Ricardo Trigo

 
 

Profile

Research Group: RG1 – Climate variability processes and extremes
Email: rmtrigo@fc.ul.pt 
Telephone Number: (351) 21-750-0855 
Extension: 28303 
Room: 8.3.03 
Academic Degree and field of specialization: 

PhD Climatology

Climate change, climate extremes, climate variability, impacts of climate

Scientific Informations

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4183-9852

SCOPUS ID: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6603764342

Researcher ID: https://publons.com/researcher/2886048/ricardo-m-trigo/

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qAW5awsAAAAJ&hl=en

Website: http://idlcc.fc.ul.pt/people.php?id=1


Scientific Interests

Main Interests: 

Ricardo Trigo is an Associated Professor at the Geophysics, Geographical Engineering and Energy Department and Director of the Associated Laboratory Instituto Dom Luis (IDL), both at the Faculty of Sciences, Univ of Lisbon. He has published extensively (230 papers, h=54 Scopus) in complementary areas of research with particular emphasis Natural Hazards such as Floods, Droughts, Landslides, Heatwaves and Wildfires. In particular how these phenomena are related to climate change or to large-scale patterns such as NAO, Blocking or Atmospheric Rivers. In recent years he has been working increasingly on longer time scales, studying the impact of solar and volcanic variability with both proxy and early meteorological data. Ricardo Trigo has participated in 12 EU funded projects, including recently IMDROFLOOD and INDECIS.

Top 10 Publications: 

  1. Trigo R.M., DaCamara C. (2000) “Circulation Weather Types and their impact on the precipitation regime in Portugal”. International Journal of Climatology, 20, 1559-1581.

  2. Trigo R.M., Osborn T.J., Corte-Real J.M. (2002) “The North Atlantic Oscillation influence on Europe: climate impacts and associated physical mechanisms”. Climate Research, 20, 9-17.

  3. Trigo R.M., Trigo I.M., DaCamara C.C., Osborn T.J. (2004) “Winter blocking episodes in the European-Atlantic sector: climate impacts and associated physical mechanisms in the Reanalysis”. Climate Dynamics, 23, 17-28.

  4. Trigo R.M., Pozo-Vazquez D., Osborn T.J, Castro-Diez Y., Gámis-Fortis S., Esteban-Parra M.J. (2004) “North Atlantic Oscillation influence on precipitation, river flow and water resources in the Iberian Peninsula”. International Journal of Climatology. 24, 925-944.

  5. Trigo R.M., Vaquero J.M, Alcoforado M.J., Barriendos M., Taborda J., Garcia-Herrera R., Luterbacher J. (2009) “Iberia in 1816, the year without a summer”. International Journal of Climatology, DOI: 10.1002/joc.1693

  6. Compo, G.P., J.S. Whitaker, P.D. Sardeshmukh, N. Matsui, R.J. Allan, X. Yin, B.E. Gleason, R.S. Vose, G. Rutledge, P. Bessemoulin, S. Brönnimann, M. Brunet, R.I. Crouthamel, A.N. Grant, P.Y. Groisman, P.D. Jones, M.C. Kruk, A.C. Kruger, G.J. Marshall, M. Maugeri, H.Y. Mok, Ø. Nordli, T.F. Ross, R.M. Trigo, X.L. Wang, S.D. Woodruff, S.J. Worley, 2011: The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 137, 1-28, DOI:10.1002/qj.776

  7. Barriopedro D., Fisher E., Luterbacher J., Trigo R.M., García-Herrera R., (2011) “The hot summer of 2010: redrawing the temperature record map of Europe”. Science, 322, 220. DOI: 10.1126/science.1201224

  8. Vicente-Serrano S.M, Gouveia C., Camarero J.J., Beguería S., Trigo, R.M., López-Moreno J.I., Azorin-Molia C., Pasho E., Lorenzo-Lacruz J., Revuelto J., Morán-Tejeda E., Snachez-Lorenzo R. (2013) “The response of vegetation to drought time-scales across global biomes”, PNAS, 110, 52–57 doi/10.1073/pnas.1207068110

  9.    Jerez S., Trigo R.M. (2013) “Time-scale and extent at which large-scale circulation modes determine the wind and solar potential in the Iberian Peninsula”, Environmental Research Letters, 8, 044035 (11pp). doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/044035

  10. Bastos A., Janssens I.A. Gouveia C.M., Trigo, R.M., Ciais P. Chevalier F., Peñuelas J., R:odenbeck C., Piao S., Friedlingsein P., Running S. W. (2016) “European CO2 sink influenced by NAO and East-Atlantic Pattern coupling”. Nature Communications, 7, 10315,     DOI: 10.1038/NCOMMS10315

Projects (10 most relevant): 

  • 2018-2021. Project HOLMODRIVE (North Atlantic Atmospheric Patterns influence on Western Iberia Climate: From the Lateglacial to the Present. Funding: FCT (207.000€, component IDL). Joint PI

  • 2018-2021. Project IMPECAF (Impacts of Extreme Events on the Agrarian and Forestry productions: Development of Risk Analysis Models). Funding: FCT (208.000€, component IDL. Joint PI

  • 2018-2021. Project BeSafeSlide (Landslide Early Warning soft technology prototype to improve community resilience and adaptation to environmental change). Funding: FCT (37.000€, component IDL). Participant researcher (PI for IDL component)

  • 2018-2021. Project DiscoverAzores (When were the Azores archipelago really colonized? A high-resolution paleolimnological approach). Funding: FCT (20.000€, component IDL).

  • 2018-2021. Project Leading (Land Use Changes and mitigation of Global warming). Projeto coordenado pela Dra. Rita Cardoso do IDL. Funding: FCT (210.000€, component IDL). Participant researcher (PI for IDL component)

  • 2017-2020. Project INDECIS (Integrated approach for the development across Europe of user oriented climate indicators for GFCS high-priority sectors: agriculture, disaster risk reduction, energy, health, water and tourism). Funding: European Research Area for Climate Services (ERA4CS) (200.000€, Component IDL, but with contribution In Kind).

  • 2016-2019. Project FORLAND (Hydro-geomorphologic risk in Portugal: driving forces and application for land use planning). Funding: FCT (45.000€, component IDL). Participant researcher (PI for IDL component)

  • 2016-2019. Project IMDROLOOD (Improving Drought and Flood Early Warning, Forecasting and Mitigation using real-time hydroclimatic indicators). Funding: Water-JPI Horizon2020 (149.500€, Component IDL). Participant researcher (PI for IDL component)

Books & Chapters (up to 10): 

  1. M. Trigo, Gimeno L. (2009) “Wheater Pattern Changes in the Tropics and Mid-latitudes as an indicatorof Global Changes”, in: Climate Change: observed impacts on Planet Earth, Ed. Letcher T.M., Springer, 165-179.

  2. M. Vicente-Serrano and R.M. Trigo (2011) “Introduction”, in Hydrological, Socioeconomic and Ecological impacts of the North Atlantic Oscillation in the Mediterranean region, Ed. Vicente-Serrano S. and Trigo R. M, Advances in Global Change Research 46, Springer, 1-8.

  3. M. Trigo (2011) “The impacts of the NAO on Hydrological Resources of the Western Mediterranean”, in Hydrological, Socioeconomic and Ecological impacts of the North Atlantic Oscillation in the Mediterranean region, Ed. Vicente-Serrano S. and Trigo R. M, Advances in Global Change Research 46, Springer, 41-56.

  4. Gouveia and R.M. Trigo (2011) “The impacts of the NAO on the Vegetation Activity in Iberia”, in Hydrological, Socioeconomic and Ecological impacts of the North Atlantic Oscillation in the Mediterranean region, Ed. Vicente-Serrano S. and Trigo R. M, Advances in Global Change Research 46, Springer, 113-128.

  5. L. Zêzere and R.M. Trigo (2011) “Impacts of the North Atlantic Oscillation on Landslides”, in Hydrological, Socioeconomic and Ecological impacts of the North Atlantic Oscillation in the Mediterranean region, Ed. Vicente-Serrano S. and Trigo R. M, Advances in Global Change Research 46, Springer, 199-212.

  6. Xoplaki E., Trigo, R., García-Herrera R., Barriopedro D., D’Andrea F., Fisher E.M., Gimeno L., Gouveia C., Hernández E., Kuglitsch F.G., Mariotti A., Nieto R., Pinto J.G., Pozo-Vazquez D., Saaroni H., Toreti A., Trigo I.F., Vicente-Serrano S.M., Yiou P., Ziv B. (2012): Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation Driving Extreme Climate Events in the Mediterranean and its Related Impacts, in: The Climate of the Mediterranean Region: From the Past to the Future, Ed. P. Lionello, Elsevier, 347-417.

  7. Liberato M.L.R., Ramos A., Trigo R.M., Trigo, I.F., Durán-Quesada A. M., Nieto R., Gimeno L., (2013) “Moisture Sources and Large-Scale Dynamics Associated with a Flash Flood Event”, in Lagrangian Modeling of the Atmosphere (Eds J. Lin, D. Brunner, C. Gerbig, A. Stohl, A. Luhar and P. Webley), American Geophysical Union, Washington, D. C.. doi: 10.1029/2012GM001244

  8. Vaquero J.M Trigo R.M., (2015) “The role of the sun in climate change: a brief history” in: Earth’s climate response to a changing sun, Ed. Thierry Dudok de Wit, Ilaria Ermolli, Margit Haberreiter, EDP sciences, 109-119.EAS Publications Series, DOI: 10.1051/978-2-7598-1733-7.c104

  9. M. Trigo, Gimeno L. (2015) “Weather Pattern Changes in the Tropics and Mid-latitudes”, in: Climate Change: observed impacts on Planet Earth (2nd Edition), Ed. Letcher T.M., Springer, 109-119.

Awards: 

1 International Journal of Climatology prize (2008) awarded by the Royal Meteorological Society (UK) and endowed by John Wiley publishers. Citation can be seen at the Royal Meteorological Society site: Journal of Climatology prize

2 International Meteorological Prize Eduard Fontserè (2013) awarded by the Catalan Association of Meteorology (2013) for participating in the paper “Trends and extremes of drought indices throughout the 20th century in the Mediterranean” published in the journal Natural Hazards and Earth Sciences.

3 The Earth Sciences Prize (2017) awarded by the University of Lisbon/Caixa Geral de Depósitos Prize for the publication record between 2012 and 2016.