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Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo

Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo

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Environmental Sciences
Spain
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
46
Citations
9252
World Ranking
6010
National Ranking
162

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo is affiliated with the University of Extremadura in Spain. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with particular emphasis on global and planetary change, atmospheric science, and modeling and simulation.

The scientist's work covers topics such as atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric ozone and climate, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, the impact of COVID-19 on air quality, solar radiation and photovoltaics, and climate change and health impacts.

Recent publications include the following papers:

  • Evidence for Clear-Sky Dimming and Brightening in Central Europe, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Did anomalous atmospheric circulation favor the spread of COVID-19 in Europe?, 2020, Environmental Research
  • Predictive value of three thermal comfort indices in low temperatures on cardiovascular morbidity in the Iberian peninsula, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • A Revisit of Direct and Diffuse Solar Radiation in China Based on Homogeneous Surface Observations: Climatology, Trends, and Their Probable Causes, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • A hybrid method for reconstructing the historical evolution of aerosol optical depth from sunshine duration measurements, 2020, Atmospheric measurement techniques

Frequent coauthors of Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo include Martin Wild, M. Antón, Javier Vaquero-Martínez, Ana Santurtún, and Josep Calbó.

Common publication venues for their research are:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • International Journal of Climatology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Environmental Research

The main fields of study associated with their body of work are environmental science with 18 publications and earth and planetary sciences with 13 publications.

Subfields within these areas include global and planetary change with 14 publications, atmospheric science with 13, modeling and simulation with 4, artificial intelligence with 4, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis with 4 publications.

Best Publications

  • Response of vegetation to drought time-scales across global land biomes

    Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;Célia Gouveia;Célia Gouveia;Jesús Julio Camarero;Santiago Beguería

  • Performance of Drought Indices for Ecological, Agricultural, and Hydrological Applications

    Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;Santiago Beguería;Jorge Lorenzo-Lacruz;Jesús Julio Camarero

  • Evidence of increasing drought severity caused by temperature rise in southern Europe

    Sergio M Vicente-Serrano;Juan-I Lopez-Moreno;Santiago Beguería;Jorge Lorenzo-Lacruz

  • Homogenization and Assessment of Observed Near-Surface Wind Speed Trends over Spain and Portugal, 1961–2011*

    Cesar Azorin-Molina;Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;Tim R. McVicar;Sonia Jerez

  • Trends and Variability of Surface Solar Radiation in Europe Based On Surface- and Satellite-Based Data Records

    Uwe Pfeifroth;Arturo Sanchez‐Lorenzo;Arturo Sanchez‐Lorenzo;Veronica Manara;Jörg Trentmann

  • Iberia winter rainfall trends based upon changes in teleconnection and circulation patterns

    Joan-Albert Lopez-Bustins;Javier Martin-Vide;Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo

  • Reference evapotranspiration variability and trends in Spain, 1961–2011

    Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;Cesar Azorin-Molina;Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo;Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo;Jesús Revuelto

  • Dimming/brightening over the Iberian Peninsula: Trends in sunshine duration and cloud cover and their relations with atmospheric circulation

    Arturo Sanchez‐Lorenzo;Josep Calbó;Michele Brunetti;Clara Deser

  • Contribution of anthropogenic sulfate aerosols to the changing Euro-Mediterranean climate since 1980

    Pierre Nabat;Samuel Somot;Marc Mallet;Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo

  • Spatial and Temporal Trends in Sunshine Duration over Western Europe (1938–2004)

    Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo;Josep Calbó;Javier Martin-Vide

  • Climate warming and associated changes in atmospheric circulation in the eastern and central Tibetan plateau from a homogenized dataset

    Qinglong You;Qinglong You;Shichang Kang;Nick Pepin;Wolfgang-Albert Flügel

  • Reassessment and update of long-term trends in downward surface shortwave radiation over Europe (1939–2012)

    Arturo Sánchez-Lorenzo;Arturo Sánchez-Lorenzo;Martin Wild;Michele Brunetti;José A. Guijarro

  • Recent spatial and temporal variability and trends of sunshine duration over the Iberian Peninsula from a homogenized data set

    Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo;Michele Brunetti;Josep Calbó;Javier Martin-Vide

  • Sensitivity of reference evapotranspiration to changes in meteorological parameters in Spain (1961–2011)

    Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;Cesar Azorin-Molina;Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo;Jesús Revuelto

  • The complex influence of ENSO on droughts in Ecuador

    S. M. Vicente-Serrano;E. Aguilar;R. Martínez;N. Martín-Hernández

  • Global and diffuse solar radiation in Spain: Building a homogeneous dataset and assessing their trends

    A. Sanchez-Lorenzo;J. Calbó;M. Wild

  • The Global Energy Balance Archive (GEBA) version 2017: a database for worldwide measured surface energy fluxes

    Martin Wild;Atsumu Ohmura;Christoph Schär;Guido Müller

  • Spatial representativeness of ground-based solar radiation measurements

    M. Z. Hakuba;D. Folini;A. Sanchez-Lorenzo;A. Sanchez-Lorenzo;M. Wild

  • Climate trends and variability in Ecuador (1966–2011)

    Enrique Morán-Tejeda;Juan Bazo;Juan I. López-Moreno;Enric Aguilar

  • Evidence for Clear-Sky Dimming and Brightening in Central Europe

    Martin Wild;Stephan Wacker;Su Yang;Arturo Sanchez‐Lorenzo

  • Temporal evolution of surface humidity in Spain: recent trends and possible physical mechanisms

    Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;Cesar Azorin-Molina;Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo;Enrique Morán-Tejeda

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Wild
Martin Wild ETH Zurich
Cesar Azorin-Molina
Cesar Azorin-Molina Spanish National Research Council
Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano
Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano Spanish National Research Council
Juan I. López-Moreno
Juan I. López-Moreno Spanish National Research Council
Enrique Morán-Tejeda
Enrique Morán-Tejeda University of the Balearic Islands
Jesús Revuelto
Jesús Revuelto Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología
Javier Martin-Vide
Javier Martin-Vide University of Barcelona
Qinglong You
Qinglong You Fudan University
Maurizio Maugeri
Maurizio Maugeri University of Milan
Santiago Beguería
Santiago Beguería Spanish National Research Council

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