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Performance of Regional Climate Model Precipitation Simulations Over the Terrain-Complex Andes-Amazon Transition Region
(American Geophysical Union, 2024)
Regional climate models (RCMs) are widely used to assess future impacts associated with climate change at regional and local scales. RCMs must represent relevant climate variables in the present-day climate to be considered ...
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Seasonal differences in trace metal concentrations in the major rivers of the hyper-arid southwestern Andes basins of Peru
(Elsevier, 2023-10)
The southern rivers of Peru originate in the Andes Mountains and flow in a southwestern direction to the Pacific Ocean through one of the most hyper-arid regions of the world. During each sub-equatorial summer from December ...
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An index concentration method for suspended load monitoring in large rivers of the Amazonian foreland
(Copernicus GmbH, 2019-06-04)
Because increasing climatic variability and anthropic pressures have affected the sediment dynamics of large tropical rivers, long-term sediment concentration series have become crucial for understanding the related ...
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Determining payments for watershed services by hydro-economic modeling for optimal water allocation between agricultural and municipal water use
(Elsevier B.V., 2019-04)
Evergrowingdemandforagriculturalandmunicipalwater,causedbypopulationgrowthandtheneedtofeedtheworld,aswellasincreasingstressoverwaterbodiescraveforefficientandsustainablewatermanagement.Especiallyinareaswheremunicipalanda ...
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Assessment of ECMWF SEAS5 seasonal forecast performance over South America
(American Meteorological Society, 2020-03-11)
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 ...
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Assessing multidecadal runoff (1970–2010) using regional hydrological modelling under data and water scarcity conditions in Peruvian Pacific catchment
(John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2019-01)
In a context of water scarcity in Peruvian Pacific catchments as a crucial issue for Peru, added to the paucity of data availability, we propose a methodology that provides new perspectives for freshwater availability ...
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Decadal changes in glacier parameters in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, derived from remote sensing
(Cambridge University Press, 2008-06)
We present spatial patterns of glacier fluctuations from the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, (glacier area, terminus elevations, median elevations and hypsography) at decadal timescales derived from 1970 aerial photography, 2003 ...
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Impact of climate change on some grapevine varieties grown in Peru for Pisco production
(Vigne et Vin Publications Internationales, 2015-06-30)
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 ...
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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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Towards implementing climate services in Peru – The project CLIMANDES
(Elsevier B.V., 2016-09)
CLIMANDES is a pilot twinning project between the National Weather Services of Peru and Switzerland (SENAMHI and MeteoSwiss), developed within the Global Framework for Climate Services of the World Meteorological Organization ...
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