EMS Webinar: Seamen records of past climate
EMS Webinar series continues. Our speaker this time will be Ricardo García Herrera: Ricardo is a Professor of Atmospheric Physics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Ricardo García Herrera will speak about
“Seamen records of past climate“
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 4pm (CEST)
Participation: The recording will become available shortly
Abstract
Seamen have kept records of weather and sea conditions since the early times of the sailing era, even before meteorological instruments were invented. In fact, their lives depended on their ability to observe the sky and the oceans. In this presentation we will show how these testimonies were kept, how they can be converted into their modern equivalent and several examples of climate indices derived from the daily and even sub-daily data preserved in different archives.
About the speaker
Ricardo García-Herrera is currently Professor of Atmospheric Physics at the Complutense University of Madrid. A specialist in Climatology, his research interest includes topics as the analysis of synoptic patterns or weather and climate events. In the last twenty years he has worked with different documentary sources, with special emphasis on marine logbooks. He is co-author of more than 200 articles in scientific journals and coordinated international and national research projects and has directed 15 doctoral theses. He was president of AEMET, the Spanish Meteorological Service.
The following webinar will be held on 12 June
- Francisco Doblas-Reyes will speak about The operationalisation of climate projections
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