Tower, ground-based and satellite observations indicate that tropical deforestation results in
warmer, drier conditions at the local scale. Understanding the regional or global impacts of …

About half of the world's population now lives in urban areas because of the opportunity for a
better quality of life. Many of these urban centers are expanding rapidly, leading to the …

This paper documents the main features of the weather, climate and climate variability over
Andes cordillera in South America on the basis of instrumental observations. We first provide …

Rainfall variability in the Amazon basin (AB) is analysed for the 1964-2003 period. It is
based on 756 pluviometric stations distributed throughout the AB countries. For the first time …

Changing climatic conditions have led to a significant increase in the magnitude and
frequency of extreme rainfall events in the Central Andes of South America. These events …

Air temperature is one of the main weather variables influencing agriculture around the
world. Its availability, however, is a concern, mainly in Brazil where the weather stations are …

Abstract The Andes/Amazon transition is among the rainiest regions of the world and the
interactions between large‐scale circulation and the topography that determine its complex …

The interannual variability of austral summer [December–January–February–March (DJFM)]
convective activity and precipitation in the central Andes (15°–30° S) is investigated …

Abstract Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Radar (PR) and National
Centers for Environmental Prediction–National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCEP …

In the tropical Andes, the identification of the present synoptic mechanisms associated with
the diurnal cycle of precipitation and its interaction with orography is a key step to …