Eduardo Zorita

Eduardo Zorita

Eduardo Zorita (born in Madrid, 1961) is a Spanish paleoclimatologist. He is presently (2010) a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Coastal Research [1], GKSS Research Centre in Geesthacht, Germany, where he has worked since 1996. Zorita was a contributing author to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC, and is review editor of the journal Climate Research.

Zorita received his Ph.D in Solid State Physics at the University of Zaragoza in 1988, and then held a postdoctoral appointment at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology [2], Hamburg. He was an Associate Researcher at the Laboratoire de Océanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie (LOCEAN), Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, 1994-95.

Zorita is a regular contributor to Die Klimazweibel, a climate science blog operated by Hans von Storch, Zorita and other climate scientists.

Views on the Climategate controversy

Zorita was quoted in the Wall Street Journal as saying that the "scientific debate [on climate change] has been in many instances hijacked to advance other agendas", and that climate science students are "often tempted to tweak their data so as to fit the 'politically correct picture'. " Zorita continued, "some, or many issues, about climate change are still not well known. Policy makers should be aware of the attempts to hide these uncertainties ..."

Selected publications

• David Frank, Jan Esper, Eduardo Zorita and Rob Wilson, "A noodle, hockey stick, and spaghetti plate: a perspective on high-resolution paleoclimatology ", Climate Change, Volume 1, Issue 4, pages 507–516, July/August 2010. DOI: 10.1002/wcc.53

• Eduardo Zorita, Anders Moberg et al., European temperature records of the past five centuries based on documentary information compared to climate simulations. Climatic Change 101, 143-168, doi:10.1007/s10584-010-9824-7 (2010). Full text (draft?)

• J. F. González-Rouco, H. Beltrami, E. Zorita, and M. B. Stevens. Borehole climatology: a discussion based on contributions from climate modeling. Climate of the Past 5, 97-127, 2009. doi:10.5194/cp-5-97-2009. Abstract and link to full text.

• E. Zorita et al., "How unusual is the recent series of warm years?" Geophysical Research Letters, 2008; 35 (24): L24706 DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036228. See summary article "Scientists Refute Argument Of Climate Skeptics", ScienceDaily, Jan. 10, 2019.

• H. von Storch & E. Zorita, The decay of the hockey stick, Nature's Climate Feedback blog, posted May 3, 2007

• H Von Storch, E Zorita, et al., "Reconstructing past climate from noisy data" Science 2004, Vol. 306. no. 5696, pp. 679 – 682. DOI: 10.1126/science.1096109

• E Zorita, H Von Storch ,1999, "The Analog Method as a Simple Statistical Downscaling Technique: Comparison with More Complicated Methods". J. Climate, 12, 2474–2489. [[doi: 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<2474:TAMAAS>2.0.CO;2]]

• H von Storch, E Zorita, U Cubasch 1991, " Downscaling of global climate change estimates to regional scales: an application to Iberian rainfall in wintertime". Journal of Climate Volume 6, pp. 1161–1171.

See also

• Hockey stick controversy

Sources and external links

• Eduardo Zorita's home page at the Institute for Coastal Research
• Die Klimazweibel blog
• Zorita's Photostream at Flickr