Dr. Vanessa Ferreira

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsMeteorology
Keywordsdroughts, successive extreme events, Amazon forest, climate extremes, compound extreme events

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityFreising
InstitutionTechnische Universität München
InstituteSchool of Life Sciences

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Anja RammigSchool of Life Sciences, Technische Universität München, Freising
Start of initial sponsorship01/05/2024

Programme(s)

2023Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2026Vanessa Ferreira, Letícia Oliveira dos Santos, Mauricio Ilha de Oliveira, Ernani de Lima Nascimento, Anja Rammig: Climatology and Environmental Controls of Intense Wind Gusts in the Brazilian Amazon. In: Geophysical Research Letters, 53, 2026,
2026Vanessa Ferreira, Maurício I. Oliveira, Ernani de Lima Nascimento: Proximity soundings and severe wind gusts in southern Brazil: insights from case studies. In: Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 138, 2026,
2026Allan Buras, Vanessa Ferreira, Nathielly Martins, Franziska I. J. Schnell and Anja Rammig: Record decline and slowing down of canopy-greenness in Amazonia during the 2023/2024 drought. In: Environmental Research Letters, 2026,
2025Vanessa Ferreira, Ernani de Lima Nascimento, Letícia Oliveira dos Santos: Convectively-induced wind gusts and associated environments in Southern Brazil. In: Climate Dynamics 63, 2025,
2025Vanessa Ferreira, Allan Buras, Jakob Zscheischler, Miguel Mahecha and Anja Rammig: Evaluating the 2023–2024 record dry-hot conditions in the Amazon in the context of historical compound extremes. In: Environmental Research Letters, 20, 2025,