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Rodó i López, Xavier
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ICREA Research Professor at IC3 (Institut Català de Ciències del Clima). Experimental Sciences & Mathematics
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Xavier Rodó (Terrassa, 1965). Director of the Catalan Inst. of Climate Sciences (IC3) and formerly head of the LRC-PCB. He began engineering studies at the UPC and completed PhD at the UB in 1997 focused on the simulation of extreme ecosystems under climate forcing. Visiting fellow at Princeton University and afiliated scientist at COLA, Maryland. He taught ecology at the UB, statistics at the UPC and was also researcher at the Dep. Meteorologia i Astronomia at the UB and the Càtedra Unesco at the UPC. In 2003 he edited the book ‘Global Climate: Current Research and uncertainties in the Climate System’, published by Springer-Verlag. He was co-chair of CLIVAR-Spain until 2007 and SSC of the MEDCLIVAR-ESF. He served as CA and ER of the AR4-WGII of the IPCC2007. Steering Committee Member of the Drought Integration Group (DIG) of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP). Editorial Board Member of Nature Scientific Reports- ‘Earth & Environmental Sciences’
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Research Interests
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Mediterranean climate, tropical teleconnections, ENSO dynamics, the role of climate variability on the global carbon cycle and also the detection/simulation of climate impacts, with a special focus on health. In the former I am particularly involved in trying to disentangle the ways ENSO, the tropical Atlantic and the Atlantic tripole interact to modulate SW Mediterranean climate and the role that the monsoon plays modulating this interplay with both statistical and dynamical models. In the latter, I focus essentially on infectious diseases driven by climate, and on the impacts of climate on the hydrological cycle. The development of statistical techniques for improving climate diagnostics is another of my historical interests. Last but not least, I am also involved in the study of the interactions between climate and biogeochemistry through the study of the global carbon cycle. To this end we implement a suite of EGE gases monitoring platforms.
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KeyWords
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climate, climate change, climate models, infectious diseases, cholera, malaria, climate predictability, greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, ENSO, Mediterranean climate
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