Education
M.Sc & Ph.D. in Physical Geography, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 2009
B.S. in Exploration Technology and Engineering, Northeastern University, China, 2004
Appointments
2012.07-present, Associate Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
2009.07-2012.06, Assistant Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
2014.12-2015.12, Visiting Scholar/Postdoc, Paul Scherrer Institute/ University of Bern, Switzerland
2011.06-2011.12, CAS Visiting Research Fellow, Laboratory of Glaciology and Geophysical Environment, CNRS, France
2006.10-2007.12, Visiting Scholar, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, USA
2005.01-2005.04, Visiting Scholar, Ultra Clean Trace Element laboratory (UCTEL), University of Manitoba, Canada
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Biogeochemistry and cycling of trace elements in glaciers and atmospheric environment, Historical environmental reconstruction using glacial records, River and lake water environment
Research Fields: Cryosphere and Environment
Publications in the recent 5 years (2016-2020)
(* corresponding author; # joint first authors; Including books and book chapters)
Part 1: 5 representative publications
1. Kang Shichang*; Zhang Qianggong*; Qian Yun; Ji Zhenming; Li Chaoliu; Cong Zhiyuan; ZhangYulan; Guo Junming; Du Wentao, Huang Ji; You Qinglong; Panday Arnico; Rupakheti Maheswar; ChenDeliang; Gustafsson Crjan; Thiemens Mark, Qin Dahe, Linking Atmospheric Pollution to CryosphericChange in the Third Pole Region: Current Progresses and Future Prospects. National Science Review, 2019. nwz031.
2. Zhang Qianggong*; Zhang Fan; Kang Shichang; Cong Zhiyuan, Melting glaciers:hidden hazards. Science, 2017, 356, (6337), 495.
3. Sun Xuejun; Wang Kang; Kang Shichang; Guo Junming; Zhang Guoshuai; Huang Jie; Cong Zhiyuan; Sun Shiwei; Zhang Qianggong*, The role of melting alpine glaciers in mercury export andtransport: An intensive sampling campaign in the Qugaqie Basin, inland Tibetan Plateau. Environmental Pollution, 2017, 220, 936-945.
4. Yin Xiufeng; Kang Shichang*; de Foy Benjamin; Ma Yaoming; Tong Yindong; Zhang Wei; Wang Xuejun; Zhang Guoshuai; Zhang Qianggong*, Multi-year monitoring of atmospheric total gaseous mercury at a remote high-altitude site (Nam Co, 4730 m a.s.l.) in the inland Tibetan Plateau region. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2018, 18, (14), 10557-10574.
5. Tong Yindong; Yin Xiufeng; Lin Huiming; Buduo; Danzeng; Wang Huanhuan; Deng Chunyan;Chen Long; Li Jinling; Zhang Wei; Schauer James Jay; Kang Shichang; Zhang Guoshuai; Xiaoge Bu;Wang Xuejun*; Zhang Qianggong*, Recent Decline of Atmospheric Mercury Recorded by Androsace tapete on the Tibetan Plateau. Environmental science & technology, 2016, 50, (24), 13224-13231.
Part 2: all other publications (exclude part 1)
6. Xuejun Sun, Qianggong Zhang*, Mingyue Li, Kshitiz Kandel, Bakhat Rawat, Aastha Pandey, Junming Guo, Shichang Kang, Ramesh Raj Pant, Zhiyuan Cong, Fan Zhang, 2020. Mercury variation and export in trans-Himalayan rivers: Insights from field observations in the Koshi River. Science of the total environment, 738, 139836-139836
7. Xiufeng Yin, Wenting Zhou, Shichang Kang, Benjamin de Foy, Ye Yu, Jin Xie, Shiwei Sun, Kunpeng Wu, Qianggong Zhang*, 2020. Latest observations of total gaseous mercury in a megacity (Lanzhou) in northwest China. Science of the Total Environment, 720
8. Mingyue Li, Qianggong Zhang*, Xuejun Sun, Kabita Karki, Chen Zeng, Aastha Pandey, Bakhat Rawat, Fan Zhang, 2020. Heavy metals in surface sediments in the trans-Himalayan Koshi River catchment: Distribution, source identification and pollution assessment. Chemosphere, 244, 125410-125410
9. Qianggong Zhang*, Xuejun Sun, Shiwei Sun, Xiufeng Yin, Jie Huang, Zhiyuan Cong, Shichang Kang, 2019. Understanding Mercury Cycling in Tibetan Glacierized Mountain Environment: Recent Progress and Remaining Gaps. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 102, 672-678
10. Xiufeng Yin, Benjamin de Foy, Kunpeng Wu, Chuan Feng, Shichang Kang*, Qianggong Zhang*, 2019. Gaseous and particulate pollutants in Lhasa, Tibet during 2013-2017: Spatial variability, temporal variations and implications. Environmental Pollution, 253, 68-77
11. Xuejun Sun, Qianggong Zhang*, Shichang Kang, Junming Guo, Xiaofei Li, Zhengliang Yu, Guoshuai Zhang, Dongmei Qu, Jie Huang, Zhiyuan Cong, Guangjian Wu, 2018. Mercury speciation and distribution in a glacierized mountain environment and their relevance to environmental risks in the inland Tibetan Plateau. Science of the Total Environment, 631-632, 270-278
12. Xiufeng Yin, Shichang Kang*, Benjamin de Foy, Zhiyuan Cong, Jiali Luo, Lang Zhang, Yaoming Ma, Guoshuai Zhang, Dipesh Rupakheti, Qianggong Zhang*, 2017. Surface ozone at Nam Co in the inland Tibetan Plateau: variation, synthesis comparison and regional representativeness. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 17, 11293-11311
13. Qianggong Zhang*, Shichang Kang*, 2016. Comment on "Ice Core Perspective Past 600 Years". Environmental Science & Technology, 50, 1065-1067
14. Shiwei Sun, Ming Ma, Xiaobo He, Daniel Obrist, Qianggong Zhang, Xiufeng Yin, Tao Sun, Jie Huang, Junming Guo, Shichang Kang, Dahe Qin, 2020. Vegetation Mediated Mercury Flux and Atmospheric Mercury in the Alpine Permafrost Region of the Central Tibetan Plateau. Environmental Science & Technology, 54, 6043-6052
15. Ruiyang Sun, Guangyi Sun, Sae Yun Kwon, Xinbin Feng, Shichang Kang, Qianggong Zhang, Jie Huang, Runsheng Yin, 2020. Mercury biogeochemistry over the Tibetan Plateau: An overview. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology
16. Pengfei Chen, Shichang Kang, Lekhendra Tripathee, Arnico K. Panday, Maheswar Rupakheti, Dipesh Rupakheti, Qianggong Zhang, Junming Guo, Chaoliu Li, Tao Pu, 2020. Severe air pollution and characteristics of light-absorbing particles in a typical rural area of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 27, 10617-10628
17. Pengfei Chen, Shichang Kang, Lekhendra Tripathee, Kirpa Ram, Maheswar Rupakheti, Arnico K. Panday, Qianggong Zhang, Junming Guo, Xiaoxiang Wang, Tao Pu, Chaoliu Li, 2020. Light absorption properties of elemental carbon (EC) and water-soluble brown carbon (WS-BrC) in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: A 5-year study. Environmental Pollution, 261
18. Huijun Zheng, Shichang Kang, Pengfei Chen, Quanlian Li, Lekhendra Tripathee, Linda Maharjan, Junming Guo, Qianggong Zhang, Ewerton Santos, 2020. Sources and spatio-temporal distribution of aerosol polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons throughout the Tibetan Plateau. Environmental Pollution, 261
19. Huijun Zheng, Shichang Kang, Pengfei Chen, Quanlian Li, Lekhendra Tripathee, Linda Maharjan, Junming Guo, Qianggong Zhang, Ewerton Santos, 2020. Sources and spatio-temporal distribution of aerosol polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons throughout the Tibetan Plateau. Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987), 261, 114144-114144
20. Prakriti Sharma Ghimire, Lekhendra Tripathee, Qianggong Zhang, Junming Guo, Kirpa Ram, Jie Huang, Chhatra Mani Sharma, Shichang Kang, 2019. Microbial mercury methylation in the cryosphere: Progress and prospects. Science of the Total Environment, 697
21. Junhua Yang, Zhenming Ji, Shichang Kang, Qianggong Zhang, Xintong Chen, Shao-Yi Lee, 2019. Spatiotemporal variations of air pollutants in western China and their relationship to meteorological factors and emission sources. Environmental Pollution, 254
22. Xin Wan, Shichang Kang, Maheswar Rupakheti, Qianggong Zhang, Lekhendra Tripathee, Junming Guo, Pengfei Chen, Dipesh Rupakheti, Arnico K. Panday, Mark G. Lawrence, Kimitaka Kawamura, Zhiyuan Cong, 2019. Molecular characterization of organic aerosols in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: insights into primary and secondary sources. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19, 2725-2747
23. Huiming Lin, Yindong Tong, Xiufeng Yin, Qianggong Zhang, Hui Zhang, Haoran Zhang, Long Chen, Shichang Kang, Wei Zhang, James Schauer, Benjamin de Foy, Xiaoge Bu, Xuejun Wang, 2019. First measurement of atmospheric mercury species in Qomolangma Natural Nature Preserve, Tibetan Plateau, and evidence of transboundary pollutant invasion. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19, 1373-1391
24. Jin Dang, Chaoliu Li, Jihua Li, Andy Dang, Qianggong Zhang, Pengfei Chen, Shichang Kang, Derek Dunn-Rankin, 2019. Emissions from Solid Fuel Cook Stoves in the Himalayan Region. Energies, 12
25. Pengfei Chen, Shichang Kang, Chaoliu Li, Qianggong Zhang, Junming Guo, Lekhendra Tripathee, Yuian Zhang, Gang Li, Chaman Gul, Zhiyuan Cong, Xin Wan, Hewen Niu, Arnico K. Panday, Maheswar Rupakheti, Zhenming Ji, 2019. Carbonaceous aerosol characteristics on the Third Pole: A primary study based on the Atmospheric Pollution and Cryospheric Change (APCC) network. Environmental Pollution, 253, 49-60
26. Cheryl L. Weyant, Pengfei Chen, Ashma Vaidya, Chaoliu Li, Qianggong Zhang, Ryan Thompson, Justin Ellis, Yanju Chen, Shichang Kang, Ganesh Ram Shrestha, Mahesh Yagnaraman, Joseph Arineitwe, Rufus Edwards, Tami C. Bond, 2019. Emission Measurements from Traditional Biomass Cookstoves in South Asia and Tibet. Environmental Science & Technology, 53, 3306-3314
27. Lekhendra Tripathee, Junming Guo, Shichang Kang, Rukumesh Paudyal, Jie Huang, Chhatra Mani Sharma, Qianggong Zhang, Dipesh Rupakheti, Pengfei Chen, Prakriti Sharma Ghimire, Ayush Gyawali, 2019. Concentration and risk assessments of mercury along the elevation gradient in soils of Langtang Himalayas, Nepal. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 25, 1006-1017
28. Lekhendra Tripathee, Junming Guo, Shichang Kang, Rukumesh Paudyal, Jie Huang, Chhatra Mani Sharma, Qianggong Zhang, Pengfei Chen, Prakriti Sharma Ghimire, Madan Sigdel, 2019b. Spatial and temporal distribution of total mercury in atmospheric wet precipitation at four sites from the Nepal-Himalayas. Science of the Total Environment, 655, 1207-1217
29. Hemraj Bhattarai, Eri Saikawa, Xin Wan, Hongxia Zhu, Kirpa Ram, Shaopeng Gao, Shichang Kang, Qianggong Zhang, Yulan Zhang, Guangming Wu, Xiaoping Wang, Kimitaka Kawamura, Pingqing Fu, Zhiyuan Cong, 2019. Levoglucosan as a tracer of biomass burning: Recent progress and perspectives. Atmospheric Research, 220, 20-33
30. Maodian Liu, Han Xie, Yipeng He, Qianru Zhang, Xuejun Sun, Chenghao Yu, Long Chen, Wei Zhang, Qianggong Zhang, Xuejun Wang, 2019. Sources and transport of methylmercury in the Yangtze River and the impact of the Three Gorges Dam. Water Research, 166
31. Guangming Wu, Kirpa Ram, Pingqing Fu, Wan Wang, Yanlin Zhang, Xiaoyan Liu, Elizabeth A. Stone, Bidya Banmali Pradhan, Pradeep Man Dangol, Arnico K. Panday, Xin Wan, Zhipeng Bai, Shichang Kang, Qianggong Zhang, Zhiyuan Cong, 2019. Water-Soluble Brown Carbon in Atmospheric Aerosols from Godavari (Nepal), a Regional Representative of South Asia. Environmental Science & Technology, 53, 3471-3479
32. Aurelien Dommergue, Pierre Amato, Romie Tignat-Perrier, Olivier Magand, Alban Thollot, Muriel Joly, Laetitia Bouvier, Karine Sellegri, Timothy Vogel, Jeroen E. Sonke, Jean-Luc Jaffrezo, Marcos Andrade, Isabel Moreno, Casper Labuschagnea, Lynwill Martina, Qianggong Zhang, Catherine Larose, 2019. Methods to Investigate the Global Atmospheric Microbiome. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10
33. Shiwei Sun, Shichang Kang, Junming Guo, Qianggong Zhang, Rukumesh Paudyal, Xuejun Sun, Dahe Qin, 2018. Insights into mercury in glacier snow and its incorporation into meltwater runoff based on observations in the southern Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Environmental Sciences, 68, 130-142
34. Dipesh Rupakheti, Shichang Kang, Maheswar Rupakheti, Lekhendra Tripathee, Qianggong Zhang, Pengfei Chen, Xiufeng Yin, 2018. Long-term trends in the total columns of ozone and its precursor gases derived from satellite measurements during 2004-2015 over three different regions in South Asia: Indo-Gangetic Plain, Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 39, 7404-+
35. Pengfei Chen, Shichang Kang, Chaoliu Li, Quanlian Li, Fangping Yan, Junming Guo, Zhenming Ji, Qianggong Zhang, Zhaofu Hu, Lekhendra Tripathee, Mika Sillanpaa, 2018. Source Apportionment and Risk Assessment of Atmospheric Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Lhasa, Tibet, China. Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 18, 1294-1304
36. Maodian Liu, Long Chen, Yipeng He, Zofia Baumann, Robert P. Mason, Huizhong Shen, Chenghao Yu, Wei Zhang, Qianggong Zhang, Xuejun Wang, 2018c. Impacts of farmed fish consumption and food trade on methylmercury exposure in China. Environment International, 120, 333-344
37. Maodian Liu, Yipeng He, Zofia Baumann, Chenghao Yu, Shidon Ge, Xuejun Sun, Menghan Cheng, Huizhong Shen, Robert P. Mason, Long Chen, Qianggong Zhang, Xuejun Wang, 2018. Traditional Tibetan Medicine Induced High Methylmercury Exposure Level and Environmental Mercury Burden in Tibet, China. Environmental Science & Technology, 52, 8838-8847
38. Maodian Liu, Peng Du, Chenghao Yu, Yipeng He, Haoran Zhang, Xuejun Sun, Huiming Lin, Yao Luo, Han Xie, Junming Guo, Yindong Tong, Qianggong Zhang, Long Chen, Wei Zhang, Xiqing Li, Xuejun Wang, 2018. Increases of Total Mercury and Methylmercury Releases from Municipal Sewage into Environment in China and Implications. Environmental Science & Technology, 52, 124-134
39. Aastha Pandey, Chhatra Mani Sharma, Shichang Kang, Qianggong Zhang, Lekhendra Tripathee, Junming Guo, Xiaofei Li, Shiwei Sun, Rukumesh Paudyal, Prakash Acharya, Mika Sillanpaa, 2017. Mercury Concentrations in the Fish Community from Indrawati River, Nepal. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 99, 500-505
40. Junming Guo, Shichang Kang, Jie Huang, Qianggong Zhang, Maheswar Rupakheti, Shiwei Sun, Lekhendra Tripathee, Dipesh Rupakheti, Arnico K. Panday, Mika Sillanpaa, Rukumesh Paudyal, 2017. Characterizations of atmospheric particulate-bound mercury in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, South Asia. Science of the Total Environment, 579, 1240-1248
41. Zhiwen Dong, Shichang Kang, Junming Guo, Qianggong Zhang, Xuejia Wang, Dahe Qin, 2017. Composition and mixing states of brown haze particle over the Himalayas along two transboundary south-north transects. Atmospheric Environment, 156, 24-35
42. Xin Wan, Shichang Kang, Quanlian Li, Dipesh Rupakheti, Qianggong Zhang, Junming Guo, Pengfei Chen, Lekhendra Tripathee, Maheswar Rupakheti, Arnico K. Panday, Wu Wang, Kimitaka Kawamura, Shaopeng Gao, Guangming Wu, Zhiyuan Cong, 2017. Organic molecular tracers in the atmospheric aerosols from Lumbini, Nepal, in the northern Indo-Gangetic Plain: influence of biomass burning. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 17, 8867-8885
43. Lekhendra Tripathee, Shichang Kang, Dipesh Rupakheti, Zhiyuan Cong, Qianggong Zhang, Jie Huang, 2017. Chemical characteristics of soluble aerosols over the central Himalayas: insights into spatiotemporal variations and sources. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 24, 24454-24472
44. Shiwei Sun, Shichang Kang, Jie Huang, Shengyun Chen, Qianggong Zhang, Junming Guo, Wenjie Liu, Bigyan Neupane, Dahe Qin, 2017. Distribution and variation of mercury in frozen soils of a high-altitude permafrost region on the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 24, 15078-15088
45. Julia Schmale, Mark Flanner, Shichang Kang, Michael Sprenger, Qianggong Zhang, Junming Guo, Yang Li, Margit Schwikowski, Daniel Farinotti, 2017. Modulation of snow reflectance and snowmelt from Central Asian glaciers by anthropogenic black carbon. Scientific Reports, 7
46. Rukumesh Paudyal, Shichang Kang, Jie Huang, Lekhendra Tripathee, Qianggong Zhang, Xiaofei Li, Junming Guo, Shiwei Sun, Xiaobo He, Mika Sillanpaa, 2017. Insights into mercury deposition and spatiotemporal variation in the glacier and melt water from the central Tibetan Plateau. Science of the Total Environment, 599, 2046-2053
47. Huiming Lin, Wei Zhang, Chunyan Deng, Yingdong Tong, Qianggong Zhang, Xuejun Wang, 2017. Evaluation of passive sampling of gaseous mercury using different sorbing materials. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 24, 14190-14197
48. Rosha Raut, Roshan Man Bajracharya, Subodh Sharma, Chhatra Mani Sharma, Shichang Kang, Qianggong Zhang, Lekhendra Tripathee, Pengfei Chen, Dipesh Rupakheti, Junming Guo, Bhawani S. Dongol, 2017. Potentially Toxic Trace Metals in Water and Lake-Bed Sediment of Panchpokhari, an Alpine Lake Series in the Central Himalayan Region of Nepal. Water Air and Soil Pollution, 228
49. Dipesh Rupakheti, Bhupesh Adhikary, Puppala Siva Praveen, Maheswar Rupakheti, Shichang Kang, Khadak Singh Mahata, Manish Naja, Qianggong Zhang, Arnico Kumar Panday, Mark G. Lawrence, 2017. Pre-monsoon air quality over Lumbini, a world heritage site along the Himalayan foothills. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 17, 11041-11063
50. Pengfei Chen, Chaoliu Li, Shichang Kang, Maheswar Rupakheti, Arnico K. Panday, Fangping Yan, Quanlian Li, Qianggong Zhang, Junming Guo, Zhenming Ji, Dipesh Rupakheti, Wei Luo, 2017. Characteristics of Particulate-Phase Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the Atmosphere over the Central Himalayas. Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 17, 2942-2954
51. Yindong Tong, Wei Zhang, Xuejun Wang, Raoul-Marie Couture, Thorjorn Larssen, Yue Zhao, Jing Li, Huijiao Liang, Xueyan Liu, Xiaoge Bu, Wei He, Qianggong Zhang, Yan Lin, 2017. Decline in Chinese lake phosphorus concentration accompanied by shift in sources since 2006. Nature Geoscience, 10, 507-+
52. Xiaoyu Xu, Qianggong Zhang, Wen-Xiong Wang, 2016. Linking mercury, carbon, and nitrogen stable isotopes in Tibetan biota: Implications for using mercury stable isotopes as source tracers. Scientific Reports, 6
53. Yulan Zhang, Shichang Kang, Qianggong Zhang, Tanguang Gao, Junming Guo, Bjorn Grigholm, Jie Huang, Mika Sillanpaa, Xiaofei Li, Wentao Du, Yang Li, Xinlei Ge, 2016. Chemical Records in Snowpits from High Altitude Glaciers in the Tibetan Plateau and Its Surroundings. Plos One, 11
54. Yurong Liu, Jixin Dong, Qianggong Zhang, Juntao Wang, Lili Han, Jun Zeng, Jizheng He, 2016. Longitudinal occurrence of methylmercury in terrestrial ecosystems of the Tibetan Plateau. Environmental Pollution, 218, 1342-1349
55. Zhenming Ji, Shichang Kang, Qianggong Zhang, Zhiyuan Cong, Pengfei Chen, Mika Sillanpaa, 2016. Investigation of mineral aerosols radiative effects over High Mountain Asia in 1990-2009 using a regional climate model. Atmospheric Research, 178, 484-496
56. Jianzhong Xu, Shichang Kang, Shugui Hou, Qianggong Zhang, Jie Huang, Cunde Xiao, Jiawen Ren, Dahe Qin, 2016. Characterization of contemporary aeolian dust deposition on mountain glaciers of western China. Sciences in Cold and Arid Regions, 8, 9-21
57. Lekhendra Tripathee, Shichang Kang, Dipesh Rupakheti, Qianggong Zhang, Jie Huang, Mika Sillanpaa, 2016. Water-Soluble Ionic Composition of Aerosols at Urban Location in the Foothills of Himalaya, Pokhara Valley, Nepal. Atmosphere, 7
58. Lekhendra Tripathee, Shichang Kang, Dipesh Rupakheti, Qianggong Zhang, Roshan Man Bajracharya, Chhatra Mani Sharma, Jie Huang, Ayush Gyawali, Rukumesh Paudyal, Mika Sillanpaa, 2016. Spatial distribution, sources and risk assessment of potentially toxic trace elements and rare earth elements in soils of the Langtang Himalaya, Nepal. Environmental Earth Sciences, 75
59. Shichang Kang, Jie Huang, Feiyue Wang, Qianggong Zhang, Yulan Zhang, Chaoliu Li, Long Wang, Pengfei Chen, Chhatra Mani Sharma, Qing Li, Mika Sillanpaa, Juzhi Hou, Baiqing Xu, Junming Guo, 2016. Atmospheric Mercury Depositional Chronology Reconstructed from Lake Sediments and Ice Core in the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau. Environmental Science & Technology, 50, 2859-2869
60. Jie Huang, Shichang Kang, Junming Guo, Qianggong Zhang, Zhiyuan Cong, Mika Sillanpaa, Guoshuai Zhang, Shiwei Sun, Lekhendra Tripathee, 2016. Atmospheric particulate mercury in Lhasa city, Tibetan Plateau. Atmospheric Environment, 142, 433-441
61. Yindong Tong, Long Chen, Jie Chi, Gengchong Zhen, Qianggong Zhang, Ruonan Wang, Ruihua Yao, Wei Zhang, Xuejun Wang, 2016. Riverine nitrogen loss in the Tibetan Plateau and potential impacts of climate change. Science of the Total Environment, 553, 276-284
62. Jie Huang, Shichang Kang, Lide Tian, Junming Guo, Qianggong Zhang, Zhiyuan Cong, Mika Sillanpaa, Shiwei Sun, Lekhendra Tripathee, 2016. Influence of long-range transboundary transport on atmospheric water vapor mercury collected at the largest city of Tibet. Science of the Total Environment, 566, 1215-1222
63. Pengfei Chen, Chaoliu Li, Shichang Kang, Fangping Yan, Qianggong Zhang, Zhengming Ji, Lekhendra Tripathee, Dipesh Rupakheti, Maheswar Rupakheti, Bin Qu, Mika Sillanpaa, 2016. Source apportionment of particle-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Lumbini, Nepal by using the positive matrix factorization receptor model. Atmospheric Research, 182, 46-53
64. Shiwei Sun, Shichang Kang, Jie Huang, Chengding Li, Junming Guo, Qianggong Zhang, Xuejun Sun, Lekhendra Tripathee, 2016. Distribution and transportation of mercury from glacier to lake in the Qiangyong Glacier Basin, southern Tibetan Plateau, China. Journal of Environmental Sciences, 44, 213-223
65. Wei Luo, Jiajia Gao, Xiang Bi, Lan Xu, Junming Guo, Qianggong Zhang, Kumar Y. Romesh, John P. Giesy, Shichang Kang, 2016. Identification of sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons based on concentrations in soils from two sides of the Himalayas between China and Nepal. Environmental Pollution, 212, 424-432
66. Mang Lin, Zhisheng Zhang, Lin Su, Jason Hill-Falkenthal, Antra Priyadarshi, Qianggong Zhang, Guoshuai Zhang, Shichang Kang, Chuen-Yu Chan, Mark H. Thiemens, 2016. Resolving the impact of stratosphere-to-troposphere transport on the sulfur cycle and surface ozone over the Tibetan Plateau using a cosmogenic S-35 tracer. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 121, 439-456
67. Chaoliu Li, Carme Bosch, Shichang Kang, August Andersson, Pengfei Chen, Qianggong Zhang, Zhiyuan Cong, Bing Chen, Dahe Qin, Orjan Gustafsson, 2016. Sources of black carbon to the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau glaciers. Nature Communications, 7
68. Xiang Bi, Wei Luo, Jiajia Gao, Lan Xu, Junming Guo, Qianggong Zhang, Kumar Y. Romesh, John P. Giesy, Shichang Kang, Jacob de Boer, 2016. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soils from the Central-Himalaya region: Distribution, sources, and risks to humans and wildlife. Science of the Total Environment, 556, 12-22
69. Benjamin de Foy, Yindong Tong, Xiufeng Yin, Wei Zhang, Shichang Kang, Qianggong Zhang, Guoshuai Zhang, Xuejun Wang, James J. Schauer, 2016. First field-based atmospheric observation of the reduction of reactive mercury driven by sunlight. Atmospheric Environment, 134, 27-39