Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Sofia Nunes Lorena Ermida
- Date of birth
- 1990/05/10
- Gender
- Female
Citation names
- Ermida, Sofia L.
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- E812-8D99-F513
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-0737-0824
- Researcher Id
- K-8885-2014
- Scopus Author Id
- 56096442500
Email addresses
- snermida@fc.ul.pt (Professional)
- sofia.ermida@ipma.pt (Professional)
Addresses
- IPMA Rua C do aeroporto, sala 3.09, 1749-077, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences - Meteorology
- Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences - Climatic Research
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2023/01 - 2023/05
Ongoing
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MOCC Machine Learning in Weather and Climate (Outros)
Major in Formação
European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts, United Kingdom
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2018/05/31
Concluded
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Ciências Geofísicas e da Geoinformação (Doutoramento)
Major in Especialidade: Detecção Remota
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
""Harmonization of Remote Sensing Land Surface Products: correction of clear sky-bias and characterization of directional
effects"" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Aprovado com distinção e louvor |
2013
Concluded
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Ciências Geofísicas, especialização em Meteorologia (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Modeling the angular dependence of satellite retrieved Land Surface Temperature (LST)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2011
Concluded
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Meteorologia, Oceanografia e Geofísica (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Maps of fire risk over Mediterranean Europe" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2020/03/01 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal |
2018/04/01 - 2020/03/01 | Postdoc (Research) | Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal |
2017/09/15 - 2018/02/15 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States |
2011/10/12 - 2013/10/12 | Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
2009/10/01 - 2010/09/01 | Research Trainee (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2011/02/01 - 2011/07/31 | Tutor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
Projects
Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2023/04 - Current | Antarctic Peninsula permafrost under a changing climate: sensitivity, fate and impacts (THAWIMPACT)
Task Leader
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2022/06 - Current | Satellite Application Facility on Land Surface Analysis: Continuous Development and Operations Phase 4
Researcher
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal
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EUMETSAT
Ongoing
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2021 - Current | Operation of the bio-geophysical variables systematic monitoring of the Global Land Component of the Copernicus Land Service
C-GLOPS LOT1
Researcher
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal
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Comissão Europeia
Ongoing
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2023 - 2026 | CopERnIcus climate change Service Evolution (CERISE)
Researcher
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal
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Comissão Europeia
Ongoing
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2022 - 2024 | ESA CCI Land Surface Temperature project phase 2
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal
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European Space Agency
Ongoing
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2018/04/01 - 2022/06 | Satellite Application Facility on Land Surface Analysis - Continuous Development and Operations Phase 3
Researcher
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal
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EUMETSAT
Concluded
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2018 - 2021 | Land Surface Temperature CCI Project
Researcher
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal
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European Space Agency
Concluded
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2018 - 2020 | CONsTRaining land-atmosphere exchanges using earth Observations (CONTROL)
PTDC/CTA-MET/28946/2017
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Geofísico do Infante Dom Luiz, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2016/10/01 - 2019/10 | Brazilian System Fire-Land-Atmosphere (BrFLAS)
FAPESP/1389/2014
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Geofísico do Infante Dom Luiz, Portugal
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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Concluded
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2014 - 2017 | Satellite Application Facility on Land Surface Analysis - Continuous Development and Operations Phase 2
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Geofísico do Infante Dom Luiz, Portugal
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EUMETSAT
Concluded
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2013 - 2016 | GlobTemperature ESA DUE Initiative
Researcher
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal
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European Space Agency
Concluded
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2011/10/13 - 2012/10/12 | Fire - Land - Atmosphere Inter-Relationships: understanding the processes to predict wildfire regimes in Portugal (FLAIR)
Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Geofísico do Infante Dom Luiz, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Book chapter |
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Conference abstract |
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Journal article |
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Journal issue |
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Online resource |
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Preprint |
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Report |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2019/10/04 | Retrieving Emissivity Angular Dependence over Deserts from Multi-Sensor Observations | Joint EUMETSAT/AMS/NOAA Conference 2019
EUMETSAT/AMS/NOAA (Boston, United States)
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2019/05/15 | Quantifying the Clear-Sky Bias of Satellite-Derived Land Surface Temperature Using an All-Weather Microwave-Based Product | 2019 Living Planet Symposium
ESA (Milão, Italy)
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2019/05/15 | LSA-SAF Strategies for The Estimation of Angular Dependence of Land Surface Temperature: In Situ Validation, Product Generation and Emissivity Estimation | 2019 Living Planet Symposium
ESA (Milão, Italy)
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2019/05/08 | Consistency analysis between Sentinel-3 SLSTR and MSG SEVIRI LST Products | Fifth Sentinel-3 Validation Team Meeting 2019
ESA/ESRIN (Frascati, Italy)
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2019/04/09 | Quantifying the Clear-sky Bias of Satellite Land Surface Temperature Climate Data Records using Microwave-based Estimates | EGU General Assembly 2019
European Geophysical Union (EGU) (Viena, Austria)
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2018/09/17 | A multi-sensor approach to retrieve emissivity angular dependence from satellite observations | EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference
EUMETSAT (Tallin, Estonia)
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2017/12/15 | Correction of the angular dependence of satellite retrieved LST at global scale using parametric models | AGU Fall Meeting
AGU (New Orleans, United States)
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2017/10/04 | Parametric models of the angular dependence of satellite retrieved LST at global scale and using land surface classification | EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference
EUMETSAT (Roma, Italy)
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2017/04/27 | Modelling the angular effects on satellite retrieved LST at global scale using a land surface classification | EGU General Assembly
EGU
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2016/05/11 | ESA DUE GlobTemperature project: Infrared-based LST Product | European Space Agency Living Planet Symposium
ESA (Praga, Czech Republic)
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2015/09/23 | Modelling the angular effects on satellite retrieved Land Surface Temperature over Europe | EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference
EUMETSAT (Toulouse, France)
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2015/06/09 | Towards a Harmonized LST Product – the problem of angular anisotropy of LST | 6th LSA-SAF User Workshop
LSA SAF (Reading, United Kingdom)
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2014/03/28 | Calibration of the Fire Weather Index over Mediterranean Europe based on fire activity retrieved from MSG satellite | 9th Alexander von Humboldt Conference - High Impact Natural Hazards Related to the Euro-Mediterranean Region
EGU (Istambul, Turkey)
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2013/06/18 | Validating LST and inter comparing observations from polar orbit and geostationary satellites by means of a model of illumination and viewing geometries | 5th LSA SAF User Workshop
LSA SAF (Karlsruhe, Germany)
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2013/03/19 | Modeling the angular dependence of satellite retrieved Land Surface Temperature (LST) | 8º Simpósio de Meteorologia e Geofísica da APMG
APMG (Ericeira, Portugal)
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2012/09/06 | Impact of viewing and illumination geometry on land surface temperature retrievals from MSG/SEVIRI | EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference
EUMETSAT (Sopot, Poland)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2022/10 - Current | Improving land surface temperature retrievals under high concentrations of dust aerosols
Supervisor
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Ciências Geofísicas (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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2021/02 - Current | A multi-sensor approach to the study of the urban heat island effect in cities: a comparative study
Supervisor
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Ciências Geofísicas e da Geoinformação (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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2021 - 2021 | Changes in the surface energy balance over areas affected by wildfires: a diagnostic study in Continental Portugal
Supervisor of Maria Inês Buco Cajada
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Ciências Geofísicas (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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2021 - 2021 | Assessment of Land Surface Temperature (LST) in regions of high dust aerosol concentrations
Supervisor of Francesco Stante
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Meteorologia, Oceanografia e Geofísica (Degree)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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2019/09/01 - 2020/09 | Análise da temperatura de superfície em diferentes contextos do território português, através de dados de satélite
Co-supervisor
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Geociências (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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2018/09 - 2019/07/11 | Evaluation of land surface temperature in atmospheric reanalyses using earth observations
Co-supervisor of Frederico Johannsen
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Ciências Geofísicas (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2023/03/21 - Current | Taking the temperature of the Earth through remote sensing
Seminar
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Remote Sensing Colloquium
Universität Zürich, Switzerland
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2020/12/23 - 2020/12/23 | Earth Engine Meetup: "Google Earth Engine open-source code for Land Surface Temperature estimation from the Landsat series"
Seminar
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Earth Engine Meetup
Yale University, United States
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2019/10 - 2019/10 | Espaço vai à Escola: Observação da Terra a partir do Espaço
Seminar
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Espaço vai à Escola
Ciência Viva, Portugal
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Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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2021 | Ilhas de calor urbanas na Europa: Madrid vs. Paris
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Tomás Heitor Reis Gaspar (Other)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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2020/03/05 | Efeito de secas extremas nos balanços hidricos e de energia da Bacia Amazônica
(Thesis) Arguer
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Vitor Fonseca Vieira Vasconcelos de Miranda (Master)
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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2020 | Fogos rurais em Portugal: uma análise da base de dados oficial para o período 1980-2019
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Luana Sofia Cardoso dos Santos (Other)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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Committee member
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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2022 - Current | Comissão Coordenadora do Conselho Científico do IPMA
Member
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Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal |
Conference scientific committee
Conference name | Conference host | |
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2019/04/08 - 2019/04/12 | EGU General Assembly 2019 | Viena, Austria |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2021/07 - 2021/07 | Utilização de dados da LSA-SAF no Google Earth Engine | Estágios de Verão IPMA (Outros) | Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal |
2011/02/01 - 2011/07/31 | Laboratório Numérico | Meteorologia, Oceanografia e Geofísica (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
Journal scientific committee
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2018/01/23 - 2019/01/23 | Remote Sensing (2072-4292) | MDPI |
2018/12/06 - 2018/12/06 | IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (1558-0571) | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
2018/04/09 - 2018/09/26 | Remote Sensing of Environment (0034-4257) | Elsevier |
2017/06/14 - 2017/10/11 | Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (0148-0227) | American Geophysical Union |
2017/07/03 - 2017/07/03 | International Journal of Remote Sensing (1366-5901) | Informa UK (Taylor & Francis) |
2017/04/29 - 2017/04/29 | Arid Land Research and Management (1532-4990) | Informa UK (Taylor & Francis) |
2015/12/29 - 2015/12/29 | Advances in Space Research (0273-1177) | Elsevier |
Distinctions
Award
2018 | IDL Prize: Best PhD Student
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Geofísico do Infante Dom Luiz, Portugal
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2009 | Prémio de Mérito Académico
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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Other distinction
2017 | Bolsa Fulbright para Investigação
Fulbright Commission Portugal, Portugal
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