New research published in Nature suggests that the crust and mantle have been mixing for billions of years, reshaping continents from below.
Graduated in Physics from the University of Seville in 1977. Paco Martín joined the former INM, currently AEMET, where he has worked for more than 36 years, belonging to the bodies of Observer, Assistant Meteorologist and Superior Body of State Meteorologists. Francisco has held positions of responsibility within AEMET in the areas of Forecasting. In addition, he has been a professor in training courses for new personnel and courses for updating predictors.
He has been invited by international organisations (WMO, EUMETSAT, some National Meteorological Services of Ibero-American countries, etc.) as an expert in forecasting, nowcasting and early warning systems. Also, he has participated in numerous lectures and informative events in Universities, Masters and Amateur Meetings in Spain and has conducted and coordinated studies on severe weather phenomena within AEMET.
For more than a decade, within Meteored, he has been dedicated to the popularisation of meteorology and its related sciences with the management of the RAM where he is Coordinator.
News by Francisco Martín León
A new application from Copernicus Climate Change Service called “Weather Replay” works like a time machine, allowing users to explore and visualise historical weather and climate events — such as storms, heatwaves, floods, hurricanes and cyclones — and their evolution over time in a simple and accessible way anywhere in the world.
An international study shows that two thousand years ago there was already a geomagnetic anomaly with a pattern similar to the current South Atlantic Anomaly.
An international collaboration of astronomers has achieved the most precise direct measurement to date of the current expansion rate of the universe, known as the Hubble constant.
Also known as the Richat Structure, it is a large geological formation composed of concentric ridges located on the eastern side of a plateau in Mauritania.
The possible development of a moderate to very strong El Niño event by late 2026 and early 2027 has raised alarms in regions directly affected by the phenomenon, with heavy rainfall and severe droughts likely to significantly disrupt agriculture and livestock production in many parts of the world.
The oceans have been warming rapidly and extensively lately, with several intense marine heatwaves, while the equatorial Pacific is beginning to show strong signs of El Niño for the coming months of 2026, which could become strong or very strong. And this is only the beginning.
The magma reservoir of the largest volcanic eruption of the Holocene is refilling, and this finding from Kobe University about the Kikai caldera in Japan allows us to better understand giant caldera volcanoes such as Yellowstone Caldera or Toba Caldera in general, bringing us closer to predicting their behaviour.
Rapid ocean warming is likely to make rainfall associated with tropical cyclones more intense and longer lasting, increasing the risk of flooding in some areas of the North Atlantic region.
Artemis II is a 10 day crewed mission around the Moon that marks humanity’s return to lunar orbit. The NOAA space weather monitoring system will help protect astronauts from solar radiation, thereby also benefiting society more broadly.
A new analysis involving researchers from Queen Mary estimates that more than 5 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent were produced in just two weeks of conflict.
A group of researchers has detected the signal of a “whistler” in a one second snapshot captured by the MAVEN probe orbiting Mars, which could be linked to the presence of lightning.
The meteorological conditions for transporting the rocket to the launch site and for the launch itself are extremely strict, ensuring flight safety in both weather conditions and space weather.
Scientists aim to model and characterize underground cave systems around the world in order to predict water flow and the transport of contaminants.
The James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope have joined forces to capture new images of Saturn, revealing the planet in surprisingly different ways.
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have discovered a way to convert plastic waste into acetic acid, the main component of vinegar, using sunlight.
Kitchen sponges are among the most commonly used household items and may represent an underestimated source of microplastics.
TOI-1452 b is an exoplanet around 70 percent larger than Earth and is considered a strong candidate for an ocean world. Scientists suggest that its oceans could reach depths of hundreds of kilometres.
Sea ice around Antarctica expanded for several decades until a sharp decline occurred in 2015. The reasons behind this change are revealed in research by the University of Gothenburg.
Tiny forms of life embedded in debris blasted from a planet by an asteroid impact could travel through space and arrive on another world still alive, according to new experiments by researchers at Johns Hopkins University.