Dr. Francisco J. Tapiador

Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences and
Earth Physics
Castilla La Mancha University
Spain

Biography

Francisco J. Tapiador is Titular Professor of Physics of the Earth. Doctorate in science Physics (Applied Physics) by the University of Valladolid in 2001 with a thesis On the method of maximum entropy. He spent 3 years at the University of Birmingham (UK), hired as a scientific researcher. He went on to the Universities of Lleida and Barcelona, ​​where he completed his postdoctoral training. He joined the UCLM in 2005 as a researcher of the Ramón y Cajal program, After which he was distinguished as a researcher with outstanding scientific background For the program I3, later gaining its place of professor titular.

Research Intrest

Meteorology and Climatology Remote sensing Renewable energy Nonlinear Physics and Statistical Physics Geography

List of Publications
Tapiador FJ, Checa R, De Castro M. An experiment to measure the spatial variability of rain drop size distribution using sixteen laser disdrometers. Geophysical Research Letters. 2010 Aug 1;37(16).
Tapiador FJ, Avelar S, Tavares-Corrêa C, Zah R. Deriving fine-scale socioeconomic information of urban areas using very high-resolution satellite imagery. International journal of remote sensing. 2011 Nov 10;32(21):6437-56.
Tapiador FJ, Angelis CF, Viltard N, Cuartero F, De Castro M. On the suitability of regional climate models for reconstructing climatologies. Atmospheric research. 2011 Aug 31;101(3):739-51.
Tapiador FJ, Turk FJ, Petersen W, Hou AY, García-Ortega E, Machado LA, Angelis CF, Salio P, Kidd C, Huffman GJ, De Castro M. Global precipitation measurement: Methods, datasets and applications. Atmospheric Research. 2012 Feb 29;104:70-97.
Tapiador FJ, Tao WK, Shi JJ, Angelis CF, Martinez MA, Marcos C, Rodriguez A, Hou A. A comparison of perturbed initial conditions and multiphysics ensembles in a severe weather episode in Spain. Journal of applied meteorology and climatology. 2012 Mar;51(3):489-504.