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Ricardo Barros Lourenco

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17 publications.

01

Exploring causal pathways among soil moisture, climate and ocean–atmosphere teleconnection patterns over the drought-prone Greater Horn of Africa

Zhuo W, Fang S, Gao X, Lourenço RB, Yu Y, Han J, Gonsamo A

Journal of Hydrology20264 citations
02

Aboveground biomass mapping of Canada with SAR and optical satellite observations aided by active learning

Qin S, Wang H, Rogers C, Bermúdez J, Lourenço RB, Zhang J, Li X, Chau J, Tompalski P, Gonsamo A

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing202512 citations
03

Improving the reproducibility in geoscientific papers: lessons learned from a Hackathon in climate science

Coca-Castro A, Fouilloux A, Barros Lourenço R, McDonald A, Rao Y, Hosking JS

Environmental Data Science20253 citations
04

Causal effects of teleconnection patterns on soil moisture through different climate paths over the Greater Horn of Africa

Zhuo W, Fang S, Gao X, Lourenco RB, Yu Y, Han J, Gonsamo A

2025
05

Decision: Improving the reproducibility in geoscientific papers: lessons learned from a Hackathon in climate science — R0/PR4

Environmental Data Science2024
06

Interpreting Vegetation-Climate Interaction with Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)

Barros Lourenco R, Gonsamo Gosa A

2023First author
07

Detangling the role of climate in vegetation productivity with an explainable convolutional neural network

Lourenço RB, Smith MJ, Smullin S, Jain U, Gonsamo A, Ouaknine A

2023First author
08

CC Primer: Compute Canada for geoscientists in a rush

Barros Lourenco R

2022First author
09

Understanding climate-forest phenology interactions with AI

Barros Lourenco R, Gonsamo A

2022First author
10

Spatially Continuous Mapping of Forest Canopy Height in Canada by Combining GEDI and ICESat-2 with PALSAR and Sentinel

Sothe C, Gonsamo A, Lourenço RB, Kurz WA, Snider J

Remote Sensing202289 citations
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