About

Xiangao Xia is a prominent atmospheric scientist whose research centers on aerosol optical properties, remote sensing, and the climatic impacts of atmospheric particulates, with a particular focus on China and the broader Asian region. His most influential contribution, a 2010 study on fine and coarse mode aerosol mixtures (449 citations), established foundational climatological understanding of how desert dust interacts with combustion-generated aerosols across major global emission zones. Xia has been instrumental in validating and improving satellite-based aerosol retrieval products, including rigorous evaluations of MODIS and MISR datasets against ground-truth AERONET measurements across Chinese monitoring networks — work that has proven essential for ensuring data reliability in a region with complex aerosol environments. His research on Beijing's urban aerosols quantified long-term trends in key optical properties, while his Tibetan Plateau studies illuminated transboundary aerosol transport from South Asia. A 2018 investigation into aerosol-cloud interactions across Northeast Asia further broadened the scope of his contributions. With over 1,100 citations across his top works, Xia's sustained output has significantly advanced the scientific community's capacity to monitor, model, and understand aerosol dynamics in one of the world's most aerosol-dense regions.

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1,551
Total Citations
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🏆 Most Cited Paper
Climatological aspects of the optical properties of fine/coarse mode aerosol mixtures
449 citations · 2010
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2018 (5 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 121
🏛 Institutions: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Wuhan University, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

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