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Ozone effects on Douro vineyards under climate change
Ascenso, Ana; Gama, Carla; Silveira, Carlos; Viceto, Carolina; Rocha, Alfredo; Lopes, Myriam; Miranda, Ana IsabelTropospheric ozone (O3) levels in southern Europe have an increasing tendency, in close relation with the higher incidence of hot summers and heatwaves. Given that O3 is one of the most damaging pollutants for vegetation, known to affect productivity and quality of crops, it is necessary to develop more rigorous and consistent methods of risk assessment that consider climate change conditions. Studying the O3 d...
An interactive Web-GIS fluvial flood forecast and alert system in operation in ...
Mourato, Sandra; Fernandez, P.; Marques, Fábio; Rocha, Alfredo; Pereira, LuísaFloods are one of the natural disasters not preventable, affecting people and causing significant damage to economic activities and infrastructures. Thus, it is of foremost importance to, within a disaster risk-reduction strategy, develop a useful flood forecast and alert system to prevent people from suffering flood disasters and mitigate its consequences. This article presents the Flood Forecast and Alert Sys...
An interactive Web-GIS fluvial flood forecast and alert system in operation in ...
Mourato, Sandra; Fernandez, Paulo; Marques, Fábio; Rocha, Alfredo; Pereira, LuísaFloods are one of the natural disasters not preventable, affecting people and causing significant damage to economic activities and infrastructures. Thus, it is of foremost importance to, within a disaster risk-reduction strategy, develop a useful flood forecast and alert system to prevent people from suffering flood disasters and mitigate its consequences. This article presents the Flood Forecast and Alert Sys...
Statistical Modelling of Temperature-Attributable Deaths in Portuguese Metropol...
Rodrigues, Mónica; Santana, Paula; Rocha, AlfredoSeveral studies emphasize that temperature-related mortality can be expected to have di erential e ects on di erent subpopulations, particularly in the context of climate change. This study aims to evaluate and quantify the future temperature-attributable mortality due to circulatory system diseases by age groups (under 65 and 65+ years), in Lisbon metropolitan area (LMA) and Porto metropolitan area (PMA), over...
Future Projections for Wind, Wind Shear and Helicity in the Iberian Peninsula
Martins, Joana; Rocha, Alfredo; Viceto, Carolina; Pereira, Susana Cardoso; Santos, J. A.Wind is among the most important climatic elements. Its characteristics are determinant for a wide range of natural processes and human activities. However, ongoing climate change is modifying these characteristics, which may have important implications. Climatic changes on wind speed and direction, wind shear intensity, and helicity, over the 21st century and for 26 cities in the Iberian Peninsula, under...
Avaliação da exposição da vinha duriense ao ozono em clima presente e futuro
Isabel Miranda, Ana; Ascenso, Ana; Silveira, Carlos; Blanco-Ward, Daniel; Gama, Carla; Monteiro, Alexandra; Viceto, Carolina; Rocha, AlfredoO ozono (O3) troposférico é um gás que pode danificar severamente a vegetação. Vários estudos identificam o efeito do O3 na perda de produtividade de campos agrícolas e na redução da qualidade de produtos vegetais e frutícolas. Este artigo foca-se na Região Demarcada do Douro, uma importante região vitivinícola portuguesa, e tem como objetivo a avaliação da exposição da vinha ao O3 troposférico, mediante a apli...
Climate change impact on a wine-producing region using a dynamical downscaling ...
Blanco-Ward, Daniel; Monteiro, Alexandra; Lopes, Myriam; Borrego, Carlos S.; Silveira, Carlos; Viceto, Carolina; Rocha, Alfredo; Ribeiro, A.C.Climate change is of major relevance to wine production as most of the winegrowing regions of the world are located within relatively narrow latitudinal bands with average growing-season temperatures (GSTs) limited to 13–21 C. This study focuses on the incidence of climate variables and indices that are relevant both for climate change assessment and for grape production, with emphasis on grapevine bioclimatic ...
Climate change potential effects on grapevine bioclimatic indices: a case study...
Blanco-Ward, Daniel; Ribeiro, A.C.; Barreales, David; Castro, João Paulo; Andrade, João Verdial; Feliciano, Manuel; Viceto, Carolina; Rocha, AlfredoIn this work, bioclimatic parameters and indices relevant to the grapevine are estimated for the years 2000 (recent-pat), 2049 (medium-term future) and 2097 (long-term future), based on very high resolution (1 km × 1 km) MPI-WRF RCP8.5 climate simulations. The selected parameters and indices are the mean temperature during the grapevine growing season period (April to October, Tgs), the cumulative rainfall duri...
Effects of extreme temperatures on cerebrovascular mortality in Lisbon: a distr...
Rodrigues, Mónica Alexandra dos Santos Rodrigues; Rodrigues, Ana Paula Santana; Rocha, AlfredoCerebrovascular diseases are the leading cause of mortality in Portugal, especially when related with extreme temperatures. This study highlights the impacts of the exposure-response relationship or lagged effect of low and high temperatures on cerebrovascular mortality, which can be important to reduce the health burden from cerebrovascular diseases. The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of weath...
Projections of Temperature-Attributable Deaths in Portuguese Metropolitan Areas...
Rodrigues, Mónica; Santana, Paula; Rocha, AlfredoClimate change is now widely recognised as the greatest global threat over the coming decades. This study aimed to quantify and project the effects of climate change on future temperature-attributable mortality due to circulatory system diseases (CSD) in Lisbon metropolitan area (LMA) and in Porto metropolitan area (PMA). The future time slices of Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP 8.5), mid-term (2046–2...