Prof. TAI Pui Kuen Amos

• Atmospheric chemistry and physics 

• Ecoclimatology and biosphere-atmosphere interactions 

• Air pollution, agricultural and forest meteorology 

• Sustainable food systems and forestry under climate change 

See https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/sci/essc/tgabi/ for details

C.W. Chu College

• Tai, A. P. K.* (2024). Co-benefits of sustainable food production and consumption in mitigating air pollution and climate change via the nitrogen cycle. In H.-M. Lam (Ed.), Agrobiotechnology in Perspectives: History, Economy, Science and Technology on the Plate (pp. 165-180). World Scientific. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811276736_0011  

• Tai, A. P. K.*, Lai, E. K. C., & Lee, K. K. Y. (2018). Climate injustice as manifested by global food insecurity: A Christian exposition and call for actions. In P. T. M. Ng, W. T. Leung, & V. K. T. Mak (Eds.), Christian Mind in the Emerging World: Faith Integration in Asian Contexts and Global Perspectives (pp. 159-186). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 

• Ismaeel, A., Tai, A. P. K.*, & Wu, J. (2024). Understanding the spatial patterns of atmospheric ammonia trends in South Asia. Science of The Total Environment, 954, 176188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.176188
• Murray, L. T.*, Leibensperger, E. M., Mickley, L. J., & Tai, A. P. K. (2024). Estimating future climate change impacts on human mortality and crop yields via air pollution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(39), e2400117121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2400117121
• Bhattarai, H., Tai, A. P. K.*, Val Martin, M.*, & Yung, D. H. Y. (2024). Responses of fine particulate matter (PM₅) air quality to future climate, land use, and emission changes: Insights from modeling across shared socioeconomic pathways. Science of The Total Environment, 948, 174611. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174611
• Tai, A. P. K.*, Yung, D. H. Y., & Lam, T. (2024). Terrestrial Ecosystem Model in R (TEMIR) version 1.0: simulating ecophysiological responses of vegetation to atmospheric chemical and meteorological changes. Geoscientific Model Development, 17(9), 3733–3764. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-3733-2024
• Ismaeel, A., Tai, A. P. K., Santos, E. G., Maraia, H., Aalto, I., Altman, J., Dolezal, J., Lembrechts, J. J., Camargo, J. L., Aalto, J., Sam, K., do Nascimento, L. C. A., Kopecky, M., Svátek, M., Nunes, M. H., Matula, R., Plichta, R., Abera, T., & Maeda, E. E.* (2024). Patterns of tropical forest understory temperatures. Nature Communications, 15(1), 549. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-44734-0
• Mao, J., Tai, A. P. K.*, Yung, D. H. Y., Yuan, T., Chau, K. T., & Feng, Z (2024). Multidecadal ozone trends in China and implications for human health and crop yields: A hybrid approach combining a chemical transport model and machine learning. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 24(1), 345-366. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-345-2024
• Bhattarai, H., Tai, A. P. K.*, Val Martin, M.*, & Yung, D. H. Y. (2024). Impacts of changes in climate, land use, and emissions on global ozone air quality by mid-21^st century following selected Shared Socioeconomic Pathways. Science of The Total Environment, 906, 167759. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167759
• Yuan, T., Tai, A. P. K.*, Mao, J., Tam, O. H. F., Li, R. K. K., Wu, J., & Li, S. (2023). Effects of different irrigation methods on regional climate in North China Plain: A modeling study. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 342, 109728. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109728
• Lam, J. C. Y., Tai, A. P. K.*, Ducker, J. A., & Holmes, C. D. (2023). Development of an ecophysiology module in the GEOS-Chem chemical transport model version 12.2.0 to represent biosphere–atmosphere fluxes relevant for ozone air quality. Geoscientific Model Development, 16(9), 2323-2342. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-2323-2023
• Sun, S., Tai, A. P. K.*, Yung, D. H. Y., Wong, A. Y. H., Ducker, J. A., & Holmes, C. D. (2022). Influence of plant ecophysiology on ozone dry deposition: Comparing between multiplicative and photosynthesis-based dry deposition schemes and their responses to rising CO₂ Biogeosciences, 19(6), 1753-1776. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-1753-2022
• Fung, K. M.*, Val Martin, M.*, & Tai, A. P. K.* (2022). Modeling the interinfluence of fertilizer-induced NH₃emission, nitrogen deposition, and aerosol radiative effects using modified CESM2. Biogeosciences, 19(6), 1635-1655. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-1635-2022
• Zhu, J., Tai, A. P. K.*, & Yim, S. H. L.* (2022). Effects of ozone-vegetation interactions on meteorology and air quality in China using a two-way coupled land-atmosphere model. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22(2), 765-782. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-765-2022
• Liu, X., Tai, A. P. K.*, Chen, Y., Zhang, L., Shaddick, G., Yan, X., & Lam, H.-M. (2021). Dietary shifts can reduce premature deaths related to particulate matter pollution in China. Nature Food, 2(12), 997-1004. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-021-00430-6
• Liu, X., Tai, A. P. K.*, & Fung, K. M. (2021). Responses of surface ozone to future agricultural ammonia emissions and subsequent nitrogen deposition through terrestrial ecosystem changes, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21(23), 17743-17758. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-17743-2021
• Tai, A. P. K.*, Ma, P. H. L., Chan, Y.-C., Chow, M.-K., Ridley, D. A., & Kok, J. F. (2021). Impacts of climate and land cover variability and trends on springtime East Asian dust emission over 1982–2010: A modeling study. Atmospheric Environment, 254, 118348. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2021.118348
• Tai, A. P. K.*, Sadiq, M., Pang, J. Y. S., Yung, D. H. Y., & Feng, Z. (2021). Impacts of surface ozone pollution on global crop yields: Comparing different ozone exposure metrics and incorporating co-effects of CO₂. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 5, 534616. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.534616
• Li, J., Tam, C.-Y.*, Tai, A. P. K.*, & Lau, N.-C. (2021). Vegetation-heatwave correlations and contrasting energy exchange responses of different vegetation types to summer heatwaves in the Northern Hemisphere during the 1982–2011 period. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 296, 108208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108208
• Wang, L., Tai, A. P. K.*, Tam, C.-Y.*, Sadiq, M., Wang, P., & Cheung, K. K. W. (2020). Impacts of future land use and land cover change on mid-21^st-century surface ozone air quality: Distinguishing between the biogeophysical and biogeochemical effects. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 20(19), 11349-11369. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-11349-2020
• Fung, K. M., Tai, A. P. K.*, Yong, T., Liu, X., & Lam, H.-M. (2019). Co-benefits of intercropping as a sustainable farming method for safeguarding both food security and air quality. Environmental Research Letters, 14(4), 044011. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aafc8b
• Sadiq, M., Tai, A. P. K.*, Lombardozzi, D., & Val Martin, M. (2017). Effects of ozone-vegetation coupling on surface ozone air quality via biogeochemical and meteorological feedbacks. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 17(4), 3055-3066. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-3055-2017
• Fu, Y., & Tai, A. P. K.* (2015). Impact of climate and land cover changes on tropospheric ozone air quality and public health in East Asia between 1980 and 2010. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 15(17), 10093-10106. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-10093-2015
• Tai, A. P. K.*, Val Martin, M., & Heald, C. L. (2014). Threat to future global food security from climate change and ozone air pollution. Nature Climate Change, 4(9), 817-821. https://doi.org/10.1038/Nclimate2317
• Tai, A. P. K.*, Mickley, L. J., & Jacob, D. J. (2012). Impact of 2000-2050 climate change on fine particulate matter (PM₅) air quality inferred from a multi-model analysis of meteorological modes. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 12(23), 11329-11337. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-11329-2012
• Tai, A. P. K.*, Mickley, L. J., & Jacob, D. J. (2010). Correlations between fine particulate matter (PM₅) and meteorological variables in the United States: Implications for the sensitivity of PM_2.5 to climate change. Atmospheric Environment, 44(32), 3976-3984. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.06.060

See https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/sci/essc/tgabi/research.html for full list of publications

• PI, General Research Fund 2022/23, Effects of future trends in Chinese food consumption and production on regional air quality in China via the nitrogen cascade (Proj. No.: 14307722), Research Grants Council (RGC), HK$790,454, 01/01/2023 – 31/12/2024 
• PI, Environmental Research, Technology Demonstration and Conference Projects Funding Scheme, Optimization of a multiscale regional coupled land-atmosphere model for better ozone pollution forecast in Hong Kong and Greater Bay Area (Ref. No.: ECF Project 80/2021; Prof. No.: 6906286), Environment and Conservation Fund, HK$499,000, 01/07/2022 – 30/06/2024 
• Co-PI, Collaborative Research Fund 2021/22, Study of Carbon Sequestration in Hong Kong’s Vegetation: from Present to Future Prediction under Climate Change (Ref. No.: C5062-21GF), RGC, HK$4,949,639, 30/06/2022 – 29/06/2025 
• Co-PI, State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology (SKLA) / Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC) Project Fund, Climate-smart use of nitrogen and water for sustainable agriculture in China (Proj. No.: 8300036), SKLA/ITC, HK$1,000,000, 01/04/2022 – 31/03/2024 (shared among three Co-PIs) 
• PI, Marine Ecology Enhancement Fund, Impacts of climate change, water quality, and marine traffic on Cetacean population and distribution in Hong Kong (Ref. No.: MEEF2021009), Marine Ecology and Fisheries Enhancement Funds Trustee Limited, HK$506,600, 01/07/2021 – 30/06/2022 
• PI, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)/Research Grants Council (RGC) Joint Research Scheme 2020/21, Combined effects of ozone pollution and nitrogen deposition on forest primary productivity and water use in China (Ref. No.: N_CUHK440/20), RGC, HK$1,134,330, 01/01/2021 – 31/12/2024 
• PI, General Research Fund 2020/21, Impacts of 21st-century land-use and land-cover change on surface ozone air quality: Incorporating the effects of biosphere-atmosphere interactions and feedbacks (Proj. No.: 14306220), RGC, HK$599,861, 01/01/2021 – 31/12/2023 
• Co-PI, Provision of consultancy service to conduct a study on ecosystem services in Hong Kong (Ref. No.: AFCD/SQ/225/19/C), HKSAR Agriculture, Fisheries & Conservation Department, HK$2,254,605, 04/03/2020 – 03/02/2022 (shared among four PC/Co-PIs) 
• PI, State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology (SKLA) / Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC) Project Fund, Effects of irrigation and water-saving practices on regional climate and agricultural productivity in semiarid regions of China (Proj. No.: 8300070), SKLA/ITC, HK$265,192, 01/04/2019 – 31/03/2021 
• Co-PI (Project Manager), Environmental performance evaluation and pathological assessment of Acacia slopes (Ref. No.: Hy(S) Q/026/2018), HKSAR Highways Department, HK$1,261,828, 04/06/2018 – 05/07/2020 (shared among four PC/Co-PIs) 
• PI, General Research Fund 2016/17, Effects of agricultural nitrogen emission and deposition on air quality and climate through biogeochemical and vegetation feedbacks (Proj. No.: 14323116), RGC, HK$540,824, 01/01/2017 – 31/12/2020 
• PI, International Development Fund, Impacts of future climate and land use changes on public health and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, WUN, HK$209,154, 01/01/2016 – 31/12/2017 
• PI, General Research Fund 2015/16, Factors controlling the temporal variability of East Asian dust: implications for air quality and climate through ocean biogeochemical feedback (Proj. No.: 14306015), RGC, HK$501,255, 01/01/2016 – 30/06/2019 
• PI, Early Career Scheme 2014/15, Impacts of ozone-mediated ecosystem changes and biogeochemical feedbacks on air quality and climate (Proj. No.: 24300614), RGC, HK$1,158,901, 01/01/2015 – 31/12/2017 
• PI, Croucher Study Award – Start-up Allowance, Impacts of historical and future land use and land cover changes on air quality and public health in East Asia (Acc. No.: 6903601), Croucher Foundation, HK$500,000, 01/01/2014 – 31/12/2018 

See full CV for full list of research grants and contracts