Sandro F. Veiga

    Assistant Professor

    Email: sandroveiga@nju.edu.cn

    I joined the Nanjing-Helsinki Institute in Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences in October 2024. Currently, I focus my research on regional hydroclimatic extreme events and future changes under global warming, and the impact of tropical climate modes (e.g., ENSO or AMM) on regional hydroclimatic patterns under global warming (mainly in East Asia and South America).

    Students interested in master’s or doctoral studies, or researchers interested in postdocs in these topics, are encouraged to contact me for discussions on potential opportunities.

Work Experience

Oct. 2024 – present: Assistant Professor, Nanjing-Helsinki Institute in Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, Nanjing University, China.

Apr. 2020 – Sep. 2024: Research Scientist, Key Laboratory of Mesoscale Severe Weather/Ministry of Education and School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, China.

Jun. 2018 – Mar. 2020: Postdoctoral Research Scientist within the Earth League Doc programme (www.the-earth-league.org), National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil.

Jun. 2011 – Feb. 2013: Research Assistant, University of Évora, Portugal.

Jan. 2010 – Jul. 2010: Research Assistant, Geophysics Center - Dom Luiz Institute, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Education

2018 – Ph.D. in Earth System Science, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil.

2009 – MSc. in Engineering Physics, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal.

2008 – BSc. in Engineering Physics, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Research Interests

Regional Hydroclimatic Changes under Global Warming

Tropical Climate Variability and its Regional Impacts

Teaching

Undergraduate program: "General Physics I", "Introduction to Earth System Science"

Graduate program: "Academic Writing", "English course for PhD Students"

Publications

Alberti, M., Veiga, S. F., Chen, B., Hu, L., Fang, Z., Zhou, B., Pan, Y.: The Yangtze River Delta experienced strong seasonality and regular summer upwelling during the warm mid-Holocene. Communications Earth & Environment, 5, 492, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01668-1

Veiga, S. F., Yuan, H.: Evaluation of metrics for assessing dipolar climate patterns in climate models. Climate Dynamics, 62, 6487–6503, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-024-07220-3

Veiga, S. F., Nobre, P., Giarolla, E. et al.: Climate change over South America simulated by the Brazilian Earth system model under RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 scenarios. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 131, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2023.104598

Nobre, P., Veiga, S. F., Giarolla, E. et al.: AMOC decline and recovery in a warmer climate. Scientific Reports, 13, 15928, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-43143-5

Fialho, W.M.B., Carvalho, L.M.V., Gan, M.A., Veiga, S. F.: Mechanisms controlling persistent South Atlantic Convergence Zone events on intraseasonal timescales. Theor. Appl. Climatol., 152, 75–96, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-023-04375-7

Veiga, S. F. and Yuan, H.: The response of the East Asian summer rainfall to more extreme El Niño events in future climate scenarios. Atmospheric Research, 268, 1-6, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2021.105983.

Veiga, S. F. and Yuan, H.: Performance-based projection of precipitation extremes over China based on CMIP5/6 models using integrated quadratic distance. Weather and Climate Extremes, 34, 1-8, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2021.100398.

Giarolla, E., Veiga, S. F., Nobre, P., Silva Jr., M. B., Capistrano, V. B., Callegare, A. O.: Sea Surface Height trends in the Southern Hemisphere oceans simulated by the Brazilian Earth System Model under RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 scenarios. Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science, 70, 280-289, 2020. http://doi.org/10.1071/ES19042.

Capistrano, V. B., Nobre, P., Veiga, S. F., et al.: Assessing the performance of climate change simulation results from BESM-OA2.5 compared with a CMIP5 model ensemble, Geosci. Model Dev., 13, 2277–2296, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd- 13-2277-2020.

Venancio, I., Shimizu, M., Santos, T., Lessa, D. V. O., Portilho-Ramos, R., Chiessi, C., Crivellari, S., Mulitza, S., Kuhnert, H., Vahlenkamp, M., Bickert, T., Sampaio, G., Albuquerque, A. L., Tiedemann, R., Veiga, S., Nobre, P., and Nobre, C.: Changes in surface hydrography at the western tropical Atlantic during the Younger Dryas, Global and Planetary Changes. 184, 1–7, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.103047.

Veiga, S. F., Giarolla, E., Nobre, P., and Nobre, C. A.: Analyzing the influence of the North Atlantic Ocean variability on the Atlantic Meridional Mode on decadal time scales, Atmosphere, 11, 3, 2020. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11010003.

Veiga, S. F., Nobre, P., Giarolla, E., Capistrano, V., Baptista Jr., M., Marquez, A. L., Figueroa, S. N., Bonatti, J. P., Kubota, P., and Nobre, C. A.: The Brazilian Earth System Model ocean–atmosphere (BESM-OA) version 2.5: evaluation of its CMIP5 historical simulation, Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 1613–1642, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-1613-2019.

Serpa, D., Nunes, J. P., Santos, J., Sampaio, E., Jacinto, R., Veiga, S., Lima, J. C., Moreira, M., Corte-Real, J., Keizer, J. J., and Abrantes, N.: Impacts of climate and land use changes on the hydrological and erosion processes of two contrasting Mediterranean catchments, Sci. Total Environ., 538, 64–77, 2015. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.08.033.

Projects

2023 – 2026: “Paleoclimate data and climate modeling of hydroclimate conditions in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River basin: Evaluation and applications in future climate assessments”, GeoX Interdisciplinary Research Funds for the Frontiers Science Center for Critical Earth Material Cycling, Nanjing University (grant no. 020714380200), 200,000 RMB. (Principal Investigator)

2021 – 2022: “Impact of extreme ENSO conditions on the East Asian summer monsoon simulated by CMIP6 models under SSP 2-4.5 climate scenario”, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Research Fund for International Young Scientists, (grant no. 42050410322), 400,000 RMB. (Principal Investigator)