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Climate: Past, Present & Future

Cesar Azorin-Molina

Cesar Azorin-Molina is a Tenured Scientist at the Desertification Research Centre (CIDE, CSIC-UV-GVA) in Valencia, Spain, where he leads the Climate, Atmosphere, and Ocean Laboratory (Climatoc-Lab). He received his doctoral training in Climatology and has since built a research programme centred on the assessment and attribution of climate change and multidecadal climate variability, with a particular focus on wind speed trends and extremes over land and ocean surfaces. His work examines the socioeconomic and environmental consequences of changing wind regimes. Drawing on both observational records and climate model simulations, spanning past and future periods, his research seeks to untangle the drivers of wind variability across different spatio-temporal scales. As head of the Climatoc-Lab, he is actively developing wind climate services and products within the framework of the Spanish National Research Council´s PTI+ initiative on Climate and Climate Services. He has led research projects funded by national and international public and private bodies, and has published extensively in the fields of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences.

Weaker but more frequent: how sea breezes are changing in a warming climate

and May 26, 2026
Weaker but more frequent: how sea breezes are changing in a warming climate

For the 500 million people living along the Mediterranean coast, the sea breeze is an essential component of the regional climate. They are more than a pleasant coastal wind, as they are critical for easing summer heat stress, dispersing pollutants, and triggering convection (the rapid upward movement of warm, moist air), sometimes leading to severe storms, among many others. But the Mediterranean ...[Read More]