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Environmental Sciences
Spain
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
62
Citations
13473
World Ranking
2611
National Ranking
65

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Luis Gimeno is a researcher affiliated with the Universidade de Vigo in Spain, specializing primarily in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans a broad range of topics related to climate variability, meteorological phenomena, and hydrological processes.

Their recent published papers include:

  • Global water availability boosted by vegetation-driven changes in atmospheric moisture transport, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • The residence time of water vapour in the atmosphere, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Significant increase of global anomalous moisture uptake feeding landfalling Atmospheric Rivers, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Extreme precipitation events, 2022, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water
  • Climate Perspectives in the Intra-Americas Seas, 2020, Atmosphere

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Raquel Nieto
  • Albenis Pérez-Alarcón
  • José C. Fernández-Alvarez
  • Rogert Sorí
  • Ricardo M. Trigo

The scientist's work is commonly published in venues such as:

  • Atmospheric Research
  • Atmosphere
  • Weather and Climate Extremes
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Their research fields encompass:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these fields, their focus includes specific subfields:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Oceanography
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Main topics addressed in their publications cover:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis

Best Publications

  • Oceanic and terrestrial sources of continental precipitation

    Luis Gimeno;Andreas Stohl;Ricardo M. Trigo;Ricardo M. Trigo;Francina Dominguez

  • On the origin of continental precipitation

    Luis Gimeno;Anita Drumond;Raquel Nieto;Ricardo M. Trigo;Ricardo M. Trigo

  • Atmospheric rivers: a mini-review

    Luis Gimeno;Raquel Nieto;Marta Vázquez;David A. Lavers

  • Trends and extremes of drought indices throughout the 20th century in the Mediterranean

    P. M. Sousa;R. M. Trigo;R. M. Trigo;P. Aizpurua;R. Nieto;R. Nieto

  • Major Mechanisms of Atmospheric Moisture Transport and Their Role in Extreme Precipitation Events

    Luis Gimeno;Francina Dominguez;Raquel Nieto;Raquel Nieto;Ricardo Trigo

  • Explaining Extreme Events of 2012 from a Climate Perspective

    T.C. Peterson;L.V. Alexander;M.R. Allen;J.A. Anel;J.A. Anel

  • Global water availability boosted by vegetation-driven changes in atmospheric moisture transport

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  • Climatological Features of Cutoff Low Systems in the Northern Hemisphere

    Raquel Nieto;Luis Gimeno;Laura de la Torre;Pedro Ribera

  • Mediterranean climate variability over the last centuries: a review

    Jürg Luterbacher;Elena Xoplaki;Carlo Casty;Heinz Wanner

  • Europe, China and the United States: Three different approaches to the development of offshore wind energy

    M. deCastro;S. Salvador;M. Gómez-Gesteira;X. Costoya

  • A multiscalar global evaluation of the impact of ENSO on droughts

    Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;Juan I. López-Moreno;Luis Gimeno;Raquel Nieto

  • Challenges for drought mitigation in Africa: The potential use of geospatial data and drought information systems

    Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;Santiago Beguería;Luis Gimeno;Lars Eklundh

  • Recent progress on the sources of continental precipitation as revealed by moisture transport analysis

    Luis Gimeno;Marta Vázquez;Marta Vázquez;Marta Vázquez;Jorge Eiras-Barca;Jorge Eiras-Barca;Rogert Sorí;Rogert Sorí

  • A Lagrangian identification of major sources of moisture over Central Brazil and La Plata Basin

    Anita Drumond;Anita Drumond;Raquel Nieto;Raquel Nieto;Luis Gimeno;Tercio Ambrizzi

  • The role of the Amazon Basin moisture in the atmospheric branch of the hydrological cycle: a Lagrangian analysis

    A. Drumond;J. Marengo;Tercio Ambrizzi;R. Nieto

  • Chapter 3 Relations between variability in the Mediterranean region and mid-latitude variability

    Ricardo Trigo;Elena Xoplaki;Eduardo Zorita;Jürg Luterbacher

  • Moisture sources for Central America: Identification of moisture sources using a Lagrangian analysis technique

    Ana María Durán-Quesada;L. Gimeno;J. A. Amador;R. Nieto

  • Where does the Iberian Peninsula moisture come from? An answer based on a Lagrangian approach.

    Luis Gimeno;Raquel Nieto;Ricardo M. Trigo;Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano

  • The European 2016/17 Drought

    Ricardo García-Herrera;Jose M. Garrido-Perez;David Barriopedro;Carlos Ordóñez

  • A Lagrangian identification of major sources of Sahel moisture

    Raquel Nieto;Raquel Nieto;Luis Gimeno;Luis Gimeno;Ricardo M. Trigo;Ricardo M. Trigo

  • Links between circulation weather types and teleconnection patterns and their influence on precipitation patterns in Galicia (NW Spain)

    M. N. Lorenzo;J. J. Taboada;L. Gimeno

Frequent Co-Authors

Raquel Nieto
Raquel Nieto Universidade de Vigo
Ricardo M. Trigo
Ricardo M. Trigo University of Lisbon
Ricardo García-Herrera
Ricardo García-Herrera Complutense University of Madrid
Margarida L. R. Liberato
Margarida L. R. Liberato University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro
Alexandre M. Ramos
Alexandre M. Ramos University of Lisbon
Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano
Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano Spanish National Research Council
Juan I. López-Moreno
Juan I. López-Moreno Spanish National Research Council
David Barriopedro
David Barriopedro Complutense University of Madrid
Tércio Ambrizzi
Tércio Ambrizzi Universidade de São Paulo
Cesar Azorin-Molina
Cesar Azorin-Molina Spanish National Research Council

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