Jane Liu
Jane Liu is a professor in the Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto. She received her PhD. in atmospheric science in the same university. Her research is focused on environmental issues relevant to our atmosphere, biosphere, and their interactions, taking advanced approaches in remote sensing, model simulations, field experiments, and statistical analysis. She has authored and co-authored over 160 papers in scientific journals including Science Advances, Nature Communications, and Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, with total citations over 10,000 and a H-index of 55 in 2025 (Google Scholar, 2025).
She serves as an Associate Editor for npj Climate and Atmospheric Science and a Specialty Chief Editor for Frontiers in Environmental Engineering. Please see her specific research interests on this website.
Publications
Meng, L., Liu, J., Tarasick, D. W., Randel, W. J., Steiner, A. K., Wilhelmsen, H., Wang, L., and Haimberger, L., Continuous rise of the tropopause in the Northern Hemisphere over 1980-2020, Science Advances, 7 (45), eabi8065, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abi8065, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abi8065, 2021.
Zang, Z., Liu, J., Tarasick, D., Moeini, O., Bian, J., Zhang, J., Thompson, A. M., Van Malderen, R., Smit, H. G. J., Stauffer, R. M., Johnson, B. J., and Kollonige, D. E., The improved Trajectory-mapped Ozonesonde dataset for the Stratosphere and Troposphere (TOST): update, validation and applications, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 24, 13889–13912, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-13889-2024, 2024.
Shen, L., Liu, J., Zhao, T., Xu, X., Han, H., Wang, H., Shu, Z., Atmospheric transport drives regional interactions of ozone pollution in China, Science of the Total Environment, 830, 154634, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154634, 2022.
Chen, J. M., and Liu, J., Evolution of evapotranspiration models based on thermal and shortwave remote sensing data, Remote Sensing of Environment, 237, 111594, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111594, 2020.
Liu, J. J., Jones, D. B., Worden, J. R., Noone, D., Parrington, M., and Kar, J., Analysis of the summertime buildup of tropospheric ozone abundances over the Middle East and North Africa as observed by the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer instrument, Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, D05304, http://doi:10.1029/2008JD010993, 2009.
People Type:
- Atmospheric environment (pollution transport and emission from fires, air quality and health implications, satellite monitoring, modeling)
- Tropospheric and stratospheric ozone
- Climate change
- Remote sensing of atmosphere and land
- Atmosphere-biosphere interactions (carbon, water, and energy cycles, land surface schemes, biogenic emissions)
- Ecological modeling
