ABSTRACT
José A. Guijarro is a meteorologist in charge of the Mediterranean Meteorological Studies unit at the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) o©ce in the Balearic Islands (Spain). He worked on various posts (radiosounding operator, aeronautical forecaster), but most of his work has been devoted to different ¤elds of climatology, which was also the subject of his PhD dissertation. He has published over 75 papers and some book chapters and has lectured in several international courses on applied and statistical climatology. He is currently a member of an Open Panel of Experts of the Commission for Climatology (World Meteorological Organization [WMO]) and leader of the Data Rescue Task Team of the Working Group on Climatology and Hydrology (WMO Regional Association VI).
