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Dr. Qing Liang

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Dr. Qing Liang

  • 301.614.5993
  • NASA/GSFC
  • Mail Code: 614
  • Greenbelt , MD 20771
  • Employer: NASA

    • Brief Bio

    Dr. Qing Liang is a research physical scientist in the Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory. Dr. Liang received her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences in 2006 from University of Washington, Seattle, and has been at the NASA Goddard Space Flight center since graduation. Her research has focused on using Global 3-Dimensional Chemistry Models to simulate atmospheric transport and chemistry of compounds that are crucial to tropospheric and stratospheric ozone, e.g., the anthropogenic ozone precursors that are relevant for tropospheric ozone, the man-made ozone depleting substances and the very-short-lived halogen compounds, both natural and man-made, that are important for stratospheric ozone. One primary objective of Dr. Liang’s research is to use NASA data from various observation platforms, surface, airborne, and satellite, to improve our understanding and simulation of these key atmospheric compounds.
     

    Positions/Employment

    12/2017 - Present

    Research Physical Scientist

    NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
    5/2011 - 12/2017

    Research Scientist

    USRA GESTAR, Greenbelt
    11/2009 - 5/2011

    Assistant Research Scientist

    UMBC GEST, Greenbelt
    10/2006 - 10/2009

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    ORAU/NASA Postdoctoral Program, Greenbelt
    9/2001 - 8/2006

    Research Assistant

    University of Washington, Seattle

    Education

    Ph.D. August 2006, Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle.

    B.S. June 1997, Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, P.R. China.

    Professional Service

    • American Meteorological Society (AMS) Atmospheric Chemistry Committee member, July 2020 – present.
    • Lead author for WMO/UNEP Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion (2022), Chapter 2, Hydrochlorofluorocarbons
    • Review Editor for WMO/UNEP Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion (2018), Chapter 1, Ozone-depleting substances
    • NASA Langley Atmospheric Science Data Center User Working Group Advisory Committee member, Jun 2016 – present
    • Steering committee and co-chair of the SPARC 2016 CCl4 Report
    • Organizing committee member for the SPARC CCl4 workshop
    • Co-lead author on Chapter 5 of the Ozone Depleting Substances Lifetime Assessment Report sponsored by the Stratospheric Processes And their Role in Climate (SPARC) organization, May 2011-March 2013
    • Contributing author on Chapter 1 of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2014
    • Field missions: Participation in Field Mission as a modeling forecaster for NASA INTEX-B and ARCTAS campaigns; Science team member for the NSF CONTRAST mission, NSF/NASA ACCLIP mission
    • Reviewer for Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres; Air, Water, and Soil Pollution; Environmental Science & Technology; Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, Atmospheric Environment, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society; Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; Nature Climate Change; Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
    • Reviewer for NASA Earth Science Enterprise and National Science Foundation

    Awards

    NASA Group Achievement Award for ARCTAS, 2009.
    NASA Group Achievement Award for INTEX, 2007.
    ORAU/NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship, 2006 – 2009.
    Global Environment Chemistry Fellowship, University of Washington, 2001 – 2002.
    Honored Graduate in Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, China, 1997.
     

    Grants

    10/04/2017 - 10/03/2021 Global modeling of nitrous oxide and its isotopologues in the GEOS-5 atmosphere-ocean model, NASA, NASA NRA #: NNH16ZDA001N-MAP
    PI
    02/17/2017 - 02/16/2020 Constraining the global and hemispheric abundances of the hydroxyl radical (OH): A search for methyl chloroform (CH3CCl3) alternative, NASA, NASA NRA #: NNH16ZDA001N-ACMAP
    PI
    10/06/2014 - 10/05/2017 Convective transport of chemical compounds from the surface to the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere: timescale, efficiency, and climate impact, NASA, NASA NRA #: NNH13ZDA001N-ACCDAM
    PI
    07/20/2011 - 04/19/2015 The Impact of Very-Short-Lived Bromocarbons on Atmospheric Ozone, NASA, NASA NRA #: NNH10ZDA001N ACMAP
    PI
    06/01/2019 - 05/31/2022 New and improved emissions estimates of ozone depleting substances and their replacement compounds, SSAI, NASA NRA #: NNH18ZDA001N-ACMAP
    Co-I
    06/01/2021 - 05/31/2025 The very-short-lived halogens (chlorine & bromine) in GEOSCCM-GMI and their impacts on key chemical and climate constituents in the atmosphere, NASA, NASA NRA #: NNH20ZDA001N-MAP 2020
    PI
    Grant Amount: $$940K

    Teaching Experience

    Teaching Assistant for Atms 211-Climate Change, University of Washington, Seattle, Fall 2002.
    Teaching Assistant for Atms 211-Climate Change, University of Washington, Seattle, Spring 2004.
     

    Other Professional Information

    NASA Earth Data Featured User

    NASA featured climate scientist

    Selected Publications

    Refereed

    Pan, L. L., D. Kinnison, Q. Liang, et al. M. Chin, M. L. Santee, J. Flemming, W. P. Smith, S. B. Honomichl, J. F. Bresch, L. R. Lait, Y. Zhu, S. Tilmes, P. R. Colarco, J. Warner, A. Vuvan, C. Clerbaux, E. L. Atlas, P. A. Newman, T. Thornberry, W. J. Randel, and O. B. Toon. 2022. "A Multimodel Investigation of Asian Summer Monsoon UTLS Transport Over the Western Pacific." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127 (24): [10.1029/2022jd037511]

    Liu, J., S. A. Strode, Q. Liang, et al. L. D. Oman, P. R. Colarco, E. L. Fleming, M. E. Manyin, A. R. Douglass, J. R. Ziemke, L. N. Lamsal, and C. Li. 2022. "Change in Tropospheric Ozone in the Recent Decades and Its Contribution to Global Total Ozone." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127 (22): [10.1029/2022jd037170]

    Liang, Q., C. Nevison, E. Dlugokencky, B. D. Hall, and G. Dutton. 2022. "3‐D Atmospheric Modeling of the Global Budget of N 2 O and Its Isotopologues for 1980–2019: The Impact of Anthropogenic Emissions." Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36 (7): [10.1029/2021gb007202]

    Knowland, K. E., C. A. Keller, P. A. Wales, et al. K. Wargan, L. Coy, M. S. Johnson, J. Liu, R. A. Lucchesi, S. D. Eastham, E. Fleming, Q. Liang, T. Leblanc, N. J. Livesey, K. A. Walker, L. E. Ott, and S. Pawson. 2022. "NASA GEOS Composition Forecast Modeling System GEOS‐CF v1.0: Stratospheric composition." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14 (e2021MS002852): [10.1029/2021ms002852]

    Fleming, E. L., Q. Liang, L. D. Oman, et al. P. A. Newman, F. Li, and M. M. Hurwitz. 2021. "Stratospheric impacts of continuing CFC‐11 emissions simulated in a chemistry‐climate model." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, [10.1029/2020jd033656]

    Wang, P., J. R. Scott, S. Solomon, et al. J. Marshall, A. R. Babbin, M. Lickley, D. W. Thompson, T. DeVries, Q. Liang, and R. G. Prinn. 2021. "On the effects of the ocean on atmospheric CFC-11 lifetimes and emissions." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (12): e2021528118 [10.1073/pnas.2021528118]

    Park, S., L. M. Western, T. Saito, et al. A. L. Redington, S. Henne, X. Fang, R. G. Prinn, A. J. Manning, S. A. Montzka, P. J. Fraser, A. L. Ganesan, C. M. Harth, J. Kim, P. B. Krummel, Q. Liang, J. Mühle, S. O’Doherty, H. Park, M.-K. Park, S. Reimann, P. K. Salameh, R. F. Weiss, and M. Rigby. 2021. "A decline in emissions of CFC-11 and related chemicals from eastern China." Nature, 590 (7846): 433-437 [10.1038/s41586-021-03277-w]

    Fleming, E. L., P. A. Newman, Q. Liang, and J. S. Daniel. 2020. "The Impact of Continuing CFC‐11 Emissions on Stratospheric Ozone." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125 (3): [10.1029/2019jd031849]

    Rigby, M., S. Park, T. Saito, et al. L. M. Western, A. L. Redington, X. Fang, S. Henne, A. J. Manning, R. G. Prinn, G. S. Dutton, P. J. Fraser, A. L. Ganesan, B. D. Hall, C. M. Harth, J. Kim, K.-R. Kim, P. B. Krummel, T. Lee, S. Li, Q. Liang, M. F. Lunt, S. A. Montzka, J. Mühle, S. O’Doherty, M.-K. Park, S. Reimann, P. K. Salameh, P. Simmonds, R. L. Tunnicliffe, R. F. Weiss, Y. Yokouchi, and D. Young. 2019. "Increase in CFC-11 emissions from eastern China based on atmospheric observations." Nature, 569 (7757): 546-550 [10.1038/s41586-019-1193-4]

    Lunt, M. F., S. Park, S. Li, et al. S. Henne, A. J. Manning, A. L. Ganesan, I. J. Simpson, D. R. Blake, Q. Liang, S. O'Doherty, C. M. Harth, J. Mühle, P. K. Salameh, R. F. Weiss, P. B. Krummel, P. J. Fraser, R. G. Prinn, S. Reimann, and M. Rigby. 2018. "Continued Emissions of the Ozone-Depleting Substance Carbon Tetrachloride From Eastern Asia." Geophysical Research Letters, [10.1029/2018gl079500]

    Nielsen, J. E., S. Pawson, A. Molod, et al. B. Auer, A. M. da Silva, A. R. Douglass, B. Duncan, Q. Liang, M. Manyin, L. D. Oman, W. Putman, S. E. Strahan, and K. Wargan. 2017. "Chemical Mechanisms and Their Applications in the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) Earth System Model." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, [10.1002/2017ms001011]

    Liang, Q., S. E. Strahan, and E. L. Fleming. 2017. "Concerns for ozone recovery." Science, 358 (6368): 1257-1258 [10.1126/science.aaq0145]

    Sherry, D., A. McCulloch, Q. Liang, S. Reimann, and P. A. Newman. 2017. "Current sources of carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) in our atmosphere." Environmental Research Letters, [10.1088/1748-9326/aa9c87]

    Liang, Q., M. P. Chipperfield, E. L. Fleming, et al. N. L. Abraham, P. Braesicke, J. B. Burkholder, J. S. Daniel, S. Dhomse, P. J. Fraser, S. C. Hardiman, C. H. Jackman, D. E. Kinnison, P. B. Krummel, S. A. Montzka, O. Morgenstern, A. McCulloch, J. Mühle, P. A. Newman, V. L. Orkin, G. Pitari, R. G. Prinn, M. Rigby, E. Rozanov, A. Stenke, F. Tummon, G. J. Velders, D. Visioni, and R. F. Weiss. 2017. "Deriving Global OH Abundance and Atmospheric Lifetimes for Long-Lived Gases: A Search for CH3CCl3 Alternatives." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, [10.1002/2017jd026926]

    Cameron, M. A., M. Z. Jacobson, S. R. Barrett, et al. H. Bian, C. C. Chen, S. D. Eastham, A. Gettelman, A. Khodayari, Q. Liang, H. B. Selkirk, N. Unger, D. J. Wuebbles, and X. Yue. 2017. "An intercomparative study of the effects of aircraft emissions on surface air quality." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122 (15): 8325-8344 [10.1002/2016jd025594]

    Warner, J. X., R. R. Dickerson, Z. Wei, et al. L. L. Strow, Y. Wang, and Q. Liang. 2017. "Increased atmospheric ammonia over the world's major agricultural areas detected from space." Geophysical Research Letters, 44 (6): 2875-2884 [10.1002/2016gl072305]

    Chipperfield, M. P., Q. Liang, M. Rigby, et al. R. Hossaini, S. A. Montzka, S. Dhomse, W. Feng, R. G. Prinn, R. F. Weiss, C. M. Harth, P. K. Salameh, J. Mühle, S. O'Doherty, D. Young, P. G. Simmonds, P. B. Krummel, P. J. Fraser, L. P. Steele, J. D. Happell, R. C. Rhew, J. Butler, S. A. Yvon-Lewis, B. Hall, D. Nance, F. Moore, B. R. Miller, J. W. Elkins, J. J. Harrison, C. D. Boone, E. L. Atlas, and E. Mahieu. 2016. "Model sensitivity studies of the decrease in atmospheric carbon tetrachloride." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 16 (24): 15741-15754 [10.5194/acp-16-15741-2016]

    Hurwitz, M. M., E. L. Fleming, P. A. Newman, F. Li, and Q. Liang. 2016. "Early action on HFCs mitigates future atmospheric change." Environmental Research Letters, 11 (11): 114019 [10.1088/1748-9326/11/11/114019]

    Schmidt, J. A., D. J. Jacob, H. M. Horowitz, et al. L. Hu, T. Sherwen, M. J. Evans, Q. Liang, R. M. Suleiman, D. E. Oram, M. Le Breton, C. J. Percival, S. Wang, B. Dix, and R. Volkamer. 2016. "Modeling the observed tropospheric BrO background: Importance of multiphase chemistry and implications for ozone, OH, and mercury." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 121 (19): 11,819-11,835 [10.1002/2015jd024229]

    Liang, Q., P. Newman, and S. Reimann, eds. 2016. "SPARC Report on Mystery of Carbon Tetrachloride." Stratosphere-troposphere Processes And their Role in Climate (SPARC) Report, 7 (WCRP-13): [Full Text (Link)]

    Coburn, S., B. Dix, E. Edgerton, et al. C. D. Holmes, D. Kinnison, Q. Liang, A. ter Schure, S. Wang, and R. Volkamer. 2016. "Mercury oxidation from bromine chemistry in the free troposphere over the southeastern US." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 16 (6): 3743-3760 [10.5194/acp-16-3743-2016]

    Liang, Q., P. Newman, J. S. Daniel, et al. S. Reimann, B. D. Hall, G. Dutton, and L. J. Kuijpers. 2014. "Constraining the carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) budget using its global trend and inter-hemispheric gradient." Geophysical Research Letters, 41 (14): 5307-5315 [10.1002/2014GL060754]

    Liang, Q., E. Atlas, D. Blake, et al. M. Dorf, K. Pfeilsticker, and S. Schauffler. 2014. "Convective transport of very short lived bromocarbons to the stratosphere." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 14 (11): 5781-5792 [10.5194/acp-14-5781-2014]

    Chipperfield, M. P., Q. Liang, S. E. Strahan, et al. O. Morgenstern, S. S. Dhomse, N. L. Abraham, A. T. Archibald, S. Bekki, P. Braesicke, G. Di Genova, E. L. Fleming, S. C. Hardiman, D. Iachetti, C. H. Jackman, D. E. Kinnison, M. Marchand, G. Pitari, J. A. Pyle, E. Rozanov, A. Stenke, and F. Tummon. 2014. "Multimodel estimates of atmospheric lifetimes of long-lived ozone-depleting substances: Present and future." J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119 (5): 2555-2573 [10.1002/2013JD021097]

    Chipperfield, M., Q. Liang, and Et Al. 2013. "Model Estimates of Lifetimes, Chapter 5 of the SPARC Report on the lifetimes of stratospheric ozone-depleting substances, their replacements, and related species." SPARC Report No. 6, WCRP-15, Zurich, Switzerland,

    Bian, H., P. R. Colarco, M. Chin, et al. G. Chen, J. M. Rodriguez, Q. Liang, D. Blake, D.-C. A. Chu, A. M. Da Silva, A. S. Darmenov, G. Diskin, H. E. Fuelberg, G. Huey, Y. Kondo, J. E. Nielsen, X. Pan, and A. Wisthaler. 2013. "Source attributions of pollution to the Western Arctic during the NASA ARCTAS field campaign." Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13 (9): 4707-4721 [10.5194/acp-13-4707-2013]

    Parrella, J. P., D. J. Jacob, Q. Liang, et al. Y. Zhang, L. J. Mickley, B. Miller, M. J. Evans, X. Yang, J. A. Pyle, N. Theys, and M. Van Roozendael. 2012. "Tropospheric bromine chemistry: implications for present and pre-industrial ozone and mercury." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 12 (15): 6723-6740 [10.5194/acp-12-6723-2012]

    Lang, C., D. W. Waugh, M. A. Olsen, et al. A. R. Douglass, Q. Liang, J. E. Nielsen, L. D. Oman, S. Pawson, and R. S. Stolarski. 2012. "The impact of greenhouse gases on past changes in tropospheric ozone." J Geophys Res, 117 (D23): D23304 [10.1029/2012JD018293]

    Li, F., D. W. Waugh, A. R. Douglass, et al. S. E. Strahan, J. Ma, J. E. Nielsen, Q. Liang, and P. Newman. 2012. "Long-term changes in stratospheric age spectra in the 21st century in the Goddard Earth Observing System Chemistry-Climate Model (GEOSCCM)." J Geophys Res, 117 (D20): D20119 [10.1029/2012JD017905]

    Hsu, N.-Y. C., C. Li, N. A. Krotkov, et al. Q. Liang, K. Yang, and S.-C. Tsay. 2012. "Rapid transpacific transport in autumn observed by the A-train satellites." J. Geophys. Res., 117 (D6): D06312 [10.1029/2011JD016626]

    Liang, Q., J. M. Rodriguez, A. R. Douglass, et al. J. Crawford, E. Apel, H. Bian, D. Blake, W. Brune, M. Chin, P. R. Colarco, A. Silva, G. Diskin, B. N. Duncan, L. Huey, D. Knapp, D. Montzka, J. Nielsen, J. Olson, S. Pawson, D. Riemer, A. Weinheimer, and A. Wisthaler. 2011. "Reactive nitrogen, ozone and ozone production in the Arctic troposphere and the impact of stratosphere-troposphere exchange." Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11 (24): 13181-13199 [10.5194/acp-11-13181-2011]

    Salawitch, R. J., T. Canty, T. Kurosu, et al. K. Chance, Q. Liang, A. M. Da Silva, S. Pawson, J. E. Nielsen, J. M. Rodriguez, and P. K. Bhartia. 2010. "A new interpretation of total column BrO during Arctic spring." Geophysical Research Letters, 37 (21): L21805 [10.1029/2010GL043798]

    Liang, Q., R. S. Stolarski, S. Kawa, et al. J. Nielsen, A. R. Douglass, J. M. Rodriguez, D. Blake, E. Atlas, and L. Ott. 2010. "Finding the missing stratospheric Bry: a global modeling study of CHBr₃ and CH₂Br₂." Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10 (5): 2269-2286 [10.5194/acp-10-2269-2010]

    Liang, Q., A. R. Douglass, B. N. Duncan, R. S. Stolarski, and J. C. Witte. 2009. "The governing processes and timescales of stratosphere-to-troposphere transport and its contribution to ozone in the Arctic troposphere." Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9 (9): 3011-3025 [10.5194/acp-9-3011-2009]

    Liang, Q., R. Stolarski, A. Douglass, P. Newman, and J. Nielsen. 2008. "Evaluation of emissions and transport of CFCs using surface observations and their seasonal cycles and the GEOS CCM simulation with emissions-based forcing." J. Geophys. Res, 113:

    Liang, Q., R. S. Stolarski, A. R. Douglass, P. Newman, and J. E. Nielsen. 2008. "Evaluation of emissions and transport of CFCs using surface observations and their seasonal cycles and the GEOS CCM simulation with emissions-based forcing." J. Geophys. Res., 113 (D14): D14302 [10.1029/2007JD009617]

    Liang, Q., L. Jaeglé, R. C. Hudman, et al. S. Turquety, D. J. Jacob, M. A. Avery, E. V. Browell, G. W. Sachse, D. R. Blake, W. Brune, X. Ren, R. C. Cohen, J. E. Dibb, A. Fried, H. Fuelberg, M. Porter, B. G. Heikes, G. Huey, H. B. Singh, and P. O. Wennberg. 2007. "Summertime influence of Asian pollution in the free troposphere over North America." Journal of Geophysical Research, 112 (D12): D12S11 [10.1029/2006jd007919]

    Liang, Q. 2005. "Meteorological indices for Asian outflow and transpacific transport on daily to interannual timescales." Journal of Geophysical Research, 110 (D18): D18308 [10.1029/2005jd005788]

    Sinha, P., L. Jaegle, P. Hobbs, and Q. Liang. 2004. "Transport of biomass burning emissions from southern Africa." J. Geophys. Res., , 109: D20204 [10.1029/2004JD005044]

    Weiss-Penzias, P., D. A. Jaffe, L. Jaeglé, and Q. Liang. 2004. "Influence of long-range-transported pollution on the annual and diurnal cycles of carbon monoxide and ozone at Cheeka Peak Observatory." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 109 (D23): [10.1029/2004jd004505]

    Liang, Q., L. Jaeglé, D. A. Jaffe, et al. P. Weiss-Penzias, A. Heckman, and J. A. Snow. 2004. "Long-range transport of Asian pollution to the northeast Pacific: Seasonal variations and transport pathways of carbon monoxide." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 109 (D23): [10.1029/2003jd004402]

    Brief Bio

    Dr. Qing Liang is a research physical scientist in the Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory. Dr. Liang received her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences in 2006 from University of Washington, Seattle, and has been at the NASA Goddard Space Flight center since graduation. Her research has focused on using Global 3-Dimensional Chemistry Models to simulate atmospheric transport and chemistry of compounds that are crucial to tropospheric and stratospheric ozone, e.g., the anthropogenic ozone precursors that are relevant for tropospheric ozone, the man-made ozone depleting substances and the very-short-lived halogen compounds, both natural and man-made, that are important for stratospheric ozone. One primary objective of Dr. Liang’s research is to use NASA data from various observation platforms, surface, airborne, and satellite, to improve our understanding and simulation of these key atmospheric compounds.
     

    Selected Publications

    Refereed

    Pan, L. L., D. Kinnison, Q. Liang, et al. M. Chin, M. L. Santee, J. Flemming, W. P. Smith, S. B. Honomichl, J. F. Bresch, L. R. Lait, Y. Zhu, S. Tilmes, P. R. Colarco, J. Warner, A. Vuvan, C. Clerbaux, E. L. Atlas, P. A. Newman, T. Thornberry, W. J. Randel, and O. B. Toon. 2022. "A Multimodel Investigation of Asian Summer Monsoon UTLS Transport Over the Western Pacific." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 127 (24): [10.1029/2022jd037511]

    Liu, J., S. A. Strode, Q. Liang, et al. L. D. Oman, P. R. Colarco, E. L. Fleming, M. E. Manyin, A. R. Douglass, J. R. Ziemke, L. N. Lamsal, and C. Li. 2022. "Change in Tropospheric Ozone in the Recent Decades and Its Contribution to Global Total Ozone." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 127 (22): [10.1029/2022jd037170]

    Liang, Q., C. Nevison, E. Dlugokencky, B. D. Hall, and G. Dutton. 2022. "3‐D Atmospheric Modeling of the Global Budget of N 2 O and Its Isotopologues for 1980–2019: The Impact of Anthropogenic Emissions." Global Biogeochemical Cycles 36 (7): [10.1029/2021gb007202]

    Knowland, K. E., C. A. Keller, P. A. Wales, et al. K. Wargan, L. Coy, M. S. Johnson, J. Liu, R. A. Lucchesi, S. D. Eastham, E. Fleming, Q. Liang, T. Leblanc, N. J. Livesey, K. A. Walker, L. E. Ott, and S. Pawson. 2022. "NASA GEOS Composition Forecast Modeling System GEOS‐CF v1.0: Stratospheric composition." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 14 (e2021MS002852): [10.1029/2021ms002852]

    Fleming, E. L., Q. Liang, L. D. Oman, et al. P. A. Newman, F. Li, and M. M. Hurwitz. 2021. "Stratospheric impacts of continuing CFC‐11 emissions simulated in a chemistry‐climate model." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres [10.1029/2020jd033656]

    Wang, P., J. R. Scott, S. Solomon, et al. J. Marshall, A. R. Babbin, M. Lickley, D. W. Thompson, T. DeVries, Q. Liang, and R. G. Prinn. 2021. "On the effects of the ocean on atmospheric CFC-11 lifetimes and emissions." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (12): e2021528118 [10.1073/pnas.2021528118]

    Park, S., L. M. Western, T. Saito, et al. A. L. Redington, S. Henne, X. Fang, R. G. Prinn, A. J. Manning, S. A. Montzka, P. J. Fraser, A. L. Ganesan, C. M. Harth, J. Kim, P. B. Krummel, Q. Liang, J. Mühle, S. O’Doherty, H. Park, M.-K. Park, S. Reimann, P. K. Salameh, R. F. Weiss, and M. Rigby. 2021. "A decline in emissions of CFC-11 and related chemicals from eastern China." Nature 590 (7846): 433-437 [10.1038/s41586-021-03277-w]

    Fleming, E. L., P. A. Newman, Q. Liang, and J. S. Daniel. 2020. "The Impact of Continuing CFC‐11 Emissions on Stratospheric Ozone." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 125 (3): [10.1029/2019jd031849]

    Rigby, M., S. Park, T. Saito, et al. L. M. Western, A. L. Redington, X. Fang, S. Henne, A. J. Manning, R. G. Prinn, G. S. Dutton, P. J. Fraser, A. L. Ganesan, B. D. Hall, C. M. Harth, J. Kim, K.-R. Kim, P. B. Krummel, T. Lee, S. Li, Q. Liang, M. F. Lunt, S. A. Montzka, J. Mühle, S. O’Doherty, M.-K. Park, S. Reimann, P. K. Salameh, P. Simmonds, R. L. Tunnicliffe, R. F. Weiss, Y. Yokouchi, and D. Young. 2019. "Increase in CFC-11 emissions from eastern China based on atmospheric observations." Nature 569 (7757): 546-550 [10.1038/s41586-019-1193-4]

    Lunt, M. F., S. Park, S. Li, et al. S. Henne, A. J. Manning, A. L. Ganesan, I. J. Simpson, D. R. Blake, Q. Liang, S. O'Doherty, C. M. Harth, J. Mühle, P. K. Salameh, R. F. Weiss, P. B. Krummel, P. J. Fraser, R. G. Prinn, S. Reimann, and M. Rigby. 2018. "Continued Emissions of the Ozone-Depleting Substance Carbon Tetrachloride From Eastern Asia." Geophysical Research Letters [10.1029/2018gl079500]

    Nielsen, J. E., S. Pawson, A. Molod, et al. B. Auer, A. M. da Silva, A. R. Douglass, B. Duncan, Q. Liang, M. Manyin, L. D. Oman, W. Putman, S. E. Strahan, and K. Wargan. 2017. "Chemical Mechanisms and Their Applications in the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) Earth System Model." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems [10.1002/2017ms001011]

    Liang, Q., S. E. Strahan, and E. L. Fleming. 2017. "Concerns for ozone recovery." Science 358 (6368): 1257-1258 [10.1126/science.aaq0145]

    Sherry, D., A. McCulloch, Q. Liang, S. Reimann, and P. A. Newman. 2017. "Current sources of carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) in our atmosphere." Environmental Research Letters [10.1088/1748-9326/aa9c87]

    Liang, Q., M. P. Chipperfield, E. L. Fleming, et al. N. L. Abraham, P. Braesicke, J. B. Burkholder, J. S. Daniel, S. Dhomse, P. J. Fraser, S. C. Hardiman, C. H. Jackman, D. E. Kinnison, P. B. Krummel, S. A. Montzka, O. Morgenstern, A. McCulloch, J. Mühle, P. A. Newman, V. L. Orkin, G. Pitari, R. G. Prinn, M. Rigby, E. Rozanov, A. Stenke, F. Tummon, G. J. Velders, D. Visioni, and R. F. Weiss. 2017. "Deriving Global OH Abundance and Atmospheric Lifetimes for Long-Lived Gases: A Search for CH3CCl3 Alternatives." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres [10.1002/2017jd026926]

    Cameron, M. A., M. Z. Jacobson, S. R. Barrett, et al. H. Bian, C. C. Chen, S. D. Eastham, A. Gettelman, A. Khodayari, Q. Liang, H. B. Selkirk, N. Unger, D. J. Wuebbles, and X. Yue. 2017. "An intercomparative study of the effects of aircraft emissions on surface air quality." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 122 (15): 8325-8344 [10.1002/2016jd025594]

    Warner, J. X., R. R. Dickerson, Z. Wei, et al. L. L. Strow, Y. Wang, and Q. Liang. 2017. "Increased atmospheric ammonia over the world's major agricultural areas detected from space." Geophysical Research Letters 44 (6): 2875-2884 [10.1002/2016gl072305]

    Chipperfield, M. P., Q. Liang, M. Rigby, et al. R. Hossaini, S. A. Montzka, S. Dhomse, W. Feng, R. G. Prinn, R. F. Weiss, C. M. Harth, P. K. Salameh, J. Mühle, S. O'Doherty, D. Young, P. G. Simmonds, P. B. Krummel, P. J. Fraser, L. P. Steele, J. D. Happell, R. C. Rhew, J. Butler, S. A. Yvon-Lewis, B. Hall, D. Nance, F. Moore, B. R. Miller, J. W. Elkins, J. J. Harrison, C. D. Boone, E. L. Atlas, and E. Mahieu. 2016. "Model sensitivity studies of the decrease in atmospheric carbon tetrachloride." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 16 (24): 15741-15754 [10.5194/acp-16-15741-2016]

    Hurwitz, M. M., E. L. Fleming, P. A. Newman, F. Li, and Q. Liang. 2016. "Early action on HFCs mitigates future atmospheric change." Environmental Research Letters 11 (11): 114019 [10.1088/1748-9326/11/11/114019]

    Schmidt, J. A., D. J. Jacob, H. M. Horowitz, et al. L. Hu, T. Sherwen, M. J. Evans, Q. Liang, R. M. Suleiman, D. E. Oram, M. Le Breton, C. J. Percival, S. Wang, B. Dix, and R. Volkamer. 2016. "Modeling the observed tropospheric BrO background: Importance of multiphase chemistry and implications for ozone, OH, and mercury." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 121 (19): 11,819-11,835 [10.1002/2015jd024229]

    Liang, Q., P. Newman, and S. Reimann. 2016. "SPARC Report on Mystery of Carbon Tetrachloride." Stratosphere-troposphere Processes And their Role in Climate (SPARC) Report 7 (WCRP-13): [Full Text (Link)]

    Coburn, S., B. Dix, E. Edgerton, et al. C. D. Holmes, D. Kinnison, Q. Liang, A. ter Schure, S. Wang, and R. Volkamer. 2016. "Mercury oxidation from bromine chemistry in the free troposphere over the southeastern US." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 16 (6): 3743-3760 [10.5194/acp-16-3743-2016]

    Liang, Q., P. Newman, J. S. Daniel, et al. S. Reimann, B. D. Hall, G. Dutton, and L. J. Kuijpers. 2014. "Constraining the carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) budget using its global trend and inter-hemispheric gradient." Geophysical Research Letters 41 (14): 5307-5315 [10.1002/2014GL060754]

    Liang, Q., E. Atlas, D. Blake, et al. M. Dorf, K. Pfeilsticker, and S. Schauffler. 2014. "Convective transport of very short lived bromocarbons to the stratosphere." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 14 (11): 5781-5792 [10.5194/acp-14-5781-2014]

    Chipperfield, M. P., Q. Liang, S. E. Strahan, et al. O. Morgenstern, S. S. Dhomse, N. L. Abraham, A. T. Archibald, S. Bekki, P. Braesicke, G. Di Genova, E. L. Fleming, S. C. Hardiman, D. Iachetti, C. H. Jackman, D. E. Kinnison, M. Marchand, G. Pitari, J. A. Pyle, E. Rozanov, A. Stenke, and F. Tummon. 2014. "Multimodel estimates of atmospheric lifetimes of long-lived ozone-depleting substances: Present and future." J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 119 (5): 2555-2573 [10.1002/2013JD021097]

    Chipperfield, M., Q. Liang, and Et Al. 2013. "Model Estimates of Lifetimes, Chapter 5 of the SPARC Report on the lifetimes of stratospheric ozone-depleting substances, their replacements, and related species." SPARC Report No. 6, WCRP-15, Zurich, Switzerland

    Bian, H., P. R. Colarco, M. Chin, et al. G. Chen, J. M. Rodriguez, Q. Liang, D. Blake, D.-C. A. Chu, A. M. Da Silva, A. S. Darmenov, G. Diskin, H. E. Fuelberg, G. Huey, Y. Kondo, J. E. Nielsen, X. Pan, and A. Wisthaler. 2013. "Source attributions of pollution to the Western Arctic during the NASA ARCTAS field campaign." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 13 (9): 4707-4721 [10.5194/acp-13-4707-2013]

    Parrella, J. P., D. J. Jacob, Q. Liang, et al. Y. Zhang, L. J. Mickley, B. Miller, M. J. Evans, X. Yang, J. A. Pyle, N. Theys, and M. Van Roozendael. 2012. "Tropospheric bromine chemistry: implications for present and pre-industrial ozone and mercury." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 12 (15): 6723-6740 [10.5194/acp-12-6723-2012]

    Lang, C., D. W. Waugh, M. A. Olsen, et al. A. R. Douglass, Q. Liang, J. E. Nielsen, L. D. Oman, S. Pawson, and R. S. Stolarski. 2012. "The impact of greenhouse gases on past changes in tropospheric ozone." J Geophys Res 117 (D23): D23304 [10.1029/2012JD018293]

    Li, F., D. W. Waugh, A. R. Douglass, et al. S. E. Strahan, J. Ma, J. E. Nielsen, Q. Liang, and P. Newman. 2012. "Long-term changes in stratospheric age spectra in the 21st century in the Goddard Earth Observing System Chemistry-Climate Model (GEOSCCM)." J Geophys Res 117 (D20): D20119 [10.1029/2012JD017905]

    Hsu, N.-Y. C., C. Li, N. A. Krotkov, et al. Q. Liang, K. Yang, and S.-C. Tsay. 2012. "Rapid transpacific transport in autumn observed by the A-train satellites." J. Geophys. Res. 117 (D6): D06312 [10.1029/2011JD016626]

    Liang, Q., J. M. Rodriguez, A. R. Douglass, et al. J. Crawford, E. Apel, H. Bian, D. Blake, W. Brune, M. Chin, P. R. Colarco, A. Silva, G. Diskin, B. N. Duncan, L. Huey, D. Knapp, D. Montzka, J. Nielsen, J. Olson, S. Pawson, D. Riemer, A. Weinheimer, and A. Wisthaler. 2011. "Reactive nitrogen, ozone and ozone production in the Arctic troposphere and the impact of stratosphere-troposphere exchange." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 11 (24): 13181-13199 [10.5194/acp-11-13181-2011]

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    Liang, Q., A. R. Douglass, B. N. Duncan, R. S. Stolarski, and J. C. Witte. 2009. "The governing processes and timescales of stratosphere-to-troposphere transport and its contribution to ozone in the Arctic troposphere." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 9 (9): 3011-3025 [10.5194/acp-9-3011-2009]

    Liang, Q., R. Stolarski, A. Douglass, P. Newman, and J. Nielsen. 2008. "Evaluation of emissions and transport of CFCs using surface observations and their seasonal cycles and the GEOS CCM simulation with emissions-based forcing." J. Geophys. Res 113

    Liang, Q., R. S. Stolarski, A. R. Douglass, P. Newman, and J. E. Nielsen. 2008. "Evaluation of emissions and transport of CFCs using surface observations and their seasonal cycles and the GEOS CCM simulation with emissions-based forcing." J. Geophys. Res. 113 (D14): D14302 [10.1029/2007JD009617]

    Liang, Q., L. Jaeglé, R. C. Hudman, et al. S. Turquety, D. J. Jacob, M. A. Avery, E. V. Browell, G. W. Sachse, D. R. Blake, W. Brune, X. Ren, R. C. Cohen, J. E. Dibb, A. Fried, H. Fuelberg, M. Porter, B. G. Heikes, G. Huey, H. B. Singh, and P. O. Wennberg. 2007. "Summertime influence of Asian pollution in the free troposphere over North America." Journal of Geophysical Research 112 (D12): D12S11 [10.1029/2006jd007919]

    Liang, Q. 2005. "Meteorological indices for Asian outflow and transpacific transport on daily to interannual timescales." Journal of Geophysical Research 110 (D18): D18308 [10.1029/2005jd005788]

    Sinha, P., L. Jaegle, P. Hobbs, and Q. Liang. 2004. "Transport of biomass burning emissions from southern Africa." J. Geophys. Res., 109 D20204 [10.1029/2004JD005044]

    Weiss-Penzias, P., D. A. Jaffe, L. Jaeglé, and Q. Liang. 2004. "Influence of long-range-transported pollution on the annual and diurnal cycles of carbon monoxide and ozone at Cheeka Peak Observatory." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 109 (D23): [10.1029/2004jd004505]

    Liang, Q., L. Jaeglé, D. A. Jaffe, et al. P. Weiss-Penzias, A. Heckman, and J. A. Snow. 2004. "Long-range transport of Asian pollution to the northeast Pacific: Seasonal variations and transport pathways of carbon monoxide." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 109 (D23): [10.1029/2003jd004402]

                                                                                                                                                                                            
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