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Francisco Munoz-Arriola

Research Associate
fmunoz@u.washington.edu
206.543.7633

Education

Ph.D. in Hydrology and Fluid Mechanics, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University, 2007

M.Sc. in Coastal Oceanography, Facultad de Ciencias Marinas and Instituto de Investigaciones Oceanologicas, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, 1997

B.S. in Oceanology, Facultad de Ciencias Marinas, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, 1994

Research Interests

-Hydrological and Drought Forecast

-Impacts of Climate Variability and Environmental Changes on surface hydrology, water resources, energy, and agriculture

-Transboundary Water Resources

-Application of field and remote sensing measurements in hydrology

-Social-hydrological monitoring and forecast exchange of benefits

-Global hydrology and energy under climate change and variability

Current Research

Hydrological and Drought Monitoring and Forecasts

Land Surface-Atmosphere Interactions

Genetic Drought Resistance-Agricultural Drought Association

Transboundary Water Resources

Previous Research

Publications

Hydrological Forecast

Munoz-Arriola, F., D.P. Lettenmaier, C. Zhu, A. Wood, R. Lobato-Sanchez, A. Wagner-Gomez, 2008. Extended West-wide Seasonal Hydrological System: Seasonal Hydrological Prediction in the NAMS Region, CLIVAR Exchanges , 45, 13(2).

Preisler, H. K., A.L. Westerling, K. M. Gebert, and F. Munoz-Arriola. Spatially Explicit Forecasts of Large Fire Probability and Suppression Costs for California Federal and State Laws,International Journal of Wildland Fire (submitted).

Munoz-Arriola, F., S. Shukla, T. Bohn,C. Zhu, B. Livneh, D.P. Lettenmaier, R. Lobato-Sanchez, A. Wagner-Gomez, 2009. Forecasting Surface Hydrology in North America, Border Climate Summary , July 13th: 1-5.(Same as the Spanish version below)

Munoz-Arriola, F., S. Shukla, T. Bohn,C. Zhu, B. Livneh, D.P. Lettenmaier, R. Lobato-Sanchez, A. Wagner-Gomez, 2009. Prediccion de la Hidrologia Superficial en Norte America, Resumen del Clima de la Frontera , Julio 13: 1-5.(mismo que la version en Ingles arriva)

Munoz-Arriola, F., S. Shukla, T. Bohn, C. Zhu, B. Livneh, D.P. Lettenmaier, R. Lobato-Sanchez, A. Wagner-Gomez. Monitoreo y Prediccion Hydrologica en Mexico, Revista Ingenieria Hidraulica en Mexico (to be submitted in November, in Spanish).

Munoz-Arriola, F., A. Wagner Gomes, S. Shukla, R. Lobato Sánchez, and D. P. Lettenmaier. Water Storage and Streamflow Seasonal Forecast in Northwest Mexico (in preparation).

Munoz-Arriola, F., S. Shukla, and D. P. Lettenmaier. Drought Predictability in Mexico (in preparation).

Environmental Change

Munoz-Arriola, F., R. Avissar, C. Zhu, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2009: Sensitivity of the Water resources of Rio Yaqui Basin, Mexico to agriculture extensification under multi-scale climate conditions,Water Resources Research (in print).

Land Surface Processes

Shefield, J., E.F. Wood, and F. Munoz-Arriola. Long-term Regional Estimates of Evapotranspiration for Mexico based on downscaled ISCCP data,Journal of Hydrometeorology (submitted).

Tang, Q. and F. Munoz-Arriola, E. Vivoni, C. Zhu, and D.P. Lettenmaier. Northwestern Mexico Soil Moisture-Vegetation-Evapotranspiration Interactions,Journal of Arid Environments (to be submitted in October).

Hydroclimatology

Munoz-Arriola, F., R. Avissar, and D.P. Lettenmaier. Propagation of Uncertainty from Observed Precipitation to Simulated Streamflow in the North American Monsoon Region, (in review).

Munoz-Arriola, F., A. Muñoz Orozco, S. Shukla, E.M. Uribe Alcantara, and D.P. Lettenmaier. Impacts of the Mexican 2009 Drought on Agriculture and Ecosystems (in preparation)

Munoz-Arriola, F., R. Lobato Sanchez, O. Rodriguez Lopez, C. Zhu, E. Pardo, J. Salgado, S. Shukla, and D. P. Lettenmaier. Hydrometeorological Forecast in the Grijalva River Basin (in preparation)

Biogeochemistry*

Munoz Arriola, F., J. D. Carriquiry-Beltran, E. Nieto-Garcia, and M. Hernandez-Ayon, 1999, Colorado River Delta, In: Mexican and Central American Coastal Lagoon Systems: Carbon, Nitrogen and Phosphorus Fluxes. S.V.Smith. LOICZ Reports and Studies No. 13, pp 59-69.

Munoz-Arriola, F. and V. Macias Zamora. Vanadyl Etio porphirins as Indices of Oil Pollution in Marine Sediment, (in review).

Oral Presentations and Posters

Hydrological Forecast

Hydroclimatology

Environmental Change

Land Surface Processes

Biogeochemistry

Teaching

Hydrological Modeling and Forecast

Professional Activities

Links

 
University of Washington
Civil & Environmental Engineering

University of Washington Hydrology Group
Wilson Ceramic Laboratory
Box 352700, University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-2700
hydro@hydro.washington.edu
ph. 206.685.1796