Vicente Barros was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He gained a Masters of Science in Meteorology at the University of Michigan and a PhD in Meteorological Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires in 1973. He held research positions at the UNAM (Mexico) and at the Argentine Council of Sciences (CONICET) where he has been Senior Researcher since 1994. He was Professor of Climatology and Director of the Master Program of Environmental Sciences at the School of Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. He is currently Emeritus Professor of this University. Vicente Barros has published over 60...