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Environmental Sciences
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2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
128
Citations
73484
World Ranking
84
National Ranking
36

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Alex Guenther is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research spans several key areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on atmospheric processes and environmental interactions.

The main fields of study for Alex Guenther include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Their work covers a number of subfields such as:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Plant Science
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Environmental Engineering

The primary topics in their research encompass:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting

Alex Guenther has published extensively in prominent venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Notable recent papers include:

  • Effects of Anthropogenic and Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds on Los Angeles Air Quality (2021, Environmental Science & Technology)
  • Dry Deposition of Ozone Over Land: Processes, Measurement, and Modeling (2020, Reviews of Geophysics)
  • Tropical and Boreal Forest - Atmosphere Interactions: A Review (2022, Tellus B)
  • A long-term estimation of biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) emission in China from 2001-2016: the roles of land cover change and climate variability (2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics)
  • Development and Assessment of a High-Resolution Biogenic Emission Inventory from Urban Green Spaces in China (2021, Environmental Science & Technology)

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Roger Seco
  • Sanjeevi Nagalingam
  • Hui Wang
  • Saewung Kim
  • Rodrigo Augusto Ferreira De Souza

Among professional recognitions, Alex Guenther was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2015.

Best Publications

  • A global model of natural volatile organic compound emissions

    Alex Guenther;C. Nicholas Hewitt;David Erickson;Ray Fall

  • Estimates of global terrestrial isoprene emissions using MEGAN (Model of Emissions of Gases and Aerosols from Nature)

    A. Guenther;T. Karl;P. Harley;C. Wiedinmyer

  • The model of emissions of gases and aerosols from nature version 2.1 (MEGAN2.1): An extended and updated framework for modeling biogenic emissions

    A. B. Guenther;X. Jiang;C. L. Heald;T. Sakulyanontvittaya

  • Isoprene and monoterpene emission rate variability: Model evaluations and sensitivity analyses

    Alex B. Guenther;Patrick R. Zimmerman;Peter C. Harley;Russell K. Monson

  • Description and evaluation of the Model for Ozone and Related chemical Tracers, version 4 (MOZART-4)

    Louisa K. Emmons;Stacy Walters;Peter G. Hess;Peter G. Hess;Jean-François Lamarque

  • Emissions of volatile organic compounds from vegetation and the implications for atmospheric chemistry

    Fred Fehsenfeld;Jack Calvert;Ray Fall;Paul Goldan

  • Global data set of biogenic VOC emissions calculated by the MEGAN model over the last 30 years

    Katerina Sindelarova;Katerina Sindelarova;Claire Granier;Idir Bouarar;Alex Guenther

  • Sulfur Emissions to the Atmosphere from Natural Sources

    T. S. Bates;B. K. Lamb;A. Guenther;J. Dignon

  • Recent advances in understanding secondary organic aerosol: Implications for global climate forcing

    Manish Shrivastava;Christopher D. Cappa;Jiwen Fan;Allen H. Goldstein

  • Atmospheric composition change – global and regional air quality

    P.S. Monks;Claire Granier;Claire Granier;Claire Granier;S. Fuzzi;A. Stohl

  • Improving our fundamental understanding of the role of aerosol−cloud interactions in the climate system

    John H. Seinfeld;Christopher Bretherton;Kenneth S. Carslaw;Hugh Coe

  • Natural emissions of non-methane volatile organic compounds, carbon monoxide, and oxides of nitrogen from North America

    Alex Guenther;Chris Geron;Tom Pierce;Brian Lamb

  • Isoprene and monoterpene emission rate variability: Observations with Eucalyptus and emission rate algorithm development

    Alex B. Guenther;Russell K. Monson;Ray Fall

  • Biogenic Hydrocarbons in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer: A Review

    J. D. Fuentes;M. Lerdau;R. Atkinson;D. Baldocchi

  • Natural volatile organic compound emission rate estimates for U.S. woodland landscapes

    Alex Guenther;Patrick Zimmerman;Mary Wildermuth

  • Inventorying emissions from nature in Europe

    David Simpson;Wilfried Winiwarter;Gunnar Börjesson;Steve Cinderby

  • Production of extremely low volatile organic compounds from biogenic emissions: Measured yields and atmospheric implications

    Tuija Jokinen;Tuija Jokinen;Torsten Berndt;Risto Makkonen;Veli-Matti Kerminen

  • A national inventory of biogenic hydrocarbon emissions

    Brian Lamb;Alex Guenther;Hal Westberg

  • Biogenic emissions in Europe: 1. Estimates and uncertainties

    David Simpson;Alex Guenther;C. Nicholas Hewitt;Rainer Steinbrecher

  • Critical assessment of the current state of scientific knowledge, terminology, and research needs concerning the role of organic aerosols in the atmosphere, climate, and global change

    S. Fuzzi;M.O. Andreae;B.J. Huebert;M. Kulmala

  • Photosynthesis-dependent isoprene emission from leaf to planet in a global carbon-chemistry-climate model

    N. Unger;K. Harper;Y. Zheng;N. Y. Kiang

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Karl
Thomas Karl University of Innsbruck
Jim Greenberg
Jim Greenberg National Center for Atmospheric Research
Peter Harley
Peter Harley National Center for Atmospheric Research
Allen H. Goldstein
Allen H. Goldstein University of California, Berkeley
Christine Wiedinmyer
Christine Wiedinmyer University of Colorado Boulder
James N. Smith
James N. Smith University of California, Irvine
Paulo Artaxo
Paulo Artaxo Universidade de São Paulo
Carsten Warneke
Carsten Warneke National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Jose L. Jimenez
Jose L. Jimenez University of Colorado Boulder
Detlev Helmig
Detlev Helmig Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research

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