Margarida L. R. Liberato

 
 

Profile

Research Group: RG1 – Climate variability processes and extremes
Position at IDL: Collaborator
Job: Assistant Professor 
Email: mdliberato@fc.ul.pt 
Academic Degree and field of specialization: 

PhD Physics (Meteorology)

Scientific Informations

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6677-9366

SCOPUS ID: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=18437535400

Researcher ID: https://publons.com/researcher/B-2348-2010

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

Website: http://idlcc.fc.ul.pt/people.php?id=8


Scientific Interests

Main Interests: 

Margarida L. R. Liberato is Assistant Professor at UTAD and Researcher at the Associated Laboratory Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL), Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. She has completed her PhD with an analysis of the extratropical stratosphere-troposphere circulation coupling using a 3D normal mode approach. Recently she has focused her research interests on the study of extratropical cyclones and storm-tracks variability, namely on natural hazards, extreme cyclones and cyclones with extreme impacts. Additionally, she is also interested on the impact of climate variability and extremes on society.
Margarida L. R. Liberato has supervised over 30 Master, PhD and post-doctoral students/fellows. She has participated as PI and as a member of the research team of several FCT and EU funded projects such as WEx-Atlantic, eCSAAP, STORMEx, QSECA and IMILAST. She has been a Member of the Management Committee of the COST Actions CA19109 and ESSEM ES0604. She has also participated as PI in several hand-on projects (Concurso Ciência Viva VI) as well as in several tasks of the FP7 ACCENT (Atmospheric Composition Change) NETWORK OF EXCELLENCE from 2006-2009. She has fostered several International collaborations which have resulted on high impact peer-reviewed publications.

Top 10 Publications: 

  1. Liberato M.L.R., Castanheira J.M., De La Torre L., DaCamara C.C., Gimeno L. (2007) “Wave Energy Associated with the Variability of the Stratospheric Polar Vortex”, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 64, 7: 2683-2694, DOI: 10.1175/JAS3978.1

  2. Liberato M.L.R., Pinto J.G., Trigo I.F., Trigo R.M. (2011) “Klaus – an exceptional winter storm over Northern Iberia and Southern France”, Weather, 66, 12: 330–334, DOI: 10.1002/wea.755

  3. Gouveia C., Liberato M.L.R., DaCamara C.C., Trigo R. M., Ramos A.M. (2011) “Modelling past and future wine production in the Portuguese Douro Valley” Climate Research, 48: 349-362, DOI: 10.3354/cr01006

  4. Amraoui M., Liberato M.L.R., Calado T.J., DaCamara C.C., Coelho L.P., Trigo R.M., Gouveia C. (2013) “Fire activity over Mediterranean Europe based on information from Meteosat-8”, Forest Ecology and Management, 294: 62-75, DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.08.032

  5. Neu U. and 35 co-authors (incl. M.L.R. Liberato) (2013) “IMILAST – a community effort to intercompare extratropical cyclone detection and tracking algorithms: assessing method related uncertainties”, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 94 (4): 529–547, DOI: 10.1175/BAMSD-11-00154.1

  6. Ulbrich U. and 25 co-authors (incl. M.L.R. Liberato) (2013) “Are Greenhouse Gas Signals of Northern Hemisphere winter extra-tropical cyclone activity dependent on the identification and tracking algorithm?”, Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 22 (1): 61-68, DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2013/0420

  7. Ramos, A.M., Trigo R.M., Liberato M.L.R., Tomé R. (2015) “Daily precipitation extreme events in the Iberian Peninsula and its association with atmospheric rivers”, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 16(2), 579–597, DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-14-0103.1

  8. Lionello P., Trigo I.F., Gil V., Liberato M.L.R., Nissen K.M., Pinto J.G., Raible C.C., Reale M., Tanzarella A., Trigo R.M., Ulbrich S., Ulbrich U. (2016) “Objective Climatology of Cyclones in the Mediterranean Region: a consensus view among methods with different system identification and tracking criteria”, Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, 68:1, DOI:10.3402/tellusa.v68.29391

  9. Liberato M.L.R., A.M. Ramos, C.M. Gouveia, P. Sousa, A. Russo, R.M. Trigo, F.E. Santo (2017) “Exceptionally extreme drought in Madeira Archipelago in 2012: vegetation impacts and driving conditions”, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 232: 195-209, DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2016.08.010

  10. Blöschl G; Bierkens MFP; Chambel A; Cudennec C; Destouni G; Fiori A; Kirchner JW; McDonnell JJ; Savenije HHG; Sivapalan M; Stumpp C; Toth E; Volpi E; Carr G; Lupton C; Salinas J; Széles B; Viglione A (incl.M.L.R. Liberato) (2019) “Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH) – a community perspective”, Hydrological Sciences Journal, 64:10, 1141-1158, DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2019.1620507

Projects (10 most relevant): 

  • 2020-2024 COST Action CA19109 “Medcyclones – European network for Mediterranean cyclones in weather and climate” Proposal. Emmanouil Flaounas, Switzerland (Proposer). Secondary proposer, MC member & Science Communication Manager: Margarida L. R. Liberato, Portugal.

  • 2020-2021 project “Fluxos de cooperação entre especialistas e cidadãos para a anotação semântica de fenómenos atmosféricos extremos usando computação humana”. Funding FCT/FAPERJ-2020 (4.5k€). Project Joint PI.

  • 2018-2021 project “WEx-ATLANTIC – Extremos Meteorológicos na Região Euro Atlântica: Avaliação e Impactos – Weather Extremes in the Euro Atlantic Region: Assessment and Impacts”. Funding FCT Horizon2020 (PTDC/CTA-MET/29233/2017 LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-029233) (240k€). Project PI.

  • 2018-2020 project “eCSAAP – Crowdsourcing Especializado para Anotação Semântica de Fenómenos Atmosféricos – Expert Crowdsourcing for Semantic Annotation of Atmospheric Phenomena”. Funding FCT CMU-Portugal–2017 (CMU/CS/0012/2017) (96k€). Project Joint PI.

  • 2013-2015 project “QSECA – Quantificação e Evolução das Secas na Península Ibérica: passado, presente e futuro – Drought quantification and evolution on Iberian Peninsula: past, present and future”. Funding FCT (PTDC/AAG-GLO/4155/2012) (175k€). Project Joint PI (PI for UTAD component).

  • 2012-2015 project “STORMEX – Variabilidade das Depressões Extratropicais Extremas no Atlântico Norte: Diagnose, Modelação de Processos Dinâmicos e Impactos na Península Ibérica – Mid-Latitude North Atlantic Extreme Storms Variability: Diagnosis, Modelling Dynamical Processes and Related Impacts on Iberia”. Funding FCT Compete (PTDC/AAC-CLI/121339/2010) (149k€). Project PI.

  • 2009-2015 project “IMILAST – Intercomparison of mid latitude storm diagnostic: international initiative of intercomparing extratropical cyclone detection and tracking algorithms”. ProClim/Swiss Academy of Sciences (Switzerland). Participant researcher (PI for Portugal).

  • 2010-2013 project “ENAC – Evolução do Clima do Atlântico Norte; o papel dos Bloqueios e ciclones no clima do Sul da Europa Passado, Presente e Futuro – Evolution of North Atlantic Climate; the role of Blocking and Storm-tracks in the Past, Present and Future climate of Southern Europe”. Funding FCT (PTDC/AAC-CLI/103567/2008) (135k€). Participant researcher.

  • 2009-2011 project “MISTOS – Florestas Mistas. Modelação, Dinâmica e Distribuição Geográfica da Produtividade e da Fixação do Carbono nos Ecossistemas Florestais Mistos em Portugal – Mixed Forests. Modelling, Dynamics And Geographical Distribution Of Productivity And Carbon Storage In Mixed Forest Ecosystems In Portugal”. Funding FCT (PTDC/AGR-CFL/68186/2006) (199k€). Participant researcher.

  • 2009-2011 COST Action ES0604 “WaVaCS – Atmospheric Water Vapour in the Climate System”. Chair Federico FIERLI, Italy (Proposer). MC member: Margarida L. R. Liberato, Portugal.

Books & Chapters (up to 10): 

  1. Liberato M.L.R., Castanheira J.M., DaCamara C.C., Silvestre J.M.P. (2006) “Sinais de reflexão das ondas planetárias na alta estratosfera” in L. Gimeno, R. García-Herrera e J. A. Añel (Edts) Serie: Avances en Climatología y Ciencias de la Atmósfera – Vol II: Variabilidad Climática Natural: descripción, mecanismos y efectos sobre la circulación a escala planetaria. Editorial AICA. Cap. 6, pp. 77-93 (ISBN: 84-7491-772-7)

  2. Liberato M. L. R., A. M. Ramos, R. M. Trigo, I. F. Trigo, A. M. Durán-Quesada, R. Nieto, and L. Gimeno (2012) “Moisture Sources and Large-scale Dynamics Associated with a Flash Flood Event”. Lagrangian Modeling of the Atmosphere, Geophysical Monograph Series. DOI: 10.1029/2012GM001244

  3. Liberato M.L.R., Trigo R.M. (2014) “Extreme precipitation events and related impacts in western Iberia” 7th World FRIEND-Water Conference on Hydrology in a Changing World: Environmental and Human Dimensions in Hydrology in a Changing World: Environmental and Human Dimensions, IAHS-AISH Proceedings and Reports, IAHS Publ. 363, pp. 171-176. (ISSN: 0144-7815. ISBN: 978-1-907161-41-4. WOS:000357968600028)

  4. Reis A, Liberato M, Paredes H, Martins P, Barroso J (2019) Creating Weather Narratives, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 11573 LNCS, pp. 312-322

Conferences (last 15 presentations): 

  1. Ferreira, F., Liberato, M. L. R., Ramos, A. M., and Nieto, R.: North Atlantic SST variability and high impact storms affecting the Iberian Peninsula, EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-21964, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-21964, 2020

  2. Gonçalves A, Liberato MLR, Ramos AM, Nieto R. High impact storms affecting the Iberian Peninsula during 2017-2019 extended winters, EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-21874, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-21874, 2020 [poster]

  3. Hénin R, Liberato MLR, Ramos AM (2019) A Methodology to Assign Atmospheric Fronts to Extra-Tropical Cyclones on the Euro Atlantic and European Sector. AGU 2019. 9-13 December 2019. San Francisco, USA. A21T-2778.

  4. Liberato MLR, Hénin R, Gonçalves A, Ramos AM (2019) Ranking of concurrent extreme events in the Iberian Peninsula: variability and climatology of large-scale atmospheric conditions. AGU 2019. 9-13 December 2019. San Francisco, USA. NH11B-0774.

  5. Hénin R, Liberato MLR, Ramos AM, Gouveia CM. Assessing the Use of Satellite-Based Estimates and High-Resolution Precipitation Datasets for the Study of Extreme Precipitation Events over the Iberian Peninsula. EMS Annual Meeting Abstracts Vol. 16, EMS2019-492-2, 2019, EMS Annual Conference, Copenaghen, Denmark, 9-13 September 2019 [oral]

  6. Hénin R, Liberato MLR, Ramos AM. Objective assignment of precipitation and fronts to cyclones: application to extreme events on the Iberia Peninsula. Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 21,EGU2019-1276-1, 2019, EGU General Assembly 2019, Wien, Austria, 7-12 April 2019 [oral]

  7. Liberato MLR, Hénin R, Ramos AM. Catalogue of weather compound events for Portugal. Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 21, EGU2019-14910, 2019, EGU General Assembly 2019, Wien, Austria, 7-12 April 2019 [oral]

  8. Ribeiro S, Fonseca T, Cascarejo I, Neves AP, Liberato MLR, “Effects of extreme storms in Portuguese forest: assessment of damages and development of a storm catalogue (a preliminary approach)”, CAQSIS 2019 meeting IRSTEA RECOVER, Aix-en-Provence, France, March 2019, pp. 22 [oral]

  9. Liberato MLR. Consistent catalogues of extreme and high-impact winter storms in Portugal. 7th European Windstorm Workshop, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, 10-12 October 2018 [oral]

  10. Hénin R, Liberato MLR, Ramos AM. Variability of compound events in the Euro-Atlantic region and its association with extra-tropical storms. 7th European Windstorm Workshop, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, 10-12 October 2018 [poster]

  11. Hénin R, Liberato MLR, Ramos AM. Assessing frontal and extreme precipitation over the Euro-Atlantic domain, Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 20, EGU2018-862-2, 2018, EGU General Assembly 2018, Wien, Austria, 8-13 April 2018 [poster]

  12. Liberato MLR, Paredes H, Reis A, Ramos A, Hénin R, Martins P, Barroso J. Expert Crowdsourcing for Semantic Annotation of Extreme Meteorological and Hydrological Phenomena, Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 20, EGU2018-17103, 2018, EGU General Assembly 2018, Wien, Austria, 8-13 April 2018 [oral]

  13. Vázquez M, Liberato M, Sorí R, Nieto R, Gimeno L. Drought characterization for the Miño-Limia River basin and its link with atmospheric moisture transport, Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 20, EGU2018-8763, 2018, EGU General Assembly 2018, Wien, Austria, 8-13 April 2018 [oral]

  14. Liberato MLR, Hénin R, Ramos AM, Gouveia CM. Evaluating extreme precipitation events on the Iberian Peninsula using TRMM satellite data, First International Electronic Conference on the Hydrological Cycle, 12-16 November 2017, MDPI AG. DOI: 10.3390/CHyCle-2017-04880 [proceedings]

  15. Trigo RM, Ramos AM, Tomé R, Liberato MLR, Pinto JG Scenarios of atmospheric rivers affecting Western Europe during the XXI Century, Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 19, EGU2017-7033, 2017, EGU General Assembly 2017, Wien, Austria, 23-28 April 2017 [oral]

  16. Hénin R, Liberato MLR, Ramos AM, Gouveia CM, Characterization of frontal precipitation associated with extreme events over the Iberian Peninsula, 10º Simpósio de Meteorologia e Geofísica da APMG – 18º Encontro Luso-Espanhol de Meteorologia, Riscos associados a Fenómenos Meteorológicos e Geofísicos, Lisbon, Portugal, 20-22 March 2017 [poster]