Yanet Díaz Esteban

Contact

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+49 641 99 12709

Yanet.Diaz-Esteban@zeu.uni-giessen.de,

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Work Experience
as of 2023										Center for international Development and Environmental Research
2021 – 2022										Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Climate Change – UNAM, Ciudad de México. Areas of Research: wind and photovoltaic power forecasting, machine learning, numerical weather prediction, artificial intelligence and statistical methods for renewable energy forecasting.
2010–2013										Meteorologist, Center for Atmopheric Physics – Instituto de Meteorología, La Habana. Areas of Research: numerical modeling; evaluation of numerical weather prediction models at medium and short range; radar meteorology; artificial increase of rainfall.

Scientific Education
2016 – 2020										PhD in Earth Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Ciudad de México. Thesis: “Factors involved in the transition from shallow to deep convection in the trade-winds region”
2013 – 2016										M.Sc. in Earth Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Ciudad de México. Thesis: “Weather regimes and its relationship with intraseasonal variability of precipitation in southern Mexico, from a Self-Organizing Maps perspective”
2005 - 2010										B.Sc. in Meteorology, Instituto Superior de Tecnologías y Ciencias Aplicadas (InSTEC), La Habana. Thesis: “Evaluation of short-range numerical weather forecast of MM5v3 model over Cuba”

Further Information
Affiliation		Member of ZEU \| Scientific Assistant
Focus Area		Climate & Environmental Change
ZEU Projects		DAKI FWS
Publications		Raga, G. B.; Baumgardner, D.; Rios, B.; Díaz-Esteban, Y.; Jaramillo, A; Gallagher, M.; Sauvage, B.; Wolff, P.; Lloyd, G. (2022) “High concentrations of ice crystals in upper-tropospheric tropical clouds: is there a link to biomass and fossil fuel combustion?” Atmos. Chem. Phys. 22, 2269–2292, doi: 10.5194/acp-22-2269-2022 Díaz-Esteban, Y.; Barrett, B. S.; Raga, G. B. (2022) “Circulation patterns influencing the concentration of pollutants in central Mexico” Atmospheric Environment 274, 118976, ISSN 1352-2310, doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2022.118976. Ochoa-Moya, C. A.; Cala-Pérez, Y. A.; Díaz-Esteban, Y.; Castro, C. L.; Ordoñez-Peréz, P.; Quintanar, A. I. (2020) “Climatological Large-Scale Circulation Patterns over The Middle Americas Region” Atmosphere 11, 745, doi: 10.3390/atmos11070745 Díaz-Esteban, Y.; Raga, G. B.; Díaz Rodríguez, O. O. (2020) “A Weather-Pattern-Based Evaluation of the Performance of CMIP5 Models over Mexico” Climate 8, 5, doi:10.3390/cli8010005 Díaz-Esteban, Y. and Raga, G. B. (2019) “Observational Evidence of the Transition from Shallow to Deep Convection in the Western Caribbean Trade Winds” Atmosphere 10, 11: 700, doi:10.3390/atmos10110700 Díaz-Esteban, Y.; Raga, G. B. (2018) “Weather regimes associated with summer rainfall variability over southern Mexico” International Journal of Climatology 38, 1: 169–186, doi:10.1002/joc.5168