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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas (IAG) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Humberto Ribeiro da Rocha: Full Professor at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences of IAG/University of São Paulo (USP). Graduated in Civil-Aeronautical Engineering (ITA, 1988), with a Masters degree (INPE, 1992) and a Ph.D. (USP, 1998) in Atmospheric Sciences. Specialist in Hydroclimatology, Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions, and Meteorological Instrumentation. He is the coordinator of the Climate and Biosphere Laboratory at IAG/USP, focusing on hydrological modeling, vegetation productivity modeling, and field observatories with flux towers and hydrological measurements in forest, agricultural, and urban areas in the Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, and Amazon. He participated in the Anglo-Brazilian Research of Amazonian Deforestation (ABRACOS Brazil/UK, 1990), the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Interaction Experiment in Amazonia (LBA, 1999), and the Biota/FAPESP Program (2004). Founder and member of the Coordination of the **FAPESP Research Program on Climate Change (2012-2022). Regional Representative at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Commission on Agricultural Meteorology / Flux Measurements for Agriculture (2018-2023). Currently, he is the coordinator of the Science Center for the Development of Water and Food Security in Critical Zones/FAPESP. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The Centre for Water and Food Security at Critical Zones has the main goal to improve solutions to problems on water and food security in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, with emphasis in the management water risk at local and regional scale. The basic field and historical inventory information will be focused at spatial critical zones (headwaters, agricultural plots and specific urban are…
To understand how the Biosphere contributes to the hydrological and climate system and its social impact is a global priority of WMO/Urban Integrated Weather, Environment and Climate Services, that enphasizes the high potential of ecosystem services for the improvement on water, food and energy securities, on functions and conservation of biodiversity, and on human well being in dense urb…
The proposed programme focus on demonstrating the applicability of innovative time-lapse geoelectrical methods as a non-invasive tool for measuring key hydrogeological parameters at relevant scales for catchment-based water resource management. More specifically, through a programme of exchange activities, workshops and field demonstrations, the programme will investigate the feasibility…
BEMUSED recognizes that a more scale-integrated view of the role of soil moisture in the critical zone (the earth's outer layer from vegetation canopy to the soil and groundwater that sustains life) is of great importance in South America. Soil moisture is a key environmental variable of the hydrological cycle connecting the rapid changes in atmospheric conditions near the surface with sl…
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Seasonal (1 to 6 months) and subseasonal (1 to 4 weeks) forecasts gained prominence after extreme climatic events such as the El Niño events of 1982/83 and 1997/98 and the La Niña event of 1988/89, which impacted global temperature and precipitation patterns. Comparing forecasts with past observations, as done in C3S and SubC, allows both validation of model quality and adjustments for hy…
Variations in productivity and vegetation types of a land cover affect the quality of ecosystem services it provides, such as temperature reduction, carbon assimilation, and more. This research aims to analyze the dependency relationships of net primary productivity with hydroclimatic and biophysical indices, focusing on pastures, to observe how variations in productivity levels impact ec…
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The soil-vegetation system can exert a significant influence on the surface water availability regime, as in transient flow peaks, and in the regularization of the minimum drought flow, due to the potential effects in the case of forest vegetation in attenuating the intensity of the rain reaching the soil and to the increase of water infiltration and storage in the soil and in the shallow…
Understanding the role of the biosphere in the climate and hydrological regimes and its social impact is a global priority of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)/Urban Integrated Weather, Environment and Climate Services, with the aim to foster information to energy, water and food security, biodiversity conservation and human well being in rural and urban areas. This proposal aim…
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Small catchments are often characterized by high levels of heterogeneity and complexity, especially in relation to their climatology and hydrology. The porpoise of this project is to estimate the water balance at the headwaters of the Cantareira reservoirs system using multi-instrumented watersheds, with field measurements of climatic data (rainfall, temperature, air humidity, wind speed)…
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