Regina R Rodrigues

Regina R Rodrigues

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| Professor of Physical Oceanography and Climate @ufsc | Love all things nature...

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World Weather Attribution
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New study: Intense rainfall - like the deluge behind Brazil’s recent fatal landslides - will intensify as the planet continues to warm. Over 70 were killed in the state of Minas Gerais in late February with Juiz de Fora - the worst impacted city - seeing its wettest month on record. 🧵 1/4

Regina R Rodrigues
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From Belém #COP30 to Paris #IPCC… Starting my AR7 journey. The First IPCC Leading Author Meeting is underway in Paris. For the first time, authors from all three working groups are meeting for a full week to review and assess the latest climate research...

Regina R Rodrigues
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When they announced that #COP30 would be in Belém and all the logistical problems that followed, I was convinced it was a bad idea... On 09/11 flying to Belém, the plane was packed with foreigners talking and laughing... as we approached landing, we could see the forest, silence took over...

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Title: 10 New Insights in Climate Science: Evidence, Risks, and Solutions Date & Time: November 10, 2025, 12:00–13:00 BRT Location: Planetary Science Pavilion, Blue Zone Speakers: Wendy Broadgate (Moderator), Johan Rockström (Presenter), Regina R. Rodrigues (Speaker), Marina Hirota (Speaker)

Regina R Rodrigues
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It was indeed a day of great learning from the discussion about the ocean climate nexus! 🌊

BPBES@bpbes.bsky.social

A day of a LOT of learning and information exchange between FAPESP's Environmental Programmes and DAVID OBURA, Chair of IPBES

Regina R Rodrigues
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🌊🌡️The frequency and intensity of these triple compound events have increased dramatically over the past two decades, occurring practically every year since 2016. This threatens the capability of marine ecosystems to recover from these compound extremes. Example for the eastern equatorial Atlantic...

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🌊🌡️The adverse effects of ocean warming combined with acidification on marine ecosystems can be mitigated by increased food availability. However, this is not possible when extremes of warming and high acidity co-occur with low net primary productivity, i.e., a decrease in food availability.

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Nature Communications
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New study by @rrrocean.bsky.social, @froeltho.bsky.social et al. shows that the co-occurrence of #MarineHeatwaves with extremes of high #acidity and low #chlorophyll concentrations increased dramatically over the past two decades in the equatorial and #SouthAtlantic. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comExtreme compound events in the equatorial and South Atlantic - Nature CommunicationsThe co-occurrence of marine heatwaves with extremes of high acidity and low chlorophyll concentrations has increased dramatically over the past two decades in the equatorial and South Atlantic. El Niñ...
Regina R Rodrigues
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I just returned from Hawaiʻi, energised by two fantastic events at the Univ. of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa The symposium celebrating the scientific legacy of Klaus Wyrtki & the ENSO winter school I made new acquaintances, met old friends & learned a lot! Mahalo to Christina Karamperidou & Malte Stuecker

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The increase in the severity of the marine heatwaves in the western tropical Atlantic is not accompanied by trends in the strength of the local drivers, suggesting that weaker forcing can lead to more devastating marine heatwaves as the global ocean temperature rises due to climate change.

Regina R Rodrigues
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Marine heatwaves are 5.1 times more frequent and 4.7 times more intense since the records started in 1982, with the 10 most extreme summers/falls in terms of marine heatwave cumulative intensity and spatial extension occurring in the last two decades.

Regina R Rodrigues
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I have been receiving the sad news about massive NOAA firing. I cannot explain how important NOAA is for science globally. The data and model outputs generated by NOAA globally allow researchers from countries that don’t have the funding or capability to develop those to do their own science. 🌊🧵

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For many years, I have been involved in the Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic (PIRATA) Programme, and I can attest to this. PIRATA is a successful collaboration among the US (NOAA), Brazil, and France. However, its data are assimilated and used by many across the globe.

Regina R Rodrigues
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The PIRATA committee is currently facing the challenging task of determining which buoys in the array to keep in the water. This decision will disrupt the long-term series established in 1997. What a sad way to show that science has no borders.

Regina R Rodrigues
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As a Brazilian born during the military dictatorship, I can say this film is also an analogy for what Brazil could have become had it not been for the dictatorship. A beachfront Brazil full of friends and laughter, books and art, cigars, whisky and celebrations… 🧵

The Guardian@theguardian.com

I’m Still Here review – wrenching true-life saga of a Brazilian family torn apart by military rule

theguardian.comI’m Still Here review – wrenching true-life saga of a Brazilian family torn apart by military ruleWhen a congressman is abducted from his beachfront home in 1970s Rio, his wife and children are left reeling – for decades – in Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated drama starring an extraordinary Fernanda Torres
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Regina R Rodrigues
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The alleged reason for the coup was the social reform the then President Goulart proposed. You can guess the main points: land, education, and voting reforms, but mainly fiscal reform, which increased government regulation and stopped money evasion... the very reason we have now the Musks and Trumps

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These social reforms were considered too “communist” and deservedly a military coup backed by the USA to stamp them. The results were an ever-unequal and impoverished Brazil or Latin America… A situation that has finally got back to bite Americans' asses... pardon my language...

Regina R Rodrigues
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As a Brazilian born during the military dictatorship, I can say this film is also an analogy for what Brazil could have become had it not been for the dictatorship. A beachfront Brazil full of friends and laughter, books and art, cigars, whisky and celebrations… 🧵

The Guardian@theguardian.com

I’m Still Here review – wrenching true-life saga of a Brazilian family torn apart by military rule

theguardian.comI’m Still Here review – wrenching true-life saga of a Brazilian family torn apart by military ruleWhen a congressman is abducted from his beachfront home in 1970s Rio, his wife and children are left reeling – for decades – in Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated drama starring an extraordinary Fernanda Torres
Regina R Rodrigues
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It is estimated that 434 people were killed, a small number when compared to the Argentinean & Chilean dictatorships. But it killed the very best people with political aspirations in Brazil. A vacuum that was filled gradually by the worst.

Regina R Rodrigues
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🌊 The Marine Heatwave Research Focus is a working group of WCRP-CLIVAR, chaired by Antonietta Capotondi and me. We just published this review paper, and many open questions remain about their vertical structure, prediction and projections… rdcu.be/d2Xh0

rdcu.beA global overview of marine heatwaves in a changing climateCommunications Earth & Environment - Improved understanding of marine heatwave predictability and impacts requires analysis of these extremes at full ocean depth, using models and observations...
Regina R Rodrigues
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#COP29 Painel Nexus Oceano-Clima e Sociedade promovido pela Rede Clima, rede de cientistas ligada ao MCTI discutirá ações de adaptação e mitigação do oceano, incluindo o uso de finanças azuis e cooperação entre estruturas de governança e convenções para melhor apoiar a capacitação.

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Don’t forget to apply or submit your abstract! 🌊

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🌊Celebrating the Scientific Legacy of Klaus Wyrtki We are organizing a symposium and an ENSO Winter School 2025 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of two milestone events of early ENSO research that involved Klaus Wyrtki of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.