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Jose D. Fuentes is a researcher affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their work spans multiple areas within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a focus on atmospheric processes and interactions.

The main fields of study associated with their research are:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Their subfields include:

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

Jose D. Fuentes has contributed to research on various key topics such as:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds

Their recent publication record includes works in prominent journals, reflecting research interests in atmospheric chemistry, land-atmosphere interactions, and biogeochemical cycles. Notable recent papers include:

  • Satellite isoprene retrievals constrain emissions and atmospheric oxidation, 2020, Nature
  • Integrating continuous atmospheric boundary layer and tower-based flux measurements to advance understanding of land-atmosphere interactions, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Observation of Road Salt Aerosol Driving Inland Wintertime Atmospheric Chlorine Chemistry, 2020, ACS Central Science
  • Tidal Wetland Gross Primary Production Across the Continental United States, 2000-2019, 2020, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Direct partitioning of eddy-covariance water and carbon dioxide fluxes into ground and plant components, 2022, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

The research outputs have appeared frequently in journals such as:

  • ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Atmosphere

Jose D. Fuentes has collaborated extensively with a core group of co-authors, including:

  • Kerri A. Pratt
  • Stephen M. McNamara
  • Elie Bou-Zeid
  • Gabriel G. Katul
  • Marcelo Chamecki

Best Publications

  • FLUXNET: A New Tool to Study the Temporal and Spatial Variability of Ecosystem-Scale Carbon Dioxide, Water Vapor, and Energy Flux Densities

    Dennis Baldocchi;Eva Falge;Lianhong Gu;Richard Olson

  • Environmental controls over carbon dioxide and water vapor exchange of terrestrial vegetation

    B.E Law;E Falge;L Gu;D.D Baldocchi

  • Ecosystem carbon dioxide fluxes after disturbance in forests of North America

    B. D. Amiro;A. G. Barr;J. G. Barr;T. A. Black

  • Biogenic Hydrocarbons in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer: A Review

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

  • Contrasting convective regimes over the Amazon: Implications for cloud electrification

    E. Williams;D. Rosenfeld;N. Madden;J. Gerlach

  • Cloud and rain processes in a biosphere-atmosphere interaction context in the Amazon Region

    M. A. F. Silva Dias;S. Rutledge;P. Kabat;P. L. Silva Dias

  • Responses of net ecosystem exchanges of carbon dioxide to changes in cloudiness: Results from two North American deciduous forests

    Lianhong Gu;Jose D. Fuentes;Herman H. Shugart;Ralf M. Staebler

  • Snowpack photochemical production of HONO: A major source of OH in the Arctic boundary layer in springtime

    Xianliang Zhou;Harald J. Beine;Richard E. Honrath;Jose D. Fuentes

  • Urban pollution greatly enhances formation of natural aerosols over the Amazon rainforest

    Manish Shrivastava;Meinrat O. Andreae;Meinrat O. Andreae;Meinrat O. Andreae;Paulo Artaxo;Henrique M. J. Barbosa

  • Vegetation–microclimate feedbacks in woodland–grassland ecotones

    Paolo D'Odorico;Yufei He;Scott Collins;Stephan F. J. De Wekker

  • Comparing the carbon budgets of boreal and temperate deciduous forest stands

    A G Barr;T J Griffis;T A Black;X Lee

  • Predicting the onset of net carbon uptake by deciduous forests with soil temperature and climate data: a synthesis of FLUXNET data

    Dennis D. Baldocchi;T. A. Black;P. S. Curtis;E. Falge

  • Underestimation of volcanic cooling in tree-ring-based reconstructions of hemispheric temperatures

    Michael E. Mann;Jose D. Fuentes;Scott Rutherford

  • Controls on mangrove forest‐atmosphere carbon dioxide exchanges in western Everglades National Park

    Jordan G. Barr;Vic Engel;José D. Fuentes;Joseph C. Zieman

  • Long‐term observation of the atmospheric exchange of CO2 with a temperate deciduous forest in southern Ontario, Canada

    Xuhui Lee;Jose D. Fuentes;Ralf M. Staebler;Harold H. Neumann

  • Atmospheric mercury concentrations: measurements and profiles near snow and ice surfaces in the Canadian Arctic during Alert 2000

    Alexandra Steffen;William Schroeder;Jan Bottenheim;Julie Narayan

  • Radiative forcing of natural forest disturbances

    Thomas L. O'Halloran;Beverly E. Law;Michael L. Goulden;Zhuosen Wang

  • Positive feedback between microclimate and shrub encroachment in the northern Chihuahuan desert

    Paolo D'Odorico;Jose D. Fuentes;William T. Pockman;Scott L. Collins

  • Air pollution modifies floral scent trails

    Quinn S. McFrederick;James C. Kathilankal;Jose D. Fuentes

  • Satellite isoprene retrievals constrain emissions and atmospheric oxidation

    Kelley C. Wells;Dylan B. Millet;Vivienne H. Payne;M. Julian Deventer;M. Julian Deventer

  • Role of canopy-scale photochemistry in modifying biogenic-atmosphere exchange of reactive terpene species: Results from the CELTIC field study

    Craig Stroud;Craig Stroud;Paul Makar;Thomas Karl;Alex Guenther

  • Contrasting convective regimes over the Amazon: Implications for cloud electrification : Large-scale biosphere-atmosphere experiment in Amazonia (LBA)

    E. Williams;D. Rosenfeld;N. Madden;J. Gerlach

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio O. Manzi
Antonio O. Manzi National Institute for Space Research
Paolo D'Odorico
Paolo D'Odorico University of California, Berkeley
Michael Garstang
Michael Garstang University of Virginia
Paul C. Stoy
Paul C. Stoy University of Wisconsin–Madison
Dennis D. Baldocchi
Dennis D. Baldocchi University of California, Berkeley
Kerri A. Pratt
Kerri A. Pratt University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Lianhong Gu
Lianhong Gu Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Gabriel G. Katul
Gabriel G. Katul Duke University
Paul B. Shepson
Paul B. Shepson Stony Brook University
Alan K. Betts
Alan K. Betts Colorado State University

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