Publications of Yafang Cheng

Zhang, S., Zhou, M., Qian, X., Wang, H., Zhao, Y., Zeng, J., Wu, Y., Ding, X., Cheng, Y. and Su, H.: Variations in soil HONO emissions under greenhouse field conditions and their driving mechanisms, Environmental Pollution, 392, doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2026.127637, 2026.

Pan, X., Zhang, Y., Xue, C., Kuhn, U., Hrabe de Angelis, I., Pöhlker, C., Ditas, J., Heins, L., Aardema, H. M., Slagter, H. A., Calleja, M. L., Dragoneas, A., Walter, D., Nillius, B., Wang, Q., Ma, N., Su, H., Pöschl, U., Haug, G. H., Schiebel, R. and Cheng, Y.: Black Carbon in the Marine Atmosphere: Concentration and Mixing State From Coastal to Remote Atlantic Regions, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 131(3), doi:10.1029/2025JD045346, 2026.

Zhu, J., Li , G., Kuhn, U., Meller, B. B., Pöhlker, C., Artaxo, P., Pöschl, U., Cheng, Y. and Su, H.: Measurement report: Number size distribution of sub-40 nm particles in the Amazon rainforest, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 25(23), 17667–17684, doi:10.5194/acp-25-17667-2025, 2025.

Joppe, P., Schneider, J., Wilsch, J., Bozem, H., Breuninger, A., Curtius, J., Ebert, M., Emig, N., Hoor, P., Ismayil, S., Kandler, K., Kunkel, D., Kurth, I., Lachnitt, H.-C., Li, Y., Miltenberger, A., Richter, S., Rolf, C., Schneider, L., Schwenk, C., Spelten, N., Vogel, A. L., Cheng, Y. and Borrmann, S.: Transport of Biomass Burning Aerosol into the Extratropical Tropopause Region over Europe via Warm Conveyor Belt Uplift, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 25(21), 15077–15103, doi:10.5194/acp-25-15077-2025, 2025.

Georgoulias, A. K., Lelieveld, J., Klingmüller, K., Akritidis, D., Pozzer, A., Alexandri, G., Bilal, M., Cheng, Y., Su, H. and Zanis, P.: Avoided mortality by particulate air pollution control measures in China, Science of the Total Environment, 1002, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.180566, 2025.

Zhang, C., Wang, Y., Wang, J., Soja, A., Gargulinski, E., Peterson, D., Kalashnikova, O., Zhao, B., Cheng, Y., Li, F. and Chakrabarty, R.: Thermodynamically constrained retrieval algorithm to estimate subpixel fire properties, Remote Sensing of Environment, 328, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2025.114871, 2025.

Yang, Z., Wang, Q., Wang, Q., Ma, N., Tian, J., Zhou, Y., Xu, G., Gao, M., Zhou, X., Zhang, Y., Ran, W., Yang, N., Tao, J., Hong, J., Wu, Y., Cao, J., Su, H. and Cheng, Y.: Laboratory studies on the optical, physical, and chemical properties of fresh and aged biomass burning aerosols, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 25(18), 11051–11065, doi:10.5194/acp-25-11051-2025, 2025.

Kulmala, M., Wei, D., Zhang, X., Zhang, T., Xia, M., Wang, Y., Zou, Z., Zheng, F., Zhang, Y., Yang, C., Wu, J., Li, Y., Zha, Q., Yan, C., Feng, W., Wang, Z., Hua, C., Xie, J., Ma, W., Guo, Y., Chen, X., Liu, T., Li, J., Pang, H., Zhao, G., Chen, K., Zhao, Z., Zhong, W., Gao, S., Zhang, W., Yuan, Q., Qi, L., Petäjä, T., Sarnela, N., Ylivinkka, I., Aliaga, D., Cai, R., Agro, M., Ahonen, L., Schiestl-Aalto, P., Tuovinen, S., Cai, J., Kujansuu, J., Ciarelli, G., Cheng, Y., Ding, A., Dällenbach, K., Dada, L., Worsnop, D., Bianchi, F., Jiang, J., Liu, Y., Kerminen, V.-M. and Kokkonen, T.: Understanding atmospheric processes: insights from the comparison between Beijing and Hyytiälä, npj clean air, 1, doi:10.1038/s44407-025-00020-x, 2025.

Zhu, S., Ma, N., Yu, P., Xie, L., Hong, J., Lu, N., Bai, Z., Deng, Z., Ran, L., Wu, Y., Bian, J., Wang, Q., Tao, J., Zhou, Y., Wang, Q., Su, H. and Cheng, Y.: Vertical Profiling of Aerosol Physicochemical Properties With a New Airborne Aerosol Sampling System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Tethered Balloons, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 130(15), doi:10.1029/2025JD045346, 2025.

Zhang, K., Xiong, C., Cheng, Y., Ma, N., Mikhailov, E., Pöschl, U., Su, H. and Wang, Z.: Assessment of Hygroscopicity Uncertainties Associated With Size and Thermodynamic Model: Implications for Inferring Chemical Composition of Sub-10 nm Particles, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 130(15), doi:10.1029/2025JD043835, 2025.

Zhang, Z., Wang, J., Riemer, N., Wang, J., Liu, C., Jin, Y., Tian, Z., Shen, S., Wang, B., Chen, G., Zhao, B., Hu, J., Wang, M., Su, H., Wang, S., Cheng, Y. and Ding, A.: The Droplet Activation Parameterization for Black Carbon-Containing Particles in Steady State, Geophysical Research Letters, 52(11), doi:10.1029/2024GL114433, 2025.

Hong, J., Ma, J., Ma, N., Zhou, X., Shi, J., Zhu, S., Xie, L., Tang, M., Luo, B., Yang, Z., Li, Y., Liu, L., Lu, H., Tao, J., Zhou, Y., Xu, H., Wang, Q., Cheng, Y. and Su, H.: Adequate Consideration of Aerosol Hygroscopicity is Crucial for Evaluating Its Respiratory Deposition and Related Health Impacts, Environmental Science & Technology, 59(18), 9199–9208, doi:10.1021/acs.est.5c02467, 2025.

Yue, S., Cheng, Y., Zheng, L., Lai, S., Wang, S., Song, T., Li, L., Li, P., Zhu, J., Li, M., Wei, L., Ma, C., Jin, R., Zhang, Y., Sun, Y., Wang, Z., Kawamura, K., Liu, C.-Q., Su, H., Andreae, M. O. and Fu, P.: Mass deposition of microbes from wildfire smoke to the sea surface microlayer, Limnology and Oceanography, 70(6), 1770–1781, doi:10.1002/lno.70078, 2025.

Gao, Y., Kou, W., Cheng, W., Guo, X., Qu, B., Wu, Y., Zhang, S., Liao, H., Chen, D., Leung, L. R., Wild, O., Zhang, J., Lin, G., Su, H., Cheng, Y., Pöschl, U., Pozzer, A., Zhang, L., Lamarque, J.-F., Guenther, A. B., Brasseur, G., Liu, Z., Lu, H., Li, C., Zhao, B., Wang, S., Huang, X., Pan, J., Liu, G., Liu, X., Lin, H., Zhao, Y., Zhao, C., Meng, J., Yao, X., Gao, H. and Wu, L.: Reducing Long-Standing Surface Ozone Overestimation in Earth System Modeling by High-Resolution Simulation and Dry Deposition Improvement, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 17(3), doi:10.1029/2023MS004192, 2025.

Zhang, Y., Wang, J., Wu, N., Ouyang, X., Li, G., Cheng, Y., Zhang, Q., Ding, A. and Su, H.: The Contribution of Black Carbon-Containing Particles to PM_2.5: Variability, Drivers, and Impacts, Environmental Science & Technology, 59, doi:10.1021/acs.est.5c00675, 2025.

Stolzenburg, D., Sarnela, N., Bianchi, F., Cai, J., Cai, R., Cheng, Y., Dada, L., Donahue, N. M., Grothe, H., Holm, S., Kerminen, V.-M., Lehtipalo, K., Petaja, T., Sulo, J., Winkler, P. M., Yan, C., Kangasluoma, J. and Kulmala, M.: Incomplete mass closure in atmospheric nanoparticle growth, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 8(1), doi:10.1038/s41612-025-00893-5, 2025.

Xue, C., Chen, H., McGillen, M. R., Su, H., Cheng, Y., Kleffmann, J., Li, G., Cazaunau, M., Colomb, A., Sciare, J., DeWitt, L., Marchand, N., Sarda-Esteve, R., Petit, J.-E. and Kukui, A.: Role of Heterogeneous Reactions in the Atmospheric Oxidizing Capacity in Island Environments, Environmental Science & Technology, 59, doi:10.1021/acs.est.4c11647, 2025.

Xu, Y., Ma, T., Duan, F., Wang, S., Jiang, J., Cheng, Y., Su, H., An, T., Ma, Y., Kimoto, T., Huang, T. and He, K.: Existence of hydroxymethanesulfonate (HMS) during spring haze and sandstorm events in Beijing: Implications for a heterogeneous formation pathway on mineral aerosols, Environmental Pollution, doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2024.125483, 2025.

Machado, L. A. T., Unfer, G. R., Brill, S., Hildmann, S., Pöhlker, C., Cheng, Y., Williams, J., Harder, H., Andreae, M. O., Artaxo, P., Curtius, J., Franco, M. A., Cecchini, M. A., Edtbauer, A., Hoffmann, T., Holanda, B., Khadir, T., Krejci, R., Kremper, L. A., Liu, Y., Meller, B. B., Pöhlker, M. L., Quesada, C. A., Ringsdorf, A., Riipinen, I., Trumbore, S., Wolff, S., Lelieveld, J. and Pöschl, U.: Frequent rainfall-induced new particle formation within the canopy in the Amazon rainforest, Nature Geoscience, 17, doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01585-0, 2024.

Ni, R., Su, H., Burnett, R. T., Guo, Y. and Cheng, Y.: Long-term exposure to PM_2.5 has significant adverse effects on childhood and adult asthma: A global meta-analysis and health impact assessment, One Earth, 7, doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2024.09.022, 2024.