Additional Information
Participation in Research Projects
- Present and future climate humidity transport over Central and South America: Mechanisms, extremes and attribution of changes. Funded by Xunta de Galicia (Grant: ED431F-2024/03), Universidade de Vigo, Spain. 2024-2027
- High-resolution assessment of North Atlantic moisture transport in current climate and CMIP-6 future projections. Funded by Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades ( Grant: PID2021-122314OB-I00), Universidade de Vigo, Spain, 2022-2025
- Extreme meteorological and hydrological risk in Spain: impact assessment, future scenarios and tools to improve resilience and adaptation to climate change. High spatial resolution hazard probability of extreme meteorological and hydrological events in Spain under future CMIP6 projections. Funded by Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades ( Grant: TED2021-129152B-C43), Universidade de Vigo, Spain, 2022 – 2024
- Sistema experto de apoyo a la toma de decisiones durante la gestión del suministro de agua del acueducto Albear. Funded by Instituto Nacional de Recursos Hidráulicos (Grant: PS113LH001-019). Instituto Superior de Tecnologías y Ciencias Aplicadas, Universidad de La Habana, Cuba, 2021-2024.
- LAGRangian analysis of the Impact on the global hydrological cycle of the Major Mechanisms of Atmospheric Moisture Transport. Funded by Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (Grant: RTI2018-095772-B-I00), Universidade de Vigo, Spain, 2019-2022
- Prevention of the climate change effects on endangered species, Instituto Superior de Tecnologías y Ciencias Aplicadas, Cuba, 2018-2019
- Integration of advanced wave modeling tools and sea levels for the prediction of coastal flooding in Cuba, Institute of Meteorology, Cuba, 2018
- Methodological tool for data and metadata treatment in weather and climate studies, National Program Climate Change in Cuba: impacts, mitigation and adaptation, Department of Meteorology, Higher Institute of Technologies and Applied Sciences, Cuba, 2015 -2016
Patent and intellectual property registrations
- QvaWeather: an Android mobile application for the dissemination of the weather forecast in Cuba. Registered in the Copyright Office. Havana, Cuba, 2019
Softwares
Pérez-Alarcón, A.; Fernández-Alvarez, J.C.; Nieto, R.; Gimeno, L. (2024). LATTIN: A Python-based tool for Lagrangian atmospheric moisture and heat tracking. Software Impacts, 20, 100638. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.simpa.2024.100638
Pérez-Alarcón, A.; Coll-Hidalgo, P.; Trigo, R.M.; Nieto, R.; Gimeno, L. (2024). CyTRACK: An open-source and user-friendly python toolbox for detecting and tracking cyclones. Environmental Modelling & Software, 176, 106027. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2024.106027
Fernández-Alvarez, J.C.; Pérez-Alarcón, A.; Nieto, R.; Gimeno, L. (2022). TROVA: TRansport Of water VApor. SoftwareX, 20, 101228, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2022.101228
Pérez-Alarcón, A.; Fernández-Alvarez, J.C.; Díaz-Rodríguez, O; (2021). Hurricane Maximum Potential Intensity Model, Revista Cubana de Física, 38(2), 85-93, http://www.revistacubanadefisica.org/index.php/rcf/article/view/2021v38p085
Pérez-Alarcón, A.; Fernández-Alvarez, J.C. (2021). Alarconpy: A Python Package for Meteorologists (Version 1.0.3). Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.4493258 </br>
Thesis Supervision
- Supervisor: Método de relocalización de vórtice para el sistema de pronóstico numérico de ciclones tropicales NTHF. Bachelor Thesis, Higher Institute of Technologies and Applied Sciences, University of Havana, Cuba, 2020.
- Co-supervisor: Pronóstico numérico del viento a mesoescala y a corto plazo para el Aeropuerto José Martí de la Habana. Bachelor Thesis, Higher Institute of Technologies and Applied Sciences, University of Havana, Cuba, 2019.
- Co-supervisor: Propuesta de un método de cálculo de la presión para un modelo de intensidad potencial. Bachelor Thesis, Higher Institute of Technologies and Applied Sciences, University of Havana, Cuba, 2017.
- Co-supervisor: Patrones regionales de distribución temporal de la precipitación generada por ciclones tropicales en Cuba Cuba estimada por el modelo WRF. Bachelor Thesis, Higher Institute of Technologies and Applied Sciences, University of Havana, Cuba, 2017.
Thesis Opposition
- Evaluación de los núcleos dinámicos ARW y NMM del modelo WRF para la detección de Tormentas Locales Severas. Bachelor Thesis, Higher Institute of Technologies and Applied Sciences, University of Havana, Cuba, 2020.