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Hydroclimatic change disparity of Peruvian Pacific drainage catchments
(Springer-Verlag Wien, 2017-08-23)
Peruvian Pacific drainage catchments only benefit from 2% of the total national available freshwater while they concentrate almost 50% of the population of the country. This situation is likely to lead a severe water ...
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Characteristics of Precipitating Storms in Glacierized Tropical Andean Cordilleras of Peru and Bolivia
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-06-01)
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 ...
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Impacts of land use on the hydrological response of tropical Andean catchments
(John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2016-08-30)
Changes in land use and land cover are major drivers of hydrological alteration in the tropical Andes. However, quantifying their impacts is fraught with difficulties because of the extreme diversity in meteorological ...
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Multiregional satellite precipitation products evaluation over complex terrain
(American Meteorological Society, 2016-06)
An extensive evaluation of nine global-scale high-resolution satellite-based rainfall (SBR) products is performed using a minimum of 6 years (within the period of 2000-13) of reference rainfall data derived from rain gauge ...
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Observed and projected hydroclimate changes in the Andes
(Frontiers, 2020-03-17)
The Andes is the most biodiverse region across the globe. In addition, some of the largest urban areas in South America are located within this region. Therefore, ecosystems and human population are affected by hydroclimate ...
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Climate diagnostics of the extreme floods in Peru during early 2017
(Springer, 2020)
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 ...
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PISCOeo_pm, a reference evapotranspiration gridded database based on FAO Penman-Monteith in Peru
(Nature, 2022-06)
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 ...
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Advancing South American Water and Climate Science through Multidecadal Convection-Permitting Modeling
(American Meteorological Society, 2024-01-08)
South America’s hydroclimate sustains vibrant communities and natural ecosystems of extraordinary biodiversity including the Andes Cordillera, and the Orinoco, La Plata, and Amazon basins. Global warming and land-use change ...
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