Ricardo M. Trigo

Research interests

Publications

• Increased likelihood of heat-induced large wildfires in the Mediterranean Basin

  Scientific Reports · 2020 · 10.1038/s41598-020-70069-z

• Challenges for drought assessment in the Mediterranean region under future climate scenarios

  Earth-Science Reviews · 2020 · 10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103348

• Climate drivers of the 2017 devastating fires in Portugal

  Scientific Reports · 2019 · 10.1038/s41598-019-50281-2

• European temperature responses to blocking and ridge regional patterns

  Climate Dynamics · 2017 · 10.1007/s00382-017-3620-2

• On the key role of droughts in the dynamics of summer fires in Mediterranean Europe

  Scientific Reports · 2017 · 10.1038/s41598-017-00116-9

• Recent regional climate cooling on the Antarctic Peninsula and associated impacts on the cryosphere

  The Science of The Total Environment · 2016 · 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.12.030

• Drought impacts on vegetation activity in the Mediterranean region: An assessment using remote sensing data and multi-scale drought indicators

  Global and Planetary Change · 2016 · 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2016.06.011

• Major Mechanisms of Atmospheric Moisture Transport and Their Role in Extreme Precipitation Events

  Annual Review of Environment and Resources · 2016 · 10.1146/annurev-environ-110615-085558

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

  Environmental Research Letters · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/9/4/044001

• Oceanic and terrestrial sources of continental precipitation

  Reviews of Geophysics · 2012 · 10.1029/2012rg000389

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

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1207068110

• Trends and extremes of drought indices throughout the 20th century in the Mediterranean

  Natural hazards and earth system sciences · 2011 · 10.5194/nhess-11-33-2011

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

  Science · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1201224

• The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project

  Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.776

• A Review of the European Summer Heat Wave of 2003

  Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1080/10643380802238137

• On the origin of continental precipitation

  Geophysical Research Letters · 2010 · 10.1029/2010gl043712

• The Outstanding 2004/05 Drought in the Iberian Peninsula: Associated Atmospheric Circulation

  Journal of Hydrometeorology · 2007 · 10.1175/jhm578.1

• The Mediterranean climate: An overview of the main characteristics and issues

  Developments in earth and environmental sciences · 2006 · 10.1016/s1571-9197(06)80003-0

• Synoptic patterns associated with large summer forest fires in Portugal

  Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · 2005 · 10.1016/j.agrformet.2004.12.007

• Shallow and deep landslides induced by rainfall in the Lisbon region (Portugal): assessment of relationships with the North Atlantic Oscillation

  Natural hazards and earth system sciences · 2005 · 10.5194/nhess-5-331-2005

• North Atlantic oscillation influence on precipitation, river flow and water resources in the Iberian Peninsula

  International Journal of Climatology · 2004 · 10.1002/joc.1048

• Climate impact of the European winter blocking episodes from the NCEP/NCAR Reanalyses

  Climate Dynamics · 2004 · 10.1007/s00382-004-0410-4

• The North Atlantic Oscillation influence on Europe: climate impacts and associated physical mechanisms

  Climate Research · 2002 · 10.3354/cr020009

• Circulation weather types and their influence on the precipitation regime in Portugal

  International Journal of Climatology · 2000 · 10.1002/1097-0088(20001115)20:13<1559::aid-joc555>3.0.co;2-5

• Evaluation of the North Atlantic Oscillation as simulated by a coupled climate model

  Climate Dynamics · 1999 · 10.1007/s003820050310

Current projects

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