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Juan Pedro Montávez

Juan Pedro Montávez

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
35
Citations
4925
World Ranking
9312
National Ranking
295

Overview

Juan Pedro Montávez is affiliated with the University of Murcia in Spain. Their research primarily intersects the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable focus on the subfields of Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's main topics of investigation include climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, as well as atmospheric aerosols and clouds. Additional areas of focus encompass hydrology and drought analysis, atmospheric ozone and climate, and tropical and extratropical cyclones research.

Juan Pedro Montávez has contributed to several recent papers published in peer-reviewed journals. Key publications include:

  • Regional climate downscaling over Europe: perspectives from the EURO-CORDEX community, 2020, Regional Environmental Change
  • On the Spin-Up Period in WRF Simulations Over Europe: Trade-Offs Between Length and Seasonality, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Precipitation response to aerosol-radiation and aerosol-cloud interactions in regional climate simulations over Europe, 2021, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Sensitivity of surface solar radiation to aerosol-radiation and aerosol-cloud interactions over Europe in WRFv3.6.1 climatic runs with fully interactive aerosols, 2021, Geoscientific Model Development
  • Added Value of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions for Representing Aerosol Optical Depth in an Online Coupled Climate-Chemistry Model over Europe, 2020, Atmosphere

Collaborations feature prominently in their work, with frequent co-authors including Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero, Amar Halifa-Marín, Sónia Jerez, Enrique Pravia-Sarabia, and Juan José Gómez-Navarro.

Juan Pedro Montávez's research output has been published extensively across several venues, most notably:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Atmosphere
  • Atmospheric Research
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Their research contributions emphasize the integration of climate modeling techniques, atmospheric chemistry, and aerosol-cloud interactions to better understand regional climate dynamics and environmental variability. This work is reflected in their multidisciplinary publication record and collaborative co-authorship network.

Best Publications

  • Exacerbated fires in Mediterranean Europe due to anthropogenic warming projected with non-stationary climate-fire models.

    Marco Turco;Juan José Rosa-Cánovas;Joaquín Bedia;Sonia Jerez

  • The impact of climate change on photovoltaic power generation in Europe

    Sandra Jerez;Isabelle Tobin;Robert Vautard;Juan Pedro Montavez

  • Regional climate downscaling over Europe: perspectives from the EURO-CORDEX community

    Daniela Jacob;Claas Teichmann;Stefan Sobolowski;Eleni Katragkou

  • A study of the urban heat island of Granada

    Juan P. Montávez;Antonio Rodríguez;Juan I. Jiménez

  • Surface Wind Regionalization over Complex Terrain: Evaluation and Analysis of a High-Resolution WRF Simulation

    Pedro A. Jiménez;J. Fidel González-Rouco;Elena García-Bustamante;Jorge Navarro

  • The Impact of the North Atlantic Oscillation on Renewable Energy Resources in Southwestern Europe

    S. Jerez;R. M. Trigo;R. M. Trigo;S. M. Vicente-Serrano;D. Pozo-Vázquez

  • Natural and anthropogenic modes of surface temperature variations in the last thousand years

    E. Zorita;J. F. González-Rouco;H. von Storch;J. P. Montávez

  • Sensitivity of the MM5 mesoscale model to physical parameterizations for regional climate studies: Annual cycle

    J. Fernández;J. P. Montávez;J. Sáenz;J. F. González-Rouco

  • Climatology of wind patterns in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula

    Pedro A. Jiménez;J. Fidel González-Rouco;Juan P. Montávez;Elena García-Bustamante

  • Estimating 750 years of temperature variations and uncertainties in the Pyrenees by tree-ring reconstructions and climate simulations

    I. Dorado Liñán;U. Büntgen;F. González-Rouco;Eduardo Zorita

  • Spatio-temporal Complementarity between Solar and Wind Power in the Iberian Peninsula☆

    S. Jerez;R.M. Trigo;A. Sarsa;R. Lorente-Plazas

  • A multi-physics ensemble of present-day climate regional simulations over the Iberian Peninsula

    Sonia Jerez;Sonia Jerez;Juan Pedro Montavez;Pedro Jimenez-Guerrero;Juan Jose Gomez-Navarro

  • What is the role of the observational dataset in the evaluation and scoring of climate models

    J. J. Gómez-Navarro;J. P. Montávez;S. Jerez;P. Jiménez-Guerrero

  • A regional climate simulation over the Iberian Peninsula for the last millennium

    J. J. Gómez-Navarro;J. P. Montávez;S. Jerez;P. Jiménez-Guerrero

  • Surface Wind Regionalization in Complex Terrain

    P. A. Jimenez;J. F. Gonzalez-Rouco;J. P. Montavez;J. Navarro

  • Quality Assurance of Surface Wind Observations from Automated Weather Stations

    Pedro A. Jiménez;J. Fidel González-Rouco;Jorge Navarro;Juan P. Montávez

  • Future changes, or lack thereof, in the temporal variability of the combined wind-plus-solar power production in Europe

    S. Jerez;I. Tobin;M. Turco;P. Jiménez-Guerrero

  • A comparison of methodologies for monthly wind energy estimation

    E. García-Bustamante;J. F. González-Rouco;P. A. Jiménez;J. Navarro

  • Present-climate precipitation and temperature extremes over Spain from a set of high resolution RCMs

    Marta Domínguez;Raquel Romera;Enrique Sánchez;Lluis Fita

  • An evaluation of WRF's ability to reproduce the surface wind over complex terrain based on typical circulation patterns

    P. A. Jiménez;J. Dudhia;J. F. González-Rouco;J. P. Montávez

  • Consistency of climate change projections from multiple global and regional model intercomparison projects

    J. Fernández;M. D. Frías;W. D. Cabos;A. S. Cofiño

Frequent Co-Authors

Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero
Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero University of Murcia
Ricardo M. Trigo
Ricardo M. Trigo University of Lisbon
J. Fidel González-Rouco
J. Fidel González-Rouco Complutense University of Madrid
Christoph C. Raible
Christoph C. Raible University of Bern
Jimy Dudhia
Jimy Dudhia National Center for Atmospheric Research
Marco Turco
Marco Turco University of Murcia
Jürg Luterbacher
Jürg Luterbacher University of Giessen
Jorge A. R. Navarro
Jorge A. R. Navarro University of Granada
Eduardo Zorita
Eduardo Zorita Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Olivia Martius
Olivia Martius University of Bern

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