Comprendiendo las causas de la variabilidad interanual de la precipitación invernal en España: la influencia de la Oscilación del Atlántico Norte

Presentación realizada para el Taller de trabajo sobre "Uso de predicciones climáticas estacionales para la mejora de la gestión del agua" celebrado en AEMET el día 18 de marzo de 2014. Este taller de trabajo entre científicos del clima y gestores de los recursos hídricos ha sido organizado en el marco del proyecto europeo EUPORIAS y de la implementación en España del Marco Mundial para los Servicios Climáticos

MeteoVIAS: Web Application for winter road weather forecasting

Presentación realizada en la 3rd European Nowcasting Conference, celebrada en la sede central de AEMET en Madrid del 24 al 26 de abril de 2019

A statistical study of electric discharges in Castilla y León

We present a preliminary statistical study of electrical discharges in the Spanish region of Castilla y León during a 5 years period, from May 2001 to May 2005. The data were obtained from the network of discharges operative at the INM and available in the Mcidas system. The total number of analyzed days is 405, and due to the orographical diversity and large extension, the region has been divided in 23 geographic areas. These zones coincide with those used in operational weather forecasting and are based on the topographical layer of the GSI. We have analyzed the spatial and temporal cloud to ground lightning distributions and their dependence on altitude and mean values of temperature and wind

The 8th-10th January 2009 snowfalls: a case of mediterranean warm advection event

Póster presentado en: 11th Plinius Conference on Mediterranean Storms celebrada del 7 al 11 de septiembre de 2009 en Barcelona

Nuevo sistema de predicción de cosechas de cereales de Castilla y León

Castilla y León es una región caracterizada por su gran extensión geográfica en la que la agricultura, la ganadería y el medio ambiente tienen un gran peso en la economía regional. La necesidad del sector agrario de tener una estimación de la producción de cereales de una manera objetiva y reproducible, ha llevado a elaborar un boletín de predicción de cosecha de cereales de invierno en esta comunidad. Durante la campaña 2014-2015 este boletín se realizó de manera experimental y ha sido en la campaña 2015-2016 cuando se ha comenzado a elaborarlo, emitirlo y difundirlo de forma operativa. El boletín, fruto de la colaboración entre AEMET y el ITACyL (Instituto Tecnológico Agrario de Castilla y León), se publica quincenalmente a lo largo de la campaña agrícola en la dirección web: http://cosechas.itacyl.es

Upgrade of a climate service tailored to water reservoirs management

We present the upgrade of a web tool designed to help in the decision making process for water reservoirs management in Spain. The tool, called S-ClimWaRe (Seasonal Climate predictions in support of Water Reservoirs management), covers the extended winter season (from November to March), when the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) pattern strongly influences the hydrological interannual variability in South-Western Europe. This climate service is fully user driven, and aims at meeting their requirements incorporating recent scientific progress.The research leading to these results has received funding from the MEDSCOPE project co-funded by the European Commission as part of ERA4CS, an ERA-NET initiated by JPI Climate, grant agreement 690462

Seasonal climate predictions in support of water reservoirs management in Spain

Póster presentado en: 1st Climateurope festival celebrado en Valencia, del 5 al 7 de abril de 2017.This work has been partially funded by the FP7 EUPORIAS projec

Upgrade of a climate service tailored to water reservoirs management

Presentación realizada en: EMS Annual Meeting (2021) celebrado de forma virtual del 3 al 10 de septiembre de 2021.In this paper we present the upgrade of a web tool designed to help in the decision making process for water reservoirs management in Spain. The tool, called S-ClimWaRe (Seasonal Climate predictions in support of Water Reservoirs management) is organized in two main displaying panels. The first one -diagnostic panel- allows the user to explore, for any water reservoir or grid point over continental Spain, the existing hydrological variability and risk linked to climate variability. The second one -forecasting panel- provides probabilistic seasonal predictions for some variables of interest. Following users’ need the tool initially covers the extended winter season (from November to March), when the North Atlantic Oscillation pattern strongly influences the hydrological interannual variability in South-Western Europe. This climate service is fully user driven with a strong commitment of users and stakeholders that has allowed continuous improvement of this tool, meeting users requirements and incorporating latest scientific progress