• A future of extreme precipitation and droughts in the Peruvian Andes 

      Potter, Emily R.; Fyffe, Catriona L.; Orr, Andrew; Quincey, Duncan J.; Ross, Andrew N.; Rangecroft, Sally; Medina, Katy; Burns, Helen; Llacza Rodríguez, Alan; Jácome Vergaray, Gerardo; Hellström, Robert Å.; Castro, Joshua; Cochachin, Alejo; Montoya, Nilton; Loarte, Edwin; Pellicciotti, Francesca

      (Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú, 2023-07-20)
      Acceso abierto
      Runoff from glacierised Andean river basins is essential for sustaining the livelihoods of millions of people. By running a high-resolution climate model over the two most glacierised regions of Peru we unravel past climatic ...
    • A future of extreme precipitation and droughts in the Peruvian Andes 

      Potter, Emily R.; Fyffe, Catriona L.; Orr, Andrés; Quincey, Duncan J.; Ross, Andrés N.; Rangecroft, Sally; Medina, Katy; Burns, Helen; Llacza, Alan; Jácome, Gerardo; Hellström, Robert Å.; Castro, Josué; Cochachín, Alejo; Montoya, Nilton; Loarte, Edwin; Pellicciotti, Francesca

      (Springer Nature, 2023)
      Acceso abierto
      Runoff from glacierised Andean river basins is essential for sustaining the livelihoods of millions of people. By running a highresolution climate model over the two most glacierised regions of Peru we unravel past climatic ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Characteristics of Precipitating Storms in Glacierized Tropical Andean Cordilleras of Peru and Bolivia 

      Perry, L. B.; Seimon, Anton; Andrade, Marcos; Endries, J. L.; Yuter, S. E.; Velarde, Fernando; Arias, S.; Bonshoms, Marti; Burton, E.J.; Winkelmann, I. R.; Cooper, C.M.; Mamani, G.; Rado, M.; Montoya, N.; Quispe, Nelson

      (Taylor & Francis, 2016-06-01)
      Acceso cerrado
      Precipitation variability in tropical high mountains is a fundamental yet poorly understood factor influencing local climatic expression and a variety of environmental processes, including glacier behavior and water ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • A comparative analysis of TRMM-rain gauge data merging techniques at the daily time scale for distributed rainfall-runoff modeling applications 

      Nerini, D.; Zulkafli, Z.; Wang, L.-P.; Onof, C.; Buytaert, W.; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Guyot, J.L.

      (American Meteorological Society, 2015-01)
      Acceso abierto
      This study compares two nonparametric rainfall data merging methods-the mean bias correction and double-kernel smoothing-with two geostatistical methods-kriging with external drift and Bayesian combination-for optimizing ...
    • 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 ...
    • Cutoff low over the southeastern Pacific Ocean: a case study 

      Quispe, Nelson; Aliaga Nestares, Vannia; Rodríguez Zimmermann, Diego; Bonshoms, Marti; Loayza, Raquel; García, Teresa; Mesia, José; Duran, Ricardo; Olivares, Sara

      (CSIRO, 2021-02-17)
      Acceso abierto
      Cutoff lows (COLs) are infrequent events in the tropics that can cause extreme rainfall, flash flooding and landslides in arid areas, such as western South America. In this study, the life cycle of a COL in the southeastern ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Hydrological impacts of dam regulation for hydropower production: The case of Lake Sibinacocha, Southern Peru 

      Bello, Cinthya; Suarez, Wilson; Drenkhan, Fabian; Vega-Jácome, Fiorella

      (Elsevier B.V., 2023-01)
      Acceso abierto
      Study focus: Hydraulic infrastructure plays a fundamental role for energy production, drinking and irrigation water storage and flood control in regions with seasonal river flow. The highAndean Lake Sibinacocha has been ...
    • Low-frequency modulation and trend of the relationship between ENSO and precipitation along the northern to centre Peruvian Pacific coast 

      Bourrel, L.; Rau, Pedro; Dewitte, Boris; Labat, David; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Coutaud, Aude; Vera, Andrea; Alvarado, Abigail; Ordóñez Gálvez, Juan Julio

      (John Wiley and Sons, 2014-05-21)
      Acceso abierto
      The relationship between El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and precipitation along the Peruvian Pacific coast is investigated over 1964–2011 on the basis of a variety of indices accounting for the different types of El ...
    • Mapping seasonal and annual extreme precipitation over the Peruvian Andes 

      Domínguez-Castro, F.; Vicente-Serrano, S.M.; López-Moreno, J.I.; Correa, Kris; Avalos, Grinia; Azorín-Molina, C.; El Kenawy, A.; Tomas-Burguera, M.; Navarro-Serrano, F.; Peña-Gallardo, M.; Gimeno, L.; Nieto, R.

      (John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2018-12)
      Acceso cerrado
      Seasonal and annual extreme precipitation over the Peruvian Andes have been mapped for the first time. Maps were developed using the most complete, quality-controlled and homogenous daily precipitation records in Peru from ...