Short CV
María del Carmen Casas Castillo is a Doctor in Physics
Sciences from the Universitat de Barcelona and associate professor of the
Physics Department at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya·BarcelonaTech
(UPC). She has participated in various R&D Projects financed by government
organizations in public calls, as well as in R&D contracts of special
relevance with companies (CETaqua Water Technology Center, Aqualogy Aqua
Ambiente Servicios Integrales SA). Her main research area is rainfall analysed
from its different aspects, such as its spatio-temporal distribution, its
characterization based on the structure of its temporal series, and the
influence of climate change on the recurrence of its extreme episodes, with more
than 80 scientific publications including articles, communications to congresses
and scientific-technical reports. Some of her first relevant results were those
related to studies with important practical application in the field of
hydrology and urban drainage, being her determination of the spatial
distribution of the maximum daily precipitation in the entire region of
Catalonia one of the most requested technical publications of the
Meteorological Service of Catalonia to date. Later works were dedicated to the
study of the multifractal behaviour of rainfall in Barcelona and the influence
of climate change on its hydrologic characteristics, as well as to the analysis
of the non-linear structural complexity of the monthly rainfall regime in
Catalonia, its trends and their relationship with CO
2 emissions. She
has also working in the modelling of pollen emission and transport, and in the
influence of meteorological synoptic patterns on airborne pollen and spore
levels.
LIST OF MOST RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
- Evolution of rainfall characteristics in
Catalonia, Spain, using a moving-window approach
(1950–2022)
Serra, C.; Casas-Castillo, M.C.;
Rodríguez-Solà, R.; Periago, C.
Hydrology 12,
194 (2025)
- Rainfall organization and storm tracking in urban
Barcelona, NE Spain, using a high-resolution rain gauge
network
Casas-Castillo, M.C.; Navarro., X.; Rodríguez-Solà,
R.
Hydrology 12, 178
(2025)
- Scaling properties of rainfall as a
basis for intensity-duration-frequency relationships and their spatial
distribution in Catalunya, NE Spain
Casas-Castillo, M.C.; Llabrés-Brustenga, A.;
Rodríguez-Solà, R.; Rius, A.; Redaño, À.
Climate
13, 37 (2025)
- Two centuries of monthly rainfall in Barcelona (NE
Spain): Disparity trends, correlation of autumnal rainfall with the WeMO
index and its contribution to annual amounts
Lana, X.; Serra, C.; Casas-Castillo, M.C.;
Rodríguez-Solà, R.; Prohom, M.
Climate 12, 166
(2024)
- Projections of the start of the airborne
pollen season in Barcelona (NE Iberian Peninsula) over the 21st
century
Alarcón, M.; Casas-Castillo, M.C.;
Rodríguez-Solà, R.; Periago, C.; Belmonte, J.
Science of the total
environment 937, 173363 (2024)
- Influence of synoptic
meteorology on airborne allergenic pollen and spores in an urban
environment in Northeastern Iberian
Peninsula
Alarcón, M.; Rodríguez-Solà, R.;
Casas-Castillo, M.C..; Molero, F.; Salvador, P.; Periago, C.; Belmonte,
J.
Science of the total environment 896, 16533 (2023)
- Rainfall disparity at monthly scale on Catalonia (NE
Spain): dependence on geographic coordinates, altitude and distance to
the Mediterranean coast
Lana, X.; Rodríguez-Solà,
R.; Casas-Castillo, M.C.; Serra, C.; Kirchner,
R.; Martínez, M.D.
Theoretical and
Applied Climatology 153, 1293–1306
(2023)
- On the Convenience of the Use of Seasonal and
Monthly Climatic Indices in Correlation
Studies
Casas-Castillo, M.C.; Rodríguez-Solà,
R.; Kirchner, R.; Alarcón, M.; Periago, C.;
Belmonte, J.
In: Pereira, M.G.; Oliveira, R.; Navarro, P.; Bugalho,
L. (eds.) Advances in Meteorology and Geophysics 2023.
Centro de Investigação e Tecnologias Agroambientais e
Biológicas (CITAB) (2023)
- Time trends, irregularity and
multifractal structure on the monthly rainfall regime at Barcelona, NE
Spain, years 1786-2019
Lana, X.; Casas-Castillo, M.C.; Rodríguez-Solà, R.;
Alarcón, M.; Periago, C.; De Linares, C.; Belmonte,
J.
International journal of climatology 43,
499–518 (2023)
- Comparative study between the
effects of autumn and winter rainfall on aerobiological variables in
the NE of the Iberian Peninsula
Kirchner,
R.; Casas-Castillo, M.C.; Rodríguez-Solà, R.; Alarcón, M.; Periago, C.; De
Linares, C.; Belmonte, J.
In: Mensink, C.;
Jorba, O. (eds) Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXVIII.
ITM 2021. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Berlin (2023)
- A quality control procedure for
long-term series of daily precipitation data in a semiarid
environment
Estévez, J.;
Llabrés-Brustenga, A.; Casas-Castillo, M.C.; García-Marín, A.P.;
Kirchner, R.; Rodríguez-Solà, R.
Theoretical and applied
climatology 149, 1029–1041 (2022)
- A simple scaling analysis of
rainfall in Andalusia (Spain) under different precipitation
regimes
Casas-Castillo,
M.C.; Rodríguez-Solà, R.; Llabrés-Brustenga, A.; García-Marín, A.P.;
Estévez, J.; Navarro, X.
Water 14, 1303
(2022)
- A study on correlations between
precipitation ETCCDI and airborne pollen/fungal spore parameters in
the NE Iberian Peninsula
Rodríguez-Solà, R.; Casas-Castillo, M.C.; Ho Zhang,
J.J.; Kirchner, R.; Alarcón, M.; Periago, M.C.; De Linares, C.;
Belmonte, J.
International journal of
biometeorology 66, 1173–1187 (2022)
- Potential contribution of
distant sources to airborne Betula pollen levels in Northeastern
Iberian Peninsula
Alarcón, M.; Periago, M.C.; Pino, D.; Mazon, J.;
Casas-Castillo, M.C.; Ho, J.; De Linares, C.; Rodríguez-Solà, R.;
Belmonte, J.
Science of the total
environment 818, 151827 (2022)
- Rainfall
regime trends at annual and monthly scales in Catalonia (NE Spain)
and indications of CO2 emissions
effects
Lana, X.; Casas-Castillo, M.C.;
Rodríguez-Solà, R.; Serra, C.; Martínez, M.D.; Kirchner,
R.
Theoretical and applied climatology 146,
981–996 (2021)
- Autoregressive process of
monthly rainfall amounts in Catalonia (NE Spain) and improvements on
predictability of length and intensity of drought
episodes
Lana, X.; Rodríguez-Solà, R.;
Martínez, M.D.; Casas-Castillo, M.C.; Serra, C.; Kirchner,
R.
International journal of climatology
41, E3178–E3194 (2021)
- Characterization of standardised heavy rainfall
profiles for Barcelona city: clustering, rain amounts and intensity
peaks
Lana, X.; Rodríguez-Solà, R.;
Martínez, M.D.; Casas-Castillo, M.C.; Serra, C.; Burgueño,
A.
Theoretical and applied climatology 142,
255–268 (2020)
- Multifractal structure of the
monthly rainfall regime in Catalonia (NE Spain): Evaluation of the
non-linear structural complexity
Lana, X.;
Rodríguez-Solà, R.; Martínez, M.D.; Casas-Castillo, M.C.; Serra, C.;
Kirchner, R.
Chaos: Interdisciplinary journal
of nonlinear science 30, 3117 (2020)
- The history of
rainfall data time-resolution in a wide variety of geographical
areas
Morbidelli, R.; García-Marín, A.P.; Mamun, A.A.; Atiqur,
R.M.; Ayuso-Muñoz, J.L.; Taouti, M.B.; Baranowski, P.; Bellocchi, G.;
Sangüesa-Pool, C.; Bennett, B.; Oyunmunkh, B.; Bonaccorso, B.; Brocca,
L.; Caloiero, T.; Caporali, E.; Caracciolo, D.; Casas-Castillo, M.C.; et
al.
Journal of hydrology 590, 125258
(2020)
- Influence of
regional and seasonal rainfall patterns on the ratio between fixed
and unrestricted measured intervals of rainfall
amounts
Llabrés-Brustenga, A.;
Rius, A.; Rodríguez-Solà, R.; Casas-Castillo, M.C.
Theoretical and applied climatology 140,
389–399 (2020)
- Quality control process of the
daily rainfall series available in Catalonia from 1855 to the
present
Llabrés-Brustenga, A.; Rius, A.;
Rodríguez-Solà, R.; Casas-Castillo, M.C.; Redaño, À.
Theoretical and applied climatology
137, 2715–2729 (2019)
- Return period curves for extreme
5-min rainfall amounts at the Barcelona urban
network
Lana, X.;
Casas-Castillo, M.C.; Serra, C.; Rodríguez-Solà, R.; Redaño, A.;
Burgueño, A.; Martínez, M.D.
Theoretical and applied climatology 135,
1243–1257 (2019)
- Introduction to the special issue on
"hydro-meteorological time series analysis and their relation to
climate change"
Estévez, J.; García-Marín,
A.P.; Báez-Benítez, J.; Casas-Castillo, M.C.; Telesca, L.
Acta
geophysica 66, 317–318 (2018)
- Analysis of
synoptic patterns in relationship with severe rainfall events in the
Ebre Observatory (Catalonia)
Pérez-Zanón, N.; Casas-Castillo, M.C.; Peña, J.C.; Aran, M.;
Rodríguez-Solà, R.; Redaño, À.; Sole, G.
Acta geophysica
66, 405–414 (2018)
- A single scaling parameter as a
first approximation to describe the rainfall pattern of a place:
application on Catalonia
Casas-Castillo,
M.C.; Llabrés-Brustenga, A.; Rius, A.; Rodríguez-Solà, R.; Navarro,
X.
Acta geophysica 66, 415–424 (2018)
- Rainfall intensity patterns
derived from the urban network of Barcelona (NE
Spain)
Lana, X.; Serra, C.; Casas-Castillo,
M.C.; Rodríguez-Solà, R.; Redaño, À.; Burgueño, A.
Theoretical and
applied climatology 133, 385–403 (2018)
- On the consideration of scaling
properties of extreme rainfall in Madrid (Spain) for developing a
generalized intensity-duration-frequency equation and assessing
probable maximum precipitation
estimates
Casas-Castillo, M.C.;
Rodríguez-Solà, R.; Navarro, X.; Russo, B.; Lastra, A.; González, P.;
Redaño, À.
Theoretical and applied climatology
131, 573–580 (2018)
- Effect of temporal aggregation
on the estimate of annual maximum rainfall depths for the design of
hydraulic infrastructure systems
Morbidelli, R.; Saltalippi, C.; Flammini, A.; Cifrodelli,
M.; Picciafuoco, T.; Corradini, C.; Casas-Castillo, M.C.; Fowler, H.J.;
Wilkinson, S.M.
Journal of hydrology
554, 710–720 (2017)
- A study of the scaling
properties of rainfall in Spain and its appropriateness to generate
intensity-duration-frequency curves from daily
records
Rodríguez-Solà, R.; Casas-Castillo,
M.C.; Navarro, X.; Redaño, À.
International journal of climatology
37, 770–780 (2017)
- Analysis of extreme rainfall in
the Ebre Observatory (Spain)
Pérez-Zanón,
N.; Casas-Castillo, M.C.; Rodríguez-Solà, R.; Peña, J.C.; Rius, A.; Solé,
J.G.; Redaño, À.
Theoretical and applied climatology
124, 935–944 (2016)
- Influence of climate change on
IDF curves for the metropolitan area of Barcelona
(Spain)
Rodríguez, R.; Navarro, X.; Casas,
M.C.; Ribalaygua, J.; Russo, B.; Pouget, L.; Redaño,
À.
International journal of climatology 34,
643–654 (2014)
- Multifractal analysis of the
rainfall time distribution on the metropolitan area of Barcelona
(Spain)
Rodríguez, R.; Casas, M.C.; Redaño,
À.
Meteorology and atmospheric physics 121,
181–187 (2013)
- Rainfall spatial organization
and areal reduction factors in the metropolitan area of Barcelona
(Spain)
Rodríguez, R.; Navarro, X.; Casas,
M.C.; Redaño, À.
Theoretical and applied climatology
114, 1–8. (2013)
- Extreme rainfall
rates and probable maximum
precipitation
Lorente, J.; Casas, M.C.;
Rodríguez, R.; Redaño, À.
In: Antonio Madrid Vicente (ed) Adverse weather in Spain.
ISBN: 978-84-96709-43-0, Madrid (2013)
- Intensidades extremas y precipitación máxima
probable
Lorente, J.; Casas, M.C.; Rodríguez, R.;
Redaño, À.
In: Antonio Madrid Vicente (ed) Fenómenos meteorológicos adversos
en España. ISBN: 978-84-96709-88-1, Madrid (2013)
- Estimation of the probable
maximum precipitation in Barcelona
(Spain)
Casas, M.C.; Rodríguez, R.; Prohom,
M.; Gázquez, A.; Redaño, À.
International journal of climatology
31, 1322–1327 (2011)
- Analysis of extreme rainfall in
Barcelona using a microscale rain gauge
network
Casas, M.C.; Rodríguez, R.; Redaño,
À.
Meteorological applications 17, 117–123 (2010)
- The estimation of probable
maximum precipitation: the case of
Catalonia
Casas, M.C.; Rodríguez, R.;
Nieto, R.; Redaño, À.
Annals of the New York
Academy of Sciences 1146, 291–302 (2008)
- Analysis and objective mapping
of extreme daily rainfall in
Catalonia
Casas, M.C.; Herrero, M.;
Ninyerola, M.; Pons, X.; Rodríguez, R.; Rius, A.; Redaño,
À.
International journal of climatology 27,
399–409 (2007)
- Análisis fractal de la distribución temporal y
espacial de la lluvia en Barcelona
(España)
Rodríguez, R.; Casas, M.C.; Redaño,
À.
In: Gallardo Lancho, Juan F. (ed) Medioambiente en
Iberoamérica: Visión desde la Física y la Química en los albores del Siglo
XXI. Sociedad Iberoamericana de Física y Química Ambiental. ISBN
84-611-0352-1, Badajoz (2006)
- Análisis de la lluvia extrema en
Barcelona (España) mediante una red pluviométrica de
microescala
Casas, M.C.; Rodríguez, R.; Lorente, J.;
Redaño, À.
In: Gallardo Lancho, Juan F. (ed) Medioambiente en
Iberoamérica: Visión desde la Física y la Química en los albores del Siglo
XXI. Sociedad Iberoamericana de Física y Química Ambiental. ISBN
84-611-0352-1, Badajoz (2006)
- Mapes de precipitació màxima diària
esperada a Catalunya per a diferents períodes de
retorn
Casas, M.C.; Cunillera, J.; Del Amo, X.;
Herrero, M.; Ninyerola, M.; Pons, X.; Redaño, À.; Rius, A.; Rodríguez,
R.
Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya, Departament de Medi Ambient i
Habitatge, Generalitat de Catalunya (ed), ISBN 84-393-6870-4, Barcelona
(2005)
- Análisis espacial y temporal de las lluvias
extremas en Catalunya. Modelización y clasificación
objetiva
Casas, M.C.
PhD Thesis. Universitat
de Barcelona (ed), ISBN 84-689-1145-3, Barcelona (2005
- A methodology to classify
extreme rainfall events in the western mediterranean
area
Casas, M.C.; Codina, B.; Redaño, À.;
Lorente, J.
Theoretical and applied climatology
77, 139–150 (2004)
- Meteorología y clima
Casas,
M.C.; Alarcón, M.
Edicions UPC (ed), ISBN 84-8301-355, Barcelona
(2002)
- Meteorología i clima
Alarcón,
M.; Casas, M.C.
Edicions UPC (ed), ISBN 84-8301-285-5, Barcelona
(1999)
- Real Time
Prediction Model of Exceptionally Precipitation in the Western
Mediterranean Area. Hydrological and hydrogeological
risks
Lorente, J.; Redaño, À.; Codina, B.;
Burgueño, A.; Santos, M.; Cerro, C.; Casas, M.C.
In: Casale, R. (ed) Hydrological and hydrogeological risks:
proceedings of the first review meeting: Brussels, 30-31 January 1995.
European Comission. Directorate-General Science, Research and Development,
ISBN 92-827-6913-5, Luxembourg (1996)
- El efecto de la atmósfera en la
atenuación del poder eritemático de la radiación solar
ultravioleta
Lorente, J.; Redaño, À.; De Cabo, X.;
Codina, B.; Casas, M.C.
Revista de meteorología
16, 5–12 (1994)
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