Inocencio Font Tullot's scientific contributions

... According to these synoptic and relief characteristics, in the Canary Islands the trade-winds lead to orographic lifting of moisture-laden air as they encounter higher terrain, cooling and condensing in orographic clouds. This process, together with the existence of a subsidence thermal inversion in the lower troposphere, ensures the presence of a stratocumulus mantle located between 800 and 1200 m a.s.l. on average (Carrillo et al., 2016;Font Tullot, 1956;Guerra et al., 2007). This cloud layer covers the north-eastern slopes of the highest islands and provides ideal conditions for the development of a humid forest ecosystem (Kämmer, 1974). ...

... The Balearic Islands (39°30′N 3°00′E) are located on the West side of the Mediterranean Sea, therefore they are influenced by the Mediterranean climate with warm temperatures throughout the year. Average annual temperature is around 12.5°C in winter and 25°C in summer (Font Tullot, 2007), and annual precipitation levels are low and highly seasonal, with most rains (mean annual precipitation around 555.4 mm) falling on an average of 57 days (Pardo and Álvarez, 2006;Mayol et al., 2017). ...

... In fact, there is evidence of pioneer measurements using actinometers since the mid-19th century (Rico Sinobas, 1859), and of systematic measurements of direct solar radiation using wellestablished pyrheliometers since the beginning of the 20th century in different locations of Spain (e.g. Font Tullot, 1946 ). Consequently, it is reasonable to assume that observations of G were performed in Spain before the 1970s. ...

... The air masses back trajectories are computed using NOAA's HYS-PLIT model (Stein et al., 2015), at three different altitudes (500, 1500 and 3000 m above sea level), and with a flight time of 120 hours (Toledano et al., 2009). In order to quantify the predominance of each air mass (Tullot, 2000), weighting coefficients are used. Estellés et al. (2007a) considers two cases: predominance of one of the air masses types (for a weighting coefficient of at least 80%), or predominance of two of them (mixing, when two of the weighting indices are larger than 20%). ...

... The sea level rise during the Holocene and alluvial sediments of the river favored the emergence of the present-day coastal plain where the city of Valencia stands (Carmona, 1997, Carmona and Ruiz, 1999, Dormoy et al., 2009, Portugués Mollá, 2017. During the Little Ice Age (LIA) observed in the Western Mediterranean through the alternation of dry (cold) periods with severe floods (Font-Tullot, 1988), deltaic progradation occurred as a result of these extreme and repeated hydrological phenomena Morellón et al., 2012). These episodes were particularly pronounced during the nineteenth century and have also been observed in the Rhone delta (Arnaud-Fassetta et al., 2010;Glaser et al., 2010), in the Po (Simeoni and Corbau, 2009;Pranzini et al., 2018), in the Ebro (Cearreta et al., 2016) and in the Tiber (Amorosi and Milli, 2001), among other rivers. ...

... En un món tecnificat com el del present, algunes veus s'han referit a la "deshumanización de la meteorología operativa" o al "problema de la pérdida de familiarización del meteorólogo con la naturaleza" (FONT TULLOT, 1998). En efecte, sembla que els moderns sistemes d'observació meteorològica estan encara lluny de substituir satisfactòriament l'experiència directa de l'habitant terrestre. ...

... In summer, local storms and convective rainfall may occur (Capel Molina, 1977). On the other hand, dry periods in the Iberian Peninsula are caused by the evolution of subtropical pressure belts (Font Tullot, 1989). If high pressure centers are intensified in autumn, a cold anticyclone center might evolve over the Iberian Peninsula, lasting all through the winter. ...

... In addition, its climate presents influences and features that coincide with the environmental characteristics of tropical latitudes in some regions, although it cannot be included within the climatic regimes considered strictly tropical, as shown in Figure 3 (Capel-Molina, 1978;Font-Tullot, 1983;Martín-Vide & Olcina, 2001). The Canary archipelago deserves special mention, as its location and conditioning factors are different from those of most of the peninsula and the Balearic Islands (Font-Tullot, 1959). ...