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My name is Catarina Alonso and I am PhD student of the AgriChains Doctoral Program - Doctoral Program in Agricultural Production Chains - from fork to farm. In 2018, I completed my master's degree in Geophysical Sciences (specialization in Meteorology) at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL). Since then, I have been developing research work at FcienciasID (Faculty of Sciences at the University of Lisbon) and at IPMA (Instituto Português do Mar e Atmosfera) and worked in some areas of meteorology and climatology, such as extreme weather events (droughts, heat waves and fires) and vegetation dynamics (forests and agricultural crops), where I obtained experience in data processing and monitoring. In addition to science, I am interested in culture and sustainable development, which leads me to participate in several voluntary projects that enhance group work and communication skills.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Catarina Alonso

Citation names

  • Alonso, Catarina
  • Alonso, C.
  • Catarina Alonso

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
621F-6AC8-9BC5

Email addresses

  • catarina.alonso@ipma.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences - Climatic Research
  • Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences - Atmospheric Sciences
  • Agrarian Sciences - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Agronomy
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian Upper intermediate (B2) Proficiency (C2) Upper intermediate (B2) Proficiency (C2)
French Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1)
Mirandês Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2022/09/12 - 2026/09/12
Ongoing
 AgriChains - Doctoral Programme in Agricultural Production Chains - from fork to farm (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Centro de Investigação e de Tecnologias Agro-Ambientais e Biologicas, Portugal
2016/09/11 - 2018/11/05
Concluded
 Geophysical Sciences (Mestrado)
Major in Meteorology
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Desenvolvimento de mapas de vulnerabilidade da agricultura à seca em Portugal" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2013/08/31 - 2016/07/13
Concluded
 Meteorology, Oceanography and Geophysics (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/04/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal
2020/02/14 - 2022/11/16 Researcher (Research) Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal
2019/02/19 - 2019/06/30 Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Dom Luiz, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/11/14 - 2020/01/31 Workshop Monitor for students Centro Cultural de Belém, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/04/01 - Current FIREURISK - DEVELOPING A HOLISTIC, RISK-WISE STRATEGY FOR EUROPEAN WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT
101003890
Research Fellow
European Commission
Ongoing
2020/02/14 - 2022/11/16 FireCast- Forecasting fire probability and characteristics for a habitable pyroenvironment
PCIF/GRF/0204/2017
Research Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2019/02/01 - 2019/06/30 Improving Drought and Flood Early Warning, Forecasting and Mitigation using real-time hydroclimatic indicators
WaterJPI/0004/2014
Research Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Alonso, Catarina; Célia M. Gouveia. "Rice crop losses due to surface ozone concentrations from fires in Portugal mainlan". Paper presented in Ciência 2023 - Encontro com a Ciência e a Tecnologia em Portugal, Aveiro, 2023.
  2. Catarina Alonso; Célia Gouveia. "Vegetation losses due to surface ozone concentrations from fires in Portugal mainland". 2023.
    10.5194/egusphere-egu23-8887
  3. Catarina Alonso; Célia M. Gouveia; Patrícia Páscoa. "Assessment of the relationship between pre-fire fuel estimates and Fire Radiative Power in Portugal". Paper presented in EGU – European Geocience Union, Vienna, 2020.
    10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-19634
  4. Alonso, Catarina; Ana C. Russo; A. F. S. Ribeiro; Célia M. Gouveia; Pedro M.M. Soares; Rita M. Cardoso; Ricardo M Trigo. "Drought in the Iberian Peninsula under future climate scenarios". Paper presented in EGU General Assembly 2019, 2019.
  5. Célia M. Gouveia; Ana C. Russo; DaCamara, Carlos C. "Assessment to vulnerability of agriculture to drought in mainland Portugal". Paper presented in APMG – Associação Portuguesa de Meteorologia e Geofísica, Cascais, 2019.
  6. Célia M. Gouveia; Alonso, Catarina. "Assessment of vegetation conditions and cumulated biomass before fire season". Paper presented in EGU – European Geocience Union, Vienna, 2019.
Journal article
  1. Alonso, Catarina; Durão, Rita; Gouveia, Célia M.. "A Year of Volcanic Hot-Spot Detection over Mediterranean Europe Using SEVIRI/MSG". Remote Sensing 15 21 (2023): 5219. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs15215219.
    10.3390/rs15215219
  2. Gouveia, Célia M.; Justino, Flávio; Gurjao, Carlos; Zita, Lormido; Alonso, Catarina. "Revisiting Climate-Related Agricultural Losses across South America and Their Future Perspectives". Atmosphere 14 8 (2023): 1303. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/atmos14081303.
    10.3390/atmos14081303
  3. Ermitão, Tiago; Páscoa, Patrícia; Trigo, Isabel; Alonso, Catarina; Gouveia, Célia. "Mapping the Most Susceptible Regions to Fire in Portugal". Fire 6 7 (2023): 254. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fire6070254.
    10.3390/fire6070254
  4. Durão, Rita; Alonso, Catarina; Gouveia, Célia. "The Performance of ECMWF Ensemble Prediction System for European Extreme Fires: Portugal/Monchique in 2018". Atmosphere 13 8 (2022): 1239. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/atmos13081239.
    10.3390/atmos13081239
  5. Alonso, Catarina; Gouveia, Celia M.; Russo, Ana; Páscoa, Patrícia. "Crops' exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity to drought occurrence". Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 19 12 (2019): 2727-2743. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-2727-2019.
    10.5194/nhess-19-2727-2019
Preprint
  1. Alonso, Catarina; Célia Gouveia. "Sinergia entre as perdas de produtividade da vegetação e o aumento da concentração de ozono troposférico associado a incêndios em Portugal continental". 2023.
  2. Célia M. Gouveia; Alonso, Catarina. "Estimation of live fuel moisture content using seviri-msg data for Portugal". 2023.
  3. Célia M. Gouveia; Alonso, Catarina. "Modelação do teor de humidade dos combustíveis vivos em portugal utilizando dados de seviri/msg". 2023.
  4. Durão, Rita; Alonso, Catarina; Célia Gouveia; Ana C. Russo. "Avaliação da capacidade da potência radiativa do fogo ser um potencial indicador de poluição por fumo de incêndio". 2023.
  5. Catarina Alonso; Rita Durão; Célia Gouveia. "Live fuel moisture content approach using satellite data for Portugal mainland". 2022.
    10.5194/egusphere-egu22-10035
  6. Mafalda Silva; Rita Durão; Catarina Alonso; Célia Gouveia. "Mediterranean fire danger classes based on the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System, taking into account the Fire Radiative Power products from SEVIRI/MSG satellite". 2022.
    10.14195/978-989-26-2298-9_183
  7. Catarina Alonso; Célia M. Gouveia. "Performance Evaluation of Fire Risk Map from LSA-SAF over Mediterranean region in 2020". 2021.
    10.5194/egusphere-egu21-12863
  8. Durão, Rita; Célia M. Gouveia. "Are fire probabilistic products an effective early warning tool in the management of prevention fire activities? – the case of Monchique 2018 wildfire". 2021.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Desenvolvimento de mapas de vulnerabilidade da agricultura à seca em Portugal". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, 2018.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023 Sinergia entre as perdas de produtividade da vegetação e o aumento da concentração de ozono troposférico associado a incêndios em Portugal continental APMG – Associação Portuguesa de Meteorologia e Geofísica, Lisboa
(Portugal)
2021 Performance Evaluation of Fire Risk Map from LSA-SAF over Mediterranean region in 2020 EGU – European Geocience Union, Vienna
2020 Live fuel moisture content approach using satellite data for Portugal mainland EGU – European Geocience Union, Vienna