Publications by authors named "Catherine Torres de Almeida"
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- Tropical secondary forests can capture carbon at rates up to 20 times faster than old-growth forests, with younger forests in the west of Brazil sequestering significantly more carbon than those in the east.
- Environmental disturbances, such as fires and deforestation, can drastically reduce these regrowth rates by up to 55%.
- Protecting and expanding secondary forests, while also conserving old-growth areas, is essential for maximizing their role in reducing Brazil's carbon emissions by 2030.
Assessment of evapotranspiration estimates based on surface and satellite data and its relationship with El Niño-Southern Oscillation in the Rio de Janeiro State.
Tiago Marques Tito Rafael Coll Delgado Daniel Costa de Carvalho Paulo Eduardo Teodoro Catherine Torres de Almeida
Environ Monit Assess
June 2020
The need to validate the quality of evapotranspiration estimates is essential for this parameter which has extended its use. For this, it is necessary to evaluate both new remote sensing products that expand the areas of estimated evapotranspiration and empirical equations that provide estimates with different data requirements. In order to examine this problem, the present study compared the estimates of evapotranspiration obtained by remote sensing of the MOD16A2 product and seven empirical equations with the estimates obtained through the FAO-56 reference method, with data obtained from six meteorological stations in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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