Humberto Rocha is Full Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences/IAG/University of São Paulo, Bsc in Civil-Aeronautical Engineering (ITA 1988), MSc (INPE 1992) and DSc (USP 1998) in Meteorology. His expertise is in Hydroclimatology, Hydrometeorological instrumentation, and Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions. He coordinates the Climate and Biosphere Lab at IAG/USP, and works with computational atmospheric models, rainfall-runoff models and plant productivity models, and has run field observatories with flux tower and hydrological gauges in forest, crops, and urban areas in Amazonia, Cerrado and Atlantic forest biomes. He was a participant of Brasil-UK ABRACOS Project 1990, LBA Experiment (2000-2010), Biota Fapesp and Fapesp Climate Change program. Member of the Coordination Commitee of FAPESP Climate Change Program 2012-2022 .Representative of Latin America at World Meteorological Organization/Commission for Agricultural Meteorology/Flux Measurements for Agriculture. Coordinator of the Centre of Science for Development for Water and Food Security in Critical Zones. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The Centre for Water and Food Security at Critical Zones has the main goal to improve solutions to problems on water and food security in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, with emphasis in the management water risk at local and regional scale. The basic field and historical inventory information will be focused at spatial critical zones (headwaters, agricultural plots and specific urban are…
To understand how the Biosphere contributes to the hydrological and climate system and its social impact is a global priority of WMO/Urban Integrated Weather, Environment and Climate Services, that enphasizes the high potential of ecosystem services for the improvement on water, food and energy securities, on functions and conservation of biodiversity, and on human well being in dense urb…
The proposed programme focus on demonstrating the applicability of innovative time-lapse geoelectrical methods as a non-invasive tool for measuring key hydrogeological parameters at relevant scales for catchment-based water resource management. More specifically, through a programme of exchange activities, workshops and field demonstrations, the programme will investigate the feasibility…
BEMUSED recognizes that a more scale-integrated view of the role of soil moisture in the critical zone (the earth's outer layer from vegetation canopy to the soil and groundwater that sustains life) is of great importance in South America. Soil moisture is a key environmental variable of the hydrological cycle connecting the rapid changes in atmospheric conditions near the surface with sl…
ClimateWIse will evaluate whether IWS successfully deliver water services now and if they will continue to be effective in a changing climate. In doing so, the research will inform broad questions about the hydrologic impacts of land-use and climate change in tropical montane South America. To evaluate whether IWS are currently improving water resources, we will 1.1) evaluate the outcomes…
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Urbanized areas tend to be warmer than their surroundings, phenomenon known as Urban Heat Island (UHI). High temperatures are associated with an increase in population mortality and in the spread of vector diseases such as dengue fever. As most of the Brazilian and world population lives in cities today, it is very important to study and understand UHIs, especially to determine which plac…
The soil-vegetation system can exert a significant influence on the surface water availability regime, as in transient flow peaks, and in the regularization of the minimum drought flow, due to the potential effects in the case of forest vegetation in attenuating the intensity of the rain reaching the soil and to the increase of water infiltration and storage in the soil and in the shallow…
Understanding the role of the biosphere in the climate and hydrological regimes and its social impact is a global priority of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)/Urban Integrated Weather, Environment and Climate Services, with the aim to foster information to energy, water and food security, biodiversity conservation and human well being in rural and urban areas. This proposal aim…
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Small catchments are often characterized by high levels of heterogeneity and complexity, especially in relation to their climatology and hydrology. The porpoise of this project is to estimate the water balance at the headwaters of the Cantareira reservoirs system using multi-instrumented watersheds, with field measurements of climatic data (rainfall, temperature, air humidity, wind speed)…
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