Carla Mora

Education

2006, Doutoramento, Geografia Física, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras
1998, Mestrado, Geografia Física e Ambiente, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras
1994, Licenciatura, Geografia (Ensino de), Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras

Assistant Professor at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Lisbon and Head of the Research Group on…

Assistant Professor at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Lisbon and Head of the Research Group on Climate Change and Environmental Systems (ZEPHYRUS) of the Centre for Geographical Studies of the University of Lisbon. Carla Mora has a PhD in Physical Geography from the University of Lisbon (2005) on mountain climatology. Her research interests focus on mountain climates, remote sensing of snow and vegetation, and on the effects of climate change on permafrost environments. She has participated in various research projects in the Antarctic Peninsula, the Arctic (Svalbard and Canada), Morocco and Cape Verde, as well as in Portugal. Carla Mora is principal investigator of the project THAWPOND on remote sensing of permafrost thaw lakes in northern Quebec. She is member of the Scientific Committee of the Estrela UNESCO Global Geopark, where coordinates group on research and education on climate change.

Last publications

Journal article

Matilde Salgueiro; Carla Mora; César Capinha. 2026. «From Establishment to Expansion: Changing Drivers of Acacia spp. Invasion in Mainland Central Portugal». Forests 10.3390/f17010135 https://doi.org/10.3390/f17010135

Mora,Carla; Vieira,Gonçalo. 2025. «The vanishing snow cover in Serra da Estrela: Leveraging scarce data for diagnostics and future scenarios». http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0430-50272025000200201

Mora, Carla. 2025. «High-resolution map for vegetation in the upper valleys and plateaus of Serra da Estrela (Portugal)». Finisterra 60 (130) 1-17 Lisboa, Portugal. https://doi.org/10.18055/Finis38919

Freitas, Pedro; Vieira, Gonçalo; Canário, João; Vincent, Warwick F.; Pina, Pedro; Mora, Carla. 2024. «A trained Mask R-CNN model over PlanetScope imagery for very-high resolution surface water mapping in boreal forest-tundra». 10.1016/j.rse.2024.114047 http://hdl.handle.net/10451/62838

Pedro Freitas; Vieira, Gonçalo; João Canário; Warwick F. Vincent; Pedro Pina; Mora, Carla. Autor correspondente: Pedro Freitas. 2024. «A trained Mask R-CNN model over PlanetScope imagery for very-high resolution surface water mapping in boreal forest-tundra». Remote Sensing of Environment 304 (114047) 1-23 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114047

Book chapter

Mora, Carla; Vieira, Gonçalo. 2020. «The climate of Portugal». Springer 10.1007/978-3-319-03641-0_2 http://hdl.handle.net/10451/46121

Mora, Carla; Vieira, Gonçalo. 2020. «Climate of Portugal». in Landscapes and Landforms of Portugal 33-47 Springer

Mora, Carla. 2019. «Regime térmico do ar no Alto Vale do Zêzere (serra da Estrela): caso de estudo numa situação anticiclónica». Universidade de Lisboa, Centro de Estudos Geográficos http://hdl.handle.net/10451/43807

Book

Vieira, Gonçalo; Zêzere, José; Mora, Carla. 2020. «Landscapes and Landforms of Portugal». Springer 10.1007/978-3-319-03641-0 http://hdl.handle.net/10451/43729

Mora, C.; Vieira, G.; Ramos, M.. 2013. «Evaluation of Envisat ASAR IMP imagery for snow mapping at varying spatial resolution (Deception Island, South Shetlands - Antarctica)». 381 10.1144/SP381.19 http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84887291099&partnerID=MN8TOARS