Francisco José Cuesta Valero
Academic Staff
Department Remote Sensing
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental
Research - UFZ
Permoserstraße 15
04318 Leipzig
Tel. +49 341 6025 2627
Research interests
- Climate change
- Earth's energy imbalance
- Earth's heat inventory
- Remote sensing
- Climate models
- Borehole climatology
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 - 2013
BSc. in Physics, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
Projects
- G-Flux: global ground heat flux estimated from satellite remote sensing observations
- AI4GHEObs: Ground Heat Flux Estimates from Earth Observations and Hybrid Artificial Neural Networks
Publications I
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2024 (6)
- García-Pereira, F., González-Rouco, J.F., Melo-Aguilar, C., Steinert, N.J., García-Bustamante, E., de Vrese, P., Jungclaus, J., Lorenz, S., Hagemann, S., Cuesta-Valero, F.J., García-García, A., Beltrami, H. (2024):
First comprehensive assessment of industrial-era land heat uptake from multiple sources
Earth Syst. Dynam. 15 (3), 547 - 564 10.5194/esd-15-547-2024 - García-Pereira, F., González-Rouco, J.F., Schmid, T., Melo-Aguilar, C., Vegas-Cañas, C., Steinert, N.J., Roldán-Gómez, P.J., Cuesta-Valero, F.J., García-García, A., Beltrami, H., de Vrese, P. (2024):
Thermodynamic and hydrological drivers of the soil and bedrock thermal regimes in central Spain
Soil 10 (1), 1 - 21 10.5194/soil-10-1-2024 - García-Pereira, F., González-Rouco, J.F., Schmid, T., Melo-Aguilar, C., Vegas-Cañas, C., Steinert, N.J., Roldán-Gómez, P.J., Cuesta-Valero, F.J., García-García, A., Beltrami, H., de Vrese, P. (2024):
Thermodynamic and hydrological drivers of the subsurface thermal regime in Central Spain: open data and code (1.0) [Data set]
Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.7499419 - González-Rouco, J.F., Camilo, M.-A., Steinert, N.J., Garcia-Bustamante, E., de Vrese, P., Jungclaus, J., Lorenz, S., Hagemann, S., Cuesta-Valero, F.J., García-García, A., Beltrami, H. (2024):
Dataset: First comprehensive assessment of industrial-era land heat uptake from multiple sources
Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.14223792 - Steinert, N.J., Cuesta-Valero, F.J., García-Pereira, F., de Vrese, P., Melo Aguilar, C.A., García-Bustamante, E., Jungclaus, J., González-Rouco, J.F. (2024):
Underestimated land heat uptake alters the global energy distribution in CMIP6 climate models
Geophys. Res. Lett. 51 (10), e2023GL107613 10.1029/2023GL107613 - Steinert, N.J., Cuesta-Valero, F.J., García-Pereira, F., de Vrese, P., Melo Aguilar, C.A., García-Bustamante, E., Jungclaus, J., González-Rouco, J.F. (2024):
Dataset: Underestimated land heat uptake alters the global energy distribution in CMIP6 climate models [Data set]
Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.10669977
2023 (6)
- Cuesta-Valero, F.J., Beltrami, H., García-García, A., Krinner, G., Langer, M., MacDougall, A.H., Nitzbon, J., Peng, J., von Schuckmann, K., Seneviratne, S.I., Thiery, W., Vanderkelen, I., Wu, T. (2023):
Continental heat storage: contributions from the ground, inland waters, and permafrost thawing
Earth Syst. Dynam. 14 (3), 609 - 627 10.5194/esd-14-609-2023 - Cuesta-Valero, F.J., Beltrami, H., García-García, A., Krinner, G., Langer, M., MacDougall, A.H., Nitzbon, J., Peng, J., von Schuckmann, K., Seneviratne, S.I., Thiery, W., Vanderkelen, I., Wu, T. (2023):
GCOS EHI 1960-2020 Continental Heat Content (Version 2)
World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) 10.26050/WDCC/GCOS_EHI_1960-2020_CoHC_v2 - Cuesta-Valero, F.J., Peng, J. (2023):
Global ground heat flux from remote sensing data: preliminary results and evaluation
EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023
EGUsphere
Copernicus Publications, EGU23-2608 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-2608 - García-García, A., Cuesta-Valero, F.J., Miralles, D.G., Mahecha, M., Quaas, J., Reichstein, M., Zscheischler, J., Peng, J. (2023):
Soil heat extremes can outpace air temperature extremes
Nat. Clim. Chang. 13 (11), 1237 - 1241 10.1038/s41558-023-01812-3 - von Schuckmann, K., Minière, A., Gues, F., Cuesta-Valero, F.J., Kirchengast, G., Adusumilli, S., Straneo, F., Ablain, M., Allan, R.P., Barker, P.M., Beltrami, H., Blazquez, A., Boyer, T., Cheng, L., Church, J., Desbruyeres, D., Dolman, H., Domingues, C.M., García-García, A., Giglio, D., Gilson, J.E., Gorfer, M., Haimberger, L., Hakuba, M.Z., Hendricks, S., Hosoda, S., Johnson, G.C., Killick, R., King, B., Kolodziejczyk, N., Korosov, A., Krinner, G., Kuusela, M., Landerer, F.W., Langer, M., Lavergne, T., Lawrence, I., Li, Y., Lyman, J., Marti, F., Marzeion, B., Mayer, M., MacDougall, A.H., McDougall, T., Monselesan, D.P., Nitzbon, J., Otosaka, I., Peng, J., Purkey, S., Roemmich, D., Sato, K., Sato, K., Savita, A., Schweiger, A., Shepherd, A., Seneviratne, S.I., Simons, L., Slater, D.A., Slater, T., Steiner, A.K., Suga, T., Szekely, T., Thiery, W., Timmermans, M.-L., Vanderkelen, I., Wjiffels, S.E., Wu, T., Zemp, M. (2023):
Heat stored in the Earth system 1960–2020: where does the energy go?
Earth Syst. Sci. Data 15 (4), 1675 - 1709 10.5194/essd-15-1675-2023 - von Schuckmann, K., Minière, A., Gues, F., Cuesta-Valero, F.J., Kirchengast, G., Adusumilli, S., Straneo, F., Allan, R.P., Barker, P.M., Beltrami, H., Blazquez, A., Boyer, T., Cheng, L., Church, J., Desbruyeres, D., Dolman, H., Domingues, C.M., García-García, A., Gilson, J.E., Gorfer, M., Haimberger, L., Hendricks, S., Hosoda, S., Johnson, G.C., Killick, R., King, B., Kolodziejczyk, N., Korosov, A., Krinner, G., Kuusela, M., Langer, M., Lavergne, T., Lawrence, I., Li, Y., Lyman, J., Marti, F., Marzeion, B., Mayer, M., MacDougall, A.H., McDougall, T., Monselesan, D.P., Nitzbon, J., Otosaka, I., Peng, J., Purkey, S., Roemmich, D., Sato, K., Sato, K., Savita, A., Schweiger, A., Shepherd, A., Seneviratne, S.I., Slater, D.A., Slater, T., Simons, L., Steiner, A.K., Szekely, T., Suga, T., Thiery, W., Timmermans, M.-L., Vanderkelen, I., Wjiffels, S.E., Wu, T., Zemp, M. (2023):
GCOS EHI 1960-2020 Earth Heat Inventory Ocean Heat Content (Version 2)
World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) 10.26050/WDCC/GCOS_EHI_1960-2020_OHC_v2
2022 (6)
- Cuesta-Valero, F.J. (2022):
CIBOR: Codes for Inverting BOReholes
Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.7152900 - Cuesta-Valero, F.J., Beltrami, H., García-García, A., Krinner, G., Langer, M., MacDougall, A.H., Nitzbon, J., Peng, J., von Schuckmann, K., Seneviratne, S.I., Smith, N., Thiery, W., Vanderkelen, I., Wu, T. (2022):
GCOS EHI 1960-2020 Continental Heat Content (Version 1)
World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) 10.26050/WDCC/GCOS_EHI_1960-2020_CoHC - Cuesta-Valero, F.J., Beltrami, H., Gruber, S., García-García, A. (2022):
A new bootstrap technique to quantify uncertainty in estimates of ground surface temperature and ground heat flux histories from geothermal data
Geosci. Model Dev. 15 (20), 7913 - 7932 10.5194/gmd-15-7913-2022 - García-García, A., Cuesta-Valero, F.J., Beltrami, H., González-Rouco, J.F., García-Bustamante, E. (2022):
WRF v.3.9 sensitivity to land surface model and horizontal resolution changes over North America
Geosci. Model Dev. 15 (2), 413 - 428 10.5194/gmd-15-413-2022 - Melo-Aguilar, C., González-Rouco, F., Steinert, N.J., Beltrami, H., Cuesta-Valero, F.J., García-García, A., García-Pereira, F., García-Bustamante, E., Roldán-Gómez, P.J., Schmid, T., Navarro, J. (2022):
Near-surface soil thermal regime and land–air temperature coupling: A case study over Spain
Int. J. Climatol. 42 (15), 7516 - 7534 10.1002/joc.7662 - von Schuckmann, K., Minière, A., Gues, F., Cuesta-Valero, F.J., Kirchengast, G., Adusumilli, S., Straneo, F., Allan, R.P., Barker, P.M., Beltrami, H., Blazquez, A., Boyer, T., Cheng, L., Church, J., Desbruyeres, D., Dolman, H., Domingues, C.M., García-García, A., Gilson, J.E., Gorfer, M., Haimberger, L., Hendricks, S., Hosoda, S., Johnson, G.C., Killick, R., King, B., Kolodziejczyk, N., Korosov, A., Krinner, G., Kuusela, M., Langer, M., Lavergne, T., Lawrence, I., Li, Y., Lyman, J., Marti, F., Marzeion, B., Mayer, M., MacDougall, A.H., McDougall, T., Monselesan, D.P., Nitzbon, J., Otosaka, I., Peng, J., Purkey, S., Roemmich, D., Sato, K., Sato, K., Savita, A., Schweiger, A., Shepherd, A., Seneviratne, S.I., Slater, D.A., Slater, T., Simons, L., Steiner, A.K., Szekely, T., Suga, T., Thiery, W., Timmermans, M.-L., Vanderkelen, I., Wjiffels, S.E., Wu, T., Zemp, M. (2022):
GCOS EHI 1960-2020 Earth Heat Inventory Ocean Heat Content (Version 1)
World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) 10.26050/WDCC/GCOS_EHI_1960-2020_OHC
Publications II
2021
- Gracía-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., 15, 413-428, doi:10.5194/gmd-15-413-2022.
- 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.
2020
- 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.
2019
- 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.
2017
- 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.
2016
- 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.