Ana C. Machado Russo

 
 

Profile

Research Group: RG1 – Climate variability processes and extremes
Position at IDL: Researcher
Job: Auxiliary researcher, FCUL
Email: acrusso@fc.ul.pt 
Extension: -4 
Room: 1.1.06 

Academic Degree and field of specialization: 

  • PhD in Environmental Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, under the supervision of Professor Amílcar Soares (IST) and Prof. Doutor Ricardo Trigo (FCUL).

  • MSc and Degree in Meteorology at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon

  • Fields of Specialization: evaluation of different types of weather-driven natural hazards with particular emphasis to droughts, heatwaves and wildfires; extreme events; climate change impacts; sectoral impacts (agriculture, fires, vegetation, air quality, health); artificial intelligence; modelling.

 

Scientific Informations

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0042-2441

SCOPUS ID: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55215472500

Researcher ID: https://publons.com/researcher/562563/ana-russo/

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ana_Russo2

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=LyvRvdwAAAAJ&hl=en

Website: http://idlcc.fc.ul.pt/people.php?id=11


Scientific Interests

Main Interests: 

AR has interest in complementary areas of research, namely: evaluation of different types of weather driven natural hazards with particular emphasis to droughts, heatwaves and wildfires. In particular, on how these extreme events and also how climate change scenarios may alter their frequency or amplitude and impacts at different levels. Additionally she is also interested on the impact of climate variability and weather patterns and extremes on air quality and human mortality/morbidity.

Top 10 Publications: 

  • Russo A., Trigo R.M., Martins H., Mendes M.T. (2014). NO2, PM10 and O3 urban concentrations and its association with circulation weather types in Portugal. Atmospheric Environment, 89, 768-785. doi: 1016/j.atmosenv.2014.02.010

  • Russo A., Lind P. G., Raischel F., Trigo R., Mendes M. (2014). Neural network forecast of daily pollution concentration using optimal meteorological data at synoptic and local scales. Atmospheric Pollution Research, 6 (2015) 540-549, doi: 5094/APR.2015.060

  • Russo A., Gouveia C., Trigo R., Liberato M.L.R., DaCamara C. C. (2015). The influence of circulation weather patterns at different spatial scales on drought variability in the Iberian Peninsula. Environ. Sci. doi:10.3389/fenvs.2015.00001

  • Benali A., Russo A., Sá A.C.L., Pinto R.M.S., Price O., Koutsias N., Pereira. M.C. (2016). Determining Fire Dates and Locating Ignition Points With Satellite. Remote Sensing, 8(4), 326, DOI: 10.3390/rs8040326

  • Russo A., Gouveia C.M., Ilan Levy, Uri Dayan, Jerez S., Mendes M.A., Trigo, R.M. (2016). Coastal recirculation potential affecting air pollutants in Portugal: The role of circulation weather types. Atmospheric Environment .135, 9-19. doi: 1016/j.atmosenv.2016.03.039

  • Díaz J., Linares C., Carmona R., Russo A., Ortiz C., Salvador P., Trigo R.M. (2017). Saharan dust intrusions in Spain: health impacts and associated synoptic conditions. Environmental Research, 156, 455-467, doi: 1016/j.envres.2017.03.047

  • Russo A., Gouveia C.M., Soares P.M.M., Cardoso R.M., Mendes M.., Trigo R.M. (2018) The unprecedented 2014 Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Portugal: atmospheric driving mechanisms, Journal of Biometeorology, 62: 1167. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-018-1520-8

  • Russo A., Gouveia C.M., Dutra E., Soares P.M.M., Páscoa P., Trigo R.M. (2018) The synergy between drought and extremely hot summers in the Mediterranean. Environmental Research Letters, 14, 014011, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aaf09e

  • Lopes M., Russo A., Monjardino J., Ferreira F., Gouveia C. (2019). Monitoring of the exposure to ultrafine particles in the surrounding urban area of a civilian airport. Atmospheric Pollution Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.2019.04.002

  • Ribeiro A.F.S., Russo A., Gouveia C.M., Páscoa P. (2019) Copula-based agricultural drought risk of rainfed cropping systems Wat. Man, Volume 223, 105689, DOI: 10. 1016/ j. agwat. 2019. 105689

  • Russo A., Sousa P.M., Durão R.M., Ramos A.M., Salvador P., Linares C., Díaz J., Trigo R.M. (2020) Saharan dust intrusions in the Iberian Peninsula: Predominant synoptic conditions, Science of the Total Environment, 717, 137041, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137041

Projects (10 most relevant): 

  • AMOTHEC, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, 2023 to 2025, DRI/India/0098/2020 (Project member, €100000)

  • EEA-Financial Mechanism 2014-2021 and the Portuguese Environment Agency through Pre-defined Project-2 National Roadmap for Adaptation XXI (PDP-2) - PORTUGUESE TERRITORIAL CLIMATE CHANGE VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT FOR XXI CENTURY (Project member,  €800K)

  • IMPECAF, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, 2018-10 to 2021-09, PTDC/CTA-CLI/28902/2017 (Project coordinator, €239.761,14)

  • ROADMAP, JPI, 2019 to 2022 (Task coordinator, Project CO-PI, €100.001)

  • QSECA – Drought quantification and evolution on the Iberian Peninsula: past, present and future, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (Lisbon), 2014-01 to 2015-06 (Project member)

  • FUME – Forest fires under climate, social and economic changes in Europe, the Mediterranean and other fire-affected areas of the world, Research Executive Agency (Brussels), 2012-01 to 2013-12 (Project member)

  • CIDmeg – Construction of a Desertification Susceptibility Index for the Left Margin of Guadiana, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (Lisbon), 2005-07-01 to 2008-12-31 (Project member)

  • SinesBioAr- Implementation of a multidisciplinary tool for the evaluation and management of air quality, and the social impacts in the region of Sines, European Union, Private and Public Portuguese entities (Bruxels, Sines), 2003-12 to 2004-12, LIFE00 ENV/P/000830 (Project member)

Conferences (last 15 presentations): 

  1. Libonati R., Geirinhas J.L., Silva P.S., Russo A., Rodrigues J.A., Belem L.B.C., Nogueira J., Roque F.O., DaCamara C.C., Nunes A.M.B., Marengo J.A., Trigo R.M. (2022) The impact of compound drought and heatwave events on the unprecedented 2020 fire season in the Pantanal, Brazil, EGU22-1843 | Presentations | NH1.4

  2. Marengo J.A., Libonati R., Alves L. M., Geirinhas J.L., Russo A., Trigo R.M. (2022) Drought-Heat Compound Extremes in the Brazilian Pantanal in 2019–2021: Causes and Environmental Impacts, American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 102, urlib.net/www/2021/06.04.03.40

  3. Salvador C., Vicedo-Cabrera A.M., Libonati R.L., Russo A., Garcia B.N., Barreto L., Coelho B., Gimeno L., Nieto R. (2022) Inequalities in drought effects on non-external, circulatory and respiratory mortality in the population of macro urban areas of Brazil. 34th Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology. ORAL PRESENTATIONS SESSION 09: Climate change: Health Impact Assessment and intervention policies ORAL

  4. Ermitão T., Gouveia C., Bastos A., Russo A. (2022), Compound impact of anomalous vegetation activity and hot/dry conditions during the 2017 extreme fire season in Portugal 17th Plinius Conference on Mediterranean Risks, PL6 - Impacts of climate change and extremes on ecosystems and agriculture, October 2022 ORAL

  5. Poppeschi C., Simon A. , Plecha S., Charria G., Segalen O., Russo A. (2022) Coastal and regional marine heatwaves and cold-spells in the Bay of Biscay and the English Channel, EuroSea/OceanPredict Workshop-29 June 2022-1 July 2022, Met Office, UK.

  6. Bento V.A., Lima D.C.A., Santos L.C., Lima M.M., Russo A., Nunes S.A., DaCamara C.C., Trigo R.M., Soares P.M.M. (2023). PROJECÇÕES DE RISCO DE INCÊNDIO METEOROLÓGICO EM CONDIÇÕES DEALTERAÇÕES CLIMÁTICAS NA PENÍNSULA IBÉRICA. APMG 2023 – 12º Simpósio de Meteorologia e Geofísica da APMG e o XXI Encontro Luso Espanhol de Meteorologia, 20/22 March 2023, IPMA, Lisbon.

  7. Santos R., Russo A., Gouveia C.M. (2023). O IMPACTO DAS ONDAS DE CALOR MARINHAS E ATMOSFÉRICAS NAS SECAS E INCÊNDIOS NA ZONA MEDITERRÂNICA. APMG 2023 – 12º Simpósio de Meteorologia e Geofísica da APMG e o XXI Encontro Luso Espanhol de Meteorologia, 20/22 March 2023, IPMA, Lisbon.

  8. Ermitão T., Gouveia C.M., Bastos A., Russo A. (2023) O PAPEL DOS INCÊNDIOS NA DIMINUIÇÃO DA RESILIÊNCIA DA VEGETAÇÃO NO MEDITERRÂNEO. APMG 2023 – 12º Simpósio de Meteorologia e Geofísica da APMG e o XXI Encontro Luso Espanhol de Meteorologia, 20/22 March 2023, IPMA, Lisbon.

  9. Simon A., Poppeschi C., Plecha S., Charria G., Russo A. (2023) EVENTOS EXTREMOS DA TEMPERATURA DA SUPERFÍCIE DO OCEANO NO GOLFO DA BISCAIA E CANAL DA MANCHA - EXTREME EVENTS OF SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE IN THE BAY OF BISCAY AND THE ENGLISH CHANNEL. APMG 2023 – 12º Simpósio de Meteorologia e Geofísica da APMG e o XXI Encontro Luso Espanhol de Meteorologia, 20/22 March 2023, IPMA, Lisbon.

  10. Santos R., Russo A., Gouveia C.M. (2023) Assessing the impact of marine and atmospheric heatwaves on droughts and fire activity in the Mediterranean region, EGU General Assembly 2023, Viena, Austria. EGU23-7779 | ECS | Orals | ITS1.4/NH0.6

  11. Russo A., Santos R., Gouveia C.M. (2023) Compound occurrence of marine and atmospheric heatwaves with drought conditions over the Mozambique Channel and Madagascar Island, EGU General Assembly 2023, Viena, Austria. EGU23-8156 | Orals | NH1.2

  12. Ermitão T., Gouveia C., Bastos A., Russo A. (2023) Assessing changes in post-fire vegetation resilience in Mediterranean basin over the past 22 years, EGU General Assembly 2023, Viena, Austria.  EGU23-412 | ECS | Orals | BG1.2

  13. Páscoa P., Gouveia C., Russo A., Ribeiro A. (2023) Large bushfires under drought and extreme temperature conditions in southeastern Australia: a probabilistic assessment using copulas, EGU General Assembly 2023, Viena, Austria. EGU23-405 | ECS | Orals | NH7.1

  14. Canelas da Silva M., Durão R.M., Russo A., Gouveia C.M. (2023) The 2022 fire season over Europe, EGU General Assembly 2023, Viena, Austria. EGU23-13877 | ECS | Posters on site | NH7.2 | Highlight

  15. Geirinhas J.L., Russo A., Libonati R., Miralles D.G., Ramos A.M., Trigo R.M. (2023) An insight into the severe 2019-2021 drought over Southeast South America from a daily to decadal and regional to large-scale variability perspective, EGU General Assembly 2023, Viena, Austria.  EGU23-827 | ECS | Orals | NH1.2

Awards

Award Universidade de Lisboa/Caixa Geral de Depósitos in Earth Sciences and Ghephysics (2022)

Award FCUL in Earth Sciences (2023)