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Francisco Molero is a leading atmospheric physicist whose research focuses on the characterization and transport of aerosols, with a particular emphasis on African dust intrusions and wildfire smoke plumes over the Iberian Peninsula. His most impactful work centers on the February 2017 extreme Saharan dust event, the most severe wintertime dust intrusion ever recorded in the region. Through a combination of lidar monitoring, passive remote sensing, and particle dispersion modeling, Molero provided a comprehensive analysis of this unprecedented outbreak, demonstrating how ground- and space-based observations can be integrated with forecast models to understand long-range aerosol transport. His 2019 paper on this event has garnered 99 citations, while his related work on inter-continental wildfire smoke transport has reached 95 citations. Molero’s contributions extend to quantifying the microphysical and radiative forcing properties of dust aerosols, and he has shown how vertical aerosol profiles critically affect shortwave radiative forcing estimates. His research is instrumental in improving dust forecast models and understanding the climatic and environmental impacts of extreme aerosol events.
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