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Sediment budget in the Ucayali River basin, an Andean tributary of the Amazon River
(Copernicus GmbH, 2014)
Formation of mountain ranges results from complex coupling between lithospheric deformation, mechanisms linked to subduction and surface processes: weathering, erosion, and climate. Today, erosion of the eastern Andean ...
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The challenges of new Regional Basic Observation Network on the Regional Association III
(Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú, 2018)
According to decision 21 taken by 69th Executive Congress of World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the new Regional Basic Observations Network (RBON) will be created, which will be mainly made up of the Regional Basic ...
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Sistema de Alerta Temprana en zona de aluviones
(Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú, 2016)
En la cuenca media-alta del río Rímac en la región Lima Metropolitana se ha producido la ocupación irregular de quebradas aparentemente secas que se activan periódicamente por efectos de lluvias locales. La activación de ...
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Present and future water resources supply and demand in the Central Andes of Peru: a comprehensive review with focus on the Cordillera Vilcanota
(American Geophysical Union, 2014)
Glaciers have been an important element of Andean societies and livelihoods as direct freshwater supply for agriculture irrigation, hydropower generation and mining activities. Peru’s mainly remotely living population in ...
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Can we use TRMM-PR bright band heights to estimate the snow-rain transition in high mountain regions?
(American Geophysical Union, 2015)
Field and modelling based research indicates that for tropical glaciers, variations in snow cover and the altitude of the snow line via albedo effects are among the most crucial factors to explain the differences in annual ...
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A new climate and glacier baseline for the Cordillera Vilcanota, Peru, reduces critical information gaps
(American Geophysical Union, 2013)
The Cordillera Vilcanota in the Southern Peruvian Andes is the second largest ice-covered Cordillera in Peru (after the Cordillera Blanca) and serves for the Cusco Region as a temporary water storage for fresh-water and ...
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Large mass movements related to deglaciation effects in southern Peru (Cusco)
(American Geophysical Union, 2013)
The Andes of Peru are among the regions most severely affected by glacier and high-mountain hazards over the past 100 years. Large-scale disasters with thousands of people killed are on record, including ice/rock avalanches, ...
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Future runoff from glacierized catchments in the Central Andes could substantially decrease
(American Geophysical Union, 2016-04)
In Peru, about 50% of the energy is produced from hydropower plants. An important amount of this energy is produced with water from glaciated catchments. In these catchments river streamflow is furthermore needed for other ...
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Relevance of future snowfall level height in the Peruvian Andes for glacier loss in the 21st century under different emission scenarios
(American Geophysical Union, 2017)
In many regions of Peru, the competition for limited hydrological resources already represents a large risk for conflicts. In this context, and within the circumstances of climate change, there is a great interest in ...
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Influence of cloudiness on the incident shortwave radiation of Nevado Coropuna
(Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú, 2018)
The main objective of this work is to analyze the influence of cloud cover on shortwave radiation incident of the Nevado Coropuna during 2015-2016. In this presentation they propose to discuss that Arequipa, during the ...
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