01. Artículos Científicos: Recent submissions

    • Trends and variability of precipitation extremes in the Peruvian Altiplano (1971–2013) 

      Huerta, Adrian; Lavado-Casimiro, W.

      (John Wiley and Sons, 2020-05-24)
      Embargado
      Precipitation extremes have been investigated throughout the last decades in different regions of the Andes. However, little attention has been paid to the Altiplano region (Central Andes), especially to the Peruvian ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Impact of climate change on some grapevine varieties grown in Peru for Pisco production 

      Yzarra Tito, Wilfredo Julián; Sanabria Quispe, Janeet; Cáceres, Hanna; Solis, Olimpio; Lhomme, J.P.

      (Vigne et Vin Publications Internationales, 2015-06-30)
      Acceso abierto
      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 ...

    • Potential impacts of early twenty-first century changes in temperature and precipitation on rainfed annual crops in the Central Andes of Peru 

      Sanabria Quispe, Janeet; Calanca, Pierluigi; Alarcón Velazco, Constantino Eusebio; Canchari, Glicerio

      (Springer, 2014-03-08)
      Acceso abierto
      Smallholder agriculture in the Central Andes of Peru is based to large extent on rainfed cropping systems, is exposed to climatic risks and is expected to respond sensitively to increasing temperatures and shifts in the ...

    • Observed and projected hydroclimate changes in the Andes 

      Pabón-Caicedo, José Daniel; Arias, Paola A.; Carril, Andrea F.; Espinoza, J.C.; Katerina, Goubanova; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Mariano, Masiokas; Silvina, Solman; Ricardo, Villalba

      (Frontiers, 2020-03-17)
      Acceso abierto
      The Andes is the most biodiverse region across the globe. In addition, some of the largest urban areas in South America are located within this region. Therefore, ecosystems and human population are affected by hydroclimate ...

    • 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 ...

    • Soluble trace metals in aerosols over the tropical south-east Pacific offshore of Peru 

      Baker, A.R.; Thomas, M.; Bange, H.W.; Plasencia Sanchez, E.

      (Copernicus GmbH, 2016)
      Acceso abierto
      Meteor cruise M91 was supported by the BMBF projects SOPRAN II and III (FKZ 03F0611A and FKZ 03F662A). We thank the Peruvian authorities for authorising us to conduct the study in their territorial waters. We also would ...

    • High-resolution satellite-gauge merged precipitation climatologies of the tropical Andes 

      Manz, B.; Buytaert, W.; Zulkafli, Z.; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Willems, B.; Robles, L.A.; Rodríguez-Sánchez, Juan-Pablo

      (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016-02-09)
      Acceso abierto
      Satellite precipitation products are becoming increasingly useful to complement rain gauge networks in regions where these are too sparse to capture spatial precipitation patterns, such as in the Tropical Andes. The Tropical ...

    • Recent temperature variability and change in the Altiplano of Bolivia and Peru 

      López-Moreno, J.I.; Morán-Tejeda, E.; Vicente-Serrano, S.M.; Bazo, Juan; Azorín-Molina, C.; Revuelto, J.; Sanchez‐Lorenzo, Arturo; Aguilar, E.; Chura, O.

      (John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2015-08-26)
      Acceso abierto
      This work analysed the changes in air temperature in 25 meteorological stations in the Altiplano and the surrounding Andean slopes of Bolivia and Peru, and their relationship with El Niño-Southern Oscillation (SO) and the ...

    • Multiregional satellite precipitation products evaluation over complex terrain 

      Derin, Y.; Anagnostou, E.; Berne, A.; Borga, M.; Boudevillain, Brice; Buytaert, W.; Chang, Che-Hao; Delrieu, Guy; Hong, Yang; Chia Hsu, Yung; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Manz, Bastian; Moges, Semu; Nikolopoulos, Efthymios I.; Sahlu, Dejene; Salerno, Franco; Rodríguez-Sánchez, Juan-Pablo; Vergara, Humberto J.; Yilmaz, Koray K..

      (American Meteorological Society, 2016-06)
      Acceso abierto
      An extensive evaluation of nine global-scale high-resolution satellite-based rainfall (SBR) products is performed using a minimum of 6 years (within the period of 2000-13) of reference rainfall data derived from rain gauge ...

    • 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 ...

    • Impacts of land use on the hydrological response of tropical Andean catchments 

      Ochoa-Tocachi, B.F.; Buytaert, W.; De Bièvre, B.; Célleri, R.; Crespo, P.; Villacís, M.; Llerena, C.A.; Acosta, L.; Villazón, M.; Guallpa, M.; Gil-Ríos, J.; Fuentes, P.; Olaya, D.; Viñas, P.; Rojas, G.; Arias, S.

      (John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2016-08-30)
      Acceso abierto
      Changes in land use and land cover are major drivers of hydrological alteration in the tropical Andes. However, quantifying their impacts is fraught with difficulties because of the extreme diversity in meteorological ...

    • Structural signatures of water-soluble organic aerosols in contrasting environments in South America and Western Europe 

      Duarte, R.M.B.O.; Matos, J.T.V.; Paula, A.S.; Lopes, S.P.; Pereira, G.; Vasconcellos, P.; Gioda, A.; Carreira, R.; Silva, A.M.S; Duarte, A.C.; Smichowski, P.; Rojas, N.; Sánchez Ccoyllo, Odón

      (Elsevier B.V., 2017-08)
      Acceso cerrado
      This study describes and compares the key structural units present in water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC) fraction of atmospheric aerosols collected in different South American (Colombia – Medellín and Bogotá, Peru – Lima, ...

    • Rainfall along the coast of Peru during strong El Niño events 

      Sanabria Quispe, Janeet; Bourrel, L.; Dewitte, Boris; Frappart, F.; Rau, P.; Solis, Olimpio

      (Royal Meteorological Society, 2017-09-26)
      Acceso abierto
      While, climatologically, most areas of the Peruvian Pacific region do not experience precipitation, they can be affected by heavy rain and flooding during strong El Niño events with severe socio-economic impacts. Only four ...

    • Construction of a high-resolution gridded rainfall dataset for Peru from 1981 to the present day 

      Aybar Camacho, Cesar Luis; Fernández, C.; Huerta, Adrian; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Vega-Jácome, Fiorella; Felipe-Obando, Oscar

      (Taylor and Francis, 2020)
      Embargado
      A new gridded rainfall dataset available for Peru is introduced, called PISCOp V2.1 (Peruvian Interpolated data of SENAMHI’s Climatological and Hydrological Observations). PISCOp has been developed for the period 1981 to ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • The projected precipitation reduction over the Central Andes may severely affect Peruvian glaciers and hydropower production 

      Kronenberg, M.; Schauwecker, S.; Huggel, C.; Salzmann, N.; Drenkhan, Fabian; Frey, H.; Giraáldez, C.; Gurgiser, W.; Kaser, G.; Juen, I.; Suarez, Wilson; Hernaández, J.G.; Sanmartín, J.F.; Ayros, E.; Perry, B.; Rohrer, M.

      (Elsevier, 2016-11-29)
      Acceso abierto
      Water from glaciers is crucial for the Peruvian hydropower production. Hence, we investigate the glacier-atmosphere and climate interactions in the Cordillera Vilcanota, considering scenarios of significant precipitation ...

    • 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 ...