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Antonio O. Manzi is affiliated with the National Institute for Space Research in Brazil. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with 34 publications in this field. Within the broader category, their work spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science, Atmospheric Science, Computational Mechanics, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist has contributed to multiple main topics of research, notably Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Climate variability and models, Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, Aeolian processes and effects, Forest ecology and management, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, and Plant responses to elevated CO2.

Antonio O. Manzi has coauthored publications extensively with several researchers, including Cléo Quaresma Dias-Júnior (14 joint works), Alessandro Araújo (8), Otávio C. Acevedo (8), Luca Mortarini (8), and Matthias Sörgel (7).

Their frequent publication venues reflect the environmental and atmospheric focus, with numerous papers in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (6 publications), Atmosphere (4), Ciência e Natura (3), Acta Amazonica (2), and SSRN Electronic Journal (2).

Some notable recent papers include:

  • Direct evidence for phosphorus limitation on Amazon forest productivity, 2022, Nature
  • Evapotranspiration and gross primary productivity of secondary vegetation in Amazonia inferred by eddy covariance, 2020, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • A case study of a gravity wave induced by Amazon forest orography and low level jet generation, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Turbulence regimes in the nocturnal roughness sublayer: Interaction with deep convection and tree mortality in the Amazon, 2023, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Vertical propagation of submeso and coherent structure in a tall and dense Amazon Forest in different stability conditions PART I: Flow structure within and above the roughness sublayer, 2022, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Best Publications

  • Rainforest Aerosols as Biogenic Nuclei of Clouds and Precipitation in the Amazon

    U. Pöschl;S. T. Martin;B. Sinha;Q. Chen

  • Comparative measurements and seasonal variations in energy and carbon exchange over forest and pasture in South West Amazonia

    C. von Randow;A.O. Manzi;B. Kruijt;P.J. de Oliveira

  • Comparative measurements of carbon dioxide fluxes from two nearby towers in a central Amazonian rainforest: the Manaus LBA site

    A. C. Araújo;A. D. Nobre;B. Kruijt;J. A. Elbers

  • Cloud and rain processes in a biosphere-atmosphere interaction context in the Amazon Region

    M. A. F. Silva Dias;S. Rutledge;P. Kabat;P. L. Silva Dias

  • Biogeochemical cycling of carbon, water, energy, trace gases, and aerosols in Amazonia: The LBA‐EUSTACH experiments

    M. O. Andreae;P. Artaxo;C. Brandão;F. E. Carswell;F. E. Carswell

  • What drives the seasonality of photosynthesis across the Amazon basin? A cross-site analysis of eddy flux tower measurements from the Brasil flux network

    Natalia Restrepo-Coupe;Natalia Restrepo-Coupe;Humberto R. da Rocha;Lucy R. Hutyra;Alessandro C. da Araujo;Alessandro C. da Araujo

  • The Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO): overview of pilot measurements on ecosystem ecology, meteorology, trace gases, and aerosols

    M. O. Andreae;M. O. Andreae;O. C. Acevedo;A. Araùjo;P. Artaxo

  • Patterns of water and heat flux across a biome gradient from tropical forest to savanna in brazil

    Humberto R. da Rocha;Antonio O. Manzi;Osvaldo M. Cabral;Scott D. Miller

  • Introduction: Observations and Modeling of the Green Ocean Amazon (GoAmazon2014/5)

    S. T. Martin;P. Artaxo;L. A. T. Machado;A. O. Manzi

  • Direct evidence for phosphorus limitation on Amazon forest productivity

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  • Global climatological features in a simulation using the CPTEC-COLA AGCM

    Iracema F. A. Cavalcanti;José A. Marengo;Prakki Satyamurty;Carlos A. Nobre

  • An overview of the Amazonian Aerosol Characterization Experiment 2008 (AMAZE-08)

    S. T. Martin;M. O. Andreae;D. Althausen;P. Artaxo

  • The Land Surface Scheme ISBA within the Météo-France Climate Model ARPEGE. Part I. Implementation and Preliminary Results

    J.-F. Mahfouf;A. O. Manzi;J. Noilhan;H. Giordani

  • The Green Ocean Amazon Experiment (GoAmazon2014/5) Observes Pollution Affecting Gases, Aerosols, Clouds, and Rainfall over the Rain Forest

    S. T. Martin;P. Artaxo;L. Machado;A. O. Manzi

  • ACRIDICON–CHUVA Campaign: Studying Tropical Deep Convective Clouds and Precipitation over Amazonia Using the New German Research Aircraft HALO

    Manfred Wendisch;Ulrich Pöschl;Meinrat O. Andreae;Luiz A. T. Machado

  • The robustness of eddy correlation fluxes for Amazon rain forest conditions

    B. Kruijt;J. A. Elbers;C. von Randow;A. C. Araújo

  • Moisture source for the Amazon Basin: a study of contrasting years

    Prakki Satyamurty;Claudia Priscila Wanzeler da Costa;Antonio Ocimar Manzi

  • Mechanisms of water supply and vegetation demand govern the seasonality and magnitude of evapotranspiration in Amazonia and Cerrado

    Bradley O. Christoffersen;Natalia Restrepo-Coupe;Natalia Restrepo-Coupe;M. Altaf Arain;Ian T. Baker

  • Sub-micrometre particulate matter is primarily in liquid form over Amazon rainforest

    Adam P. Bateman;Zhaoheng Gong;Pengfei Liu;Bruno Sato

  • Molecular composition of organic aerosols in central Amazonia: An ultra-high-resolution mass spectrometry study

    Ivan Kourtchev;Ivan Kourtchev;Ricardo H. M. Godoi;Sarah Connors;James G. Levine

  • Biogeochemical cycling of carbon, water, energy, trace gases, and aerosols in Amazonia: The LBA-EUSTACH experiments : Large-scale biosphere-atmosphere experiment in Amazonia (LBA)

    M. O. Andreae;P. Artaxo;C. Brandao;F. E. Carswell

  • THE ROBUSTNESS OF EDDY CORRELATION FLUXES FOR AMAZON RAIN FOREST CONDITIONS: Ecological Archives A014-024-A1

    B. Kruijt;J. A. Elbers;C. von Randow;A. C. Araújo

  • “An overview of the Amazonian Aerosol CharacterizationExperiment 2008 (AMAZE-08)” published in Atmos. Chem. Phys.,10, 11415-11438, 2010

    S. T. Martin;M. O. Andreae;D. Althausen;P. Artaxo

Frequent Co-Authors

Meinrat O. Andreae
Meinrat O. Andreae Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Paulo Artaxo
Paulo Artaxo Universidade de São Paulo
Celso von Randow
Celso von Randow National Institute for Space Research
Bart Kruijt
Bart Kruijt Wageningen University & Research
Jose D. Fuentes
Jose D. Fuentes Pennsylvania State University
Weiwei Hu
Weiwei Hu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Allen H. Goldstein
Allen H. Goldstein University of California, Berkeley
Antonio D. Nobre
Antonio D. Nobre National Institute for Space Research
Scot T. Martin
Scot T. Martin Harvard University
Alex Guenther
Alex Guenther University of California, Irvine

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