Extreme Events
We analyze climate and weather extreme events from different perspectives based on modeled, observed and reconstructed data and tools developed in our other Research Lines. We focus on droughts, heatwaves and storms in the past, present and future, investigating their underlying physical mechanisms and impacts on human and societies. We also study extreme episodes occurring in the stratosphere with high-impact on surface climate.
Related Projects
JeDiS (Jet Dynamics and extremeS) Contract no. RTI2018-096402-B-I00. MICINN (Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovaci¨®n y Universidades), Proyectos de I+D+I Retos de la Sociedad 2018. Funding: 145.200 ¢ã. PI: B. Ayarzag¨¹ena and R. Garc¨ªa. 2019-2021.
ISIpedia (The open inter-sectoral impacts encyclopedia). Funding: ERA4CS Joint Call on Researching and Advancing Climate Services Development. PI: Cristina Peña-Ortiz. 2017-2020.
ENAC (Evolution of North Atlantic Climate; the role of Blocking and Storm-tracks in the Past, Present and Future climate of Southern Europe) PTDC/AAC-CLI/103567/2008. Funding Agency: FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portuguese Government). Funding: 135.000 €. PI: R.M. Trigo. 2010-2012
Supercomputign and e-Science CSD 2007-00050. Funding Agency: MEC, CONSOLIDER. PI: Mateo Valero Cortés. 2007-2011
IMPACTE (Impactos na Saúde em Portugal de Eventos Extremos: Passado, Presente e Futuro). Funding Agency: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Portugal). Funding: 74.000 €. PI: Ricardo Trigo. 2006-2008.
Selected Publications
Vicente-Serrano S.M., García-Herrera R., Barriopedro D., Azorín-Molina C., López-Moreno J.I., Gimeno L., Nieto R. (2016): The Westerly Index as complementary indicator of the North Atlantic Oscillation in explaining drought variability across Europe. Climate Dynamics, 47 (3), 845–863. doi:10.1007/s00382-015-2875-8.
Calvo, N., Polvani, L. M. and Solomon, S. (2015): On the surface impact of Arctic stratospheric ozone extremes. Environmental Research Letters, 10(9), 094003.
Trigo R.M., Añel J.A., Barriopedro D., García-Herrera R., Gimeno L., Nieto R., Castillo R., Allen M.R., and Massey N. (2013): The Record Winter Drought of 2011-12 in the Iberian Peninsula at “Explaining Extreme Events of 2012 from a Climate Perspective”. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 94 (9), S6–S9. doi:10.1007/s10584-009-9732-x
Barriopedro D., Fischer E.M., Luterbacher L., Trigo R.M., García-Herrera R. (2011): The hot summer of 2010: redrawing the temperature record map of Europe. Science, 332, 6026, 220-224, doi: 10.1126/science.1201224
Barriopedro D., Gouveia C., Trigo R.M., Wang L. (2012): The 2009-2010 drought in China: possible causes and impacts on vegetation. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 13, 1251-1267. doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-11-074.1
De la Torre L., García R.R., Barriopedro D., Chandran A. (2012): Climatology and Characteristics of Stratospheric Sudden Warmings in the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model. Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, doi:10.1029/2011JD016840.
Gómez-Escolar, M., Fueglistaler S., Calvo N., Barriopedro D. (2012): Changes in polar stratospheric temperature climatology in relation to stratospheric sudden warming occurrence. Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L22802, doi:10.1029/2012GL053632.
Barriopedro D., Fischer E.M., Luterbacher L., Trigo R.M., García-Herrera R. (2011): The hot summer of 2010: redrawing the temperature record map of Europe. Science, 332, 6026, 220-224, doi: 10.1126/science.1201224.
Barriopedro D., Antón M., García J.A. (2010): Atmospheric blocking signatures in total ozone and ozone mini-holes. Journal of Climate, 23, 14, 3967-3983, doi: 10.1175/2010JCLI3508.1.
Castanheira J.M., Barriopedro D. (2010): Dynamical connection between tropospheric blockings and stratospheric polar vortex. Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L13809, doi: 10.1029/2010GL043819.
García-Herrera R., Díaz J., Trigo R.M., Luterbacher J., Fischer E.M. (2010):A review of the European summer heat wave of 2003. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 40 (4), 267-306, doi: 10.1080/10643380802238137.
García-Herrera, R., Díaz J., Trigo R.M., Hernández E. (2005): Extreme summer temperatures in Iberia: health impacts and associated synoptic conditions. Annales Geophysicae, 23, 239 - 251.
Universidad Complutense de Madrid