Nieto-Ferreira, R., M. Nissenbaum, and T.M. Rickenbach (2018). Climate change effects on summertime precipitation organization in the Southeast United States, Atmospheric Research, 214, 348-363. https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1Xdgdcd3S19g~

Luchetti, N., R. Nieto-Ferreira, T. M. Rickenbach, and J. McAuliffe, 2017: Influence of the North Atlantic Subtropical High on wet and dry sea-breeze events in North Carolina, United States. Investigaciones Geográficas, (68), 9-25. https://doi.org/10.14198/INGEO2017.68.01

T. M. Rickenbach, R. Nieto-Ferreira, M. Nissenbaum, and N. Golden, 2017: A case study of warm-season isolated and mesoscale precipitation in the southeastern United States. Submitted to J. Geophys. Res.

Rickenbach, T. M., R. Nieto-Ferreira, C. Zarzar, and B. Nelson, 2014: A seasonal and diurnal climatology of precipitation organization in the southeastern United States. Q. J. Roy. Met. Soc. DOI: 10.1002/qj.2500

Nieto-Ferreira, R., and L. Hall, 2014: Midlatitude cyclones in the southeastern United States: frequency and structure differences by cyclogenesis region. Int. J. Climatology. DOI: 10.1002/joc.4247

Nieto-Ferreira, R., L. Hall, and T. M. Rickenbach, 2012: A climatology of the structure, evolution, and propagation of midlatitude cyclones in the Southeastern United States. J. Climate, 26, 8406–8421, Download Here.

Rickenbach, T. M., R. Nieto-Ferreira, R. Barnhill, and S. Nesbitt, 2012: Seasonal and regional differences in the rainfall and intensity of isolated convection over South America. Int. J. Climatology, 33, 8, 2002-2007. Download Here.

Nieto-Ferreira, R., and W. Chao, 2011: Aqua-planet simulations of the role of Amazon convection and cold fronts in the formation of the South Atlantic Convergence Zone. International Journal of Climatology. DOI: 10.1002/joc.3457. Download Here.

Nieto-Ferreira, R. and co-authors, 2011: A multi-national course on global climate change. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00048.1.

Nieto-Ferreira R., T. M. Rickenbach, and E. A. Wright, 2011: The role of cold fronts in the onset of the South American monsoon. Q. J. Roy. Met. Soc. 137, Issue 657, 908–922, Part B, DOI: 10.1002/qj.810  Download Here.

 

Rickenbach, T. M., R. Nieto-Ferreira, R. Barnhill, and S. Nesbitt, 2011: Regional contrast of mesoscale convective system structure prior to and during monsoon onset across South America. J. Climate, 24, 3753–3763. Download Here.

 

Nieto-Ferreira, R. and T. M. Rickenbach, 2010: Regionality of monsoon onset in South America: A three-stage conceptual model. International Journal of Climatology, doi:10.1002/joc.2161. Download here.

 

Rickenbach, T. M., R. Nieto-Ferreira, J. Rickenbach, and E. Wright, 2009: Monsoon in the Americas: Opportunities and challenges. Geography Compass, 3, 1-16, doi:10.1111/j.1749-8198.2009.00266.x, Download here

 

Nieto-Ferreira, R., T. Rickenbach, N. Guy, and E. Williams, 2009: Radar observations of convective system variability in relationship to African easterly waves during the 2006 AMMA special observing period. Monthly Weather Review, 137, 4136-4150, 2009. Download here.

 

Rickenbach, T. M., R. Nieto-Ferreira, N. Guy, and E. Williams, 2009: Radar-observed squall line propagation and the diurnal cycle of convection in Niamey, Niger during the 2006 African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses Intensive Observing Period. Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, D03107, doi:10.1029/2008JD010871, 2009. Download here.

 

Garcia, N. O., Nieto-Ferreira, R., & Latrubesse, E., 2009: Climate and Geomorphologycal disasters in Latin America. Edgardo Latrubesse (Ed.) Natural hazards and human exacerbated disasters in Latin America. Elsevier. Download here

 

Andre, R., A. Garcia, J. P. M. Abreu, R. Nieto Ferreira, P. V. V. Prasad, and D. White, 2006: Climate and weather risk assessment for agricultural planning.  Revisions to the World Meteorological Organization's Guide to Agricultural Meteorological Practices. (http://www.wmo.ch/web/wcp/agm/RevGAMP/RevGAMP.htm)

 

Schubert, W. H., E. Ruprecht,  R. F. A. Hertenstein, R. Nieto Ferreira, R. K. Taft, P. E. Ciesielski, and H.-C. Kuo, 2004: English translations of seven of Ertel’s original papers on vorticity and potential vorticity principles. Meteorologische Z., 13, 527-576.

 

Nieto Ferreira, R., T. M. Rickenbach, D. Herdies, and L. M. V. Carvalho, 2003: Variability of South American convective cloud systems and tropospheric circulation during January-March 1998 and 1999. Mon. Wea. Rev., 131, 961-973, 2003.

 

Herdies, D. H., A. Silva, M. A. F. Silva Dias, and R. Nieto Ferreira, 2002: The moisture budget of the bimodal pattern of the Summer circulation over South America. J. Geophys. Res. 107 (D20), 10.1029/2001JD000997.

 

Rickenbach, T. M., R. Nieto Ferreira, J. Halverson, D. Herdies, and M. A. F. Silva Dias, 2002: Modulation of convection in the Southwestern Amazon Basin by extratropical stationary fronts. J. Geophys. Res. 107 (D20), 8040, doi: 10.1029/2000JD000263.

 

Nieto Ferreira, R., and W. H. Schubert, 1997: Barotropic aspects of ITCZ breakdown. J. Atmos. Sci., 54, 261-285.

 

Nieto Ferreira, R., and W. H. Schubert, 1997: On the role of tropical cyclones in the formation of tropical upper tropospheric troughs. J. Atmos. Sci.,56,2891-2907.

 

Nieto Ferreira, R., W. H. Schubert and J. J. Hack, 1996: Dynamical aspects of twin tropical cyclones and the Madden-Julian Oscillation. J. Atmos. Sci. 56, 2891-2907.

 

Silva Dias, M. A. F. and R. Nieto Ferreira, 1992: Application of a linear spectral model to the study of Amazonian squall lines during GTE/ABLE IIB, J. Geophys. Res., 97, n. D18, 20405-20419.