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Rainfall variability, Mediterranean region, atmospheric circulation patterns, climatic teleconnection indices, stratosphere and global change are the keywords of Lopez-Bustins’ research in the Physical Geography and Earth Sciences. He is a physical geographer, climatologist and member of the Group of Climatology (Generalitat de Catalunya, 2014SGR300) in the University of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain).
Lopez-Bustins started his scientific career at the University of Barcelona in 2003 as a PhD fellow supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (2003-2006). His research has mainly focussed on topics related to rainfall variability over the Iberian Peninsula. He investigated several factors involved in precipitation changes, e.g., atmospheric circulation in the stratosphere-troposphere and solar forcing. In order to develop these topics he made two stays supported by the above mentioned Ministry at the Canary Institute of Astrophysics (Spain) and the Meteorological Institute of the Free University of Berlin (Germany) in 2004 and 2005, respectively. In 2007, Lopez-Bustins was awarded a PhD in Physical Geography by the University of Barcelona.
He subsequently became involved in a project addressing the impacts of climate change on water resources in Mediterranean watersheds at the CREAF (Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications). He worked as technical co-coordinator of the project during the 2008-2009 period. In October 2009, he became Lecturer in the Department of Physical Geography and Regional Geographical Analysis at the University of Barcelona. Since 2013, Lopez-Bustins is also member of the GECCC (Group of Experts on Climate Change in Catalonia).
Scientific achievementsHis main achievement involved defining a new teleconnection pattern over the Western Mediterranean for study of pluviometric variability and torrential frequency in eastern Iberia.
His PhD thesis was entitled “The Western Mediterranean Oscillation and Rainfall in the Catalan Countries”. The results were published in four papers in international journals included in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The thesis was awarded the PhD Extraordinary prize and the European Doctorate Mention from the Faculty of Geography and History (University of Barcelona).
During the last years he developed the Western Mediterranean Oscillation (WeMO). The WeMO is a regional teleconnection pattern. It is defined in order to account for pluviometric variability in areas of the Iberian Peninsula subjected to a weak influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), such as the Catalan Countries (eastern Iberia). The time trends of the WeMO index (WeMOi) show a clear correspondence with the temporal evolution of rainfall in the study area. The spectral analyses also highlight this dependence of rainfall in eastern Iberia on the WeMOi. He observed that the WeMOi at daily time scale constitutes a useful tool for predicting episodes of torrential rainfall in eastern Iberia.
Achievement track-recordPublications in international journals included in the JCR (17) (h Index = 9; Scopus database)
179 times cited
MARTIN-VIDE J, LOPEZ-BUSTINS JA (2006) The Western Mediterranean Oscillation and rainfall in the Iberian Peninsula. International Journal of Climatology 26: 1455-1475
98 times cited
GONZÁLEZ-HIDALGO JC, LOPEZ-BUSTINS JA, STEPANEK P, MARTIN-VIDE J, DE LUIS M (2009) Monthly precipitation trends on the Mediterranean fringe of the Iberian Peninsula during the second-half of the twentieth century (1951-2000). International Journal of Climatology 29: 415-1429
92 times cited
LOPEZ-BUSTINS JA, MARTIN-VIDE J, SANCHEZ-LORENZO A (2008) Iberia winter rainfall trends based upon changes in teleconnection and circulation patterns. Global and Planetary Change 63: 171-176
63 times cited
AZORIN-MOLINA C, VICENTE-SERRANO SM, McVICAR TR, JEREZ S, SANCHEZ-LORENZO A, LÓPEZ-MORENO JI, REVUELTO J, TRIGO RM, LOPEZ-BUSTINS JA, ESPÍRITO-SANTO F (2014) Homogenization and assessment of observed near-surface wind speed trends over Spain and Portugal, 1961-2011. Journal of Climate 27: 3692-3712
18 times cited
PASCUAL D, PLA E, LOPEZ-BUSTINS JA, RETANA J, TERRADAS J (2015) Impacts of climate change on water resources in the Mediterranean Basin: A case study in Catalonia, Spain. Hydrological Sciences Journal, DOI:10.1080/02626667.2014.947290
15 times cited
LOPEZ-BUSTINS JA, PASCUAL D, PLA E, RETANA J (2013) Future variability of droughts in three Mediterranean catchments. Natural Hazards 69: 1405-1421
13 times cited
MATHBOUT S, LOPEZ-BUSTINS JA, MARTIN-VIDE J, BECH J, RODRIGO FS (2018) Spatial and temporal analysis of drought variability at several time scales in Syria during 1961-2012. Atmospheric Research 200: 153-168
13 times cited
SANCHEZ-LORENZO A, PEREIRA P, LOPEZ-BUSTINS JA, LOLIS CJ (2012) Summer night-time temperature trends on the Iberian Peninsula and their connection with large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns. International Journal of Climatology 32: 1326-1335
9 times cited
LOPEZ-BUSTINS JA, ESTEBAN P, LABITZKE K, LANGEMATZ U (2007) The Role of the Stratosphere in Iberian Peninsula Rainfall: a Preliminary Approach in February. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 69: 1471-1484
7 times cited
AZORIN-MOLINA C, LOPEZ-BUSTINS JA (2008) An automated sea breeze selection technique based on regional sea-level pressure difference: WeMOi.International Journal of Climatology 28: 1681-1692
4 times cited
LOPEZ-BUSTINS JA, SERRANO E, AYARZAGÜENA B, SANCHEZ-LORENZO A (2015) Spatial and temporal temperature trends in the lower stratosphere during the extended boreal winter from reanalyses. International Journal of Climatology, DOI:10.1002/joc.4253
1 times cited
LOPEZ-BUSTINS JA, PLA E, NADAL M, DE HERRALDE F, SAVÉ R (2014) Global change and viticulture in the Mediterranean region: A case of study in north-eastern Spain. Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research 12: 78-88
1 time cited
MATHBOUT S, LOPEZ-BUSTINS JA, ROYÉ D, MARTIN-VIDE J, BECH J, RODRIGO FS (2018) Observed changes in daily precipitation extremes at annual timescale over the Eastern Mediterranean during 1961-2012. Pure and Applied Geophysics 175: 3875-3890
1 time cited
LEMUS-CANOVAS M, NINYEROLA M, LOPEZ-BUSTINS JA, MANGUAN S, GARCIA-SELLÉS C (2019) A mixed application of an objective synoptic classification and spatial regression models for deriving winter precipitation regimes in the Eastern Pyrenees. International Journal of Climatology 39: 2244-2259
0 times cited
REDOLAT D, MONJO R, LOPEZ-BUSTINS JA, MARTIN-VIDE J (2019) Upper-Level Mediterranean Oscillation index and seasonal variability of rainfall and temperature.Theoretical and Applied Climatology135: 1059-1077
0 times cited
LEMUS-CANOVAS M, LOPEZ-BUSTINS JA, TRAPERO L, MARTIN-VIDE J (2019) Combining circulation weather types and daily precipitation modelling to derive climatic precipitation regions in the Pyrenees. Atmospheric Research 200: 181-193
0 times cited
LEMUS-CANOVAS M, LOPEZ-BUSTINS JA, MARTIN-VIDE J, ROYÉ D (2019) Upper-Level Mediterranean Oscillation index and seasonal variability of rainfall and temperature. Theoretical and Applied Climatology135: 1059-1077
Participation in research projects (8)
IBER-STILLING – Evaluación y atribución de la variabilidad de la velocidad media y las rachas máximas de viento: causas del fenómeno “stilling”. . Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities, RTI2018-095749-A-I00, 2019-2021. Main researchers: Dr C Azorin-Molina, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).
CLICES – El clima del último siglo en la España Peninsular. Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain, CGL2017-83866-C3-2-R, 2018-2020. Main researchers: Dr J Martin-Vide and Dr JA Lopez-Bustins, University of Barcelona.
WEMOTOR – La Oscilación del Mediterráneo Occidental (WeMO) y su influencia sobre la variabilidad pluviométrica y la actividad tormentosa en el mar Balear. Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain, CSO2014-55799-C2-1-R, 2015-2017. Main researchers: Dr J Martin-Vide and Dr JA Lopez-Bustins, University of Barcelona.
PRECABAL – Estructura diaria y 10-minutal de la precipitación y su caracterización sinóptica objetiva en el mar Balear (Cataluña). Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain, CGL2011-29263-C02-01, 2012-2014. Main researcher: Dr J Martin-Vide, University of Barcelona.
JUNITUR – Biogeografía de los sabinares de Juniperus turbinata Guss. en la Reserva de la Biosfera de El Hierro y en el Parque Nacional de Doñana: biodiversidad, dinámica geoecológica y cartografía para la gestión y la conservación. Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain, CSO2011-24425, 2012-2014. Main researcher: Dr M Salvà-Catarineu, University of Barcelona.
ANCESTRAL – Análisis dinámico del acoplamiento estratosfera-troposfera en el Hemisferio Norte y su relación con el cambio climático. Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain, CGL2008-06295, 2009-2011. Main researcher: Dr E Serrano Mendoza, Complutense University of Madrid.
RECABA – Estructura diaria de la precipitación en Cataluña y sus conexiones mediterráneas. Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain, CGL2008-06129-C02-01, 2009-2011. Main researcher: Dr J Martin-Vide, University of Barcelona.
ACCUA – Adaptations of Water Uses to Climate Change. Fundació Obra Social CatalunyaCaixa, 2008-2011. Main researchers: Dr J Retana and Dr J Terradas, CREAF.
IPIBEX – Análisis de la irregularidad pluviométrica a diferentes escalas temporales en la Península Ibérica y Baleares y sus conexiones regionales. Ministry of Education and Science of Spain, CGL2005-07664-C02-01, 2006-2008. Main researcher: Dr J Martin-Vide, University of Barcelona.