting, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.
  • Co-convener of the session "Aerosol-Radiation Interactions", the AMS Annual Meeting 2021, virtual.
  • Session co-chair of "Satellite Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Composition: Algorithms, Applications, and Process Studies", 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), September 26 - October 2, 2020, virtual symposium.
  • Co-convener of the session “Aerosol impacts on air quality, climate system, and our society”, Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) – AGU Joint Meeting virtual, July 12-16, 2020.
  • Co-convener of the session “Remote sensing of atmospheric dust and ash: techniques and applications”, December 9-13, 2019, San Francisco, CA.
  • Co-convener of the session “Dust Spatiotemporal Variability Across Multiple Scales”, August 18-23, 2019, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Co-convener of the session “Observation and modeling of dust intercontinental transport and deposition” in the 3rd International Conference on Atmospheric Dust, Bari, Italy, May 29-31, 2018.
  • Co-convener and co-chair of session "Mineral dust: from small-scale insights to large-scale understanding", AGU Fall meeting, December 14-18, 2015.
  • Co-convener and co-chair of session “Impacts of Natural Aerosols (E.G., Biogenic, Dust, Sea Salt and Smoke) On Climate” in Fifth Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions, 93rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, January 7-10, 2013, Austin, Texas.
  • Reviewer for Scientific Journals:
  • Nature, Nature Sustainability, PNAS, BAMS, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, Geophysical Research Letters, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Journal of Climate, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Remote Sensing of Environment, Atmospheric Environment, Atmospheric Research, Tellus-B, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Amtospheric Measurement and Techniques, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, Environmental Health Perspectives, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Journal of Environmental Modeling and Software, and Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, among others. 
  •  Panelist/Reviewer for Funding Agencies and Organizations: NASA, DOE, National Science Foundation, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (Scientific Basis)
  • Reviewer of AGU student travel grants, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.
  • Judge of AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award, 2013, 2015.
  • Judge of AMS Outstanding Student Paper Award, 2021.
  • Coordinator of NASA GSFC Code 613 (Climate and Radiation Laboratory) Seminar Series (2016-2018).
  • Member of selection committee for the University of Maryland CMNS Distinguished Research Scientist Prize, 2015.
  • Chair of ESSIC Awards Committee, 2014.
  • Instructional Committees
  • Member of Josele Rosas Nava's PhD thesis advisory committee (University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras, Department of Environmental Science)
  • Member of Jiangyu Zheng's PhD thesis advisory committee (UMBC, Physics Department)
  • Member of Qianqian Song’s PhD thesis advisory committee (UMBC, Physics Department)
  • Mentor for summer interns Joy Jiang and Kathereen Yang, 2022.
  • Mentor for summer interns Alex Yang and Benjamin Lee, 2021.
  • Mentor for summer interns Lillian Zhou (Montgomery Blair High School) and Jerry Shen (Richard Montgomery High School, 2020.
  • Mentor for summer intern Erick Shepherd (UMBC, Department of Physics) of NASA ACES program, 2018
  • Member of Li Zhu’s thesis advisory committee (UMBC, Ph.D. degree conferred in May 2013).
  • Advisor of Dr. Yan Zhang’s postdoctoral research at GEST and then GESTAR (since September 2009).
  • Mentor for Sophy Yang’s summer intern work at GSFC, July 2010.
  • Member of Yan Zhang’s thesis advisory committees: Masters’ degree conferred in August 2005; Ph.D. degree in December 2008, Georgia Institute of Technology.
  • Mentor for Mi Zhou (Georgia Institute of Technology), UMBC GEST summer internship, June-August, 2004.

Awards

  1. 2023 Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, NASA
  2. 2019 Robert H. Goddard Honor Award - Science, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  3. 2014 Scientific Leadership Award, Climate & Radiation Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  4. 2013 Best Research Faculty Paper Award, ESSIC, University of Maryland
  5. 2012 Best Senior Author Award, Earth Science Directorate - Atmospheres, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  6. 2008 Best Senior Author Award, Laboratory for Atmospheres, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  7. 2006 Best Senior Author Award, Laboratory for Atmospheres, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  8. 2003 Science and Technology Advancement Award, National Education Commission of China
  9. 1999 Research Excellence Award, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
  10. 1996 Excellent Student Coordinator Honor, Nanjing University, China
  11. 1995 Science and Technology Advancement Award, National Education Commission of China
  12. 1996 Teaching Excellence Award, Nanjing University, China
  13. 1995 Teaching Excellence Award, Nanjing University, China
  14. 1993 Yingsong Junior Faculty Award, Nanjing University, China

Other Professional Information

Research Highlights:

“NASA Satellite Reveals How Much Saharan Dust Feeds Amazon’s Plants” (Yu, H., et al., GRL 2015; Yu et al., RSE 2015), featured by NASA at http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-satellite-reveals-how-much-saharan-dust-feeds-amazon-s-plants/ and by UMD at https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/features/2822. The NASA-UMD combined outreach effort yielded more than 50 original articles in national news outlets and top-tier science and technology publications, plus dozens of additional press release reprints. Key results included:

a. Coverage by top-tier news outlets including the Daily Mail (UK), Huffington Post, the Independent (UK), the Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine, Washington Post, Voice of America, and United Press International (UPI)

b. Coverage by popular science and technology publications including CNET, Climate Central, Discovery News, iO9, the Weather Channel, and Wired

c. On EurekAlert, the news release has been viewed more than 4,800 times

d. Highlighted in AGU EOS’s Research Spotlight

The AGU statistics of Article level metrics shows that the GRL paper was amongst the highest ever scored in the journal (ranked #34 of 5136), in the top 5% of all articles ranked by attention.

 

“Aerosols from overseas rival domestic emissions over North America” (by Yu, H., et al., SCIENCE, 337, 566-569, doi:10.1126/science.1217576, 2012) was featured by NASA at http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/dust-imports.html and covered by numerous media around the world, including Discovery News, NBC News, ABC News, Science Daily, Chemical & Engineering News, ScienceBlog, French Tribune, WTOP, The Capitol Column, The Christian Science Monitor, The Huntsville Times, and many others.

“A satellite-based assessment of trans-Pacific transport of pollution aerosol” (by Yu H. et al., J. Geophys. Res., 113, D14S12, doi:10.1029/2007JD009349, 2008) was featured by NASA at http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/pollution_measure.html and covered by other media, including:

Science Daily– Pollution visible from East Asia to North America in new satellite image (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080317164336.htm)

Technology Review – Measuring Asia’s Pollution Exports (http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20465/) (syndicated by the New York Times)

Environmental News – East Asia’s dirty air pollutes North America (http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/mar2008/2008-03-17-04.asp)

Environmental Health Perspectives - The Global Sweep of Pollution: Satellite Snapshots Capture Long-Distance Movement (by Bob Weinhold, Vol. 116, No. 8, page A338-345, 2008).

It is also one of three Performance Achievement Highlights for Earth Science in NASA’s budget request for fiscal year 2010.

“A case study of the effect of atmospheric aerosols and regional haze on agriculture: An opportunity to enhance crop yields in China through emission controls?” (by Chameides W.L., H. Yu, S.C. Liu, et al., Pro. Natl. Acad. Sci., 96 (24), 13626-13633, 1999) appeared in several news reports, including:

“Soot air cut China’s crop yields”, Science News, Vol. 156, No. 23, December 4, 1999.

“The dragon eats the Sun – China air pollution lowers crop yields”, Discover, Vol. 21, No.5, May 2000.

“Study shows haze reducing China’s crop production”, Chemical & Engineering News, Vol.78, No.4, p.80, January 24, 2000.

“L’agriculture chinoise étouffée par la pollution”, Courrier International, No. 477-478, DU 23 DECEMBRE 1999 AU 5 JANVIER 2000.

“Global and regional temperature-change potentials for near-term climate forcers” (by Collins, Fry, Yu, et al., Atmos. Chem. Phys, 13, 2471-2485, 2013) was highlighted in the Nature Climate Change (April, 2013) entitled “Short-term impacts”

(http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v3/n4/full/nclimate1873.html?WT.ec_id=NCLIMATE-201304).

“Observational evidence of aerosol enhancement of lightning activity and convective invigoration” (by Yuan, Remer, Pickering, and Yu, Geophys. Res. Lett, 38, L04701, 2011) was highlighted by the Nature Geoscience entitled “Triggered lightning” (http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v4/n3/full/ngeo1103.html)

“Atmospheric Aerosol Properties and Impacts on Climate”, a report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, was released on January 16, 2009: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/jan/HQ_09-009_Aerosols_report.html.

“A review of measurement-based assessments of the aerosol direct radiative effect and forcing” (by Yu H. et al., Atmos. Chem. Phys., 6, 613-666, 2006) was highlighted in “Our Changing Planet: the U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 2007” (p.13, p.43-44).

Publications

Refereed

2024. "Where Dust Comes From: Global Assessment of Dust Source Attributions With AeroCom Models." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 129 (16): [10.1029/2024jd041377] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "Effects of surface coating on the shortwave and longwave radiative effects of dust aerosol in comparison with external mixing: A theoretical study." Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 324 109060 [10.1016/j.jqsrt.2024.109060] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "Abrupt reduction in shipping emission as an inadvertent geoengineering termination shock produces substantial radiative warming." Communications Earth & Environment 5 (1): 281 [10.1038/s43247-024-01442-3] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "Assessment of Dust Size Retrievals Based on AERONET: A Case Study of Radiative Closure From Visible‐Near‐Infrared to Thermal Infrared." Geophysical Research Letters 51 (4): [10.1029/2023gl106808] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "Mineral dust optical properties for remote sensing and global modeling: A review." Remote Sensing of Environment 303 113982 [10.1016/j.rse.2023.113982] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "Big-Time SmallSat Concept: Resolving Variations of Aerosols, Clouds, and Boundary Layer Height." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 104 (11): 889-892 [10.1175/bams-d-21-0179.a] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "Thermal infrared dust optical depth and coarse-mode effective diameter over oceans retrieved from collocated MODIS and CALIOP observations." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 23 (14): 8271-8304 [10.5194/acp-23-8271-2023] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "Atmospheric nourishment of global ocean ecosystems." Science 380 (6644): 515-519 [10.1126/science.abq5252] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "A SmallSat Concept to Resolve Diurnal and Vertical Variations of Aerosols, Clouds, and Boundary Layer Height." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 104 (4): E815–E836 [10.1175/bams-d-21-0179.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "Observational evidence of strong forcing from aerosol effect on low cloud coverage." Science Advances 9 (45): eadh7716 [10.1126/sciadv.adh7716] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Size-resolved dust direct radiative effect efficiency derived from satellite observations." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 22 (19): 13115-13135 [10.5194/acp-22-13115-2022] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Global premature mortality by dust and pollution PM2.5 estimated from aerosol reanalysis of the modern-era retrospective analysis for research and applications, version 2." Frontiers in Environmental Science 10 [10.3389/fenvs.2022.975755] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Aerosol-radiation interactions." Aerosols and Climate 445-487 [10.1016/B978-0-12-819766-0.00004-3] [Article in Book]

2022. "Global Dust Cycle and Direct Radiative Effect in E3SM Version 1: Impact of Increasing Model Resolution." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 14 (7): [10.1029/2021ms002909] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "The thermal infrared optical depth of mineral dust retrieved from integrated CALIOP and IIR observations." Remote Sensing of Environment 270 112841 [10.1016/j.rse.2021.112841] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Spring Dust in Western North America and Its Interannual Variability—Understanding the Role of Local and Transported Dust." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 126 (22): [10.1029/2021jd035383] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "The response of the Amazon ecosystem to the photosynthetically active radiation fields: integrating impacts of biomass burning aerosol and clouds in the NASA GEOS Earth system model." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 21 (18): 14177-14197 [10.5194/acp-21-14177-2021] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Global dust optical depth climatology derived from CALIOP and MODIS aerosol retrievals on decadal timescales: regional and interannual variability." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 21 (17): 13369-13395 [10.5194/acp-21-13369-2021] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Observation and modeling of the historic “Godzilla” African dust intrusion into the Caribbean Basin and the southern US in June 2020." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 21 (16): 12359-12383 [10.5194/acp-21-12359-2021] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Understanding processes that control dust spatial distributions with global climate models and satellite observations." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 20 (22): 13835-13855 [10.5194/acp-20-13835-2020] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Anthropogenic Decline of African Dust: Insights From the Holocene Records and Beyond." Geophysical Research Letters 47 (22): [10.1029/2020gl089711] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Satellite Remote Sensing Observations of Trans-Atlantic Dust Transport and Deposition: A Multi-Sensor Analysis." IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 5574-5577 [10.1109/igarss39084.2020.9324325] [Proceedings]

2020. "Tropical Rains Controlling Deposition of Saharan Dust Across the North Atlantic Ocean." Geophysical Research Letters 47 (5): [10.1029/2019gl086867] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Interannual variability and trends of combustion aerosol and dust in major continental outflows revealed by MODIS retrievals and CAM5 simulations during 2003–2017." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 20 139-161 [10.5194/acp-20-139-2020] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "Asian and Trans‐Pacific Dust: A Multimodel and Multiremote Sensing Observation Analysis." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 2019JD030822 [10.1029/2019jd030822] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "Satellite‐Detected Ocean Ecosystem Response to Volcanic Eruptions in the Subarctic Northeast Pacific Ocean." Geophysical Research Letters 46 2019GL083977 [10.1029/2019gl083977] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "Observationally constrained analysis of sea salt aerosol in the marine atmosphere." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 19 10773-10785 [10.5194/acp-19-10773-2019] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "Modeling Dust in East Asia by CESM and Sources of Biases." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 124 8043-8064 [10.1029/2019jd030799] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "Estimates of African Dust Deposition Along the Trans‐Atlantic Transit Using the Decadelong Record of Aerosol Measurements from CALIOP, MODIS, MISR, and IASI." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 124 (14): 7975-7996 [10.1029/2019jd030574] [Journal Article/Letter]

2018. "Science questions and knowledge gaps to study microbial transport and survival in Asian and African dust plumes reaching North America." Aerobiologia 34 (4): 425-435 [10.1007/s10453-018-9541-7] [Journal Article/Letter]

2018. "Airborne Bacteria in Earth's Lower Stratosphere Resemble Taxa Detected in the Troposphere: Results From a New NASA Aircraft Bioaerosol Collector (ABC)." Frontiers in Microbiology 9 [10.3389/fmicb.2018.01752] [Journal Article/Letter]

2018. "Net radiative effects of dust in the tropical North Atlantic based on integrated satellite observations and in situ measurements." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 18 (15): 11303-11322 [10.5194/acp-18-11303-2018] [Journal Article/Letter]

2018. "Source Apportionments of Aerosols and Their Direct Radiative Forcing and Long-Term Trends Over Continental United States." Earth's Future 6 (6): 793-808 [10.1029/2018ef000859] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "Global source attribution of sulfate concentration and direct and indirect radiative forcing." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 17 (14): 8903-8922 [10.5194/acp-17-8903-2017] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "Seasonally transported aerosol layers over southeast Atlantic are closer to underlying clouds than previously reported." Geophysical Research Letters [10.1002/2017gl073559] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "The MERRA-2 Aerosol Reanalysis, 1980 -- onward, Part II: Evaluation and Case Studies." Journal of Climate JCLI-D-16-0613.1 [10.1175/jcli-d-16-0613.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "Role of surface wind and vegetation cover in multi-decadal variations of dust emission in the Sahara and Sahel." Atmospheric Environment 148 282-296 [10.1016/j.atmosenv.2016.10.051] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Trans-Pacific transport and evolution of aerosols: evaluation of quasi-global WRF-Chem simulation with multiple observations." Geosci. Model Dev. 9 (5): 1725-1746 [10.5194/gmd-9-1725-2016] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Shortwave direct radiative effects of above-cloud aerosols over global oceans derived from 8 years of CALIOP and MODIS observations." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 16 (5): 2877-2900 [10.5194/acp-16-2877-2016] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Positive low cloud and dust feedbacks amplify tropical North Atlantic multidecadal oscillation." Geophysical Research Letters 43 (3): 1349–1356 [10.1002/2016gl067679] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Impact of transpacific aerosol on air quality over the United States: A perspective from aerosol–cloud–radiation interactions." Atmospheric Environment 125 48-60 [10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.10.083] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "The MERRA-2 Aerosol Assimilation." Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 45 [Report]

2015. "CALIPSO inferred most probable heights of global dust and smoke layers." J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 120 (10): 5085-5100 [10.1002/2014jd022898] [Journal Article/Letter]

2015. "The fertilizing role of African dust in the Amazon rainforest: A first multiyear assessment based on data from Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations." Geophysical Research Letters 42 (6): 1984-1991 [10.1002/2015GL063040] [Journal Article/Letter]

2015. "Quantification of Trans-Atlantic Dust Transport from Seven-year (2007-2013) Record of CALIPSO Lidar Measurements." Remote Sens. Environ 159 232-249 [10.1016/j.rse.2014.12.010] [Journal Article/Letter]

2015. "The Role of Aerosol-Cloud-Radiation Interactions in Regional Air Quality—A NU-WRF Study over the United States." Atmosphere 6 (8): 1045-1068 [10.3390/atmos6081045] [Journal Article/Letter]

2014. "Effect of gradients in biomass burning aerosol on shallow cumulus convective circulations." J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 119 (16): 9948-9964 [10.1002/2014JD021819] [Journal Article/Letter]

2014. "A novel method for estimating shortwave direct radiative effect of above-cloud aerosols using CALIOP and MODIS data." Atmos. Meas. Tech. 7 (6): 1777-1789 [10.5194/amt-7-1777-2014] [Journal Article/Letter]

2014. "Multi-decadal aerosol variations from 1980 to 2009: a perspective from observations and a global model." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 14 (7): 3657-3690 [10.5194/acp-14-3657-2014] [Journal Article/Letter]

2014. "Impacts of intercontinental transport of anthropogenic fine particulate matter on human mortality." Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health 7 (3): 369-379 [10.1007/s11869-014-0248-9] [Journal Article/Letter]

2014. "Sources, sinks, and transatlantic transport of North African dust aerosol: A multimodel analysis and comparison with remote sensing data." J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 119 6259-6277 [10.1002/2013JD021099] [Journal Article/Letter]

2014. "First satellite-detected perturbations of outgoing longwave radiation associated with blowing snow events over Antarctica." Geophys. Res. Lett 41 (2): 730-735 [10.1002/2013GL058932] [Journal Article/Letter]

2013. "Influence of observed diurnal cycles of aerosol optical depth on aerosol direct radiative effect." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 13 [Journal Article/Letter]

2013. "Radiative forcing of the direct aerosol effect from AeroCom Phase II simulations." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 13 (4): 1853-1877 [10.5194/acp-13-1853-2013] [Journal Article/Letter]

2013. "A multimodel assessment of the influence of regional anthropogenic emission reductions on aerosol direct radiative forcing and the role of intercontinental transport." J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 118 (2): 700-720 [10.1029/2012JD018148] [Journal Article/Letter]

2013. "Satellite perspective of aerosol intercontinental transport: From qualitative tracking to quantitative characterization." Atmos. Res. 124 73-100 [10.1016/j.atmosres.2012.12.013] [Journal Article/Letter]

2013. "New Directions: Emerging satellite observations of above-cloud aerosols and direct radiative forcing." Atmos. Environ. 72 36-40 [10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.02.017] [Journal Article/Letter]

2013. "Intercomparison of shortwave radiative transfer schemes in global aerosol modeling: results from the AeroCom Radiative Transfer Experiment." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 13 (5): 2347-2379 [10.5194/acp-13-2347-2013] [Journal Article/Letter]

2013. "Host model uncertainties in aerosol radiative forcing estimates: results from the AeroCom Prescribed intercomparison study." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 13 (6): 3245-3270 [10.5194/acp-13-3245-2013] [Journal Article/Letter]

2013. "Global and regional temperature-change potentials for near-term climate forcers." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 13 (5): 2471-2485 [10.5194/acp-13-2471-2013] [Journal Article/Letter]

2012. "Aerosol indirect effect on tropospheric ozone via lightning." J. Geophys. Res. 117 (D18): D18213 [10.1029/2012JD017723] [Journal Article/Letter]

2012. "Effect of spectrally varying albedo of vegetation surfaces on shortwave radiation fluxes and aerosol direct radiative forcing." Atmos. Meas. Tech 5 (12): 3055-3067 [10.5194/amt-5-3055-2012] [Journal Article/Letter]

2012. "An integrated analysis of aerosol above clouds from A-Train multi-sensor measurements." Remote Sens Environ 121 125-131 [10.1016/j.rse.2012.01.011] [Journal Article/Letter]

2012. "Aerosol daytime variations over North and South America derived from multiyear AERONET measurements." J. Geophys. Res. 117 (D5): D05211 [10.1029/2011JD017242] [Journal Article/Letter]

2012. "Aerosols from Overseas Rival Domestic Emissions over North America." Science 337 (6094): 566-569 [10.1126/science.1217576] [Journal Article/Letter]

2011. "Impacts on Health, Ecosystems, and Climate, Chapter 5 in HEMISPHERIC TRANSPORT OF AIR POLLUTION 2010, PART A: OZONE AND PARTICULATE MATTER." AIR POLLUTION STUDIES No. 17, Edited by Frank Dentener, Terry Keating, and Hajime Akimoto, Prepared by the Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution acting within the framework of the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution, UNITED NATIONS, New York and Geneva, 2011. [Report]

2011. "Observational evidence of aerosol enhancement of lightning activity and convective invigoration." Geophys Res Lett 38 (4): L04701 [10.1029/2010GL046052] [Journal Article/Letter]

2011. "Microphysical, macrophysical and radiative signatures of volcanic aerosols in trade wind cumulus observed by the A-Train." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 11 (14): 7119-7132 [10.5194/acp-11-7119-2011] [Journal Article/Letter]

2011. "Dust optical properties over North Africa and Arabian Peninsula derived from the AERONET dataset." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 11 (20): 10733-10741 [10.5194/acp-11-10733-2011] [Journal Article/Letter]

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