9 results on '"Zeng, Zhaocheng"'
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2. Methane Emissions in Boreal Forest Fire Regions: Assessment of Five Biomass-Burning Emission Inventories Based on Carbon Sensing Satellites.
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Zhao, Siyan, Wang, Li, Shi, Yusheng, Zeng, Zhaocheng, Nath, Biswajit, and Niu, Zheng
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EMISSION inventories ,FOREST fires ,TAIGAS ,FOREST fire prevention & control ,BIOMASS burning ,WILDFIRE prevention ,ATMOSPHERIC methane - Abstract
Greenhouse gases such as CH
4 generated by forest fires have a significant impact on atmospheric methane concentrations and terrestrial vegetation methane budgets. Verification in conjunction with "top-down" satellite remote sensing observation has become a vital way to verify biomass-burning emission inventories and accurately assess greenhouse gases while looking into the limitations in reliability and quantification of existing "bottom-up" biomass-burning emission inventories. Therefore, we considered boreal forest fire regions as an example while combining five biomass-burning emission inventories and CH4 indicators of atmospheric concentration satellite observation data. By introducing numerical comparison, correlation analysis and trend consistency analysis methods, we explained the lag effect between emissions and atmospheric concentration changes and evaluated a more reliable emission inventory using time series similarity measurement methods. The results indicated that total methane emissions from five biomass-burning emission inventories differed by a factor of 2.9 in our study area, ranging from 2.02 to 5.84 Tg for methane. The time trends of the five inventories showed good consistency, with the Quick Fire Emissions Dataset version 2.5 (QFED2.5) having a higher correlation coefficient (above 0.8) with the other four datasets. By comparing the consistency between the inventories and satellite data, a lagging effect was found to be present between the changes in atmospheric concentration and gas emissions caused by forest fires on a seasonal scale. After eliminating lagging effects and combining time series similarity measures, the QFED2.5 (Euclidean distance = 0.14) was found to have the highest similarity to satellite data. In contrast, Global Fire Emissions Database version 4.1 with small fires (GFED4.1s) and Global Fire Assimilation System version 1.2 (GFAS1.2) had larger Euclidean distances of 0.52 and 0.4, respectively, which meant that they had lower similarity to satellite data. Therefore, QFED2.5 was found to be more reliable while having higher application accuracy compared to the other four datasets in our study area. This study further provided a better understanding of the key role of forest fire emissions in atmospheric CH4 concentrations and offered reference for selecting appropriate biomass burning emission inventory datasets for bottom-up inventory estimation studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2023
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3. Evaluating Anthropogenic CO 2 Bottom-Up Emission Inventories Using Satellite Observations from GOSAT and OCO-2.
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Zhang, Shaoqing, Lei, Liping, Sheng, Mengya, Song, Hao, Li, Luman, Guo, Kaiyuan, Ma, Caihong, Liu, Liangyun, and Zeng, Zhaocheng
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EMISSION inventories ,CARBON emissions ,MOLE fraction - Abstract
Anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO
2 ) emissions from bottom-up inventories have high uncertainties due to the usage of proxy data in creating these inventories. To evaluate bottom-up inventories, satellite observations of atmospheric CO2 with continuously improved accuracies have shown great potential. In this study, we evaluate the consistency and uncertainty of four gridded CO2 emission inventories, including CHRED, PKU, ODIAC, and EDGAR that have been commonly used to study emissions in China, using GOSAT and OCO-2 satellite observations of atmospheric column-averaged dry-air mole fraction of CO2 (XCO2 ). The evaluation is carried out using two data-driven approaches: (1) quantifying the correlations of the four inventories with XCO2 anomalies derived from the satellite observations; (2) comparing emission inventories with emissions predicted by a machine learning-based model that considers the nonlinearity between emissions and XCO2 . The model is trained using long-term datasets of XCO2 and emission inventories from 2010 to 2019. The result shows that the inconsistencies among these four emission inventories are significant, especially in areas of high emissions associated with large XCO2 values. In particular, EDGAR shows a larger difference to CHRED over super-emitting sources in China. The differences for ODIAC and EDGAR, when compared with the machine learning-based model, are higher in Asia than those in the USA and Europe. The predicted emissions in China are generally lower than the inventories, especially in megacities. The biases depend on the magnitude of inventory emissions with strong positive correlations with emissions (R2 is larger than 0.8). On the contrary, the predicted emissions in the USA are slightly higher than the inventories and the biases tend to be random (R2 is from 0.01 to 0.5). These results indicate that the uncertainties of gridded emission inventories of ODIAC and EDGAR are higher in Asian countries than those in European and the USA. This study demonstrates that the top-down approach using satellite observations could be applied to quantify the uncertainty of emission inventories and therefore improve the accuracy in spatially and temporally attributing national/regional totals inventories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2022
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4. Incorporating temporal variability to improve geostatistical analysis of satellite-observed CO2 in China
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Zeng, ZhaoCheng, Lei, LiPing, Guo, LiJie, Zhang, Li, and Zhang, Bing
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- 2013
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5. Generalized Canonical Transform method for radio occultation sounding with improved retrieval in the presence of horizontal gradients.
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Huang, Yunxia, Natraj, Vijay, Zeng, Zhaocheng, and Yung, Yuk L.
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RADIOS - Abstract
As a greenhouse gas with strong global warming potential, atmospheric methane (CH
4 ) emissions have attracted a great deal of attention. Remote sensing measurements can provide information about CH4 sources and emissions. However, accurate assessment of CH4 emissions is challenging due to the influence of aerosol scattering in the atmosphere. In this study, imaging spectroscopic measurements from the Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer-Next Generation (AVIRIS-NG) in the short-wave infrared are used to analyze the impact of aerosol scattering on CH4 retrievals. Using a numerically efficient two-stream-exact-single-scattering radiative transfer model, we also simulate AVIRIS-NG measurements for different scenarios and quantify the impact of aerosol scattering using two retrieval techniques - the traditional Matched Filter (MF) method and the Optimal Estimation (OE) method, which is a popular approach for trace gas retrievals. The results show that the MF method exhibits up to 50% lower fractional retrieval bias compared to the OE method at high CH4 concentrations (>100% enhancement over typical background values) and is suitable for detecting strong CH4 emissions, while the OE method is an optimal technique for diffuse sources (<50% enhancement), showing up to five times smaller fractional retrieval bias than the MF method. In addition, the impacts of aerosol scattering as a function of different parameters, such as surface albedo, CH4 concentration, aerosol optical depth, single scattering albedo and asymmetry parameter, are also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2020
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6. Regional uncertainty of GOSAT XCO2 retrievals in China: quantification and attribution.
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Bie, Nian, Lei, Liping, Zeng, ZhaoCheng, Cai, Bofeng, Yang, Shaoyuan, He, Zhonghua, Wu, Changjiang, and Nassar, Ray
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GREENHOUSE gases ,ALGORITHMS ,CARBON dioxide mitigation ,ATMOSPHERIC aerosols - Abstract
The regional uncertainty of the column-averaged dry air mole fraction of CO
2 (XCO2 ) retrieved using different algorithms from the Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT) and its attribution are still not well understood. This paper investigates the regional performance of XCO2 within a latitude band of 37-42° N segmented into 8 cells in a grid of 5° from west to east (80-120° E) in China, where typical land surface types and geographic conditions exist. The former includes desert, grassland and builtup areas mixed with cropland; and the latter includes anthropogenic emissions that change from small to large from west to east, including those from the megacity of Beijing. For these specific cells, we evaluate the regional uncertainty of GOSAT XCO2 retrievals by quantifying and attributing the consistency of XCO2 retrievals from four algorithms (ACOS, NIES, OCFP and SRFP) by intercomparison. These retrievals are then specifically compared with simulated XCO2 from the high-resolution nested model in East Asia of the Goddard Earth Observing System 3-D chemical transport model (GEOS-Chem). We also introduce the anthropogenic CO2 emissions data generated from the investigation of surface emitting point sources that was conducted by the Ministry of Environmental Protection of China to GEOS-Chem simulations of XCO2 over the Chinese mainland. The results indicate that (1) regionally, the four algorithms demonstrate smaller absolute biases of 0.7-1.1 ppm in eastern cells, which are covered by built-up areas mixed with cropland with intensive anthropogenic emissions, than those in the western desert cells (1.0-1.6 ppm) with a highbrightness surface from the pairwise comparison results of XCO2 retrievals. (2) Compared with XCO2 simulated by GEOS-Chem (GEOS-XCO2 ), the XCO2 values from ACOS and SRFP have better agreement, while values from OCFP are the least consistent with GEOS-XCO2 . (3) Viewing attributions of XCO2 in the spatio-temporal pattern, ACOS and SRFP demonstrate similar patterns, while OCFP is largely different from the others. In conclusion, the discrepancy in the four algorithms is the smallest in eastern cells in the study area, where the megacity of Beijing is located and where there are strong anthropogenic CO2 emissions, which implies that XCO2 from satellite observations could be reliably applied in the assessment of atmospheric CO2 enhancements induced by anthropogenic CO2 emissions. The large inconsistency among the four algorithms presented in western deserts which displays a high albedo and dust aerosols, moreover, demonstrates that further improvement is still necessary in such regions, even though many algorithms have endeavored to minimize the effects of aerosols scattering and surface albedo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2018
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7. Spatiotemporal Geostatistical Analysis and Global Mapping of CH 4 Columns from GOSAT Observations.
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Li, Luman, Lei, Liping, Song, Hao, Zeng, Zhaocheng, and He, Zhonghua
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GLOBAL analysis (Mathematics) ,EMISSION inventories ,MOLE fraction ,GEOLOGICAL statistics ,GREENHOUSE gases ,GLOBAL warming ,SOIL mapping - Abstract
Methane (CH
4 ) is one of the most important greenhouse gases causing the global warming effect. The mapping data of atmospheric CH4 concentrations in space and time can help us better to understand the characteristics and driving factors of CH4 variation as to support the actions of CH4 emission reduction for preventing the continuous increase of atmospheric CH4 concentrations. In this study, we applied a spatiotemporal geostatistical analysis and prediction to develop an approach to generate the mapping CH4 dataset (Mapping-XCH4 ) in 1° grid and three days globally using column averaged dry air mole fraction of CH4 (XCH4 ) data derived from observations of the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT) from April 2009 to April 2020. Cross-validation for the spatiotemporal geostatistical predictions showed better correlation coefficient of 0.97 and a mean absolute prediction error of 7.66 ppb. The standard deviation is 11.42 ppb when comparing the Mapping-XCH4 data with the ground measurements from the total carbon column observing network (TCCON). Moreover, we assessed the performance of this Mapping-XCH4 dataset by comparing with the XCH4 simulations from the CarbonTracker model and primarily investigating the variations of XCH4 from April 2009 to April 2020. The results showed that the mean annual increase in XCH4 was 7.5 ppb/yr derived from Mapping-XCH4, which was slightly greater than 7.3 ppb/yr from the ground observational network during the past 10 years from 2010. XCH4 is larger in South Asia and eastern China than in the other regions, which agrees with the XCH4 simulations. The Mapping-XCH4 shows a significant linear relationship and a correlation coefficient of determination (R2 ) of 0.66, with EDGAR emission inventories over Monsoon Asia. Moreover, we found that Mapping-XCH4 could detect the reduction of XCH4 in the period of lockdown from January to April 2020 in China, likely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In conclusion, we can apply GOSAT observations over a long period from 2009 to 2020 to generate a spatiotemporally continuous dataset globally using geostatistical analysis. This long-term Mpping-XCH4 dataset has great potential for understanding the spatiotemporal variations of CH4 concentrations induced by natural processes and anthropogenic emissions at a global and regional scale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2022
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8. An Assessment of Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions by Satellite-Based Observations in China.
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Yang, Shaoyuan, Lei, Liping, Zeng, Zhaocheng, He, Zhonghua, and Zhong, Hui
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CARBON dioxide mitigation ,CLIMATE change mitigation ,ARTIFICIAL neural networks ,REGRESSION analysis - Abstract
Carbon dioxide (CO
2 ) is the most important anthropogenic greenhouse gas and its concentration in atmosphere has been increasing rapidly due to the increase of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Quantifying anthropogenic CO2 emissions is essential to evaluate the measures for mitigating climate change. Satellite-based measurements of greenhouse gases greatly advance the way of monitoring atmospheric CO2 concentration. In this study, we propose an approach for estimating anthropogenic CO2 emissions by an artificial neural network using column-average dry air mole fraction of CO2 (XCO2 ) derived from observations of Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT) in China. First, we use annual XCO2 anomalies (dXCO2 ) derived from XCO2 and anthropogenic emission data during 2010–2014 as the training dataset to build a General Regression Neural Network (GRNN) model. Second, applying the built model to annual dXCO2 in 2015, we estimate the corresponding emission and verify them using ODIAC emission. As a results, the estimated emissions significantly demonstrate positive correlation with that of ODIAC CO2 emissions especially in the areas with high anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Our results indicate that XCO2 data from satellite observations can be applied in estimating anthropogenic CO2 emissions at regional scale by the machine learning. This developed method can estimate carbon emission inventory in a data-driven way. In particular, it is expected that the estimation accuracy can be further improved when combined with other data sources, related CO2 uptake and emissions, from satellite observations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2019
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9. Mucor indicus caused disseminated infection diagnosed by metagenomic next-generation sequencing in an acute myeloid leukemia patient: A case report.
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Shen M, Li Q, Zeng Z, Han D, and Luo X
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- Animals, Antifungal Agents therapeutic use, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Mucor genetics, Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute complications, Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute genetics, Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute drug therapy
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Background: Mucormycosis commonly occurs in immunosuppressed patients with hematological diseases, which can be life-threatening. However, many cases are often misdiagnosed due to lack of specific clinical manifestations. Additionally, the traditional blood culture or serological testing, with a high false-negative rate, is time-consuming. Thus, precise and timely diagnosis of infections is essential for the clinical care of infected patients., Case Presentation: We report a 29-year-old Chinese man with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) who developed febrile neutropenia after the first course of induction chemotherapy. He received empirical antibiotics, which did not relieve his symptoms. No pathogen was detected by traditional microbiologic assays, while Mucor indicus was identified by metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) in the blood specimen. Liposomal amphotericin B (LAmB) was used, resulting in the patient's temperature returning to normal. A few days later, abdominal computed tomography (CT) scan showed multiple liver abscesses; fluorescence staining, histopathology, and mNGS identified the causative agent- M. indicus. Posaconazole was combined with LAmB as long-term antifungal treatment. Finally, the patient received allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation successfully after controlled infection. During follow-up 1 year after transplantation, the number of liver abscesses was reduced to one and remained stable., Conclusion: This report described the first case of an AML patient diagnosed with culture-negative disseminated infections caused by M. indicus leading to rare hepatic manifestations using mNGS of peripheral blood and liver biopsy. LAmB combined with posaconazole was given in time, resulting in a favorable outcome. mNGS is a new method that assists in detecting the probable pathogen and increases the accuracy of identifying an etiology., Competing Interests: Authors QL and DH are employed by Genskey Medical Technology Co., Ltd. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest., (Copyright © 2023 Shen, Li, Zeng, Han and Luo.)
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- 2023
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