Dr. Daniel Tong
Credentials: Associate Professor, Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, George Mason University
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Faculty Profile
Twitter: @silentspring9
qtong@gmu.edu

HAQAST Project: Data-driven Forecasts of Hazardous Air Quality Events over North America
Daniel’s team will work to improve our collective predictability of high-impact events, such as wildfires, dust storms, and volcanic eruptions, through emission data assimilation (EDA) and multi-model ensemble forecasting, in order to mitigate harmful effects on human health and the economy.
Project goals/deliverables:
- Use NASA satellite data to improve dust and fire emissions
- Develop an ensemble forecast of hazardous air quality events (dust and wildfires) for North America.
- Work with stakeholders to prepare customized data packages for three applications:
- Air quality metrics for the City Health Dashboard, a health initiative serving 750 largest US cities
- Real-time ensemble dust forecasting as a pilot project for World Meteorology Organization
- Forecasts and observations of wildfires and air quality to WHO’s Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) member countries.
Co-Investigators/Team Members: Susan Anenberg (George Washington University), Marc Gourevitch (New York University), Anton Darmenov (NASA GSFC), Scott Van Pelt (US Department of Agriculture), Yunyao Li (George Mason University), Alexander Baklanov (World Meteorological Organization), Juan Castillo-Lugo (WHO/Pan-American Health Organization), Andrea Sealy (Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology), Peng Xian (Naval Research Laboratory), Mark Cohen (NOAA Air Resources Lab), Scott DiBiase (Pinal County Government, AZ), Benjamin Spoer (New York University), Alexei Lyapustin (NASA GSFC), Edward Hyer (Naval Research Laboratory), Barry Baker (NOAA Air Resources Lab), Ralph Kahn (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center).
Publications
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Madankui Tao, Arlene M. Fiore, Alexandra Karambelas, Paul J. Miller, Lukas C. Valin, Laura M. Judd, Maria Tzortziou, Andrew Whitehill, Amanda Teora, Yuhong Tian, Kevin L. Civerolo, Daniel Tong, Siqi Ma, Susana B. Adamo, Tracey Holloway. JGR Atmospheres.
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Irene Y. Feng, Thomas E. Gill, R. Scott Van Pelt, Nicholas P. Webb & Daniel Q. Tong. Nature Sustainability
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Da Pan, Denise L. Mauzerall, Rui Wang, Xuehui Guo, Shaojie Song, Daniel Tong, Amy P. Sullivan, Bret A. Schichtel, Jeffrey L. Collet Jr., Mark A. Zondlo, Nature Geoscience
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Jennifer D. Stowell, Susan Anenberg, Benjamin F. Zaitchik, Daniel Tong, Claire J. Horwell, Dennis P. Stolle, Rita R. Colwell and Christine McEntee, GeoHealth
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Daniel L. Goldberg, Madankui Tao, Gaige Hunter Kerr, Siqi Ma, Daniel Q. Tong, Arlene M. Fiore Angela F. Dickens, Zachariah E. Adelman, Susan C. Anenberg, Remote Sensing of Environment
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P. Makkaroon, D. Q. Tong, Y. Li, E. J. Hyer, P. Xian, S. Kondragunta, P. C. Campbell, Y. Tang, B. D. Baker, M. D. Cohen, A. Darmenov, A. Lyapustin, R. D. Saylor, Y. Wang, I. Stajner, JGR Atmospheres
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O’Neill, S.M., Xian, P., Flemming, J., Cope, M., Baklanov, A., Larkin, N.K., Vaughan, J.K.,
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Tong, D., Howard, R., Stull, R. and Davignon, D., 2023, Landscape Fire, Smoke, and Health:
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Kevin Cromar, Laura Gladson, Julia Gohlke, Yunyao Li, Daniel Tong, Gary Ewart, Annals of the American Thoracic Society
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Chappell, A., Webb, N.P., Hennen, M., Zender, C.S., Ciais, P., Schepanski, K., Edwards, B.L., Ziegler, N.P., Balkanski, Y., Tong, D. and Leys, J.F., Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
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Baek, B. H., Coats, C., Ma, S., Wang, C.-T., Xing, J., Tong, D., Kim, S., and Woo, Geoscientific Model Development
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Chappell, A., Webb, N.P., Hennen, M., Schepanski, K., Ciais, P., Balkanski, Y., Zender, C.S., Tegen, I., Zeng, Z., Tong, D. and Baker, B., Science of The Total Environment
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Daniel Q. Tong, Thomas E. Gill, William A. Sprigg, Robert Scott Van Pelt, Alexander A. Baklanov, Bridget Marie Barker, Jesse E. Bell, Juan Castillo, Santiago Gassó, Cassandra J. Gaston, Dale W. Griffin, Nicolas Huneeus, Ralph A. Kahn, Arunas P. Kuciauskas, Luis A. Ladino, Junran Li, Olga L. Mayol-Bracero, Orion Z. McCotter, Pablo A. Méndez-Lázaro, Pierpaolo Mudu, Slobodan Nickovic, Damian Oyarzun, Joseph Prospero, Graciela B. Raga, Amit U. Raysoni, Ling Ren, Nikias Sarafoglou, Andrea Sealy, Ziheng Sun, Ana Vukovic Vimic, Reviews of Geophysics
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Daniel Tong, Irene Feng, Thomas E. Gill, Kerstin Schepanski, and Julian Wang, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
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Yunyao Li, Daniel Tong, Siqi Ma, Saulo R. Freitas, Ravan Ahmadov, Mikhail Sofiev, Xiaoyang Zhang, Shobha Kondragunta, Ralph Kahn, Youhua Tang, Barry Baker, Patrick Campbell, Rick Saylor, Georg Grell, and Fangjun Li, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
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Youhua Tang, Patrick C. Campbell, Pius Lee, Rick Saylor, Fanglin Yang, Barry Baker, Daniel Tong et al, Geoscientific Model Development
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Daniel Q. Tong, Morgan E. Gorris, Thomas E. Gill, Karin Ardon-Dryer, Julian Wang, Ling Ren
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William A. Sprigg, Thomas E. Gill, Daniel Tong, Junran Li, Ling Ren and Robert Scott Van Pelt, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
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James D. East, Barron H. Henderson, Sergey L. Napelenok, Shannon N. Koplitz, Golam Sarwar, Robert Gilliam, Allen Lenzen, Daniel Q. Tong, R. Bradley Pierce, and Fernando Garcia-Menendez
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Patrick C. Campbell, Youhua Tang, Pius Lee, Barry Baker, Daniel Tong, Rick Saylor, Ariel Stein, Jianping Huang, Ho-Chun Huang, Edward Strobach, Jeff McQueen, Li Pan, Ivanka Stajner, Jamese Sims, Jose Tirado-Delgado, Youngsun Jung, Fanglin Yang, Tanya L. Spero and Robert C. Gilliam, Geoscientific Model Development
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Ziheng Sun, Laura Sandoval, Robert Crystal-Ornelas, S. Mostafa Mousavi, Jinbo Wang, Cindy Lin, Nicoleta Cristea, Daniel Tong et al, Computers and Geosciences
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Siqi Ma, Daniel Tong, Lok Lamsal, Julian Wang, Xuelei Zhang, Youhua Tang, Rick Saylor, Tianfeng Chai, Pius Lee, Patrick Campbell, Barry Baker, Shobha Kondragunta, Laura Judd, Timothy A. Berkoff, Scott J. Janz and Ivanka Stajner, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
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Yunyao Li, Daniel Tong, Siqi Ma, Xiaoyang Zhang, Shobha Kondraguta, Fanjun Li and Rick Saylor, Geophysical Research Letters
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Kondragunta, S., Wei, Z., McDonald, B., Goldberg, D. L., Tong, D, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres
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Marion Ouidir, Fasil Tekola-Ayele, Timothy Canty, Katherine L. Grantz, Anthony Sciscone, Daniel Tong, Rena R. Jones, Rajeshwari Sundaram, Andrew Williams, Danielle Stevens, Pauline Medola, Environmental Research
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Xiaoyang Chen, Yang Zhang, Kai Wang, Daniel Tong, Pius Lee, Youhua Tang, Jianping Huang, Patrick C. Campbell, Jeff McQueen, Havala O. T. Pye, Benjamin N. Murphy and Daiwen Kang, Geoscientific Model Development
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Susan M. O’Neill, Minghui Diao, Sean Raffuse, Mohammad Al-Hamdan, Muhammad Barik, Yiqin Jia, Steve Reid, Yufei Zou, Daniel Tong, J. Jason West, Joseph Wilkins, Amy Marsha, Frank Freedman, Jason Vargo, Narasimhan K. Larkin, Ernesto Alvarado & Patti Loesche. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association
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Tracey Holloway, Daegan Miller, Susan Anenberg, Minghui Diao, Bryan Duncan, Arlene M. Fiore, Daven K. Henze, Jeremy Hess, Patrick L. Kinney, Yang Liu, Jessica L. Neu, Susan M. O’Neill, M. Talat Odman, R. Bradley Pierce, Armistead G. Russell, Daniel Tong, J. Jason West, Mark A. Zondlo, Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science
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Morgan E. Gorris, Susan C. Anenberg, Daniel Goldberg, Gaige Hunter Kerr, Jennifer D. Stowell, Daniel Tong and Benjamin F. Zaitchik, GeoHealth
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Youhua Tang, Huisheng Bian, Zhining Tao, Luke D. Oman, Daniel Tong, Pius Lee, Patrick C. Campbell, Barry Baker, Cheng-Hsuan Lu, Li Pan, Jun Wang, Jeffery McQueen and Ivanka Stajner, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
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Tracey Holloway, Daegan R. Miller, Susan C. Anenberg, Minghui Diao, Bryan N. Duncan, Arlene M. Fiore, Daven K. Henze, Jeremy Hess, Yang Liu, Jessica L. Neu, Susan M. O’Neill, R. Bradley Pierce, Armistead G. Russell, Daniel Tong, J. Jason West, Mark A. Zondlo
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Susan C. Anenberg, Matilyn Bindl, Michael Brauer, Juan J. Castillo, Sandra Cavalieri, Bryan N. Duncan, Arlene M. Fiore, Richard Fuller, Daniel L. Goldberg, Daven K. Henze, Jeremy Hess, Tracey Holloway, Peter James, Xiaomeng Jin, Iyad Kheirbek, Patrick L. Kinney, Yang Liu, Arash Mohegh, Jonathan Patz, Marcia P. Jimenez, Ananya Roy, Daniel Tong, Katy Walker, Nick Watts, J. Jason West, Advancing Earth and Space
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Frank R. Freedman, Paul English, Jeff Wagner, Yang Liu, Akula Venkatram, Daniel Q. Tong, Mohammad Z. Al-Hamdan, Meytar Sorek-Hamer, Robert Chatfield, Ana Rivera and Patrick L. Kinney, Atmosphere
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Pius Lee, Li Pan, Youhua Tang, Daniel Tong, Barry Baker, Hyuncheol Kim, Rick Saylor, Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXVI
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J.T. Walker, G. Beachley, H.M. Amos, J.S. Baron, J. Bash, R. Baumgardner, M.D. Bell, K.B. Benedict, X. Chen, D.W. Clow, A. Cole, J.G. Coughlin, K. Cruz, R.W. Daly, S.M. Decina, E.M. Elliott, M.E. Fenn, L. Ganzeveld, K. Gebhart, S.S. Isil, B.M. Kerschner, R.S. Larson, T. Lavery, G.G. Lear, T. Macy, M.A. Mast, K. Mishoe, K.H. Morris, P.E. Padgett, R.V. Pouyat, M. Puchalski, H.O.T. Pye, A.W. Rea, M.F. Rhodes, C.M. Rogers, R. Saylor, R. Scheffe, B.A. Schichtel, D.B. Schwede, G.A. Sexstone, B.C. Sive, R. Sosa Echeverría, P.H. Templer, T. Thompson, D. Tong, G.A. Wetherbee, T.H. Whitlow, Z. Wu, Z. Yu, L. Zhang, Science of the Total Environment
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Guannan Geng, Qingyang Xiao, Yixuan Zheng, Dan Tong, Yuxuan Zhang, Xiaoye Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Kebin He, Yang Liu, Science China Earth Sciences
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William H. Battye, Casey D. Bray, Viney P. Aneja, Daniel Tong, Pius Lee, Youhua Tang, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
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Rick D. Saylor, Barry D. Baker, Pius Lee, Daniel Tong, Li Pan, Bruce B. Hicks, Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meterology
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Shen, Suhung, Ostrenga, Dana M., Wei, Jennifer C., Tong, Daniel, Li, Angela W., Vollmer, Bruce E., Meyer, David J., NASA
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Casey D.Bray, William Battye, Viney P. Aneja, Daniel Q. Tong, Pius Lee, Youhua Tang, Atmospheric Environment
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Guannan Geng, Nancy L. Murray, Daniel Tong, Joshua S. Fu, Xuefei Hu, Pius Lee, Xia Meng, Howard H. Chang, Yang Liu, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
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Kondragunta, S., Zhang, H., Ciren, P., Laszlo, I., and Tong, D, The Magazine for Environmental Managers
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Youhua Tang, Mariusz Pagowski, Tianfeng Chai, Li Pan, Pius Lee, Daniel Tong, et al., Journal of Geoscientific Model Development
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Casey D.Bray, William Battye, Viney P. Aneja, Daniel Tong, Pius Lee, Youhua Tang, and John B. Nowak, Atmospheric Environment
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Ziheng Sun, Liping Di, Haosheng Hao, Xiaoqing Wu, Daniel Q. Tong, Chen Zhang, Cora Virgei, Hui Fang, Eugene Yu, Xicheng Tan, Peng Yue, Li Lin, Earth Science Infomatics
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Tianfeng Chai, Hyun‐Cheol Kim, Li Pan, Pius Lee, Daniel Tong, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
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Daniel Q. Tong, Julian X. L. Wang, Thomas E. Gill, Hang Lei and Binyu Wang, Geophysical Research Letters
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Huang, J., McQueen, J., Wilczak, J., Djalalova, I., Stajner, I., Shafran, P., Allured, D., Lee, P., Pan, L., Tong, D. and Huang, H.C., Weather and Forecasting
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Pius Lee, Jeffery McQueen, Ivanka Stajner, Jianping Huang, Li Pan, Daniel Tong, Hyuncheol Kim, Youhua Tang, Shobha Kondragunta, Mark Ruminski, Sarah Lu, Eric Rogers, Rick Saylor, Perry Shafran, Ho-Chun Huang, Jerry Gorline, Sikchya Upadhayay, and Richard Artz, AMS: Weather and Forecasting
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Daniel Tong, Li Pan, Weiwei Chen, Lok Lamsal, Pius Lee, Youhua Tang, Hyuncheol Kim, Shobha Kondragunta, Ivanka Stajner, Geophysical Research Letters
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