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Tércio Ambrizzi is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental and earth sciences, focusing notably on climate variability and atmospheric phenomena.

The scientist's primary fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these main fields, they explore several subfields:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Oceanography
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

The core topics addressed in their work cover:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis

Tércio Ambrizzi has authored a number of recent papers, including:

  • Impacts of teleconnection patterns on South America climate, 2021, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • Trends in extreme rainfall and hydrogeometeorological disasters in the Metropolitan Area of São Paulo: a review, 2020, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • Changing Trends in Rainfall Extremes in the Metropolitan Area of São Paulo: Causes and Impacts, 2020, Frontiers in Climate
  • The heat wave of October 2020 in central South America, 2021, International Journal of Climatology
  • Why do extreme events still kill in the São Paulo Macro Metropolis Region? Chronicle of a death foretold in the global south, 2020, International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development

The scientist frequently publishes in several key venues associated with their expertise:

  • Climate Dynamics
  • International Journal of Climatology
  • Atmosphere
  • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • Frontiers in Public Health

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their academic work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Michelle Simões Reboita
  • Lívia Márcia Mosso Dutra
  • Rosmeri Porfírio da Rocha
  • Iuri Valério Graciano Borges
  • Anwar Musah

Best Publications

  • Rossby Wave Propagation on a Realistic Longitudinally Varying Flow

    Brian J. Hoskins;Tercio Ambrizzi

  • Toward a unified view of the American monsoon systems

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

  • 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

  • Regimes de precipitação na América do Sul: uma revisão bibliográfica

    Michelle Simões Reboita;Manoel Alonso Gan;Rosmeri Porfírio da Rocha;Tércio Ambrizzi

  • 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

  • Recent developments on the South American monsoon system

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

  • Submonthly Convective Variability over South America and the South Atlantic Convergence Zone

    Brant Liebmann;George N. Kiladis;José A. Marengo;Tércio Ambrizzi

  • Rossby Wave Propagation and Teleconnection Patterns in the Austral Winter

    Tércio Ambrizzi;Brian J. Hoskins;Huang-Hsiung Hsu

  • The 2014 southeast Brazil austral summer drought: regional scale mechanisms and teleconnections

    Caio A. S. Coelho;Cristiano Prestrelo de Oliveira;Tércio Ambrizzi;Michelle Simões Reboita

  • Future change of climate in South America in the late twenty-first century: intercomparison of scenarios from three regional climate models

    Jose A. Marengo;Tercio Ambrizzi;Rosmeri P. da Rocha;Lincoln M. Alves

  • Opposite Phases of the Antarctic Oscillation and Relationships with Intraseasonal to Interannual Activity in the Tropics during the Austral Summer

    Leila M. V. Carvalho;Charles Jones;Tércio Ambrizzi

  • Stationary rossby‐wave propagation in a baroclinic atmosphere

    Tércio Ambrizzi;Brian J. Hoskins

  • Exploring the impacts of the tropical Pacific SST on the precipitation patterns over South America during ENSO periods

    C.A.S. Coelho;Cintia Bertacchi Uvo;T. Ambrizzi

  • Entendendo o Tempo e o Clima na América do Sul

    Michelle Simões Reboita;Nisia Krusche;Tércio Ambrizzi;Rosmeri Porfírio da Rocha

  • The Impacts of Inter-El Nino Variability on the Tropical Atlantic and Northeast Brazil Climate

    Regina R. Rodrigues;Reindert J. Haarsma;Edmo J. D. Campos;Tércio Ambrizzi

  • South Atlantic Ocean cyclogenesis climatology simulated by regional climate model (RegCM3)

    Michelle Simões Reboita;Rosmeri Porfírio da Rocha;Tércio Ambrizzi;Shigetoshi Sugahara

  • A Lagrangian identification of major sources of moisture over Central Brazil and La Plata Basin

    Anita Drumond;Anita Drumond;Raquel Nieto;Raquel Nieto;Luis Gimeno;Tercio Ambrizzi

  • The role of the Amazon Basin moisture in the atmospheric branch of the hydrological cycle: a Lagrangian analysis

    A. Drumond;J. Marengo;Tercio Ambrizzi;R. Nieto

  • The South Atlantic Subtropical Anticyclone: Present and Future Climate

    Michelle Simões Reboita;Tércio Ambrizzi;Bruna Andrelina Silva;Raniele Fátima Pinheiro

  • Precipitation variability in São Paulo State, Brazil

    A. S. Dufek;T. Ambrizzi

Frequent Co-Authors

José A. Marengo
José A. Marengo National Institute for Space Research
Luis Gimeno
Luis Gimeno Universidade de Vigo
Raquel Nieto
Raquel Nieto Universidade de Vigo
Lincoln M. Alves
Lincoln M. Alves National Institute for Space Research
Brant Liebmann
Brant Liebmann Earth System Research Laboratory
Leila M. V. Carvalho
Leila M. V. Carvalho University of California, Santa Barbara
Brian J. Hoskins
Brian J. Hoskins University of Reading
René D. Garreaud
René D. Garreaud University of Chile
Margarida L. R. Liberato
Margarida L. R. Liberato University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro
Carlos R. Mechoso
Carlos R. Mechoso University of California, Los Angeles

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