Climate Change Risks in Brazil
Language: English
Published by Springer, 2018
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- Title
- Climate Change Risks in Brazil
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- Book Type
- book
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 3030065383
- ISBN 13
- 9783030065386
Highlights the risks of higher warming rates on water availability and food production
Discusses the effects of heatwaves on human health
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About the Author
José Antônio Marengo, has a degree in Physics and Meteorology and a Master's in Land and Water Resource Engineering from the National Agrarian University in Lima, Peru, as well as a Ph.D. in Meteorology from the University of Wisconsin - Madison (1991) in the USA. He did a post-doctorate at NASA-GISS and Columbia University in New York and at the Florida State University, in Florida (USA) in climate modelling. He was senior researcher of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) between 1995 and 2014. He is member of several United Nations international panels and work groups on global changes in Brazil and abroad. He has written over 250 articles, book chapters, books, technical reports and pieces for conferences. He is a senior member of the Scientific Committee of the Brazilian Panel on Climate Change (PBMC), and he was Coordinating Lead Author (CLA), Lead Author (LA) and Review Editor (RE) for the reports produced by the IPCC.. He is also a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and the São Paulo State Academy of Sciences and a CNPq 1-A researcher. He is currently senior researcher and General Coordinator of Research and Development at CEMADEN (National Centre for Monitoring and Early Warning of Disasters), of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), where he works with extreme events and natural disaster risk reduction.
Wagner Rodrigues Soares, has a degree in Meteorology from the Pelotas Federal University. He has a Master’s in Agricultural Meteorology by the Viçosa Federal University and PhD in Meteorology by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). He acted as researcher in several projects on climate change and variability like: PROBIO, CT-HIDRO, PACS-SONET, PROSUR, LBA-RACCI, LBA-ECO and SALLJEX, among others. Reviewer of journals such as the International Journal of Climatology and the Brazilian Geography Magazine. Group 1 member of the Brazilian Panel on Climate Change (PBMC). He worked as a consultant of the United Nations Environment Programme in the climate modelling area. He has experience in geosciences, with emphasis on meteorology, acting mainly on the following issues: climate change, climate and extreme hydrological events, climate modelling, low-level jet and moisture transport in the lower atmosphere, impact and climate scenarios assessment.
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