Dr. Almudena García-García
Academic Staff
Department Remote Sensing
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental
Research - UFZ
Permoserstraße 15
04318 Leipzig
Research interests
- Land - Atmosphere interactions
- Climate extremes and climate variability
- Satellite remote sensing data
- Process-based modeling and data-driven methods
Academic Background
2016 - 2020
Ph.D in Environmental Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Newfoundland, Canada
2014 - 2016
Master in Earth Sciences, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada
2009 - 2014
BSc. in Physics, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
Awards
- Moire A. Wadleigh Award for Excellence in Environmental Science (PhD. Memorial University of Newfoundland)
- Governor General Graduate Medal for the highest overall average in a thesis-based graduate program (Master, St. Francis Xavier University)
Publications
- García-García A., Cuesta-Valero F.J., Beltrami H., González-Rouco J.F., and García-Bustamante E. (2021). WRF v.3.9 sensitivity to land surface model and horizontal resolution changes over North America, Geosci. Model Dev., https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2021-243, Accepted.
- Melo-Aguilar C.A., González-Rouco J.F., Steinert N., Beltrami H., Cuesta-Valero F.J., García-García A., García-Pereira F., García-Bustamante E., Roldán-Gómez P., Schmidt T., and Navarro J. (2021). Near-surface soil thermal regime and land-air temperature coupling: a case study over Spain. International Journal of Climatology, Accepted.
- Cuesta-Valero, F. J., García-García, A., Beltrami, H., and Finnis, J. (2021). First Assessment of the Earth Heat Inventory Within CMIP5 Historical Simulations, Earth Syst. Dynam., https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-2020-88.
Cuesta-Valero, F. J., García-García, A., Beltrami, H., González-Rouco, J. F., and García-Bustamante, E. (2021). Long-term global ground heat flux and continental heat storage from geothermal data, Clim. Past, 17, 451–468, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-451-2021.
- García-García A., Cuesta-Valero F.J., Beltrami H., González-Rouco J.F., García-Bustamante E., and Finnis J. (2020). Land Surface Model influence on the simulated climatologies of temperature and precipitation extremes in the WRF v.3.9 model over North America. Geoscientific Model Development, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-5345-2020.
- von Schuckmann, K., Cheng, L., Palmer, M. D., Hansen, J., Tassone, C., Aich, V., Adusumilli, S., Beltrami, H., Boyer, T., Cuesta-Valero, F. J., Desbruyères, D., Domingues, C., García-García, A., Gentine, P., Gilson, J., Gorfer, M., Haimberger, L., Ishii, M., Johnson, G. C., Killick, R., King, B. A., Kirchengast, G., Kolodziejczyk, N., Lyman, J., Marzeion, B., Mayer, M., Monier, M., Monselesan, D. P., Purkey, S., Roemmich, D., Schweiger, A., Seneviratne, S. I., Shepherd, A., Slater, D. A., Steiner, A. K., Straneo, F., Timmermans, M.-L., and Wijffels, S. E. (2020). Heat stored in the Earth system: where does the energy go?. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2013-2020.
- Cuesta-Valero F.J., García-García A., Beltrami H., Zorita E. and Jaume-Santero F. (2019). Long-term Surface Temperature (LoST) database as a complement for GCM preindustrial simulations. Climate of the Past, doi:10.5194/cp-15-1099-2019.
- García-García A., Cuesta-Valero F.J., Beltrami H. and Smerdon J.E.(2019). Characterization of air and ground temperature relationships within the CMIP5 historical and future climate simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres,https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD030117.
- McPherson M., García-García A., Cuesta-Valero F.J., Beltrami H., Hansen-Ketchum P., MacDougall D. and Ogden N. (2017). Expansion of the Lyme Disease Vector Ixodes Scapularis in Canada inferred from CMIP5 Climate Projections. Environmental Health Perspectives, doi:10.1289/EHP57. [Press Release].
- Cuesta-Valero F.J., García-García A., Beltrami H. and Smerdon J.E. (2016). First Assessment of Continental Energy Storage in CMIP5 Simulations. Geophysical Research Letters, 43, doi:10.1002/2016GL068496.
- García-García A., Cuesta-Valero F.J., Beltrami H. and Smerdon J.E. (2016). Simulation of air and ground temperatures in PMIP3/CMIP5 last millennium simulations: implications for climate reconstructions from borehole temperature profiles. Environmental Research Letter, 11(4):044022, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/044022.
Other Publications
- von Schuckmann K., Roca R., Steiner A., Trenberth K., Kuhlbrodt T., Mayssignac B., Straneo F., Seneviratne S.I., Stevens G., Boyer T., Loeb N., Gulev S., Cheng L., Hakuba M., Haines K., Shepherd A., Kato S., Yang C., Mayer M., Soden B., Nowicki S., Lauritzen P., Wild M., L’Ecuyer T., Llovel M., Beltrami H., Cuesta-Valero F.J., García-García A., and Tokarska K.B. (2019). Final report on the WCRP workshop "The Earth’s Energy Imbalance and its implications". Submitted to WCRP on March 14th, 2019.
- Jamieson, R., Kurylyk, B., Rapaport, E., Manuel, P., Van Proosdij, D., Beltrami, H., Hayward, J., KarisAllen, J., Clark, K., Tusz, C., Jahncke, R., García-García, A., and Cuesta-Valero, F.,J. (2019). Standards for the incorporation of climate change into riverine and coastal flood mapping in Nova Scotia. Technical report prepared for the Government of Nova Scotia. Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- García-García A., Cuesta-Valero F.J., and Beltrami H. (2019). Climatology Group Report on State of the Art Climate Data and Simulations Available for Floodline Mapping in Atlantic Canada. In: Standards for the incorporation of climate change into riverine and coastal flood mapping in Nova Scotia (Jamieson R., Kurylyk B., Rapaport E., Manuel P., Van Proosdij D., Beltrami H., Hayward J., KarisAllen J., Clark, K., Tusz C., Jahncke R., García-García A., and Cuesta-Valero F.J.). Technical report prepared for the Government of Nova Scotia. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.