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Xiaoyang Chen

Name: Xiaoyang Chen
Tel: (919) 904-3586
Email: x.chen@northeastern.edu / chenxy85@mail2.sysu.edu.cn

Education:

Ph.D., Atmospheric Physics and Atmospheric Environment, Sun Yat-sen University, 2019

B.S., Atmospheric Science, Sun Yat-sen University, 2014

Research Interests & Specialties:

Research interests: using atmospheric chemistry models to study meteorological driving force and chemical mechanisms of air pollution, especially ozone and SOA issues; tropospheric ozone structure and its impact factors; key VOCs (e.g., aromatics and dicarbonyls) and their impact on O3 and SOA; heterogeneous chemistry

Research specialties: chemical transport models: WRF-CMAQ and WRF/Chem; dispersion models: HYSPLIT and the offline-coupled version with WRF; data analysis for MODIS/GOME-2/OMI satellites; development of air quality forecasting systems.

Research Experience:

Postdoctoral Scholar, Northeastern University, January 2020 - Present

Postdoctoral Scholar, North Carolina State University, August 2019 - December 2019

Publications:

Refereed Journal Papers:

Chen, X.-Y., Y.-M. Liu, A.-Q. Lai, S.-S. Han, Q. Fan, X.-M. Wang, Z.-H. Ling, F.-X. Huang, and S.-J. Fan, 2018, Factors dominating 3-dimensional ozone distribution during high tropospheric ozone period, Environmental Pollution, 232, 55-64, doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2017.09.017

Chen X.-Y., Y. Zhang, K. Wang, D. Tong, P. Lee, Youhua Tang, Havala Pye, Benjamin Murphy, and D.-W. Kang, 2020, Evaluation of the Offline-coupled GFSv15-FV3-CMAQv5.0.2 in Support of the Next-generation National Air Quality Forecast Capability over the Contiguous United States, Geosci. Model Dev. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2020-272, accepted

Liu, Y.-M., Q. Fan, X.-Y. Chen, J. Zhao, Z.-H. Ling, Y.-Y. Hong, W.-B. Li, X.-L. Chen, M.-J. Wang, and X.-L. Wei, 2018, Modeling the impact of chlorine emissions from coal combustion and prescribed waste incineration on tropospheric ozone formation in China, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 18 (4):1-30, doi: 10.5194/acp-18-2709-2018

Hong, Y.-Y., Y. Liu, X.-Y. Chen, Q. Fan, C. Chen, X.-L. Chen, and M.-J. Wang, 2020, The role of anthropogenic chlorine emission in surface ozone formation during different seasons over eastern China, Science of The Total Environment, Volume 723, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137697

Feng, X., T.-M. Fu, H.-S. Cao, H. Tian, Q. Fan, X.-Y. Chen, 2019. Neural network predictions of pollutant emissions from open burning of crop residues: Application to air quality forecasts in southern China, Atmospheric Environment, 204, 22-31, doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.02.002

Lai, A.-Q., Y.-M. Liu, X.-Y. Chen, M.-K. Chang, Q. Fan, P.-W. Chan, X.-S. Wang, and J.-N. Dai, 2016. Impact of Land-Use Change on Atmospheric Environment Using Refined Land Surface Properties in the Pearl River Delta, China, Advances in Meteorology, 2016, doi: 10.1155/2016/3830592

Chen X.-Y., X. Feng, S.-J. Fan, and J. Liu, 2015, Application of recirculation index in air quality research. Acta Scientiae Circumstantiae. (in Chinese), doi: 10.13671/j.hjkxxb.2015.0517

Shen, C., X.-Y. Chen, W. Dai, X.-H. Li, J Wu, Q Fan, X.-M. Wang, L.-Y. Zhu, P.-W. Chan, J. Hang, S.-J. Fan, and W.-B. Li, 2019, Impacts of high-resolution urban canopy parameters within the WRF model on dynamical and thermal fields over Guangzhou, China, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, doi: 10.1175/jamc-d-18-0114.1

Contributed Conference Presentations:

Zhang, Y., X.-Y. Chen, K. Wang, D. Tong, P. Lee, H. Pye, B. Murphy, and D.-W. Kang, Evaluation of Offline-Coupled FV3GFS-CMAQ over the U.S. In Support Of The Next Generation of The National Air Quality Forecast Capability, submitted for presentation at the 22nd Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry/the 100th AMS Annual Meeting, January 12-16, 2020, Boston, MA, USA

Chen X.-Y., Y. Zhang, K. Wang, D. Tong, P. Lee, Youhua Tang, Havala Pye, Benjamin Murphy, and Daiwen Kang, Coupling CMAQv5.3 with FV3 and its Intercomparison with FV3-CMAQv5.0.2 for the Next Generation of the National Air Quality Forecasting Capability, submitted for presentation at the 22nd Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry/the 100th AMS Annual Meeting, January 12-16, 2020, Boston, MA, USA

Chen X.-Y., Q. Fan, and Y. Zhang, Modeling SOA Formation over Eastern China: Impacts of Updates in CMAQ v5.3b2 relative to CMAQ v5.1, submitted for presentation at the 2019/18th annual Community Modeling and Analysis System (CMAS) conference, October 21-23, 2019, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

Chen X.-Y., Q. Fan, Y.-M. Liu, C. Shen, and X.-M. Wang, Modelling the Impact of Aromatics on Secondary Pollutants over Eastern China, submitted for presentation at the 2019/18th annual Community Modeling and Analysis System (CMAS) conference, October 21-23, 2019, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

Chen X.-Y., Y.-M. Liu, Q. Fan, X.-M. Wang, B. Yuan, Z.-H. Ling and C. Shen, Modeling and Evaluation of Aromatics and Its Impact on Ozone in Southern China, submitted for presentation at the 2018 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, December 10-14, 2018, Washington, D.C., USA.

Chen X.-Y., Y.-M. Liu, A.-Q. Lai, S.-S. Han, Q. Fan, F.-X. Huang, Impact of Photochemical and Meteorological Processes within Boundary Layer and Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange on Vertical Ozone, submitted for presentation at the 2018 General Assembly of Stratosphere-Troposphere Processes And their Role in Climate (SPARC), October 1-5, 2018, Kyoto, Japan.

Chen X.-Y., Y.-M. Liu, A.-Q. Lai, S.-S. Han, Q. Fan, F.-X. Huang, Distribution and Formation of Vertical Ozone during High Tropospheric Ozone Event, submitted for presentation at the 2017/14th Annual Meeting of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), August 06-11, 2017, Singapore

Chen X.-Y., X. Feng, S.-J. Fan, and J. Liu, Effects of recirculation and regional transportation on air pollutant concentration in Pearl River Delta, submitted for conference proceeding at the 2015 annual conference of Chinese Environmental Society, August 6-7, 2015, Shenzhen, China.

Honors and Awards:

1. First Class Scholarship for Master Students of Sun Yat-sen University in 2014-2016

2. Second Class Outstanding Paper of Chinese Environmental Society 2015 annual conference

3. The Zhongtao Environment Scholarship in 2015

4. Second Class Scholarship for Ph.D. Students of Sun Yat-sen University in 2016-2018

5. Distinguished Award for Student Service of School of Atmospheric Sciences in 2018

6. Outstanding Postgraduate Scholarship of Sun Yat-sen University in 2018

Teaching Experience:

1. 2016 Teaching assistant of undergraduate course “Atmospheric Data Processing and Visualization”

2. 2017 Teaching assistant of undergraduate course “Atmospheric Data Processing and Visualization”

Participated Projects:

1. National Key Research and Development Program of China: The degradation-transformation mechanisms of atmospheric reactive organics and their environmental effects, 2016-2019

2. National Key Research and Development Program of China: The key atmospheric processes affecting regional emissions and depositions, 2017-2019

3. China Special Fund for Meteorological Research in the Public Interest: Evaluation technology of the influence of urbanization development on atmospheric environment, 2014-2017