César Azorín-Molina

12.1k total citations · 6 hit papers
172 papers, 8.9k citations indexed

About

César Azorín-Molina is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, César Azorín-Molina has authored 172 papers receiving a total of 8.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 129 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 111 papers in Atmospheric Science and 32 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in César Azorín-Molina's work include Climate variability and models (103 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (77 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (34 papers). César Azorín-Molina is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (103 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (77 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (34 papers). César Azorín-Molina collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Sweden and China. César Azorín-Molina's co-authors include Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano, Juan Ignacio López‐Moreno, Enrique Morán‐Tejeda, Santiago Beguerı́a, Jesús Revuelto, Jorge Lorenzo‐Lacruz, Arturo Sanchez‐Lorenzo, Deliang Chen, J. Julio Camarero and Ricardo M. Trigo and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

César Azorín-Molina

167 papers receiving 8.7k citations

Hit Papers

Response of vegetation to drought time-scales across glob... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2012 2012 2014 2011 2016 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Response of vegetation to drought time-scales across global land biomes
    2012 1.3k citations Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano, Santiago Beguerı́a et al. profile →
  2. Performance of Drought Indices for Ecological, Agricultural, and Hydrological Applications
    2012 738 citations Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano, Santiago Beguerı́a et al. profile →
  3. Evidence of increasing drought severity caused by temperature rise in southern Europe
    2014 582 citations Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano, Juan Ignacio López‐Moreno et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →
  4. Accurate Computation of a Streamflow Drought Index
    2011 438 citations Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano, Juan Ignacio López‐Moreno et al. profile →
  5. Effects of soil management techniques on soil water erosion in apricot orchards
    2016 376 citations César Azorín-Molina et al. profile →
  6. A reversal in global terrestrial stilling and its implications for wind energy production
    2019 343 citations Zhenzhong Zeng, Laurent Li et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
César Azorín-Molina Spain 45 6.8k 3.5k 1.8k 1.1k 971 172 8.9k
Govindasamy Bala India 46 7.9k 1.2× 4.4k 1.3× 1.6k 0.9× 1.8k 1.7× 983 1.0× 140 10.3k
Pavel Groisman United States 41 7.5k 1.1× 5.9k 1.7× 1.7k 0.9× 882 0.8× 745 0.8× 105 9.7k
Nicola Gedney United Kingdom 29 5.5k 0.8× 3.2k 0.9× 1.3k 0.7× 1.1k 1.0× 596 0.6× 53 7.1k
Bin He China 48 4.1k 0.6× 1.9k 0.5× 1.5k 0.8× 1.4k 1.3× 1.5k 1.6× 197 7.1k
Jan Polcher‬ France 43 6.1k 0.9× 3.9k 1.1× 1.7k 0.9× 809 0.8× 992 1.0× 129 7.7k
Tao Wang China 48 5.0k 0.7× 2.9k 0.8× 1.2k 0.7× 2.1k 2.0× 788 0.8× 171 8.3k
Christoph Frei Switzerland 38 7.7k 1.1× 6.6k 1.9× 1.7k 0.9× 616 0.6× 810 0.8× 59 10.1k
Peter Lawrence United States 36 6.1k 0.9× 3.7k 1.1× 980 0.5× 1.1k 1.0× 1.0k 1.1× 84 7.8k
Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen Denmark 52 8.1k 1.2× 7.0k 2.0× 2.0k 1.1× 757 0.7× 586 0.6× 138 11.1k
Hugo G. Hidalgo Costa Rica 33 6.9k 1.0× 3.1k 0.9× 2.0k 1.1× 1.8k 1.7× 497 0.5× 96 8.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of César Azorín-Molina

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Vicente‐Serrano, Sergio M., Fergus Reig, Santiago Beguerı́a, et al.. (2025). An Optimal and Flexible Approach for Drought Quantification Based on Standardised Indices. International Journal of Climatology. 45(10). 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Yi, et al.. (2024). Impacts of anemometer changes, site relocations and processing methods on wind speed trends in China. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 17(3). 1123–1131. 1 indexed citations
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Azorín-Molina, César, Cheng Shen, José C. Fernández‐Alvarez, et al.. (2023). Uncertainty in surface wind speed projections over the Iberian Peninsula: CMIP6 GCMs versus a WRF‐RCM. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1529(1). 101–108. 7 indexed citations
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Dunn, Robert, et al.. (2023). Increasing Global Terrestrial Diurnal Temperature Range for 1980–2021. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(11). 17 indexed citations
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Vicente‐Serrano, Sergio M., Fernando Domínguez‐Castro, Dhais Peña‐Angulo, et al.. (2023). Long‐term observed changes of air temperature, relative humidity and vapour pressure deficit in Bolivia, 1950–2019. International Journal of Climatology. 43(14). 6484–6504. 3 indexed citations
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Zhao, Yanan, Tim R. McVicar, César Azorín-Molina, et al.. (2023). Global assessment of spatiotemporal changes of frequency of terrestrial wind speed. Environmental Research Letters. 18(4). 44048–44048. 6 indexed citations
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Azorín-Molina, César, Luís Gimeno, José A. Guijarro, et al.. (2022). Opposite trends of sea-breeze speeds and gusts in Eastern Spain, 1961–2019. Climate Dynamics. 60(9-10). 2847–2869. 3 indexed citations
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Vicente‐Serrano, Sergio M., Dhais Peña‐Angulo, Fernando Domínguez‐Castro, et al.. (2022). Evaluation of long‐term changes in precipitation over Bolivia based on observations and Coupled Model Intercomparison Project models. International Journal of Climatology. 43(3). 1431–1447. 2 indexed citations
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Vicente‐Serrano, Sergio M., Fernando Domínguez‐Castro, Conor Murphy, et al.. (2021). Increased Vegetation in Mountainous Headwaters Amplifies Water Stress During Dry Periods. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(18). 28 indexed citations
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Moreno, Ana, César Azorín-Molina, Carlos Pérez‐Mejías, et al.. (2021). Measurement report: Spatial variability of northern Iberian rainfall stable isotope values – investigating atmospheric controls on daily and monthly timescales. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(13). 10159–10177. 16 indexed citations
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Navarro‐Serrano, F., Juan Ignacio López‐Moreno, Fernando Domínguez‐Castro, et al.. (2020). Maximum and minimum air temperature lapse rates in the Andean region of Ecuador and Peru. International Journal of Climatology. 40(14). 6150–6168. 14 indexed citations
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Moreno, Ana, César Azorín-Molina, Carlos Pérez‐Mejías, et al.. (2020). Spatial variability of northern Iberian rainfall stable isotope values: Investigating climatic controls on daily and monthly timescales. 3 indexed citations
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Flay, Richard G.J., et al.. (2019). Effects of climate change on New Zealand design wind speeds. 32(2). 14. 3 indexed citations
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Azorín-Molina, César, Shafiqur Rehman, José A. Guijarro, et al.. (2018). Recent trends in wind speed across Saudi Arabia, 1978–2013: a break in the stilling. International Journal of Climatology. 38(S1). 69 indexed citations
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Vicente‐Serrano, Sergio M., Juan Ignacio López‐Moreno, Juan Bazo, et al.. (2017). Recent changes in monthly surface air temperature over Peru, 1964–2014. International Journal of Climatology. 38(1). 283–306. 35 indexed citations
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Azorín-Molina, César, Jesús Asín, Tim R. McVicar, et al.. (2017). Evaluating anemometer drift: A statistical approach to correct biases in wind speed measurement. Atmospheric Research. 203. 175–188. 55 indexed citations
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Vicente‐Serrano, Sergio M., Mario Pérez Bidegain, Miquel Tomàs‐Burguera, et al.. (2017). A comparison of temporal variability of observed and model‐based pan evaporation over Uruguay (1973–2014). International Journal of Climatology. 38(1). 337–350. 22 indexed citations
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Martín‐Hernández, Natalia, et al.. (2017). Long-term vegetation activity trends in the Iberian Peninsula and The Balearic Islands using high spatial resolution NOAA-AVHRR data (1981 - 2015).. RIUR (Universidad de La Rioja). 16636. 1 indexed citations
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Azorín-Molina, César. (2005). Situación atmosférica de 'heat burst' en la provincia de Alicante. Ería: Revista cuatrimestral de geografía. 237–254. 1 indexed citations

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