Ricardo M Trigo

Biographic Data

ID6370576
NAMERicardo M Trigo
GIVEN NAMESRicardo M
FAMILY NAMETrigo
SIGNATURETRIGO R M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Lisbon
ORCID0000-0002-4183-9852
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Increased population exposure to extreme droughts in Iberia due to 0.5 °C additional anthropogenic warming

    Open AccessAna Russo, Virgílio A Bento et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    This study investigates the effects of incremental global warming, specifically the transition from 1.5 °C to 2.0 °C, on drought conditions in the Iberian Peninsula (IP). Our findings confirm a substantial increase in the frequency and intensity of droughts in the IP due to anthropogenic climate change. We highlight the importance of temperature in drought representation and underscore the urgent need to limit global warming below 1.5 °C, in line…

  • Recent increasing frequency of compound summer drought and heatwaves in Southeast Brazil

    Open AccessJoão L Geirinhas, Ana Russo et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    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 Brazil. Regional climate change projections indicate a future aggravation of this trend. However, a comprehensive characterization of drought and heatwave compound events, as well as of the main land–atmosphere mechanisms involved, is still lacking for most of South America. This study aims to fill this…

  • Assessing the role of compound drought and heatwave events on unprecedented 2020 wildfires in the Pantanal

    Open AccessRenata Libonati, João L Geirinhas et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    The year 2020 had the most catastrophic fire season over the last two decades in the Pantanal, which led to outstanding environmental impacts. Indeed, much of the Pantanal has been affected by severe dry conditions since 2019, with evidence of the 2020’s drought being the most extreme and widespread ever recorded in the last 70 years. Although it is unquestionable that this mega-drought contributed significantly to the increase of fire risk, so f…

  • Enhancing the fire weather index with atmospheric instability information

    Open AccessMiguel M Pinto, Carlos C DaCamara et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    The Fire Weather Index (FWI) is widely used to assess the meteorological fire danger in several ecosystems worldwide. One shortcoming of the FWI is that only surface weather conditions are considered, despite the important role often played by atmospheric instability in the development of very large wildfires. In this work, we focus on the Iberian Peninsula for the period spanning 2004–2018. We show that atmospheric instability, assessed by the C…

  • Long-term precipitation in Southwestern Europe reveals no clear trend attributable to anthropogenic forcing

    Open AccessD Peña-Angulo, Dhais Peña‐Angulo et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    We present a long-term assessment of precipitation trends in Southwestern Europe (1850–2018) using data from multiple sources, including observations, gridded datasets and global climate model experiments. Contrary to previous investigations based on shorter records, we demonstrate, using new long-term, quality controlled precipitation series, the lack of statistically significant long-term decreasing trends in precipitation for the region. Rathe…

  • The ‘Day Zero’ Cape Town drought and the poleward migration of moisture corridors

    Open AccessPedro M Sousa, Ross C Blamey et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    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 dry period with an ever-growing demand for water culminated in the widely publicized 'Day Zero' water crisis. Here we show how: (i) consecutive significant decreases in rainfall during the last three winters led to the current water crisis; (ii) the 2015–2017 record breaking drought was dri…

  • The synergy between drought and extremely hot summers in the Mediterranean

    Open AccessAna Russo, Célia M Gouveia et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    In the last years a large number of weather driven extreme events has occurred worldwide with unprecedented socio-economic impacts and are expected to increase, in both frequency and intensity, under future global-warming conditions. In this context early identification and predictability of such events are paramount as they mostly affect several socio-economic activities. Despite the effort in monitoring and evaluation of these extreme events, a…

  • The complexity of millennial-scale variability in southwestern Europe during MIS 11

    Open AccessDulce Oliveira, Stéphanie Desprat et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2016

    Climatic variability of Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 11 is examined using a new high-resolution direct land—sea comparison from the SW Iberian margin Site U1385. This study, based on pollen and biomarker analyses, documents regional vegetation, terrestrial climate and sea surface temperature (SST) variability. Suborbital climate variability is revealed by a series of forest decline events suggesting repeated cooling and drying episodes in SW Iberia…

  • Objective identification of multiple large fire climatologies: An application to a Mediterranean ecosystem

    Open AccessJulien Ruffault, Vincent Moron et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016

    There is growing evidence that the climatic conditions favorable to the occurrence of large fires (LFs) might not be unique within a homogeneous biogeographic area. But the identification of these coexistent multi-scalar climatologies often relies on empirical observations. Here we classify summer LFs (>120 ha) in Mediterranean France for the period 1973 to 2012, according to their local-scale weather conditions (i.e. temperature, relative humidi…

  • Evidence of increasing drought severity caused by temperature rise in southern Europe

    Open AccessSergio M Vicente‐Serrano, J I López-Moreno et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2014

    9 Pags., 6 Figs. The Content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Any further \ndistribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the \nof the work, journal citation and DOI

  • Response of vegetation to drought time-scales across global land biomes

    Open AccessSergio M Vicente-Serrano, Sergio M Vicente‐Serrano et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…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: vegetation indices from satellite imagery, tree-ring growth series, and Aboveground Net Primary Production (ANPP) records. Arid and humid biomes are both affected by drought, and we suggest that the persistence of the water deficit (i.e., the drought time-scale) could be playing a key role in…

  • Time-scale and extent at which large-scale circulation modes determine the wind and solar potential in the Iberian Peninsula

    Open AccessSónia Jerez, Ricardo M Trigo et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2013

    The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), the East Atlantic (EA) and the Scandinavian (SCAND) modes are the three main large-scale circulation patterns driving the climate variability of the Iberian Peninsula. This study assesses their influence in terms of solar (photovoltaic) and wind power generation potential (SP and WP) and evaluates their skill as predictors. For that we use a hindcast regional climate simulation to retrieve the primary meteoro…

  • The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project

    Open AccessGilbert P Compo, Jeffrey S Whitaker et al.ARTICLEQuarterly Journal of the Royal…2011

    The Twentieth Century Reanalysis (20CR) project is an international effort to produce a comprehensive global atmospheric circulation dataset spanning the twentieth century, assimilating only surface pressure reports and using observed monthly sea‐surface temperature and sea‐ice distributions as boundary conditions. It is chiefly motivated by a need to provide an observational dataset with quantified uncertainties for validations of climate model …

  • The Hot Summer of 2010: Redrawing the Temperature Record Map of Europe

    Open AccessDavid Barriopedro, Erich Fischer et al.ARTICLEScience2011

    Large parts of eastern Europe experienced exceptional warmth during the summer of 2010.

  • Evaluating the impact of extreme temperature based indices in the 2003 heatwave excessive mortality in Portugal

    Open AccessRicardo M Trigo, Alexandre M Ramos et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2009Cited by: 1

  • Comparing historic records of storm frequency and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) chronology for the Azores region

    Open AccessCésar Andrade, Ricardo M Trigo et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2008Cited by: 1

    The storminess of the Azores region was investigated using newspaper records from AD 1836 onwards. The information obtained was rank-ordered for intensity and the time series of storm frequency analysed for interannual- to century-scale variability. The documentary data set was validated by comparison with objective cyclones intensity for the period AD 1958—2000. Results indicate that four periods of contrasting storm frequency are present (AD 18…