Is an associate professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where his research focuses on the role of water vapor and clouds in the climate system and their response to anthropogenic influences, particularly changes in aerosols. His work emphasizes water vapor transport over South America and the Amazon forests crucial role in moisture recycling through evapotranspiration and precipitation. He employs physical models based on complex networks and atmospheric models to investigate biosphere-atmosphere interactions. Before joining UMBC in 2022, he served as a faculty member at the Physics Institute of the University of São Paulo from 2008 to 2021, including as Head of the Department of Applied Physics from 2018 to 2021. He held visiting professor positions at the University of Granada, Spain, in 2019, and the University of Manchester, UK, in 2015. From 2004 to 2008, he worked as an assistant researcher at the Brazilian Institute for Space Research. His earlier work includes contributions to the development of the Brazilian Earth System Model, with a focus on physical parameterizations, particularly radiation and convection processes. In his career, he has advised 19 graduate students and 14 undergraduate students from Brazil, Spain, and the USA. He was the Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) in 18 scientific proposals across Brazil, Spain, the UK, and the USA. He has organized important conferences, such as IGAC (International Global Atmospheric Chemistry), as well as multiple sessions at AGU (American Geophysical Union) and AMS (American Meteorological Society). His active engagement in the global scientific community is further reflected by his election as a member of the International Commission of Clouds and Precipitation (ICCP) for the 2021-2024 term. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Radiation transfer in the atmosphere is present in all fields of atmospheric sciences. It is the energy source of wind movement and convection, biosphere-atmosphere interactions and is at the heart of climate stability as well as climate change. The chemistry of the atmosphere is also strongly connected to radiation by photochemistry processes. Clouds interact with radiation both in short…
Climate change is one of the most significant challenges that humankind currently faces. Observations show a warming of the planet since preindustrial times that has amplified and accelerated since the 1950s. Greenhouse gases are indeed not the only anthropogenic driver of climate change. It is now widely understood that anthropogenic aerosols have masked a fraction of the warming effect …
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Clouds are important agents of the global climate system for being able to significantly alter Earth's energy balance, affecting the system in time scales ranging from minutes to climate change. Some types of aerosols reflect the solar radiation, cooling the planet, while others absorb this radiation, thus warming the planet. In this sense, it is very important to understand and measure t…
Amazonia is under continuous changes, and atmospheric aerosol concentrations there vary from pristine conditions to heavy polluted, following the seasonal cycle of deforestation and agriculture practices. These high concentrations of aerosols play an important role in the atmospheric composition modification but also on convection, cloud formation and the precipitation regimes, with impor…
O ciclo hidrológico é um componente fundamental do sistema climático. Efeito estufa, balanço energético terrestre, convecção rasa e profunda, geração de energia termodinâmica da parcela, todos estes são fenômenos que para serem compreendidos, exigem uma ampla observação e análise da quantidade de vapor de água presente na atmosfera. Apesar da importância dos trópicos na regulação do ciclo…
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The largest impediments to estimating climate change revolve around a lack of quantitative information on direct and indirect aerosol forcing. One of the reasons is that satellite sensors that observe aerosols and clouds today measure a limited subset of the important physical parameters. The University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), the Space Dynamics Lab at the University of Utah …
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