Adrian Huerta

• Development of hydroclimatological and hydrometeorological gridded datasets
• Quality control and homogenization of climate data
• Trends and variability

Studies

• 2008-2013: Bachelor Degree in Meteorology, National Agrarian University La Molina, Peru
• 2017-2019: Master Degree in Water Resources, National Agrarian University La Molina, Peru

Work

• 2014-2023: National Meteorological and Hydrological Service of Peru
• 2019-2023: Consultant in public and private institutions (HELVETAS, Forest Trends, among others)

Hunziker, S., Brönnimann, S., Calle, J., Moreno, I., Andrade, M., Ticona, L., Huerta, A., Lavado-Casimiro, W. (2018). Effects of undetected data quality issues on climatological analyses. Climate of the Past, 14(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1-2018

Imfeld, N., Barreto Schuler C., Correa Marrou K. M., Jacques-Coper M., Sedlmeier K., Gubler S., Huerta, A., and Brönnimann S. (2019). Summertime precipitation deficits in the southern Peruvian highlands since 1964. International Journal of Climatology, 39(11), 4497–4513. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6087

Aybar, C., Fernández, C., Huerta, A., Lavado, W., Vega, F., and Felipe-Obando, O. (2019). Construction of a high-resolution gridded rainfall dataset for Peru from 1981 to the present day. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 65(5), 770-785. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2019.1649411

Huerta, A., and Lavado‐Casimiro, W. (2021). Trends and variability of precipitation extremes in the Peruvian Altiplano (1971–2013). International Journal of Climatology, 41(1), 513-528. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6635

Imfeld, N., Sedlmeier, K., Gubler, S., Correa Marrou, K., Davila, C. P., Huerta, A., Lavado-Casimiro, W., Rohrer, M., Scherrer, S.C., and Schwierz, C. (2021). A combined view on precipitation and temperature climatology and trends in the southern Andes of Peru. International journal of climatology, 41(1), 679-698. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6645

Delahoy M. J., Cárcamo C., Huerta, A., Lavado W., Escajadillo Y., Ordoñez L., Vasquez V., Lopman B., Clasen T., Gonzales G, Steenland K., and Levy K. (2021). Meteorological factors and childhood diarrhea in Peru, 2005–2015: a time series analysis of historic associations, with implications for climate change. Environmental Health 20(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-021-00703-4

Bojorquez, M., Huerta, A. and Calle, V. (2022). A Case Study of a High Impact Snowfall Event in the Southern Andes of Peru: Dynamics and Evaluation of the Eta Model. Revista Brasileira de Meteorologia, 37(1). https://doi.org/10.1590/0102-7786360012

Huerta, A., Bonnesoeur, V., Cuadros, J., Gutierrez Lope, L. F., Ochoa-Tocachi, B., Román-Dañobeytia, F., Lavado-Casimiro, W. (2022). PISCOeo_pm, a reference evapotranspiration gridded database based on FAO Penman-Monteith in Peru. Nature Scientific Data, 9(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01373-8

Huerta, A., Lavado-Casimiro, W., and Felipe-Obando, O. (2022). High-resolution gridded hourly precipitation dataset for Peru (PISCOp_h). Data in Brief, 108570. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2022.108570

Gutierrez, L., Huerta, A., Sabino, E., Bourrel, L., Frappart, F., Lavado-Casimiro, W. Rainfall Erosivity in Peru: A New Gridded Dataset Based on GPM-IMERG and Comprehensive Assessment (2000–2020). Remote Sensing, 15(22), 5432 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15225432

Huerta, A., Aybar, C., Imfeld, N., Correa, K., Felipe-Obando, O., Rau, P., Drenkhan, F. and Lavado-Casimiro, W. High-resolution grids of daily air temperature for Peru - the new PISCOt v1.2 dataset. Nature Scientific Data 10, 847 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02777-w