Raquel Nieto

9.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
224 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Raquel Nieto is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Raquel Nieto has authored 224 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 198 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 162 papers in Atmospheric Science and 25 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Raquel Nieto's work include Climate variability and models (185 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (96 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (63 papers). Raquel Nieto is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (185 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (96 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (63 papers). Raquel Nieto collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Portugal and Brazil. Raquel Nieto's co-authors include Luís Gimeno, Anita Drumond, Ricardo M. Trigo, Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano, Rogert Sorí, Francina Domínguez, A. Stohl, Ana María Durán‐Quesada, M. Vázquez and Juan Ignacio López‐Moreno and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Raquel Nieto

220 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Oceanic and terrestrial sources of continental precipitation

2012 448 citations Luís Gimeno, Ricardo M. Trigo et al. profile →
Extreme weather events on energy systems: a comprehensive review on impacts, mitigation, and adaptation measures

2024 59 citations X. Costoya, Raquel Nieto et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Raquel Nieto Spain	42	5.6k	4.3k	827	696	357	224	6.7k
Luís Gimeno Spain	49	7.3k 1.3×	5.9k 1.4×	1.1k 1.4×	837 1.2×	460 1.3×	329	9.3k
Uwe Ulbrich Germany	43	5.4k 1.0×	4.7k 1.1×	933 1.1×	719 1.0×	197 0.6×	144	6.8k
Ernesto Hugo Berbery United States	32	4.7k 0.8×	4.1k 1.0×	786 1.0×	762 1.1×	175 0.5×	52	6.0k
Erik Kjellström Sweden	44	5.6k 1.0×	4.5k 1.0×	864 1.0×	1.1k 1.6×	551 1.5×	129	7.8k
Leila M. V. Carvalho United States	43	4.8k 0.9×	4.2k 1.0×	778 0.9×	529 0.8×	166 0.5×	113	5.8k
Mansour Almazroui Saudi Arabia	40	4.5k 0.8×	3.3k 0.8×	581 0.7×	705 1.0×	625 1.8×	188	6.1k
Toru Nozawa Japan	29	4.8k 0.9×	3.8k 0.9×	611 0.7×	1.1k 1.6×	406 1.1×	56	6.2k
Flavio Lehner United States	45	5.3k 1.0×	3.8k 0.9×	655 0.8×	887 1.3×	612 1.7×	95	6.8k
Emily Black United Kingdom	37	3.9k 0.7×	2.8k 0.6×	658 0.8×	509 0.7×	771 2.2×	77	5.1k
Tércio Ambrizzi Brazil	42	5.9k 1.1×	5.1k 1.2×	1.6k 1.9×	798 1.1×	170 0.5×	164	7.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Nieto, Raquel, et al.. (2025). Assessment of the origin of moisture for the precipitation of North Atlantic extratropical cyclones: Insights from downscaled ERA5. Atmospheric Research. 324. 108205–108205.

Eiras‐Barca, Jorge, et al.. (2025). Projected changes in moisture sources and sinks affecting the US East Coast and the Caribbean Sea. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1544(1). 190–208. 2 indexed citations

Salvador, Coral, Raquel Nieto, Thandi Kapwata, et al.. (2024). Analyzing the effects of drought at different time scales on cause-specific mortality in South Africa. Environmental Research Letters. 19(5). 54022–54022. 1 indexed citations

Gimeno‐Sotelo, Luis, Rogert Sorí, Raquel Nieto, Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano, & Luís Gimeno. (2024). Unravelling the origin of the atmospheric moisture deficit that leads to droughts. Nature Water. 2(3). 242–253. 21 indexed citations

Pérez‐Alarcón, Albenis, et al.. (2023). Impacts of tropical cyclones on the global water budget. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 6(1). 7 indexed citations

Pérez‐Alarcón, Albenis, et al.. (2023). The rare case of Hurricane Catarina (2004) over the South Atlantic Ocean: The origin of its precipitation through a Lagrangian approach. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 149(752). 1038–1055. 3 indexed citations

Hoyos, Isabel, et al.. (2022). The importance of continental evaporation for precipitation in Colombia: A baseline combining observations from stable isotopes and modelling moisture trajectories. Hydrological Processes. 36(6). 13 indexed citations

Domínguez, Francina, et al.. (2022). Amazonian Moisture Recycling Revisited Using WRF With Water Vapor Tracers. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 127(4). 35 indexed citations

Fernández‐Alvarez, José C., X. Costoya, Albenis Pérez‐Alarcón, et al.. (2022). Dynamic downscaling of wind speed over the North Atlantic Ocean using CMIP6 projections: Implications for offshore wind power density. Energy Reports. 9. 873–885. 19 indexed citations

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Vicente‐Serrano, Sergio M., Ricardo García‐Herrera, Dhais Peña‐Angulo, et al.. (2021). Do CMIP models capture long-term observed annual precipitation trends?. Climate Dynamics. 58(9-10). 2825–2842. 35 indexed citations

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Nieto, Raquel & Luís Gimeno. (2019). A database of optimal integration times for Lagrangian studies of atmospheric moisture sources and sinks. Scientific Data. 6(1). 59–59. 47 indexed citations

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García‐Herrera, Ricardo, José M. Garrido‐Pérez, David Barriopedro, et al.. (2018). The severe drought of 2016-2017 in Western Europe. DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)). 8456. 1 indexed citations

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Gimeno‐Sotelo, Luis, Raquel Nieto, M. Vázquez, & Luís Gimeno. (2018). The role of moisture transport for precipitation onthe interannual and inter-daily fluctuations of thearctic sea ice extension. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 1 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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Sorí, Rogert, Raquel Nieto, Anita Drumond, Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano, & Luís Gimeno. (2017). The atmospheric branch of the hydrological cycle over the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra river basins. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 21(12). 6379–6399. 11 indexed citations

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Drumond, Anita, et al.. (2016). A Lagrangian analysis of the present-day sources of moisture for majorice-core sites. Earth System Dynamics. 7(3). 549–558. 14 indexed citations

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Torre, Laura de la, et al.. (2005). Weekly cycle in NCAR-NCEP reanalysis surface temperature data. Atmósfera. 18(4). 205–209. 5 indexed citations

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García, Norberto O., Luís Gimeno, Laura de la Torre, Raquel Nieto, & Juan Antonio Añel. (2005). North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and precipitation in Galicia (Spain). Atmósfera. 18(1). 25–32. 29 indexed citations

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Torre, Laura de la, Luís Gimeno, Juan Antonio Añel, et al.. (2003). Length of the solar cycle influence on the relationship NAO-Northern Hemisphere Temperature. EAEJA. 2865. 1 indexed citations

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Bojariu, Roxana, Luís Gimeno, Laura de la Torre, Raquel Nieto, & Daniela Matei. (2002). Interannual Predictability Of North Atlantic Oscillation. EGS General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 4745. 1 indexed citations

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