Cláudio Cardoso

ARDITI - Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação

The Island Mass Effect has been primarily attributed to nutrient enhancement of waters surrounding oceanic islands due to physical processes, whereas the role of land runoff has seldom been considered. Land runoff can be particularly relevant in mountainous islands, highly susceptible to torrential rainfall that rapidly leads to flash floods. Madei...

This outreach article explains the importance of ocean currents in transporting particles, organisms, and litter across large oceanic basins.

The constant increase of marine plastic pollution poses an unprecedented risk to oceanic islands, which become increasingly exposed to a hazard of which they have very little control. Located in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean, the Macaronesia is comprised by the Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands, and Cabo Verde. Although past studies suggest that most...

Deep-ocean islands have long been associated with the generation of oceanic eddies in their wakes, but their interaction with incoming eddies has seldom been considered. This study aimed to fill this gap, focusing in the Cabo Verde Archipelago between 2003-2014, an ideal location given the complex islands disposition and shape, and its exposure to...

The amount of sediments to be dredged and disposed depends to a large part on the suspended particulate matter (SPM) concentration. Tidal, meteorological, climatological, and seasonal forcings have an influence on the horizontal and vertical distribution of the SPM in the water column and on the bed and control the inflow of fine-grained sediments...