About

Yan Yin is a leading atmospheric scientist whose research focuses on aerosol climatology, aerosol optical properties, and the climatic impacts of black carbon. Her work is instrumental in understanding how different aerosol types—from urban-industrial pollution to natural dust—affect regional and global climate systems. Yin’s most influential contributions include a comprehensive aerosol climatology over Durban, South Africa, which distinguished aerosol types using satellite data from MODIS, MISR, and OMI (111 citations), and a long-term trend analysis of aerosol products over China’s Yangtze River Delta (106 citations). She has also advanced the study of aerosol direct radiative forcing in megacities like Nanjing and explored the biogeochemical linkage between Asian dust, dissolved iron, and marine export production in the deep ocean. Notably, her recent work (2023) developed an observation-constrained black carbon module for global climate models, addressing a critical source of uncertainty in climate projections. With over 350 total citations, Yan Yin’s research provides essential insights for improving climate models and understanding aerosol-climate interactions in both polluted and remote environments.

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Total Citations
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🏆 Most Cited Paper
Aerosol climatology and discrimination of aerosol types retrieved from MODIS, MISR and OMI over Durban (29.88°S, 31.02°E), South Africa
111 citations · 2015
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2016 (2 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 26
🏛 Institutions: Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, China Meteorological Administration

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