Martínez-Alvarado, Dr Oscar
Senior Research Scientist
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University of Reading
Department of Meteorology
University of Reading
Earley Gate
Whiteknights Road
Reading
RG6 6ET
- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5285-0379
- +44 118 378 8933
Oscar Martínez-Alvarado is a research scientist at the UK’s National Centre for Atmospheric Science, based at the Department of Meteorology, University of Reading. He completed his doctoral studies, with a thesis on low-order dynamical models of the Martian atmosphere, at the University of Oxford in 2007. He joined the Department of Meteorology in 2008 to work on a project looking at the dynamical drivers and the climatology of sting jets in extratropical cyclones. Since then he has conducted research mainly within the field of extratropical meteorology. He has done work on the structure of extratropical cyclones, atmospheric blocking, high-impact weather in mid-latitudes and the development of forecast and model error in mid-latitude forecasts. More recently he has conducted research on weather regimes as potentially predictable features to improve the forecasts of wind energy production in the sub-tropics, and intense precipitation in the tropics.
Publications
- Hawkins, Ed; Brohan, Philip; Burgess, Samantha; Burt, Stephen; Compo, Gilbert; Gray, Suzanne; Haigh, Ivan; Hersbach, Hans; Kuijjer, Kiki; Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; McColl, Chesley; Schurer, Andrew; Slivinski, Laura; Williams, Joanne; Quantifying windstorm risks by translating historical extreme events into the future. [doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu23-9290] Feb 2023
- Gonzalez, Paula L. M.; Howard, Emma; Ferrett, Samantha; Frame, Thomas H. A.; Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Methven, John; Woolnough, Steven J.; Weather patterns in Southeast Asia: Enhancing high-impact weather subseasonal forecast skill. Quarterly Journal Of The Royal Meteorological Society [doi:10.1002/qj.4378] Dec 2022
- Lopez-Villalobos, C.A.; Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Rodríguez-Hernández, O.; Romero-Centeno, R.; Analysis of the influence of the wind speed profile on wind power production. Energy Reports, 8, 8079--8092, [doi:10.1016/j.egyr.2022.06.046] Nov 2022
- Hawkins, Ed; Brohan, Philip; Burgess, Samantha; Burt, Stephen; Compo, Gilbert; Gray, Suzanne L; Haigh, Ivan; Hersbach, Hans; Kuijjer, Kiki; Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; McColl, Chesley; Schurer, Andrew; Slivinski, Laura; Williams, Joanne; Supplementary material to "Rescuing historical weather observations improves quantification of severe windstorm risks". [doi:10.5194/egusphere-2022-1045-supplement] Oct 2022
- Hawkins, Ed; Brohan, Philip; Burgess, Samantha; Burt, Stephen; Compo, Gilbert; Gray, Suzanne; Haigh, Ivan; Hersbach, Hans; Kuijjer, Kiki; Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; McColl, Chesley; Schurer, Andrew; Slivinski, Laura; Williams, Joanne; Rescuing historical weather observations improves quantification of severe windstorm risks. [doi:10.5194/egusphere-2022-1045] Oct 2022
- Hernandez-Yepes, J.G.; Rodríguez-Hernández, O.; Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Magaldi-Hermosillo, A. V.; Drew, Dan; Influence of spatial resolution in mesoscale modeling to reproduce wind power production in southern Mexico. Journal Of Renewable And Sustainable Energy, 14 (4) , 043303, [doi:10.1063/5.0091384] Jul 2022
- Suitters, Charlie; Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Hodges, Kevin; Schiemann, R.; Ackerley, Duncan; The Importance of Anticyclonic Transient Eddies for Atmospheric Block Persistence. [doi:10.5194/ems2022-272] Jun 2022
- Mattu, Kanzis L.; Bloomfield, Hannah C.; Thomas, Simon; Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Rodríguez-Hernández, Osvaldo; The impact of tropical cyclones on potential offshore wind farms. Energy For Sustainable Development, 68, 29--39, [doi:10.1016/j.esd.2022.02.005] Jun 2022
- Cuckow, Sophie; Dacre, Helen F.; Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Moisture transport contributing to precipitation at the centre of storm Bronagh. Weather, 77 (6) , 196--201, [doi:10.1002/wea.4212] May 2022
- Volonté, A.; Methven, John; Gray, Suzanne; Harvey, Benjamin J.; Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Boundary layer dependence of atmosphere-ocean coupling in operational weather forecast models over the marginal ice zone. [doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu22-5316] Mar 2022
- Howard, Emma; Thomas, Simon Richard; Frame, Thomas H. A.; Gonzalez, Paula L. M.; Methven, John; Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Woolnough, Steven J.; Weather patterns in Southeast Asia: Relationship with tropical variability and heavy precipitation. Quarterly Journal Of The Royal Meteorological Society [doi:10.1002/qj.4227] Dec 2021
- Howard, Emma; Thomas, Simon Richard; Frame, Thomas H. A.; Gonzalez, Paula L. M.; Methven, John; Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Woolnough, Steven J.; Weather patterns in Southeast Asia: Relationship with tropical variability and heavy precipitation. Quarterly Journal Of The Royal Meteorological Society [doi:10.1002/qj.4227] Dec 2021
- Lopez-Villalobos, C.A.; Rodríguez-Hernández, O.; Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Hernandez-Yepes, J.G.; Effects of wind power spectrum analysis over resource assessment. Renewable Energy, 167, 761--773, [doi:10.1016/j.renene.2020.11.147] Apr 2021
- Howard, Emma; Gonzalez, Paula L. M.; Thomas, Simon; Frame, Thomas; Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Methven, John; Woolnough, S.; Weather regimes in South East Asia: connections with synoptic phenomena and high impact weather. [doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu21-7472] Mar 2021
- Gonzalez, Paula L. M.; Howard, Emma; Thomas, Simon; Frame, Thomas; Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Methven, John; Woolnough, S.; Weather regimes in South East Asia: Sub-seasonal predictability of the regimes and the associated high impact weather . [doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu21-7411] Mar 2021
- Pereyra-Castro, Karla; Caetano, Ernesto; Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Quintanilla-Montoya, Ana L.; Wind and Wind Power Ramp Variability over Northern Mexico. Atmosphere, 11 (12) , 1281, [doi:10.3390/atmos11121281] Nov 2020
- Thomas, Simon Richard; Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Drew, Daniel; Bloomfield, Hannah; Drivers of extreme wind events in Mexico for windpower applications. International Journal Of Climatology [doi:10.1002/joc.6848] Oct 2020
- Thomas, Simon Richard; Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Drew, Daniel; Bloomfield, Hannah; Drivers of extreme wind events in Mexico for windpower applications. International Journal Of Climatology [doi:10.1002/joc.6848] Oct 2020
- Thomas, Simon; Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Drew, Dan; Bloomfield, Hannah; Drivers of Extreme Wind Events in Mexico for Wind Power Applications. [doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-19833] Mar 2020
- Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Sanchez, Claudio; Examining model error in potential temperature and potential vorticity weather forecasts at different lead times. Quarterly Journal Of The Royal Meteorological Society, 146 (728) , 1264--1280, [doi:10.1002/qj.3736] Feb 2020
- Maddison, Jacob W.; Gray, Suzanne L.; Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Williams, Keith D.; Impact of model upgrades on diabatic processes in extratropical cyclones and downstream forecast evolution. Quarterly Journal Of The Royal Meteorological Society [doi:10.1002/qj.3739] Feb 2020
- Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Sanchez, Claudio; Examining model error in potential temperature and potential vorticity via weather forecasts at different lead times. Quarterly Journal Of The Royal Meteorological Society [doi:10.1002/qj.3736] Dec 2019
- Bannister, Ross Noel; Chipilski, Hristo Georgiev; Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Techniques and challenges in the assimilation of atmospheric water observations for numerical weather prediction towards convective scales. Quarterly Journal Of The Royal Meteorological Society [doi:10.1002/qj.3652] Dec 2019
- Dacre, H. F.; Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Mbengue, C. O.; Linking Atmospheric Rivers and Warm Conveyor Belt Airflows. Journal Of Hydrometeorology, 20 (6) , 1183--1196, [doi:10.1175/jhm-d-18-0175.1] Jun 2019
- Maddison, J. W.; Gray, S. L.; Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Williams, K. D.; Upstream Cyclone Influence on the Predictability of Block Onsets over the Euro-Atlantic Region. Monthly Weather Review, 147 (4) , 1277--1296, [doi:10.1175/mwr-d-18-0226.1] Apr 2019
- Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Maddison, Jacob W.; Gray, Suzanne L.; Williams, Keith D.; Atmospheric blocking and upper-level Rossby-wave forecast skill dependence on model configuration. Quarterly Journal Of The Royal Meteorological Society, 144 (716) , 2165--2181, [doi:10.1002/qj.3326] Oct 2018
- Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Gray, Suzanne L; Hart, Neil C. G.; Clark, Peter A; Hodges, Kevin I.; Roberts, Malcolm J.; Increased wind risk from sting-jet windstorms with climate change. Environmental Research Letters [doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aaae3a] Feb 2018
- Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Impact of Optimal Observational Time Window on Coupled Data Assimilation: Simulation with a Simple Climate Model. [doi:10.5194/npg-2016-68-rc2] Feb 2017
- Vaughan, G.; Methven, J.; Anderson, D; Antonescu, B.; Baker, L.; Baker, T. P.; Ballard, S. P.; Bower, K. N.; Brown, P. R. A.; Chagnon, JM; Choularton, T. W.; Chylik, J.; Connolly, P. J.; Cook, P. A.; Cotton, R J; Crosier, J.; Dearden, C.; Dorsey, J. R.; Frame, T. H. A.; Gallagher, M.; Goodliff, M.; Gray, S. L.; Harvey, B. J.; Knippertz, P.; Lean, H. W.; Li, D.; Lloyd, G.; Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Nicol, J; Norris, J.; Öström, E.; Owen, J.; Parker, D. J.; Plant, R. S.; Renfrew, I. A.; Roberts, N. M.; Rosenberg, P.; Rudd, A. C.; Schultz, D. M.; Taylor, J. P.; Trzeciak, T.; Tubbs, R.; Vance, A. K.; van Leeuwen, P. J.; Wellpott, A.; Woolley, A. M.; Cloud Banding and Winds in Intense European Cyclones: Results from the DIAMET Project. Bulletin Of The American Meteorological Society, 96, 249-265, [doi:10.1175/bams-d-13-00238.1] Nov 2015
- Dacre, H. F.; Clark, P. A.; Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Stringer, M. A.; Lavers, D. A.; How Do Atmospheric Rivers Form?. Bulletin Of The American Meteorological Society, 96 (8) , 1243–1255, [doi:10.1175/bams-d-14-00031.1] Aug 2015
- Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Madonna, E.; Gray, S. L.; Joos, H; A route to systematic error in forecasts of Rossby waves. Quarterly Journal Of The Royal Meteorological Society n/a–n/a, [doi:10.1002/qj.2645] Jul 2015
- Dacre, H. F.; Clark, P. A.; Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Stringer, M. A.; Lavers, D. A.; How do atmospheric rivers form?. Bulletin Of The American Meteorological Society 141124143559005, [doi:10.1175/bams-d-14-00031.1] Nov 2014
- Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Baker, Laura H.; Gray, Suzanne L.; Methven, John; Plant, Robert S.; Distinguishing the Cold Conveyor Belt and Sting Jet Airstreams in an Intense Extratropical Cyclone. Monthly Weather Review, 142 (8) , 2571–2595, [doi:10.1175/mwr-d-13-00348.1] Aug 2014
- Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Gray, Suzanne L; Catto, Jennifer L; Clark, Peter A; Corrigendum: Sting jets in intense winter North-Atlantic windstorms (2012 Environ. Res. Lett. 7 024014). Environmental Research Letters, 9 (3) , 039501, [doi:10.1088/1748-9326/9/3/039501] Mar 2014
- Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Baker, L. H.; Gray, S. L.; Methven, J.; Plant, R. S.; Distinguishing the cold conveyor belt and sting jet air streams in an intense extratropical cyclone. Mon. Weather Rev., 142, 2571--2595, 2014
- Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Plant, R. S.; Parameterised diabatic processes in numerical simulations of an extratropical cyclone. Quarterly Journal Of The Royal Meteorological Society, 140, 1742--1755, 2014
- Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Implications of model error for numerical climate prediction. Nonlinear Processes In Geophysics Discussions, 1 (1) , 131–153, [doi:10.5194/npgd-1-131-2014] 2014
- Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Plant, R. S.; Parametrized diabatic processes in numerical simulations of an extratropical cyclone. Quarterly Journal Of The Royal Meteorological Society, 140 (682) , 1742–1755, [doi:10.1002/qj.2254] Dec 2013
- Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Joos, H; Chagnon, JM; Boettcher, M; Gray, S. L.; Plant, Robert Stephen; Methven, J.; Wernli, H; The dichotomous structure of the warm conveyor belt. Quarterly Journal Of The Royal Meteorological Society [doi:10.1002/qj.2276] Oct 2013
- Baker, Laura; Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Methven, John; Knippertz, Peter; Flying through extratropical cyclone Friedhelm. Weather, 68 (1) , 9–13, [doi:10.1002/wea.2047] Jan 2013
- Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Gray, Suzanne L; Catto, Jennifer L; Clark, Peter A; Sting jets in intense winter North-Atlantic windstorms. Environmental Research Letters, 7 (2) , 024014, [doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/2/024014] May 2012
- Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Gray, Suzanne L.; Clark, Peter A.; Baker, Laura H.; Objective detection of sting jets in low-resolution datasets. Meteorological Applications, 20 (1) , 41–55, [doi:10.1002/met.297] Oct 2011
- Gray, S. L.; Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Baker, L. H.; Clark, P. A.; Conditional symmetric instability in sting-jet storms. Quarterly Journal Of The Royal Meteorological Society, 137 (659) , 1482–1500, [doi:10.1002/qj.859] Jul 2011
- Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Weidle, Florian; Gray, Suzanne L.; Sting Jets in Simulations of a Real Cyclone by Two Mesoscale Models. Monthly Weather Review, 138 (11) , 4054–4075, [doi:10.1175/2010mwr3290.1] Nov 2010
- Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Moroz, Irene M.; Read, Peter L.; Lewis, Stephen R.; Montabone, Luca; Low-order dynamical behavior in the martian atmosphere: Diagnosis of general circulation model results. Icarus, 204 (1) , 48–62, [doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2009.06.010] Nov 2009
- Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Montabone, L.; Lewis, S. R.; Moroz, I. M.; Read, P. L.; Transient teleconnection event at the onset of a planet-encircling dust storm on Mars. Ann. Geophys., 27 (9) , 3663–3676, [doi:10.5194/angeo-27-3663-2009] 2009
- Martínez-Alvarado, Oscar; Gray, Suzanne L.; Methven, John; Diabatic processes and the evolution of two contrasting summer extratropical cyclones. Monthly Weather Review null, [doi:10.1175/mwr-d-15-0395.1] 0