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2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
56
Citations
14184
World Ranking
3592
National Ranking
17

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Portugal Leader Award

Overview

Isabel F. Trigo is affiliated with the Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera in Portugal. Their research contributions span the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on areas such as Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Aerospace Engineering, and Ecology.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics including Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Climate variability and models, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Calibration and Measurement Techniques, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Cryospheric studies and observations, and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds.

Trigo has an extensive publication record with frequent publications in venues such as Remote Sensing, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, and Environmental Research Letters.

Recent key papers include:

  • Google Earth Engine Open-Source Code for Land Surface Temperature Estimation from the Landsat Series, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • A deep learning approach for mapping and dating burned areas using temporal sequences of satellite images, 2020, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • The roles of NDVI and Land Surface Temperature when using the Vegetation Health Index over dry regions, 2020, Global and Planetary Change
  • Remote Sensing of Global Daily Evapotranspiration based on a Surface Energy Balance Method and Reanalysis Data, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Role of vegetation in representing land surface temperature in the CHTESSEL (CY45R1) and SURFEX-ISBA (v8.1) land surface models: a case study over Iberia, 2020, Geoscientific Model Development

Their frequent collaborators include Sofia L. Ermida, Emanuel Dutra, Carlos C. DaCamara, Renata Libonati, and Juan C. Jiménez-Muñoz. These collaborations have contributed to a diverse and interdisciplinary research network.

Best Publications

  • Satellite-derived land surface temperature: Current status and perspectives

    Zhao-Liang Li;Bo-Hui Tang;Hua Wu;Huazhong Ren

  • IMILAST: A Community Effort to Intercompare Extratropical Cyclone Detection and Tracking Algorithms

    Urs Neu;Mirseid G. Akperov;Nina Bellenbaum;Rasmu S. Benestad

  • Google Earth Engine Open-Source Code for Land Surface Temperature Estimation from the Landsat Series

    Sofia L. Ermida;Patrícia Soares;Vasco Mantas;Frank M. Göttsche

  • Objective Climatology of Cyclones in the Mediterranean Region

    Isabel F. Trigo;Trevor D. Davies;Grant R. Bigg

  • Climatology of Cyclogenesis Mechanisms in the Mediterranean

    Isabel F. Trigo;Grant R. Bigg;Trevor D. Davies

  • IMILAST – a community effort to intercompare extratropical cyclone detection and tracking algorithms: assessing method-related uncertainties

    Urs Neu;Mirseid G. Akperov;Nina Bellenbaum;Rasmus Benestad

  • Climatology and interannual variability of storm-tracks in the Euro-Atlantic sector: a comparison between ERA-40 and NCEP/NCAR reanalyses

    Isabel Franco Trigo

  • An assessment of remotely sensed land surface temperature

    Isabel F. Trigo;Isabel T. Monteiro;Folke Olesen;Ewa Kabsch

  • Shallow and deep landslides induced by rainfall in the Lisbon region (Portugal): assessment of relationships with the North Atlantic Oscillation

    José Zêzere;R. M. Trigo;R. M. Trigo;I. F. Trigo

  • How exceptional was the early August 2003 heatwave in France

    Ricardo Machado Trigo;Ricardo Machado Trigo;Ricardo García-Herrera;Julio Díaz;Isabel Franco Trigo;Isabel Franco Trigo

  • The Outstanding 2004/05 Drought in the Iberian Peninsula: Associated Atmospheric Circulation

    Ricardo García-Herrera;Daniel Paredes;Ricardo M. Trigo;Isabel Franco Trigo

  • The Satellite Application Facility for Land Surface Analysis

    Isabel F. Trigo;Carlos C. Dacamara;Pedro Viterbo;Jean-Louis Roujean

  • Understanding Precipitation Changes in Iberia in Early Spring: Weather Typing and Storm-Tracking Approaches

    Daniel Paredes;Ricardo M. Trigo;Ricardo Garcia-Herrera;Isabel Franco Trigo

  • Climate impact of the European winter blocking episodes from the NCEP/NCAR Reanalyses

    R. M. Trigo;I. F. Trigo;C. C. DaCamara;T. J. Osborn

  • A climatological assessment of drought impact on vegetation health index

    Virgílio A. Bento;Célia M. Gouveia;Célia M. Gouveia;Carlos C. DaCamara;Isabel F. Trigo;Isabel F. Trigo

  • Cyclones in the Mediterranean Region: Climatology and Effects on the Environment

    P. Lionello;J. Bhend;A. Buzzi;P. M. Della-Marta

  • Quantifying the Uncertainty of Land Surface Temperature Retrievals From SEVIRI/Meteosat

    S.C. Freitas;I.F. Trigo;J.M. Bioucas-Dias;F.-M. Gottsche

  • Decline in Mediterranean rainfall caused by weakening of Mediterranean cyclones

    Isabel F. Trigo;Trevor D. Davies;Grant R. Bigg

  • Satellite and in situ observations for advancing global earth surface modelling: A review

    Gianpaolo Balsamo;Anna Agusti-Panareda;Clement Albergel;Gabriele Arduini

  • A review of earth surface thermal radiation directionality observing and modeling: Historical development, current status and perspectives

    Biao Cao;Qinhuo Liu;Yongming Du;Jean-Louis Roujean

  • Chapter 3 Relations between variability in the Mediterranean region and mid-latitude variability

    Ricardo Trigo;Elena Xoplaki;Eduardo Zorita;Jürg Luterbacher

  • Objective climatology of cyclones in the Mediterranean region: a consensus view among methods with different system identification and tracking criteria

    Piero Lionello;Isabel F. Trigo;Victoria Gil;Margarida L. R. Liberato

Frequent Co-Authors

Ricardo M. Trigo
Ricardo M. Trigo University of Lisbon
Margarida L. R. Liberato
Margarida L. R. Liberato University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro
Joaquim G. Pinto
Joaquim G. Pinto Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Emanuel Dutra
Emanuel Dutra Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Célia M. Gouveia
Célia M. Gouveia Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Piero Lionello
Piero Lionello University of Salento
Ricardo García-Herrera
Ricardo García-Herrera Complutense University of Madrid
Pedro Viterbo
Pedro Viterbo Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Jean-Christophe Calvet
Jean-Christophe Calvet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Rene Orth
Rene Orth Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

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