Qiong Zheng

Scientist - Acid Deposition Modelling

Current research and/or projects

Development of air quality models for the assessment of emission management approaches and forecasting

  • Development of sulphur and nitrogen species source-receptor matrices (SRMs) for North America using Lagrangian chemical transport models
  • Evaluation and comparison of air quality model predictions with measurements
  • Preparation of emission data sets for air quality models using the SMOKE emissions processing system

Professional activities / interests

Generated new sulphur-species SRMs for 1990 for 40 emission regions and 200 receptors; results contributed to Chapter 4 of 2004 Canada Acid Deposition Science Assessment

Developed and evaluated a new Lagrangian chemical transport model named LIAM (Lagrangian Inorganic Aerosol Model) to model sulphur, oxidized nitrogen, and reduced nitrogen concentration and deposition.

Evaluated 2002 quarterly and annual performance of AURAMS, a regional particulate-matter chemical transport model, using measurements from all available Canadian and U.S. air-chemistry and precipitation-chemistry monitoring networks

Investigated aqueous-chemistry solver for aqueous-phase chemistry mechanism

Education and awards

M.Sc. Atmospheric Physics, University of Toronto

M.Sc. Climatology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

B.Sc. Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Key publications

Moran, M.D., Q. Zheng and R. Pavlovic. 2008. Predicted acid deposition critical-load exceedances across Canada from a one-year simulation with a regional particulate-matter model. In proceedings of the 15th Joint AMS/A&WMA Conference on Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology. American Meteorological Society, Boston.

Moran, M.D., Q. Zheng and M. Samaalil. 2007. Comprehensive surface-based performance evaluation of a size- and composition-resolved regional particulate-matter model for a one-year simulation. In proceedings of the 29th NATO/CCMS International Technology Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and Its Application. Aveiro, Portugal.

Moran, M.D. and Q. Zheng. 2006. Modelling long-term sulphur and nitrogen deposition using Lagrangian chemical transport models. In proceedings of the 14th Joint AMS/A&WMA Conf. on Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology. American Meteorological Society, Boston.

Research facility

4905 Dufferin Street
Toronto, ON M3H 5T4
Canada