Angel Garikoitz Munoz Solorzano

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Ángel G. Muñoz is a Senior Researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), focusing on climate services, variations and predictions across timescales. He is a Ramón y Cajal Fellow, and leads the Climate Services Team (CST) at BSC. 
 
Muñoz holds a BS in physics (2002, numerical general relativity), a Master of Arts, a Master of Philosophy and a PhD in climate sciences (2014-2016, Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences). He was a PostDoctoral Fellow (2016-2017) at NOAA's GFDL and at the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS) Program, at Princeton University.
 
His present research interests are associated with the co-design and co-development of climate services, especially those related to food security, undernutrition, human migration, vector-borne diseases, and lightning activity. Muñoz also works on better understanding the physical processes involved in how climate signals at multiple timescales can interact with each other (i.e., cross-timescale interference), and how those interactions impact predictability and models' predictive capacity; in particular, he's interested in better understanding how cross-timescale interference can be used to diagnose and improve misrepresented processes in a hierarchy of coupled circulation models. 
 

Background

Muñoz presently serves as co-chair of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Working Group on Subseasonal-to-Interdecadal Project (WGSIP), leading the WGSIP Climate Information for Decision Making (I4D) project. He previously served in the Research-to-Operations (R2O) group of the WWRP/WCRP S2S Prediction Project (until the end of the project in 2023); in NOAA's Model Diagnostics Task Force (MDTF; until 2022); in the WMO's Ad-Hoc Task Force on Regional Climate Forecast (until 2022); and in NOAA's Modelling, Analysis, Predictions and Projections (MAPP) S2S Task Force (until August 2020, the end of that Task Force). He is also a reviewer of US-based, European and international projects. Before arriving at the BSC in 2023, he was an Associate Research Scientist (2018-2022) at Columbia University's International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), and before that he conducted a joint postdoc at the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS) Program, at Princeton University, and at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab (GFDL).
 
He also served as Associate Professor in the Department of Physics of Universidad del Zulia, in Venezuela, for almost 10 years, and acted as deputy director (2007-2009) and then coordinator of the Geosciences Area (2009-2011) at the Center for Scientific Modeling (CMC) of that university. At CMC, he helped create the Latin American Observatory, a regional partnership aimed at improving regional capacities and networking to provide useful, climate-smart products for decision-makers in Latin American countries. The Observatory offered him the opportunity to work directly with decision-makers on different projects for the Interamerican Development Bank; the United Nations; the World Bank; Comunidad Andina de Naciones; the Environmental Ministry of Ecuador; and the national weather services of Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Chile, and Panama.
 

Research interests

  • climate services co-design and implementation
  • climate services for food security, agriculture and health
  • vector-borne diseases and climate-health models
  • sub-seasonal-to-interdecadal (s2d) predictability and prediction
  • cross-timescale interference
  • process-based model diagnostics
  • regional climate variability and change
  • lightning predictability and prediction across timescales, especially in North Western South America (Catatumbo Lightning)
  • computational modeling, and Model-Output-Statistics methodologies

 

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Former and Current Students

  • Joaquín Díaz Lobatón (BSc in Physics - Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela)
  • William Torres (BSc in Physics - Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela)
  • Rónald Pacheco (BSc in Physics - Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela)
  • Xandre Chourio (Master in Physics - Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela)
  • Marling Juárez (Master in Physics - Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela)
  • Ana Lucía Caicedo (PhD in Oceanography - Universidad Jorge Tadeo, Colombia)
  • Claudia Urbano (PhD in Oceanography - Universidad Jorge Tadeo, Colombia)
  • Laurel DiSera (Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy and PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University)
  • Avriel Díaz (Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy and PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University)
  • Alan García (Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy and PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University)