José Marengo

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

José Marengo is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, José Marengo has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 14 papers in Atmospheric Science and 3 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in José Marengo's work include Climate variability and models (21 papers), Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (10 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (7 papers). José Marengo is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (21 papers), Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (10 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (7 papers). José Marengo collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, United States and Peru. José Marengo's co-authors include Jhan Carlo Espinoza, Rong Fu, Lincoln Muniz Alves, Ricardo M. Trigo, Hans Segura, Josyane Ronchail, David J. Karoly, Francis W. Zwiers, Myles Allen and J. F. B. Mitchell and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

José Marengo

34 papers receiving 2.7k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Extreme seasonal droughts and floods in Amazonia: causes, trends and impacts

2015 593 citations José Marengo, Jhan Carlo Espinoza International Journal of Climatology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
José Marengo Brazil	18	2.2k	1.2k	504	498	217	35	2.8k
Wagner R. Soares Brazil	9	1.6k 0.7×	770 0.7×	456 0.9×	492 1.0×	174 0.8×	14	2.2k
Jennifer Nakamura United States	22	2.2k 1.0×	1.5k 1.3×	377 0.7×	274 0.6×	331 1.5×	33	2.7k
Zheng Du China	23	1.5k 0.7×	863 0.7×	363 0.7×	685 1.4×	142 0.7×	94	2.5k
Patrick Samuelsson Sweden	25	2.2k 1.0×	1.7k 1.4×	505 1.0×	285 0.6×	366 1.7×	52	3.0k
Paola A. Arias Colombia	26	1.8k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	322 0.6×	319 0.6×	129 0.6×	73	2.3k
Peter R. Waylen United States	28	1.9k 0.8×	923 0.8×	704 1.4×	498 1.0×	154 0.7×	100	2.7k
Stéphane Goyette Switzerland	23	1.7k 0.8×	1.5k 1.2×	534 1.1×	349 0.7×	311 1.4×	54	3.0k
Waldo Lavado‐Casimiro Peru	31	2.2k 1.0×	1.9k 1.6×	923 1.8×	496 1.0×	229 1.1×	89	3.4k
Monica Ioniță Germany	30	2.0k 0.9×	1.5k 1.3×	407 0.8×	279 0.6×	522 2.4×	120	2.8k
Guoxiong Zheng China	23	1.3k 0.6×	1.1k 0.9×	493 1.0×	503 1.0×	176 0.8×	43	2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of José Marengo

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Marengo, José, Jhan Carlo Espinoza, Juan C. Jiménez‐Muñoz, et al.. (2025). Climatological patterns of heatwaves during winter and spring 2023 and trends for the period 1979–2023 in central South America. Frontiers in Climate. 7. 7 indexed citations

Marengo, José, Enner Alcântara, Osvaldo L. L. Moraes, et al.. (2025). Early warning services for disaster risk reduction in Brazil: The experience of CEMADEN during the floods of Rio Grande do Sul of May 2024. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 126. 105645–105645. 3 indexed citations

Marengo, José, Giovanni Dolif, Luz Adriana Cuartas, et al.. (2024). O maior desastre climático do Brasil: chuvas e inundações no estado do Rio Grande do Sul em abril-maio 2024. Estudos Avançados. 38(112). 203–228. 7 indexed citations

Marengo, José. (2024). Impactos sociais dos eventos climáticos extremos. Ciência e Cultura. 76(3). 1–8.

Marengo, José, Ana Paula Martins do Amaral Cunha, Jhan Carlo Espinoza, et al.. (2024). The Drought of Amazonia in 2023-2024. American Journal of Climate Change. 13(3). 567–597. 27 indexed citations

Hagenlocher, Michael, Gustavo Naumann, Isabel Meza, et al.. (2023). Tackling Growing Drought Risks—The Need for a Systemic Perspective. Earth s Future. 11(9). 17 indexed citations

Lapola, David M., Patrícia Pinho, Carlos A. Quesada, et al.. (2018). Limiting the high impacts of Amazon forest dieback with no-regrets science and policy action. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(46). 11671–11679. 40 indexed citations

Fu, Rong, Muhammad Shaikh, S. J. Ghan, et al.. (2017). Influence of Superparameterization and a Higher‐Order Turbulence Closure on Rainfall Bias Over Amazonia in Community Atmosphere Model Version 5. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 122(18). 9879–9902. 12 indexed citations

Marengo, José, et al.. (2017). Meteorological context of the onset and end of the rainy season in Central Amazonia during the 2014–15 Go-Amazon Experiment. 3 indexed citations

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Marengo, José, et al.. (2017). Meteorological context of the onset and end of the rainy season in Central Amazonia during the GoAmazon2014/5. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 17(12). 7671–7681. 30 indexed citations

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Alves, Lincoln Muniz, José Marengo, Rong Fu, & Rodrigo J. Bombardi. (2017). Sensitivity of Amazon Regional Climate to Deforestation. American Journal of Climate Change. 6(1). 75–98. 56 indexed citations

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Aragão, Luiz E. O. C., José Marengo, Peter M. Cox, et al.. (2016). Assessing the Influence of Climate Extremes on Ecosystems and Human Health in Southwestern Amazon Supported by the PULSE-Brazil Platform. American Journal of Climate Change. 5(3). 399–416. 8 indexed citations

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Gimeno, Luís, Francina Domínguez, Raquel Nieto, et al.. (2016). Major Mechanisms of Atmospheric Moisture Transport and Their Role in Extreme Precipitation Events. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 41(1). 117–141. 233 indexed citations

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Boers, Niklas, Bodo Bookhagen, Henrique M. J. Barbosa, et al.. (2014). Prediction of extreme floods in the Central Andes by means of Complex Networks. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 7173. 3 indexed citations

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Samuelsson, Patrick, Silvina A. Solman, Enrique Sánchez, et al.. (2013). Regional climate change projections over South America based on the CLARIS-LPB RCM ensemble. EGUGA. 2 indexed citations

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Mendes, David & José Marengo. (2010). South America downscaling: using spatial artificial neural network. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 9475. 1 indexed citations

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Liebmann, Brant, Suzana J. Camargo, Anji Seth, et al.. (2007). Onset and End of the Rainy Season in South America in Observations and the ECHAM 4.5 Atmospheric General Circulation Model. Journal of Climate. 20(10). 2037–2050. 113 indexed citations

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Marengo, José, et al.. (2004). Diurnal variability of rainfall in southwest Amazonia during the LBA-TRMM field campaign of the austral summer of 1999. Acta Amazonica. 34(4). 593–603. 17 indexed citations

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Mitchell, J. F. B., et al.. (2001). Detection of climate change and attribution of causes. Biblioteca Digital da Memória Científica do INPE (National Institute for Space Research). 696–738. 189 indexed citations

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Marengo, José. (1992). Interannual variability of surface climate in the Amazon basin. International Journal of Climatology. 12(8). 853–863. 225 indexed citations

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