Education
Ph.D., Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Awardee)
B.S.&M.S., Nanjing University 

Work Experience
Postdoc, Princeton University/NOAA GFDL (2017-2019)

Research interest 
My researches focus on tropospheric air pollutants (ozone, particulates, and greenhouse gases) and the interactions between air pollutants and meteorology. I use a combination of measurements and state-of-the-art regional and global models to investigate how important species of trace gases/aerosols are emitted, transformed, and transported within our atmosphere. 

Selected publications

• Zhang, L., Davis, K. J., Schuh, A. E., Jacobson A. R., et al., (2022). Multi-Season Evaluation of CO₂ Weather in OCO-2 MIP Models. J. Geophys. Res.: Atmospheres, 127(2), e2021JD035457.
• Zhang, L. and Cui, Y. Y. (2022). Tropospheric ozone inter-annual variabilities, trends, and extremes in CCMI models, Atmos. Environ., 269(15), 118841.
• Zhang, L., Lin, M., Langford, A.O., Horowitz, L.W., et al., (2020). Characterizing sources of high surface ozone in the Southwest U.S. with intensive field measurements and two global models, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 10379–10400.
• Li, Q., Zhang, L., Wang, T., et al., (2018). “New” Reactive Nitrogen Chemistry reshapes the relationship of Ozone to Its Precursors. Environ. Sci. Technol., 52 (5): 2810–2818.
• Zhang, L., Li, Q., Wang, T., Ahmadov, R., Zhang, Q., et al., (2017). Combined impacts of nitrous acid and nitryl chloride on lower-tropospheric ozone: new module development in WRF-Chem and application to China. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 9733-9750.
• Zhang, L., Wang, T., Zhang, Q., et al., (2016). Potential sources of nitrous acid (HONO) and their impacts on ozone: A WRF-Chem study in a polluted subtropical region. J. Geophys. Res.: Atmospheres, 121: 3645-3662.
• Li, Q., Zhang, L., Wang, T., et al., (2016). Impacts of heterogeneous uptake of dinitrogen pentoxide and chlorine activation on ozone and reactive nitrogen partitioning: Improvement and application of WRF-Chem model in southern China, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16: 1-16.
• Zhang, L., Wang, T., Lv, M., Zhang, Q., (2015). On the severe haze in Beijing during January 2013: Unraveling the effects of meteorological anomalies with WRF-Chem. Atmos. Environ., 104: 11-21.
• Zhang, L., Liu, H. and Zhang, N., (2011). Impacts of internally and externally mixed anthropogenic sulfate and carbonaceous aerosols on East Asian climate, J. Meteor. Res., 25(5): 639-658.
• Liu, H., Zhang, and Wu, J., (2010). A modeling study of climate effect of sulfate and carbonaceous aerosols over China, Adv. Atmos. Sci., 27(6): 1276-1288.