Álvaro González CerverainterMET Sistemas y Redes S.L.U. & Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Álvaro González Cervera
PhD Student
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Introduction
I work developing models for efficient downscaling in high mountains, to understand better snow processes in large temporal scales and high spatial resolution
Additional affiliations
July 2019 - present
interMET Sistemas y Redes S.L.U.
Position
- Researcher
Description
- Industrial PhD Student since October 2020
Education
October 2020 - October 2024
September 2018 - July 2019
September 2013 - July 2018
Publications
Publications (6)
The reduction of in situ observations over the last few decades poses a potential risk of losing important information in regions where local effects dominate the climatology. Reanalyses face challenges in representing climatologies with highly localized effects, especially in regions with complex orography. Empirical downscaling methods offer a co...
RASCAL is an open-source Python tool designed for reconstructing daily climate observations, especially in regions with complex local phenomena. It merges large-scale weather patterns with local weather using the Analog Method. Evaluations in central Spain show that RASCAL outperforms ERA20C reanalysis in reconstructing precipitation and temperatur...
The snowpack is a fundamental element of the cryosphere and understanding its dynamics is crucial for regions where runoff is the main source of freshwater. Regarding the study of seasonal snow, it is necessary to know the processes that lead to its appearance, growth and ablation for a correct modelling and evaluation of the water resource. The th...
Snow precipitation in mountains surrounded by semi-arid regions represents an important reservoir of fresh water during the melting season. The snow cover helps to compensate for the scarce precipitation that occurs during their long summer droughts. Knowing the phenomenology that leads to winter precipitation and snow at these areas becomes even m...
The snowpack over mountains represents an important source of water both in these areas and in adjacent lowlands. It also has a large impact on their economy since it affects tourism, communications, logistics and risks associated with its recreational use. Snow cover in mid elevations is experimenting a significant decrease as a consequence of cli...
The Factorial Snowpack Model (FSM, Essery, 2015) has been applied for the winters ranging from 2008 to 2021 to predict snow height in a location at 1800 m of altitude in Peñalara Massif (Sierra de Guadarrama, Central Spain). Data from an automatic meteorological station is used as input after a thorough validation and completion using different met...
