Dr Rafael Rosolem
BSc(S.Paulo), MSc(S.Paulo), PhD(Arizona)
Current positions
Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
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Research interests
Terrestrial hydrometeorology studies the exchange processes of water and energy between the land surface and the lower atmosphere, their interactions and feedbacks. The ecology of the land surface is also an important aspect that controls hydrological and meteorological phenomena. Some of these land surface processes, such as floodings, extreme weather, landslides, climate change, among others, can potentially affect our society.
My research focuses on understanding and improving physical and physiological mechanisms associated with the water, energy, and biogeochemical cycles. To achieve that, I combinemeasurements and land surface models (also known as soil-vegetation-atmosphere transfer schemes, SVATs) into data assimilation frameworks such as parameter or state estimation techniques. I am also involved in the development and dissemination of a new measurement technique which provides soil moisture at intermediate spatial scales from cosmic-rays.
Positions
University of Bristol positions
Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
NERC IOF Bristol - USP: Brazilian Experimental datasets for MUlti-scale Subsurface-surface interactions under Extreme Drought (BEMUSED)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Civil EngineeringDates
01/02/2018 to 30/08/2021
MOSAIC Digital Environment Feasibility Study
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Civil EngineeringDates
14/11/2019 to 13/11/2020
Impacts of Climate Change on the Water Balance in East African Drylands
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Climate change in East African dryland countries will have devastating consequences on already precarious water resources, yet it is not known how, where, and which water stores will be most…Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/12/2018 to 31/07/2019
A MUlti-scale Soil moisture-Evapotranspiration Dynamics study - AMUSED
Principal Investigator
Description
The ultimate goal of the AMUSED project is to identify the spatiotemporal scale-dependency of key dominant processes that control changes in soil moisture and land-atmosphere interactions. Soil moisture plays a…Managing organisational unit
Department of Civil EngineeringDates
30/11/2014 to 30/05/2019
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
01/11/2020Performance evaluation of Eta/HadGEM2-ES and Eta/MIROC5 precipitation simulations over Brazil
Atmospheric Research
Empirical evidence for resilience of tropical forest photosynthesis in a warmer world
Nature Plants
Opportunities and challenges in using catchment-scale storage estimates from cosmic ray neutron sensors for rainfall-runoff modelling
Journal of Hydrology
Towards the representation of groundwater in the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator
Hydrological Processes
A soil moisture monitoring network to characterize karstic recharge and evapotranspiration at five representative sites across the globe
Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems