A5053959615- Climate variability and models
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Climate change and permafrost
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
- Wind Energy Research and Development
- Voice and Speech Disorders
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Hydrological Forecasting Using AI
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Water resources management and optimization
- Forest ecology and management
- Aeolian processes and effects
- Plant Ecology and Soil Science
University of Lisbon
2016-2025
Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra
2017-2022
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
2022
Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia
2022
Gobierno de Navarra
2022
Diabetes Australia
2022
National Legal Medicine Institute
2019-2020
Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes
2019-2020
Instituto Superior Politécnico do Oeste
2019-2020
National Institute of Health Dr. Ricardo Jorge
2018
Abstract The European CORDEX (EURO-CORDEX) initiative is a large voluntary effort that seeks to advance regional climate and Earth system science in Europe. As part of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) - Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX), it shares broader goals providing model evaluation projection framework improving communication with both General Circulation Model (GCM) data user communities. EURO-CORDEX oversees design coordination ongoing ensembles...
VALUE is an open European collaboration to intercompare downscaling approaches for climate change research, focusing on different validation aspects (marginal, temporal, extremes, spatial, process‐based, etc.). Here we describe the participating methods and first results from experiment, using “perfect” reanalysis (and reanalysis‐driven regional model (RCM)) predictors assess intrinsic performance of precipitation temperatures over a set 86 stations representative main climatic regions in...
Abstract Here we present the first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-scale horizontal grid spacing over a decade long period. A total 23 run with $$\sim $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mo>∼</mml:mo> </mml:math> 3 km, driven by ERA-Interim reanalysis, and performed 22 European research groups are analysed. Six different models (RCMs) represented in ensemble. The compared against available high-resolution precipitation...
Abstract. In the current work we present six hindcast WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting model) simulations for EURO-CORDEX (European Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment) domain with different configurations in microphysics, convection radiation time period 1990–2008. All regional model are forced by ERA-Interim reanalysis have same spatial resolution (0.44°). These evaluated surface temperature, precipitation, short- longwave downward at total cloud cover. The analysis of...
The influence of uncertainties in gridded observational reference data on regional climate model (RCM) evaluation is quantified a pan‐European scale. Three different sets are considered: the coarse‐resolved E‐OBS set, compilation high‐resolution products (HR) and European‐scale MESAN reanalysis. Five ERA‐Interim‐driven RCM experiments EURO‐CORDEX initiative evaluated against each these references over eight European sub‐regions considering range performance metrics for mean daily temperature...
ABSTRACT In this study precipitation from a high resolution WRF climate simulation is presented and evaluated against daily gridded observations in the Iberian Peninsula. The corresponds to dynamical downscaling of ERA ‐Interim, period 1989–2009, performed with two nested grids, at 27 9 km horizontal resolution. higher indicates significantly improved representation fields, all timescales, emphasis on variability extreme weather statistics. Results compare well recent studies other models...
Abstract. The Land Use and Climate Across Scales Flagship Pilot Study (LUCAS FPS) is a coordinated community effort to improve the integration of land use change (LUC) in regional climate models (RCMs) quantify biogeophysical effects LUC on local Europe. In first phase LUCAS, nine RCMs are used explore impacts re-/afforestation over Europe: two idealized experiments representing respectively non-forested maximally forested Europe compared order spatial temporal variations sensitivity...
Abstract Interactions between the land surface and atmosphere play a fundamental role in weather climate system. Here we present comparison of summertime land‐atmosphere coupling strength found subset ERA‐Interim‐driven European domain Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (EURO‐CORDEX) model ensemble (1989–2008). Most regional models (RCMs) reproduce overall soil moisture interannual variability, spatial patterns, annual cycles exchange fluxes for different zones suggested by...
This work analyses three uncertainty sources affecting the observation‐based gridded data sets: station density, interpolation methodology and spatial resolution. For this purpose, we consider precipitation in two countries, Poland Spain, resolutions (0.11, 0.22 0.44°), methods, both areal‐ point‐representative implementations, different densities of underlying network (high/medium/low density). As a result, for each resolution approach, nine grids have been obtained country inter‐compared...
Abstract. The present work presents a new observational gridded dataset (referred to as Iberia01) for daily precipitation and temperatures produced using dense network (thousands) of stations over the Iberian Peninsula period 1971–2015 at 0.1∘ regular (and 0.11∘ CORDEX-compliant rotated) resolutions. We analyze mean extreme indices compare results with E-OBS v17 (using both standard ensemble versions, 0.25 resolutions, respectively), in order assess uncertainty this region. show that...
The Iberian viticultural regions are convened according to the Denomination of Origin (DO) and present different climates, soils, topography management practices. All these elements influence vegetative growth varieties throughout peninsula, tied grape quality wine type. In current study, an integrated analysis climate, soil, was performed for DO regions, using state-of-the-art datasets. For climatic assessment, a categorized index, accounting phenological/thermal development, water...
Coastal low-level jets (CLLJ) are a low-tropospheric wind feature driven by the pressure gradient produced sharp contrast between high temperatures over land and lower sea. This cold ocean warm in summer is intensified impact of coastal parallel winds on generating upwelling currents, sharpening temperature close to coast giving rise strong baroclinic structures at coast. During summertime, Iberian Peninsula often under effect Azores High thermal low system inland, leading seasonal wind,...
ABSTRACT Regional climate models (RCMs) are used with increasing resolutions seeking to represent in an improved way regional local‐scale atmospheric phenomena. The EURO‐CORDEX simulations at 0.11° and exploiting finer grid spacing approaching the convective‐permitting regimes representative examples. These runs computationally very demanding do not always show improvements, which depend on region, variable object of study. gains or losses associated use higher resolution relation forcing...
The application of climate change impact assessment (CCIA) studies in general and especially the linkages between different actor groups typically involved is often not trivial subject to many limitations uncertainties. Disciplinary issues like competing downscaling approaches, imperfect model data uncertainty propagation as well selection appropriate sets are only one part story. Interdisciplinary transdisciplinary challenges add these, provision their usage require at least a minimum...
Background: Parkinson's disease (PD) patients are affected by hypokinetic dysarthria, characterized hypophonia and dysprosody, which worsens with progression. Levodopa's (L-dopa) effect on quality of speech is inconclusive; no data currently available for late-stage PD (LSPD). Objective: To assess the modifications voice in LSPD following an acute L-dopa challenge. Method: (Schwab England 3 [MED ON]) performed several vocal tasks before after The was assessed: respiratory support speech,...
Abstract The biophysical effects of reforestation and afforestation (herein jointly called re/afforestation) on the diurnal temperature cycle in European summer are investigated by analyzing a regional climate model (RCM) ensemble, established within Land Use Climate Across Scales Flagship Pilot Study (LUCAS FPS). With this RCM two idealized experiments performed for Europe, one with continent maximized forest cover, which all forests turned into grassland. First, an in-depth analysis...
The spatial dependence of meteorological variables is crucial for many impacts, example, droughts, floods, river flows, energy demand, and crop yield. There thus a need to understand how well it represented in downscaling (DS) products. Within the COST Action VALUE, we have conducted comprehensive analysis variability output over 40 different DS methods perfect predictor setup. evaluated against daily precipitation temperature observations period 1979–2008 at 86 sites across Europe 53...
Abstract The impact of climate change on wheat and barley yields in two regions the Iberian Peninsula is here examined. Regression models are developed by using EURO-CORDEX regional model (RCM) simulations, forced ERA-Interim, with monthly maximum minimum air temperatures accumulated precipitation as predictors. Additionally, RCM simulations different global for historical period (1972–2000) mid-of-century (2042–2070; under emission scenarios RCP4.5 RCP8.5) analysed. Results point to...
Abstract. In the recent past, an increase in computation resources led to development of regional climate models with increasing domains and resolutions, spanning larger temporal periods. A good example is World Climate Research Program – Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment for European domain (EURO-CORDEX). This set encompasses entire continent a 130-year common period until end 21st century, while having 12 km horizontal resolution. Such simulations are computationally demanding,...