Dr. Joaquin Blanco started his Research Associate position at CCRC in 2023. Among his various topics of interests are: atmospheric dispersion and pollution, tropical meteorology and oceanography, idealised simulations, cloud albedo and precipitation processes, and climate change.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Blanco, J.E. and G.J. Berri, 2013: New indices for the spatial validation of plume forecasts with observations of smoke plumes from grassfires. Atmos. Environ., 67, 313-322.

Nolan, D.S., S.N. Tulich, and J.E. Blanco, 2016: The Structure of the ITCZ with Parameterized and Resolved Convection in Aquachannel and Aquapatch Simulations. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 8.

Blanco, J.E., D.S. Nolan and S. N. Tulich, 2016: Simulations of Convectively Coupled Kelvin Waves on Aquachannels: 1. Propagation speeds, composite structures, and comparison with aquaplanets. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121.

Blanco, J.E., D.S. Nolan and B.E. Mapes, 2016: Simulations of Convectively Coupled Kelvin Waves on Aquachannels: 2. Life cycle and dynamical-convective coupling. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121.

Blanco, J.E., D.S. Nolan and B.E. Mapes, 2019: Nonlinear zonal propagation of organized convection in the tropics. J. Atmos. Sci., 76, 2837-2867.

Datseris, G., J.E. Blanco, O. Hadas, S. Bony, R. Caballero, Y. Kaspi and B. Stevens, 2022: Minimal recipes for global cloudiness. Geophys. Res. Lett, 49, e2022GL099678.

Hadas, O., G. Datseris, J.E. Blanco, S. Bony, R. Caballero, B. Stevens and Y. Kaspi, 2023: The Role of Baroclinic Activity in Controlling Earth’s Albedo in the Present and Future Climates. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 120(5), e2208778, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.22087781

Blanco, J.E., R. Caballero, G. Datseris, B. Stevens, S. Bony, O. Hadas and Y. Kaspi, 2023: A cloud-controlling factor perspective on the hemispheric asymmetry of extratropical cloud albedo. J. Clim, DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0410.1