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Evaluation of earth system models outputs over the continental Portuguese coast...
Pereira, Humberto; Picado, Ana; Sousa, Magda C.; Alvarez, Ines; Dias, João M.In the last decades, climate change has been accelerating, affecting, directly and indirectly, the environment, animal habitats, and daily human life. Earth System Models (ESMs) are valuable tools for studying these impacts, and their performance over coastal regions is critical for understanding how physical and biogeochemical processes are evolving through time and how they may change in the future. The conti...
Effects of climate change on aquaculture site selection at a temperate estuarin...
Pereira, Humberto; Picado, Ana; Sousa, Magda C.; Brito, Ana C.; Biguino, Beatriz; Carvalho, David; Dias, João MiguelAquaculture is one of the food industries that most evolved in recent years in response to increased human demand for seafood products, which has led to a progressive stock threat in nature. With a high seafood consumption per capita, Portugal has been exploring its coastal systems to improve the cultivation of fish and bivalve species with high commercial value. In this context, this study aims to propose the ...
Tide-surge interaction in Ria de Aveiro lagoon and its influence in local inund...
Pinheiro, João P.; Lopes, Carina L.; Ribeiro, Américo S.; Sousa, Magda C.; Dias, João M.Several problems related with coastal flooding depend on tidal levels, rise in sea level induced by meteorological effects and their nonlinear interaction. The latter is particularly meaningful in coastal lagoons and estuaries since it is strongly dependent on shallow water processes. This work aims to understand the role of tide-surge interaction in local inundation patterns of Ria de Aveiro lagoon and thus pr...
Tidal dispersion and flushing times in a multiple inlet lagoon
Lencart e Silva, João D.; Lopes, Carina L.; Picado, Ana; Sousa, Magda C.; Dias, João M.The Ria Formosa is a tidal multi-inlet shallow-water coastal lagoon located in the south of Portugal, subjected to the dry Mediterranean climate. The tide controls the Ria’s exchange with the adjacent shelf for most of the hydrological year except for isolated torrential run-off events. Episodes of low hypoxia reported in the literature may be related to the lagoon’s flushing time, affecting its shellfish produ...
Effect of Minho estuarine plume on Rias Baixas: numerical modeling approach
Sousa, Magda C.; Vaz, Nuno; Alvarez, Ines; Dias, João M.The Minho River, situated 30 km south from the Rias Baixas, is the most important freshwater source flowing into the Western Galician coast. This discharge is particularly important in driving the circulation and hydrography of this coastal region. To study this important issue, numerical modeling may constitute an important tool being used to understand the coastal plume effects under different conditions. The...