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Alonso Hernández-Guerra received his degree in Physics from the Universidad de La Laguna in 1984 and his Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography from the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) in 1990. Part of his Ph.D. was carried out at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy, a center belonging to the European Commission. Since 2003, he has been a full Professor at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. His research started in remote sensing applied to the study of the mesoscale patterns in the ocean. In 1999, he carried out a sabbatical year at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), collaborating with Terrence M. Joyce, where he was introduced to the studies of large-scale circulation of the ocean. In 2011, he spent a sabbatical year at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) collaborating with Lynne D. Talley and studying the upwelling processes of the Meridional Overturning Circulation carried out in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. He has been involved in several national and European research projects and is author of more than 70 peer-review papers with an h-index of 28.
Therefore, his research contributions have been expanded from oceanographic studies in the area surrounding the Canary islands, mainly from remote sensing data and hydrographic data, to studies of the Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) in the north and south Atlantic Ocean from transatlantic sections. These studies have been extended to include the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
From remote sensing studies, it is worth mentioning the paper doi: 01431169308953977, as result of his Ph.D., where the mesoscale patterns around the Canary Islands were first described. The patterns are associated to the upwelling system off Northwest Africa consisting of upwelling filaments stretching from the African coast to the islands, and also associated to the disruptive effect of the Canary Islands on the flow of the Canary Current that generate eddies downstream the islands. From this study, he has collaborated in 18 peer-review papers focused on different aspects of these features. Moreover, the study of the cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies downstream the islands as well as the study of the upwelling filaments have been extensively studied by colleagues of the Instituto de Oceanografía y Cambio Global (IOCAG) of the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) being a very active area of research. From 1996 to 1999, he was involved in the European Union project CANIGO focused on the circulation of the Canary Current. When finished, he stablished a collaboration with the Instituto Español de Oceanography in Tenerife in which the Radial Profunda de Canarias (Raprocan) were settled with a biannual periodicity. In addition, several national and autonomic projects have been funded to further study the Canary Current when flowing through the Canary Islands. From the above, about 22 peer review papers have been published on this topic.
From the sabbatical year at WHOI and SIO, he has extensively studied the MOC mainly focused on its decadal change in the Tropical and North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre, in the South Atlantic Ocean and in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The heat and freshwater transports in different decades have been also evaluated. A recent paper published in 2022 (doi: 10.1029/2021GL096527) has dealt with all the transoceanic section carried out in the last three decades. A total of 19 peer-review papers dealing with the MOC including the studies related to biogeochemistry has been published. The main results of all these studies is that the MOC presents a certain stability due to its high statistical uncertainty. In contrast, heat and freshwater transports present a decadal change that could be related to climate change. All these studies have been done under an international framework as seen in the list of co-authors of the papers published.
He has supervised seven Ph.D. Thesis, three of them having obtained the “Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado”. Three of these students have got a Tenure at the University. Their status are Catedrático, Profesor Titular de Universidad y Profesora Contratada Doctor, respectively.
From 2012 to 2022, he has been the Director of the Instituto Universitario de Oceanografía y Cambio Global (IOCAG) of the ULPGC. In 2018, the President of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) approved the unit Océano y Clima of the ULPGC as an Associated Unit with CSIC, led by Alonso Hernández Guerra from ULPGC and José Luis Pelegrí from CSIC. In the period 2019-22, he has been considered "Investigador Destacado" (Distinguished Researcher) at the ULPGC. He is the leader of the research group called "IOCAG: Oceanografía Física". In 2020, el IOCAG received the ‘Can de Plata de la Ciencia’ prize from the Cabildo de Gran Canaria for its scientific trajectory in the studies of climate change. In addition, he is member of the GO-Ship executive committee from 2022.
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OCEAN SCIENCEno. 4 (2023): 1009-1045
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANSno. 5 (2023)
Progress in Oceanography (2023): 103069-103069
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERSno. 11 (2023): n/a-n/a
M. D. Perez-Hernandez,A. Hernandez-Guerra, L. Cana-Cascallar,C. Arumi-Planas,V. Cainzos, A. J. Gonzalez-Santana, M. A. Gutierrez-Guerra,A. Martinez-Marrero, A. Mosquera Gimenez, C. Presas Navarro,D. Santana-Toscano,P. Velez-Belchi
M. Dolores Pérez-Hernández,Alonso Hernández-Guerra, Luis C Cana-Cascallar,Verónica Cainzos, Alberto González-Santana, Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Guerra,Antonio Martinez-Marrero, Ángela Mosquera-Giménez,Carmen Presas-Navarro,Daniel Santana-Toscano,Pedro Vélez-Belchí
semanticscholar(2022)
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H-Index: 31
G-Index: 62
Sociability: 6
Diversity: 2
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