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D-Index
44
Citations
7444
World Ranking
6741
National Ranking
300

Overview

Ian G. McKendry is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with notable contributions across related subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The scientist's work often explores topics including Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Fire effects on ecosystems, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Climate variability and models.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with McKendry include Hannah G. Marley, Kim N. Dirks, Jennifer Salmond, Andrew Neverman, and Sung-Ching Lee.

McKendry's publications appear consistently in several prominent scientific venues. These include Atmospheric Pollution Research and Boundary-Layer Meteorology, with two publications each, as well as Atmospheric chemistry and physics, International Journal of Climatology, and Weather.

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Ian G. McKendry are:

  • The relationship between Brown haze, atmospheric boundary layer structure, and air pollution in an urban area of complex coastal terrain (2021) - Atmospheric Pollution Research
  • Biogeochemical and biophysical responses to episodes of wildfire smoke from natural ecosystems in southwestern British Columbia, Canada (2022) - Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • A Ceilometer-Derived Climatology of the Convective Boundary Layer Over a Southern Hemisphere Subtropical City (2020) - Boundary-Layer Meteorology
  • Suppression of "Handover" Processes in a Mountain Convective Boundary Layer due to Persistent Wildfire Smoke (2020) - Boundary-Layer Meteorology
  • The impact of land-sea breezes on the formation of Brown haze in an urban isthmus environment (2022) - Atmospheric Pollution Research

Best Publications

  • Asian Dust Events of April 1998

    Rudolf B. Husar;D. M. Tratt;B. A. Schichtel;S. R. Falke

  • Comparison of approaches for spatial interpolation of daily air temperature in a large region with complex topography and highly variable station density

    K. Stahl;R.D. Moore;J.A. Floyer;M.G. Asplin

  • Characterization of soil dust aerosol in China and its transport and distribution during 2001 ACE-Asia: 2. Model simulation and validation

    S. L. Gong;S. L. Gong;X. Y. Zhang;T. L. Zhao;I. G. McKendry

  • Six 'new' episodes of trans-Pacific transport of air pollutants

    Dan Jaffe;Ian McKendry;Tad Anderson;Heather Price

  • Long-range transport of Asian dust to the Lower Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada

    I. G. McKendry;J. P. Hacker;R. Stull;S. Sakiyama

  • A simulated climatology of Asian dust aerosol and its trans-Pacific transport. Part I: Mean climate and validation

    T. L. Zhao;S. L. Gong;X. Y. Zhang;Jean-Pierre Blanchet

  • A Simulated Climatology of Asian Dust Aerosol and Its Trans-Pacific Transport. Part II: Interannual Variability and Climate Connections

    S. L. Gong;X. Y. Zhang;T. L. Zhao;X. B. Zhang

  • A land use regression model for ultrafine particles in Vancouver, Canada.

    Rebecca C. Abernethy;Ryan W. Allen;Ian G. McKendry;Michael Brauer

  • Spring Snowpack Anomaly Patterns and Winter Climatic Variability, British Columbia, Canada

    R. D. Moore;I. G. McKendry

  • Evaluation of artificial neural networks for fine particulate pollution (PM10 and PM2.5) forecasting.

    Ian G McKendry

  • Modeled size-segregated wet and dry deposition budgets of soil dust aerosol during ACE-Asia 2001: Implications for trans-Pacific transport

    T. L. Zhao;T. L. Zhao;S. L. Gong;S. L. Gong;X. Y. Zhang;I. G. McKendry

  • The role of synoptic‐scale circulation in the linkage between large‐scale ocean–atmosphere indices and winter surface climate in British Columbia, Canada

    Kerstin Stahl;R. Dan Moore;Ian G. Mckendry

  • The vertical chemical and meteorological structure of the boundary layer in the Lower Fraser Valley during Pacific '93

    K.L Hayden;K.G Anlauf;R.M Hoff;J.W Strapp

  • A review of turbulence in the very stable nocturnal boundary layer and its implications for air quality

    J. A. Salmond;I. G. McKendry

  • Particulate matter exposure along designated bicycle routes in Vancouver, British Columbia

    Amy Thai;Ian McKendry;Michael Brauer

  • Synoptic Circulation and Summertime Ground-Level Ozone Concentrations at Vancouver, British Columbia

    Ian G. Mckendry

  • Secondary ozone maxima in a very stable nocturnal boundary layer: observations from the Lower Fraser Valley, BC

    J.A. Salmond;I.G. McKendry

  • Elevated ozone layers and vertical down-mixing over the Lower Fraser Valley, BC

    I.G. McKendry;D.G. Steyn;J. Lundgren;R.M. Hoff

  • Climatology of winter cold spells in relation to mountain pine beetle mortality in British Columbia, Canada

    K. Stahl;R. D. Moore;I. G. McKendry

  • Trans‐Pacific transport of Saharan dust to western North America: A case study

    Ian G. McKendry;Kevin B. Strawbridge;Norman T. O'Neill;Anne Marie Macdonald

  • Ground-level ozone in Montreal, Canada

    Ian G. McKendry

Frequent Co-Authors

Douw G. Steyn
Douw G. Steyn University of British Columbia
Daniel A. Jaffe
Daniel A. Jaffe University of Washington
Kurt G. Anlauf
Kurt G. Anlauf Environment and Climate Change Canada
R. D. Moore
R. D. Moore University of British Columbia
Andrew Sturman
Andrew Sturman University of Canterbury
Andreas Christen
Andreas Christen University of Freiburg
Roland B. Stull
Roland B. Stull University of British Columbia
Kerstin Stahl
Kerstin Stahl University of Freiburg
Robert M. Banta
Robert M. Banta National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Allan K. Bertram
Allan K. Bertram University of British Columbia

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