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Elsa Mohino

Elsa Mohino

Elsa Mohino

Profesor Titular de Univesidad

emohino@ucm.es

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I received my PhD from the University Complutense of Madrid in 2005. Since 2007 I work in TROPA-UCM group on climate variability, especially on the West African Monsoon, from intra-seasonal to decadal time scales. I am also interested in predictability at these time scales. I have participated in a number of projects (national and European) and directed 3 of them, and I have several publications on my research (more details in CV summary). I have also collaborated in cooperation projects focused on West Africa.

I have teaching experience at degree and master's level and I have directed and participated in academic innovation projects. I have supervised the PhD thesis of Julián Villamayor (defended in February 2018), and I have co-adviced the PhD thesis of Coumba Niang from the University Cheik Anta Diop in Dakar-Senegal (defended in April 2015) and of Antonio Castaño (defended in October 2019).

  • Marta Martín Rey, Irene Polo, Belén Rodríguez Fonseca, Javier García Serrano, Teresa Losada, Elsa Mohino, Carlos Roberto Mechoso, and Fred Kucharski 2010 Published

    Changes in the Tropical Pacific background state and La Niña development from Atlantic remote influence
    Poster presentation in European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Viena (Austria), May from 2 to 7, 2010

  • Marta Martín Rey, Irene Polo, Belén Rodríguez Fonseca, Javier García Serrano, Teresa Losada, Elsa Mohino, Carlos Roberto Mechoso, and Fred Kucharski 2010 Published

    Changes in the Tropical Pacific background state and La Niña development from Atlantic remote influence
    Poster presentation in I Encuentro de Oceanografía Física Española (EOF), Barcelona (Spain), October, from 13 to 15, 2010

  • Marta Martín Rey, Irene Polo, Belén Rodríguez Fonseca, Javier García Serrano, Teresa Losada, Elsa Mohino, Carlos Roberto Mechoso, and Fred Kucharski 2011 Published

    Analysis of El Niño events from the Atlantic remote influence
    Poster presentation in European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Viena (Austria), April from 3 to 8, 2011

  • Marta Martín Rey, Irene Polo, Belén Rodríguez Fonseca, Javier García Serrano, Teresa Losada, Elsa Mohino, Carlos Roberto Mechoso, and Fred Kucharski 2011 Published

    Analysis of El Niño events from the Atlantic remote influence.
    Poster presentation in European Conference on Applications of Meteorology.EMS Annual Meeting, Berlin (Germany), September, from 12 to 16, 2011

  • Elsa Mohino and Julián Villamayor 2012 Published

    Variabilidad multidecadal del Atlántico Norte en modelos del CMIP5.
    Meteorología y Calidad del Aire. XXXII Jornadas Científicas de la Asociación Meteorológica Española, ISBN: 978-84-695-6430-1.

  • Jorge López Parages, Julián Villamayor, Iñigo Gómara, Teresa Losada, Marta Martín Del Rey, Elsa Mohino, Irene Polo, Belén Rodríguez Fonseca, and Roberto Suárez 2013 Published

    Nonstationary interannual teleconnections modulated by multidecadal variability

    Física de la Tierra: Climate variability and teleconnections in West Africa and the Mediterranean. 25, pp. 11 - 39. PUBLICACIONES UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID, 2013. ISSN0214-4557

  • Marco Gaetani and Elsa Mohino 2013 Published

    Decadal prediction of the Sahelian precipitation in CMIP5 simulations

    Journal of Climate, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00635.1

  • Teresa Losada, Belén Rodríguez Fonseca, Elsa Mohino, Juergen Bader, Serge Janicot, and Carlos R. Mechoso 2012 Published

    Tropical SST and Sahel rainfall: A non-stationary relationship

    Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 39, pp. L12705. DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052423

  • Elsa Mohino, Serge Janicot, Hervé Douville, and Laurent Li 2012 Published

    Impact of the Indian part of the summer MJO on West Africa using nudged climate simulations

    Climate Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1206-y

  • Elsa Mohino, Belén Rodríguez Fonseca, Teresa Losada, Sevastien Gervois, Serge Janicot, Juergen Bader, Paolo Ruti, and Frabrice Chauvin 2011 Published

    Changes in the interannual SST-forced signals on West African rainfal. AGCM intercomparison

    Climate Dynamics, Vol. 37, pp. 1707 - 1725. DOI 10.1007/s00382-011-1093-2

  • Elsa Mohino, Belén Rodríguez Fonseca, Carlos R. Mechoso, Sebastien Gervois, Paolo Ruti, and Fabrice Chauvin 2011 Published

    Impacts of the Tropical Pacific/Indian Oceans on the Seasonal Cycle of the West African Monsoon

    Journal of Climate, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2011JCLI3988.1

  • Emmanouil Flaounas, Serge Janicot, Sophie Bastin, Rémy Roca, and Elsa Mohino 2011 Published

    The role of the Indian monsoon onset in the West African monsoon onset: observations and AGCM nudged simulations

    Climate Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1045-x

  • Elsa Mohino, Serge Janicot, and Juergen Bader 2011 Published

    Sahel rainfall and decadal to multi-decadal sea surface variability.

    Climate Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0867-2

  • Belén Rodríguez Fonseca, Serge Janicot, Elsa Mohino, Teresa Losada, Juergen Bader, Cyril Caminade, Fabrice Chauvin, Bernard Fontaine, Javier García Serrano, Sebastien Gervois, Mathieu Joly, Irene Polo, Paolo Ruti, Pascal Roucou, and Aurore Voldoire 2011 Published

    Interannual and decadal SST-forced responses of the West African monsoon

    Atmospheric Science Letters, Vol. 12, pp. 67-74. DOI: 10.1002/ASL.308

  • Belén Rodríguez Fonseca, Irene Polo, Javier García Serrano, Teresa Losada, Elsa Mohino, Carlos R. Mechoso, and Fred Kucharski 2009 Published

    Are Atlantic Niños enhancing Pacific ENSO events in recent decades?

    Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 36, L20705. DOI 10.1029/2009GL040048.

  • Elsa Mohino and Teresa Losada 2015 Published

    Impacts of the Atlantic Equatorial Mode in a warmer climate

    Climate Dynamics, 45, 2255-2271. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2471-y

  • Belén Rodríguez Fonseca, Irene Polo, Javier García Serrano, Teresa Losada, and Elsa Mohino 2009 Published

    The Equatorial Mode. A new regional and global perspective from the 70’s.

    Revista Física de la Tierra, 21,179-189, Servicio de publicaciones Universidad Complutense de Madrid. ISSN: 0214-4557.

  • Teresa Losada, Elsa Mohino, Belén Rodríguez Fonseca, and Irene Polo 2008 Published

    Influence of the tropical oceanic basins on the African monsoon.

    Porceedings de la 6ª asamblea hispano-portuguesa de geodesia y geofísica, pp. 163-164.

  • Belén Rodríguez Fonseca, Elsa Mohino, C. Roberto Mechoso, C. Caminade, M. Biasutti, M. Gaetani, J.Garcia Serrano, E. K.Vizy, K. Cook, Y. Xue, Irene Polo, Teresa Losada, L. Druyan, B. Fontaine, J. Bader, F. J.Doblas Reyes, L. Goddard, S. Janicot, A. Arribas, W. Lau, A. Colman, D. P. Rowell, F. Kucharski, and A.Voldoire 2014 Published

    Variability and Predictability of West African Droughts. The role of SST.

    Journal of Climate, 28, 4034–4060

  • Julián Villamayor and Elsa Mohino 2015 Published

    Robust Sahel drought due to the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation in CMIP5 simulations

    Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062473

  • Verónica Torralba, Belén Rodríguez Fonseca, Elsa Mohino, and Teresa Losada 2015 Published

    The non-stationary influence of the Atlantic and Pacific Niños on North Eastern South American rainfall

    Frontiers in Earth Science, 3, 55. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2015.00055

  • Fred Kucharski, Afroja Parvin, Belén Rodríguez Fonseca, Riccardo Farneti, Marta Martín Del Rey, Irene Polo, Elsa Mohino, Teresa Losada, and Carlos R. Mechoso 2016 Published

    The Teleconnection of the Tropical Atlantic to Indo-Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures on Inter-Annual to Centennial Time Scales: A Review of Recent Findings

    Atmosphere, 7(2), 29; doi:10.3390/atmos7020029

    https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/7/2/29

  • Belén Rodríguez Fonseca, Roberto Suárez, Blanca Ayarzagüena, Jorge López Parages, Iñigo Gómara, Julián Villamayor, Elsa Mohino, Teresa Losada, and Antonio Castaño Tierno 2016 Published

    A Review of ENSO Influence on the North Atlantic. A Non-Stationary Signal

    Atmosphere, Special Issue "El Niño Southern Oscillation", 7, 87, doi:10.3390/atmos7070087

  • Jorge López Parages, Belén Rodríguez Fonseca, Elsa Mohino, and Teresa Losada 2016 Published

    Multidecadal Modulation of ENSO teleconnection with Europe in late winter: Analysis of CMIP5 models

    Journal of Climate. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0596.1

  • Elsa Mohino, Noel Keenlyside, and Holger Pohlmann 2016 Published

    Decadal prediction of Sahel rainfall: where does the skill (or lack thereof) come from?

    Climate Dynamics

    DOI 10.1007/s00382-016-3416-9

  • Carlos R. Mechoso, Teresa Losada, Shunya Koseki, Elsa Mohino, Noel Keenlyside, Antonio Castaño Tierno, Timothy A. Myers, Belén Rodríguez Fonseca, and Thomas Toniazzo 2016 Published

    Can reducing the incoming energy flux over the Southern Ocean in a CGCM improve its simulation of tropical climate?

    Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 11057-11063

    DOI: 10.1002/2016GL071150

  • Coumba Niang, Elsa Mohino, Amadou T. Gaye, and Bayo Omotosho Published

    Impact of the Madden Julian Oscillation on the summer West African monsoon in AMIP simulations

    Climate Dynamics,
    DOI 10.1007/s00382-016-3206-4

  • Iñigo Gómara, Elsa Mohino, Teresa Losada, Marta Domínguez, Roberto Suárez, and Belén Rodríguez Fonseca 2018 Published

    Impact of dynamical regionalization on precipitation biases and teleconnections over West Africa

    Climate Dynamics,50, 4481-4506. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-017-3886-4

  • Moussa Diakhaté, Belén Rodríguez Fonseca, Iñigo Gómara, Elsa Mohino, A.L. Dieng, and A.T. Gaye 2019 Published

    Oceanic Forcing on Interannual Variability of Sahel Heavy and Moderate Daily Rainfall

    Journal of Hydrometeorology, 20, 397-410, https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-18-0035.1

  • Antonio Castaño Tierno, Elsa Mohino, Belén Rodríguez Fonseca, and Teresa Losada 2018 Published

    Revisiting the CMIP5 Thermocline in the Equatorial Pacific and Atlantic Oceans

    Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079847

  • Julián Villamayor, Tércio Ambizzi, and Elsa Mohino 2017 Published

    Influence of decadal sea Surface temperature variability on northern Brazil rainfall in CMIP5 simulations.

    Climate Dynamics, 51(1-2), 563-579.

  • Julián Villamayor, Elsa Mohino, Myriam Khodri, Juliette Mignot, and Serge Janicot 2018 Published

    Atlantic Control of the Late Nineteenth-Century Sahel Humid Period.

    Journal of Climate, 31(20), 8225-8240.

  • Elsa Mohino, Belén Rodríguez Fonseca, Carlos Roberto Mechoso, Teresa Losada, and Irene Polo 2019 Published

    Relationships among Intermodel Spread and Biases in Tropical Atlantic Sea Surface Temperatures

  • Verónica Martín Gómez, Marcelo Barreiro, and Elsa Mohino 2019 Published

    Southern Hemisphere Sensitivity to ENSO patterns and intensity:
    Impacts over Subtropical South America

    Atmosphere

  • Gregory R Foltz, Peter Brandt, Ingo Richter, Belén Rodríguez Fonseca, Fabrice Hernandez, Marcus Dengler, Regina R Rodrigues, Jörn Oliver Schmidt, Lisan Yu, Nathalie Lefevre, L Cotrim Da Cunha, Michael James Mc Phaden, M Araujo, Johannes Karstensen, Johannes Hahn, Marta Martín Del Rey, Christina M Patricola, Paul Poli, Paquita Zuidema, Rebecca Hummels, Renellys C Perez, Vanessa Hatje, Joke F Lübbecke, Irene Polo, Rick Lumpkin, Bernard Bourlès, Francis E Asuquo, Patrick Lehodey, Anna Conchon, Ping Chang, Philippe Dandin, Claudia Schmid, A Sutton, Herve Giordani, Yan Xue, Serena Illig, Teresa Losada, Sa Grodsky, Florent Gasparin, Tong Lee, Elsa Mohino, Paulo Nobre, Rik Wanninkhof, N Keenlyside, Veronique Garcon, Emilia Sanchez Gomez, Hyacinth Nnamchi, Marie Drevillon, Andrea Storto, Elisabeth Remy, Alban Lazar, Sabrina Speich, M Goes, Tarquin Dorrington, William E Johns, James N Moum, Carol Robinson, Coralie Perruche, Rb De Souza, At Gaye, Jorge López Parages, P A Monerie, Paola Castellanos, Nsikak U Benson, Mahouton Norbert Hounkonnou, J Trotte Duhá, R Laxenaire, and N Reul 2019 Published

    The tropical atlantic observing system

    Frontiers in Marine Science, 6, 206, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00206.

    https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2019.00206/full

  • Moussa Diakhaté, Roberto Suárez Moreno, Iñigo Gómara, and Elsa Mohino 2020 Published

    Statistical-observational analysis of skillful oceanic predictors of heavy precipitation events in the Sahel

    Atmosphere 11(6), 584; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11060584

  • Iñigo Gómara, Belén Rodríguez Fonseca, Elsa Mohino, Teresa Losada, Irene Polo, and Marta Coll 2021 Published

    Skillful prediction of tropical Pacific fisheries provided by Atlantic Niños

    Environmental Research Letters, 16, 054066, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abfa4d

  • Fred Kucharski, Afroja Parvin, Belén Rodríguez Fonseca, Riccardo Farneti, Marta Martín Del Rey, Irene Polo, Elsa Mohino, Teresa Losada, and Carlos Roberto Mechoso 2016 Published

    The Teleconnection of the Tropical Atlantic to Indo-Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures on Inter-annual to Centennial Time Scales: A Review of Recent Findings

    Atmosphere, 7(2), 29; doi:10.3390/atmos7020029.

  • David Gallego, Ricardo García Herrera, Teresa Losada, Elsa Mohino, and Belén Rodríguez Fonseca 2021 Published

    A Shift in the Wind Regime of the Southern End of the Canary Upwelling System at the Turn of the 20th Century

    Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 126 (5), e2020JC017093

  • David Gallego, Ricardo García Herrera, Elsa Mohino, Teresa Losada, and Belén Rodríguez Fonseca 2022 Published

    Secular Variability of the Upwelling at the Canaries Latitude: An Instrumental Approach

    Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 127, e2021JC018039

  • Teresa Losada, Belén Rodríguez Fonseca, Carlos Roberto Mechoso, Elsa Mohino, and Antonio Castaño Tierno 2022 Published

    Changes in interannual tropical Atlantic-Pacific basin interactions modulated by a South Atlantic cooling.

    Journal of climate https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0546.1

  • Belén Rodríguez Fonseca, Luis Durán, Álvaro González Cervera, Auguste Gires, Cheikh Modou Noreyni Fall, Abdou Lahat Dieng, Amadou Thierno Gaye, and Elsa Mohino 2023 Published

    Multiscale Characteristics of West African Summer Monsoon Precipitation Derived from UCadMet Network Observations

    PICO presentation in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Viena (Austria), from April 23 to April 28, 2023.