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Adriana Beltran

Research Associate
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences/CIRES
UCB 311
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO. 80309

Phone: 303-735-5424

E-Mail: adriana[at]cires.colorado.edu

University Education:

• B.Sc., Meteorological Sciences. 1990. University of Buenos Aires. Argentina.
• M.Sc., Agricultural Meteorology. 1997. University of Buenos Aires. Argentina

Awards:

• 1999/2000 AMS/NASA Earth Science Enterprise Graduate Fellowship
• 2001 AMS/NSF Global Change Travel Scholarship
• 1998 National Science Foundation REU, New Mexico Tech

Research Interests:

• Biosphere-atmosphere interactions.
• Climatology of Argentina.
• Agricultural meteorology.

Publications:

Refereed.....

• Paruelo, J., O. Sala and A. Beltran. Long term dynamics of water and carbon in semi-arid ecosystems: a gradient analysis in the Patagonian steppe. 1998.

• Plant Ecology. In press. Paruelo, J., A. Beltran, E. Jobbagy, O. Sala y R. Golluscio. 1998.

• The climate of Patagonia: general and controls on biotic processes. Ecologia Austral. 8:85-101.

• Hordij, H., Barnatan, I. y Beltran A. 1997. Incidencia del flujo de vapor de agua de Resistencia sobre los rendimientos de trigo en la Region Pampeana. (Effect of the water vapor transport over Resistencia on the wheat yields in the Pampean Region). Rev. Fac. Agr. 17(1):67-69.

• Sierra, E., Beltran, A. y Maio, S. 1993/1994. La peligrosidad del granizo en la region Pampeana. (Hail Hazard for cereal crops in the Pampean Region). Rev. Fac. Agr. 14(1):35-43.

and not....

• Beltran, A., R. A. Pielke Sr., G. Liston, J. L. Eastman and M.B. Coughenour. 2001. Land-atmosphere interactions over Southern South America using a coupled plant and atmospheric model. Preliminary results. 81st AMS Annual Meeting, Alburquerque, New Mexico, 14-19 January, 2001.

• Beltran, A., R. A. Pielke Sr., G. Liston, J. L. Eastman and M.B. Coughenour. 2000. Land-atmosphere interactions over Southern South America using a coupled plant and atmospheric model. Preliminary results. LTER All Scientists Meeting 2000, Snowbird, Utah, 2-4 August, 2000.

• Beltran, A., O. Sala, J. Paruelo, R. Golluscio and C. Messina. 1998. El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) controls on seasonal precipitation in Patagonia (Argentina). The Second International Conference on Climate and History. University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, 7-11 September 1998.

• Paruelo, J.M., O.E. Sala and A.B. Beltran. 1998. Long term dynamics of water and carbon in semi-arid ecosystems: a gradient analysis in the patagonian steppe. Sympossium on long term dynamics in arid and semiarid ecosystems. INTECOL. VII International Congress of Ecology, Florence (Italy). 19-25 July 1998.

• Penalba, O., C. Messina and A. Beltran. 1998. The Southern Oscillation impact on rainfall in the Central-East of Argentina. 7th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology. British Columbia, Canada, 23-25 May 1998.

• Spescha, L., A. Beltran, C. Messina y R. Hurtado.1997. Efectos del ENSO (El Nino-Southern Oscillation) sobre la produccion agropecuaria argentina (ENSO effects over agricultural production in Argentina). Taller y Conferencia sobre El Nino 1997/1998: Efectos de El Nino Sobre la Variabilidad Climatica, Agricultura y Recursos Hidricos en el Sudeste de Sudamerica. Montevideo, Uruguay, December 1997.

• Messina, C. Beltran, A. y A. Ravelo. 1996. La variabilidad interanual de los rendimientos de trigo en la region pampeana y su relacion con el fenomeno ENSO (El Nino/Southern Oscillation). (Interannual variability of wheat yields in the Pampean region and its relationship with ENSO). VII Congreso Argentino y VII Congreso Latinoamericano e Iberico de Meteorologia, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 1996.

• Messina, C., Beltran, A. y Ravelo, A. 1996. El fenomeno ENSO: su relacion con la productividad del maiz en la region pampeana argentina. (The ENSO phenomenon: its relationship with maize productivity in Pampean Region). IV Congreso Colombiano de Meteorologia, Santafe de Bogota, Colombia, March 1996.