• Studying spatial agreement of catchment response to climate and landuse change under uncertainty for prioritizing investment into hydropower catchments 

      Ding, Zhaowei; Angarita, Hector; Montesinos Cáceres, Cristian Albert; Lavado-Casimiro, W.

      (European Geosciences Union, 2022-04)
      Acceso abierto
      Joint climate and land cover change can significantly alter catchment hydrologic response, e.g., in terms of runoff and sediment delivery, and thus key determinants for downstream hydropower outcomes. While many studies ...
    • Surface energy and mass balance modeling of a Peruvian tropical glacier 

      Torres, C.; Arigony, J.; Arndt, A.; Tobias, S.; Gurgiser, W.; Suarez, Wilson; Santillan, N.; Maier, É.

      (American Geophysical Union, 2019-12)
      Acceso abierto
      Glaciers in Peruvian Andes play an important role for local hydrology. To quantify the availability of glacier meltwater in a climate change scenario, surface energy (SEB) and mass balance (MB) models are required. However, ...
    • The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management 

      Kreibich, Heidi; Van Loon, Anne F.; Schröter, Kaia; Ward, Philip J.; Mazzoleni, Maurizio; Sairam, Nivedita; Abeshu, Guta Wakbulcho; Agafonova, Svetlana; AghaKouchak, Amir; Aksoy, Hafzullah; Alvarez-Garreton, Camila; Aznar, Blanca; Balkhi, Laila; Barendrecht, Marlies H.; Biancamaria, Sylvainl; Bos-Burgering, Liduin; Bradley, Chrisn; Budiyono, Yus; Buytaert, Wouterp; Capewell, Lucindan; Carlson, Hayleyk; Cavus, Yonca; Couasnon, Anaïsb; Coxon, Gemma; Daliakopoulos, Ioannis; de Ruiter, Marleen C.; Delus, Claire; Erfurt, Mathilde; Esposito, Giuseppe; François, Didier; Frappart, Frédéric; Freer, Jim; Frolova, Natalia; Gain, Animesh K.; Grillakis, Manolisa; Grima, Jordi Oriol; Guzmán, Diego A.; Huning, Laurie S.; Ionita, Monica; Kharlamov, Maxime; Khoi, Dao Nguyena; Kieboom, Natalie; Kireeva, Maria; Koutroulis, Aristeidis; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Li, Hong-Yid; LLasat, María Carmen

      (Springer, 2022-08-03)
      Acceso abierto
      Risk management has reduced vulnerability to floods and droughts globally1,2, yet their impacts are still increasing3. An improved understanding of the causes of changing impacts is therefore needed, but has been hampered ...
    • The Energy and Mass Balance of Peruvian Glaciers 

      Fyffe, C.L.; Potter, E.; Fugger, S.; Orr, A.; Fatichi, Simone; Loarte, Edwin; Medina, Katy; Hellström, R.Å.; Bernat, M.; Aubry-Wake, Caroline; Gurgiser, W.; Perry, L. B.; Suarez, Wilson; Quincey, D.J.; Pellicciotti, F.

      (John Wiley & Sons, 2021-12)
      Acceso abierto
      Peruvian glaciers are important contributors to dry season runoff for agriculture and hydropower, but they are at risk of disappearing due to climate change. We applied a physically based, energy balance melt model at five ...
    • The vulnerability of water availability in Peru due to climate change: A probabilistic Budyko analysis 

      Huerta, Adrian; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Rau, Pedro

      (European Geosciences Union, 2020)
      Acceso abierto
      This study provides for the-first-time a water availability analysis at drainage and basin-scale in Peru. Using new gridded datasets of precipitation and temperature, along with six global actual evapotranspiration estimations ...
    • Trends in rainfall and temperature in the Peruvian Amazon-Andes basin over the last 40years (1965-2007) 

      Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Labat, D.; Ronchail, J.; Espinoza, J.C.; Guyot, J.L.

      (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013-09)
      Acceso cerrado
      The hydroclimatology of the Peruvian Amazon-Andes basin (PAB) which surface corresponding to 7% of the Amazon basin is still poorly documented. We propose here an extended and original analysis of the temporal evolution ...
    • Tropical Pacific observing system 

      Smith, N.; Kessler, W.S.; Cravatte, S.; Sprintall, J.; Wijffels, S.; Cronin, M.F.; Sutton, A.; Serra, Y.L.; Dewitte, Boris; Strutton, P.G.; Hill, K.; Gupta, A.S.; Lin, Xiaopei; Takahashi, Ken; Chen, D.; Brunner, Shelby

      (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 ...
    • Two Contrasting Severe Seasonal Extremes in Tropical South America in 2012: Flood in Amazonia and Drought in Northeast Brazil 

      Marengo, José A.; Alves, Lincoln M.; Soares, W.R.; Rodriguez, D.A.; Camargo, H.; Riveros, M.P.; Pabló, A.D.

      (American Meteorological Society, 2013-11)
      Acceso abierto
      Two simultaneous extreme events affected tropical South America to the east of the Andes during the austral summer and fall of 2012: a severe drought in Northeast Brazil and intense rainfall and floods in Amazonia, both ...
    • 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 ...
    • Validation of CMIP5 models by means of representing pattterns of mesoscale systems on South America for the summer and Winter 

      Barreto Schuler, Christian; Llacza Rodríguez, Alan

      (Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú, 2014)
      Acceso abierto
      The climate model developers have conducted a new series of climate modeling experiments, which are part of the Couple Models Intercomparison Phase 5 (CMIP5). These show us a new generation of Atmosphere-Ocean couple models, ...
    • Variabilidad climática: percepciones e impacto en los cultivos de papa y maíz amiláceo en la subcuenca del río Shullca, Junin 

      Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú

      (Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú, 2014)
      Acceso abierto
      Se evalúa el impacto de la variabilidad climática para los cultivos de papa y maíz amiláceo en la subcuenca de Shullcas, a partir de la sistematización de la información primaria proveniente de la población de la zona ...
    • Vulnerabilidad socioeconómica y capacidad de adaptación de productores de quinua frente a riesgo climáticos en el departamento de Puno, Perú 

      Cristobal Romero, Lizet Katerin

      (Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, 2024)
      Acceso abierto
      El estudio estuvo orientado a conocer la vulnerabilidad socioeconómica y la capacidad de respuesta de los productores de quinua frente a eventos climáticos en el Altiplano peruano, donde la variabilidad y el cambio climático ...
    • What are climate scenarios? 

      Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú

      (Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú, 2020)
      Acceso abierto
      Infographic that explains the importance of generating Climate Scenarios in our country to know the implications of Climate Change in the future.