Climate impacts of the El Niño–southern oscillation on South America

W Cai, MJ McPhaden, AM Grimm… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract 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 …

Geological and climatic influences on mountain biodiversity

A Antonelli, WD Kissling, SGA Flantua… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Mountains are key features of the Earth's surface and host a substantial proportion of the
world's species. However, the links between the evolution and distribution of biodiversity …

[PDF][PDF] The central Chile mega drought (2010–2018): a climate dynamics perspective

RD Garreaud, JP Boisier, R Rondanelli… - International Journal …, 2020 - researchgate.net
Central Chile, home to more than 10 million inhabitants, has experienced an uninterrupted
sequence of dry years since 2010 with mean rainfall deficits of 20–40%. The so-called Mega …

Assessment of CMIP6 performance and projected temperature and precipitation changes over South America

M Almazroui, M Ashfaq, MN Islam, IU Rashid… - Earth Systems and …, 2021 - Springer
We evaluate the performance of a large ensemble of Global Climate Models (GCMs) from
the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) over South America for a …

The 2010–2015 megadrought in central Chile: impacts on regional hydroclimate and vegetation

RD Garreaud, C Alvarez-Garreton… - Hydrology and earth …, 2017 - hess.copernicus.org
Since 2010 an uninterrupted sequence of dry years, with annual rainfall deficits ranging from
25 to 45%, has prevailed in central Chile (western South America, 30–38° S). Although …

Six hundred years of South American tree rings reveal an increase in severe hydroclimatic events since mid-20th century

MS Morales, ER Cook, J Barichivich… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
South American (SA) societies are highly vulnerable to droughts and pluvials, but lack of
long-term climate observations severely limits our understanding of the global processes …

Two decades of glacier mass loss along the Andes

I Dussaillant, E Berthier, F Brun, M Masiokas… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Andean glaciers are among the fastest shrinking and largest contributors to sea level rise on
Earth. They also represent crucial water resources in many tropical and semi-arid mountain …

Impacts of climate change on mangrove ecosystems: a region by region overview

RD Ward, DA Friess, RH Day… - Ecosystem Health and …, 2016 - spj.science.org
Inter-related and spatially variable climate change factors including sea level rise, increased
storminess, altered precipitation regime and increasing temperature are impacting …

[HTML][HTML] The evolution of the Patagonian Ice Sheet from 35 ka to the present day (PATICE)

BJ Davies, CM Darvill, H Lovell, JM Bendle… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
We present PATICE, a GIS database of Patagonian glacial geomorphology and recalibrated
chronological data. PATICE includes 58,823 landforms and 1,669 geochronological ages …

Evaluation of the ability of CMIP6 models to simulate precipitation over Southwestern South America: Climatic features and long-term trends (1901–2014)

JA Rivera, G Arnould - Atmospheric Research, 2020 - Elsevier
This study evaluates the performance of precipitation simulated in the historical runs of the
Climate Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMPI6) in capturing the complex spatial …