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Javier Martín Vide
University of Barcelona
(Brief curriculum vitae)
Academic
Category: Catedrático de Universidad (Professor)
Department: Geografía Física y Análisis Geográfico Regional (Physical Geography and Regional Geographical Analysis)
Faculty: Geografía e Historia (Geography and History)
University: Barcelona
Department address: Montalegre, 6, 08001-Barcelona (Spain).
Primary E-mail: jmartinvide@ub.edu Secondary E-mail: j.martin.vide@hotmail.com
Webpage: www.ub.es/gc/menu.htm
UNESCO codes: 250202, 250917, 250507
NABS codes: 0160, 0190, 0300
Academic background
Degree in Mathematics, University of Barcelona (Spain), 1977.
Degree in Geography and History, University of Barcelona (Spain), 1978
Doctor in Geography and History (Section: Geography), University of Barcelona (Spain), 1982
Teaching experience (University of Barcelona):
From 1978 to 1987 as Assistant
From 1987 to 2002 as Lecturer
From 2002 to the present as Professor
Teaching (course 2006-07):
· Master on Applied Climatology
· Master on Territorial Planning and Environmental Management
· Master on Water: Interdisciplinary Analysis and Sustainable Management
· Degree on Geography
· Degree on Environmental Sciences
Areas of expertise
Analytical Climatology (statistical analysis of the daily precipitation, daily concentration, persistence, etc.), Synoptic Climatology (weather-type classification), Climate Variability and Climatic Change (pluviometric and barometric trends), Urban Climate (urban heat island), Heavy Rains and Droughts in Mediterranean Basin and Iberian Peninsula.
PhD supervised
· MORENO GARCÍA, Mª Carmen: Estudio del clima urbano de Barcelona: la "isla de calor", 1990.
· BARRIENDOS VALLVÉ, Mariano: El clima histórico de Catalunya. Aproximación a sus características generales (ss.XV-XIX), 1994.
· ALONSO DE PONGA, Rubén: La vegetación arbórea como indicador topoeólico. Estudio experimental sobre un sector de l'Albera, 1995
· GÓMEZ NAVARRO, Lidia: Regionalización climática de la España peninsular mediante el análisis markoviano de las sequías, 1997.
· AZCÁRATE ESPÍN, Daniel: Las ciencias atmosféricas en España, 1950-1990. Análisis bibliométrico, 1998.
· VÁZQUEZ LÓPEZ, Luis A.: La Circulación Atmosférica Euroatlántica y el clima de pequeños territorios. La Península Ibérica y Cataluña, 1999.
· GÓMEZ MARTÍN, Belén: Clima y turismo en Cataluña: Evaluación del potencial climático-turístico de la estación estival, 2000.
· PERNAS CANADELL, Jesús: Modelos hidrológicos de respuesta de la precipitación, 2002.
· PROHOM DURAN, Marc J.: Incidència de les grans erupcions volcàniques en el clima de la Península Ibèrica i Balears, 2003.
· FERNÁNDEZ DE ARROYABE, Pablo: Persistencia de la precipitación en la Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco a partir de modelos markovianos. Regionalización mediante SIG, 2005.
· MONTSERRAT AGUADÉ, David: Temps de foc : Climatologia sinòptica aplicada als incendis forestals, 2007.
· LÓPEZ i BUSTINS, JOAN ALBERT: L’Oscil.lació de la Mediterrània Occidental i la Precipitació als Països Catalans. The Western Mediterranean Oscillation and Rainfall in the Catalan Countries, 2007.
European Research Projects:
· Annual to decadal variability in climate in Europe (ADVICE), ENV4-CT95-0129-PL951090, 1996-97.
· Improved understanding of past climatic variability from early daily European instrumental sources (IMPROVE), ENV4-CT97-0511, 1998-99.
· Harmonisation and Applications of Weather Types Classifications for European Regions (COST 733), 2006-2010.
Recent publications (only 1999-2007):
Books:
· OLCINA, J. and MARTÍN-VIDE, J. (1999): La influencia del clima en la historia, Arco Libros, Madrid, 96p.
· RASO, J.M. and MARTÍN-VIDE, J.(Eds.)(1999): La Climatología española en los albores del siglo XXI, Vilassar de Mar, Oikos Tau, 587 pp.
· RASO, J.M. and MARTÍN-VIDE, J.(Eds.)(2001): Proyectos y métodos actuales en Climatología, Vilassar de Mar, Katelani,
· MARTÍN-VIDE, J. and OLCINA, J.(2001): Climas y tiempos de España, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 258 pp.
· MARTÍN-VIDE, J.(2003): El tiempo y el clima, Barcelona, Rubes, 127 pp.
· MARTÍN-VIDE, J. and RASO, J.M.(2003): Atles Climàtic de Catalunya. Període 1961-1990. Termopluviometria, escala 1:750.000, Barcelona, I.C.C. and Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya.
· PONS, X.; NIÑEROLA, M.; ROURA, J.; MARTÍN-VIDE, J.; RASO, J.M. and CLAVERO, P.(2003): Atles Climàtics de Catalunya, Barcelona, Departament de Medi Ambient (cd).
· MARTÍN-VIDE, J.(2005): Los mapas del tiempo, Mataró, Davinci Continental, 221 pp.
· CUADRAT PRATS, J.M. y MARTÍN VIDE, J. (2007): La climatología española. Pasado, presente y futuro/Spanish Climatology. Past, Present and Future, Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, 574 pp.
· MARTÍN VIDE, J.(Coord.); ENRIC LLEBOT; PADILLA, E. y ALCÁNTARA, V. (2007): Aspectos económicos del Cambio Climático en España. Barcelona, Estudios Caixa Catalunya, 4.
Articles and chapters of books (in English and French) –most of them peer-reviewed publications:
· JONES, P.D., DAVIES, T.D., LISTER, D.H., SLONOSKY, V., JÓNSSON, T., BÄRRING, L., JÖNSSON P., MAHERAS, P., KOLYVA-MACHERA, F., BARRIENDOS, M., MARTÍN-VIDE, J., RODRÍGUEZ, R., R., ALCOFORADO, M.J., WANNER, H., PFISTER, C., LUTERBACHER, J., RICKLI, R., SCHÜPBACH, E., KAAS, E., SCHMITH, T., JACOBEIT, J. and BECK, C. (1999): “Monthly Mean Pressure Reconstructions for Europe for the period 1780-1995”. International Journal of Climatology, 19, 347-364.
· MARTÍN-VIDE, J. and GÓMEZ, L.(1999): “Regionalization of Peninsular Spain based on the length of dry spells”. International Journal of Climatology, 19, 537-555.
· MAHERAS, P.; XOPLAKI, E.; DAVIES, T.; MARTÍN-VIDE, J.; BARRIENDOS, M. and ALCOFORADO, Mª.J.(1999): “Warm and cold monthly anomalies across the Mediterranean basin and their relationship with circulation; 1860-1990”. International Journal of Climatology, 19, 1697-1715.
· CAMUFFO, D.; SECCO, C.; BRIMBLECOMBE, P. and MARTÍN-VIDE, J.(2000): “Sea Storms in the Adriatic Sea and the Western Mediterranean during the Last Millennium”. Climatic Change, 46, 1, 209-223.
· MOBERG, A.; JONES, P.D.; BARRIENDOS, M.; BERGSTRÖM, H.; CAMUFFO, D.; COCHEO, C.; DAVIES, T.D.; DEMARÉE, G.; MARTIN-VIDE, J.; MAUGERI, M.; RODRÍGUEZ, R. and VERHOEVE, T.(2000): “Day-to-day temperature variability trends in 160-to 275-year long European instrumental records”. Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, D18, 22849-22868.
· MARTÍN-VIDE, J.(2000): “The pluviometric diversity of Spain”, in IGU Spanish Commitee, Living with diversity, 415-424, Madrid, AGE, RSG (also in Spanish version, 51-63).
· BARRIENDOS, M.; PEÑA, J.C.; MARTÍN-VIDE, J. JÖNSSON, P. and DEMARÉE, G.(2000): “The winter of 1788-1789 in the Iberian Peninsula from meteorological reading observations and proxy-data records”, en Giuseppe Toaldo e il suo tempo, 921-941, Padova, Centro per la Storia dell’Università di Padova, Observatorio Astronomico di Padova.
· GÓMEZ, L.; LUTERBACHER, J.; MARTÍN-VIDE, J.; ALCOFORADO, M.J.; MONTON, E. and WANNER, H.(2000): "La distribution spatiale des précipitations hivernales sur la Péninsule Ibérique et leurs relations avec le geopotentiel à 500 hPa". Publications de l'Association Internationale de Climatologie, 13, 356-363, Aix-en-Provence, AIC.
· MARZOL, Mª V.; CERECEDA, P. and MARTÍN-VIDE, J.(2001): "The Annual Regime and Persistence of Precipitation in Robison Crusoe Island". Insula. International Journal of Island Affairs, 10, 1, 53-59, Paris.
· MARTÍN-VIDE, J.(2001): "Limitations of an objective weather-typing system for the Iberian peninsula". Weather, 56, 7, 248-250, Royal Meteorological Society.
· GÓMEZ, L.; LUTERBACHER, J.; MARTÍN-VIDE, J.; XOPLAKI, E.; ALCOFORADO, M.J. and WANNER, H.(2001): "Spatial Winter Precipitation Distribution over the Iberian Peninsula and Greece and its Relation to the Large Scale 500 hPa Circulation", in Brunet and López, Detecting and Modelling Regional Climate Change, 357-367, Amsterdam, Springer.
· RODRÍGUEZ, R.; BARRIENDOS, M.; JONES, P.D.; MARTÍN-VIDE, J. and PEÑA, J.C.(2001): "Long pressure series for Barcelona (Spain). Daily reconstruction and monthly homogenization". International Journal of Climatology, 21, 1693-1704.
· BARRIENDOS, M.; MARTÍN-VIDE, J.; PEÑA, J.C. and RODRÍGUEZ, R.(2002): "Daily Meteorological Observations in Cádiz-San Fernando. Analysis of the Documentary Sources and the Instrumental Data Content (1786-1996). Climatic Change, 53, 151-170; and, as a chapter of book, in Camuffo and Jones, Improved Understanding of Past Climatic Variability from Early Daily European Instrumental Sources, 151-170, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
· YAN, Z.; JONES, P.D.; DAVIES, T.D.; MOBERG, A.; BERGSTRÖM, H.; CAMUFFO, D.; COCHEO, C.; MAUGERI, M.; DEMARÉE, G.R.; VERHOEVE, T.; THOEN, E.; BARRIENDOS, M.; RODRÍGUEZ, R.; MARTÍN-VIDE, J. and YANG, C.(2002): "Trends of Extreme Temperatures in Europe and China Based on Daily Observations". Climatic Change, 53, 355-392; y, as a chapter of book, in Camuffo and Jones, Improved Understanding of Past Climatic Variability from Early Daily European Instrumental Sources, 355-392, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
· PROHOM, M.J.; ESTEBAN, P.; MARTÍN-VIDE, J. and JONES, P.D.(2003): "Surface Atmospheric Circulation Over Europe Following Major Tropical Volcanic Eruptions, 1780-1995", in Volcanism and the Earth’s Atmosphere, Geophysical Monograph, 139, American Geophysical Union.
· MARTÍN-VIDE, J.(2004): "Spatial distribution of a daily precipitation concentration index in Peninsular Spain". International Journal of Climatology, 24.
· ESTEBAN, P.; JONES, P.D.; MARTIN-VIDE, J. and MASES, M.(2005): "Atmospheric circulation patterns related to heavy snowfalls days in Andorra, Pyrenees". International Journal of Climatology. 25, 319-329.
· LANA, X.; MARTÍNEZ, M.D.; BURGUEÑO, A.; SERRA, C.; MARTIN-VIDE, J. and GÓMEZ, L. (2006): "Distributions of long dry spells in the Iberian Peninsula, years 1951-1990". International Journal of Climatology, 26 (14), 1999-2021.
· SORIANO, C.; FERNANDEZ, A.; MARTIN-VIDE, J. (2006): "Objective synoptic classification combined with high resolution meteorological models for wind mesoscale studies". Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 91 (1-4), 165-181.
· ESTEBAN, P.; MARTIN-VIDE, J. and MASES, M. (2006): "Daily atmospheric circulation catalogue for Western Europe using multivariate techniques". International Journal of Climatology, 26 (11), 1501-1515.
· MARTIN-VIDE, J. and LOPEZ-BUSTINS, J.A. (2006): "The Western Mediterranean Oscillation and rainfall in the Iberian Peninsula". International Journal of Climatology, 26 (11), 1455-1475.
· AZORIN-MOLINA, C. and MARTIN-VIDE, J. (2007): "Methodological approach to the study of the daily persistence of the sea-breeze in Alicante (Spain)". Atmosfera, 20 (1), 57-81.
· SANCHEZ-LORENZO, A.; BRUNETTI, M.; CALBÓ, J. and MARTIN-VIDE, J. (2007): "Recent spatial and temporal variability and trends of sunshine duration over the Iberian Peninsula from a homogenized dataset". Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres), Vol., 112, D20115, doi:10.1029/2007JD008677.
· LANA, X.; MARTÍNEZ, M.D.; BURGUEÑO, A.; SERRA, C.; MARTÍN-VIDE, J. and GÓMEZ, L. (2008): "Spatial and temporal patterns of dry spell lengths in the Iberian Peninsula for the second half of the twentieth century". Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 99, 99-116.
Relevant professional activities (up to 10)
* President of the Spanish Association of Climatology (Asociación Española de Climatología), 1998-2004.
* Director of the Group of Climatology (Scientific Park of University of Barcelona and University of Barcelona), 1997-2007.
* President of the Adviser Conseil of the Catalonian Meteorological Service (Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya), 2002-2007.
* Member of the Spanish CLIVAR Commitee, 1999-2005.
* Vice-Secretary of the Regional Conference on Mediterranean Countries (International Geographical Union), Barcelona, 1986.
* Member of the Spanish World Climate Research Programme, 2005-2007.
* Expert Reviewer of the Fourth IPCC, 2006-2007.
* More than 150 lectures and courses on climate and climate change.
* More than 150 participations on TV, radio and other media.
* Scientific Director of the Extreme Water stand on International EXPO Zaragoza 2008.
