General Info
Institution:Instituto Superior Técnico Department:
Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Arquitectura e Ambiente Research Group:
Environment and Water Resources
Ciência ID:
FF1D-D487-36EC Orcid:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5221-1139 Research ID:
https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/1418258 Scopus ID:
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=15725870100 Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=m8We4iQAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT ResearchGate:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maria_Portela4
Contact Info
Email:maria.manuela.portela@tecnico.ulisboa.pt
Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva
Full Professor
Expert in hydrology; hydrologic modeling, stationary and non-stationary statistical modeling, risk analysis, water resources planning and management and design of hydraulic systems, with emphasis for hydropower schemes. Has a wide and comprehensive experience in the analysis and mathematical modeling of most of the components of the hydrologic and hydraulic systems.
Examples of her studies are:
- (i) the appraisal and modeling of the surface runoff in ungauged watersheds at different time scales, from the day to the year;
- (ii)) the design of artificial reservoirs aiming at ensuring different water amounts with different reliabilities, also under the scarcity of discharge data;
- (iii) the establishment of intensive and short duration rainfalls,
- (iv) the regionalization and evaluation of the flood discharges, also under scarcity data constraints;
- (v) the establishment of ecological flows in arid and semi-arid regions supported by hydrologic and hydraulic criteria;
- (vi) trend analysis in long hydrologic time series and its relation with the climate change;
- (vii) extensive drought characterization, modeling and forecasting in mainland Portugal but also in other countries (Slovakia) and regions (South America); and
- (viii) the non-stationary characterization of extreme hydrological variables.
| Title | Authors | Year | Volume | DOI | Journal | Impact factor Clar.Analytics | CERIS Members |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Do cyprinid fish use lateral flow-refuges during hydropeaking? | Boavida, I.; Costa, M.J.; Portela, M.M.; Godinho, F.; Tuhtan, J.; Pinheiro, A. | 2023 | V. 39, n.º 3(554-560 | 10.1002/rra.3863 | River Research and Applications | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva, António Alberto do Nascimento Pinheiro, Isabel Maria Bento de Matos Boavida, Maria João Ferreira Rodrigues Costa | |
| Addressing the Spatiotemporal Patterns of Heatwaves in Portugal with a Validated ERA5-Land Dataset (1980–2021) | Espinosa, L.A.; Portela, M.M.; Moreira Freitas, L.M.; Gharbia, S. | 2023 | V. 15, n.º 17 (art. 3102) | 10.3390/w15173102 | Water | 3.4 | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva, Luis Angel Espinosa Villalpando |
| Drought Characterization in Croatia Using E-OBS Gridded Data | Santos, J.F.; Tadic, L.; Portela, M.M.; Espinosa, L.A.; Brlekovic, T. | 2023 | V. 15, n.º 21 (art. 3806) | 10.3390/w15213806 | Water | 3.4 | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva, Luis Angel Espinosa Villalpando |
| Grid-Point Rainfall Trends, Teleconnection Patterns, and Regionalised Droughts in Portugal (1919–2019) | Espinosa, L.A.; Portela, M.M. | 2022 | V. 14, n.º 12 (art. 1863) | 10.3390/w14121863 | Water | 3.530 | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva, Luis Angel Espinosa Villalpando |
| Climate Change Trends in a European Coastal Metropolitan Area: Rainfall, Temperature, and Extreme Events (1864–2021) | Espinosa, L.A.; Portela, M.M.; Matos, J.P.; Gharbia, S. | 2022 | V. 13, n.º 12 (art. 1995) | 10.3390/atmos13121995 | Atmosphere | 3.110 | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva, Luis Angel Espinosa Villalpando, José Pedro Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos |
| Regionalization of droughts from the SPI in the Segura hydrographic basin and Commonwealth of Taibilla Channels (Southeast of Spain) [Regionalización de sequías a partir del SPI en la Demarcación Hidrográfica del Segura y Mancomunidad de los Canales del Taibilla (sureste de España)] | Álvarez, V.R.; Portela, M.M.; Espinosa, L.A.; Marín, R.G.; Serrato, F.B.; Álvarez, M.R. | 2021 | n.º 88 | 10.21138/BAGE.3045 | Boletin de la Asociacion de Geografos Espanoles | 1,748 | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva, Luis Angel Espinosa Villalpando |
| Bivariate modelling of a teleconnection index and extreme rainfall in a small north atlantic island | Espinosa, L.A.; Portela, M.M.; Filho, J.D.P.; Zelenakova, M. | 2021 | V. 9, n.º 5 (art. 86) | 10.3390/cli9050086 | Climate | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva, Luis Angel Espinosa Villalpando | |
| Rainfall trends over a North Atlantic small island in the period 1937/1938–2016/2017 and an early climate teleconnection | Espinosa, L.A.; Portela, M.M.; Rodrigues, R. | 2021 | V. 144, n.º 1-2 (469-491) | 10.1007/s00704-021-03547-7 | Theoretical and Applied Climatology | 3.179 | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva, Luis Angel Espinosa Villalpando |
| Sensitivity analysis of a simplified precipitation-runoff model to estimate water availability in Southern Portuguese watersheds [Analisi di sensitività di un modello semplificato di precipitazione-deflusso per stimare la disponibilità di acqua nei bacini idrici del Portogallo meridionale] | Martins, T.N.; Oliveira, M.M.; Portela, M.M.; Leitão, T.E. | 2021 | V. 10, n.º 2 (33-47) | 10.7343/as-2021-514 | Acque Sotterranee - Italian Journal of Groundwater | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva | |
| Modulation of the goodness of fit in hydrological modelling based on inner balance errors | Pellicer-Martínez, F.; Gomariz-Castillo, F.; Portela, M.M.; Martínez-Alcalá, I.M.; Martínez-Paz, J.M. | 2021 | V. 16, n.º 11 | 10.1371/journal.pone.0260117 | Plos One | 3.240 | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva |
| Updated rainfall series and their trends for mainland Portugal (1913-2019) | Portela, M.M.; Espinosa, L.A.; Zelenakova, M. | 2021 | V. 250 (3-12) | 10.2495/WRM210011 | WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment | 0.490 | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva, Luis Angel Espinosa Villalpando |
| A GLM copula approach for multisite annual streamflow generation | Porto, V.C.; Souza Filho, F.D.A.D.; Carvalho, T.M.N.; Studart, T.M.D.C.; Portela, M.M. | 2021 | V. 598 (art. 126226) | 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126226 | Journal of Hydrology | 5.722 | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva |
| Habitat use by Pseudochondrostoma duriense and Squalius carolitertii downstream of a small-scale hydropower plant | Boavida, I.; Ambrósio, F.; Costa, M.J.; Quaresma, A.; Portela, M.M.; Pinheiro, A.N.; Godinho, F. | 2020 | V. 12, n.º 9, (2252) , -. | 10.3390/w12092522 | Water | 2,544 | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva, António Alberto do Nascimento Pinheiro, Isabel Maria Bento de Matos Boavida, Maria João Ferreira Rodrigues Costa, Ana Isabel da Rocha e Sá Lopes Quaresma |
| Rainfall trends over a small island teleconnected to the North Atlantic oscillation - the case of Madeira Island, Portugal | Espinosa, L.A.; Portela, M.M. | 2020 | V. 34, (4449-4467) , November. | 10.1007/s11269-020-02668-4 | Water Resources Management | 2,924 | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva |
| Significant extremal dependence of a daily North Atlantic Oscillation Index (NAOI) and weighted regionalised rainfall in a small island using the extremogram | Espinosa, L.A.; Portela, M.M.; Rodrigues, R. | 2020 | V. 12, n.º 11, (2989) , November. | 10.3390/w12112989 | Water | 2,544 | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva |
| Long-term rainfall trends and their variability in Mainland Portugal in the last 106 years | Portela, M.M.; Espinosa, L.A.; Zelenakova, M. | 2020 | V. 8, n.º 12, (146) , -. | 10.3390/cli8120146 | Climate | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva | |
| Jointly modeling drought characteristics with smoothed regionalized SPI series for a small island | Espinosa, L.A.; Portela, M.M.; Pontes Filho, J.D.; Studart, T.M.C.; Santos, J.F.; Rodrigues, R. | 2019 | V. 11, nº12, art. 2489, December | 10.3390/w11122489 | Water | 2,524 | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva |
| Spatio-temporal variability of droughts over past 80 years in Madeira Island | Espinosa, L.A.; Portela, M.M.; Rodrigues, R. | 2019 | V. 25, art. 100623, October. | 10.1016/j.ejrh.2019.100623 | Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies | 3,645 | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva |
| A continuous drought probability monitoring system, CDPMS, based on copulas | Filho, J.D.P.; Portela, M.M.; Studart, T.M.C.; Filho, F.A.S. | 2019 | V. 11, n.º 9, art. 1925,September. | 10.3390/w11091925 | Water | 2,524 | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva |
| Estimation of streamflow recession parameters: New insights from an analytic streamflow distribution model | Santos, A.C.; Portela, M.M.; Rinaldo, A.; Schaefli, B. | 2019 | V. 33, n.º 11, 1595-1609, May. | 10.1002/hyp.13425 | Hydrological Processes | 3,189 | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva |
| Towards safer data-driven forecasting of extreme streamflows | Matos, J.P.; Portela, M.M.; Schleiss, A.J. | 2018 | 22, n.º 2 | 10.1007/s11269-017-1834-z | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva | ||
| The abundance and distribution of guilds of riparian woody plants change in response to land use and flow regulation | Aguiar, F.C.; Segurado, P.; Martins, M.J.; Bejarano, M.D.; Nilsson, C.; Portela, M.M.; Merritt, D.M. | 2018 | V. 55, n.º 5, 2227-2240, September | 10.1111/1365-2664.13110 | Journal of Applied Ecology | 5,782 | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva |
| Towards safer data-driven forecasting of extreme streamflows | Matos, J.P.; Portela, M.M.; Schleiss, A.J. | 2018 | V. 22, n.º 2, 701-720, January | 10.1007/s11269-017-1834-z | Water Resources Management | 2,977 | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva |
| Analytical flow duration curves for summer streamflow in Switzerland | Santos, A.C.; Portela, M.M.; Rinaldo, A.; Schaefli, B. | 2018 | V. 22, n.º 4, 2377-2389, April | 10.5194/hess-22-2377-2018 | Hydrology and Earth System Sciences | 4,936 | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva, Ana Clara Pereira Barbosa Santos |
| Using climate-flood links and CMIP5 projections to assess flood design levels under climate change scenarios: A case study in Southern Brazil | Silva, A.T.; Portela, M.M. | 2018 | V. 32, n.º 15, 4879-4893, December | 10.1007/s11269-018-2058-6 | Water Resources Management | 2,977 | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva |
| Trends in precipitation and temperatures in Eastern Slovakia (1962-2014) | Zeleňáková, M.; Purcz, P.; Blišt'an, P.; Vranayová, Z.; Hlavatá, H.; Diaconu, D.C.; Portela, M.M. | 2018 | V. 10, n.º 6, art. 727, June | 10.3390/w10060727 | Water | 2,524 | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva |
| Student Name | Supervisor | External Supervisor | Co-Supervisors | External Co-Supervisor #1 | External Co-Supervisor #2 | Title | PhD Programme | Universities Granting Title | Funding Institution | Scholarship | Total PhD Funding | PhD Funding for CERIS | Begining Date | End Date | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva | José Pedro Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos | Climate change: impacts on extreme hydrological phenomena in Portugal. | Civil Engineering | IST – Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal) | FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia | 45170 | ongoing | |||||||||
| Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva | Climate Change Impacts on Sustainable Management of Surface Water Reservoir Systems in Portugal. | Civil Engineering | IST – Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal) | FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia | 2022/00/00 | ongoing | ||||||||||
| Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva | Teresa Leitão e de Manuel de Oliveira | Manuel Mendes Oliveira | Mitigate water scarcity through nature-based solutions using Managed Aquifer Recharge. Hydrological and hydrogeological studies and decision support protocol development | Civil Engineering | IST – Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal) | FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia | 2018/00/00 | ongoing | ||||||||
| Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva | Fenómenos hidrológicos extremos em Portugal Continental em cenários de alteração climática. | Civil Engineering | IST – Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal) | ongoing | ||||||||||||
| Luis Angel Espinosa Villalpando | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva | Rui José Raposo Rodrigues | Changes in Hydrological Extremes: Advances in Climate-Induced Extremes Focusing on a Small North Atlantic Island. | Civil Engineering | IST – Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal) | FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia | FCT scholarship PD/BD/128509/2017 | 42774 | 44462 | 2021 | ||||||
| Ana Clara Pereira Barbosa Santos | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva | Andrea Rinaldo | On flow duration curve modelling in Alpine catchments. | Civil Engineering | EPFL – École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Swiss), IST – Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal) | FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia | FCT scholarship PD/BD/52663/2014 - H2DOC PhD program | 41964 | 43635 | 2019 |
| Name | Reference | Type | PI Names | CERIS Coordinator | Research Group | Other CERIS Members | Leading Institution | Other Institutions | Funding Institutions | Total Funding | Funding for Ceris | Beginning Date | End Date | State | Website | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HY4RES – Hybrid solutions for Renewable Energy Systems: achieving net-zero Atlantic area energy consumers & communities | EAPA_0001/2022 | International | Helena Margarida Machado da Silva Ramos | Dídia Isabel Cameira Covas, Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva, Jorge de Saldanha Gonçalves Matos | Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) | EU Interreg Atlantic Area | 3200498,9 | 281625 | 2023/12/01 | 2026/11/30 | ||||||
| SCORE – Smart Control of the Climate Resilience in European Coastal Cities | Grant agreement ID: 101003534 | International | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva | Rodrigo de Almada Cardoso Proença de Oliveira, José Pedro Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos | ATU – Atlantic Technological University (Ireland) | EU Horizon 2020 Framework Programme | 9980831 | 336181,25 | 2021/07/01 | 2025/06/30 | https://score-eu-project.eu/ | |||||
| EcoPeak4Fish – An Integrated Approach to Support Self-Sustaining Fish Populations Downstream Hydropower Plants | PTDC/EAM-AMB/4531/2020 | National | Isabel Maria Bento de Matos Boavida | Isabel Maria Bento de Matos Boavida | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva, António Alberto do Nascimento Pinheiro, Maria João Ferreira Rodrigues Costa | IST-ID – Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento (Portugal) | FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia | 262819,03 | 205986,25 | 2021/03/01 | 2024/02/29 | https://ecopeak4fish.com/ | ||||
| Hydrological risk: from excess to scarcity of water | SK-PT-18-0008 | International | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva | Luis Angel Espinosa Villalpando | FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Scientific Cooperation Agreement between Portugal and Slovakia) | 4600 | 2019/01/15 | 2022/12/31 | |||||||
| SWARM – Strengthening of Master Curricula in Water Resources Management for the Western Balkans HEIs and Stakeholders. Capacity-Building projects in the field of Higher Education (E+CBHE) | 597888-EPP-1-2018-1-RS-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP | International | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva | Rodrigo de Almada Cardoso Proença de Oliveira, Luís Filipe Tavares Ribeiro | University of NIS (Serbia) | Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union | 931289 | 33920 | 2018/11/15 | 2021/11/14 | http://www.swarm.ni.ac.rs/ | |||||
| EcoPeak – Hydropeaking indicators | National | Isabel Maria Bento de Matos Boavida | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva, Ana Paula Martins Falcão Flor | CERIS – Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability (Portugal) | CERIS – Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability (Portugal) | 7460 | 2018/06/01 | 2018/12/31 | ||||||||
| REDAWN – Reducing Energy Dependency in Atlantic Area Water Networks | EAPA_198/2016 | International | Helena Margarida Machado da Silva Ramos | Helena Margarida Machado da Silva Ramos | Dídia Isabel Cameira Covas, Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva, Jorge de Saldanha Gonçalves Matos | Action Renewables Ltd (United Kingdom) | EU Interreg Europe | 2900000 | 575814,95 | 2017/06/22 | 2022/05/30 | https://www.redawn.eu/ | ||||
| Assessing the risk of extreme hydrological phenomena | SK-PT-2015-0007 | International | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva | Ana Clara Pereira Barbosa Santos, José Pedro Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos | FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Scientific Cooperation Agreement between Portugal and Slovakia) | 8000 | 2016/00/00 | 2018/00/00 |
| Title | Authors | Year | Book Series | Publisher | Edition | DOI | ISBN/ISSN | CERIS Members |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| “Risk in water related topics”, in CapWEM Series “Capacity Development in Water Engineering and Environmental Management”, Volume 7 | Portela, M.M.; Ramalheira, A | 2014 | Maria Manuela Portela Correia dos Santos Ramos da Silva |