• A future of extreme precipitation and droughts in the Peruvian Andes 

      Potter, Emily R.; Fyffe, Catriona L.; Orr, Andrew; Quincey, Duncan J.; Ross, Andrew N.; Rangecroft, Sally; Medina, Katy; Burns, Helen; Llacza Rodríguez, Alan; Jácome Vergaray, Gerardo; Hellström, Robert Å.; Castro, Joshua; Cochachin, Alejo; Montoya, Nilton; Loarte, Edwin; Pellicciotti, Francesca

      (Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú, 2023-07-20)
      Acceso abierto
      Runoff from glacierised Andean river basins is essential for sustaining the livelihoods of millions of people. By running a high-resolution climate model over the two most glacierised regions of Peru we unravel past climatic ...
    • A future of extreme precipitation and droughts in the Peruvian Andes 

      Potter, Emily R.; Fyffe, Catriona L.; Orr, Andrés; Quincey, Duncan J.; Ross, Andrés N.; Rangecroft, Sally; Medina, Katy; Burns, Helen; Llacza, Alan; Jácome, Gerardo; Hellström, Robert Å.; Castro, Josué; Cochachín, Alejo; Montoya, Nilton; Loarte, Edwin; Pellicciotti, Francesca

      (Springer Nature, 2023)
      Acceso abierto
      Runoff from glacierised Andean river basins is essential for sustaining the livelihoods of millions of people. By running a highresolution climate model over the two most glacierised regions of Peru we unravel past climatic ...
    • A Novel High-Resolution Gridded Precipitation Dataset for Peruvian and Ecuadorian Watersheds: Development and Hydrological Evaluation 

      Fernández Palomino, Carlos; Hattermann, Fred; Krysanova, Valentina; Lobanova, Anastasia; Vega Jácome, Fiorella; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Santini, William; Aybar Camacho, Cesar Luis; Bronstert, Axel

      (American Meteorological Society, 2022-03)
      Acceso abierto
      A novel approach for estimating precipitation patterns is developed here and applied to generate a new hydrologically corrected daily precipitation dataset, called RAIN4PE (Rain for Peru and Ecuador), at 0.18 spatial ...
    • Análisis regional de frecuencia de precipitación anual para la determinación de mapas de sequías 

      Acuña Azarte, Julia; Felipe-Obando, Oscar; Ordóñez Gálvez, Juan Julio; Arboleda Orozco, Juan Fernando

      (Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú, 2011)
      Acceso abierto
      Determinar la probabilidad de ocurrencia y frecuencia de sequías es de relevante importancia para la gestión de los recursos hídricos sobre todo en zonas áridas como es la vertiente del Pacífico en el Perú. Las principales ...
    • Análisis de frecuencia regional de las precipitaciones máximas diarias en la región hidrográfica del Titicaca 

      Lujano Laura, Efrain; Felipe-Obando, Oscar

      (Universidad Nacional del Altiplano de Puno, 2015)
      Acceso abierto
      La presente investigación se realizó en la región hidrográfica del Titicaca (lado Peruano), ubicado entre los Departamentos de Puno y Tacna, teniendo como objetivo desarrollar modelos regionales de precipitaciones máximas ...
    • 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 ...
    • Central South America 

      Marengo, José A.; Espinoza, J.C.; Alves, Lincoln M.; Ronchail, J.; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Ramos, A. M.; Molina-Carpio, J.; Correa, Kris; Baez, J.; Salinas, R.

      (American Meteorological Society, 2020-08)
      Acceso abierto
      Heavy rainfall events were observed in January along the dry southern coast of Peru, resulting in some locations breaking precipitation records of more than 30 years. Heavy rainfall during February led to 42 landslides ...
    • Characteristics of Precipitating Storms in Glacierized Tropical Andean Cordilleras of Peru and Bolivia 

      Perry, L. B.; Seimon, Anton; Andrade, Marcos; Endries, J. L.; Yuter, S. E.; Velarde, Fernando; Arias, S.; Bonshoms, Marti; Burton, E.J.; Winkelmann, I. R.; Cooper, C.M.; Mamani, G.; Rado, M.; Montoya, N.; Quispe, Nelson

      (Taylor & Francis, 2016-06-01)
      Acceso cerrado
      Precipitation variability in tropical high mountains is a fundamental yet poorly understood factor influencing local climatic expression and a variety of environmental processes, including glacier behavior and water ...
    • Climate change threats to environment in the tropical Andes: glaciers and water resources 

      Chevallier, Pierre; Pouyaud, Bernard; Suarez, Wilson; Condom, Thomas

      (Springer, 2010-11-14)
      Acceso cerrado
      Almost all of the world’s glaciers in the tropical latitudes are located in the Central Andes (Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia). Due to their high altitude, to the high level of radiation and to the tropical climate ...
    • Climate diagnostics of the extreme floods in Peru during early 2017 

      Son, R.; Wang, S.-Y.S.; Tseng, W.-L.; Barreto Schuler, Christian; Becker, E.J.; Yoon, J.-H.

      (Springer, 2020)
      Acceso abierto
      From January through March 2017, a series of extreme precipitation events occurred in coastal Peru, causing severe floods with hundreds of human casualties and billions of dollars in economic losses. The extreme precipitation ...
    • 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 ...
    • Climate trends and variability in Ecuador (1966–2011) 

      Morán-Tejeda, E.; Bazo, Juan; López-Moreno, J.I.; Aguilar, E.; Azorín-Molina, C.; Sanchez‐Lorenzo, Arturo; Martínez, Rodney; Nieto, Juan J.; Mejía, R.; Martín‐Hernández, N.; Vicente-Serrano, S.M.

      (John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2016-01-15)
      Acceso abierto
      This study detects climate trends and variability from precipitation and temperature observations in Ecuador and assesses their links to the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) for the period 1966–2011, using the El Niño ...
    • 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 ...
    • A comparative analysis of TRMM-rain gauge data merging techniques at the daily time scale for distributed rainfall-runoff modeling applications 

      Nerini, D.; Zulkafli, Z.; Wang, L.-P.; Onof, C.; Buytaert, W.; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Guyot, J.L.

      (American Meteorological Society, 2015-01)
      Acceso abierto
      This study compares two nonparametric rainfall data merging methods-the mean bias correction and double-kernel smoothing-with two geostatistical methods-kriging with external drift and Bayesian combination-for optimizing ...
    • Current state of glaciers in the tropical Andes: A multi-century perspective on glacier evolution and climate change 

      Sicart, J.-E.; Huggel, C.; Scheel, M.; Lejeune, Y.; Arnaud, Y.; Collet, M.; Condom, T.; Consoli, G.; Favier, V.; Jomelli, V.; Galarraga, R.; Ginot, P.; Maisincho, L.; Mendoza, J.; Ménégoz, M.; Ramirez, E.; Ribstein, P.; Suarez, Wilson; Villacís, M.; Wagnon, P.

      (Copernicus publications, 2013-01-22)
      Acceso abierto
      The aim of this paper is to provide the community with a comprehensive overview of the studies of glaciers in the tropical Andes conducted in recent decades leading to the current status of the glaciers in the context of ...
    • Cutoff low over the southeastern Pacific Ocean: a case study 

      Quispe, Nelson; Aliaga Nestares, Vannia; Rodríguez Zimmermann, Diego; Bonshoms, Marti; Loayza, Raquel; García, Teresa; Mesia, José; Duran, Ricardo; Olivares, Sara

      (CSIRO, 2021-02-17)
      Acceso abierto
      Cutoff lows (COLs) are infrequent events in the tropics that can cause extreme rainfall, flash flooding and landslides in arid areas, such as western South America. In this study, the life cycle of a COL in the southeastern ...
    • A data portal for regional climatic trend analysis in a Peruvian High Andes region 

      Schwarb, M.; Acuña, Delia; Konzelmann, Thomas; Rohrer, M.; Salzmann, N.; Serpa Lopez, B.; Silvestre, E.

      (Copernicus Publications, 2011-08-16)
      Acceso abierto
      In the frame of a Swiss-Peruvian climate change adaptation initiative (PACC), operational and historical data series of more than 100 stations of the Peruvian Meteorological and Hydrological Service (SENAMHI) are now ...
    • Estimación de lluvias extremas mediante un enfoque de análisis regional y datos satelitales: Cusco – Perú 

      Aragón, Luis; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Montesinos, Cristian; Zubieta, Ricardo; Laqui, Wilber

      (Instituto Mexicano de Tecnología del Agua, 2024)
      Acceso abierto
      La frecuencia y magnitud de los eventos climáticos extremos de precipitación han aumentado significativamente en varios países del mundo, incluido Perú. Estos hechos causan pérdidas económicas y humanas, especialmente en ...
    • Evaluación del Modelo Eta/SENAMHI en la previsión de la precipitación durante los periodos lluviosos 2002 y 2003 

      Avalos, Grinia

      (Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú, 2009)
      Acceso abierto
      En este trabajo se evalúa el desempeño del modelo regional Eta/SENAMHI en el pronóstico de la precipitación durante los meses de verano (enero – marzo) de los años 2002 y 2003, sobre las regiones de Costa, Sierra y Selva ...
    • Evaluation of GPM-era Global Satellite Precipitation Products over Multiple Complex Terrain Regions 

      Derin, Y.; Anagnostou, E.; Berne, A.; Borga, M.; Boudevillain, Brice; Buytaert, W.; Chang, Che-Hao; Chen, H.; Delrieu, G; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Manz, B.; Moges, S.; Nikolopoulos, Efthymios I.; Sahlu, Dejene; Salerno, Franco; Rodríguez-Sánchez, Juan-Pablo; Vergara, Humberto J.; Yilmaz, K.K.

      (MDPI, 2019-12-7)
      Acceso abierto
      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 ...