Revuelto Benedí, Jesús

 

 

Research

 

► Juan de la Cierva

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The main research line throughout my scientific career is focused on the comprehension of snow related processes in mountain areas. The study of the snowpack is challenging as it has a high temporal and spatial variability due to complex relationships with other elements of the cyopshere, but also with the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the lithosphere, and the biosphere. The snowpack is a meaningful resource, not only for mountain areas but also to downstream areas, what in the context of global change underline the need of a detailed comprehension of snow dynamics to design appropriate adaptation strategies. All this highlights the needs of monitoring and understanding snow dynamics to reduce the uncertainty of forecasting snowpack evolution at different spatial and temporal scales. 

Specifically, I am highly interested on the understanding on how the snowpack controls different mountain processes comprising; glaciers dynamics, rivers discharge, meadows phenology or soil erosion; and simultaneously, on the comprehension on how local topography, forest structures and the occurrence of different meteorological events influences snow dynamics. Along my scientific career I have learned, applied and combined a wide variety of observation and simulation techniques what has allowed me to push ahead the knowledge boundaries in remote mountain areas. Likewise I have contributed to develop forecasting and monitoring systems aimed to prevent endangering situations for the society, infrastructures and mountain ecosystems. 


In total, I have been involved in more than 200 field campaigns all over the world (Pyrenees, Alps, Cordillera Blanca, Central Andes), not only to observe snow and glaciers dynamics, but also to install and maintain experimental sites. This way, I was the first researcher systematically applying and generating TLS and drone observations in the Pyrenees and one the first all over the world to implement these tools in mountain areas.