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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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Cutoff low over the southeastern Pacific Ocean: a case study
(CSIRO, 2021-02-17)
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 ...
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Reliability of cross-regional applications of global fire danger models: a Peruvian case study
(Springer, 2022-12)
Background: Fire danger indexes (FDIs) are used as proxies for fire potential and are often developed for specific locations. For practical purposes, the extrapolation of the underlying calculations into novel locations ...
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Behavior of the ITCZ second band near the Peruvian coast during the 2017 coastal El Niño
(Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2023)
The behavior of the second band of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) near the Peruvian coast during early 2017 is studied, using precipitation, surface winds, sea surface temperature (SST) and atmospheric variables ...
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Comparison between the Operational and Statistical Daily Maximum and Minimum Temperature Forecasts in The Central Coast of Peru
(American Meteorological Society, 2023-02)
Multiple linear regression models were developed for 1-3-day lead forecasts of maximum and minimum temperature for two locations in the city of Lima, in the central coast of Peru (12°S), and contrasted with the operational ...
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