Articles

• Chen, Y., B. Liu, Y. Luo, C. Martinez-Villalobos, G. Ren, Y. Huang, S. Zhang, Y. Sun, and Z. Zhang: Relative contribution of moisture transport during TC active and inactive periods to the precipitation in Henan Province of North China: mean state and an extreme event. J. Climate. In press.
• Dewitte, B., E. Concha, D. Sepúlveda, O. Pizarro, C. Martinez-Villalobos, D. Gushchina, M. Ramos, and A. Montecinos: The ENSO-induced South Pacific Meridional Mode. Front. Clim. In press. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2022.1080978
• Martinez-Villalobos, C., J. D. Neelin, and A. G. Pendergrass, 2022: Metrics for Evaluating CMIP6 Representation of Daily Precipitation Probability Distributions. J. Climate, 35(17), 5719-5743 https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0617.1
• Leung, L.R., W.R. Boos, J.L. Catto, C. DeMott, G.M. Martin, J.D. Neelin, T.A. O’Brien, S. Xie, Z. Feng, N.P. Klingaman, Y-H. Kuo, R.W. Lee, C. Martinez-Villalobos, S. Vishnu, M. Priestley, C. Tao, and Y. Zhou, 2022: Exploratory precipitation metrics: spatiotemporal characteristics, process-oriented, and phenomena based. J. Climate, 35(12), 3659-3686, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0590.1
• Zhang, S., Y. Chen, Y. Luo, B. Liu, G. Ren, T. Zhou, C. Martinez-Villalobos, and M. Chang, 2022: Revealing the circulation pattern most conducive to precipitation extremes in Henan Province of North China. Geophys. Res. Lett, 49, e2022GL098034. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL098034
• Chang M., B. Liu, B. Wang, C. Martinez-Villalobos, G. Ren, and T. Zhou, 2022: Understanding future increases in precipitation extremes in global land monsoon regions. J. Climate, 35(6), 1839-1851, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0409.1
• Neelin, J. D., C. Martinez-Villalobos, S. N. Stechmann, F. Ahmed, G. Chen, J. M. Norris, Y-H. Kuo, and G. Lenderink, 2022: Precipitation extremes and water vapor: Relationships in current climate and implications for climate change. Curr Clim Change Rep, 8, 17-33, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40641-021-00177-z
• Martinez-Villalobos, C., and J. D. Neelin, 2021: Climate models capture key features of extreme precipitation probabilities across regions Environ. Res. Lett., 16, 024017, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abd351
• Chang M., B. Liu, C. Martinez-Villalobos, G. Ren, S. Li, and T. Zhou, 2020: Changes in Extreme Precipitation Accumulations during the Warm Season over Continental China. J. Climate, 33, 10799-10811, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0616.1 . Publisher’s version.
• Martinez-Villalobos, C., and J. D. Neelin, 2019: Why Do Precipitation Intensities Tend to Follow Gamma Distributions? J. Atmos. Sci., 76, 3611-3631, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-18-0343.1 . Publisher’s version
• Martinez-Villalobos, C., M. Newman, D. J. Vimont, C. Penland, and J. D. Neelin, 2019: Observed El Niño-La Niña Asymmetry in a Linear Model. Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, 9909-9919. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082922 . Publisher’s version
• Thomas, E.E., D.J. Vimont, M. Newman, C. Penland, and C. Martinez-Villalobos, 2018: The Role of Stochastic Forcing in Generating ENSO Diversity. J. Climate., 31, 9125-9150. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0582.1. Publisher’s version.
• Martinez-Villalobos, C., and J. D. Neelin, 2018: Shifts in Precipitation Accumulation Extremes during the Warm Season over the United States. Geophys. Res. Lett., 45, 8586-8595, doi:10.1029/2018GL078465. Publisher’s version.
• Martinez-Villalobos, C., D.J. Vimont, C. Penland, M. Newman, and J.D. Neelin, 2018: Calculating State Dependent Noise in a Linear Inverse Model Framework. J. Atmos. Sci., 75(2), 479-496, doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-17-0235.1. Publisher’s version.
• Martinez-Villalobos, C., and D.J. Vimont, 2017: An Analytical Framework for Understanding Tropical Meridional Modes. J. Climate., 30 (9), 3303-3323, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0450.1. Publisher’s version.
• Martinez-Villalobos, C., and D.J. Vimont, 2016: The Role of the Mean State in Meridional Mode Structure and Growth. J. Climate., 29 (10), 3907-3921, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0542.1. Publisher’s version.
• Gorazd Cvetic, Marcelo Loewe, Cristian Martinez, and Cristián Valenzuela, 2010: Modified contour-improved perturbation theory. Phys. Rev. D., 82, 093007, doi: doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.82.093007. Publisher’s version.
• Gorazd Cvetic, Marcelo Loewe, Cristian Martinez, and Cristián Valenzuela, 2010: A Modification of Contour-Improved Perturbation Theory. Nuclear Physics B – Proceedings Supplements 207(1):152-155 · September 2010. doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2010.10.039. Publisher’s version.
• Marcelo Loewe and Cristian Martinez-Villalobos, 2008: Thermal corrections to pi-pi scattering lengths in the linear sigma model. Phys. Rev. D., 77, 105006, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.77.105006. Publisher’s version.

Conference Presentations and Posters

• Cristian Martinez-Villalobos, J. David Neelin and Angeline G. Pendergrass: Why daily precipitation intensities tend to follow Gamma distributions —theory and applications. 12th International Precipitation Conference. June 2019. Irvine, California, United States. Poster Presentation.
• Cristian Martinez-Villalobos and J. David Neelin: What sets the probability distribution of precipitation?. 2018 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. December 2018. Washington, D.C., United States. Oral Presentation.
• Cristian Martinez-Villalobos: Stochastic Modeling in the Climate Sciences: Applications to modeling of precipitation distributions, and El Niño Southern Oscillation. Colloquium Series, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. University of Wisconsin-Madison. November 2018. Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Oral Presentation.
• Cristian Martinez-Villalobos, Matthew Newman, Cécile Penland, Daniel J. Vimont, and J. David Neelin: El Niño-La Niña Asymmetry in a Linear Inverse Model Framework. IV International Conference on El Niño Southern Oscillation: ENSO in a Warmer Climate. October 2018. Guayaquil, Ecuador. Poster Presentation.
• Cristian Martinez-Villalobos and J. David Neelin: Why do Precipitation Intensities tend to Obey a Gamma Distribution? 2018 American Physical Society March Meeting. Session: Coalescence, Fragmentation, Mixing and Anomalous Diffusion. March 2018. Los Angeles, California, United States. Oral Presentation.
• Cristian Martinez-Villalobos and J. David Neelin: Shifts in Precipitation Accumulation Distributions during the Warm Season Over the United States. 2017 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. December 2017. New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Oral Presentation.
• Cristian Martinez-Villalobos and Daniel J. Vimont: An Analytical Framework for Understanding Tropical Meridional Modes. 97th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. 29th Conference on Climate Variability and Change. January 2017. Seattle, Washington, United States. Oral Presentation.
• Cristian Martinez-Villalobos and Daniel J. Vimont: An analytical framework for understanding meridional mode dynamics. Meridional Mode Workshop. October 2016. Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Oral presentation.
• Cristian Martinez-Villalobos and Daniel J. Vimont: An observational study of the South Pacific Meridional Mode. 11th International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography. October 2015. Santiago, Chile. Oral Presentation.
• Cristian Martinez-Villalobos and Daniel J. Vimont: How do meridional modes growth and structure depends on mean state asymmetry? 95th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. 27th Conference on Climate Variability and Change. January 2015. doi: 10.13140/2.1.3469.3921 . Phoenix, Arizona, United States. Oral Presentation.
• Cristian Martinez-Villalobos and Daniel J. Vimont: How do meridional modes structure and growth depend on mean state asymmetry?. 95th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. 14th Annual Student Conference. January 2015. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/2.1.3225.8881 . Phoenix, Arizona, United States. Poster Presentation.
• Cristian Martinez-Villalobos and Marcelo Loewe: Thermal Corrections to pi-pi Scattering Lengths in the Linear Sigma Model. XVI Chilean Symposium of Physics. November 2008. Valparaíso, Chile. Oral Presentation
• Cristian Martinez-Villalobos and Marcelo Loewe: Thermal Corrections to pi-pi Scattering Lengths in the Linear Sigma Model. XVI Chilean Symposium of Physics. November 2008. Valparaíso, Chile. Poster Presentation.

Theses

• Deterministic and Stochastic Models of Tropical Climate Variability. Advisor: Dr. Daniel J. Vimont. PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. University of Wisconsin – Madison. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.17861.19689
• Uncertainties in the calculation of the tau lepton semi-hadronic decay, and a new perturbative expansion. (In spanish). Advisors: Dr. Marcelo Loewe and Dr. Cristián Valenzuela. Master in Physics dissertation. Departamento de Fisica. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.3225.8322.
• Thermal Corrections to Pion-Pion Scattering Lengths in the Linear Sigma Model. (In spanish). Advisor: Dr. Marcelo Loewe. Licentiate in Physics dissertation. Departamento de Fisica. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4883.5603 .