Jane Liu

Professor
Sidney Smith Hall, Room 5012
(416) 946-5389

Fields of Study

Areas of Interest

  • 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

Biography

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. She is interested in investigating environmental issues relevant to our atmosphere, biosphere, and/or interactions between them using advanced approaches in remote sensing, model simulations, field experiments, and data analysis. She has authored and co-authored over 120 papers in scientific journals including Science Advances, Nature Communications, and Science of the Total Environment. Her H-index is 44 (Google Scholar, 2022). She welcomes highly self-motivated PhD and MSc. students with one or more backgrounds in geography, atmospheric science, environmental science, engineering, physics, mathematics, and other related disciplines. Please see her research interests in 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. 

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.* and Cui, S. Meteorological influences on seasonal variation of fine particulate matter in cities over Ontario, Advances in Meteorology, doi:10.1155/2014/169476, 2014. 

Liu, J.*, Tarasick, D. W., Fioletov, V. E., McLinden, C., Zhao, T., Gong, S., Sioris, C., Jin, J. J., Liu, G., and Moeini, O., A global ozone climatology from ozone soundings via trajectory mapping: a stratospheric perspective, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 13, 11441-11464, doi:10.5194/acp-13-11441-2013, 2013. 

Education

PhD, University of Toronto