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61
Citations
14852
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2754
National Ranking
1099

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • 2014 - Doctor Honoris Causa, School of Engineering, University of Uruguay
  • 1999 - Fellow of the American Meteorological Society

Overview

Carlos R. Mechoso is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions in Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. They have also worked in Oceanography, Environmental Engineering, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The main topics of Carlos R. Mechoso's research include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols

They have published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • Hydrological cycle changes under global warming and their effects on multiscale climate variability, 2020, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • Lagrangian Analysis of the Northern Stratospheric Polar Vortex Split in April 2020, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Remote effects of Tibetan Plateau spring land temperature on global subseasonal to seasonal precipitation prediction and comparison with effects of sea surface temperature: the GEWEX/LS4P Phase I experiment, 2023, Climate Dynamics
  • A multivariate assessment of climate change projections over South America using the fifth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, 2021, International Journal of Climatology
  • Changes in Interannual Tropical Atlantic-Pacific Basin Interactions Modulated by a South Atlantic Cooling, 2022, Journal of Climate

Carlos R. Mechoso frequently collaborates with several co-authors whose names appear multiple times in their publications:

  • Yongkang Xue
  • Paulo Nobre
  • Belén Rodríguez-Fonseca
  • Ismaïla Diallo
  • Aaron Boone

Their research has been published frequently in the following venues:

  • Climate Dynamics
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • International Journal of Climatology
  • Journal of Climate

Carlos R. Mechoso has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by World Scientific:

  • Atmosphere-Ocean Modeling, 2020 (cited twice)

Best Publications

  • Toward a unified view of the American monsoon systems

    Carolina Vera;W. Higgins;J. Amador;T. Ambrizzi

  • The Seasonal Cycle over the Tropical Pacific in Coupled Ocean Atmosphere General Circulation Models

    C.R. Mechoso;A.W. Robertson;N. Barth;M.K. Davey

  • A global perspective on CMIP5 climate model biases

    Chunzai Wang;Liping Zhang;Liping Zhang;Sang-Ki Lee;Sang-Ki Lee;Lixin Wu

  • STOIC: a study of coupled model climatology and variability in tropical ocean regions

    M. K. Davey;M. Huddleston;K. R. Sperber;P. Braconnot

  • Are Atlantic Niños enhancing Pacific ENSO events in recent decades

    Belén Rodríguez-Fonseca;Irene Polo;Javier García-Serrano;Teresa Losada

  • Relationships between Precipitation Anomalies in Uruguay and Southern Brazil and Sea Surface Temperature in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans

    Alvaro F. Diaz;Caarem D. Studzinski;Carlos R. Mechoso

  • Peruvian Stratus Clouds and the Tropical Pacific Circulation: A Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere GCM Study

    Chung-Chun Ma;Carlos R. Mechoso;Andrew W. Robertson;Akio Arakawa

  • ENSIP: The El Niño simulation intercomparison project

    Mojib Latif;K. Sperber;J. Arblaster;P. Braconnot

  • Interannual and Interdecadal Variability of the South Atlantic Convergence Zone

    Andrew W. Robertson;Carlos R. Mechoso

  • The VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study Regional Experiment (VOCALS-REx): goals, platforms, and field operations

    R. Wood;C. R. Mechoso;C. S. Bretherton;R. A. Weller

  • Interannual and Decadal Cycles in River Flows of Southeastern South America

    Andrew W. Robertson;Carlos R. Mechoso

  • The Influence of Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies on the North Atlantic Oscillation

    Andrew W. Robertson;Carlos R. Mechoso;Young-Joon Kim

  • Tropical air-sea interaction in general circulation models

    J. D. Neelin;Mojib Latif;M. A. F. Allaart;M. A. Cane

  • Global Meteorological Drought: A Synthesis of Current Understanding with a Focus on SST Drivers of Precipitation Deficits

    Siegfried D. Schubert;Ronald E. Stewart;Hailan Wang;Mathew A. Barlow

  • El Niño-Southern Oscillation Impact on Rainfall in Uruguay

    Gabriel Pisciottano;Alvaro Díaz;Gabriel Cazess;Carlos R. Mechoso

  • A Recent Increasing Trend in the Streamflow of Rivers in Southeastern South America

    José L. Genta;Gonzalo Perez-Iribarren;Carlos R. Mechoso

  • The GCM–Reality Intercomparison Project for SPARC (GRIPS): Scientific Issues and Initial Results

    Steven Pawson;Steven Pawson;Steven Pawson;K. Kodera;K. Hamilton;T. G. Shepherd

  • Streamflow in Southeastern South America and the Southern Oscillation

    Carlos R. Mechoso;Gonzalo Perez Iribarren

  • A Recent Systematic Increase in Vapor Pressure Deficit over Tropical South America

    Armineh Barkhordarian;Sassan S. Saatchi;Sassan S. Saatchi;Ali Behrangi;Paul C. Loikith

  • Variability and predictability of West African droughts: a review on the role of sea surface temperature anomalies.

    Belen Rodríguez-Fonseca;Elsa Mohino;Carlos R. Mechoso;Cyril Caminade

  • Seasonal Dependence of ENSO Teleconnections over South America and Relationships with Precipitation in Uruguay

    Gabriel Cazes-Boezio;Andrew W. Robertson;Carlos R. Mechoso

Frequent Co-Authors

Akio Arakawa
Akio Arakawa University of California, Los Angeles
Andrew W. Robertson
Andrew W. Robertson Columbia University
Yongkang Xue
Yongkang Xue University of California, Los Angeles
Jin-Yi Yu
Jin-Yi Yu University of California, Irvine
Fred Kucharski
Fred Kucharski International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Stephen Wiggins
Stephen Wiggins University of Bristol
Richard L. Walterscheid
Richard L. Walterscheid The Aerospace Corporation
Gerald Schubert
Gerald Schubert University of California, Los Angeles
Christopher S. Bretherton
Christopher S. Bretherton University of Washington
Michael Ghil
Michael Ghil École Normale Supérieure

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