Chile is an elongated country, running in a north-south direction for more than 30° along a
subduction zone. Its climate is progressively wetter and colder from north to south. This …

Abstract The Atacama Desert contains the driest regions on Earth, with significant rain
occurring only a few times per century, based on sparse historical records. However, the …

The growing multi-hazard environment to which millions of people in the world are exposed
highlights the importance of making sure that populations are increasingly better prepared …

Intensification of agriculture leads to stress on the environment and subsequently can have
strong societal and ecological impacts. In deserts, areas of very high sensitivity to land-use …

Northern Chile hosts the driest place on Earth in the Atacama Desert. Nonetheless, an
extreme precipitation event affected the region on 24–26 March 2015 with 1-day …

Extreme precipitation events (EPEs) cause frequently flooding with dramatic socioeconomic
impacts in many parts of the world. Previous studies considered two synoptic-scale …

Paleoclimate records from the Atacama Desert are rare and mostly discontinuous, mainly
recording runoff from the Precordillera to the east, rather than local precipitation. Until now …

Deltas constitute complex depositional systems formed when a land-derived gravity-flow
(carrying water and sediments) discharges into a marine or lacustrine standing body of …

Tropical perturbations have been shown theoretically and observationally to excite long‐
range atmospheric responses in the form of Rossby wave teleconnections that result from …

Abstract The Atacama Desert in Chile is known to be one of the driest deserts on Earth, with
dominating hyperaridity at least since the Miocene. During recent times, however, especially …