Climate change has led to an increase in wildfires, particularly on the Iberian Peninsula. In recent years, Portugal suffered several devastating wildfires, such as in 2003, 2005, and 2017. In 2024, the situation repeated itself, with several large-scale wildfires occurring in the Central region during September. Wildfires are directly related to the availability of combustible material, weather conditions, and...
Water content is one of the most critical characteristics in plant physiological development. Therefore, this information is a crucial factor in determining the water stress conditions of vegetation, which is essential for assessing the wildfire risk and land management decision-making. Remote sensing can be vital for obtaining information over large, limited access areas with global coverage. This is important...
Earth system modelling is currently playing an increasing role in weather forecasting and understanding climate change, however, the operation, deployment and development of numerical Earth system models are extremely demanding in terms of computational resources and human effort. Merging synergies has become a natural process by which national meteorological services assess and contribute to the development of...
Earth system modelling is currently playing an increasing role in weather forecasting and understanding climate change, however, the operation, deployment and development of numerical Earth system models are extremely demanding in terms of computational resources and human effort. Merging synergies has become a natural process by which national meteorological services assess and contribute to the development of...
Introduction: Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN), including polycythemia vera (PV), essential thrombocythemia (ET), and myelofibrosis (MF), significantly impact patients’ quality of life (QoL). The symptom burden assessment and continuous monitoring using the MPN Symptom Assessment Form Total Symptom Score (MPN-10) allows detecting symptomatic changes that may be signs of disease progression and can be used as ...
Although the floodgates of the Alqueva dam were closed in 2002, giving rise to the largest artificial lake in Western Europe, its possible effects on the weather in Portugal are not being taken into account by the operational models of weather forecasting used in IPMA. Thus, it is necessary to introduce the physiography of the lake in the model under study (AROME), and to validate it by analysing statistically ...