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2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
62
Citations
13419
World Ranking
2613
National Ranking
101

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award

Overview

Laurent Menut is affiliated with École Polytechnique in France and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research focuses primarily on Atmospheric Science, with notable work in Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The main topics of their research include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting, and Fire effects on ecosystems.

Laurent Menut has authored papers in various scientific venues, with frequent publications in Geoscientific Model Development and Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. Other journals where they have published include Atmosphere, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, and The Science of The Total Environment.

Recent publications demonstrate a focus on air quality and atmospheric modeling. Selected papers include:

  • Impact of lockdown measures to combat Covid-19 on air quality over western Europe, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • The CHIMERE v2020r1 online chemistry-transport model, 2021, Geoscientific Model Development
  • Response of surface ozone concentration to emission reduction and meteorology during the COVID-19 lockdown in Europe, 2021, Meteorological Applications
  • Black carbon health impacts in the Indo-Gangetic plain: Exposures, risks, and mitigation, 2022, Science Advances
  • High Resolution Chemistry Transport Modeling with the On-Line CHIMERE-WRF Model over the French Alps-Analysis of a Feedback of Surface Particulate Matter Concentrations on Mountain Meteorology, 2020, Atmosphere

Laurent Menut's research collaborations involve frequent co-authors including Sylvain Mailler, Arineh Cholakian, Bertrand Bessagnet, Guillaume Siour, and Romain Pennel. These collaborations have contributed to a sustained output of publications.

Best Publications

  • EURO-CORDEX : new high-resolution climate change projections for European impact research

    Daniela Jacob;Juliane Petersen;Bastian Eggert;Antoinette Alias

  • CHIMERE 2013: a model for regional atmospheric composition modelling

    Laurent Menut;Bertrand Bessagnet;D. Khvorostyanov;Matthias Beekmann

  • Urban boundary-layer height determination from lidar measurements over the paris area.

    Laurent Menut;Cyrille Flamant;Jacques Pelon;Pierre H. Flamant

  • Impact of lockdown measures to combat Covid-19 on air quality over western Europe.

    Laurent Menut;Bertrand Bessagnet;Guillaume Siour;Sylvain Mailler

  • A regional air quality forecasting system over Europe : the MACC-II daily ensemble production

    V. Marecal;V. H Peuch;Camilla Andersson;S. Andersson

  • Wildfire particulate matter in Europe during summer 2003: meso-scale modeling of smoke emissions, transport and radiative effects

    A. Hodzic;S. Madronich;B. Bohn;S. Massie

  • Modeling of gas and aerosol with WRF/Chem over Europe: Evaluation and sensitivity study

    Paolo Tuccella;Gabriele Curci;Guido Visconti;Bertrand Bessagnet

  • CHIMERE-2017 : from urban to hemispheric chemistry-transport modeling

    Sylvain Mailler;Sylvain Mailler;Laurent Menut;Dmitry Khvorostyanov;Myrto Valari

  • Regional modeling of carbonaceous aerosols over Europe—focus on secondary organic aerosols

    Bertrand Bessagnet;Laurent Menut;Gabriele Curci;Alma Hodzic

  • On the contribution of natural Aeolian sources to particulate matter concentrations in Europe: Testing hypotheses with a modelling approach

    Robert Vautard;Bertrand Bessagnet;Mian Chin;Laurent Menut

  • Predictability of European air quality: Assessment of 3 years of operational forecasts and analyses by the PREV'AIR system

    Cécile Honoré;Laurence Rouïl;Robert Vautard;Matthias Beekmann

  • Prev'air: An Operational Forecasting and Mapping System for Air Quality in Europe

    Laurence Rouil;Cécile Honore;Robert Vautard;Matthias Beekmann

  • Have primary emission reduction measures reduced ozone across Europe? An analysis of European rural background ozone trends 1996–2005

    R. C. Wilson;Z. L. Fleming;P. S. Monks;G. Clain

  • Parameterization of the Dry Convective Boundary Layer Based on a Mass Flux Representation of Thermals

    Frédéric Hourdin;Fleur Couvreux;Laurent Menut

  • Presentation of the EURODELTA III intercomparison exercise-evaluation of the chemistry transport models' performance on criteria pollutants and joint analysis with meteorology

    Bertrand Bessagnet;Guido Pirovano;Mihaela Mircea;Cornelius Cuvelier

  • Comparison between the atmospheric boundary layer in Paris and its rural suburbs during the ECLAP experiment

    E. Dupont;L. Menut;B. Carissimo;J. Pelon

  • Overview of the Chemistry-Aerosol Mediterranean Experiment/Aerosol Direct Radiative Forcing on the Mediterranean Climate (ChArMEx/ADRIMED) summer 2013 campaign

    Marc Mallet;François Dulac;Paola Formenti;Pierre Nabat

  • O3‐NOx‐VOC sensitivity and NOx‐VOC indicators in Paris: Results from models and Atmospheric Pollution Over the Paris Area (ESQUIF) measurements

    Sanford Sillman;Robert Vautard;Laurent Menut;Dieter Kley

  • Adjoint modeling for atmospheric pollution process sensitivity at regional scale

    Laurent Menut

  • Impact of realistic hourly emissions profiles on air pollutants concentrations modelled with CHIMERE

    Laurent Menut;Arnaud Goussebaile;Bertrand Bessagnet;Dmitry Khvorostiyanov

Frequent Co-Authors

Bertrand Bessagnet
Bertrand Bessagnet École Normale Supérieure
Robert Vautard
Robert Vautard École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
Augustin Colette
Augustin Colette Stanford University
Solène Turquety
Solène Turquety École Polytechnique
Matthias Beekmann
Matthias Beekmann Paris-Est Créteil University
Alma Hodzic
Alma Hodzic National Center for Atmospheric Research
Vincent-Henri Peuch
Vincent-Henri Peuch European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Sophie Szopa
Sophie Szopa Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
Cyrille Flamant
Cyrille Flamant Sorbonne University
Alessandro Anav
Alessandro Anav National Agency For New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development

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