Swen Brands | Santander Meteorology Group

Swen Brands

Position: PhD. Student
Category: Former members
Institutions: IFCA

Contact info E-mail username: swen.brands
E-mail domain: gmail.com
Tel: +34 942 20 2064

PhD student since 11/2009

Research Fields

1. Atmospheric rivers
2. Teleconnections and empirical seasonal forecasting
3. Synoptic climatology and statistical downscaling
4. Validation of Global Climate Models
5. Consistency of reanalysis data
6. Applied meteorology and climatology

Paper publications
Research projects
Scientific meetings
Lectures

Year	Title	Authors	Journal	Status	PDF	DOI
2016	Reassessing Model Uncertainty for Regional Projections of Precipitation with an Ensemble of Statistical Downscaling Methods	San-Martín, D. Manzanas, R. Brands, S. Herrera, S. Gutiérrez, J.M.	Journal of Climate	Published		10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0366.1
2016	Twentieth-century atmospheric river activity along the west coasts of Europe and North America: algorithm formulation, reanalysis uncertainty and links to atmospheric circulation patterns	Brands, S. Gutiérrez, J.M. San-Martín, D.	Climate Dynamics	Published		10.1007/s00382-016-3095-6
2015	Present and future climate conditions for winegrowing in Spain	Lorenzo N. Ramos A. Brands, S.	Regional Environmental Change	Published		10.1007/s10113-015-0883-1
2015	Statistical downscaling in the Tropics can be sensitive to reanalysis choice: A case study for precipitation in the Philippines	Manzanas, R. Brands, S. San-Martín, D. Lucero, A. Limbo, C. Gutiérrez, J.M.	Journal of Climate	Published		10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00331.1
2015	Seasonal variations in North Atlantic atmospheric river activity and associations with anomalous precipitation over the Iberian Atlantic margin	Eiras-Barça J Brands, S. Miguez-Macho G	Journal of Geophysical Research	In print		10.1002/2015JD023379
2015	Global patterns in the sensitivity of burned area to fire-weather: implications for climate change	Bedia, J. Herrera, S. Gutiérrez, J.M. Benali, A. Brands, S. Mota, B. Moreno, J.M.	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	Published		10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.09.002
2014	Is Eurasian snow cover in October a reliable statistical predictor for the wintertime climate on the Iberian Peninsula?	Brands, S. Herrera, S. Gutiérrez, J.M.	International Journal of Climatology	Published		10.1002/joc.3788
2014	Predicting average wintertime wind and wave conditions in the North Atlantic sector from Eurasian snow cover in October	Brands, S.	Environmental Research Letters	Published		10.1088/1748-9326/9/4/045006
2013	Reassessing statistical downscaling techniques for their robust application under climate change conditions	Gutiérrez, J.M. San-Martín, D. Brands, S. Manzanas, R. Herrera, S.	Journal of Climate	Published		10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00687.1
2013	How well do CMIP5 Earth System Models simulate present climate conditions in Europe and Africa? A performance comparison for the downscaling community	Brands, S. Herrera, S. Fernández, J. Gutiérrez, J.M.	Climate Dynamics	Published		10.1007/s00382-013-1742-8
2013	Skillful Seasonal Predictions of Boreal Winter Accumulated Heating Degree Days and Relevance for the Weather Derivative Market	Brands, S.	Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology	Published		10.1175/JAMC-D-12-0303.1
2012	On the Use of Reanalysis Data for Downscaling	Brands, S. Gutiérrez, J.M. Herrera, S. Cofiño, A.S.	Journal of Climate	Published		10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00251.1
2012	Seasonal predictability of wintertime precipitation in Europe using the Snow Advance Index	Brands, S. Manzanas, R. Gutiérrez, J.M. Cohen, J.	Journal of Climate	Published		10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00083.1
2012	Comments on "Global and Regional Comparison of Daily 2-m and 1000-hPa Maximum and Minimum Temperatures in Three Global Reanalyses"	Brands, S. Gutiérrez, J.M. Cofiño, A.S. Herrera, S.	Journal of Climate	Published		10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00122.1
2011	Statistical downscaling of daily temperatures in the NW Iberian Peninsula from global climate models: validation and future scenarios	Brands, S. Taboada, J.J. Cofiño, A.S. Sauter, T. Schneider, C.	Climate Research	Published		10.3354/cr00906
2011	Validation of the ENSEMBLES global climate models over southwestern Europe using probability density functions, from a downscaling perspective	Brands, S. Herrera, S. San-Martín, D. Gutiérrez, J.M.	Climate Research	Published		10.3354/cr00995

Period	Project
October 2008 - June 2012	ESTCENA

Year	Title	Authors	Conference	Type
2017	Which Teleconnections are Robust to Internal Atmospheric Variability?	Brands, S. Taboada, J.J. Lorenzo, N. Gutiérrez, J.M.	14th EMS Annual Meeting & 10th European Conference on Applied Climatology (ECAC),	Oral
2015	Change in the climate conditions of the viticulture in Spain	Lorenzo, N. Ramos A Brands, S. Taboada J.J. Iglesias I	Avances en la detección y proyecciones del cambio climático en España a la luz del 5º informe del IPCC	Poster
2014	Sensitivity of Statistical Downscaling Techniques to Reanalysis Choice and Implications for Regional Climate Change Scenarios	Manzanas, R. Brands, S. San-Martín, D. Lucero A. Limbo C. Gutiérrez, J.M.	2014 AGU Fall Meeting	Oral
2014	Extreme precipitation events over the Iberian Atlantic Margin: The role of atmospheric rivers	Eiras J Brands, S. Miguez-Macho G	2014 AGU Fall Meeting	Poster
2013	How well do CMIP5 Earth System Models simulate present climate conditions? A performance comparison for selected CORDEX domains	Brands, S. Herrera, S. Fernández, J. Gutiérrez, J.M.	International Conference on Regional Climate - CORDEX 2013	Oral
2012	A critical reassessment of statistical downscaling techniques under climate change conditions in Spain: Accuracy, distributional similarity and robustness	Manzanas, R. Gutiérrez, J.M. San-Martín, D. Brands, S. Herrera, S.	8º Congreso Internacional AEC	Poster
2012	How well do CMIP5 Earth System Models simulate present climate conditions in Europe and Africa?	Brands, S. Herrera, S. Fernández, J. Gutiérrez, J.M.	8º Congreso Internacional AEC	Poster
2012	A new source of seasonal predictability for the winter climate in Spain	Brands, S. Manzanas, R. Herrera, S. Gutiérrez, J.M.	8º Congreso Internacional AEC	Oral
2012	Assessing the robustness of statistical downscaling techniques for their application under climate change conditions	Manzanas, R. Gutiérrez, J.M. San-Martín, D. Brands, S. Herrera, S.	12th Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society (EMS) and the 9th European Conference on Applied Climatology (ECAC)	Oral
2010	Statistical downscaling of daily temperatures in northwestern Spain from an ensemble of AR4-GCMs	Brands, S. Taboada, J. Cofiño, A.S. Schneider, C. Sauter, T.	European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010	Poster
2009	Actual and future trends of extreme values of temperature for the NW Iberian Peninsula	Taboada, J. Brands, S. Lorenzo, N.	9th European Conference on Applications of Meteorology (ECAM)	Oral

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