Weili LIN
Position: PhD, Professor in Minzu University of China
E-Mail: linwl@muc.edu.cn
Website：https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0711-6378; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Weili-Lin-6
WOKING EXPERIENCE:
2017,10—now：Life and Environmental Sciences, Minzu University of China; Professor.
2011,04—2017,09: Meteorological Observation Centre, China Meteorological Administration; Professor.
2005,07 – 2011,03：Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences; Associate professor
2003,07 – 2005,06：Peking University; Postdoctoral researcher.
EDUCATION:
1997,09—2003,07：College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Peking University, PhD student.
1992,09—1997,07：College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering (CCME), Peking University, Undergraduate student.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
1. Cycles of reactive nitrogenous compounds and its impact on atmospheric oxidation.
2. Environmental changes and its influencing factors in ethnic areas, especially in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau region.
3. Field observation and trend analysis in atmospheric components (e.g. O3 and its precursors) and their related physical properties;
4. Miniaturized instrument development for vertical observation and health exposure.
TEACHING:
Undergraduate course:Air Pollution Control Engineering/Laboratory; Introduction to Chemistry and Environmental Studies (Air Pollution and Control); Scientific and Technical Literature Search and Writing
Postgraduate course: Air Pollution Control Technology; Frontiers in Environmental Science
RESEARCHING PROJECTS:
1. Commissioned project of National Space Science Centre of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ozone Sounder in Near Space, 2019/01- 2022/12.
2. National Natural Science Foundation of China (21876214), Study on the Status and Potential of Photochemical Pollution in Highland Cities in the Context of Changes in Energy Consumption, 2019/01-2022/12
3. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Major Research Programme "Basic Research on the Causes and Response Mechanisms of Atmospheric Complex Pollution in China" Key Support Project (91744206), Closed Observation and Modelling of Nitrogenous Compounds in the Context of Atmospheric Complex Pollution, 2018/01-2021/12.
4. Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Programme/Capital Blue Sky Action Cultivation Project (Z131100001113029), Research on the characteristics of three-dimensional distribution of ammonia and its contribution to the formation of fine particulate matter in Beijing, 2018/03-2021/01.
PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS:
1. Weili Lin, Feng Wang, Chunxiang Ye, Tong Zhu*, Preliminary observation of strong NOx release over Qiyi Glacier in the northeast of the Tibetan Plateau, Environmental Science: Atmospheres, 2024, DOI: 10.1039/D3EA00161J
2. Ziru Lan，Weili Lin*，Gang Zhao，Sources, Variations, and Effects on Air Quality of Atmospheric Ammonia, Current Pollution Reports, 10：40-53，https://doi.org/10.1007/s40726-023-00291-6，2024Weiwei Pu, Jiujiang Sheng, Ping Tian, Mengyu Huang, Xiangxue Liu, Jeffrey L. Collett Jrd, Ziming Li, Xiujuan Zhao, Di He, Fan Dong, Nannan Zhang, Weijun Quan, Yulu Qiu, Yu Song, Weili Lin, Yuepeng Pan, Zhiqiang Ma*, On-road mobile mapping of spatial variations and source contributions of ammonia in Beijing, China. Science of the Total Environment, 2023, 864,160869, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160869.
3. Jiyuan Yang, Guoyang Lei, Chang Liu, Yutong Wu, Kai Hu, Jinfeng Zhu, Junsong Bao, Weili Lin, and Jun Jin. Characteristics of particulate-bound n-alkanes indicating sources of PM2.5 in Beijing, China. ACPD, 2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-1053
4. Youfeng Wang, Jianshu Wang, Yaru Wang, Yingjie Zhang, Robert Woodward-Massey, Chong Zhang, Yu Kuang, Jiali Zhu, Jing Shang, Xin Li, Limin Zeng, Weili Lin, Chunxiang Ye, Experimental and kinetic model evaluation of HONO production from surface nitrate photolysis, Atmospheric Environment, 2022, 119568, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2022.119568.
5. Jinqiang ZHANG, Chunxiang YE, Yuejian XUAN, Zhixuan BAI, Weili LIN, Lingkun RAN, Baofeng JIAO, Yaoming MA, Weiqiang MA, Nan YAO, Daren LV, and Tong ZHU*, The Earth Summit Mission-2022：Successful ozone soundings contribute to source identification in the north Mt. Qomolangma region. Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2022, DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2022.11.022
6. Xiaoyi Zhang, Wanyun Xu*, Gen Zhang, Weili Lin, Huarong Zhao, Sanxue Ren, Guangsheng Zhou, Jianmin Chen, Xiaobin Xu*, First long-term surface ozone variations at an agricultural site in the North China Plain: Evolution under changing meteorology and emissions, Science of the Total Environment, 2022, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160520
7. Guo S, Wang Y, Zhang T, Ma Z, Ye C, Lin W*, Yang Zong DJ and Yang Zong BM. Volatile organic compounds in urban Lhasa: Variations, sources, and potential risks. Frontiers Environmental Science, 10:941100. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.941100, 2022.
8.Li Chaoqun, Ma Mingchen, Kou Wenbin, Zeng Xinran, Cheng Wenxuan, Wang Houwen, Zhang Jiankai, Wang Wuke, Lin Weili, Li Hong, Zhu Yuanyuan, Yao Xiaohong, Gao Huiwang and Gao Yang*. Substantial Near-Surface Spring Ozone Enhancement due to Stratospheric Intrusion in the Northeastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, China. Front. Environ. Sci., 10:894937. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.894937.
9.Zhang, Xiaoyi; Xu, Wanyun*; Zhang, Gen; Lin, Weili; Zhao, Huarong; Ren, Sanxue; Zhou, Guangsheng; Chen, Jianmin; Xu, Xiaobin*. Reversed ozone trends between urban and rural North China Plain and their agricultural impacts. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, January 2022; 10(1): 00019. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2022.00019
10.Chen Yi, Lin weili*, et al. Surface ozone at southeast Tibet: variations and implication of tropospheric ozone sink over highland. Environ. Chem., 2022, doi:10.1071/EN22015
11.Liu, X., Ran, L., Lin, W.*, Xu, X., Ma, Z., Dong, F., He, D., Zhou, L., Shi, Q., and Wang, Y.: Measurement report: Variations in surface SO2 and NOx mixing ratios from 2004 to 2016 at a background site in the North China Plain, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 7071–7085, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-7071-2022.
12.NAN Xuejing, LIN Weili*, HE Xiaolei, LEI Yong, ANDREA Merlone. PM10 observed at a meteorological station in Beijing: historic trend and implications. Journal of Tropical Meteorology, 2022, 28(2): 207-217, https://doi.org/10.46267/j.1006-8775.2022.016
13.Junhua Wang, Dawei Wang, Baozhu Ge, Weili Lin, Dongsheng Ji, Xiaole Pan, Jie Li, Zifa Wang, Increase in daytime ozone exposure due to nighttime accumulation in a typical city in eastern China during 2014–2020, Atmospheric Pollution Research, 2022, 101387, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.2022.101387.
14.Linlin Liang, Guenter Engling, Wanyun Xu, Qianli Ma, Weili Lin, Xuyan Liu, Chang Liu, Gen Zhang, Observational insights into the compound environmental effect for 2-methyltetrols formation under humid ambient conditions, Chemosphere, 289, 2022, 133153, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.133153.
15.Yin, Q., Ma, Q., Lin, W.*, Xu, X., and Yao, J.: Measurement report: Long-term variations in surface NOx and SO2 mixing ratios from 2006 to 2016 at a background site in the Yangtze River Delta region, China, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 1015–1033, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-1015-2022.
16.Xiaoyi Zhang, Weili Lin*, Zhiqiang Ma, and Xiaobin Xu. Indoor NH3 variation and its relationship with outdoor NH3 in urban Beijing. Indoor Air. 31(6): 2130-2141, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1111/ina.12907
17.Xu W, Zhang G, Wang Y, Tong S, Zhang W, Ma Z, Lin W, Kuang Y, Yin L, Xu X. Aerosol Promotes Peroxyacetyl Nitrate Formation During Winter in the North China Plain. Environ Sci Technol., 2021, 55(6): 3568-3581. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.0c08157.
18.Ziru Lan, Weili Lin*, Weiwei Pu, and Ziqiang Ma. Measurement report: Exploring the NH3 behaviours at urban and suburban Beijing: Comparison and implications. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 4561–4573, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-4561-2021.
19.Xin Wang, Chengzhang Wang, Jin Wu, Guofang Miao, Min Chen, Shuli Chen，Songhan Wang, Zhengfei Guo, Zhenhua Wang, Bin Wang, Jing Li, Yujin Zhao，Xiaolin Wu, Chuanfeng Zhao, Weili Lin, Yongguang Zhang, Lingli Liu*. Intermediate Aerosol Loading Enhances Photosynthetic Activity of Croplands, Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL091893. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091893 .
20.Yong Zhang, Jun-Li Jin, Peng Yan*, Jie Tang, Shuang-Xi Fang, Wei-Li Lin, Meng-Yun Lou, Miao Liang, Qing Zhou, Jun-Shan Jing, Ya-Nan Li, Xiao-Fang Jia, Shan-Shan LYU, Long-term variations of major atmospheric compositions observed at the background stations in three key areas of China, Advances in Climate Change Research, 11(4): 370-380, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accre.2020.11.005
21.Yijing Chen, Qianli Ma, Weili Lin*, Xiaobin Xu, Jie Yao, and Wei Gao. Measurement report: Long-term variations in carbon monoxide at a background station in China’s Yangtze River Delta region. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 15969–15982, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-15969-2020
22.Jing Xu, Xiaobin Xu, Weili Lin, Zhiqiang Ma, Jianzhong Ma, Rui Wang, Ying Wang, Gen Zhang, Wanyun Xu. Understanding the formation of high-ozone episodes at Raoyang, a rural site in the north China plain. Atmospheric Environment, 240 (2020) 117797, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2020.117797
23.Qiu, Y., Ma, Z.*, Li, K., Lin, W., Tang, Y., Dong, F., & Liao, H. (2020). Markedly enhanced levels of peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN) during COVID-19 in Beijing. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL089623. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089623
24.Weiwei Pu, Zhiqiang Ma*, Jeffery L. Collett Jr., Heng Guo, Weili Lin, Ying Cheng, Weijun Quan, Yingruo Li, Fan Dong, Di He. Regional transport and urban emissions are important ammonia contributors in Beijing, China. Environmental Pollution, 2020, 265, 115062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.11506
25.Xu, X., Lin, W., Xu, W., Jin, J., Wang, Y., Zhang, G., Zhang, X., Ma, Z., Dong, Y., Ma, Q., Yu, D., Li, Z., Wang, D. and Zhao, H., 2020. Long-term changes of regional ozone in China: implications for human health and ecosystem impacts. Elem Sci Anth, 8(1), p.13. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.409
26.Zhang, T., Lin, W.*, Ran, L., Ma, Z., Yao, Q., Liu, J. and Ming, J. (2020). Dual-height Distribution of Ozone and Nitrogen Oxides during Summer in Urban Tianjin: An Observational Study. Aerosol Air Qual. Res. 20: 2159–2169. https://doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.2019.10.0505
27.Zhang X, Chen Y, Qin Y, Lin W*. Change in SO42-, NO3- and NH4+ levels in PM2.5 in Beijing from 1999 to 2016. J Environ Sci Curr Res, 3: 018, DOI: 10.24966/ESCR-5020/100018, 2020
28.Yulu Qiu, Zhiqiang Ma*，Weili Lin，Weijun Quan, Weiwei Pu, Yingruo Li, Liyan Zhou, Qingfeng Shi. A study of peroxyacetyl nitrate at a rural site in Beijing based on continuous observations from 2015 to 2019 and the WRFChem model. Front. Environ. Sci. Eng., 2020, 14(4): 71, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11783-020-1250-0
29.Gen Zhang, Lingjun Xia, Kunpeng Zang, Wanyun Xu, Fang Zhang, Linlin Liang, Bo Yao, Weili Lin, YujingMu. The abundance and inter-relationship of atmospheric peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN), peroxypropionyl nitrate (PPN), O3, and NOy during the wintertime in Beijing, China. Science of the Total Environment, 718: 137388, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137388, 2020
30.Yangmei Zhang, Tuan Van Vu, Junying Sun, Jianjun He, Xiaojing Shen, Weili Lin, Xiaoye Zhang, Junting Zhong, Wenkang Gao, Yaqiang Wang, Tzung May Fu, Yaping Ma, Weijun Li, and Zongbo Shi. Significant Changes in Chemistry of Fine Particles in Wintertime Beijing from 2007 to 2017: Impact of Clean Air Actions. Environmental Science & Technology, 2020, 54(3): 1344-1352, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b04678
31.Dajiang Yu, Bo Yao⁎, Weili Lin, Martin K. Vollmer, Baozhu Ge, Gen Zhang, Yi Li, Honghui Xu, Simon O'Doherty, Liqu Chen, Stefan Reimann. Atmospheric CH3CCl3 observations in China: Historical trends and implications. Atmospheric Research, 231 (2020) 104658. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2019.104658.
32.Kuang, Y., Xu, W.*, Lin, W., Meng, Z., Zhao, H., Ren, S., Zhang, G., Liang, L., Xu, X., Explosive morning growth phenomena of NH3 on the North China Plain: Causes and potential impacts on aerosol formation, Environmental Pollution 257, 113621, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2019.113621.Ningwei Liu, Weili Lin⁎, Jianzhong Ma⁎, Wanyun Xu, Xiaobin Xu. Seasonal variation in surface ozone and its regional characteristics at global atmosphere watch stations in China. Journal of Environmental Sciences, 77: 291 – 302, 2019.
33.Zhiqiang Ma, Jing Xu, Weijun Quan, Ziyin Zhang, Weili Lin*, and Xiaobin Xu. Significant increase of surface ozone at a rural site, north of eastern China. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 3969–3977, 2016 www.atmos-chem-phys.net/16/3969/2016/doi:10.5194/acp-16-3969-2016.
34.W. L. Lin, X. B. Xu*, X. D. Zheng, Jaxi Dawa, Ciren Baima, J. Ma. Two-year measurements of surface ozone at Dangxiong, a remote highland site in the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Environmental Science, 31C: 133-145, 2015
35.Ma, J., Lin, W. L.*, Zheng, X. D., Xu, X. B., Li, Z., and Yang, L. L: Influence of air mass downward transport on the variability of surface ozone at Xianggelila Regional Atmosphere Background Station, southwest China, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 5311-5325, doi:10.5194/acp-14-5311-2014, 2014.
36.L. Ran, W. L. Lin*, P. C. Wang, Z. Z, Deng, Surface trace gases at a rural site between the megacities of Beijing and Tianjin. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 7(3): 230−235, 2014.
37.L. Ran, W. L. Lin*, Y. Z. Deji, B. La, P. M. Tsering, X. B. Xu, and W. Wang. Surface gas pollutants in Lhasa, a highland city of Tibet: current levels and pollution implications. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 10721-10730, doi:10.5194/acp-14-10721-2014, 2014.
38.Lin Weili, Xu Xiaobin*, Yu Xiaolan, Zhang Xiaochun, Huang Jianqing. Observed levels and trends of gaseous SO2 and HNO3 at Mt. Waliguan, China: results from 1997 to 2009. Journal of Environmental Science, 2013, 25(4): 726-734. DOI: 10.1016/S1001-0742(12)60143-0.
39.Lin Weili, Xu Xiaobin*, Ma Zhiqiang, Zhao Huarong, Liu Xiwen. Characteristics and recent trends of surface SO2 at urban, rural, and background sites in North China: effectiveness of control measures. Journal of Environmental Science, 24(1): 34–49, 2012.
40.Qi Huangxiong, Lin Weili*, Xu Xiaobin, Yu Xiangming, Ma Qianli. Significant downward trend of SO2 observed from 2005 to 2010 at a background station in the Yangtze Delta region, China. SCIENCE CHINA Chemistry, 55(7): 1451–1458, doi: 10.1007/s11426-012-4524-y, 2012.
41.Lin Weili*, Xu Xiaobin, Sun Junying, Liu Xiwen. Background concentrations of reactive gases and the impacts of long-range transport at the Jinsha regional atmospheric background station. SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences, 54(10): 1604-1613, DOI: 10.1007/s11430-011-4205-2, 2011.
42.Lin Weili, Xu Xiaobin*, Ge Baozhu, Liu Xiwen, Gaseous pollutants in Beijing urban area during the heating period 2007-2008: variability, sources, meteorological and chemical impacts, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11: 8157–8170, 2011.
43.Wang, F., W. Lin*, J. Wang, T. Zhu. NOx release from snow- and ice-covered surface in Polar Regions and the Tibetan Plateau. Adv. Clim. Change Res., 2(3): 141-148, 2011
44.Lin Weili*, Xu Xiaobin, Ge Baozhu, The characteristics of gaseous pollutants at Gucheng, a rural site southwest of Beijing, J. Geophys. Res., VOL.114, D00G14, doi: 10.1029/2008JD010339, 2009.
45.Lin W., T. Zhu*, Y. Song, H. Zou, M. Tang, X. Tang, and J. Hu, Photolysis of surface O3 and production potential of OH radicals in the atmosphere over the Tibetan Plateau, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D02309, doi:10.1029/2007JD008831, 2008.
46.Lin Weili *, Xiaobin Xu, Xiaoling Zhang, Jie Tang, Contributions of pollutants from North China Plain to surface ozone at the Shangdianzi GAW Station, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 8: 5889–5898, 2008.
47.Tong Zhu*, Weili Lin, Yu Song, Xuhui Cai, Han Zou, Ling Kang, Libo Zhou, and Hajime Akimoto, Downward transport of ozone-rich air near Mt. Everest. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L23809, doi:10.1029/2006GL027726, 2006.
