Department of Applied Physics
Earth Sciences
Address:
“Campus Auga” Building
Rúa Canella da Costa da Vela 12
Universidade de Vigo
32004 Ourense, Spain
Office: 2.5
e-mail: j.anhel@uvigo.gal
Phone: +34 988 387 235
Scopus ID: 6507562207
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2448-4647
WoS ResearcherID: N-1866-2019
Web personal : https://ephyslab.uvigo.es/juan/
Working Fields
- Impacts of climate change
- Study of the tropopause
- Upper troposphere-lower stratosphere
- Renewable energies
- Extreme weather
- Atmospheric dynamics
- Instrumental data retrieval
- Computational science in scientific research
Publications
V.M. Chavez-Perez, J.A. Añel, C. Almaguer-Gómez, L. de la Torre (2025) Influence of Satellite and Presatellite Periods on the Validation of Major Sudden Stratospheric Warmings in Historical CMIP5 Simulations, Atmosphere, Vol. 16 , Issue 5 ; DOI: 10.3390/atmos16050628 (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel (2025) Preserve access to crucial climate data, Nature, Reader´s letter / Carta del lector Vol. 641, 39 ; DOI: 10.1038/d41586-025-01328-0 (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel, I. Cnossen, J. C. Antuña-Marrero, G. Beig, M. K. Brown, E. Doornbos, S. Osprey, S. M. Mutschler, C. Pérez-Souto, P. Sacha, V. Sofieva, L. de la Torre, S.-R. Zhang,, M. G. Mlynczak (2025) The Need for Better Monitoring of Climate Change in the Middle and Upper Atmosphere, AGU Advances, Vol. 6, Issue 2; DOI: 10.1029/2024AV001465 (Published) [pdf]
A. Saiz-Lopez, C. A. Cuevas, A. Ulises Acuña, J.A. Añel, A. S. Mahajan, L. de la Torre, W. Feng, J. Z. Dávalos, D. Roca-Sanjuán, D. E. Kinnison, J. Carmona-García, R. P. Fernandez, Q. Li, J. E. Sonke, A. Feinberg, J. C. Gómez Martín, J. Villamayor, P. Zhang, Y. Zhang, C. S. Blaszczak-Boxe, O. Travnikov, F. Wang, J. Bieser, J. S. Francisco, J. M. C. Plane (2025) Role of the stratosphere in the global mercury cycle, Science Advances, Vol. 11, 2 ; DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ads1459 (Published) [pdf]
M. García-Rodríguez, J.A. Añel, J. Rodeiro Iglesias (2024) Assessing and improving the quality of Fortran code in scientific software: FortranAnalyser, Software Impacts, Vol. 21, 100692; DOI: 10.1016/j.simpa.2024.100692 (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel, C. Pérez-Souto, M. Pansera, L. de la Torre (2024) ODEÓN workshop: co-creation of research on climate intervention techniques through citizen engagement, Weather, DOI: 10.1002/wea.4542 (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel, C. Pérez-Souto, S. Bayo-Besteiro, L. Prieto-Godino, H. Bloomfield, A. Troccoli, L. de la Torre (2024) Extreme weather events and the energy sector in 2021, Weather Climate and Society, DOI: 10.1175/WCAS-D-23-0115.1 (Published) [pdf]
T. Fuentes-Alvarez, P. M. González-Jardines, J. C. Fernández-Álvarez, L. de la Torre, J.A. Añel (2023) Analysis of the Gálvez–Davison Index for the Forecasting Formation and Evolution of Convective Clouds in the Tropics: Western Cuba, Climate, Vol. 11, Issue: 10 ; DOI: 10.3390/cli11100209 (Published) [pdf]
S. Bayo-Besteiro, L. de la Torre, X. Costoya, M. Gómez-Gesteira, A. Pérez-Alarcón, M. deCastro, J.A. Añel (2023) Photovoltaic power resource at the Atacama Desert under climate change, Renewable Energy, Vol. 216, 118999 ; DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2023.118999 (Published) [pdf]
Q. Li, D. Meidan, P. Hess, J.A. Añel, C. A. Cuevas, S. Doney, R. P. Fernandez, M. van Herpen, L. Höglund-Isaksson, M. S. Johnson, D. E. Kinnison, Jean-François Lamarque, T. Röckmann,, N. M. Mahowald, A. Saiz-Lopez (2023) Global environmental implications of atmospheric methane removal through chlorine-mediated chemistry-climate interactions, Nature Communications, Vol. 14, 4045; DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-39794-7 (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel (2023) Atmosphere. The Environment in Galicia: A Book of Images, Book, Chapter 1; pp 3-11 ISBN 978-3-031-33113-8 ISBN 978-3-031-33114-5 (eBook) DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-33114-5 (Published) [pdf]
V.M. Chavez-Perez, J.A. Añel, R. R. Garcia, P. Sacha, L. de la Torre (2022) Impact of Increased Vertical Resolution in WACCM on the Climatology of Major Sudden Stratospheric Warmings, Atmosphere, Vol. 13 Issue: 4 ; DOI: 10.3390/atmos13040546 (Published) [pdf]
S. Bayo-Besteiro, M. García-Rodríguez, X. Labandeira, J.A. Añel (2021) Seasonal and subseasonal wind power characterisation and forecasting for the Iberian Peninsula and the Canary islands: a systematic review, International Journal of Climatology, Review? Vol. XXXX Issue XXXX ; DOI: 10.1002/joc.7359 (Published) [pdf]
P. Pisoft, P. Sacha, L. M. Polvani, J.A. Añel, L. de la Torre, R. Eichinger, U. Foelsche, P. Huszar, C. Jacobi, J. Karlicky, A. Kuchař, J. Miksovsky, M. Zak, H. E. Rieder (2021) Stratospheric contraction caused by increasing greenhouse gases, Environmental Research Letters, Vol. 16, 6, DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abfe2b (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel, M. García-Rodríguez, J. Rodeiro Iglesias (2021) Current status on the need for improved accessibility to climate models code, Geoscientific Model Development, Vol. 14, 923-934; DOI: 10.5194/gmd-14-923-2021 (Published) [pdf]
L. de la Torre, J.A. Añel (2020) Connections between the earth’s atmosphere and its magnetosphere, Contemporary Physics, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00107514.2020.1860136 (Published) [pdf]
D. Montes, J.A. Añel, D.C.H. Wallom, P. Uhe, P. V. Caderno, T. F. Pena (2020) Cloud Computing for Climate Modelling: Evaluation, Challenges and Benefits, Computers, Vol. 9 Issue 2, 52 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/computers9020052 (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel, D. Montes, J. Rodeiro Iglesias (2020) Cloud and Serverless Computing for Scientists, Book, Springer ISBN 978-3-030-41784-0 (Published) [pdf]
G. A. González-Reyes, S. Bayo-Besteiro, J. Vich LLobet, J.A. Añel (2020) Environmental and Economic Constraints on the Use of Lubricant Oils for Wind and Hydropower Generation: The Case of NATURGY, Sustainability, Vol. 12 Issue 10 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su12104242 (Published) [pdf]
C. M. Goodess, A. Troccoli, C. Acton, J.A. Añel, P. E. Bett, D. J. Brayshaw, M.De Felice, S.R.Dorling, L. Dubus, L. Penny, B. Percy, T. Ranchin, C. Thomas, M. Trolliet, L. Wald (2019) Advancing climate services for the European renewable energy sector through capacity building and user engagement, Climate Services, Vol. 16 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2019.100139 (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel, A. Robock (2019) Book Review: Crossing the red line: the nuclear option, Contemporary Physics, Vol: 60 Issue: 3 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00107514.2019.1663935 (Published) [pdf]
P. Sacha, R. Eichinger, H. Garny, P. Pisoft, S. Dietmüller, L. de la Torre, D. A. Plummer, P. Jöckel, O. Morgenstern, G. Zeng, N. Butchart, J.A. Añel (2019) Extratropical age of air trends and causative factors in climate projection simulations, Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics, June 2019, Vol. 19, Issue 11, Pages 7627-7647, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-7627-2019 (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel (2019) Reflections on the Scientific Method at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Contemporary Physics, Mar 2019, Essay Review, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00107514.2019.1579863 (Published) [pdf]
F. Santos, M. Gómez-Gesteira, M. deCastro, J.A. Añel, D. Carvalho, X. Costoya, J.M. Dias (2018) On the accuracy of CORDEX RCMs to project future winds over the Iberian Peninsula and surrounding ocean, Applied Energy, Volume 228, 15 October 2018, Pages 289–300 (Published) [pdf]
F. Mandija, V.M. Chavez-Perez, R. Nieto, M. Sicard, V. Danylevsky, J.A. Añel, L. Gimeno (2018) The climatology of dust events over the European continent using data of the BSC-DREAM8b model, Atmospheric Research, Volume 209, 1 September 2018, Pages 144-162, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2018.03.006 (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel, G. Sáenz, I.A. Ramírez-González, E. Polychroniadou, R. Vidal-Mina, L. Gimeno, L. de la Torre (2017) Obtaining meteorological data from historical newspapers: La Integridad, Weather, 10.1002/wea.2841 (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel, M. Fernández-González, X. Labandeira, X. López-Otero, L. de la Torre (2017) Impact of Cold Waves and Heat Waves on the Energy Production Sector, Atmosphere, 8(11), 209; doi:10.3390/atmos8110209 (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel (2017) Advanced computational fluid and aerodynamics, by P. G. Tucker, Contemporary Physics, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00107514.2017.1381766 (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel (2017) Comment on “Most computational hydrology is not reproducible, so is it really science?” by Christopher Hutton et al., Water Resources Research, 53, 2572–2574, DOI: 10.1002/2016WR020190 (Published) [pdf]
M.I. Hegglin, S. Tegtmeier, J.A. Añel, et al. (2017) The SPARC Data Initiative: Assessment of stratospheric trace gas and aerosol climatologies from satellite limb sounders, SPARC Report, No. 8, WCRP-5/2017 (Published) [pdf]
M. Diallo, B. Legras, E. Ray, A. Engel, J.A. Añel (2017) Global distribution of CO2 in the upper troposphere and stratosphere, Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics, 17, 3861-3878, doi:10.5194/acp-17-3861-2017 (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel (2017) Copernicus: a very short introduction, by Owen Gingerich, Contemporary Physics, doi:10.1080/00107514.2017.1292317 (Published) [pdf]
D. Montes, J.A. Añel, T.F. Pena, P. Uhe, D.C.H. Wallom (2017) Enabling BOINC in infrastructure as a service cloud system, Geoscientific Model Development, 10, 811-826, doi:10.5194/gmd-10-811-2017 (Published) [pdf]
X. Chen, B. Škerlak, M.W. Rotach, J.A. Añel, Z. Su, Y. Ma, M. Li (2016) Reasons for the Extremely High-Ranging Planetary Boundary Layer over the Western Tibetan Plateau in Winter, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, Vol. 73, Issue 5, doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-15-0148.1, Pages: 2021-2038 (Published) [pdf]
G. Chiodo, R. Garcia-Herrera, N. Calvo, J.M. Vaquero, J.A. Añel, D. Barriopedro, K. Matthes (2016) The impact of a future solar minimum on climate change projections in the Northern Hemisphere, Environmental Research Letters, Vol: 11 Issue: 3 doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/3/034015 Pages: 1-14 (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel (2016) Atmospheric ozone: historical background and state-of-the-art, by P. Fabian and M. Dameris, Contemporary Physics, doi: 10.1080/00107514.2016.1156748 Pages: 1-3 (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel (2015) The stratosphere: history and future a century after its discovery, Contemporary Physics, DOI:10.1080/00107514.2015.1029521 (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel (2015) On the importance of weather and climate change for our present and future energy needs, edited by Troccoli, Dubus and Ellen Haupt, Contemporary Physics, DOI:10.1080/00107514.2015.1006251 (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel (2014) Mesoscale-Convective Processes in the Atmosphere, by Robert J. Trapp, Contemporary Physics, Vol. 55, Issue 2, Pages 149-150, DOI: 10.1080/00107514.2014.885577 (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel, J.I. Lopez-Moreno, F.E.L. Otto, S. Vicente-Serrano, N. Schaller, N. Massey, S.T. Buisán, M.R. Allen (2014) The extreme snow accumulation in the western Spanish Pyrenees during winter and spring 2013, in Explaining Extreme Events of 2013 from a Climate Perspective, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 95(9), S73-S75 (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel (2013) Fundamentals of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, by James C. McWilliams, Contemporary Physics, Volume 54, Issue 2, pages 114-115, DOI:10.1080/00107514.2013.800138 (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel (2013) Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age, by B. Jack Copeland, Contemporary Physics, Volume 54, Issue 5, page 259, DOI: 10.1080/00107514.2013.836246 (Published) [pdf]
M. Toohey, M.I. Hegglin, S. Tegtmeier, J. Anderson, J.A. Añel, A. Bourassa, S. Brohede, D. Degenstein, L. Froidevaux, R. Fuller, B. Funke, J. Gille, A. Jones, Y. Kasai, K. Krüger, E. Kyrölä, J. L. Neu, A. Rozanov, L. Smith, J. Urban, T. von Clarmann, K.A. Walker, R.H.J. Wang (2013) Characterizing sampling biases in the trace gas climatologies of the SPARC Data Initiative, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Vol. 118, Issue 20, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50874, 11.847–11.862 (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel, D.R. Allen, G. Sáenz, L. Gimeno, L. de la Torre (2013) Equivalent Latitude Computation Using Regions of Interest (ROI), PLoS ONE, Volumen 8, Issue 9, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0072970 (Published) [pdf]
R.M. Trigo, J.A. Añel, D. Barriopedro, R. Garcia-Herrera, L. Gimeno, R. Nieto, R. Castillo, M.R. Allen, N. Massey (2013) The record winter drought of 2011-2012 in the Iberian Peninsula, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Soc., 94(9), S41-S45 (Published) [pdf]
X. Chen, J.A. Añel, Z. Su, L. de la Torre, H. Kelder, J. van Peet, Y. Ma (2013) The Deep Atmospheric Boundary Layer and Its Significance to the Stratosphere and Troposphere Exchange over the Tibetan Plateau, PLoS ONE, 8(2): e56909. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0056909 (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel, M. Blanco, L. de la Torre, L. Gimeno (2012) Recovery of meteorological data for the observatory of A Guarda, Spain, PLoS ONE, 7(6): e39281. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0039281 (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel, L. de la Torre, L. Gimeno (2012) On the origin of the air between multiple tropopauses in mid-latitudes, The Scientific World Journal, vol. 2012, Article ID 191028, 5 pages. doi:10.1100/2012/191028 (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel (2011) The Importance of Reviewing the Code, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 54 No. 5, Pages 40-41 10.1145/1941487.1941502 (Published) [pdf]
A. Gettelman, M. Hegglin, S.W. Son, M. Fujiwara, S. Tilmes, L. Pan, P. Hoor, H. Lee, G. Manney, T. Birner, G. Stiller, M. Rex, S. Kremser, D. Wuebbles, K. Walker, J.A. Añel (2010) Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere (UTLS) in SPARC CCMVal, SPARC CCMVal Report on the Evaluation of Chemistry-Climate Models, V. Eyring, T. G. Shepherd, D. W. Waugh (Eds.), SPARC Report, No. 5, WCRP-132, WMO/TD-No. 1526 (Published) [pdf]
J.M. Castanheira, J.A. Añel, C.A.F. Marques, J.C. Antuña, M.L.R. Liberato, L. de la Torre, L. Gimeno (2010) Corregindum to Increase of upper troposphere/lower stratosphere wave baroclinicity during the second half of the 20th century, Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics, 10, 9057-9058, 2010 (Published) [pdf]
A. Gettelman, J.A. Añel, et al. (2010) Multimodel assessment of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere: Tropics and global trends, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, D00M08, doi:10.1029/2009JD013638 (Published) [pdf]
M. Hegglin, J.A. Añel, et al. (2010) Multimodel assessment of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere: Extra-tropics, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, D00M09, doi:10.1029/2010JD013884 (Published) [pdf]
J.C. Antuña, J.A. Añel, A. Sterin, L. Gimeno (2009) Profesor Zalman Makhover: a relevant contributor to early tropopause studies, Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 18(6), 573-584, doi: 10.1127/0941-2948/2009/0414 (Published) [pdf]
J.M. Castanheira, J.C. Antuña, J.A. Añel, M.L.R. Liberato, L. de la Torre, L. Gimeno (2009) Increase of upper troposphere/lower stratosphere wave baroclinicity during the second half of the 20th century, Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics, 9, 9143-9153 (Published) [pdf]
P. Ribera, C. Peña-Ortiz, J.A. Añel, L. de la Torre, L. Gimeno (2009) Quasi-biennial modulation of the Northern Hemisphere tropopause height and temperature, Journal of Geophysical Research, 114(D7), doi: 10.1029/2007JD009765 (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel, J.C. Antuña, L. de la Torre, J.M. Castanheira, L. Gimeno (2009) Climatological features of global multiple tropopause events, Journal of Geophysical Research, 114(D7), doi:10.1029/2007JD009697 (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel, L. Gimeno, L. de la Torre, R.R. García (2008) Climate Modelling and Supercomputing: WACCM at CESGA, DIXITOS, Computational Science, Papers on Computational Science, 2(5), 31-32 (Published) [pdf]
L. de la Torre, R. Nieto, M. Noguerol, J.A. Añel, L. Gimeno (2008) A climatology based on reanalysis of baroclinic developmental regions in the extratropical Northern Hemisphere, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Special Issue ‘Trends and Directions in Climate Research\ (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel, J.C. Antuña, L. de la Torre, J.M. Castanheira, L. Gimeno (2008) Climatological features of global multiple tropopause events, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, D00B08, doi:10.1029/2007JD009697 (Published) [pdf]
P. Ribera, C. Peña-Ortiz, J.A. Añel, L. de la Torre, L. Gimeno (2008) Quasi-biennial modulation of the Northern Hemisphere tropopause height and temperature, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, doi: DOI: 10.1029/2007JD009765 (Published) [pdf]
R. Nieto, L. Gimeno, J.A. Añel, L. de la Torre, D. Gallego, D. Barriopedro, M.C. Gallego, A. Gordillo, A. Redaño, G. Delgado (2007) Analysis of the precipitation and cloudiness associated with COLs occurrence in the Iberian Peninsula, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 96, 103-119 (doi 10.1007/s00703-006-0223-6) (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel, J.C. Antuña, L. de la Torre, R. Nieto, L. Gimeno, P. Ribera (2007) Global statistics of multiple tropopauses from the IGRA database, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L06709-1-5 (doi: 10.1029/2006GL029224) (Published) [pdf]
L. de la Torre, L. Gimeno, J.A. Añel, R. Nieto (2007) The role of the solar cycle on the NAO signature in Northern Hemisphere surface temperature, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 24(2), 191-198 (doi: 10.1007/s00376-007-0191-x) (Published) [pdf]
J.C. Antuña, J.A. Añel, L. Gimeno (2006) Impact of missing sounding reports on mandatory levels and tropopause statistics: a case study. Angeo Communicates, Annales Geophysicae, 24, 2445-2449 (Published) [pdf]
J.A. Añel, L. Gimeno, L. de la Torre, R. Nieto (2006) Changes in the tropopause height for the Eurasian region from CARDS radiosonde data, Naturwissenschaften, 93, 603-609; doi 10.1007/s00114-006-0147-5 (Published) [pdf]
L. de la Torre, L. Gimeno, J.A. Añel, R. Nieto (2006) Study of troposphere-stratosphere coupling through the Northern Annular Mode, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 68, 989-998 (doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2005.12.003) (Published) [pdf]
L. de la Torre, L. Gimeno, J.A. Añel, R. Nieto (2006) Solar Influence on the Northern Annular Mode Spatial Structure and QBO modulation, Advances in Space Research, 37, 1635-1639 (doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.05.018) (Published) [pdf]
N.O. García, L. Gimeno, L. de la Torre, R. Nieto, J.A. Añel (2005) North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and precipitation in Galicia (Spain), Atmósfera, 18-1, 25-32 (Published) [pdf]
L. de la Torre, P. Ribera, L. Gimeno, J.A. Añel, R. Nieto (2004) Utilización del momento angular relativo para el estudio de NAO/AO, Física de la Tierra, 16, 73-82 (Published) [pdf]