• Early warning systems: The "last mile" of adaptation 

      Huggel, C.; Rohrer, M.; Calanca, v; Salzmann, N.; Vergara, W.; Quispe, Nelson; Ceballos, J.L.

      (American Geophysical Union, 2012-09)
      Acceso abierto
      Recent scientific assessment studies of climate change impacts, including those from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, provide evidence of the negative effects of climate variability and change on natural and ...
    • Editorial : Tropical Climate Variability and Change: Impacts in the Amazon 

      Jimenez, Juan C.; Takahashi, Ken

      (Frontiers in Earth Science, 2019-08-26)
      Vast amounts of data from satellites and ground-based systems, and improvements on modeling techniques, allows a better understanding of Earth processes and advances on climate science. The tropics play a key role on global ...
    • Effects of COVID-19 pandemic control measures on air pollution in Lima metropolitan area, Peru in South America 

      Rojas Quincho, Jhojan Pool; Urdanivia Lermo, Francesco Renato; Garay Saravia, Roy Antonio; García Rosales, Alan Jesús; Enciso Ojeda, Carlos; Medina Dionicio, Elvis Anthony; Toro, Richard; Manzano, Carlos A.; Leiva-Guzmán, Manuel A.

      (Springer, 2021-02-04)
      Acceso abierto
      The sanitary measures implemented to control and prevent an increase in infections due to the COVID-19 pandemic have produced an improvement in the air quality of many urban areas around the world. We assessed air quality ...
    • Effects of undetected data quality issues on climatological analyses 

      Hunziker, Stefan; Brönnimann, Stefan; Calle, J.; Moreno, Isabel; Andrade, Marcos; Ticona, Laura; Huerta, Adrian; Lavado-Casimiro, W.

      (Copernicus GmbH, 2018-01)
      Acceso abierto
      Systematic data quality issues may occur at various stages of the data generation process. They may affect large fractions of observational datasets and remain largely undetected with standard data quality control. This ...
    • ENSO impact on hydrology in Peru 

      Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Felipe-Obando, Oscar; Silvestre, E.; Bourrel, V.

      (Copernicus GmbH, 2013-04)
      Acceso abierto
      The El Niño and La Niña impacts on the hydrology of Peru were assessed based on discharge data (1968-2006) of 20 river catchments distributed over three drainage regions in Peru: 14 in the Pacific Coast (PC), 3 in the Lake ...
    • An environmental watch system for the andean countries: El observatorio andino 

      Muñoz, Ángel G.; López, P.; Velásquez, R.; Monterrey, L.; León, G.; Ruiz, F.; Recalde, C.; Cadena, J.; Mejía, R.; Paredes, M.; Bazo, Juan

      (American Meteorological Society, 2010-09)
      Acceso abierto
      Observatorio Andino (OA) was established in 2008 by The Centro de Modelado Científico (CMC) in collaboration with Climate information applied to agricultural risk management in the Andean countries (CIIFEN). The OA main ...
    • Evaluation of GPM-era Global Satellite Precipitation Products over Multiple Complex Terrain Regions 

      Derin, Y.; Anagnostou, E.; Berne, A.; Borga, M.; Boudevillain, Brice; Buytaert, W.; Chang, Che-Hao; Chen, H.; Delrieu, G; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Manz, B.; Moges, S.; Nikolopoulos, Efthymios I.; Sahlu, Dejene; Salerno, Franco; Rodríguez-Sánchez, Juan-Pablo; Vergara, Humberto J.; Yilmaz, K.K.

      (MDPI, 2019-12-7)
      Acceso abierto
      The great success of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and its successor Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) has accelerated the development of global high-resolution satellite-based precipitation products ...
    • Evolution of the tropical response to periodic extratropical thermal forcing 

      Shin, Y.; Kang, S.M.; Takahashi, Ken; Stuecker, M.F.; Hwang, Y.-T.; Kim, D.

      (American Meteorological Society, 2021-08)
      Embargado
      This study examines the temporal evolution of the extratropically forced tropical response in an idealized aquaplanet model under equinox condition. We apply a surface thermal forcing in the northern extratropics that ...
    • Extreme rainfall forecast with the WRF-ARW model in the Central Andes of Peru 

      Moya-álvarez, A.S.; Gálvez, J.; Holguín, A.; Estevan, R.; Kumar, S.; Villalobos, E.; Martínez-Castro, D.; Silva, Yamina

      (MDPI AG, 2018-09)
      Acceso abierto
      The ability of the WRF-ARW (Weather Research and Forecasting-Advanced Research WRF) model to forecast extreme rainfall in the Central Andes of Peru is evaluated in this study, using observations from stations located in ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 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 ...