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).