Fernando Garcia Menendez

Sparks, M. S., Farahbakhsh, I., Anand, M., Bauch, C. T., Conlon, K. C., East, J. D., … Saari, R. K. (2024). Health and equity implications of individual adaptation to air pollution in a changing climate. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 121(5). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2215685121

Yang, H., Luo, Q., He, G., Lin, J., Johnson, J. X., Garcia-Menendez, F., … Deshmukh, R. (2024). Regional disparities in health and employment outcomes of China’s transition to a low-carbon electricity system. Environmental Research: Energy. https://doi.org/10.1088/2753-3751/ad3bb8

Johnson, M. M., & Garcia-Menendez, F. (2023, May 18). A comparison of smoke modelling tools used to mitigate air quality impacts from prescribed burning. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE, Vol. 5. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF22172

Luo, Q., Garcia-Menendez, F., Lin, J., He, G., & Johnson, J. X. (2023). Accelerating China's power sector decarbonization can save lives: integrating public health goals into power sector planning decisions. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 18(10). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acf84b

Raab, H., Moyer, J., Afrin, S., Garcia-Menendez, F., & Ward-Caviness, C. K. (2023). Prescribed fires, smoke exposure, and hospital utilization among heart failure patients. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, 22(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-023-01032-4

Luo, Q., Garcia-Menendez, F., Yang, H., Deshmukh, R., He, G., Lin, J., & Johnson, J. X. (2023, February 9). The Health and Climate Benefits of Economic Dispatch in China's Power System. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, Vol. 57. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c05663

Luo, Q., Garcia-Menendez, F., Yang, H., Deshmukh, R., He, G., Lin, J., & Johnson, J. X. (2023). The Health and Climate Benefits of Economic Dispatch in China?s Power System. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, 57(7), 2898–2906. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c056632898

East, J. D., Monier, E., & G-Menendez, F. (2022). Characterizing and quantifying uncertainty in projections of climate change impacts on air quality. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 17(9). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac8d17

Luo, Q., Copeland, B., Garcia-Menendez, F., & Johnson, J. X. (2022, September 7). Diverse Pathways for Power Sector Decarbonization in Texas Yield Health Cobenefits but Fail to Alleviate Air Pollution Exposure Inequities. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c00881

East, J. D., Henderson, B. H., Napelenok, S. L., Koplitz, S. N., Sarwar, G., Gilliam, R., … Garcia-Menendez, F. (2022, July 25). Inferring and evaluating satellite-based constraints on NOx emissions estimates in air quality simulations. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2022-435

East, J. D., Henderson, B. H., Napelenok, S. L., Koplitz, S. N., Sarwar, G., Gilliam, R., … Garcia-Menendez, F. (2022). Inferring and evaluating satellite-based constraints on NOx emissionsestimates in air quality simulations. ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS, 22(24), 15981–16001. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-15981-2022

East, J. D., Henderson, B. H., Napelenok, S. L., Koplitz, S. N., Sarwar, G., Gilliam, R., … Garcia-Menendez, F. (2022, July 25). Supplementary material to "Inferring and evaluating satellite-based constraints on NOx emissions estimates in air quality simulations". https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2022-435-supplement

Johnson, M. M., & Garcia-Menendez, F. (2022). Uncertainty in Health Impact Assessments of Smoke From a Wildfire Event. GEOHEALTH, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GH000526

East, J., Montealegre, J. S., Pachon, J. E., & Garcia-Menendez, F. (2021). Air quality modeling to inform pollution mitigation strategies in a Latin American megacity. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, 776. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145894

Huang, R., Lal, R., Qin, M., Hu, Y., Russell, A. G., Odman, M. T., … Susan M. O'Neill. (2021). Application and evaluation of a low-cost PM sensor and data fusion with CMAQ simulations to quantify the impacts of prescribed burning on air quality in Southwestern Georgia, USA. JOURNAL OF THE AIR & WASTE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION, 71(7), 815–829. https://doi.org/10.1080/10962247.2021.1924311

Goldman, G. T., Ivey, C. E., Garcia-Menendez, F., & Balachandran, S. (2021, March 2). Beyond the Lab: Early Career Researchers May Find Purpose through Policy, Advocacy, and Public Engagement. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, Vol. 55, pp. 2720–2721. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c00495

Afrin, S., & Garcia-Menendez, F. (2021). Potential impacts of prescribed fire smoke on public health and socially vulnerable populations in a Southeastern US state. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, 794. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148712

Luo, Q., Johnson, J. X., & Garcia-Menendez, F. (2021). Reducing human health impacts from power sector emissions with redispatch and energy storage. Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, 8. https://doi.org/10.1088/2634-4505/ac20b3

Climate Model Response Uncertainty in Projections of Climate Change Impacts on Air Quality. (2020). In Springer Proceedings in Complexity. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22055-6_69

Afrin, S., & Garcia‐Menendez, F. (2020). The Influence of Prescribed Fire on Fine Particulate Matter Pollution in the Southeastern United States. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(15). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088988

Towards an improved understanding of greenhouse gas emissions and fluxes in tropical peatlands of Southeast Asia. (2020). Sustainable Cities and Society. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2019.101881

Altshuler, S. L., Zhang, Q., Kleinman, M. T., Garcia-Menendez, F., Moore, C. T., Hough, M. L., … Watson, J. G. (2020). [Review of Wildfire and prescribed burning impacts on air quality in the United States]. JOURNAL OF THE AIR & WASTE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION, 70(10), 961–970. https://doi.org/10.1080/10962247.2020.1813217

Johnson Gaither, C., Afrin, S., Garcia-Menendez, F., Odman, M. T., Huang, R., Goodrick, S., & Ricardo da Silva, A. (2019). African American Exposure to Prescribed Fire Smoke in Georgia, USA. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(17), 3079. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16173079

Saari, R. K., Mei, Y., Monier, E., & Garcia-Menendez, F. (2019). Effect of Health-Related Uncertainty and Natural Variability on Health Impacts and Cobenefits of Climate Policy. Environmental Science & Technology, 53(3), 1098–1108. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.8b05094

Pienkosz, B. D., Saari, R. K., Monier, E., & Garcia‐Menendez, F. (2019). Natural Variability in Projections of Climate Change Impacts on Fine Particulate Matter Pollution. Earth's Future. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EF001195

Brown-Steiner, B., Selin, N. E., Prinn, R. G., Monier, E., Tilmes, S., Emmons, L., & Garcia-Menendez, F. (2018). Maximizing ozone signals among chemical, meteorological, and climatological variability. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 18(11), 8373–8388. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-8373-2018

Brown-Steiner, B., Selin, N. E., Prinn, R. G., Monier, E., Tilmes, S., Emmons, L., & Garcia-Menendez, F. (2017, November 28). Maximizing Ozone Signals Among Chemical, Meteorological, and Climatological Variability. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, Vol. 11, pp. 1–38. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2017-954

Brown-Steiner, B., Selin, N. E., Prinn, R. G., Monier, E., Tilmes, S., Emmons, L., & Garcia-Menendez, F. (2017, November 28). Supplementary material to "Maximizing Ozone Signals Among Chemical, Meteorological, and Climatological Variability" (Vol. 11). Vol. 11. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2017-954-supplement

Garcia-Menendez, F., Monier, E., & Selin, N. E. (2017). The role of natural variability in projections of climate change impacts on U.S. ozone pollution. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(6), 2911–2921. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016gl071565

Odman, M. T., Hu, Y., & Garcia-Menendez, F. (2016). Atmospheric Plume Modeling with a Three-Dimensional Refinement Adaptive Grid Method. In Springer Proceedings in Complexity (pp. 409–413). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24478-5_67

Garcia-Menendez, F., Saari, R. K., Monier, E., & Selin, N. E. (2015). U.S. Air Quality and Health Benefits from Avoided Climate Change under Greenhouse Gas Mitigation. Environmental Science & Technology, 49(13), 7580–7588. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5b01324

Garcia-Menendez, F., Hu, Y., & Odman, M. T. (2014). Simulating smoke transport from wildland fires with a regional-scale air quality model: Sensitivity to spatiotemporal allocation of fire emissions. Science of The Total Environment, 493, 544–553. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.05.108

Odman, M. T., Yano, A., Garcia-Menendez, F., Hu, Y., Goodrick, S. L., Liu, Y., & Achtemeier, G. L. (2013). Development and Evaluation of an Air Quality Model for Predicting the Impacts of Prescribed Burns. In Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXII (pp. 517–521). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5577-2_87

Odman, M. T., Hu, Y., Garcia-Menendez, F., Davis, A. Y., Chang, M. E., & Russell, A. G. (2013). Fires and air. EM, The Magazine for Environmental Managers, November, 12–21.

Garcia-Menendez, F., Hu, Y., & Odman, M. T. (2013). Simulating smoke transport from wildland fires with a regional-scale air quality model: Sensitivity to uncertain wind fields. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 118(12), 6493–6504. https://doi.org/10.1002/jgrd.50524

Garcia-Menendez, F., & Odman, M. T. (2011). Adaptive Grid Use in Air Quality Modeling. Atmosphere, 2(3), 484–509. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos2030484

Achtemeier, G. L., Goodrick, S. A., Liu, Y., Garcia-Menendez, F., Hu, Y., & Odman, M. T. (2011). Modeling Smoke Plume-Rise and Dispersion from Southern United States Prescribed Burns with Daysmoke. Atmosphere, 2(3), 358–388. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos2030358

Garcia–Menendez, F., Yano, A., Hu, Y., & Talat Odman, M. (2010). An adaptive grid version of CMAQ for improving the resolution of plumes. Atmospheric Pollution Research, 1(4), 239–249. https://doi.org/10.5094/apr.2010.031