• Facing unprecedented drying of the Central Andes? Precipitation variability over the period AD 1000-2100 

      Neukom, R.; Rohrer, M.; Calanca, P.; Salzmann, N.; Huggel, C.; Acuña, Delia; Christie, D.A.; Morales, M.S.

      (Institute of Physics Publishing, 2015-08)
      Acceso abierto
      Projected future trends in water availability are associated with large uncertainties in many regions of the globe. In mountain areas with complex topography, climate models have often limited capabilities to adequately ...
    • The freezing level in the tropical Andes, Peru: An indicator for present and future glacier extents 

      Schauwecker, S.; Rohrer, M.; Huggel, C.; Endries, J. L.; Montoya, N.; Neukom, R.; Perry, B.; Salzmann, N.; Schwarb, M.; Suarez, Wilson

      (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017-10)
      Acceso abierto
      Along with air temperatures, the freezing level height (FLH) has risen over the last decades. The mass balance of tropical glaciers in Peru is highly sensitive to a rise in the FLH, mainly due to a decrease in accumulation ...
    • From drought to flooding: understanding the abrupt 2010-11 hydrological annual cycle in the Amazonas River and tributaries 

      Espinoza, J.C.; Ronchail, Josyane; Guyot, J.L.; Junquas, Clémentine; Guillaume, Drapeau; Martinez, Jean Michel; William, Santini; Philippe, Vauchel; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Ordóñez Gálvez, Juan Julio; Espinoza-Villar, R.

      (Institute of Physics Publishing, 2012-01)
      Acceso abierto
      In this work we document and analyze the hydrological annual cycles characterized by a rapid transition between low and high flows in the Amazonas River (Peruvian Amazon) and we show how these events, which may impact ...
    • Glaciological Mass balance of Znosko Glacier, King George Island 

      Suarez, Wilson; Bello, Cinthya; Cruz, Rolando; Zegarra, Juan; Arias, Sandro; Brondi, Fabian

      (Scielo, 2023)
      Acceso abierto
      The present article objective is to determine the net mass balance of the glacier Znosko for periods 2018-2019 and 2019-2020. It is situated on King George Island which belongs to the groups Shetland of the South, Antarctic ...
    • Heatwaves and fire in Pantanal: Historical and future perspectives from CORDEX-CORE 

      Silva, Patrícia S.; Geirinhas, João L.; Lapere, Rémy; Laura, Wil; Cassain, Domingo; Alegría, Andrés; Campbell, Jayaka

      (Elsevier, 2022)
      Acceso abierto
      The Pantanal biome, at the confluence of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, is the largest continental wetland on the planet and an invaluable reserve of biodiversity. The exceptional 2020 fire season in Pantanal drew particular ...
    • Heavy Snowfalls in the peruvian Andes: the wettest winter of the last 19 years 

      Ramos, Isabel; Aliaga Nestares, Vannia; Castro, Anabel

      (American Meteorological Society, 2019-09)
      Acceso abierto
      Most meteorological stations in the central and southern Peruvian Andes also received heavy rainfall in June and July. On 2 June, Ananea, which is located in Puno at 4660 m a.s.l., recorded 32.5 mm (monthly climatology ...
    • High-resolution grids of daily air temperature for Peru - the new PISCOt v1.2 dataset 

      Huerta, Adrian; Aybar, Cesar; Correa, Kris; Noemi, Imfeld; Correa, Kris; Felipe-Obando, Oscar; Rau, Pedro; Drenkhan, Fabian

      (Nature, 2023)
      Acceso abierto
      Gridded high-resolution climate datasets are increasingly important for a wide range of modelling applications. Here we present PISCOt (v1.2), a novel high spatial resolution (0.01°) dataset of daily air temperature for ...
    • High-resolution satellite-gauge merged precipitation climatologies of the tropical Andes 

      Manz, B.; Buytaert, W.; Zulkafli, Z.; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Willems, B.; Robles, L.A.; Rodríguez-Sánchez, Juan-Pablo

      (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016-02-09)
      Acceso abierto
      Satellite precipitation products are becoming increasingly useful to complement rain gauge networks in regions where these are too sparse to capture spatial precipitation patterns, such as in the Tropical Andes. The Tropical ...
    • Hydroclimatic change disparity of Peruvian Pacific drainage catchments 

      Rau, P.; Bourrel, L.; Labat, D.; Frappart, F.; Ruelland, D.; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Dewitte, Boris; Felipe-Obando, Oscar

      (Springer-Verlag Wien, 2017-08-23)
      Acceso abierto
      Peruvian Pacific drainage catchments only benefit from 2% of the total national available freshwater while they concentrate almost 50% of the population of the country. This situation is likely to lead a severe water ...
    • Hydrological and depositional processes associated with recent glacier recession in Yanamarey catchment, Cordillera Blanca (Peru) 

      López-Moreno, J.I.; Valero-Garcés, B.; Mark, B; Revuelto, J.; Azorín-Molina, C.; Bazo, Juan; Frugone, M; Vicente-Serrano, S.M.; Alejo-Cochachin, J.

      (Elsevier B.V., 2017-02)
      In this study, we investigate changes in the glaciated surface and the formation of lakes in the headwater of the Querococha watershed in Cordillera Blanca (Peru) using 24 Landsat images from 1975 to 2014. Information of ...
    • Hydrological impacts of dam regulation for hydropower production: The case of Lake Sibinacocha, Southern Peru 

      Bello, Cinthya; Suarez, Wilson; Drenkhan, Fabian; Vega-Jácome, Fiorella

      (Elsevier B.V., 2023-01)
      Acceso abierto
      Study focus: Hydraulic infrastructure plays a fundamental role for energy production, drinking and irrigation water storage and flood control in regions with seasonal river flow. The highAndean Lake Sibinacocha has been ...
    • Hydrological modeling based on the KNN algorithm: An application for the forecast of daily flows of the Ramis river, Peru 

      Lujano Laura, Efrain; Lujano, Rene; Huamani, Juan Carlos; Lujano, Apolinario

      (Instituto Mexicano de Tecnología del Agua, 2023)
      Acceso abierto
      The forecast of river stream flows is of significant importance for the development of early warning systems. Artificial intelligence algorithms have proven to be an effective tool in hydrological modeling data-driven, ...
    • Hydrological modeling of the Peruvian-Ecuadorian Amazon Basin using GPM-IMERG satellite-based precipitation dataset 

      Zubieta, R.; Getirana, A.; Espinoza, J.C.; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Aragon, L.

      (Copernicus GmbH, 2017-07)
      Acceso abierto
      In the last two decades, rainfall estimates provided by the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) have proven applicable in hydrological studies. The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission, which provides ...
    • Hydrological Response Assessment of Land Cover Change in a Peruvian Amazonian Basin Impacted by Deforestation Using the SWAT Model 

      Paiva, Karla; Rau, Pedro; Montesinos, Cristian; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Bourrel, Luc; Frappart, Frédéric

      (MDPI, 2023)
      Acceso abierto
      The watershed hydrologic conditions in the Madre de Dios (MDD) Basin in the Peruvian Amazon have been irreversibly impacted by deforestation and changes in land cover. These changes have also had detrimental effects on the ...
    • Identifying, attributing, and overcoming common data quality issues of manned station observations 

      Hunziker, Stefan; Gubler, Stefanie; Calle, J.; Moreno, Isabel; Andrade, Marcos; Velarde, Fernando; Ticona, Laura; Carrasco, Gualberto; Castellón, Yaruska; Oria, Clara; Croci-Maspoli, M.; Konzelmann, Thomas; Rohrer, M.; Brönnimann, Stefan

      (John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2017-03-20)
      Acceso abierto
      In situ climatological observations are essential for studies related to climate trends and extreme events. However, in many regions of the globe, observational records are affected by a large number of data quality issues. ...
    • Impact of climate change on some grapevine varieties grown in Peru for Pisco production 

      Yzarra Tito, Wilfredo Julián; Sanabria, Janeet; Cáceres, Hanna; Solis, Olimpio; Lhomme, J.P.

      (Vigne et Vin Publications Internationales, 2015-06-30)
      Acceso abierto
      The Peruvian region of Ica is an important area ofgrapevine cultivation, mainly for the production of pisco, the flagship hard drink of Peru. The effects of a changing climate have been assessed using the recorded temperatures ...
    • Impact of the global warming hiatus on Andean temperature 

      Vuille, M.; Franquist, E.; Garreaud, R.; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Cáceres, B.

      (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015-08)
      Acceso abierto
      The recent hiatus in global warming is likely to be reflected in Andean temperature, given its close dependence on tropical Pacific sea surface temperature (SST). While recent work in the subtropical Andes has indeed ...
    • Impacto de ENOS en la Hidrología del Perú (1968-2006) 

      Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Silvestre, Elizabeth; Felipe-Obando, Oscar

      (Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú, 2009)
      Acceso abierto
      Los impactos de los años El Niña y La Niña en la hidrología del Perú son evaluados sobre los datos de caudales (1968-2006) de 20 ríos distribuidos sobre las tres vertientes del Perú: 14 en la del Pacífico (VP), 3 en la del ...
    • Impacts of different ENSO flavors and tropical Pacific convection variability (ITCZ, SPCZ) on austral summer rainfall in South America, with a focus on Peru 

      Sulca, Juan; Takahashi, Ken; Espinoza, J.C.; Vuille, M.; Lavado-Casimiro, W.

      (John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2018-01)
      Acceso abierto
      El Niño in the eastern and central Pacific has different impacts on the rainfall of South America, and the atmospheric pathways through the South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ) and Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) ...
    • Impacts of El Niño and La Niña in the precipitation over Perú (1965-2007) 

      Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Espinoza, J.C.

      (Sociedade Brasileira de Meteorologia, 2014-06)
      Acceso abierto
      The impacts of El Niño (EN) and La Niña (LN) in rainfall in Peru are evaluated using monthly data (1965-2007) of 155 stations distributed over the three hydrographic drainages of Peru: 85 in the Pacific (VP), 21 in the ...