Zhen Qu

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Zhen Qu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhen Qu has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 32 papers in Atmospheric Science and 13 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Zhen Qu's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (33 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (27 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (23 papers). Zhen Qu is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (33 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (27 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (23 papers). Zhen Qu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Netherlands. Zhen Qu's co-authors include Daniel J. Jacob, Daven K. Henze, John R. Worden, Xiao Lu, Melissa P. Sulprizio, Yuzhong Zhang, Tia R. Scarpelli, Lu Shen, Joannes D. Maasakkers and Jun Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Zhen Qu

53 papers receiving 1.8k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Quantifying methane emissions from the global scale down to point sources using satellite observations of atmospheric methane

2022 186 citations Daniel J. Jacob, Daniel J. Varon et al. Atmospheric chemistry and physics profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	What can we learn about tropospheric OH from satellite observations of methane? 2025 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·(unknown), Daniel J. Jacob, Zichong Chen, (unknown), Melissa P. Sulprizio, Lori Bruhwiler, Joannes D. Maasakkers, Hannah Nesser, Zhen Qu, Yuzhong Zhang, John R. Worden	3
2	Assessing the relative impacts of satellite ozone and its precursor observations to improve global tropospheric ozone analysis using multiple chemical reanalysis systems 2025 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Takashi Sekiya, Emanuele Emili, Kazuyuki Miyazaki, Antje Inness, Zhen Qu, R. Bradley Pierce, Dylan T. Jones, H. M. Worden, William Y. Y. Cheng, Vincent Huijnen, Gerbrand Koren	1
3	High-resolution US methane emissions inferred from an inversion of 2019 TROPOMI satellite data: contributions from individual states, urban areas, and landfills 2024 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Hannah Nesser, Daniel J. Jacob, Joannes D. Maasakkers, Alba Lorente, Zichong Chen, Xiao Lu, Lu Shen, Zhen Qu, Melissa P. Sulprizio, (unknown), Shuang Ma, A. Anthony Bloom, John R. Worden, Robert N. Stavins, Cynthia A. Randles	32
4	Sensitivities of ozone to its precursors during heavy ozone pollution events in the Yangtze River Delta using the adjoint method 2024 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Yuhao Mao, (unknown), Hong Liao, Hansen Cao, Zhen Qu, Daven K. Henze	5
5	Verifying Methane Inventories and Trends With Atmospheric Methane Data 2023 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·John R. Worden, Sudhanshu Pandey, Yuzhong Zhang, Daniel Cusworth, Zhen Qu, A. Anthony Bloom, Shuang Ma, Joannes D. Maasakkers, Brendan Byrne, Riley Duren, David Crisp, Deborah Gordon, Daniel Jacob	9
6	Satellite quantification of methane emissions and oil–gas methane intensities from individual countries in the Middle East and North Africa: implications for climate action 2023 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Zichong Chen, Daniel J. Jacob, Ritesh Gautam, Mark Omara, Robert N. Stavins, Robert C. Stowe, Hannah Nesser, Melissa P. Sulprizio, Alba Lorente, Daniel J. Varon, Xiao Lu, Lu Shen, Zhen Qu, (unknown), Sarah Hancock	17
7	Methane emissions from China: a high-resolution inversion of TROPOMI satellite observations 2022 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Zichong Chen, Daniel J. Jacob, Hannah Nesser, Melissa P. Sulprizio, Alba Lorente, Daniel J. Varon, Xiao Lu, Lu Shen, Zhen Qu, (unknown), Xueying Yu	74
8	Integrated Methane Inversion (IMI 1.0): a user-friendly, cloud-based facility for inferring high-resolution methane emissions from TROPOMI satellite observations 2022 ·Geoscientific model development ·Daniel J. Varon, Daniel J. Jacob, Melissa P. Sulprizio, (unknown), William B. Downs, Lu Shen, (unknown), Hannah Nesser, Zhen Qu, (unknown), Zichong Chen, Xiao Lu, Alba Lorente, Ashutosh Tewari, Cynthia A. Randles	16
9	Satellite quantification of oil and natural gas methane emissions in the US and Canada including contributions from individual basins 2022 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Lu Shen, Ritesh Gautam, Mark Omara, Daniel Zavala‐Araiza, Joannes D. Maasakkers, Tia R. Scarpelli, Alba Lorente, David Lyon, Jian‐Xiong Sheng, Daniel J. Varon, Hannah Nesser, Zhen Qu, Xiao Lu, Melissa P. Sulprizio, Steven P. Hamburg, Daniel J. Jacob	52
10	Quantifying methane emissions from the global scale down to point sources using satellite observations of atmospheric methane breakdown → 2022 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Daniel J. Jacob, Daniel J. Varon, Daniel Cusworth, Philip E. Dennison, Christian Frankenberg, Ritesh Gautam, Luis Guanter, J. L. Kelley, Jason McKeever, Lesley Ott, Benjamin Poulter, Zhen Qu, Andrew K. Thorpe, John R. Worden, Riley Duren	186
11	The 2019 methane budget and uncertainties at 1° resolution and each country through Bayesian integration Of GOSAT total column methane data and a priori inventory estimates 2022 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·John R. Worden, Daniel Cusworth, Zhen Qu, Yi Yin, Yuzhong Zhang, A. Anthony Bloom, Shuang Ma, Brendan Byrne, Tia R. Scarpelli, Joannes D. Maasakkers, David Crisp, Riley Duren, Daniel J. Jacob	43
12	Tropospheric NO ₂ and O ₃ Response to COVID‐19 Lockdown Restrictions at the National and Urban Scales in Germany 2021 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·(unknown), Jia Chen, Zhen Qu, Xiao Bi, (unknown), Ankit Shekhar, Shrutilipi Bhattacharjee, Frank N. Keutsch	20
13	Attribution of the accelerating increase in atmospheric methane during 2010–2018 by inverse analysis of GOSAT observations 2021 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Yuzhong Zhang, Daniel J. Jacob, Xiao Lu, Joannes D. Maasakkers, Tia R. Scarpelli, Jian‐Xiong Sheng, Lu Shen, Zhen Qu, Melissa P. Sulprizio, Jinfeng Chang, A. Anthony Bloom, Shuang Ma, John R. Worden, Robert J. Parker, Hartmut Boesch	101
14	Attribution of the accelerating increase in atmospheric methane during 2010–2018 by inverse analysis of GOSAT observations 2021 ·Yuzhong Zhang, (unknown), Xiao Lu, Joannes D. Maasakkers, Tia R. Scarpelli, Jian‐Xiong Sheng, Lu Shen, Zhen Qu, Melissa P. Sulprizio, Jinfeng Chang, A. Anthony Bloom, Shuang Ma, John R. Worden, Robert J. Parker, Hartmut Boesch	1
15	Global distribution of methane emissions: a comparative inverse analysis of observations from the TROPOMI and GOSAT satellite instruments 2021 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Zhen Qu, Daniel J. Jacob, Lu Shen, Xiao Lu, Yuzhong Zhang, Tia R. Scarpelli, Hannah Nesser, Melissa P. Sulprizio, Joannes D. Maasakkers, A. Anthony Bloom, John R. Worden, Robert J. Parker, Alba Lorente	88
16	Global methane budget and trend, 2010–2017: complementarity of inverse analyses using in situ (GLOBALVIEWplus CH ₄ ObsPack) and satellite (GOSAT) observations 2021 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Xiao Lu, Daniel J. Jacob, Yuzhong Zhang, Joannes D. Maasakkers, Melissa P. Sulprizio, Lu Shen, Zhen Qu, Tia R. Scarpelli, Hannah Nesser, Robert M. Yantosca, Jian‐Xiong Sheng, A. E. Andrews, Robert J. Parker, Hartmut Boesch, A. Anthony Bloom, Shuang Ma	76
17	Updated Global Fuel Exploitation Inventory (GFEI) for methane emissions from the oil, gas, and coal sectors: evaluation with inversions of atmospheric methane observations 2021 ·Tia R. Scarpelli, Daniel Jacob, (unknown), Xiao Lu, Zhen Qu, Melissa P. Sulprizio, Yuzhong Zhang, (unknown), Deborah Gordon	3
18	Inverse modeling of SO ₂ and NO _x emissions over China using multisensor satellite data – Part 1: Formulation and sensitivity analysis 2020 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Yi Wang, Jun Wang, Xiaoguang Xu, Daven K. Henze, Zhen Qu, Kai Yang	22
19	Global methane budget and trend, 2010-2017: complementarity of inverse analyses using in situ (GLOBALVIEWplus CH 4 ObsPack) and satellite (GOSAT) observations 2020 ·Figshare ·Xiao Lu, Daniel J. Jacob, (unknown), Joannes D. Maasakkers, Melissa P. Sulprizio, Lu Shen, Zhen Qu, Tia R. Scarpelli, Hannah Nesser, Robert M. Yantosca, Jian‐Xiong Sheng, A. E. Andrews, (unknown), (unknown), A. Anthony Bloom, Shuang Ma	1
20	Monthly top‐down NO_x emissions for China (2005–2012): A hybrid inversion method and trend analysis 2017 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Zhen Qu, Daven K. Henze, Shannon L. Capps, Yi Wang, Xiaoguang Xu, Jun Wang, Martin Keller	73

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