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Under review, submitted, in preparation
8. Yaowei Li, Benjamin D. Santer, Susan Solomon, David W. J. Thompson, Qiang Fu. “Detectable global temperature responses to wildfires and volcanic eruptions.” [under review]
7. Jie Zhang, Yaowei Li, John Sullivan, Tianyu Zhu, Alexandra Catena, Margaret J. Schwab, Yuhang Guo, Jingbo Mao, Amanda Teora, James Schwab. “Revealing the formation and control of NYC downwind coastal high ozone via TEMPO observations.” [under review]
6. Bin Bai, Gregory W. Vandergrift, Yutong Liang, Yaowei Li, Zezhen Cheng, Yuchen Wang, Nara Shin, Frank N. Keustch, Andrew Lambe, Swarup China, Nga Lee Ng, Pengfei Liu. “Dynamic evolution of mass and physical properties of atmospheric organic aerosol under solar irradiance.” [under review]
5. Rachel Atlas, Rei Ueyama, Soo-Hyun Kim, Paul Bui, Jonathan Dean-Day, Yaowei Li, John Dykema, Frank Keutsch, Aurélien Podglajen. “Upper-level turbulence in the North American and Asian summer monsoon regions sampled in recent aircraft campaigns.” [under review]
4. Xi Chen, Jun Wang, David A. Peterson, Yaowei Li, William Julstrom, Frank Keutsch, John Dykema. “Particle coating influences pyrocumulonimbus smoke radiative forcing and stratospheric warming: Insights from 2019-2020 Australian megafires” [under review]
3. Jian Guan, Benjamin D. Santer, Peidong Wang, Qiang Fu, Rolando R. Garcia, Yaowei Li, Kane Stone, Douglas Kinnison, Jun Zhang, Gabriel Chiodo, Jean-Francois Lamarque, Susan Solomon. “Human influence on the ozone layer detectable by the 1960s.” [under review]
2. Yanxia Li, Hengheng Zhang, Xuefeng Shi, Yaowei Li, Sophie Abou-Rizk, Jessica Smith, Zhaojin An, Adrian Wenzel, Junwei Song, Thomas Leisner, Frank Keutsch, Jia Chen, and Harald Saathoff. “Seasonal sources, concentrations, and variations of aerosols and VOC in downtown Munich in 2023/24.” [submitted]
1. Yaowei Li, John Dykema, Norton Allen, Michael Litchfield, Michael Greenberg, Marco Rivero, Craig Mascarenhas, Da Yang, Suresh Dhaniyala, Frank N. Keutsch, et al. “Airborne Portable Optical Particle Spectrometer (POPS) for particle concentration and size distribution measurements in the stratosphere and upper troposphere.” [in preparation]
Peer-reviewed (citations tracked by Google Scholar)
23. Yaowei Li, John Dykema, David Peterson, Xu Feng, Xiaoli Shen, Nicole June, Michael Fromm, Theodore McHardy, Justin Jacquot, Jasna Pittman, Bruce Daube, Steven Wofsy, Jonathan Dean-Day, Anita Rapp, Kenneth Bowman, Daniel Cziczo, Loretta Mickley, Jeffrey Pierce, Frank Keutsch. (2025) “Enhanced radiative cooling by large aerosol particles from wildfire-driven thunderstorms.” Science Advances (accepted)
22. Steven Sharpe, Yaowei Li, Sophia Benjemia, Felipe Rivera-Adorno, Temitope Olayemi, Julius Ese, Xiaoli Shen, Matthew Fraund, Ryan Moffet, Nurun Nahar Lata, Zezhen Cheng, Swarup China, Cameron Homeyer, John Dykema, Matthew A. Marcus, Jian Wang, Daniel Cziczo, Frank Keutsch, and Alexander Laskin. (2025) “Chemical imaging of individual stratospheric particles sampled over North America.” Environmental Science: Atmospheres [link]
21. Qing Ye, Isabel S. Albores, Seamus Frey, Erik Helstrom, Jorden E. Krechmer, Yaowei Li, Joshua D. Shutter, Joshua L. Cox, Manjula Canagaratna, Frank N. Keutsch, Jesse H. Kroll. (2025) “Changes in volatile organic compound composition from an oxidation-based air cleaner.” ACS ES&T Air. (accepted)
20. Xiaoli Shen, Justin Jacquot, Yaowei Li, Steven Sharpe, John Dykema, Gregory Schill, Kenneth Bowman, Cameron Homeyer, Matthew Fraund, Ryan Moffet, Temitope Olayemi, Jasna Pittman, Felipe Rivera-Adorno, Daniel Murphy, Jessica Smith, Alexander Laskin, Frank Keutsch, Daniel Cziczo. (2025) “Stratospheric aerosol perturbation by tropospheric biomass burning and deep convection.” Nature Geoscience. [link]
19. Laila V. Howar and 26 others, including Yaowei Li. (2025) “Conditions necessary for chlorine activation in the midlatitude summer lower stratosphere.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. [link]
18. Nadia Tahsini, Selena Zhang, Matthew Goss, Seamus Frey, Yaowei Li, Jessica Smith, Norton Allen, M Pang, Richard Williamson, Frank Keutsch, Jesse Kroll. (2025) “Mitigation of indoor ozone and secondary products from 222 nm germicidal UV using commercial air cleaners.” ACS ES&T Air. [link]
17. Kenneth P. Bowman and 35 others, including Yaowei Li. (2025) “The Dynamics and Chemistry of the Summer Stratosphere (DCOTSS) Project.” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. [link]
16. Yaowei Li, Chen Zhang, Weifeng Su, Shaojie Jiang, Dongyang Nie, Yaying Wang, Yuzheng Wang, Hongdi He, Qi Chen, Scot T. Martin, Jianhuai Ye. (2025) “Copter-type UAV-based sensing in atmospheric chemistry: recent advances, applications, and future perspectives.” Environmental Science & Technology. [link] 🌟 ACS Editors’ Choice
15. Benjamin D. Santer, Susan Solomon, David W. J. Thompson, Qiang Fu, Yaowei Li. (2025) “Human influence on climate detectable in the late 19th century.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [link]
Media: Nature News, CNN
Author Response: Benjamin D. Santer, Susan Solomon, David W. J. Thompson, Qiang Fu, Yaowei Li. (2025) “Reply to Fleming: Not a gossamer web.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [link]
14. Zhaojin An, Dongbin Wang, Shuwen Yang, Jianguo Deng, Xue Li, Yaowei Li, Jingkun Jiang. (2025) “Organic fingerprints of condensable particulate matter from ultralow-emission stationary sources in China.” ACS ES&T Air. [link]
13. Zhaojin An, Rujing Yin, Xinyan Zhao, Xiaoxiao Li, Yi Yuan, Junchen Guo, Yuyang Li, Xue Li, Dandan Li, Yaowei Li, Dongbin Wang, Chao Yan, Kebin He, Douglas R. Worsnop, Frank N. Keutsch, and Jingkun Jiang. (2024) “Molecular and seasonal characteristics of organic vapors in urban Beijing: insights from Vocus-PTR measurements.” Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. [link]
12. Jie Zhang, Tianyu Zhu, Alexandra Catena, Yaowei Li, Margaret J. Schwab, Pengfei Liu, Akua A. Asa-Awuku, James Schwab. (2024) “Technical note: Quantified organic aerosol subsaturated hygroscopicity by a simple optical scatter monitor system through field measurements” Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. [link]
11. Victoria Barber, Lexy N. LeMar, Yaowei Li, Jonathan W. Zheng, Frank N. Keutsch, Jesse H. Kroll. (2024) “Enhanced organic nitrate formation from peroxy radicals in the condensed phase” Environmental Science & Technology Letters. [link]
10. Yaowei Li, Corey Pedersen, John Dykema, Jean-Paul Vernier, Sandro Vattioni, Amit Kumar Pandit, Andrea Stenke, Elizabeth Asher, Troy Thornberry, Michael Todt, ThaoPaul Bui, Jonathan Dean-Day, Frank Keutsch. (2023) “In situ measurements of perturbations to stratospheric aerosol and modeled ozone and radiative impacts following the 2021 La Soufrière eruption.” Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. [link]
9. Victoria Barber, Matthew Goss, Lesly Franco Deloya, Lexy LeMar, Yaowei Li, Erik Helstrom, Manjula Canagaratna, Frank Keutsch, Jesse Kroll. (2023) “Indoor Air Quality Implications of Germicidal 222 nm Light.” Environmental Science & Technology. [link]
8. Yaowei Li, Bin Bai, John Dykema, Nara Shin, Andrew Lambe, Qi Chen, Mikinori Kuwata, Nga Lee Ng, Frank Keutsch, Pengfei Liu. (2023) “Predicting real refractive index of organic aerosols from elemental composition.” Geophysical Research Letters. [link] 🌟 Top 10% of the GRL’s most-viewed papers in 2023
7. Yan Zheng, Ruqian Miao, Qi Zhang, Yaowei Li, Xi Cheng, Keren Liao, Theodore Koenig, Yanli Ge, Lizi Tang, Dongjie Shang, Min Hu, Shiyi Chen, Qi Chen. (2023) “Secondary formation of submicron and supermicron organic and inorganic aerosols in a highly polluted urban area.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. [link]
6. Qing Ye, Matthew Goss, Jordan Krechmer, Francesca Majluf, Alexander Zaytsev, Yaowei Li, Joseph Roscioli, Manjula Canagaratna, Frank Keutsch, Colette Heald, and Jesse Kroll. (2022) “Product distribution, kinetics, and aerosol formation from the OH oxidation of dimethyl sulfide under different RO2 regimes.” Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. [pdf]
5. Yaowei Li, John Dykema, Terry Deshler, and Frank Keutsch. (2021) “Composition dependence of stratospheric aerosol shortwave radiative forcing in northern midlatitudes.” Geophysical Research Letters. [link]
4. Qing Ye, Jordan Krechmer, Joshua Shutter, Victoria Barber, Yaowei Li, Erik Helstrom, Lesly Franco, Joshua Cox, Amy Hrdina, Matthew Goss, Nadia Tahsini, Manjula Canagaratna, Frank Keutsch, and Jesse Kroll. (2021) “Real-time laboratory measurements of VOC emissions, removal rates, and byproduct formation from consumer-grade oxidation-based air cleaners.” Environmental Science & Technology Letters. [link]
Media: MIT News
3. Yaowei Li, Ben Liu, Jianhuai Ye, Tianjiao Jia, Reza Bashiri Khuzestani, Jia Yin Sun, Xi Cheng, Yan Zheng, Xin Li, Cheng Wu, Jinyuan Xin, Zhihong Wu, Matheus Akira Tomoto, Karena McKinney, Scot Martin, Yong Jie Li, and Qi Chen. (2021) “Unmanned aerial vehicle measurements of volatile organic compounds over a subtropical forest in China and implications for emission heterogeneity.” ACS Earth and Space Chemistry. [link]
2. Yan Zheng, Xi Cheng, Keren Liao, Yaowei Li, Yong Jie Li, Ru-Jin Huang, Weiwei Hu, Ying Liu, Tong Zhu, Shiyi Chen, Limin Zeng, Douglas R. Worsnop, and Qi Chen. (2020) “Characterization of anthropogenic organic aerosols by TOF-ACSM with the new capture vaporizer.” Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. [link]
1. Ben Liu, Cheng Wu, Nan Ma, Qi Chen, Yaowei Li, Jianhuai Ye, Scot Martin, and Yong Jie Li. (2020) “Vertical profiling of fine particulate matter and black carbon by using unmanned aerial vehicle in Macau, China.” Science of the Total Environment. [link]
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