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SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS

Time Series Analysis, Statistics, Stochastic Processes, Dynamical Systems, Complex Systems, Evolution, Extreme Events, Probabilistic Forecasting, Programming, Atmospheric Convection and Precipitation.

PUBLICATIONS

An updated list of publications can be found on my google scholar profile: googlescholar_LINK

Journal Publications

A. Deluca, P. Puig and A. Corral, Testing Universality in Critical Exponents: the Case of Rainfall, Accepted in PRE (2016).

A. Deluca N. R. Moloney and A. Corral, Analysis of the predictability of local rain records across different climates, Physical Review E 91 (5) 052808, (2015).

F. Font, G. Pruessner, N. R. Moloney and A. Deluca, The Perils of Thesholding, New Journal of Physics 17 (4), 043066 (2015).

J.-I. Yano, P. Soares, M. Koehler, A. Deluca, Convection Parameterization Problem: Breadth and Depth : Workshop on Concepts for Convective Parameterizations in Large-scale Models VII: Operations and Fundamentals, Accepted in BAMS, (2014).

J. -I. Yano, J. -F. Geleyn, M. Koeller, D. Mironov, J. Quaas, P. Soares, V. T. J. Philipps. R. S. Plant, A. Deluca, P. Marquet, L. Stulic and Z. Fuchs , Basic Concepts for Convection Parameterization in Weather Forecast and Climate Models : COST Action ES0905 Final Report, Atmosphere 6 (1), 88-147, (2014).

A. Deluca and A. Corral, Scale Invariant Events and Dry Spells for Medium Resolution Local Rain Data, Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics. 21, 555-567, (2014).

A. Deluca and A. Corral, Fitting and goodness-of-fit test of non-truncated and truncated power-law distributions, Acta Geophysica. 61(6), (2013).

O. Peters, A. Deluca, A. Corral, J. D. Neelin and C. E. Holloway, Universality of rain event size distributions, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. P11030, (2010).

Other Publications and Conference Proceedings

A. Deluca, O. Peters, A. Corral, J. Neelin and C. Holloway, Universality of rain event size distributions, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 1 , 1452 (2010).

A. Deluca, A. Corral and N. R. Moloney, Analysis of the predictability of local rain records from different climates, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 1 , 05 (2011).

A. Corral, A. Deluca and R. Ferrer-i-Cancho, A practical recipe to fit discrete power-law distributions, (2012) . http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.1270

A. Deluca, P. Puig and A. Corral, Testing universality and goodness-of-fit test of power-law distribution, Complex Systems, Trends in Mathematics Vol. 2 Research Perspetives CRM Barcelona, Birkhauser, (2014).

A. Deluca, N. R. Moloney and A. Corral, Criticality on Rainfall: Statistical Observational Constrains for the Onset of Strong Convection Modelling, Complex Systems, Trends in Mathematics Vol. 2 Research Perspetives CRM Barcelona, Birkhauser, (2014).

A. Deluca and A. Corral, Inference of Statistical Patterns in Complex Geosystems: Fitting Power-law Distributions, EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 16 , 5144 (2014).

A. Deluca, A. Corral and N. R. Moloney, Data Driven Predictions of High-Resolution Thresholded Rainfall Time Series, EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 16 , 5173 (2014).

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Explora - Ingenio 2010, DGI. From 2008 to 2009. Principal investigator: Josep Enric Llebot Rabagliati.

Grup de Recerca Consolidat de Fisica Estadistica, AGAUR. From 2009 to 2012. Principal investigator: David Jou i Mirabent.

Complejidad y leyes de escala en fenomenos meteorologicos, desastres naturales y lenguaje humano, DGI. From 2010 to 2012. Principal investigator: Alvaro Corral.

Scaling, complejidad y preditibilidad en fenomenos atmosfericos y formas de comunicacion. From 2013 to 2015. Pirncipal investigator: Alvaro Corral.

SELECTED INVITED COMMUNICATIONS

A. Deluca, Statistical observational constrains for the onset of convection and a simple stochastic model, Concepts for Convective Parameterizations in Large-Scale Models (Oral communication, Invited). Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany. May 2012.

A. Deluca, A Complexity View of Convective Parametrizations, Final Workshop COST-ES0905: Fundamentals and Operations (Oral communication, Invited). Toulouse, France. March 2014.

A. Deluca and A. Corral, Inference of Statistical Patterns in Complex Geosystems: Fitting Power-law Distributions, 2014 EGU Meeting (Oral communication, Invited). EGU2014, Viena, Austria. April 2014.

(6 oral, 10 posters and 3 seminars not detailed)

RESEARCH STAYS (more than one month)

Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London, UK. Jul 1st to Sep 31st, 2010.

Nonlinear Dynamics and Time Series Analysis Group, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of
Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany. May 1st to May 31st, 2011.

Instituto de Ciencias Exatas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. June 18 to July 24st, 2012.

OTHER MERITS

Referee for Europhysics Letters.

Scientific coordinator and organizer - EXEV14 Physical origins of correlated extreme events, Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems, Dresden, June 2014.

Member of the Core Group on Theoretical Studies of the Convection Parameterization Problem, Research Network founded by the European COST program, ES0905.

Organization assistance Joint CRM-Imperial College Complex Systems School and Workshop, Barcelona, May 2013.

Editor of the Research Perspectives CRM Barcelona, Birkhauser series Trends in Mathematics 2013.

CRM Applied Mathematical and Physics (CAMP) seminar organiser, Centre de Recerca Matematica.