Dr. Francisco José Cuesta-Valero
Academic Staff
Department Remote Sensing
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental
Research - UFZ
Permoserstraße 15
Building 7.1, room 314
04318 Leipzig
Germany

Research interests
- Climate Change
- Earth's Energy Imbalance
- Earth's Heat Inventory
- Surface Energy Fluxes
- CGCM Simulations
- Borehole Climatology
- Land-Atmosphere Interactions
- Climate Change Impacts
- Remote Sensing
Academic Background
2016 - 2021
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 - 2013
BSc. in Physics, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
Awards
- 2021-2023: Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship
- 2021: Fellow of the School of Graduate Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Publications
- 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.