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Participation in Research Projects
APALPADOR (PID2024-155515NB-I00): Advancing the understanding on droughts and compound drought-heatwave large events in current and projected future climate via Lagrangian modelling of moisture and heat transport. Funding: MICIN. 01/09/2025-31/08/2028. PIs: R Nieto & L Gimeno. 244.500 €. Role: WORK TEAM.
High-Res TC-CAR High-Resolution downscaling of Tropical Cyclones in the Caribbean Region. CORDEX Flagship Pilot Study. WCRP Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX). 2025-2030. Role: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR.
MARINA Mapping Drought Risks in Water-Stressed Regions of North Africa: An Integrated Approach. Funding: European Space Agency (ESA). 01/12/2024–31/03/2026. PIs: M Stojanovic & Z Salah. 30.000 €. Role: WORK TEAM.
Excelencia ED431F 2024/03 Humidity transport in present and future climate over Central and South America: mechanisms, extremes and attribution of changes. Funding: Xunta de Galicia. 01/01/2024–20/11/2027. PI: R Sori. 90.000 €. Role: WORK TEAM.
SETESTRELO (PID2021-122314OB-I00) High-resolution assessment of North Atlantic moisture transport in current climate and CMIP-6 future projections. Funding: MICIN. 01/09/2022 – 31/08/2026. PI: R Nieto & L Gimeno. 163.350 €. Role: WORK TEAM.
ESMORGA (TED2021-129152B-C43) High-spatial resolution hazard probability of extreme meteorological and hydrological events in Spain under future CMIP6 projections. Funding: MICIN (Transición Ecológica-Digital). 01/12/2022 - 30/09/2025. PI: R Nieto & L Gimeno. 126.500 €. Role: WORK TEAM
PS113LH001-019 Expert decision-making support system for the management of the Albear aqueduct water supply. Funding entity: National Institute of Hydraulic Resources of Cuba. 09/2021-09/2024. PI: Y Martínez. Role: RESEARCH TEAM.
LAGRIMA (RTI2018-095772-B-I00) LAGRangian analysis of the Impact on the global hydrological cycle of the Major Mechanisms of Atmospheric Moisture Transport. Funding: MICIN. 01/10/2020-30/09/2022. PI: R Nieto & L Gimeno. 84.700 €. Role: WORK TEAM.
Prevention of the climate change effects on endangered species. Funding: Ocean Foundation and See Turtles and Chelonian Conservation Society. 01/2016-12/2019. PI: J Azanza. Role: WORK TEAM.
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.