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Climate Change Impact on Peruvian Biomes
(MDPI, 2022-02)
The biodiversity present in Peru will be affected by climatic and anthropogenic changes; therefore, understanding these changes will help generate biodiversity conservation policies. This study analyzes the potential ...
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Spatial Distribution of Droughts in the Titicaca Lake Basin
(Sociedade Brasileira de Meteorologia, 2022-09-26)
The present research has assessed the spatial distribution of drought risk in the Titicaca Lake Basin located in Peruvian territory for a district scale, based on hazard and vulnerability. Drought hazard has been quantified ...
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Synoptic and cloud-scale aspects related to an extreme rainfall event that occurred in April 2019 in the city of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
(Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú, 2024)
The development, rate, and duration of extreme rainfall events over a region depend on the coexistence and strength of multiple atmospheric physical conditions. Then, understanding the synoptic and cloud-scale aspects is ...
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Twinning SENAMHI and MeteoSwiss to co-develop climate services for the agricultural sector in Peru
(Elsevier B.V., 2020-12-06)
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 ...
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The rainy season in the Southern Peruvian Andes: A climatological analysis based on the new Climandes index
(John Wiley and Sons, 2023-01)
The rainy season is of high importance for livelihoods in the Southern Peruvian Andes (SPA), especially for agriculture, which is mainly rain fed and one of the main income sources in the region. Therefore, knowledge and ...
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Rainfall Erosivity in Peru: A New Gridded Dataset Based on GPMIMERG and Comprehensive Assessment (2000–2020)
(Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú, 2023)
In soil erosion estimation models, the variable with the greatest impact is rainfall erosivity (RE), which is the measurement of precipitation energy and its potential capacity to cause erosion, and erosivity density (ED), ...
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A cold wave of winter 2021 in central South America: characteristics and impacts
(Springer, 2023)
During the austral winter (June–August) of 2021, the meteorological services of Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Chile all issued forecasts for unusually cold conditions. Record-low minimum temperatures and ...
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Heatwaves and fire in Pantanal: Historical and future perspectives from CORDEX-CORE
(Elsevier, 2022)
The Pantanal biome, at the confluence of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, is the largest continental wetland on the planet and an invaluable reserve of biodiversity. The exceptional 2020 fire season in Pantanal drew particular ...
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The contributions of transboundary networks to environmental governance: The legacy of the MAP initiative
(Elsevier, 2022)
Because many environmental threats span national boundaries, transboundary networks have emerged as a form of multi-stakeholder platform to support environmental governance (EG). There are transboundary networks in various ...
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Un estudio de caso de un evento de nevada de alto impacto en la sierra sur del Perú: Dinámica y evaluación del modelo Eta
(SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online, 2022)
Se evaluó el desempeño de las predicciones del modelo Eta durante el acaecimiento del evento de nevada generalizada que causó el mayor impacto social en la Sierra Sur del Perú (SSP) durante agosto del 2013. La evaluación ...
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