WeiMin M. Hao, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Kirk R. Baker, Sang Don Lee, Paul Lemieux, Scott Hudson, Benjamin N. Murphy, Jesse O. Bash, Shannon N. Koplitz, Thien Khoi V Nguyen, WeiMin M. Hao, Stephen Baker, Emily N. Lincoln. 2021. Predicting wildfire particulate matter and hypothetical re-emission of radiological Cs-137 contamination incidents
• WeiMin M. Hao, Matt C. Reeves, Scott Baggett, Yves Balkanski, Philippe Ciais, Bryce L. Nordgren, Alexander Petkov, Rachel E. Corley, Florent Mouillot, Shawn P. Urbanski, Chao Yue. 2021. Wetter environment and increased grazing reduced the area burned in northern Eurasia from 2002 to 2016
• Nishit J. Shetty, Apoorva Pandey, Stephen Baker, WeiMin M. Hao, Rajan K. Chakrabarty. 2019. Measuring light absorption by freshly emitted organic aerosols: Optical artifacts in traditional solvent-extraction-based methods
• WeiMin M. Hao, Stephen Baker, Emily N. Lincoln, Scott Hudson, Sang Don Lee, Paul Lemieux. 2018. Cesium emissions from laboratory fires
• Shawn P. Urbanski, Matt C. Reeves, Rachel E. Corley, Robin P. Silverstein, WeiMin M. Hao. 2018. Contiguous United States wildland fire emission estimates during 2003-2015
• Shawn P. Urbanski, Bryce L. Nordgren, Carl Albury, Brenna Schwert, David Peterson, Brad Quayle, WeiMin M. Hao. 2018. A VIIRS direct broadcast algorithm for rapid response mapping of wildfire burned area in the western United States
• David R. Weise, Timothy J. Johnson, WeiMin M. Hao, Marko Princevac, Nicole Scharko, Ashley Oeck, Tanya L. Myers, Steve P. Baker, Emily N. Lincoln, AmirHessam Aminfar. 2018. Measurement of pyrolysis products from mixed fuel beds during fires in a wind tunnel
• David R. Weise, Thomas H. Fletcher, Timothy J. Johnson, WeiMin M. Hao, Mark A. Dietenberger, Marko Princevac, Bret W. Butler, Sara S. McAllister, Joseph J. O'Brien, E. Louise Loudermilk, Roger D. Ottmar, Andrew T. Hudak, Akira Kato, Babak Shotorban, Shankar Mahalingam, William E. Mell. 2018. A project to measure and model pyrolysis to improve prediction of prescribed fire behavior
• Meredydd Evans, Nazar Kholod, Teresa Kuklinski, Artur Denysenko, Steven J. Smith, Aaron Staniszewski, WeiMin M. Hao, Liang Liu, Tami C. Bond. 2017. Black carbon emissions in Russia: A critical review
• Yuan Cheng, Guenter Engling, Hans Moosmuller, W. Patrick Arnott, Antony L. W. Chen, Cyle E. Wold, WeiMin M. Hao, Ke-Bin He. 2016. Light absorption by biomass burning source emissions
• WeiMin M. Hao, Alexander Petkov, Bryce L. Nordgren, Rachel E. Corley, Robin P. Silverstein, Shawn P. Urbanski, Nikolaos Evangeliou, Yves Balkanski, Bradley L. Kinder. 2016. Daily black carbon emissions from fires in northern Eurasia for 2002-2015
• N. Evangeliou, Y. Balkanski, WeiMin M. Hao, A. Petkov, R. P. Silverstein, R. Corley, B. L. Nordgren, Shawn P. Urbanski, S. Eckhardt, A. Stohl, P. Tunved, S. Crepinsek, A. Jefferson, S. Sharma, J. K. Nojgaard, H. Skov. 2016. Wildfires in northern Eurasia affect the budget of black carbon in the Arctic - a 12-year retrospective synopsis (2002-2013)
• Vladimir Kovalev, Alex Petkov, Cyle E. Wold, Shawn P. Urbanski, WeiMin M. Hao. 2015. Determination of the smoke-plume heights and their dynamics with ground-based scanning LIDAR
• David R. Weise, Wayne Miller, David R. Cocker, Heejung Jung, Seyedehsan Hosseini, Marko Princevac, Robert Yokelson, Ian Burling, Sheryl Akagi, Shawn P. Urbanski, WeiMin M. Hao. 2015. Recent emissions research in southwestern shrub and grassland fuels
• N. Evangeliou, Y. Balkanski, A. Cozic, WeiMin M. Hao, F. Mouillot, K. Thonicke, R. Paugam, S. Zibtsev, T. A. Mousseau, R. Wang, B. Poulter, A. Petkov, C. Yue, P. Cadule, B. Koffi, J. W. Kaiser, A. P. Moller. 2015. Fire evolution in the radioactive forests of Ukraine and Belarus: future risks for the population and the environment
• C. Yue, P. Ciais, P. Cadule, K. Thonicke, S. Archibald, B. Poulter, WeiMin M. Hao, S. Hantson, F. Mouillot, P. Friedlingstein, F. Maignan, N. Viovy. 2014. Modelling the role of fires in the terrestrial carbon balance by incorporating SPITFIRE into the global vegetation modelORCHIDEE - Part 1: Simulating historical global burned area and fire regimes
• Y. H. Mao, Q. B. Li, D. Chen, L. Zhang, WeiMin M. Hao, K.-N. Liou. 2014. Top-down estimates of biomass burning emissions of black carbon in the western United States
• Nikolaos Evangeliou, Yves Balkanski, Anne Cozic, WeiMin M. Hao, Anders Pape Moller. 2014. Wildfires in Chernobyl-contaiminated forests and risks to the population and the environment: A new nuclear disaster about to happen?
• WeiMin M. Hao, Sim Larkin. 2014. Wildland fire emissions, carbon, and climate: wildland fire detection and burned area in the United States
• W. Miller, David R. Weise, S. Mahalingam, M. Princevac, Robert Yokelson, WeiMin M. Hao, D. Cocker, H. Jung, G. Tonnesen, Shawn P. Urbanski, I. Burling, S. Hosseini, S. Akagi. 2013. Final report for SERDP project RC-1648: new tools for estimating and managing local/regional air quality impacts of prescribed burns. University of California - Riverside
• Cyle E. Wold, Vladimir Kovalev, Alex Petkov, WeiMin M. Hao. 2012. Data processing technique for multiangle lidar sounding of poorly stratified polluted atmospheres: Theory and experiment
• Vladimir Kovalev, Cyle E. Wold, Alexander Petkov, WeiMin M. Hao. 2012. Direct multiangle solution for poorly stratified atmospheres
• Vladimir Kovalev, Cyle E. Wold, Alexander Petkov, WeiMin M. Hao. 2012. Profiling of poorly stratified smoky atmospheres with scanning lidar
• Cyle E. Wold, Vladimir Kovalev, Alex Petkov, WeiMin M. Hao. 2012. Profiling of poorly stratified atmospheres with scanning lidar
• Yuesi Wang, Jinyuan Xin, Zhanqing Li, Shigong Wang, Pucai Wang, WeiMin M. Hao, Bryce L. Nordgren, Hongbin Chen, Lili Wang, Yang Sun. 2012. Seasonal variations in aerosol optical properties over China
• Vladimir Kovalev, Cyle E. Wold, Alexander Petkov, WeiMin M. Hao. 2011. Modified technique for processing multiangle lidar data measured in clear and moderately polluted atmospheres
• Vladimir Kovalev, Alexander Petkov, Cyle E. Wold, WeiMin M. Hao. 2011. Lidar monitoring of regions of intense backscatter with poorly defined boundaries
• Vladimir Kovalev, A. Petkov, Cyle E. Wold, Shawn P. Urbanski, WeiMin M. Hao. 2011. Essentials of multiangle data-processing methodology for smoke polluted atmospheres
• Shawn P. Urbanski, WeiMin M. Hao, B. Nordgren. 2011. The Wildland Fire Emission Inventory: Western United States emission estimates and an evaluation of uncertainty
• C. J. Hennigan, M. A. Miracolo, G. J. Engelhart, A. A. May, A. A. Presto, T. Lee, A. P. Sullivan, G. R. McMeeking, H. Coe, Cyle E. Wold, WeiMin M. Hao, J. B. Gilman, W. C. Kuster, J. de Gouw, B. A. Schichtel, J. L. Collett, S. M. Kreidenweis, A. L. Robinson. 2011. Chemical and physical transformations of organic aerosol from the photo-oxidation of open biomass burning emissions in an environmental chamber
• Cyle E. Wold, Shawn P. Urbanski, Vladimir Kovalev, Alexander Petkov, WeiMin M. Hao. 2010. Validation of smoke plume rise models using ground based lidar
• Shawn P. Urbanski, Vladimir Kovalev, WeiMin M. Hao, Cyle E. Wold, Alex Petkov. 2010. Lidar and airborne investigation of smoke plume characteristics: Kootenai Creek Fire case study
• Vladimir Kovalev, Alexander Petkov, Cyle E. Wold, WeiMin M. Hao. 2010. Determination of the smoke-plume heights with scanning lidar using alternative functions for establishing the atmospheric heterogeneity locations
• Taehyoung Lee, Amy P. Sullivan, Laura Mack, Jose L. Jimenez, Sonia M. Kreidenweis, Timothy B. Onasch, Douglas R. Worsnop, William Malm, Cyle E. Wold, WeiMin M. Hao, Jeffrey L. Collett. 2010. Chemical smoke marker emissions during flaming and smoldering phases of laboratory open burning of wildland fuels
• R. K. Chakrabarty, H. Moosmuller, L.-W. A. Chen, K. Lewis, W. P. Arnott, C. Mazzoleni, M. K. Dubey, Cyle E. Wold, WeiMin M. Hao, S. M. Kreidenweis. 2010. Brown carbon in tar balls from smoldering biomass combustion
• L. A. Mack, E. J. T. Levin, S. M. Kreidenweis, D. Obrist, H. Moosmuller, K. A. Lewis, W. P. Arnott, G. R. McMeeking, A. P. Sullivan, Cyle E. Wold, WeiMin M. Hao, J. L. Collett, W. C. Malm. 2010. Optical closure experiments for biomass smoke aerosols
• S. M. Kreidenweis, J. L. Collett, H. Moosmuller, W. P. Arnott, WeiMin M. Hao, W. C. Malm. 2010. Overview of the Fire Lab at Missoula Experiments (FLAME)
• T. Lee, S. M. Kreidenweis, J. L. Collett, A. P. Sullivan, C. M. Carrico, J. L. Jimenez, M. Cubison, S. Saarikoski, D. R. Worsnop, T. B. Onasch, E. Fortner, W. C. Malm, E. Lincoln, Cyle E. Wold, WeiMin M. Hao. 2010. Preliminary observations of organic gas-particle partitioning from biomass combustion smoke using an aerosol mass spectrometer
• E. Lincoln, WeiMin M. Hao, S. Baker, R. J. Yokelson, I. R. Burling, Shawn P. Urbanski, W. Miller, David R. Weise, T. J. Johnson. 2010. A prescribed fire emission factors database for land management and air quality applications
• A. I. Sukhinin, D. J. McRae, B. J. Stocks, S. G. Conard, WeiMin M. Hao, A. J. Soja, D. Cahoon. 2010. Catastrophic fires in Russian forests
• Shawn P. Urbanski, WeiMin M. Hao. 2010. A wildland fire emission inventory for the western United States - uncertainty across spatial and temporal scales
• C. J. Hennigan, M. A. Miracolo, G. J. Engelhart, A. A. May, Cyle E. Wold, WeiMin M. Hao, T. Lee, A. P. Sullivan, J. B. Gilman, W. C. Kuster, J. A. de Gouw, J. L. Collett, S. M. Kreidenweis, A. L. Robinson. 2010. Oxidative aging and secondary organic aerosol formation from simulated wildfire emissions
• I. R. Burling, R. J. Yokelson, D. W. T. Griffith, T. J. Johnson, P. Veres, J. M. Roberts, C. Warneke, Shawn P. Urbanski, Jim J. Reardon, David R. Weise, WeiMin M. Hao, J. de Gouw. 2010. Laboratory measurements of trace gas emissions from biomass burning of fuel types from the southeastern and southwestern United States
• J. Liu, X. Xia, Z. Li, P. Wang, M. Min, WeiMin M. Hao, Y. Wang, J. Xin, X. Li, Y. Zheng, Z. Chen. 2010. Validation of multi-angle imaging spectroradiometer aerosol products in China
• Zhanqing Li, Kwon-Ho Lee, Yuesi Wang, Jinyuan Xin, WeiMin M. Hao. 2010. First observation-based estimates of cloud-free aerosol radiative forcing across China
• Vladimir Kovalev, Alex Petkov, Cyle E. Wold, Shawn P. Urbanski, WeiMin M. Hao. 2009. Essentials of LIDAR multiangle data processing methodology for smoke polluted atmospheres
• Vladimir Kovalev, Alexander Petkov, Cyle E. Wold, Shawn P. Urbanski, WeiMin M. Hao. 2009. Determination of smoke plume and layer heights using scanning lidar data
• Vladimir Kovalev, Cyle E. Wold, Alex Petkov, WeiMin M. Hao. 2009. Alternative method for determining the constant offset in lidar signal
• Gavin R. McMeeking, Sonia M. Kreidenweis, Stephen Baker, Christian M. Carrico, Judith C. Chow, Jeffrey L. Collett, WeiMin M. Hao, Amanda S. Holden, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, William C. Malm, Hans Moosmuller, Amy P. Sullivan, Cyle E. Wold. 2009. Emissions of trace gases and aerosols during the open combustion of biomass in the laboratory
• Shawn P. Urbanski, J. M. Salmon, B. L. Nordgren, WeiMin M. Hao. 2009. A MODIS direct broadcast algorithm for mapping wildfire burned area in the western United States
• Shawn P. Urbanski, WeiMin M. Hao, Stephen Baker. 2009. Chemical composition of wildland fire emissions
• Cyle E. Wold, Vladimir Kovalev, WeiMin M. Hao. 2008. Backscatter nephelometer to calibrate scanning lidar
• A. P. Sullivan, A. S. Holden, L. A. Patterson, G. R. McMeeking, S. M. Kreidenweis, W. C. Malm, WeiMin M. Hao, Cyle E. Wold, J. L. Collett. 2008. A method for smoke marker measurements and its potential application for determining the contribution of biomass burning from wildfires and prescribed fires to ambient PM2.5 organic carbon
• Ruiliang Pu, Zhanqing Li, Peng Gong, Ivan Csiszar, Robert Fraser, WeiMin M. Hao, Shobha Kondragunta, Fuzhong Weng. 2007. Development and analysis of a 12-year daily 1-km forest fire dataset across North America from NOAA/AVHRR
• D. J. McRae, Susan Conard, G. A. Ivanova, A. I. Sukhinin, Steve P. Baker, Y. N. Samsonov, T. W. Blake, V. A. Ivanov, A. V. Ivanov, T. V. Churkina, WeiMin M. Hao, K. P. Koutzenogij, Nataly Kovaleva. 2006. Variability of fire behavior, fire effects, and emissions in Scotch pine forests of central Siberia
• Darold E. Ward, WeiMin M. Hao. 1991. Projections of emissions from burning of biomass foruse in studies of global climate and atmospheric chemistry

• Program
  

  Fire, Fuel, and Smoke

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/programs/firefuelsmoke
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  Fires in Northern Eurasia

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/projects/northerneurasia
• Project
  

  Black Carbon from Fires in Northern Eurasia

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/projects/blackcarboneurasia
• Project
  

  Prescribed Fire Emissions

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/projects/rxfireemissions
• Project
  

  Missoula Fire Lab Wildfire Emission Inventory

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/projects/emissioninventory
• Project
  

  Biomass Burning in Mexico

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/projects/biomassinmexico
• Project
  

  Agricultural Smoke

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/projects/agsmoke
• Project
  

  Wildfire Smoke Measurements

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/projects/smokemeasurements

Multimedia

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  Meet Dr. WeiMin Hao, Research Chemist

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/multimedia/videos/meet-dr-weimin-hao-research-chemist

• Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan, B.S., Chemistry, 1976
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.S., Geochemistry, 1981
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.S., Toxicology, 1981
• Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Ph.D., Atmospheric chemistry, 1986