PhD University of Edinburgh, 1999 - 2002.
Modelling the energy balance of high altitude glacierised basins in the Central Andes (link).
plus Master in Meteorology (sit in only).
Carnegie Scholarship.
BSc (Honours) in Geography, First Class. University of Edinburgh, 1995 - 1999.
(Geomorphology, Biogeography, Environmental Monitoring and Change, Geology, Oceanography, Meteorology, expedition to Belize and to the Central Andes of Argentina)
Walton Memorial & Royal Geographical Society Prize for the best dissertation in Physical Geography submitted to a Scottish University, 1999.
Spanish: native.
English: Cambridge Proficiency in English plus eight years residence and study in the UK.
Good French oral communication and reading comprehension. One year residence in France.
Basic Italian and some German.
2009 to present, director and developer of meteoexploration.com, company focused on provision of weather data and weather and snow related consultancy. Work regularly with satelite data (Sentinel, MODIS) and radiative transfer codes (MODTRAN, insolation). We run regularly the weather numerical model WRF-ARW at high resolution for remote locations on Earth. Clients include Antarctic Logistic and Expeditions, CODELCO, Versar, etc.
Associated researcher at the Centro de Estudios Cientificos (CECs), Chile (www.cecs.cl), 2009-2019
Researcher at the University of Innsbruck, Faculty of Geo- and Atmospheric Sciences Lise Meitner Grant, 2007 - 2009. Fieldwork in the Cordillera Blanca.
Researcher at the Institute of Environmental Engineering, Water Resources Management Group, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. ETH, Zurich, 2003 - 2006. Fieldwork on Alpine glaciers.
Scientific research visitor at the Centre for Snow Research (CEN), Météo France, working on modelling and monitoring snow redistribution by wind, remote sensing of the snow cover and improvements of radiative transfer within the snow model Crocus-Safran. ENSA Avalanche and mountain safety course in Chamonix. 2002-2003.
Work in cooperation with the French IRD and Laboratoire de Glaciologie for glacier monitoring. Work in cooperation with the Laboratorio de Glaciología and Centro de Estudios Científicos (CECS, Chile) on Ice volcano interactions in the Andes of Southern Chile, 2005-2007. Field work in Patagonia.
Teaching experience at Master level at the ETH and in cooperation with the EPFL Lausanne 2005, 2006, 2008. Remote sensing of snow, snow hydrology, mountain meteorology.
Teaching experience at Curso de Verano Universidad Internacional Menendez Pelayo, Ainsa, 2017.
Guest editor HESS, Hydrological and Earth System Sciences, 8(6), 2004.
Many technical translations from English into Spanish.
Royal Scottish Geographical Society Expedition Grant, 1998
Carnegie Scholarship, 1999 - 2002.
Kodak grant for fieldwork in the Alps (Corripio 2004).
Swiss National Science Foundation Grant 2004 – 2007.
Lise Meitner Grant, Austrian FWF 2007-2009.
I work regularly with Linux and shell scripting.
Python and its libraries (Numpy, Pandas, Scipy, Xarray, etc). Developper of insolation package (https://github.com/jgcmeteo/insolation and https://pypi.org/project/insolation/).
Python tools for georeferencing oblique photography (initally developed in IDL, see https://meteoexploration.com/en/monitoring/).
Python & Django (site https://meteoexploration.com).
R (I developed the insol package, see https://rdrr.io/cran/insol/man/insol-package.html, now at https://meteoexploration.com/R/insol/).
Good knowledge of FORTRAN, IDL, javascript, html, Grads, GRASS, QGIS, ArcGIS,mysql, php, shell scripting.
Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.
Good knowledge of Mac, Windows and related software such as Office, Pages, Numbers, LibreOffice, etc..
Member of the American Meteorological Society.
Dedicated photographer (Grand Prize Nikon Photo-Contest -link-, stock at Alamy).
Keen telemarker.
Corripio, J. G. and Purves, R. S.: 2004, Surface Energy Balance of High Altitude Glaciers in the Central Andes: the Effect of Snow Penitentes, in C. de Jong, D. Collins, and R. Ranzi (eds), Climate and Hydrology in Mountain Areas, Wiley & Sons, London. chapter 3, pp. 15–27.
Corripio, J. G., Purves, R. S. and Rivera, A.: 2007, Modeling climate-change impacts on mountain glaciers and water resources in the Central Dry Andes, in B. Orlove, E. Wiegandt and B. Luckman (eds), Darkening Peaks: Glacier Retreat, Science, and Society, University of California Press, Berkeley, pp. 126–135.
Corripio, J.G., López-moreno, J.I., 2017. Analysis and Predictability of the Hydrological Response of Mountain Catchments to Heavy Rain on Snow Events : A Case Study in the Spanish Pyrenees. Hidrology 4, 20. https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology4020020
Crouzy, B., Forclaz, R., Sovilla, B., Corripio, J., Perona, P., 2015. Quantifying snowfall and avalanche release synchronization: A case study. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 120. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JF003258
Härer, S., Bernhardt, M., Corripio, J.G., Schulz, K., 2013. PRACTISE – Photo Rectification And ClassificaTIon SoftwarE (V.1.0). Geoscientific Model Development 6, 837–848. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-6-837-2013
M. Dumont, Y. Arnaud, D. Six and J.G. Corripio.: 2009, Retrieval of glacier surface albedo using terrestrial photography. Détermination de l’albédo de surface des glaciers à partir de photographies terrestres. La Houille Blanche, 2, 102-108
Rivera, A., Corripio, J. G., Brock, B., Clavero, J. and Wendt, J.: 2008, Monitoring ice capped active Volcán Villarrica in Southern Chile by means of terrestrial photography combined with automatic weather stations and GPS, Journal of Glaciology. 54(88), 920-930.
Dadic, R., Corripio, J. G. and Burlando, P.: 2008, Mass-balance estimates for Haut Glacier d’Arolla, Switzerland, from 2000 to 2006 using DEMs and distributed mass balance modeling, Annals of Glaciology 49, 22–26.
Pellicciotti, F., Helbing, J., Rivera, A., Favier, V., Corripio, J., Araos, J., Sicart, J.-E. and Carenzo, M.: 2008, A study of the energy balance and melt regime on Juncal Norte glacier, semi-arid andes of central Chile, using melt models of different complexity, Hydrological Processes. 22(19): 3980.
Durand, Y, Guyomarc’h, G, Mérindol, L. Corripio, J.G. 2005 Improvement of a numerical snow drift model and field validation. Cold Regions Science and Technology 43 (2005) 93-103.
Corripio, J. G.: 2004, Snow surface albedo estimation using terrestrial photography, International Journal of Remote Sensing. 25(24), 5705–5729.
Corripio, J. G., Durand, Y., Guyomarc’h, G., Mérindol, L., Lecorps, D. and Pugliése, P: 2004, Land-based remote sensing of snow for the validation of a snow transport model, Cold Region Science and Technology. 39(2-3), 93–104.
Durand, Y., Guyomarc’h, G., Mérindol, L. and Corripio, J. G.: 2004, 2D numerical modelling of surface wind velocity and associated snowdrift effects over complex mountainous orography, Annals of Glaciology, 38, 59-70.
Strasser, U., Corripio, J., Pellicciotti, F., Burlando, P., Brock, B. and Funk, M.: 2004, Spatial and temporal variability of meteorological variables at Haut Glacier d’Arolla (Switzerland) during the ablation season 2001: Measurements and simulations, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres 109(D3), D03103.
Corripio, J. G.: 2003, Vectorial algebra algorithms for calculating terrain parameters from DEMs and the position of the sun for solar radiation modelling in mountainous terrain, International Journal of Geographical Information Science 17(1), 1–23.
Corripio, J. G.: 2003, Modelling the energy balance of high altitude glacierised basins in the Central Andes. PhD thesis. University of Edinburgh, 2003.
Guyomarc’h, G. and Corripio, J.: 2003, Suivi des zones de neige déplacées par le vent en haute montagne, Neige et avalanche (102). June 2003. ANENA, Grenoble.
Corripio, J. G.: 2001, Montañas de Escocia, in K. Betelu (ed.), Grandes Montañas de Europa, Desnivel, Madrid, chapter 7. (Mountains of Scotland in Great Mountains ofEurope).
See google scholar: https://t.ly/Y3leG
See Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Javier-Corripio
See ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6994-4913
EGU oral presentations in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008.
EGU session convener in 2004.
AGU oral presentation in 2004, papers in many other sessions.
AGM, Alpine Glaciological Meeting, 2003,2004, 2005, 2006 and papers in other sessions.
GLIMS (Global Land Ice Measurements from Space) Workshop, Oslo, 2004 y EGU, 2005.
Workshop on Automatic Weather Stations on Glaciers IMAU, Pontresina 28 to 31 March 2004.
Alpine Snow Workshop, Munich, 2006.
Valdivia, Chile, 2006.
INRENA, Huaraz and Lima, Peru.
Sierra Nevada, Spain, 2008.
Cold Regions Snow Hydrology Workshop, Innsbruck, 2010.
CIMAS, I Congreso Internacional de las Montañas, Sierra Nevada 2018.
etc.