Pablo Zurita-Gotor En

Professional background

Pablo Zurita Gotor is a professor in the Department of Earth Physics and Astrophysics at Complutense University. He obtained his PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was then a post-doc at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (USA) before returning to Spain as a Ramón y Cajal researcher. To date, he has supervised 3 doctoral theses and been the principal investigator on 4 projects under the National Research Plan. His research focuses on the dynamics of the general atmospheric circulation.

Relevant publications

• Zurita-Gotor, 2020. The Interannual Variability of the Tropical Divergence Tilt and Its Connection with the Extratropical Circulation. J. Climate
  DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0373.1 View link

• Zurita-Gotor, 2019. The Role of the Divergent Circulation for Large-Scale Eddy Momentum Transport in the Tropics. Part II: Dynamical Determinants of the Momentum Flux. J. Atms. Sci
  DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-18-0304.1 View link

• Maher et al., 2019. Model Hierarchies for Understanding Atmospheric Circulation. Reviews of Geophysics
  DOI: 10.1029/2018RG000607 View link

• Zurita-Gotor and Held, 2018. The Finite-Amplitude Evolution of Mixed Kelvin-Rossby Wave Instability and Equatorial Superrotation in a Shallow-Water Model and an Idealized GCM. J. Atmos. Sci.
  DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-17-0386.1 View link

• Zurita-Gotor and Held, 2018. The Finite-Amplitude Evolution of Mixed Kelvin-Rossby Wave Instability and Equatorial Superrotation in a Shallow-Water Model and an Idealized GCM. J. Atmos. Sci.
  DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-17-0386.1 View link

• Zurita-Gotor and Álvarez-Zapatero, 2018. Coupled Interannual Variability of the Hadley and Ferrel Cells. J. Climate
  DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0752.1 View link

• Zurita-Gotor, 2017. Low-frequency suppression of Southern Hemisphere tropospheric eddy heat flux. Geophys. Res. Lett.
  DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-17-0099.1 View link

• Vallis et al., 2015. Response of the large-scale structure of the atmosphere to global warming. Q. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc.
  DOI: 10.1002/QJ.2456 View link

• Zurita-Gotor et al., 2015. Kinetic energy-conserving hyperdiffusion can improve low resolution atmospheric models. JAMES
  DOI: 10.1002/2015MS000480 View link

• Zurita-Gotor et al., 2014. The Impact of Baroclinic Eddy Feedback on the Persistence of Jet Variability in the Two-Layer Model. J. Atmos. Sci.
  DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-13-0102.1 View link