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Gonzalo Miguez-Macho is affiliated with the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on fields within Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, encompassing a total of 40 and 24 publications in these areas respectively.

The scientist's work is distributed among several subfields, including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Soil Science
  • Ecology
  • Plant Science

Key research topics covered by Gonzalo Miguez-Macho include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Tree-ring climate responses

Selected recent papers illustrate the range and focus of their research:

  • Spatiotemporal origin of soil water taken up by vegetation, 2021, Nature
  • Spatial and temporal expansion of global wildland fire activity in response to climate change, 2022, Nature Communications
  • CONUS404: The NCAR-USGS 4-km Long-Term Regional Hydroclimate Reanalysis over the CONUS, 2023, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Understanding precipitation recycling over the Tibetan Plateau using tracer analysis with WRF, 2020, Climate Dynamics
  • A unifying modelling of multiple land degradation pathways in Europe, 2024, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Miguez-Macho include:

  • Damián Insúa-Costa
  • Martín Senande-Rivera
  • María Carmen Llasat
  • Fei Chen
  • Ying Fan

The scientist's publications have appeared regularly in several venues known for environmental and climate science research. These include:

  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Nature Communications
  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Hydrology and earth system sciences

Best Publications

  • Global patterns of groundwater table depth.

    Y. Fan;H. Li;G. Miguez-Macho

  • Hydrologic regulation of plant rooting depth

    Ying Fan;Gonzalo Miguez-Macho;Esteban G. Jobbágy;Robert B. Jackson

  • Spectral nudging to eliminate the effects of domain position and geometry in regional climate model simulations

    Gonzalo Miguez-Macho;Georgiy L. Stenchikov;Alan Robock

  • Incorporating water table dynamics in climate modeling: 1. Water table observations and equilibrium water table simulations

    Ying Fan;Gonzalo Miguez-Macho;Christopher P. Weaver;Robert Walko

  • Spatiotemporal origin of soil water taken up by vegetation.

    Gonzalo Miguez-Macho;Ying Fan

  • The role of groundwater in the Amazon water cycle: 1. Influence on seasonal streamflow, flooding and wetlands

    Gonzalo Miguez-Macho;Ying Fan

  • Incorporating water table dynamics in climate modeling: 2. Formulation, validation, and soil moisture simulation

    Gonzalo Miguez-Macho;Ying Fan;Christopher P. Weaver;Robert Walko

  • The role of groundwater in the Amazon water cycle: 2. Influence on seasonal soil moisture and evapotranspiration

    Gonzalo Miguez-Macho;Ying Fan

  • Incorporating water table dynamics in climate modeling: 3. Simulated groundwater influence on coupled land‐atmosphere variability

    Richard O. Anyah;Christopher P. Weaver;Christopher P. Weaver;Gonzalo Miguez-Macho;Ying Fan

  • The effect of groundwater interaction in North American regional climate simulations with WRF/Noah-MP

    Michael Barlage;Mukul Tewari;Fei Chen;Gonzalo Miguez-Macho

  • Wind power forecasting for a real onshore wind farm on complex terrain using WRF high resolution simulations

    Miguel A. Prósper;Carlos Otero-Casal;Felipe Canoura Fernández;Gonzalo Miguez-Macho

  • Modeling seasonal snowpack evolution in the complex terrain and forested colorado headwaters region: A model intercomparison study

    Fei Chen;Michael Barlage;Mukul Tewari;Roy Rasmussen

  • A simple hydrologic framework for simulating wetlands in climate and earth system models

    Ying Fan;Gonzalo Miguez-Macho

  • Mechanisms of water supply and vegetation demand govern the seasonality and magnitude of evapotranspiration in Amazonia and Cerrado

    Bradley O. Christoffersen;Natalia Restrepo-Coupe;Natalia Restrepo-Coupe;M. Altaf Arain;Ian T. Baker

  • High-Resolution Modeling of Reservoir Release and Storage Dynamics at the Continental Scale

    Sanghoon Shin;Yadu Pokhrel;Gonzalo Miguez‐Macho

  • The role of groundwater in the Amazon water cycle: 3. Influence on terrestrial water storage computations and comparison with GRACE

    Yadu N. Pokhrel;Ying Fan;Gonzalo Miguez-Macho;Pat J.F. Yeh

  • Potential groundwater contribution to Amazon evapotranspiration

    Y. Fan;G. Miguez-Macho

  • CONUS404: The NCAR-USGS 4-km long-term regional hydroclimate reanalysis over the CONUS

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  • The Importance of Scale-Dependent Groundwater Processes in Land-Atmosphere Interactions Over the Central United States

    Michael Barlage;Fei Chen;Roy Rasmussen;Zhe Zhang

  • A new moisture tagging capability in the Weather Research and Forecasting model: formulation, validation and application to the 2014 Great Lake-effect snowstorm

    Damián Insua-Costa;Gonzalo Miguez-Macho

  • Seasonal variations in North Atlantic atmospheric river activity and associations with anomalous precipitation over the Iberian Atlantic Margin

    Jorge Eiras-Barca;Swen Brands;Swen Brands;Swen Brands;Gonzalo Miguez-Macho

  • Climatic effects of 30 years of landscape change over the Greater Phoenix, Arizona, region: 1. Surface energy budget changes

    M. Georgescu;M. Georgescu;G. Miguez-Macho;L. T. Steyaert;C. P. Weaver;C. P. Weaver

Frequent Co-Authors

Ying Fan
Ying Fan Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Maria Carmen Llasat
Maria Carmen Llasat University of Barcelona
Yadu Pokhrel
Yadu Pokhrel Michigan State University
Zong-Liang Yang
Zong-Liang Yang The University of Texas at Austin
Carl J. Bernacchi
Carl J. Bernacchi University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fei Chen
Fei Chen National Center for Atmospheric Research
Raquel Nieto
Raquel Nieto Universidade de Vigo
Luis Gimeno
Luis Gimeno Universidade de Vigo
Alan Robock
Alan Robock Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Natalia Restrepo-Coupe
Natalia Restrepo-Coupe University of Technology Sydney

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