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Dr. Juan Henao Castaneda
Postdoctoral Researcher, Atmospheric Modeling
Phone 
775-674-7073
E-Mail 
Juan.Henao@www-dev.dri.edu
Campus 
Reno Campus
Division 
Atmospheric Sciences

Publications
2025
Hernández, K. S., Henao Castaneda, J. J., Gómez‐Ríos, S., Rendón, A. M., & Mejia, J. F. (2025). Spatio‐temporal representation of mesoscale convective systems in convection‐permitting simulations over Northwestern South America: Insights into rainfall overestimation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 130(7), e2024JD042289. Wiley Online Library. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD042289

Henao Castaneda, J. J., Mejia, J. F., Krayenhoff, E., Jiang, T., & Martilli, A. (2025). Effectiveness of street trees in reducing air temperature and outdoor heat exposure in Las Vegas. Environmental Research: Climate, 4(2), 025015. IOP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5295/ade17d

Mejia, J. F., Henao Castaneda, J. J., Krayenhoff, E. S., Martilli, A., Zonato, A., & Jiang, T. (2025). Strategies to mitigate urban heat: Effects on overheating and cloud formation. Urban Climate, 50, Article No. 102514. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2025.102514

Jiménez-García, M., Mejia, J. F., Henao Castaneda, J. J., Ávila, A. C., Jiménez-Sánchez, J. G., Martínez-Mancera, A. R., & Chicaeme-Ordoñez, K. A. (2025). Summertime Marine Fog Variability in King George Island, Antarctic Peninsula using Special Upper-air Observations and Cloud-Resolving Simulations. Weather Forecasting. https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-24-0110.1

2024
Robledo, V., Henao Castaneda, J. J., Mejia, J. F., Ramirez-Cardona, A., Hernandez, K., Gómez-Ríos, S., & Rendón, A. (2024). Climatological tracking and lifecycle characteristics of mesoscale convective systems in Northwestern South America. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129(19), e2024JD041159. Wiley Online Library. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD041159

Hernández, S., Gomez-Rios, S., Henao Castaneda, J. J., Robledo, V., Ramirez-Cardona, A., & Rendon, A. M. (2024). Rainfall Sensitivity to Microphysics and Planetary Boundary Layer Parameterizations in Convection-Permitting Simulations over Northwestern South America. Journal of Meteorological Research, 38(4), 805-825. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13351-024-3156-4

Mejia, J. F., Henao Castaneda, J. J., & Eslami, E. (2024). Role of clouds in the Urban Heat Island and extreme heat: Houston‐Galveston metropolitan area case. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129(17), e2024JD041243. Wiley Online Library. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD041243

2023
Henao Castaneda, J. J., Mejia, J. F., & McDonough, F. (2023). Impacts of anthropogenic aerosols on orographic precipitation in Arizona. Urban Climate, 49, Article No. 101561. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2023.101561

2021
Mejia, J. F., Yepes, L., Henao Castaneda, J. J., Poveda, G., Raymond, D. J., Fuchs-Stone, Z., & Zuluaga, M. D. (2021). Towards a mechanistic understanding of precipitation over the far eastern tropical Pacific and western Colombia, one of the rainiest spots on Earth. J. Geophys. Res. Atmospheres, 126(5). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD033415

Henao Castaneda, J. J., Rendón, A. M., Hernández, K. S., Giraldo-Ramirez, P. A., Robledo, V., Posada-Marín, J. A., Bernal, N., Salazar, J. F., Mejia, J. F. (2021). Differential Effects of the COVID-19 Lockdown and Regional Fire on the Air Quality of Medellín, Colombia, Atmosphere, 12 (9), 1137, 10.3390/atmos12091137

2020
Henao Castaneda, J. J., Mejia, J. F., Rendón, A. M., & Salazar, J. F. (2020). Sub-kilometer dispersion simulation of a CO tracer for an inter-Andean urban valley. Atmospheric Pollution Research, 11(5), 928-945. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.2020.02.005

Conference Proceedings
Mejia, J. F., Henao Castaneda, J. J. (2020). Mesoscale Convective Systems over the rainiest spot on Earth: OTREC field campaign and Cloud-Resolving Simulations. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: [Virtual]