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Pedro Sousa

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Pedro AC Sousa

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[HTML][HTML] Atmospheric blocking and weather extremes over the Euro-Atlantic sector–a review

…, JG Pinto, AM Ramos, PM Sousa… - Weather and climate …, 2022 - wcd.copernicus.org
The physical understanding and timely prediction of extreme weather events are of enormous
importance to society due to their associated impacts. In this article, we highlight several …

To burn-out or not to burn-out: a cross-sectional study in healthcare professionals in Spain during COVID-19 pandemic

M Torrente, PAC Sousa, A Sánchez-Ramos… - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective To assess the prevalence of burn-out syndrome in healthcare workers working on
the front line (FL) in Spain during COVID-19. Design Cross-sectional, online survey-based …

Combining complex networks and data mining: why and how

M Zanin, D Papo, PA Sousa, E Menasalvas, A Nicchi… - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
The increasing power of computer technology does not dispense with the need to extract
meaningful information out of data sets of ever growing size, and indeed typically exacerbates …

European temperature responses to blocking and ridge regional patterns

PM Sousa, RM Trigo, D Barriopedro, PMM Soares… - Climate Dynamics, 2018 - Springer
Blocking occurrence and its impacts on European temperature have been studied in the last
decade. However, most previous studies on blocking impacts have focused on winter only, …

Recent increasing frequency of compound summer drought and heatwaves in Southeast Brazil

…, A Russo, R Libonati, PM Sousa… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
An increase in the frequency of extremely hot and dry events has been experienced over
the past few decades in South America, and particularly in Brazil. Regional climate change …

The 'Day Zero'Cape Town drought and the poleward migration of moisture corridors

PM Sousa, RC Blamey, CJC Reason… - Environmental …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Since 2015 the greater Cape Town area (∼ 3.7 million people) has been experiencing the
worst drought of the last century. The combined effect of this prolonged dry period with an …

Modelling wildfire activity in Iberia with different atmospheric circulation weather types

RM Trigo, PM Sousa, MG Pereira… - International Journal …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This work focuses on the spatial and temporal variability of burnt area ( BA ) in the entire
Iberian Peninsula ( IP ) and on the construction of statistical models to reproduce the inter‐…

[HTML][HTML] Succinate causes pathological cardiomyocyte hypertrophy through GPR91 activation

CJ Aguiar, JA Rocha-Franco, PA Sousa… - Cell Communication and …, 2014 - Springer
Background Succinate is an intermediate of the citric acid cycle as well as an extracellular
circulating molecule, whose receptor, G protein-coupled receptor-91 (GPR91), was recently …

[HTML][HTML] Applications of sesquiterpene lactones: a review of some potential success cases

L Moujir, O Callies, PMC Sousa, F Sharopov… - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Sesquiterpene lactones, a vast range of terpenoids isolated from Asteraceae species,
exhibit a broad spectrum of biological effects and several of them are already commercially …

June 2017: the earliest European summer mega‐heatwave of Reanalysis Period

…, D Barriopedro, PM Sousa… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This paper examines the characteristics of the heatwave that affected western and central
Europe in June 2017. Using a novel algorithm, we show that its extension, intensity, and …