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Jin Liao

(SCIENTIST)

Jin Liao's Contact Card & Information.
Email: jin.liao@nasa.gov
Org Code: 614
Address:
NASA/GSFC
Mail Code 614
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Employer: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE CO

Research Interests


Jin Liao’s current research focuses on using airborne observations, satellite data, and box modeling to investigate atmospheric composition and processes.

Positions/Employment


Research Associate Scientist

GESTAR II, University of Maryland, Baltimore County - Maryland

December 2021 - Present


Scientist

GESTAR, Universities Space Research Association - Maryland

January 2016 - November 2021


Research Scientist II

Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder - Boulder, Colorado

May 2015 - December 2015


Postdoctoral Research Associate

Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder - Boulder, Colorado

March 2012 - May 2015


Postdoctoral Fellow

Georgia Institute of Technology - Atlanta, Georgia

January 2012 - February 2012

Education


Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, US                  08/2006-12/2011

Ph.D. in Atmospheric Chemistry                           Minor: Data Analysis           

Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China                                    09/2002-07/2006

B.S. in Environmental Science

Publications


Refereed

2025. "Validation of formaldehyde products from three satellite retrievals (OMI SAO, OMPS-NPP SAO, and OMI BIRA) in the marine atmosphere with four seasons of Atmospheric Tomography Mission (ATom) aircraft observations." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 18 (1): 1-16 [10.5194/amt-18-1-2025] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "Parameterizations of US wildfire and prescribed fire emission ratios and emission factors based on FIREX-AQ aircraft measurements." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 24 (2): 929-956 [10.5194/acp-24-929-2024] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "Emission Factors for Crop Residue and Prescribed Fires in the Eastern US During FIREX‐AQ." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 128 (18): [10.1029/2023jd039309] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX‐AQ)." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 128 (2): [10.1029/2022jd037758] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Emission factors and evolution of SO2 measured from biomass burning in wildfires and agricultural fires." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 22 (23): 15603-15620 [10.5194/acp-22-15603-2022] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Formaldehyde evolution in US wildfire plumes during the Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality experiment (FIREX-AQ)." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 21 (24): 18319-18331 [10.5194/acp-21-18319-2021] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Ozone chemistry in western U.S. wildfire plumes." Science Advances 7 (50): [10.1126/sciadv.abl3648] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Evolution of formaldehyde (HCHO) in a plume originating from a petrochemical industry and its volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emission rate estimation." Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 9 (1): [10.1525/elementa.2021.00015] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Secondary organic aerosols from anthropogenic volatile organic compounds contribute substantially to air pollution mortality." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 21 (14): 11201-11224 [10.5194/acp-21-11201-2021] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "Mapping hydroxyl variability throughout the global remote troposphere via synthesis of airborne and satellite formaldehyde observations." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (23): 11171-11180 [10.1073/pnas.1821661116] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "Towards a satellite formaldehyde – in situ hybrid estimate for organic aerosol abundance." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 19 (5): 2765-2785 [10.5194/acp-19-2765-2019] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "The Framework for 0-D Atmospheric Modeling (F0AM) v3.1." Geoscientific Model Development 9 (9): 3309-3319 [10.5194/gmd-9-3309-2016] [Journal Article/Letter]

2015. "Airborne measurements of organosulfates over the continental U.S." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 120 (7): 2990-3005 [10.1002/2014jd022378] [Journal Article/Letter]

2012. "Characterization of soluble bromide measurements and a case study of BrO observations during ARCTAS." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 12 (3): 1327-1338 [10.5194/acp-12-1327-2012] [Journal Article/Letter]