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Humberto Ribeiro da Rocha Versão em português
Steering Committees for Special Programs - FAPESP Research Program on Global Climate Change
Humberto Ribeiro da Rocha is graduated in Civil-Aeronautics Engineering, MSc and PhD in in Meteorology, and helds a chair of Full Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
His works use hydroclimatology and micrometeorology, with emphasys on the land terrestrial ecosystems, which include the water use and dynamics, from the soil to the atmosphere, for various ecosystems as crops, Cerrado, Amazonian and Atlantic forest.
He coordinates a Lab at USP that seeks to measure and model the water and carbon balance from the catchment to regional scale, to help improving public policies of sustainable water use and practical uses of the environmental services.