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Evaluation of GPM-era Global Satellite Precipitation Products over Multiple Complex Terrain Regions
(MDPI, 2019-12-7)
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 ...
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Summertime precipitation deficits in the southern Peruvian highlands since 1964
(John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2019-03)
Precipitation deficits remain a concern to the rural population in the southern Peruvian highlands and knowledge about their occurrence is lacking because of scarce data availability. For mountainous regions with sparse ...
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Strength outlooks for the El Niño-Southern Oscillation
(American Meteorological Society, 2019-02)
Three strategies for creating probabilistic forecast outlooks for El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) are compared. One is subjective and is currently used by the NOAA/Climate Prediction Center (CPC) to produce official ...
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An index concentration method for suspended load monitoring in large rivers of the Amazonian foreland
(Copernicus GmbH, 2019-06-04)
Because increasing climatic variability and anthropic pressures have affected the sediment dynamics of large tropical rivers, long-term sediment concentration series have become crucial for understanding the related ...
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Determining payments for watershed services by hydro-economic modeling for optimal water allocation between agricultural and municipal water use
(Elsevier B.V., 2019-04)
Evergrowingdemandforagriculturalandmunicipalwater,causedbypopulationgrowthandtheneedtofeedtheworld,aswellasincreasingstressoverwaterbodiescraveforefficientandsustainablewatermanagement.Especiallyinareaswheremunicipalanda ...
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Assessing multidecadal runoff (1970–2010) using regional hydrological modelling under data and water scarcity conditions in Peruvian Pacific catchment
(John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2019-01)
In a context of water scarcity in Peruvian Pacific catchments as a crucial issue for Peru, added to the paucity of data availability, we propose a methodology that provides new perspectives for freshwater availability ...
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Tropical Pacific observing system
(Frontiers in Earth Science, 2019-02-18)
This paper reviews the design of the Tropical Pacific Observing System (TPOS) and its governance and takes a forward look at prospective change. The initial findings of the TPOS 2020 Project embrace new strategic approaches ...
Ocean climate observing requirements in support of climate research and climate information
(Frontiers in Earth Science, 2019-07-31)
Natural variability and change of the Earth’s climate have significant global societal impacts. With its large heat and carbon capacity and relatively slow dynamics, the ocean plays an integral role in climate, and provides ...
Editorial : Tropical Climate Variability and Change: Impacts in the Amazon
(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 ...
Can artificial neural networks estimate potential evapotranspiration in Peruvian highlands?
( John Wiley and Sons , 2019-09-26)
Evapotranspiration (ETo) is one of the most important variables of the water cycle when water requirements for irrigation, water resource planning or hydrological applications are analyzed. In this context, models based ...