Eduardo Zorita is a Spanish paleoclimatologist. He is presently (2010) a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Coastal Research http://www.gkss.de/institute/coastal_research/index.html.en, 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

University of Zaragoza

The University of Zaragoza or sometimes Saragossa University is a university located in Zaragoza, in the Aragon region of Spain...

 in 1988, and then held a postdoctoral appointment at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/en/startseite.html, Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

. He was an Associate Researcher at the Laboratoire de Océanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie (LOCEAN), Pierre and Marie Curie University

Pierre and Marie Curie University

The Paris VI University , or the Pierre and Marie Curie University , is a university located on the Jussieu Campus in the Latin Quarter of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France....

, Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, 1994-95.

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

Hans von Storch

Hans von Storch is a German climate scientist. He is Professor at the Meteorological Institute of the University of Hamburg, and Director of the Institute for Coastal Research at the Helmholtz Research Centre in Geesthacht, Germany...

, 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
  Jan Esper
  Jan Esper is the head of the dendro sciences division at the WSL division of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology...
  
  , 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
  Climatic Change
  Climatic Change is a scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. It deals with the problems of climatic variability and 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
  Geophysical Research Letters
  Geophysical Research Letters is a semi-monthly peer reviewed scientific journal published by the American Geophysical Union that was established in 1974...
  
  , 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
  Nature (journal)
  Nature, first published on 4 November 1869, is ranked the world's most cited interdisciplinary scientific journal by the Science Edition of the 2010 Journal Citation Reports...
  
   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.

Sources and external links

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