Dan Tong
Biographic Data
| ID | 6820261 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dan Tong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dan |
| FAMILY NAME | Tong |
| SIGNATURE | TONG D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tsinghua University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3787-0707 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Early-career researchers reflect on influential papers
Decarbonizing road transport through usage-sensitive impact assessment: Lifecycle emissions and costs across driving demands
Trade risks to energy security in net-zero emissions energy scenarios
Energy and Health: Global Climate Policy and the Future of Air Quality Co-Benefits in LMICs
Material price surges threaten an equitable and timely renewable energy transition
Cost-competitive plant-by-plant strategy for spatially resolved CCUS deployment toward carbon neutrality in global key industries
China’s carbon-neutral policies will reduce short-term PM2.5-associated excess incidence of cardiovascular diseases
China's carbon-neutral target could have benefits for ambient fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 )-associated mortality. Although previous studies have researched such benefits, the potential impact on cardiovascular disease incidence burden is yet to be investigated thoroughly. Here, we first estimate the association between short-term PM 2.5 exposure and the incidence of stroke and coronary heart disease (CHD) via a case-crossover study before pro…
Co-benefits of transport demand reductions from compact urban development in Chinese cities
A synergistic approach to air pollution control and carbon neutrality in China can avoid millions of premature deaths annually by 2060
China has made significant progress in alleviating air pollution since 2013, but the annual mean fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentration remains six times higher than current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. Since greenhouse gases and air pollutants are often co-emitted, a synergistic approach to climate mitigation and clean air action may deliver considerable health benefits. However, the extent of such benefits and how they var…
A striking growth of CO 2 emissions from the global cement industry driven by new facilities in emerging countries
Global industrialization and urbanization processes enabled a diverse cement production boom over the past three decades, as cement is the most important building construction material. Consequently, the cement industry is the second-largest industrial CO 2 emitter (∼25% of global industrial CO 2 emissions) globally. In this study, the Global Cement Emission Database, which encompasses anthropogenic CO 2 emissions of individual production units w…
Improved spatial representation of a highly resolved emission inventory in China: Evidence from TROPOMI measurements
Emissions in many sources are estimated in municipal district totals and spatially disaggregated onto grid cells using empirically selected spatial proxies such as population density, which might introduce biases, especially in fine spatial scale. Efforts have been made to improve the spatial representation of emission inventory, by incorporating comprehensive point source database (e.g. power plants, industrial facilities) in emission estimates.…
Evaporation process dominates vehicular NMVOC emissions in China with enlarged contribution from 1990 to 2016
Non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOC) are important precursors of ozone and secondary organic aerosols in PM 2.5 (particulate matter with aerodynamic diameters smaller than 2.5 μ m), both of which cause severe climate, ecosystem, and human health damages. As one of the major anthropogenic sources, onroad vehicles are subject to relatively large errors and uncertainties in the estimation of NMVOC emissions due to complicated methods and p…
Climate effects of China’s efforts to improve its air quality
Facing severe air pollution issues, China has implemented a series of clean air policies aimed to improve the country’s air quality. These policies largely focused on reducing emissions of major air pollutants such as sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) and primary aerosols. However, changes in such pollution also affect radiative forcing. To understand the climate consequences of these clean air actions in China, we evaluate the near-equilibrium climate resp…
Early retirement of power plants in climate mitigation scenarios
International efforts to avoid dangerous climate change aim for large and rapid reductions of fossil fuel CO 2 emissions worldwide, including nearly complete decarbonization of the electric power sector. However, achieving such rapid reductions may depend on early retirement of coal- and natural gas-fired power plants. Here, we analyze future fossil fuel electricity demand in 171 energy-emissions scenarios from Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs)…
Drivers of improved PM 2.5 air quality in China from 2013 to 2017
From 2013 to 2017, with the implementation of the toughest-ever clean air policy in China, significant declines in fine particle (PM 2.5 ) concentrations occurred nationwide. Here we estimate the drivers of the improved PM 2.5 air quality and the associated health benefits in China from 2013 to 2017 based on a measure-specific integrated evaluation approach, which combines a bottom-up emission inventory, a chemical transport model, and epidemiolo…
Committed emissions from existing energy infrastructure jeopardize 1.5 °C climate target
Air quality and health benefits of China’s emission control policies on coal-fired power plants during 2005–2020
Coal-fired power plants (CPPs) dominate China’s energy supply systems. Over the past two decades, the explosive growth of CPPs has led to negative air quality and health impacts in China, and a series of control policies have been implemented to alleviate those impacts. In this work, by combining a CPPs emission database over China (CPED), a regional chemical transport model (WRF-CMAQ), and the integrated exposure-response model, we summarized hi…
Flexibility and intensity of global water use
Trends in China's anthropogenic emissions since 2010 as the consequence of clean air actions
To tackle the problem of severe air pollution, China has implemented active clean air policies in recent years. As a consequence, the emissions of major air pollutants have decreased and the air quality has substantially improved. Here, we quantified China's anthropogenic emission trends from 2010 to 2017 and identified the major driving forces of these trends by using a combination of bottom-up emission inventory and index decomposition analysis…
Targeted emission reductions from global super-polluting power plant units
Transboundary health impacts of transported global air pollution and international trade
Air quality improvements and health benefits from China’s clean air action since 2013
Aggressive emission control measures were taken by the Chinese government after the promulgation of the ‘Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan’ in 2013. Here we evaluated the air quality and health benefits associated with this stringent policy during 2013–2015 by using surface PM _2.5 concentrations estimated from a three-stage data fusion model and cause-specific integrated exposure–response functions. The population-weighted annual …
Recent reduction in NO x emissions over China: Synthesis of satellite observations and emission inventories
Tropospheric nitrogen dioxide (NO _2 ) column densities detected from space are widely used to infer trends in terrestrial nitrogen oxide (NO _x ) emissions. We study changes in NO _2 column densities using the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) over China from 2005 to 2015 and compare them with the bottom-up inventory to examine NO _x emission trends and their driving forces. From OMI measurements we detect the peak of NO _2 column densities at a…
Recent reduction in NO x emissions over China: Synthesis of satellite observations and emission inventories
Tropospheric nitrogen dioxide (NO _2 ) column densities detected from space are widely used to infer trends in terrestrial nitrogen oxide (NO _x ) emissions. We study changes in NO _2 column densities using the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) over China from 2005 to 2015 and compare them with the bottom-up inventory to examine NO _x emission trends and their driving forces. From OMI measurements we detect the peak of NO _2 column densities at a…
Transboundary health impacts of transported global air pollution and international trade
Air quality improvements and health benefits from China’s clean air action since 2013
Aggressive emission control measures were taken by the Chinese government after the promulgation of the ‘Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan’ in 2013. Here we evaluated the air quality and health benefits associated with this stringent policy during 2013–2015 by using surface PM _2.5 concentrations estimated from a three-stage data fusion model and cause-specific integrated exposure–response functions. The population-weighted annual …
Trends in China's anthropogenic emissions since 2010 as the consequence of clean air actions
To tackle the problem of severe air pollution, China has implemented active clean air policies in recent years. As a consequence, the emissions of major air pollutants have decreased and the air quality has substantially improved. Here, we quantified China's anthropogenic emission trends from 2010 to 2017 and identified the major driving forces of these trends by using a combination of bottom-up emission inventory and index decomposition analysis…
Targeted emission reductions from global super-polluting power plant units
Drivers of improved PM 2.5 air quality in China from 2013 to 2017
From 2013 to 2017, with the implementation of the toughest-ever clean air policy in China, significant declines in fine particle (PM 2.5 ) concentrations occurred nationwide. Here we estimate the drivers of the improved PM 2.5 air quality and the associated health benefits in China from 2013 to 2017 based on a measure-specific integrated evaluation approach, which combines a bottom-up emission inventory, a chemical transport model, and epidemiolo…
Committed emissions from existing energy infrastructure jeopardize 1.5 °C climate target
Air quality and health benefits of China’s emission control policies on coal-fired power plants during 2005–2020
Coal-fired power plants (CPPs) dominate China’s energy supply systems. Over the past two decades, the explosive growth of CPPs has led to negative air quality and health impacts in China, and a series of control policies have been implemented to alleviate those impacts. In this work, by combining a CPPs emission database over China (CPED), a regional chemical transport model (WRF-CMAQ), and the integrated exposure-response model, we summarized hi…
Flexibility and intensity of global water use
Climate effects of China’s efforts to improve its air quality
Facing severe air pollution issues, China has implemented a series of clean air policies aimed to improve the country’s air quality. These policies largely focused on reducing emissions of major air pollutants such as sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) and primary aerosols. However, changes in such pollution also affect radiative forcing. To understand the climate consequences of these clean air actions in China, we evaluate the near-equilibrium climate resp…
Early retirement of power plants in climate mitigation scenarios
International efforts to avoid dangerous climate change aim for large and rapid reductions of fossil fuel CO 2 emissions worldwide, including nearly complete decarbonization of the electric power sector. However, achieving such rapid reductions may depend on early retirement of coal- and natural gas-fired power plants. Here, we analyze future fossil fuel electricity demand in 171 energy-emissions scenarios from Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs)…
Improved spatial representation of a highly resolved emission inventory in China: Evidence from TROPOMI measurements
Emissions in many sources are estimated in municipal district totals and spatially disaggregated onto grid cells using empirically selected spatial proxies such as population density, which might introduce biases, especially in fine spatial scale. Efforts have been made to improve the spatial representation of emission inventory, by incorporating comprehensive point source database (e.g. power plants, industrial facilities) in emission estimates.…
Evaporation process dominates vehicular NMVOC emissions in China with enlarged contribution from 1990 to 2016
Non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOC) are important precursors of ozone and secondary organic aerosols in PM 2.5 (particulate matter with aerodynamic diameters smaller than 2.5 μ m), both of which cause severe climate, ecosystem, and human health damages. As one of the major anthropogenic sources, onroad vehicles are subject to relatively large errors and uncertainties in the estimation of NMVOC emissions due to complicated methods and p…
A striking growth of CO 2 emissions from the global cement industry driven by new facilities in emerging countries
Global industrialization and urbanization processes enabled a diverse cement production boom over the past three decades, as cement is the most important building construction material. Consequently, the cement industry is the second-largest industrial CO 2 emitter (∼25% of global industrial CO 2 emissions) globally. In this study, the Global Cement Emission Database, which encompasses anthropogenic CO 2 emissions of individual production units w…
A synergistic approach to air pollution control and carbon neutrality in China can avoid millions of premature deaths annually by 2060
China has made significant progress in alleviating air pollution since 2013, but the annual mean fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentration remains six times higher than current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. Since greenhouse gases and air pollutants are often co-emitted, a synergistic approach to climate mitigation and clean air action may deliver considerable health benefits. However, the extent of such benefits and how they var…
China’s carbon-neutral policies will reduce short-term PM2.5-associated excess incidence of cardiovascular diseases
China's carbon-neutral target could have benefits for ambient fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 )-associated mortality. Although previous studies have researched such benefits, the potential impact on cardiovascular disease incidence burden is yet to be investigated thoroughly. Here, we first estimate the association between short-term PM 2.5 exposure and the incidence of stroke and coronary heart disease (CHD) via a case-crossover study before pro…
Co-benefits of transport demand reductions from compact urban development in Chinese cities
Trade risks to energy security in net-zero emissions energy scenarios
Energy and Health: Global Climate Policy and the Future of Air Quality Co-Benefits in LMICs
Material price surges threaten an equitable and timely renewable energy transition
Cost-competitive plant-by-plant strategy for spatially resolved CCUS deployment toward carbon neutrality in global key industries
Early-career researchers reflect on influential papers
Decarbonizing road transport through usage-sensitive impact assessment: Lifecycle emissions and costs across driving demands
Environmental Science (19 works) · Economics (14 works) · Air Quality and Health Impacts (13 works) · Geography (13 works) · Natural resource economics (12 works) · China (11 works) · Air quality index (10 works) · Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (9 works) · Meteorology (9 works) · Air pollution (8 works)