RESEARCH INTERESTS

Biogenic volatile organic compounds; air quality; climate change

BACKGROUND

Postdoc in INRAE ECOSYS, France. 12/2022-present.

Visiting research in University of California (Irvine), USA. 06/2022- 09/2022.

PhD in Atmospheric Science, Faculty of Geoscience, University of Helsinki, Finland. 01/2019-05/2022.

MS in Physical Geography, Faculty of Geoscience, Beijing Normal University, China. 09/2015–06/2018.

BA in Geography, Faculty of Geoscience, Capital Normal University, China. 09/2011–06/2015.

SKILLS

Python, MEGAN

Language: Chinese, English

PUBLICATIONS

Yang LIU, Simon Schallhart, Ditte Taipale, Toni Tykkä, Matti Räsänen, Lutz Merbold, Heidi Héllen, Petri Pellikka: Seasonal and diurnal variations in biogenic volatile organic compounds in highland and lowland ecosystems in southern Kenya, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21, 14761–14787, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-14761-2021, 2021.

Yang LIU, Simon Schallhart, Toni Tykkä, Matti Räsänen, Lutz Merbold, Heidi Hellén, Petri Pellikka: Biogenic volatile organic compounds in different ecosystems in Southern Kenya, Atmospheric Environment, 246, 118064, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2020.118064, 2021.

Yang LIU, Zhipeng Tang, Temesgen Abera, Xuezhen Zhang, Hannele Hakola, Petri Pellikka, Eduardo Maeda: Spatio-temporal distribution and source partitioning of formaldehyde over Ethiopia and Kenya, Atmospheric Environment, 237, 117706, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2020.117706, 2020.

Yang LIU, Pellikka Petri, Li Hansunbai, Fang Xiuqi: Detection of the dispersion and residence of volcanic SO₂ and sulfate aerosol from Nabro in 2011. Atmospheric Environment, 197, 36-44, 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2018.10.022, 2019.

Yang LIU, Mingqing Zhang, Xiuqi Fang. Extreme phenophase delays and their relationship with natural forcings in Beijing over the past 260 years. International Journal of Biometeorology. 62,1229-1239, doi: 10.1007/s00484-018-1528-0, 2018.  

Yang LIU, Xiuqi Fang: Reconstruction of spring phenology and temperature in Beijing, China, from A.D. 1741 to 1832, International Journal of Climatology, 37, 5080-5088, https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.5145, 2017.

Yanjun Wen, Xiuqi Fang, Yang LIU, Yikai Li: Rising grain prices in response to phased climatic change during 1736–1850 in the North China Plain. Science China Earth Science, 62, 1-13, DOI: 10.1007/s11430-018-9431-y, 2019.

Ivo Neefjes, Mikko Laapas, Yang LIU, Erika Toivonen, Elina Miettunen, Lauri Ahonen, Lauriane Quéléver, Juho Aalto, Jaana Bäck, Veli-Matti Kerminen, Janne Lampilahti, Krista Luoma, Mari Mäki, Ivan Mammarella, Tuukka Petäjä, Meri Räty, Nina Sarnela, Ilona Ylivinkka, Simo Hakala, Markku Kulmala, Tuomo Nieminen, and Anna Lintunen: 25 years of atmospheric and ecosystem measurements in a boreal forest - Seasonal variation and responses to warm and dry years. Boreal Research Environment, 2022.

ACTIVITIES

‘Mixing ratios of biogenic volatile organic compounds in highland and lowland ecosystems in Kenya’, AGU Fall Meeting 2021, 2021 (Online Poster).

‘Biogenic VOC mixing ratios from dif erent ecosystems in southern Kenya’, Taita Research Station 10-year anniversary seminar, Finland, 2021 (Oral).

‘Observation on biogenic-VOCs from dif erent ecosystems in Taita, Kenya’, TAITA SMART GIS seminar, Finland, 2019 (Oral).

‘Reconstruction of spring phenology and analysis of extreme phenophase delays with natural forces, between AD 1741 and AD 2000, in Beijing, China’, 2nd CRIAS Workshop: Integrating Documentary Evidence into Climate Reconstruction and Impact Studies, Leipzig, Germany, 2019 (Oral). ‘Sources partitioning and spatio-temporal distribution of Formaldehyde over Ethiopia and Kenya’, AGU Fall Meeting 2019, San Francisco, USA, 2019 (Poster).

BVOC measurements in Taita Taveta County, Kenya, April, 2019.