• North Tropical Atlantic influence on western Amazon fire season variability 

      Fernandes, K.; Baethgen, W.; Bernardes, S.; Defries, R.; Dewitt, D.G.; Goddard, L.; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Lee, D.E.; Padoch, C.; Pinedo-Vasquez, M.; Uriarte, M.

      (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2011-06)
      Acceso abierto
      The prevailing wet climate in the western Amazon is not favorable to the natural occurrence of fires. Nevertheless, the current process of clearing of humid forests for agriculture and cattle ranching has increased the ...
    • Relationship between monthly rainfall in NW peru and tropical sea surface temperature 

      Bazo, Juan; Lorenzo, M.D.L.N.; Porfirio Da Rocha, R.

      (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2013-08)
      Acceso abierto
      This study assesses the relationship between global sea surface temperature (SST) and a regional index of rainfall (NWPR) in Piura-Tumbes, a coastal region in northwestern Peru, over the period 1965-2008 by means of the ...
    • Strength outlooks for the El Niño-Southern Oscillation 

      L'Heureux, M.L.; Tippett, M.K.; Takahashi, Ken; Barnston, A.G.; Becker, E.J.; Bell, G.D.; Di Liberto, T.E.; Gottschalck, J.; Halpert, Michael S.; Hu, Zeng-Zhen; Johnson, Nathaniel C.; Xue, Yan; Wang, Wanqiu

      (American Meteorological Society, 2019-02)
      Acceso abierto
      Three strategies for creating probabilistic forecast outlooks for El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) are compared. One is subjective and is currently used by the NOAA/Climate Prediction Center (CPC) to produce official ...
    • Integrated assessment and adaptation to climate change impacts in the Peruvian Andes 

      Salzmann, N.; Huggel, C.; Calanca, P.; Díaz, A.; Jonas, T.; Jurt, C.; Konzelmann, Thomas; Lagos, P.; Rohrer, M.; Silverio, W.; Zappa, M.

      (Copernicus GmbH, 2009-11)
      Acceso abierto
      The Andes as mountain regions worldwide, provide fundamental resources, not only for the local population. Due to the topographic characteristics, the potential for natural hazards is higher than elsewhere. In these areas, ...
    • Impacts of El Niño and La Niña in the precipitation over Perú (1965-2007) 

      Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Espinoza, J.C.

      (Sociedade Brasileira de Meteorologia, 2014-06)
      Acceso abierto
      The impacts of El Niño (EN) and La Niña (LN) in rainfall in Peru are evaluated using monthly data (1965-2007) of 155 stations distributed over the three hydrographic drainages of Peru: 85 in the Pacific (VP), 21 in the ...
    • Impact of the global warming hiatus on Andean temperature 

      Vuille, M.; Franquist, E.; Garreaud, R.; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Cáceres, B.

      (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015-08)
      Acceso abierto
      The recent hiatus in global warming is likely to be reflected in Andean temperature, given its close dependence on tropical Pacific sea surface temperature (SST). While recent work in the subtropical Andes has indeed ...
    • Facing unprecedented drying of the Central Andes? Precipitation variability over the period AD 1000-2100 

      Neukom, R.; Rohrer, M.; Calanca, P.; Salzmann, N.; Huggel, C.; Acuña, Delia; Christie, D.A.; Morales, M.S.

      (Institute of Physics Publishing, 2015-08)
      Acceso abierto
      Projected future trends in water availability are associated with large uncertainties in many regions of the globe. In mountain areas with complex topography, climate models have often limited capabilities to adequately ...
    • Towards implementing climate services in Peru – The project CLIMANDES 

      Rosas, Gabriela; Gubler, S.; Oria, Clara; Acuña, Delia; Avalos, Grinia; Begert, M.; Castillo, E.; Croci-Maspoli, M.; Cubas Saucedo, Félix; Dapozzo, M.; Díaz, A.; van Geijtenbeek, D.; Jacques-Coper, M.

      (Elsevier B.V., 2016-09)
      Acceso abierto
      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 ...
    • Impacts of different ENSO flavors and tropical Pacific convection variability (ITCZ, SPCZ) on austral summer rainfall in South America, with a focus on Peru 

      Sulca, Juan; Takahashi, Ken; Espinoza, J.C.; Vuille, M.; Lavado-Casimiro, W.

      (John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2018-01)
      Acceso abierto
      El Niño in the eastern and central Pacific has different impacts on the rainfall of South America, and the atmospheric pathways through the South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ) and Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) ...
    • Effects of undetected data quality issues on climatological analyses 

      Hunziker, Stefan; Brönnimann, Stefan; Calle, J.; Moreno, Isabel; Andrade, Marcos; Ticona, Laura; Huerta, Adrian; Lavado-Casimiro, W.

      (Copernicus GmbH, 2018-01)
      Acceso abierto
      Systematic data quality issues may occur at various stages of the data generation process. They may affect large fractions of observational datasets and remain largely undetected with standard data quality control. This ...
    • Validation and analysis of UV radiation time series collected in different peruvian sites 

      Yamamoto, A.L.C.; Corrêa, M.P.; Ccoyllo, O.R.S.

      (Sociedade Brasileira de Meteorologia, 2018-06)
      Acceso abierto
      We evaluate a set of ultraviolet solar radiation (UVR) measurements collected in six locations in Peru: Ica, Tacna, Moquegua, Arequipa, Cajamarca and Marcapomacocha, whose altitudes vary from sea level to 4479 m. The ...
    • Extreme rainfall forecast with the WRF-ARW model in the Central Andes of Peru 

      Moya-álvarez, A.S.; Gálvez, J.; Holguín, A.; Estevan, R.; Kumar, S.; Villalobos, E.; Martínez-Castro, D.; Silva, Yamina

      (MDPI AG, 2018-09)
      Acceso abierto
      The ability of the WRF-ARW (Weather Research and Forecasting-Advanced Research WRF) model to forecast extreme rainfall in the Central Andes of Peru is evaluated in this study, using observations from stations located in ...
    • Summertime precipitation deficits in the southern Peruvian highlands since 1964 

      Imfeld, N.; Barreto Schuler, Christian; Correa, Kris; Jacques-Coper, M.; Sedlmeier, v; Gubler, S.; Huerta, Adrian; Brönnimann, v

      (John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2019-03)
      Acceso abierto
      Precipitation deficits remain a concern to the rural population in the southern Peruvian highlands and knowledge about their occurrence is lacking because of scarce data availability. For mountainous regions with sparse ...
    • 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 ...
    • Comparative ground validation of IMERG and TMPA at variable spatiotemporal scales in the tropical Andes 

      Manz, B.; Páez-Bimos, S.; Horna, N.; Buytaert, W.; Ochoa-Tocachi, v; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Willems, B.

      (American Meteorological Society, 2017-09)
      Acceso abierto
      An initial ground validation of the Integrated Multisatellite Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) Day-1 product from March 2014 to August 2015 is presented for the tropical Andes. IMERG was evaluated along with the Tropical Rainfall ...
    • The influence of station density on climate data homogenization 

      Gubler, S.; Hunziker, Stefan; Begert, M.; Croci-Maspoli, M.; Konzelmann, Thomas; Brönnimann, Stefan; Schwierz, C.; Oria, Clara; Rosas, Gabriela

      (John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2017-11)
      Relative homogenization methods assume that measurements of nearby stations experience similar climate signals and rely therefore on dense station networks with high-temporal correlations. In developing countries such as ...
    • Early warning systems: The "last mile" of adaptation 

      Huggel, C.; Rohrer, M.; Calanca, v; Salzmann, N.; Vergara, W.; Quispe, Nelson; Ceballos, J.L.

      (American Geophysical Union, 2012-09)
      Acceso abierto
      Recent scientific assessment studies of climate change impacts, including those from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, provide evidence of the negative effects of climate variability and change on natural and ...
    • Warming and wetting signals emerging from analysis of changes in climate extreme indices over South America 

      Skansi, M.D.L.M.; Brunet, M.; Sigró, J.; Aguilar, E.; Arevalo Groening, J.A.; Bentancur, O.J.; Castellón Geier, Y.R.

      (Elsevier B.V., 2013-01)
      Acceso cerrado
      Here we show and discuss the results of an assessment of changes in both area-averaged and station-based climate extreme indices over South America (SA) for the 1950-2010 and 1969-2009 periods using high-quality daily ...
    • Decadal changes in glacier parameters in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, derived from remote sensing 

      Racoviteanu, A.E.; Arnaud, Y.; Williams, M.W.; Ordóñez Gálvez, Juan Julio

      (Cambridge University Press, 2008-06)
      Acceso abierto
      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 ...
    • Determination of anthropogenic and biogenic compounds on atmospheric aerosol collected in urban, biomass burning and forest areas in São Paulo, Brazil 

      Vasconcellos, P.; Souza, D.Z.; Sánchez Ccoyllo, Odón; Bustillos, J.O.V.; Lee, H.; Santos, F.C.; Nascimento, K.H.; Araújo, M.P.; Saarnio, K.

      (Elsevier B.V., 2010-11)
      Acceso cerrado
      This study was conducted at three sites of different characteristics in São Paulo State: São Paulo (SPA), Piracicaba (PRB) and Mata Atlântica Forest (MAT). PM10, n-alkanes, pristane and phytane, PAHs, water-soluble ions ...