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Rita M. Cardoso

Rita M. Cardoso

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
41
Citations
5850
World Ranking
7793
National Ranking
45

Overview

Rita M. Cardoso is affiliated with the University of Lisbon in Portugal, focusing primarily on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their scholarly work spans a range of topics within these fields, with a particular emphasis on climate variability and models as well as meteorological phenomena and simulations.

Their research interests include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Tree-ring climate responses

Within the subfields, their work addresses:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Oceanography

Rita M. Cardoso has authored multiple papers, including recent publications such as:

  • "Regional climate downscaling over Europe: perspectives from the EURO-CORDEX community" (2020) published in Regional Environmental Change
  • "The first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-scale resolution, part I: evaluation of precipitation" (2021) published in Climate Dynamics
  • "The first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-scale resolution part 2: historical and future simulations of precipitation" (2021) published in Climate Dynamics
  • "Biogeophysical impacts of forestation in Europe: first results from the LUCAS (Land Use and Climate Across Scales) regional climate model intercomparison" (2020) published in Earth System Dynamics
  • "The Opposing Effects of Reforestation and Afforestation on the Diurnal Temperature Cycle at the Surface and in the Lowest Atmospheric Model Level in the European Summer" (2020) published in Journal of Climate

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Cardoso include:

  • Pedro M. M. Soares
  • Eleni Katragkou
  • Stefan Sobolowski
  • Klaus Goergen
  • Diana Rechid

Cardoso's research contributions have been published frequently in the following venues:

  • Climate Dynamics
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • International Journal of Climatology
  • Endocrine Abstracts
  • Weather and Climate Extremes

Best Publications

  • Regional climate downscaling over Europe: perspectives from the EURO-CORDEX community

    Daniela Jacob;Claas Teichmann;Stefan Sobolowski;Eleni Katragkou

  • A first-of-its-kind multi-model convection permitting ensemble for investigating convective phenomena over Europe and the Mediterranean

    Erika Coppola;Stefan Sobolowski;E. Pichelli;F. Raffaele

  • The first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-scale resolution, part I: evaluation of precipitation

    Nikolina Ban;Cécile Caillaud;Erika Coppola;Emanuela Pichelli

  • WRF high resolution dynamical downscaling of ERA-Interim for Portugal

    Pedro M. M. Soares;Rita M. Cardoso;Pedro M. A. Miranda;Joana de Medeiros

  • An intercomparison of a large ensemble of statistical downscaling methods over Europe: Results from the VALUE perfect predictor cross-validation experiment

    J. M. Gutiérrez;D. Maraun;M. Widmann;R. Huth;R. Huth

  • Regional climate hindcast simulations within EURO-CORDEX: evaluation of a WRF multi-physics ensemble

    E. Katragkou;M. García-Díez;R. Vautard;S. Sobolowski

  • The first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-scale resolution part 2: historical and future simulations of precipitation

    Emanuela Pichelli;Erika Coppola;Stefan Sobolowski;Nikolina Ban

  • Observational uncertainty and regional climate model evaluation: A pan-European perspective

    Sven Kotlarski;Péter Szabó;Sixto Herrera;Olle Räty

  • WRF high resolution simulation of Iberian mean and extreme precipitation climate

    R. M. Cardoso;P. M. M. Soares;P. M. A. Miranda;M. Belo-Pereira

  • Mean and extreme temperatures in a warming climate: EURO CORDEX and WRF regional climate high-resolution projections for Portugal

    Rita M. Cardoso;Pedro M. M. Soares;Daniela C. A. Lima;Pedro M. A. Miranda

  • Future precipitation in Portugal: high-resolution projections using WRF model and EURO-CORDEX multi-model ensembles

    Pedro M. M. Soares;Rita M. Cardoso;Daniela C. A. Lima;Pedro M. A. Miranda

  • Land-atmosphere coupling in EURO-CORDEX evaluation experiments

    Sebastian Knist;Klaus Goergen;Erasmo Buonomo;Ole Bøssing Christensen

  • Uncertainty in gridded precipitation products: Influence of station density, interpolation method and grid resolution

    Sixto Herrera;Sven Kotlarski;Pedro M. M. Soares;Rita M. Cardoso

  • Biogeophysical impacts of forestation in Europe: first results from the LUCAS (Land Use and Climate Across Scales) regional climate model intercomparison

    Edouard Léopold Davin;Diana Rechid;Marcus Breil;Rita M. Cardoso

  • Integrated Analysis of Climate, Soil, Topography and Vegetative Growth in Iberian Viticultural Regions

    Hélder Fraga;Aureliano C. Malheiro;José Moutinho-Pereira;Rita M. Cardoso

  • Iberia01: a new gridded dataset of daily precipitation and temperatures over Iberia

    Sixto Herrera;Rita Margarida Cardoso;Pedro Matos Soares;Fátima Espírito-Santo

  • Observations of downslope winds and rotors in the Falkland Islands

    S. D. Mobbs;S. B. Vosper;P. F. Sheridan;R. Cardoso

  • Western Iberian offshore wind resources: More or less in a global warming climate?

    Pedro M.M. Soares;Daniela C.A. Lima;Rita M. Cardoso;Manuel L. Nascimento

  • Climatology of the Iberia coastal low-level wind jet: weather research forecasting model high-resolution results

    Pedro Miguel Matos Soares;Rita M. Cardoso;Álvaro Semedo;Maria J. Chinita

  • A simple method to assess the added value using high-resolution climate distributions: application to the EURO-CORDEX daily precipitation

    Pedro M. M. Soares;Rita M. Cardoso

  • Observational uncertainty and regional climate model evaluation: A pan-European perspective

    Sven Kotlarski;Péter Szabó;Sixto Herrera;Olle Räty

  • The first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-scale resolution, Part I: Evaluation of precipitation

    Nikolina Ban;Erwan Brisson;Cécile Caillaud;Erika Coppola

Frequent Co-Authors

Pedro M. M. Soares
Pedro M. M. Soares University of Lisbon
Eleni Katragkou
Eleni Katragkou Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
José M. Gutiérrez
José M. Gutiérrez Spanish National Research Council
Douglas Maraun
Douglas Maraun University of Graz
Célia M. Gouveia
Célia M. Gouveia Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Ricardo M. Trigo
Ricardo M. Trigo University of Lisbon
Sven Kotlarski
Sven Kotlarski Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology
Erika Coppola
Erika Coppola International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Radan Huth
Radan Huth Charles University

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