Ernesto Tejedor Vargas

Senior researcher. "César Nombela" Talent Attraction Program

ernesto.tejedor@mncn.csic.es

0000-0001-6825-3870

Ernesto Tejedor Vargas

compound extreme events; dendrochronology; hydroclimatic risks; Mediterranean basin; paleoclimatology; volcanic forcings

I am a senior researcher at the National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN-CSIC) under the "César Nombela" Talent Attraction Program of the Community of Madrid. Degree in Geography (University of Zaragoza). Master's in Geographic Information Science and Technology (University of Zaragoza). PhD in Geography and Spatial Planning (University of Zaragoza, 2017).

My international postdoctoral career includes positions as postdoctoral research associate and research scientist at the University at Albany (USA, 2018-2022); visiting scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University (2019-2020); and at the Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil, 2019). From 2022 to 2024, I was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at MNCN-CSIC.

My research focuses on the assessment of climate risks and extreme events, including droughts, floods, heatwaves, and compound extremes, by integrating high-resolution paleoclimatic proxies, historical documentary records, and climate model simulations through data assimilation techniques. My priority areas are the Mediterranean basin and mountain ecosystems.

I have led and participated in international projects with research groups in the USA (Columbia University, SUNY Albany), Brazil (Universidade de São Paulo), Germany (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz), Bolivia (Universidad Mayor San Andrés), and Argentina (IANIGLA-CONICET), among others, as well as in networks and projects such as PIRE-CREATE (NSF), PAGES-VICS, and CLIM'PY (POCTEFA). I actively collaborate with national groups at CSIC, and the University of Zaragoza.

  • He Z, Tejedor E, Smerdon JE, Vuille M, et al. 2026. Comparison of global climatic responses to large tropical volcanic eruptions over the last millennium in paleoclimatic reconstructions and model simulations. Journal of Climate. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-25-0179.1

  • D´Agostino R, Fang SW, Khodri, ...Tejedor E, et al. (5/7 coauthors in alphabetical order, equal contribution). 2026. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science 54:1–24 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-071025-112048

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2025

  • Benito G, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Bartolomé M,.. Tejedor E (10/10 coauthors). 2025. Cambios en los peligros de inundación: aportaciones de los estudios de paleocrecidas. Estudios Geológicos 81(2), 1135. https://doi.org/10.3989/egeol.45727.1135

  • Esper J, Reinig F, Torbenson M, Martinez del Castillo E,…Tejedor E (11/13 coauthors). 2025. Pan-alpine summer temperatures since 742 CE, Dendrochronologia. Volume 94, 126432, ISSN 1125-7865, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2025.126432

  • Marín-Martín M, Tejedor E, Benito G, Saz MA, et al. 2025. A five-century tree-ring record from Spain reveals recent intensification of western Mediterranean precipitation extremes, Climate of the Past, 21, 2205–2223. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2205-2025

  • Serrano-Notivoli et al (33/39 coauthors in alphabetical order). 2025. A single-tree approach to determine climate-growth patterns of European beech and their seasonality in the species southern distribution area. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 371, 110644. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110644

  • Spelsberg S, Büntgen U,… Tejedor, E, Esper J. 2025. Climate signal age effects in Pinus uncinata tree-ring density data from the Spanish Pyrenees. Trees, 39, 23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-024-02598-3

  • Torbenson M, Stahle D, Cook ER, …Tejedor E (7/12 coauthors). 2025. Disruption of drought teleconnections between ENSO-influenced regions around 1700 CE. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2025GL115600. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL115600

2024

  • Gómez-García P, Madrigal-González J, Arriaga F, Robredo Sánchez JC, Tejedor E, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA. 2024. Quantifying the resistance of mixed-forests against natural hazards against in the Pyrenees. Science of the Total Environment 946, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174359

  • Jeong-Hun K, So-Hyun N, Maeng-Ki K, Serrano-Notivoli R, Tejedor E. 2024. The 2022 record high-heat waves over southwestern Europe and their underlying mechanism. Weather and Climate Extremes, 46, 100729, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2024.100729

  • Martinez del Castillo E, Torbenson MCA, Reinig F, Tejedor E, de Luis M, Esper J. 2024. Contrasting Future Growth of Norway Spruce and Scots Pine Forests Under Warming Climate. Global Change Biology, 30: e17580. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17580

  • Stríkis N, Buarque, PFSM, Cruz, FW, Bernal J, Vuille M, Tejedor E, et al. (6/18). 2024. Modern anthropogenic drought in Central Brazil unprecedented during last 700 years. Nature Communications 15, 1728. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45469-8

  • Tejedor E, Benito G, Serrano-Notivoli R, et al. 2024. Recent heatwaves as a prelude to climate extremes in the western Mediterranean region. Nature npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 7, 218. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-024-00771-6

  • Tejedor E, Polvani L, Steiger N, Vuille M, Smerdon J. 2024. No Evidence of Winter Warming in Eurasia Following Large, Low-Latitude Volcanic Eruptions during the Last Millennium. Journal of Climate, 37, 5653–5673. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0625.1

2023

  • Andreu-Hayles L, Tejedor E, D’arrigo R, Locosselli GM, Rodríguez-Catón M, Daux V, Oelkers R, Pacheco-Solana A,Paredes-Villanueva K, Rodríguez-Morata C. 2023 Dendrochronological Advances in the Tropical and Subtropical Americas: Research Priorities and Future Directions. Dendrochronologia. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2023.126124

  • Burgdorf AM, Brönnimann S, Adamson G,... Tejedor E, et al. 2023. DOCU-CLIM: A global documentary climate dataset for climate reconstructions. Scientific Data 10, 402. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02303-y

  • Oelkers R, Andreu-Hayles L, D’Arrigo R, Pacheco-Solana A, Rodriguez-Caton M, Fuentes A, Santos GM, Tejedor E, Ferrero E, Maldonado C. 2023. Recent growth increase in endemic Juglans boliviana from the tropical Andes, Dendrochronologia, 79, 126090. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2023.126090

  • Pachecho-Solana A, Oelkers R, D’Arrigo R, Santos GM, Rodriguez-Caton M, Tejedor E, Ferrero E, Fuentes A, Maldonado C, Andreu-Hayles L. 2023. Radiocarbon and wood anatomy as complementary tools for generating tree-ring records in Bolivia. Frontiers in Plant Science, 14, 1135480. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1135480

  • Ramirez VM et al. (14/17 coauthors). 2023. Summer insolation controlled movements of Intertropical Convergence Zone during last glacial cycle in northern South America. Communications Earth & Environment 4, 495. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01124-6

  • Serrano-Notivoli R, Tejedor E, Sarricolea P, Meseguer-Ruiz O, de Luis M, Saz MÁ, Longares LA, & Olcina J. 2023. Unprecedented warmth: A look at Spain's exceptional summer of 2022. Atmospheric Research 293, 106931. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2023.106931

2022

  • Barrao S, Serrano-Notivoli R, Cuadrat JM, Tejedor E, Saz M. 2022. Characterization of the UHI in Zaragoza (Spain) using a quality-controlled hourly sensor-based urban climate network. Urban Climate 44, 101207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2022.101207

  • Cuadrat JM, Serrano-Notivoli R, Barrao S, Saz MA, Tejedor E. 2022. Variabilidad temporal de la isla de calor urbana de la ciudad de Zaragoza (España). Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica 48, 1, 97-110. https://doi.org/10.18172/cig.5022

  • Royo-Navascues M, Martinez del Castillo E, Tejedor E, Serrano-Notivoli R, Longares LA, Saz MA, Novak K, de Luis M. 2022. The imprint of droughts on Mediterranean Pine. Forests 13,9, 1396. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13091396

  • Serrano-Notivoli R, Lemus-Canovas M, Barrao S, Sarricolea P, Meseguer-Ruiz O and Tejedor E. 2022. Heat and cold waves in mainland Spain: Origins, characteristics, and trends. Weather and Climate Extremes 37, 100471. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2022.100471

  • Vining B, Hillman A, Contreras D, Tejedor E. 2022. Expanded agroecological niches and redistributed risks in northern Peru’s Chicama Valley during late-Holocene ENSO climate changes. The Holocene 32, 1393-1409. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836221121761

2019

  • Büntgen U, Allen K, Anchukaitis KJ et al. (31/38, coauthors listed in alphabetical order except the first and last authors). 2021. The influence of decision-making in tree ring-based climate reconstructions. Nature Communications 12, 3411. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23627-6

  • Hartl C, Duthorn E, Tejedor E, Kirchhefer A, Timonen M, Holzkamper S, Buntgen U, Esper J. 2021. Micro-site conditions affect Fennoscandian forest growth. Dendrochronologia 65, 125787. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2020.125787

  • Royo-Navascues M, Martinez del Castillo E, Serrano-Notivoli R, Tejedor E, Novak K, Longares LA, Saz MA, de Luis M. 2021. When density matters: The spatial balance between early and latewood. Forests 12, 7, 818. https://doi.org/10.3390/f12070818

  • Serrano-Notivoli R and Tejedor E. 2021. From rain to data: a review of station-based gridded precipitation datasets creation. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water 8 (6), e1555. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1555

  • Serrano-Notivoli R, Tejedor E, Sarricolea P, Meseguer-Ruiz O, Vuille M, Fuentealba M, de Luis M. 2021. Hydroclimatic variability in Santiago (Chile) since the 16th century. International Journal of Climatology, 41, E2015-E2030. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6828

  • Tejedor E, Steiger N, Smerdon J, Serrano-Notivoli R, Vuille M. (2021). Global hydroclimatic response to tropical volcanic eruptions over the Last Millennium. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. March 23, 118 (12) e2019145118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2019145118

  • Tejedor E, Steiger N, Smerdon J, Serrano-Notivoli R, Vuille M. 2021. Global temperature responses to large tropical volcanic volcanic eruptions in paleo data assimilation products and climate model simulations over the Last Millennium. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 36, e2020PA004128. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020PA004128

  • Esper J, Hartl C, Tejedor E, de Luis M, Gunther B, Buntgen U. 2020. High-resolution temperature variability reconstructed from Black pine tree ring densities in southern Spain. Atmosphere 11, 7, 748. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11070748

  • Martinez-Moreno F, Solis I, Barriendos M, Tejedor E. Correlations between historical climate data and incidents of common bunt in Spanish wheat, 1755-1801. 2020. Historia agraria 82, 67-97. https://doi.org/10.26882/histagrar.082e08m

  • Tejedor E, Serrano-Notivoli R, de Luis M, Saz MA, Hartl C, St George S, Büntgen U, Liebhold A, Vuille M, Esper J. 2020. A global perspective on the climate-driven growth synchrony of neighboring trees. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29 (7): 1114-1125. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13090

  • Tejedor E, Serrano-Notivoli R, Saz MA, Longares LA, Novak K, Cuadrat JM, de Luis M. 2020. Rain in the desert: A precipitation reconstruction of the last 156 years inferred from Aleppo Pine in the Bardenas Natural Park, Spain. Dendrochronologia, 64, 125759. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2020.125759

  • Tejedor E, de Luis M, Barriendos M, Cuadrat JM, Luterbacher J, MÁ. 2019. Rogation ceremonies: a key to understanding past drought variability in northeastern Spain since 1650. Climate of the Past 15, 1647–1664. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1647-2019

  • Martinez del Castillo E, Tejedor E, Serrano-Notivoli R, Novak K, Saz MA, Longares LA, and de Luis M. 2018. Contrasting patterns of tree growth of Mediterranean Pine Species in the Iberian Peninsula. Forests 9, 416. https://doi.org/10.3390/f9070416

  • Oliva M, Ruiz-Fernandez J, Barriendos M et al. (17/20, coauthors listed in alphabetical order except the first and second authors). 2018. The Little Ice Age in Iberian mountains. Earth Science Reviews 177, 175-208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.11.010

  • Sánchez-Salguero R, Camarero JJ, Rozas V, Genova M, Olano JM, Arzac A, Gazol A, Caminero K, Tejedor E, de Luis M, Linares JC. 2018. Resist, recover or both? Growth plasticity in response to drought is geographically structured and linked to intraspecific variability in Pinus pinaster. Journal of Biogeography 45, 1126-1139. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13202

  • Tejedor E, Saz MA. Esper J, Cuadrat JM, de Luis M. 2017. Summer drought reconstruction in Northeastern Spain inferred from a tree-ring latewood network since 1734. Geophysical Research Letters 44, 8492– 8500. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL074748

  • Tejedor E, Saz MA, Cuadrat JM, Esper J, de Luis M. 2017. Temperature variability in the Iberian Range since 1602 inferred from tree-ring records. Climate of the Past. 13, 93-105. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-93-2017

  • Tejedor E, de Luis M, Cuadrat JM, Esper J., Saz MA. 2016. Tree-ring-based drought reconstruction in the Iberian Range (east of Spain) since 1694. International Journal of Biometeorology 60, 361. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-015-1033-7

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Publications (last 10 years)