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Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovações (Brasil). Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
BSc, Mechanical Engineering, Escola de Engenharia Maua, Brazil, 1973; MSc, Environmental Engineering, Technion Institute of Technology (1977); PhD, Environmental Engineering, Purdue University, USA, 1982; post-doc, Joint Research Center/EEC, Italy (1993). Senior Scientist at INPE, National Space Institute of Brazil, at CGCT - Earth Sciences Coordination, developing operational projects in the fields of remote sensing of fires, vegetation fire risk and Antarctic meteorology. Main achievements implemented: NASA´s Aeronet network of sun photometers in Brazil (http://gcmd.nasa.gov/records/GCMD_AERONET_NASA.html) in the 1990s, the Brazilian project of Antarctic meteorology (http://antartica.cptec.inpe.br/) from 1984-2010 incluidng 25 Antarctic missions, and the current operational monitoring of vegetation fires in Brazil (http://www.inpe.br/queimadas/) since 1985. Additionally, coordinated the following projects: Automatic mapping of burned areas with Landsat images, financed by GIZ-Germany through MMA, the Ministry of the Environment (https://queimadas.dgi.inpe.br/queimadas/aq30m); New platform for the monitoring of vegetation fires, financed by DEFRA/UK and the World Bank, also for MMA; New Portal for the country´s "Programa Queimadas" (http://www.inpe.br/queimadas), with funds from BNDES-Programa Amazonia; Improvement of INPE's Fire Risk with FIP and World Bank funding; Brazilian fire-surface-atmosphere system, at FAPESP-FCT/Portugal, and; Collaborative Effort for Biomass Burning Science Exchange, with the University of Maryland, USA, Program SPRINT-FAPESP. Among the ten most cited Brazilian scientists in the decades of 1990-2000 e 2000-2010. Currently assigned at INPE´s Wildfire Program (PPA-Ação 20V9-2). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The FAPESP - Shell Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Innovation aims to be a world-class Centre for advanced studies with a focus on innovation towards sustainability and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. The Centre complements Fapesp's experiences in supporting high-level scientific research and technology development towards these fields. It aims to establish a world-class Centre…
Vegetation burning and associated emissions of gases and aerosols have substantial ecological, atmospheric and climatic impacts. In Brazil, particularly the Cerrado savanna and the Amazon rainforest are significantly affected by anthropic fires every year, also becoming regionally and globally important sources of pyrogenic emissions. With this proposal we aim to develop improved daily an…
Vegetation burning and associated emissions of gases and aerosols have substantial ecological, atmospheric and climatic impacts. In Brazil, particularly the Cerrado savanna and the Amazon rainforest are significantly affected by anthropic fires every year, also becoming regionally and globally important sources of pyrogenic emissions. With this proposal we aim to develop improved daily an…
This proposal implements studies on the physical and chemical interactions at the biosphere-atmosphere interface in Amazonia. It is an integrated part of the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia - LBA. It is one of the five components of LBA: 1) Physical climate; 2) Carbon cycle and biogeochemistry; 3) Chemistry and physics of the atmosphere; 4) Hydrology and water chem…
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Across the tropics, Land Use and Land Cover Change (LULCC) is a major source of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emissions. Brazil, for example, is the world's 6th largest emitter of GHG, and ~40% of those emissions are derived from LULCC. Most of those emissions are from deforestation and degradation of humid tropical forests in the Amazon basin, which stores ~100 Pg of carbon in biomass and necro…
This project aims to provide estimates of aerosols and GHG over Amazonia using state-of-the-art measurements from sensors onboard orbiting satellites. Such data, however,have not yet been verified against observations from monitoring stations at the earth´ssurface and therefore the differences between the remote sensing and ground samplingtechniques are unknown. We will compare the remote…
A detailed study of the greenhouse gases balance (carbon dioxide and methane) in Brazil is essential for the country to fulfill its commitments under the Paris Agreement. In particular, Brazil concentrates in the Amazon biome its main emissions associated with deforestation and forest degradation, and possible sinks through the natural forest, in addition to the commitments of the Paris A…
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