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104
Citations
49436
World Ranking
280
National Ranking
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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

Overview

José A. Marengo is affiliated with the National Institute for Space Research in Brazil. Their research spans multiple aspects of environmental science with a focus on climate variability, hydrology, and ecosystem dynamics. The scientist's body of work includes extensive investigation into global and planetary change, atmospheric science, water science and technology, as well as environmental policy and law.

The topics frequently examined by José A. Marengo encompass:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Flood risk assessment and management
  • Hydrology and drought analysis
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Hydrology and watershed management studies
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Environmental and biological studies

Collaborations have been a key feature of their research, with frequent co-authors including Ana Paula Martins do Amaral Cunha, Lincoln Muniz Alves, Jhan Carlo Espinoza, Enner Alcântara, and Andrea M. Ramos. These collaborations highlight multidisciplinary approaches and comprehensive regional studies often related to South America and Brazil in particular.

Recent publications by José A. Marengo demonstrate their involvement in addressing critical environmental issues. Selected recent papers include:

  • Climate impacts of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation on South America, 2020, published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system, 2024, published in Nature
  • Understanding Brazil's catastrophic fires: Causes, consequences and policy needed to prevent future tragedies, 2021, Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation
  • Extreme Drought in the Brazilian Pantanal in 2019-2020: Characterization, Causes, and Impacts, 2021, Frontiers in Water
  • Drought in Northeast Brazil: A review of agricultural and policy adaptation options for food security, 2021, Climate Resilience and Sustainability

José A. Marengo's research has been published repeatedly in several scholarly venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Sustainability in Debate
  • International Journal of Climatology
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Natural Hazards

Their work emphasizes interdisciplinary analysis related to environmental science challenges, focusing on climatic trends and water-related issues in Brazil's diverse ecosystems. The combination of thorough regional analysis and integration of climate models provides important insights into environmental risks such as drought, fires, and hydrological hazards in South America.

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

  • Changes in climate extremes and their impacts on the natural physical environment.

    Sonia I. Seneviratne;Neville Nicholls;David Easterling;Clare M. Goodess

  • Present-day South American climate

    René D. Garreaud;Mathias Vuille;Rosa Compagnucci;José Marengo

  • Updated analyses of temperature and precipitation extreme indices since the beginning of the twentieth century: The HadEX2 dataset

    M. G. Donat;L. V. Alexander;H. Yang;I. Durre

  • Toward a unified view of the American monsoon systems

    Carolina Vera;W. Higgins;J. Amador;T. Ambrizzi

  • Changes in climate extremes and their impacts on the natural physical environment: An overview of the IPCC SREX report

    S. I. Seneviratne;N. Nicholls;D. Easterling;C. M. Goodess

  • The Drought of Amazonia in 2005

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

  • Trends in Total and Extreme South American Rainfall in 1960–2000 and Links with Sea Surface Temperature

    M. R. Haylock;T. C. Peterson;L. M. Alves;T. Ambrizzi

  • Extreme seasonal droughts and floods in Amazonia: causes, trends and impacts

    J. A. Marengo;Jhan Carlo Espinoza

  • Drought in Northeast Brazil—past, present, and future

    Jose A. Marengo;Roger Rodrigues Torres;Lincoln Muniz Alves

  • 21st Century drought-related fires counteract the decline of Amazon deforestation carbon emissions

    Luiz E. O. C. Aragão;Luiz E. O. C. Aragão;Liana O. Anderson;Marisa G. Fonseca;Thais M. Rosan

  • The drought of 2010 in the context of historical droughts in the Amazon region

    Jose A. Marengo;Javier Tomasella;Lincoln M. Alves;Wagner R. Soares

  • Climatology of the Low-Level Jet East of the Andes as Derived from the NCEP–NCAR Reanalyses: Characteristics and Temporal Variability

    Jose A. Marengo;Wagner R. Soares;Celeste Saulo;Matilde Nicolini

  • Future change of temperature and precipitation extremes in South America as derived from the PRECIS regional climate modeling system

    J. A. Marengo;R. Jones;L. M. Alves;M. C. Valverde

  • Climate impacts of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation on South America

    Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Michael J. McPhaden;Alice M. Grimm;Regina R. Rodrigues

  • Observed Trends in Indices of Daily Temperature Extremes in South America 1960–2000

    L. A. Vincent;T. C. Peterson;V. R. Barros;M. B. Marino

  • Interdecadal variability and trends of rainfall across the Amazon basin

    J. A. Marengo

  • Recent developments on the South American monsoon system

    J. A. Marengo;B. Liebmann;A. M. Grimm;V. Misra

  • Onset and End of the Rainy Season in the Brazilian Amazon Basin

    Jose A. Marengo;Brant Liebmann;Vernon E. Kousky;Naziano P. Filizola

  • Climatic characteristics of the 2010-2016 drought in the semiarid Northeast Brazil region.

    José A. Marengo;Lincoln M. Alves;Regina C.S Alvala;Ana Paula Cunha

  • Extreme seasonal droughts and floods in Amazonia: causes, trends and impacts

    J. A. Marengo

Frequent Co-Authors

Lincoln M. Alves
Lincoln M. Alves National Institute for Space Research
Carlos A. Nobre
Carlos A. Nobre Universidade de São Paulo
Richard Betts
Richard Betts University of Exeter
Tércio Ambrizzi
Tércio Ambrizzi Universidade de São Paulo
Carolina Vera
Carolina Vera University of Buenos Aires
Antonio O. Manzi
Antonio O. Manzi National Institute for Space Research
Rong Fu
Rong Fu University of California, Los Angeles
Lucie A. Vincent
Lucie A. Vincent Environment and Climate Change Canada
Javier Tomasella
Javier Tomasella National Institute for Space Research
Bodo Bookhagen
Bodo Bookhagen University of Potsdam

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