Biography
As a hydroclimatologist, my work is focused on the interactions between the land and the atmosphere, and more specifically, on changes in hydrology and climate due to human modification of the land surface and greenhouse gas emissions. The two primary lines of research in my group look at land-atmosphere interaction from two perspectives: 1) the effect of climate variability and change, primarily extreme events, on surface hydrology and 2) the effect of changes in surface hydrology on climate.
Education
- Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006
- M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003
- B.S. Civil Engineering, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
External Links
Recent Publications
Chug, D., Dominguez, F., & Yang, Z. (2022). The Amazon and La Plata River Basins as Moisture Sources of South America: Climatology and Intraseasonal Variability. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127(12), [e2021JD035455]. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD035455
Dominguez, F., Eiras-Barca, J., Yang, Z., Bock, D., Nieto, R., & Gimeno, L. (2022). Amazonian Moisture Recycling Revisited Using WRF With Water Vapor Tracers. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127(4), [e2021JD035259]. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD035259
Martinez, J. A., Arias, P. A., Junquas, C., Espinoza, J. C., Condom, T., Dominguez, F., & Morales, J. S. (2022). The Orinoco Low‐Level Jet and the Cross‐Equatorial Moisture Transport Over Tropical South America: Lessons From Seasonal WRF Simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127(3), [e2021JD035603]. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD035603
Rahman, A., Kumar, P., & Dominguez, F. (2022). Increasing freshwater supply to sustainably address global water security at scale. Scientific reports, 12(1), [20262]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-24314-2
Bieri, C. A., Dominguez, F., & Lawrence, D. M. (2021). Impacts of large-scale soil moisture anomalies on the hydroclimate of southeastern South America. Journal of Hydrometeorology. https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-20-0116.1
