Research aspects and interests:

• Atmospheric physics and atmospheric environment

• Atmospheric remote sensing

• Resources and Environment

• Climate change

• Atmospheric optics

• Radar and satellite meteorology.

Selected papers you may be interested in:

• Zhang X, Jiang H, Mao M. 2021. Absorption Angstrom Exponent of Dust Aerosols Over the Tarim Basin. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 178: 4549–4560.
  

• Zhang X, Mao M, Yin Y, Tang S. 2020. The absorption Angstrom exponent of black carbon with brown coatings: effects of aerosol microphysics and parameterization. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 20: 9701–9711. 

• Zhang X, Mao M, Yin Y, Wang B. 2018. Numerical investigation on absorption enhancement of black carbon aerosols partially coated with nonabsorbing organics. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123: 1297–1308. 

• Zhang X, Mao M, Yin Y, Wang B. 2017. Absorption enhancement of aged black carbon aerosols affected by their microphysics: A numerical investigation. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, 202: 90–97. 

• Zhang X, Mao M. 2015. Brown haze types due to aerosol pollution at Hefei in the summer and fall. Chemosphere, 119: 1153–1162.
  

• Zhang X, Rao R, Huang Y, Mao M, Berg MJ, Sun W. 2015. Black carbon aerosols in urban central China. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, 150: 3–11.
  

• Zhang X, Huang Y, Rao R, Wang Z. 2013. Retrieval of effective complex refractive index from intensive measurements of characteristics of ambient aerosols in the boundary layer. Optics Express, 21(15): 17849–17862.
  

• Zhang X, Huang Y, Zhu W, Rao R. 2013. Aerosol characteristics during summer haze episodes from different source regions over the coast city of North China Plain. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, 122: 180–193.

Contact information: 

• xlnzhang@nuist.edu.cn