• 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 ...
    • A framework for research linking weather, climate and COVID-19 

      Zaitchik, Benjamin F.; Sweijd, Neville; Shumake-Guillemot, Joy; Morse, Andy; Gordon, Chris; Marty, Aileen; Trtanj, Juli; Luterbacher, Juerg; Botai, Joel; Behera, Swadhin; Lu, Yonglong; Olwoch, Jane; Takahashi, Ken; Stowell, Jennifer D.; Rodó, Xavier

      (Nature Research, 2020)
      Acceso abierto
      When COVID-19 began to spread, environmental scientists recognized that the world faced a dangerous upper respiratory viral disease that might exhibit sensitivity to seasonal weather conditions. Many of these scientists ...
    • Towards a more consistent eco-hydrological modelling through multi-objective calibration: a case study in the Andean Vilcanota River basin, Peru 

      Fernández Palomino, Carlos; Hattermann, F.F.; Krysanova, V.; Vega-Jácome, Fiorella; Bronstert, A.

      (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2020)
      Acceso abierto
      Most hydrological studies rely on a model calibrated using discharge alone. However, judging the model reliability based on such calibration is problematic, as it does not guarantee the correct representation of internal ...
    • Twinning SENAMHI and MeteoSwiss to co-develop climate services for the agricultural sector in Peru 

      Gubler, S.; Rossa, Andrea; Avalos, Grinia; Brönnimann, Stefan; Cristobal, Katy; Croci-Maspoli, M.; Dapozzo, M.; van der Elst, A.; Escajadillo Fernandez, Yury; Flubacher, Moritz; Garcia, T.; Imfeld, N.; Konzelmann, T.; Lechthaler, F.; Liniger, M.; Quevedo Caiña, Karim; Ramos, Hugo; Rohrer, M.; Schwierz, C.; Sedlmeier, K.; Spirig, C.; de Ventura, S.; Wüthrich, B.

      (Elsevier B.V., 2020-12-06)
      Acceso abierto
      The development and dissemination of weather and climate information is crucial to improve people's resilience and adaptability to climate variability and change. The impacts of climate variability and change are generally ...
    • Regional parameter estimation of the SWAT model: methodology and application to river basins in the Peruvian Pacific drainage 

      Asurza Véliz, Flavio Alexander; Lavado-Casimiro, W.

      (MDPI AG, 2020-11-16)
      Acceso abierto
      This study presents a methodology for the regional parameters estimation of the SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool) model, with the objective of estimating daily flow series in the Pacific drainage under the context of ...
    • Attribution of Amazon floods to modes of climate variability: A review 

      Towner, Jamie; Cloke, Hannah L.; Santini, W.; Bazo, Juan; Coughlan de Perez, Erin; Stephens, Elisabeth M.

      (John Wiley & Sons, 2020-08)
      Acceso abierto
      Anomalous conditions in the oceans and atmosphere have the potential to beused to enhance the predictability of flood events, enabling earlier warnings toreduce risk. In the Amazon basin, extreme flooding is consistently ...
    • Mechanisms of tropical precipitation biases in climate models 

      Kim, Hanjun; Kang, Sarah M.; Takahashi, Ken; Donohoe, Aaron; Pendergrass, Angeline G.

      (Springer, 2020-10-27)
      Embargado
      We investigate the possible causes for inter-model spread in tropical zonal-mean precipitation pattern, which is divided into hemispherically symmetric and anti-symmetric modes via empirical orthogonal function analysis. ...
    • A simple model for minimum crop temperature forecasting during nocturnal cooling 

      Lhomme, J.P.; Guilioni, L.

      (Elsevier, 2004)
      Acceso cerrado
      A simple mechanistic model is developed to forecast the minimum temperature reached by the aerial elements of a crop during nocturnal cooling. The model, whose inputs are meteorological data registered at sunset, has two ...
    • Updated analyses of temperature and precipitation extreme indices since the beginning of the twentieth century: The HadEX2 dataset 

      Donat, M. G.; Alexander, L. V.; Yang, H.; Durre, I.; Vose, R.; Dunn, R. J. H.; Willett, K. M.; Aguilar, E.; Brunet, M.; Caesar, J.; Hewitson, B.; Jack, C.; Klein Tank, A. M. G.; Kruger, A. C.; Marengo, José A.; Peterson, T. C.; Renom, M.; Oria, Clara; Rusticucci, M.; Salinger, J.; Elrayah, A. S.; Sekele, S. S; Srivastava, A. K.; Trewin, B.; Villarroel, C.; Vincent, L. A.; Zhai, P.; Zhang, X.; Kitching, S.

      (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-03-04)
      Acceso abierto
      In this study, we present the collation and analysis of the gridded land-based dataset ofindices of temperature and precipitation extremes: HadEX2. Indices were calculated based onstation data using a consistent approach ...
    • Can artificial neural networks estimate potential evapotranspiration in Peruvian highlands? 

      Laqui, Wilber; Zubieta, Ricardo; Rau, P.; Mejía, Abel; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Ingol, Eusebio

      ( John Wiley and Sons , 2019-09-26)
      Embargado
      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 ...
    • Precipitation diurnal cycle assessment of satellite-based estimates over Brazil 

      Afonso, J.M.S.; Vila, D.A.; Gan, M.A.; Quispe, D.P.; Barreto, N.J.C.; Huamán, Joao; Palharini, R.S.A.

      (MDPI AG, 2020-07-21)
      Acceso abierto
      The main objective of this study is to assess the ability of several high-resolution satellite-based precipitation estimates to represent the Precipitation Diurnal Cycle (PDC) over Brazil during the 2014–2018 period, after ...
    • Current thermal state of permafrost in the southern Peruvian Andes and potential impact from El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) 

      Yoshikawa, Kenji; Úbeda, Jose; Masías, Pablo; Vasquez, Pool; Ccallata, Beto; Concha, Ronald; Luna, Gonzalo; Iparraguirre, Joshua; Ramos, Isabel; De la Cruz, Gustavo; Cruz, Rolando; Pellitero, Ramón; Bonshoms, Marti

      ( John Wiley and Sons , 2020-05-19)
      Embargado
      Tropical high‐mountain permafrost has a unique thermal regime due to its exposure to strong solar radiation and to rough surface snow morphology, which reduce ground heat transfer from the surface. Latent heat transfer and ...
    • Dry season circulation-type classification applied to precipitation and temperature in the Peruvian Andes 

      Bonshoms, Marti; Álvarez‐Garcia, Francisco J.; Ubeda, Jose; Cabos, William; Quispe Vega, Kelita; Liguori, Giovanni

      (John Wiley and Sons, 2020-04-07)
      Embargado
      We present the first systematic classification of circulation regimes that characterize the Tropical Andes during the dry season (May–August). We apply the hierarchical k-means clustering method to ERA-Interim reanalysis ...
    • Trends and variability of precipitation extremes in the Peruvian Altiplano (1971–2013) 

      Huerta, Adrian; Lavado-Casimiro, W.

      (John Wiley and Sons, 2020-05-24)
      Embargado
      Precipitation extremes have been investigated throughout the last decades in different regions of the Andes. However, little attention has been paid to the Altiplano region (Central Andes), especially to the Peruvian ...
    • A combined view on precipitation and temperature climatology and trends in the southern Andes of Peru 

      Imfeld, Noemi; Sedlmeier, Katrin; Gubler, Stefanie; Correa, Kris; Davila Arriaga, Cristina; Huerta, Adrian; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Rohrer, M.; Scherrer, Simon C.; Schwierz, Cornelia

      (John Wiley and Sons, 2020-05-13)
      Acceso abierto
      In the southern Peruvian Andes, communities are highly dependent on climatic conditions due to the mainly rain-fed agriculture and the importance of glaciers and snow melt as a freshwater resource. Longer-term trends and ...
    • Assessment of ECMWF SEAS5 seasonal forecast performance over South America 

      Gubler, S.; Sedlmeier, K.; Bhend, J.; Avalos, Grinia; Coelho, C.A.S.; Escajadillo Fernandez, Yury; Jacques-Coper, M.; Martinez, R.; Schwierz, C.; De Skansi, M.; Spirig, C.

      (American Meteorological Society, 2020-03-11)
      Acceso abierto
      Seasonal predictions have a great socioeconomic potential if they are reliable and skillful. In this study, we assess the prediction performance of SEAS5, version 5 of the seasonal prediction system of the European Centre ...
    • Impact of climate change on some grapevine varieties grown in Peru for Pisco production 

      Yzarra Tito, Wilfredo Julián; Sanabria Quispe, 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 ...
    • Potential impacts of early twenty-first century changes in temperature and precipitation on rainfed annual crops in the Central Andes of Peru 

      Sanabria Quispe, Janeet; Calanca, Pierluigi; Alarcón Velazco, Constantino Eusebio; Canchari, Glicerio

      (Springer, 2014-03-08)
      Acceso abierto
      Smallholder agriculture in the Central Andes of Peru is based to large extent on rainfed cropping systems, is exposed to climatic risks and is expected to respond sensitively to increasing temperatures and shifts in the ...
    • Observed and projected hydroclimate changes in the Andes 

      Pabón-Caicedo, José Daniel; Arias, Paola A.; Carril, Andrea F.; Espinoza, J.C.; Katerina, Goubanova; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Mariano, Masiokas; Silvina, Solman; Ricardo, Villalba

      (Frontiers, 2020-03-17)
      Acceso abierto
      The Andes is the most biodiverse region across the globe. In addition, some of the largest urban areas in South America are located within this region. Therefore, ecosystems and human population are affected by hydroclimate ...
    • Climate impacts of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation on South America 

      Cai, Wenju; McPhaden, Michael J.; Grimm, Alice M.; Rodrigues, Regina R.; Taschetto, Andréa S; Garreaud, René D.; Dewitte, Boris; Poveda, Germán; Ham, Yoo-Geun; Santoso, A.; Ng, Benjamin; Anderson, Weston; Wang, Guojian; Geng, Tao; Jo, Hyun-Su; Marengo, José A.; Alves, Lincoln M.; Osman, Marisol; Li, Shujun; Wu, L.; Karamperidou, Christina; Takahashi, Ken; Vera, Carolina

      (Nature Publishing Group, 2020-04-10)
      Acceso abierto
      The climate of South America (SA) has long held an intimate connection with El Niño, historically describing anomalously warm sea-surface temperatures off the coastline of Peru. Indeed, throughout SA, precipitation and ...