Requirements Linux - Can be installed on Windows, there are plenty of tutorials online on how to do this Climate Data Operators (CDO) - Used to analyse and work with NetCDF files, can be installed on Linux NOAA's weather and climate toolkit - Used to visualize the NetCDF files Introduction Regional Climate Models (RCMs) normally …
Climate model uncertainty – 1
As part of my postdoc project at the University of Eastern Finland, I am looking at climate model uncertainties. This is important because, when looking at the impacts of climate change, there are several uncertainties that contribute to the total uncertainty of the projected change. Here I will show a simple uncertainty assessment of an …
Growing fruits during quarantine
One of the things we have been doing during the quarantine is to try to grow up some fruits in our front garden. My son is very interested looking at how the little plants grow everyday. It is very sunny here at México. We are living in the central region of the country, 2,400 meters …
Water-related climate services in Denmark
Over the last days, there has been a lot of discussion regarding climate change and how this will impact on this and future generations. The interest has been global and at a very large scale, considering that there are no political parties behind the movement. With this in regard, scientists and professionals dealing with the …
Remmaping (regridding) NetCDFs
Lately, I have been working on remmaping NetCDF files from a coarse spatial resolution to a higher one. Specifically, I am remmaping Euro-CORDEX regional climate models (RCMs) with grids cells of 12.5km to observation grid cells of 10km. Figure 1. Difference in resolution and rotation between the RCM (background in colour) and the observation (black-line …
Trail Marathon El Chico 2018
Two weekends ago, I ran my first mountain trail in Mineral del Chico, Hidalgo. It is a small town just 45 minutes away from my hometown, Pachuca. In the past, the main activity of the town was mining, extracting mainly gold and silver. Nowadays, there is no more mining industry and the woods surrounding the …
A history of the man-made changes in the water resources of Mexico City
Mexico City is a clear and vivid example of we can alter nature in many ways. For instance, the water resources of the city have been modified since long ago. There is a very interesting video showing the infrastructure developed by the inhabitants of the city in order to change the natural course of the …
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Welcome
Thanks for joining me! So, this is the first post of the site. Hopefully you will find something useful or that attracts your interest in this site. I hope it can give you some insight of the topics that I write about! Here is the first photo of the site: Volcán Popocatépetl. This active volcano is …