18. Kelp, M., M. Carroll, T. Liu, R. M. Yantosca, H.E. Hockenberry, and L.J. Mickley (in press). Prescribed burns as a tool to mitigate future wildfire smoke exposures: Lessons for states and environmental justice communities. Earth's Future.
17. Crowley, M.A., C.A. Stockdale, J.M. Johnston, M.A. Wulder, T. Liu, J.L. McCarty, J.T. Rieb, J.A. Cardille, and J.C. White (2023). Towards a whole-system framework for wildfire monitoring using Earth observations. Glob. Chang. Biol., 29, 1423-1436.
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16567
16. Liu, T., L.J. Mickley, P.N. Patel, R. Gautam, M. Jain, S. Singh, Balwinder-Singh, R.S. DeFries, and M.E. Marlier (2022). Cascading delays in the monsoon rice growing season and post-monsoon agricultural fires likely exacerbate air pollution in north India. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 127, e2022JD036790.
DOI: 10.1029/2022JD036790
[Press Release: Harvard SEAS]
15. Lan, R., S.D. Eastham, T. Liu, L.K. Norford, and S.R.H. Barrett (2022). Air quality impacts of crop residue burning in India and mitigation alternatives. Nat. Commun., 13, 6537.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34093-z
14. Kommula, S., U. Panda, A. Sharma, S.S. Raj, E. Reyes Villegas, T. Liu, J. Allan, C. Jose, M. Phölker, R. Raghunathan, P. Liu, H. Su, S. Martin, U. Pöschl, G. McFiggans, H. Coe, and S. Gunthe (2021). Chemical characterization and source apportionment of organic aerosols in the coastal city of Chennai, India: Impact of marine air masses on aerosol chemical composition and potential for SOA formation. ACS Earth and Space Chem., 5(11), 3197–3209.
DOI: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.1c00276
13. Zhou, X., K. Josey, L. Kamareddine, M.C. Caine, T. Liu, L. Mickley, M. Cooper, and F. Dominici (2021). Excess of COVID-19 cases and deaths due to fine particulate matter exposure during the 2020 wildfires in the United States. Sci. Adv., 7(33), eabi8789.
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abi8789
[Press Release: Harvard SEAS, Harvard School of Public Health]
12. Liu, T., L.J. Mickley, and J.L. McCarty (2021). Global search for temporal shifts in fire activity: potential human influence on southwest Russia and north Australia fire seasons. Environ. Res. Lett., 16, 044023.
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abe328
11. Liu, T. and M.A. Crowley (2021). Detection and impacts of tiling artifacts in MODIS burned area classification. IOP SciNotes, 2, 014003.
DOI: 10.1088/2633-1357/abd8e2
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10. Gunthe, S.S., P. Liu, U. Panda, S.S. Raj, A. Sharma, E. Derbyshire, E. Reyes-Villegas, J. Allan, Y. Chen, X. Wang, S. Song, M.L. Pöhker, L. Shi, Y. Wang, S.M. Kommula, T. Liu, R. Ravikrishna, G. McFiggans, L.J. Mickley, S.T. Martin, U. Pöschl, M.O. Andreae, and H Coe (2021). Enhanced aerosol particle growth sustained by high continental chlorine emission in India. Nat. Geosci., 14, 77-84.
DOI: 10.1038/s41561-020-00677-x
[Media Coverage: Nature Research Chemistry Community, Nature Geoscience News & Views, Chemistry World]
9. Liu, T., L.J. Mickley, R. Gautam, M.K. Singh, R.S. DeFries, and M.E. Marlier (2021). Detection of delay in post-monsoon agricultural burning across Punjab, India: potential drivers and consequences for air quality. Environ. Res. Lett., 16, 014014.
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abcc28
8. Liu, T., L.J. Mickley, S. Singh, M. Jain, R.S. DeFries, and M.E. Marlier (2020). Crop residue burning practices across north India inferred from household survey data: bridging gaps in satellite observations. Atmos. Environ. X, 8, 100091.
DOI: 10.1016/j.aeaoa.2020.100091
[Harvard Dataverse: ]
7. Liu, T., L.J. Mickley, M.E. Marlier, R.S. DeFries, M.F. Khan, M.T. Latif, and A. Karambelas (2020). Diagnosing spatial biases and uncertainties in global fire emissions inventories: Indonesia as regional case study. Remote Sens. Environ., 237, 111557.
* on "Remote Sensing of Land Change Science with Google Earth Engine"
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2019.111557
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6. Marlier, M.E., T. Liu, K. Yu, J.J. Buonocore, S.N. Koplitz, R.S. DeFries, L.J. Mickley, D.J. Jacob, J. Schwartz, B.S. Wardhana, and S.S. Myers (2019). Fires, Smoke Exposure, and Public Health: An Integrative Framework to Maximize Health Benefits from Peatland Restoration. GeoHealth, 3, 178-189.
DOI: 10.1029/2019GH000191
[, , , Media Coverage: The Conversation Indonesia, @googleearth Medium, CNN, ... ]
5. Liu, T., M.E. Marlier, A. Karambelas, M. Jain, S. Singh, M.K. Singh, R. Gautam, and R.S. DeFries (2019). Missing emissions from post-monsoon agricultural fires in northwestern India: regional limitations of MODIS burned area and active fire products. Environ. Res. Commun., 1, 011007.
* Highlighted for on Dec. 23, 2019
DOI: 10.1088/2515-7620/ab056c
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4. Liu, T., R.W. Schmitt, and L. Li (2018). Global search for autumn-lead sea surface salinity predictors of winter precipitation in southwestern United States. Geophys. Res. Lett., 45(16), 8445-8454.
DOI: 10.1029/2018GL079293
3. Cusworth, D.H., L.J. Mickley, M.P. Sulprizio, T. Liu, M.E. Marlier, R.S. DeFries, S.K. Guttikunda, and P. Gupta (2018). Quantifying the influence of agricultural fires in northwest India on urban air pollution in Delhi, India. Environ. Res. Lett., 13(4), 044018.
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aab303
[Media Coverage: IndiaSpend, The Economic Times of India, Phys.org]
2. Liu, T., M.E. Marlier, R.S. DeFries, D.M. Westervelt, K.R. Xia, A.M. Fiore, L.J. Mickley, D.H. Cusworth, and G. Milly (2018). Seasonal impact of regional outdoor biomass burning on air pollution in three Indian cities: Delhi, Bengaluru, and Pune. Atmos. Environ., 173, 83-92.
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.10.024
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1. Koplitz, S.N., L.J. Mickley, M.E. Marlier, J.J. Buonocore, P.S. Kim, T. Liu, M.P. Sulprizio, R.S. DeFries, D.J. Jacob, J. Schwartz, and S.S. Myers (2016). Public health impacts of the severe haze in Equatorial Asia in September-October 2015: Demonstration of a new framework for informing fire management strategies to reduce downwind smoke exposure. Environ. Res. Lett., 11(9), 094023.
* 2016 ERL Research Highlights
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/9/094023
[Media Coverage: NY Times, The Guardian]
19. Gautam, R., P.N. Patel, M.K. Singh, T. Liu, L.J. Mickley, H. Jethva, and R.S. DeFries. Extreme smog challenge of northern India intensified by increasing lower tropospheric stability. (in review at Geophys. Res. Lett.)
EarthArXiv: 10.31223/X5X049
20. Singh, A. S.S. Raj, U. Panda, S.M. Kommula, C. Jose, T. Liu, S. Huang, B. Swain, M.L. Pöhlker, E. Reyes-Villegas, N. Ojha, A. Vaishya, A. Bigi, R. Ravikrishna, Q. Zhu, L. Shi, J. Allen, S.T. Martin, G. McFiggans, M.O. Andreae, Ulrich Pöschl, Hugh Coe, F. Bianchi, H. Su, V. P. Kanawade, P. Liu, and S.S. Gunthe. Rapid growth and high cloud forming potential of anthropogenic sulfate aerosol during the Covid lockdown in India: Changes in the production and properties of cloud con-densation nuclei (CCN) during heavily polluted compared to relatively cleaner conditions. (in revision)
ESSOAr: 10.1002/essoar.10512121.1
21. Dang, R., D.J. Jacob, V. Shah, S.D. Eastham, T.M. Fritz, L.J. Mickley, T. Liu, Y. Wang, and J. Wang. Background nitrogen dioxide (NO2) over the United States and its implications for satellite observations and trends: effects of nitrate photolysis, aircraft, and open fires. (in review at Atmos. Chem. Phys.)
EGUSphere: 10.5194/egusphere-2022-1198
22. Kelp, M., T. Fargiano, S. Lin, T. Liu, J.R. Turner, J. N. Kutz, and L.J. Mickley. Data-driven placement of PM2.5 air quality sensors in the United States: an approach to target urban environmental injustice. (in review at GeoHealth)
Book Chapters
1. Liu, T., and M.A. Crowley. "A3.1: Active Fire Monitoring" Cloud-based Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine: Fundamentals and Applications (website)
Popular Writing
5. Liu, T., illust. by C. Ding. "A Bird's-Eye View of Earth: Petabytes of Satellite Data at Our Fingertips" (April 14, 2020). Science in the News. (article)
4. Liu, T., illust. by E. Fivenson. "Living in a world of extreme droughts, floods, and storms" (September 27, 2019). Science in the News. (article)
3. Liu, T., M.E. Marlier, J.J. Buonocore, L.J. Mickley, and R.S. DeFries. "We Built an App to Detect Areas Most Vulnerable to Life-Threatening Haze" (September 9, 2019). The Conversation Indonesia. (article)
2. Liu, T., illust. by C. Huang. "It's Time to Value Disappearing Wetlands" (Spring 2016 issue). Columbia Science Review. (issue)
1. Liu, T. "Finding Serenity Through Research” (July 15, 2015). Columbia to the Core, Columbia College, Columbia University. (article)
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