Search Results - "Trigo, Ricardo"
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The Hot Summer of 2010: Redrawing the Temperature Record Map of Europe
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (08-04-2011)“…The summer of 2010 was exceptionally warm in eastern Europe and large parts of Russia. We provide evidence that the anomalous 2010 warmth that caused adverse…”
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On the key role of droughts in the dynamics of summer fires in Mediterranean Europe
Published in Scientific reports (06-03-2017)“…Summer fires frequently rage across Mediterranean Europe, often intensified by high temperatures and droughts. According to the state-of-the-art regional fire…”
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Climate drivers of the 2017 devastating fires in Portugal
Published in Scientific reports (10-10-2019)“…A record 500,000 hectares burned in Portugal during the extreme wildfire season of 2017, with more than 120 human lives lost. Here we analyse the climatic…”
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On the origin of continental precipitation
Published in Geophysical research letters (01-07-2010)“…About 9 out of 10 liters of water evaporated from the oceans every year precipitates back onto oceans. However, the remaining 10% that get transported to…”
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Recent increasing frequency of compound summer drought and heatwaves in Southeast Brazil
Published in Environmental research letters (01-03-2021)“…Abstract An increase in the frequency of extremely hot and dry events has been experienced over the past few decades in South America, and particularly in…”
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Significant increase of global anomalous moisture uptake feeding landfalling Atmospheric Rivers
Published in Nature communications (08-10-2020)“…One of the most robust signals of climate change is the relentless rise in global mean surface temperature, which is linked closely with the water-holding…”
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Examining the North Atlantic Oscillation, East Atlantic Pattern, and Jet Variability since 1685
Published in Journal of climate (01-10-2019)“…Recent studies have stressed the key role of the east Atlantic (EA) pattern and its interactions with the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) in Euro-Atlantic…”
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Assessing the role of compound drought and heatwave events on unprecedented 2020 wildfires in the Pantanal
Published in Environmental research letters (01-01-2022)“…Abstract The year 2020 had the most catastrophic fire season over the last two decades in the Pantanal, which led to outstanding environmental impacts. Indeed,…”
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Increased likelihood of heat-induced large wildfires in the Mediterranean Basin
Published in Scientific reports (14-08-2020)“…Wildfire activity is expected to increase across the Mediterranean Basin because of climate change. However, the effects of future climate change on the…”
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Oceanic and terrestrial sources of continental precipitation
Published in Reviews of geophysics (1985) (01-12-2012)“…The most important sources of atmospheric moisture at the global scale are herein identified, both oceanic and terrestrial, and a characterization is made of…”
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NO2, PM10 and O3 urban concentrations and its association with circulation weather types in Portugal
Published in Atmospheric environment (1994) (01-06-2014)“…High levels of atmospheric pollutants are frequently measured in Portugal, a country which has been affected by several pollution episodes, exceeding PM10, O3…”
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European temperature responses to blocking and ridge regional patterns
Published in Climate dynamics (2018)“…Blocking occurrence and its impacts on European temperature have been studied in the last decade. However, most previous studies on blocking impacts have…”
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The 'Day Zero' Cape Town drought and the poleward migration of moisture corridors
Published in Environmental research letters (17-12-2018)“…Since 2015 the greater Cape Town area (∼3.7 million people) has been experiencing the worst drought of the last century. The combined effect of this prolonged…”
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The 2009/10 Drought in China: Possible Causes and Impacts on Vegetation
Published in Journal of hydrometeorology (01-08-2012)“…Several provinces of China experienced an intense drought episode during 2009 and 2010. The drought was particularly severe in southwestern and northern China,…”
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Twenty-first-century demographic and social inequalities of heat-related deaths in Brazilian urban areas
Published in PloS one (24-01-2024)“…Population exposure to heat waves (HWs) is increasing worldwide due to climate change, significantly affecting society, including public health. Despite its…”
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A New Combined Detection Algorithm for Blocking and Subtropical Ridges
Published in Journal of climate (15-09-2021)“…Blocks are high-impact atmospheric systems of the mid-/high latitudes and have been widely addressed in meteorological and climatological studies. However, the…”
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Climate warming amplified the 2020 record-breaking heatwave in the Antarctic Peninsula
Published in Communications earth & environment (01-12-2022)“…Abstract February 2020 was anomalously warm in the Antarctic Peninsula region and registered one of the most intense heatwaves ever recorded in Western…”
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Response of vegetation to drought time-scales across global land biomes
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (02-01-2013)“…We evaluated the response of the Earth land biomes to drought by correlating a drought index with three global indicators of vegetation activity and growth:…”
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Extreme wildfire events are linked to global-change-type droughts in the northern Mediterranean
Published in Natural hazards and earth system sciences (16-03-2018)“…Increasing drought conditions under global warming are expected to alter the frequency and distribution of large and high-intensity wildfires. However, our…”
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From Amazonia to southern Africa: atmospheric moisture transport through low‐level jets and atmospheric rivers
Published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (01-01-2019)“…A Lagrangian analysis is applied to identify the main moisture source areas associated with atmospheric rivers (ARs) making landfall along the west coast of…”
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