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Humberto Ribeiro da Rocha

Humberto Ribeiro da Rocha

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
52
Citations
12166
World Ranking
4422
National Ranking
22

Overview

Humberto Ribeiro da Rocha is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science with a notable concentration on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, and Atmospheric Science.

Their work covers a range of main topics, including:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Climate variability and models
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Humberto Ribeiro da Rocha has published extensively, with frequent contributions to venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Atmosphere, and Nature.

Recent papers include:

  • "Tropical forests are approaching critical temperature thresholds," 2023, Nature
  • "Evapotranspiration in the Amazon: spatial patterns, seasonality, and recent trends in observations, reanalysis, and climate models," 2021, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • "The impact of climate change and climate extremes on sugarcane production," 2020, GCB Bioenergy
  • "Assessment of an Automated Calibration of the SEBAL Algorithm to Estimate Dry-Season Surface-Energy Partitioning in a Forest-Savanna Transition in Brazil," 2020, Remote Sensing
  • "Beyond Carbon: The Contributions of South American Tropical Humid and Subhumid Forests to Ecosystem Services," 2022, Reviews of Geophysics

They frequently collaborate with other researchers, including Osvaldo Cabral, Leonardo Moreno Domingues, Marx Leandro Naves Silva, Maurício Jonas Ferreira, and Bárbara Pereira Christófaro Silva, with multiple joint publications with each.

Best Publications

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Carbon in Amazon Forests: Unexpected Seasonal Fluxes and Disturbance-Induced Losses

    Scott R. Saleska;Scott D. Miller;Daniel M. Matross;Michael L. Goulden

  • Amazon forests green-up during 2005 drought.

    Scott R. Saleska;Kamel Didan;Alfredo R. Huete;Humberto R. da Rocha

  • Drought sensitivity of Amazonian carbon balance revealed by atmospheric measurements

    L. V. Gatti;M. Gloor;J. B. Miller;C. E. Doughty

  • SEASONALITY OF WATER AND HEAT FLUXES OVER A TROPICAL FOREST IN EASTERN AMAZONIA

    Humberto R. da Rocha;Michael L. Goulden;Scott D. Miller;Mary C. Menton

  • DIEL AND SEASONAL PATTERNS OF TROPICAL FOREST CO2 EXCHANGE

    Michael L. Goulden;Scott D. Miller;Humberto R. da Rocha;Mary C. Menton

  • 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

  • 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

  • Seasonal drought stress in the Amazon: Reconciling models and observations

    I. T. Baker;L. Prihodko;A. S. Denning;M. Goulden

  • 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

  • The land-atmosphere water flux in the tropics

    Joshua B. Fisher;Yadvinder Malhi;Damien Bonal;Humberto R. Da Rocha

  • BIOMETRIC AND MICROMETEOROLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS OF TROPICAL FOREST CARBON BALANCE

    Scott D. Miller;Michael L. Goulden;Mary C. Menton;Humberto R. da Rocha

  • Radiation, temperature and humidity over forest and pasture in Amazonia

    A D Culf;J L Esteves;O Marques Filho;Humberto Ribeiro da Rocha

  • Atmospheric versus vegetation controls of Amazonian tropical rain forest evapotranspiration: Are the wet and seasonally dry rain forests any different?

    Marcos H. Costa;Márcia C. Biajoli;Luciana Sanches;Ana C. M. Malhado

  • Soil moisture dynamics in an eastern Amazonian tropical forest

    Rogério D. Bruno;Humberto R. da Rocha;Helber C. de Freitas;Michael L. Goulden

  • Semiempirical modeling of abiotic and biotic factors controlling ecosystem respiration across eddy covariance sites

    Mirco Migliavacca;Mirco Migliavacca;Markus Reichstein;Andrew D. Richardson;Roberto Colombo

  • Seasonal soil water storage changes beneath central Amazonian rainforest and pasture

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  • Ecological research in the Large-scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia: Early results

    Michael Keller;Michael Keller;Ane Alencar;Gregory P. Asner;Bobby Braswell

  • Assessment of the MODIS global evapotranspiration algorithm using eddy covariance measurements and hydrological modelling in the Rio Grande basin

    A. L. Ruhoff;A. R. Paz;L. E.O.C. Aragao;Qiaozhen Mu

  • Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database

    Rafael Poyatos;Víctor Granda;Víctor Flo;Mark A. Adams;Mark A. Adams

  • The effects of biomass burning aerosols and clouds on the CO2 flux in Amazonia

    Paulo H. F. Oliveira;Paulo Artaxo;Carlos Pires;Silvia De Lucca

  • Reduced impact logging minimally alters tropical rainforest carbon and energy exchange

    Scott D Miller;Michael L Goulden;Lucy R Hutyra;Michael Keller

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott D. Miller
Scott D. Miller University at Albany, State University of New York
Michael L. Goulden
Michael L. Goulden University of California, Irvine
Scott R. Saleska
Scott R. Saleska University of Arizona
Natalia Restrepo-Coupe
Natalia Restrepo-Coupe University of Technology Sydney
Antonio O. Manzi
Antonio O. Manzi National Institute for Space Research
Steven C. Wofsy
Steven C. Wofsy Harvard University
Walter Collischonn
Walter Collischonn Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Celso von Randow
Celso von Randow National Institute for Space Research
Bart Kruijt
Bart Kruijt Wageningen University & Research
Antonio D. Nobre
Antonio D. Nobre National Institute for Space Research

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