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List of works by Maria João Costa

Aerosol Characterization and Direct Radiative Forcing Assessment over the Ocean. Part I: Methodology and Sensitivity Analysis

Aerosol Characterization and Direct Radiative Forcing Assessment over the Ocean. Part II: Application to Test Cases and Validation

Aerosol radiative forcing assessment from polar and geostationary satellite measurements

Aerosol radiative forcing from GEO satellite data over land surfaces

An Iberian climatology of solar radiation obtained from WRF regional climate simulations for 1950–2010 period

Applying Risk Indices to Assess and Manage Soil Salinization and Sodification in Crop Fields within a Mediterranean Hydro-Agricultural Area

scientific article published in 2021

Assessing the role of Mediterranean evergreen oaks canopy cover in land surface albedo and temperature using a remote sensing-based approach

Benthic diatom community dynamics in Mediterranean intermittent streams: Effects of water availability and their potential as indicators of dry-phase ecological status

scientific article published on 20 February 2020

Black carbon trends in southwestern Iberia in the context of the financial and economic crisis. The role of bioenergy

scientific article published on 12 October 2016

Closures between ground-based and spaceborn data for the development of retrieval procedures for aerosol properties

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Cloud detection and classification from multi-spectral satellite data

Cloud parameter retrievals from Meteosat and their effects on the shortwave radiation at the surface

Earlinet validation of CATS L2 product

Effects of clouds on the surface shortwave radiation at a rural inland mid-latitude site

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Evaluation of the lake model FLake over a coastal lagoon during the THAUMEX field campaign

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Extreme precipitation on the Island of Madeira on 20 February 2010 as seen by satellite passive microwave sounders

Extreme, wintertime Saharan dust intrusion in the Iberian Peninsula: Lidar monitoring and evaluation of dust forecast models during the February 2017 event

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February 2017 extreme Saharan dust outbreak in the Iberian Peninsula: from lidar-derived optical properties to evaluation of forecast models

High-Frequency Response of the Atmospheric Electric Potential Gradient Under Strong and Dry Boundary-Layer Convection

Infrared lidar overlap function: an experimental determination.

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Integrative toolbox to assess the quality of freshwater sediments contaminated with potentially toxic metals

Inter-comparison of integrated water vapor from satellite instruments using reference GPS data at the Iberian Peninsula

scholarly article by Javier Vaquero-Martínez et al published January 2018 in Remote Sensing of Environment

Land-Cover Patterns and Hydrogeomorphology of Tributaries: Are These Important Stressors for the Water Quality of Reservoirs in the Mediterranean Region?

Lessons learned from synergistic use of polar and geostationary satellite sensors for the retrieval of aerosol characteristics

Looking Into CALIPSO Climatological Products: Evaluation and Suggestions from EARLINET

Monitoring of atmospheric ozone and nitrogen dioxide over the south of Portugal by ground-based and satellite observations

scientific article published in July 2009

Monitoring of nitrogen dioxide, ozone and halogens radicals in Antarctica

Numerical Simulations of Fog Events in Southern Portugal

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Numerical simulations of significant orographic precipitation in Madeira island

article published in 2016

Ozone Seasonal Variation with Ground-Based and Satellite Equipments at Évora Observatory: Portugal During 2007–2010

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Pharmaceuticals in a Mediterranean Basin: The influence of temporal and hydrological patterns in environmental risk assessment

scientific article published on 18 December 2019

Precipitation in the Madeira Island over a 10-year period and the meridional water vapour transport during the winter seasons

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Properties of dust aerosol particles transported to Portugal from the Sahara desert

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Radiative Forcing of Asian Dust Determined from the Synergized GOME and GMS Satellite Data—A Case Study

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Sensitivity of UV Erythemal Radiation to Total Ozone Changes under Different Sky Conditions: Results for Granada, Spain

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Spectral measurements of underwater downwelling radiance of inland water bodies

Stratospheric nitrogen dioxide in Antarctic regions from ground based and satellite observations during 2001

Temporal and Spatial Variations of Secchi Depth and Diffuse Attenuation Coefficient from Sentinel-2 MSI over a Large Reservoir

Thirteen Years of Aerosol Radiative Forcing in Southwestern Iberian Peninsula

Understanding significant precipitation in Madeira island using high-resolution numerical simulations of real cases

Use of Sentinel 2 – MSI for water quality monitoring at Alqueva reservoir, Portugal

Validation of MODIS integrated water vapor product against reference GPS data at the Iberian Peninsula

Validation of integrated water vapor from OMI satellite instrument against reference GPS data at the Iberian Peninsula

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Variability and trends of downward surface global solar radiation over the Iberian Peninsula based on ERA-40 reanalysis

Variability of the Daily-Mean Shortwave Cloud Radiative Forcing at the Surface at a Midlatitude Site in Southwestern Europe

article by Vanda Salgueiro et al published October 2014 in Journal of Climate

Vertical characterization of fine and coarse dust particles during an intense Saharan dust outbreak over the Iberian Peninsula in springtime 2021

scientific article published on 5 January 2023

Water-Sediment Physicochemical Dynamics in a Large Reservoir in the Mediterranean Region under Multiple Stressors

scientific article published on 05 March 2021