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2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
84
Citations
39636
World Ranking
772
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2006 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

Carlos A. Nobre is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil and works primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their research encompasses a range of subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Economics and Econometrics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's main topics of study include:

  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Climate variability and models
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Key recent publications include:

  • "Amazonia as a carbon source linked to deforestation and climate change" (2021, Nature)
  • "Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system" (2024, Nature)
  • "Human impacts outpace natural processes in the Amazon" (2023, Science)
  • "Assessing drought in the drylands of northeast Brazil under regional warming exceeding 4 °C" (2020, Natural Hazards)
  • "Deforestation and climate change are projected to increase heat stress risk in the Brazilian Amazon" (2021, Communications Earth & Environment)

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Julia Arieira
  • Celso von Randow
  • Raoni Rajão
  • José A. Marengo
  • Marcus Jorge Bottino

The scientist has published notably in journals such as:

  • Nature
  • Natural Hazards
  • Sustainability
  • Estudos Avançados
  • Research Square

Awards include membership in the National Academy of Sciences since 2015 and fellowship of The World Academy of Sciences awarded in 2006.

Best Publications

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • Climate Change, Deforestation, and the Fate of the Amazon

    Yadvinder Malhi;J. Timmons Roberts;Richard A. Betts;Timothy J. Killeen

  • Modeling the Exchanges of Energy, Water, and Carbon Between Continents and the Atmosphere

    P. J. Sellers;R. E. Dickinson;D. A. Randall;A. K. Betts

  • Large-scale impoverishment of Amazonian forests by logging and fire

    Daniel C. Nepstad;Adalberto Verssimo;Ane Alencar;Carlos Nobre

  • Amazon Deforestation and Climate Change

    J. Shukla;C. Nobre;P. Sellers

  • Amazonian Deforestation and Regional Climate Change

    Carlos A. Nobre;Piers J. Sellers;Jagadish Shukla

  • Annual fluxes of carbon from deforestation and regrowth in the Brazilian Amazon

    R. A. Houghton;D. L. Skole;Carlos A. Nobre;J. L. Hackler

  • The Drought of Amazonia in 2005

    José A. Marengo;Carlos A. Nobre;Javier Tomasella;Marcos D. Oyama

  • Land-use and climate change risks in the Amazon and the need of a novel sustainable development paradigm.

    Carlos A. Nobre;Gilvan Sampaio;Laura S. Borma;Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio

  • Amazonia as a carbon source linked to deforestation and climate change

    Luciana V Gatti;Luana S Basso;John B Miller;Manuel Gloor

  • Tropical Forests and Climate Policy

    Raymond E. Gullison;Peter C. Frumhoff;Josep G. Canadell;Christopher B. Field

  • Carbon Dioxide Uptake by an Undisturbed Tropical Rain Forest in Southwest Amazonia, 1992 to 1993

    John Grace;Jon Lloyd;John McIntyre;Antonio C. Miranda

  • Tropical Deforestation and the Kyoto Protocol

    Márcio Santilli;Paulo Moutinho;Stephan Schwartzman;Daniel Nepstad

  • Pervasive transition of the Brazilian land-use system

    David M. Lapola;Luiz A. Martinelli;Carlos A. Peres;Jean P. H. B. Ometto

  • When enough should be enough: Improving the use of current agricultural lands could meet production demands and spare natural habitats in Brazil

    Bernardo B.N. Strassburg;Bernardo B.N. Strassburg;Agnieszka E. Latawiec;Agnieszka E. Latawiec;Agnieszka E. Latawiec;Luis G. Barioni;Carlos A. Nobre

  • Climate change consequences on the biome distribution in tropical South America

    Luis F. Salazar;Carlos A. Nobre;Marcos D. Oyama

  • Amazon Tipping Point

    Thomas E. Lovejoy;Carlos Nobre;Carlos Nobre

  • Uma revisão geral sobre o clima da Amazônia

    Gilberto Fisch;José A Marengo;Carlos A Nobre

  • Regional climate change over eastern Amazonia caused by pasture and soybean cropland expansion

    Gilvan Sampaio;Carlos Nobre;Marcos Heil Costa;Prakki Satyamurty

  • Increasing risk of Amazonian drought due to decreasing aerosol pollution

    Peter M. Cox;Phil P. Harris;Chris Huntingford;Richard A. Betts

  • Simulated resilience of tropical rainforests to CO2-induced climate change

    Chris Huntingford;Przemyslaw Zelazowski;David Galbraith;David Galbraith;Lina M. Mercado

Frequent Co-Authors

José A. Marengo
José A. Marengo Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais
Pavel Kabat
Pavel Kabat Wageningen University & Research
Antonio D. Nobre
Antonio D. Nobre National Institute for Space Research
John H. C. Gash
John H. C. Gash Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Antonio O. Manzi
Antonio O. Manzi National Institute for Space Research
Paulo Artaxo
Paulo Artaxo Universidade de São Paulo
A. J. Dolman
A. J. Dolman Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Javier Tomasella
Javier Tomasella National Institute for Space Research
David M. Lapola
David M. Lapola State University of Campinas
Reynaldo Luiz Victoria
Reynaldo Luiz Victoria Universidade de São Paulo

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