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Marco Turco is affiliated with the University of Murcia in Spain with a research focus within Environmental Science, comprising 53 related publications. Their work explores multiple subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Ecology, and Health, Toxicology, and Mutagenesis.

The scientist's research spans several main topics such as Climate variability and models, Fire effects on ecosystems, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Marco Turco include Miguel Ángel Torres-Vázquez, Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano, Ricardo M. Trigo, Sónia Jerez, and Juan Pedro Montávez.

Marco Turco has published research in a variety of scientific venues, notably the International Journal of Climatology, Environmental Research Letters, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Earth's Future, and Global Change Biology.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Marco Turco include:

  • Challenges for drought assessment in the Mediterranean region under future climate scenarios, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Long-term variability and trends in meteorological droughts in Western Europe (1851-2018), 2020, International Journal of Climatology
  • Anthropogenic climate change impacts exacerbate summer forest fires in California, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Human and climate drivers of global biomass burning variability, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Long-term precipitation in Southwestern Europe reveals no clear trend attributable to anthropogenic forcing, 2020, Environmental Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Challenges for drought assessment in the Mediterranean region under future climate scenarios

    Yves Tramblay;Aristeidis Koutroulis;Luis Samaniego;Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano

  • 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

  • On the key role of droughts in the dynamics of summer fires in Mediterranean Europe.

    Marco Turco;Marco Turco;Jost von Hardenberg;Amir AghaKouchak;Maria Carmen Llasat

  • Climate drivers of the 2017 devastating fires in Portugal

    Marco Turco;Sonia Jerez;Sofia Augusto;Sofia Augusto;Patricia Tarín-Carrasco

  • An intercomparison of a large ensemble of statistical downscaling methods over Europe: Results from the VALUE perfect predictor cross-validation experiment

    J. M. Gutiérrez;D. Maraun;M. Widmann;R. Huth;R. Huth

  • Inter-annual and decadal changes in teleconnections drive continental-scale synchronization of tree reproduction

    Davide Ascoli;Giorgio Vacchiano;Marco Turco;Marco Conedera

  • Decreasing fires in Mediterranean Europe

    Marco Turco;Joaquín Bedia;Fabrizio Di Liberto;Paolo Fiorucci

  • Climate change impacts on wildfires in a Mediterranean environment

    Marco Turco;Maria-Carmen Llasat;Jost von Hardenberg;Antonello Provenzale

  • Trends in flash flood events versus convective precipitation in the Mediterranean region: The case of Catalonia

    Maria Carmen Llasat;Raul Marcos;Marco Turco;Joan Gilabert

  • Flash flood evolution in North-Western Mediterranean

    Maria Carmen Llasat;Raül Marcos;Montserrat Llasat-Botija;Joan Gilabert

  • Anthropogenic climate change impacts exacerbate summer forest fires in California

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  • Observed climate change hotspots

    M. Turco;E. Palazzi;J. von Hardenberg;A. Provenzale

  • Spatial patterns and broad-scale weather cues of beech mast seeding in Europe.

    Giorgio Vacchiano;Andrew Hacket‐Pain;Andrew Hacket‐Pain;Marco Turco;Marco Turco;Renzo Motta

  • Long‐term variability and trends in meteorological droughts in Western Europe (1851–2018)

    Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano;Fernando Domínguez‐Castro;Conor Murphy;Jamie Hannaford

  • Estimating daily meteorological data and downscaling climate models over landscapes

    Miquel De Cáceres;Nicolas Martin-StPaul;Marco Turco;Antoine Cabon

  • Impact of climate variability on summer fires in a Mediterranean environment (northeastern Iberian Peninsula)

    Marco Turco;Marco Turco;Maria Carmen Llasat;Jost von Hardenberg;Antonello Provenzale

  • Human and climate drivers of global biomass burning variability.

    Emilio Chuvieco;M. Lucrecia Pettinari;Nikos Koutsias;Matthias Forkel

  • Trends in indices of daily precipitation extremes in Catalonia (NE Spain), 1951-2003

    M. Turco;M. C. Llasat

  • Skilful forecasting of global fire activity using seasonal climate predictions

    Marco Turco;Sonia Jerez;Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes;Amir AghaKouchak

  • Recent changes and relations among drought, vegetation and wildfires in the Eastern Mediterranean: The case of Israel

    Marco Turco;Noam Levin;Naama Tessler;Hadas Saaroni

  • Testing MOS precipitation downscaling for ENSEMBLES regional climate models over Spain

    Marco Turco;P. Quintana-Seguí;M. C. Llasat;S. Herrera

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria Carmen Llasat
Maria Carmen Llasat University of Barcelona
Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes
Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Juan Pedro Montávez
Juan Pedro Montávez University of Murcia
José M. Gutiérrez
José M. Gutiérrez Spanish National Research Council
Ricardo M. Trigo
Ricardo M. Trigo University of Lisbon
Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero
Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero University of Murcia
Andrea Toreti
Andrea Toreti University of Giessen
Andrej Ceglar
Andrej Ceglar European Central Bank
Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano
Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano Spanish National Research Council
Radan Huth
Radan Huth Charles University

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