Juan Felipe Mendez Espinosa

Graduate Students

PhD Student

Current

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Research Interests

His research interest focusses on air pollution management and climate change.

Selected Publications

Air quality variations in Northern South America during the COVID-19 lockdown
Juan F. Mendez-Espinosa et al.,
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720351500
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141621

Regional air quality impact of northern South America biomass burning emissions
Juan F. Mendez-Espinosa et al.,
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135223101930072X
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.01.042

Long-term brown carbon and smoke tracer observations in Bogotá, Colombia: association with medium-range transport of biomass burning plumes
Rincón-Riveros et al.,
https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/20/7459/2020/

Sentinel-5P TROPOMI satellite application for NO2 and CO studies aiming at environmental valuation
Brian William Bodah et al.,
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652622015694

Education

Bachelor of Environmental and Sanitary engineering – Universidad de la Salle.
Master in Environmental engineering – Universidad de los Andes.

2023 - current, PhD Student Earth Sciences and Engineering, KAUST

Scientific and Professional Membership

Latin America Early Career Earth System Scientist Network

Awards

Outstanding research project in Centro Lasallista de Investigación y Modelación Ambiental (CLIMA), 2014.
Outstanding thesis project in Universidad de los Andes, 2019.

Research Interests Keywords

Air pollution dispersion Climate Atmospheric modeling Arabian Peninsula
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