Zhen Qu
Bio
I am an atmospheric chemist. My research aims to understand how human activities are altering atmospheric composition, and how these changes interact with climate change. I utilize statistics, high-performance computing, and satellite observations to investigate the sources, chemical formation, spatial distributions, and trends of air pollutants and greenhouse gases. I develop algorithms and modeling approaches to expand our process-level understanding of man-made and natural emissions. I also apply atmospheric chemistry models to understand the sensitivity of air pollution and human exposure to the emissions of precursor gases.
I teach MEA 425/525 Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry and MEA 412 Atmospheric Physics.
I am looking for motivated students to join my group. Please visit my group’s webpage for additional details.
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Publications
- A sector-based inversion synergizing NO2, SO2, and CO observations to improve sectoral activity rates and anthropogenic CO2 emissions , EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (2026)
- An Activity‐Based Inversion Framework for Estimating Sectoral Anthropogenic CO 2 Emissions Using Multi‐Pollutant Satellite Observations , Geophysical Research Letters (2026)
- Assessing the Impact of Incorporating Bias-Adjusted , ChemRxiv (2026)
- Assessing the Impact of Incorporating Bias-Adjusted Satellite Observations into Global Data Fusion for Ground-level Health-Related Ozone Metrics , ChemRxiv (2026)
- Assessment of regional and interannual variations in tropospheric ozone in chemical reanalyses , Atmospheric chemistry and physics (2026)
- Comment on egusphere-2026-313 , (2026)
- Comment on egusphere-2026-313 , (2026)
- Constraining NOx emissions with satellite NO2 data to improve modeling of 2023 wildfire air quality , Atmospheric Environment (2026)
- Machine Learning Predictions of PM 2.5 and Their Applications to Exposure and Health Assessment in the CONUS , GeoHealth (2026)
- Top-down benchmark of US methane inventories reveals regional discrepancies in activity-based estimates , Atmospheric chemistry and physics (2026)
