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Validation and analysis of UV radiation time series collected in different peruvian sites
(Sociedade Brasileira de Meteorologia, 2018-06)
We evaluate a set of ultraviolet solar radiation (UVR) measurements collected in six locations in Peru: Ica, Tacna, Moquegua, Arequipa, Cajamarca and Marcapomacocha, whose altitudes vary from sea level to 4479 m. The ...
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Integrated assessment and adaptation to climate change impacts in the Peruvian Andes
(Copernicus GmbH, 2009-11)
The Andes as mountain regions worldwide, provide fundamental resources, not only for the local population. Due to the topographic characteristics, the potential for natural hazards is higher than elsewhere. In these areas, ...
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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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Relationship between monthly rainfall in NW peru and tropical sea surface temperature
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2013-08)
This study assesses the relationship between global sea surface temperature (SST) and a regional index of rainfall (NWPR) in Piura-Tumbes, a coastal region in northwestern Peru, over the period 1965-2008 by means of the ...
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An environmental watch system for the andean countries: El observatorio andino
(American Meteorological Society, 2010-09)
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 ...
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OZCAR: The French network of critical zone observatories
(Soil Science Society of America, 2018-11)
The French critical zone initiative, called OZCAR (Observatoires de la Zone Critique–Application et Recherche or Critical Zone Observatories–Application and Research) is a National Research Infrastructure (RI). OZCAR-RI ...
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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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Downscaling climate projections for the Peruvian coastal Chancay-Huaral Basin to support river discharge modeling with WEAP
(Elsevier B.V., 2017-10)
Study region The Chancay-Huaral (CH) coastal river basin in the Lima Region, Peru, between the Pacific Ocean and the Andean Cordillera. Study focus Climate change impacts on annual and monthly discharges in the CH Basin ...
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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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