01. Artículos Científicos: Recent submissions

    • 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 ...

    • PISCOeo_pm, a reference evapotranspiration gridded database based on FAO Penman-Monteith in Peru 

      Huerta, Adrian; Bonnesoeur, Vivien; Cuadros-Adriazola, José; Gutierrez Lope, Leonardo; Ochoa-Tocachi, Boris F.; Román-Dañobeytia, Francisco; Lavado-Casimiro, W.

      (Nature, 2022-06)
      Acceso abierto
      A new FAO Penman-Monteith reference evapotranspiration gridded dataset is introduced, called PISCOeo_pm. PISCOeo_pm has been developed for the 1981–2016 period at ~1 km (0.01°) spatial resolution for the entire continental ...

    • The Effect of COVID-19 Lockdowns on the Air Pollution of Urban Areas of Central and Southern Chile 

      Morales-Solís, Karina; Ahumada, Hernán; Rojas Quincho, Jhojan Pool; Urdanivia Lermo, Francesco Renato; Catalán, Francisco; Claramunt, Tomas; Toro A., Richard; Manzano, Carlos A.; Leiva-Guzmán, Manuel A.

      (AAGR Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 2021)
      Acceso abierto
      We present the effects of the confinement and physical distancing policies applied during the COVID-19 pandemic on the concentrations of PM10, PM2.5, NO, NO2 and O3 in 16 cities in central and southern Chile. The period ...

    • A global observational analysis to understand changes in air quality during exceptionally low anthropogenic emission conditions 

      Sokhi, Ranjeet S.; Singh, Vikas; Querol, Xavier; Finardi, Sandro; Targino, Admir Créso; Andrade, Maria de Fatima; Pavlovic, Radenko; Garland, Rebecca M.; Massagué, Jordi; Kong, Shaofei; Baklanov, Alexander; Ren, Lu; Tarasova, Oksana; Carmichael, Greg; Peuch, Vincent-Henri; Anand, Vrinda; Arbilla, Graciela; Badali, Kaitlin; Beig, Gufran; Belalcazart, Luis Carlos; Bolignano, Andrea; Brimblecombe, Peter; Camacho, Patricia; Casallas, Alejandro; Charland, Jean-Pierre; Choi, Jason; Chourdakis, Eleftherios; Coll, Isabelle; Collins, Marty; Cyrys, Josef; Cleyton, Martins; da Silva, Cleyton Martins; Di Giosa, Alessandro Domenico; Di Leo, Anna; Ferro, Camilo; Gavidia-Calderon, Mario; Gayen, Amiya; Ginzburg, Alexander; Godefroy, Fabrice; Gonzalez, Yuri Alexandra; Guevara-Luna, Marco; Haque, Mafizul; Havenga, Henno; Herod, Dennis; Horrak, Urmas; Hussein, Tareq; Ibarra, Sergio; Jaimes, Monica; Kaasik, Marko; Khaiwal, Ravindra; Kim, Jhoon; Kousa, Anu; Kukkonen, Jaakko; Kulmala, Markku; Kuula, Joel; La Violette, Nathalie; Lanzani, Guido; Liu, Xi; MacDougall, Stephanie; Manseau, Patrick M.; Marchegiani, Giada; McDonald, Brian; Vardhan Mishra, Swasti; Molina, Luisa T.; Mooibroek, Dennis; Mor, Suman; Moussiopoulos, Nicolas; Murena, Fabio; Niemi, Jarkko V.; Noe, Steffen; Nogueira, Thiago; Norman, Michael; Pérez-Camaño, Juan Luis; Petajä, Tuukka; Piketh, Stuart; Rathod, Aditi; Reid, Ken; Retama, Armando; Rivera, Olivia; Rojas, Néstor Y.; Rojas Quincho, Jhojan Pool; San José, Roberto; Sanchez, Odón R.; Seguel, Rodrigo J.; Sillanpää, Salla; Su, Yushan; Tapper, Nigel; Terrazas, Antonio; Timonen, Hilkka; Toscano, Domenico; Tsegas, George; Velders, Guus J.M.; Vlachokostas, Christos; von Schneidemesser, Erika; VpM, Rajasree; Ravi, Yadav; Zalakeviciute, Rasa; Zavala, Miguel

      (Elsevier, 2021-08)
      Acceso abierto
      This global study, which has been coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization Global Atmospheric Watch (WMO/GAW) programme, aims to understand the behaviour of key air pollutant species during the COVID-19 pandemic ...

    • 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 ...

    • On the future of the water resources from glacier melting in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru 

      Bernard, Pouyaud; Marco, Zapata; Yerren, Jorge; Gomez, Jesus; Gabriela, Rosas; Suarez, Wilson

      (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2005)
      Acceso abierto
      The hydrological data (since 1953) of the Llanganuco basin (87.0 km2, 39% glacierized) show an increase of the glacial melting during the last quarter of the 20th century. These results were supplemented (since the end of ...

    • Association between air pollution in Lima and the high incidence of COVID-19: findings from a post hoc analysis 

      Vasquez-Apestegui, Bertha; Parras-Garrido, Enrique; Tapia, Vilma; Paz-Aparicio, Valeria M.; Rojas Quincho, Jhojan Pool; Sanchez-Ccoyllo, Odón R.; Gonzales, Gustavo F.

      (BioMed Central Ltd, 2021)
      Acceso abierto
      Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) originated in the People’s Republic of China in December 2019. Thereafter, a global logarithmic expansion of cases occurred. Some countries have a higher rate of infections ...

    • Anticipation Mechanism for Cold Wave: Forecast Based Financing a Case Study in the Peruvian Andes 

      Bazo, Juan; de Perez, Coughlan; Jácome Vergaray, Gerardo; Mantilla, Kemper; Destrooper, Mathieug; Van Aalst, Maarten

      (Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-11)
      Acceso abierto
      In June 2018, the Peruvian provinces of Arequipa and Puno in the southern Andean region were affected by heavy snowfall, which caused severe damage to people and livelihoods in several communities. Using the Forecast-based ...

    • 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 ...

    • Trends and space–time patterns of near-surface temperatures on Maxwell Bay, King George Island, Antarctica 

      Bello, Cinthya; Suarez, Wilson; Lavado-Casimiro, W.

      (Royal Meteorological Society, 2022-04)
      Embargado
      There is growing interest in the international scientific community in characterizing climate variability in Antarctica because of the continent's fundamental role in regulating the world's climate. Researchers have ...

    • A multi-objective approach to select hydrological models and constrain structural uncertainties for climate impact assessments 

      Saavedra, Danny; Mendoza, Pablo A.; Addor, Nans; Llauca, Harold; Vargas, Ximena

      (John Wiley and Sons, 2021-12)
      Embargado
      The assessment of climate change impacts on water resources and flood risk is typically underpinned by hydrological models calibrated and selected based on observed streamflow records. Yet, changes in climate are rarely ...

    • Climate Change Impact on Peruvian Biomes 

      Zevallos, Jose; Lavado-Casimiro, W.

      (MDPI, 2022-02)
      Acceso abierto
      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 ...

    • Participatory action research for conservation and development: Experiences from the Amazon 

      Perz, S.G.; Arteaga, Marliz; Baudoin, Farah A.; Brown, I.F.; Huaman Mendoza, Elsa; de Paula, Y.A.P.; Perales Yabar, Leonor Mercedes; Santos Pimentel, Alan; Ribeiro, Sabina C.; Rioja-Ballivián, G.; Rosero Peña, Martha; Sanjinez L., L. Cecilia; Selaya G., N. Galia

      (MDPI AG, 2022-01)
      Acceso abierto
      Research that features participation and action orientation, such as participatory action research (PAR), is especially valuable in contexts where there is rapid change, high social inequality, and great uncertainty about ...

    • 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 ...

    • Evolution of the tropical response to periodic extratropical thermal forcing 

      Shin, Y.; Kang, S.M.; Takahashi, Ken; Stuecker, M.F.; Hwang, Y.-T.; Kim, D.

      (American Meteorological Society, 2021-08)
      Embargado
      This study examines the temporal evolution of the extratropically forced tropical response in an idealized aquaplanet model under equinox condition. We apply a surface thermal forcing in the northern extratropics that ...

    • 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 ...

    • El Niño y los caudales en la vertiente del Titicaca 

      Vera Arévalo, Héctor Alberto

      (Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú, 2009)
      Acceso abierto
      En el presente estudio, se evalúa el comportamiento del régimen hídrico en la vertiente del Titicaca durante la ocurrencia del fenómeno El Niño, teniendo como base la información de caudales medios mensuales de las estaciones ...

    • Análisis espacial del comportamiento fenológico de la vegetación en la cuenca del rio Chira usando imágenes de alta resolución espectral 

      Dedios Mimbela, Ninell Janett

      (Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú, 2009)
      Acceso abierto
      El presente artículo forma parte del proyecto “MONITOREO DE LOS ECOSISTEMAS AGRICOLAS Y NATURALES EN LA REGION PIURA DESDE LAS TECNOLOGIAS: TELEDETECCION Y SISTEMAS DE INFORMACION GEOGRAFICA”. El objetivo de este trabajo ...

    • Validación de lluvia utilizando TRMM en dos cuencas amazónicas peruanas y su aplicación en modelos mensuales de balance hídrico 

      Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Labat, David; Guyot, J.L.; Ronchail, Josyane; Ordóñez Gálvez, Juan Julio

      (Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú, 2009)
      Acceso abierto
      El Perú presenta aproximadamente el 10% del total de la Cuenca Amazónica y se caracteriza por ser la región con menor distribución de estaciones de lluvia, sobre todo en la Selva baja. Nosotros comparamos el producto 3B43 ...

    • Evaluación de unidades térmicas para el crecimiento y desarrollo del cultivo de maíz amarillo duro (Zea mays, L.) en la costa central del Perú 

      Yzarra Tito, Wilfredo Julián; Trebejo, Irene; Noriega Nalvarte, Víctor

      (Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú, 2009)
      Acceso abierto
      Este trabajo de investigación fue realizado en los terrenos del fundo de la Universidad Nacional Agraria, La Molina (latitud 12º05’S, longitud 76º57’W, altitud 238 m.s.n.m) durante la campaña agrícola 2007/2008, con 06 ...