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A global observational analysis to understand changes in air quality during exceptionally low anthropogenic emission conditions
(Elsevier, 2021-08)
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 ...
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Water resources and climate change impact modelling on a daily time scale in the Peruvian Andes
(Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2014-11)
Estimating water resources is important for adequate water management in the future, but suitable data are often scarce. We estimated water resources in the Vilcanota basin (Peru) for the 1998–2009 period with the ...
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Air pollution and COVID-19 lockdown in a large South American city: Santiago Metropolitan Area, Chile
(Elsevier B.V., 2021-02)
The implementation of confinement and physical distancing measures to restrict people's activities and transit in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic allowed us to study how these measures affect the air quality in urban ...
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Ozone and volatile organic compounds in the metropolitan area of Lima-Callao, Peru
(Springer, 2018-07-26)
This study analyzes ozone formation in the metropolitan area of Lima-Callao as a function of meteorological patterns and the concentrations of nitrogen oxides and reactive organic gases. The study area is located on the ...
A simple model for minimum crop temperature forecasting during nocturnal cooling
(Elsevier, 2004)
A simple mechanistic model is developed to forecast the minimum temperature reached by the aerial elements of a crop during nocturnal cooling. The model, whose inputs are meteorological data registered at sunset, has two ...
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The 2017 coastal El Niño
(American Meteorological Society, 2018-08)
The original concept of El Niño consisted of anomalously high sea surface temperature and heavy rainfall along the arid
northern coast of Peru (Carranza 1891; Carrillo 1893). The concept evolved into the El Niño–Southern ...
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Heavy Snowfalls in the peruvian Andes: the wettest winter of the last 19 years
(American Meteorological Society, 2019-09)
Most meteorological stations in the central and southern Peruvian Andes also received heavy rainfall in June and July. On
2 June, Ananea, which is located in Puno at 4660 m a.s.l., recorded 32.5 mm (monthly climatology ...
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Current state of glaciers in the tropical Andes: A multi-century perspective on glacier evolution and climate change
(Copernicus publications, 2013-01-22)
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 ...
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Structural signatures of water-soluble organic aerosols in contrasting environments in South America and Western Europe
(Elsevier B.V., 2017-08)
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, ...
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High-resolution satellite-gauge merged precipitation climatologies of the tropical Andes
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2016-02-09)
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 ...
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