Research Themes under ENVR

• Air and Health

Research Areas

• Atmospheric chemistry and physics
• Biosphere-atmosphere interactions

Research Interests

• Air pollution modeling in coastal urban cities
• Air quality and health impacts of agriculture
• Wildfires

Research Projects

• Environment and Conservation Fund Advancing Shipping Pollution Monitoring and Emission Estimates Over Coastal Waters of the Greater Bay Area: A Satellite-Based Remote Sensing Approach (2025–2027)

Publications

Representative Publications

• Liu, X., Tai, A. P. K., Chen, Y., Zhang, L., Shaddick, G., Yan, X., and Lam, H. M.: Dietary shifts can reduce premature deaths related to particulate matter pollution in China, Nature Food, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-021-00430-6, 2021.
• Liu, X., Tai, A. P. K., and Fung, K. M.: Responses of surface ozone to future agricultural ammonia emissions and subsequent nitrogen deposition through terrestrial ecosystem changes, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-17743-2021, 2021.
• Liu, X., Wang, Y., Wasti, S., Li, W., Soleimanian, E., Flynn J., Griggs, T., Alvarez, S., Sullivan, J. T., Roots, M., Twigg, L., Gronoff, G., Berkoff, T., Walter P., Estes M., Hair, J., Shingler, T., Scarino, A. J., Fenn, M., and Judd, L.: Evaluating WRF-GC v2.0 predictions of boundary layer and vertical ozone profiles during the 2021 TRACER-AQ campaign in Houston, Texas, Geoscientific Model Development, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-5493-2023, 2023.
• Liu, X., Wang, Y., Wasti, S., Lee, T., Li, W., Zhou, S., Flynn, J., Sheesley, R. J., Usenko, S., and Liu, F.: Impacts of anthropogenic emissions and meteorology on spring ozone differences in San Antonio, Texas between 2017 and 2021, Science of the Total Environment, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169693, 2023.
• Liu, X., Huang, Y., Chen, Y., Feng, X., Xu, Y., Chen, Y., Gu, D., Sun, H., Ning, Z., Yu, J., Chow, W. S., Lin, C., Xiang, Y., Zhang, T., Granier, C., Brasseur, G., Wang, Z., and Fung, J. C. H.: Abundance of volatile organic compounds and their role in ozone pollution management: Evidence from multi-platform observations and model representations during the 2021–2022 field campaign in Hong Kong, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-3227, 2025.
• Li, W., Wang, Y., Liu, X., Soleimanian, E., Griggs, T., Flynn J., and Walter P.: Understanding offshore high-ozone events during TRACER-AQ 2021 in Houston: Insights from WRR-CAMx photochemical modeling, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-13685-2023, 2023.
• Luo, B., Huang, J., Liu, X., Kwan, M. P., and Tai, A. P. K.:  Dietary changes are associated with an increase in air pollution-related health and environmental inequity in China. Communications Earth & Environment, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02050-5, 2025.
• Guo, Y., Zhang, L., Liu, G., Tan, H., Zhou, M., Vira, J., Hess, P., Liu, X., Paulot, F., and Liu, X.: Air pollution and ecosystem health costs embedded in global food loss and waste, Nature Food, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-023-00810-0, 2023.

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