Interplay between climate change and climate variability: the 2022 drought in Central South America

PA Arias, JA Rivera, AA Sörensson, M Zachariah… - Climatic Change, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Since 2019, Central South America (CSA) has been reeling under drought
conditions, with the last 4 months of 2022 receiving only 44% of the average total …

[HTML][HTML] The key role of extreme weather and climate change in the occurrence of exceptional fire seasons in south-central Chile

T Carrasco-Escaff, R Garreaud, D Bozkurt… - Weather and Climate …, 2024 - Elsevier
Unprecedentedly large areas were burned during the 2016/17 and 2022/23 fire seasons in
south-central Chile (34-39° S). These seasonal-aggregated values were mostly accounted …

Uncertainties in Future Extreme Drought Characteristics Associated with SSP Scenarios over Global Lands

YH Song, ES Chung - Earth Systems and Environment, 2024 - Springer
This study used the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) to identify
future global-scale extreme droughts showing less than− 2 of SPEI for four Shared …

Challenges for climate change adaptation in Latin America and the Caribbean region

T Cavazos, ML Bettolli, D Campbell… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The limited success of international efforts to reduce global warming at levels established in
the Paris Agreement, and the increasing frequency and strength of climate impacts, highlight …

Influence of large-scale circulation and local feedbacks on extreme summer heat in Argentina in 2022/23

S Collazo, S Suli, PG Zaninelli… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
The summer of 2022/23 in Argentina set a record with ten heatwaves. Here, we compare the
synoptic and thermodynamic conditions of the four heatwaves with the largest spatial extent …

How can event attribution science underpin financial decisions on Loss and Damage?

D Coumou, PA Arias, A Bastos, CKG Gonzales… - PNAS …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
With climate extremes hitting nations across the globe, disproportionately burdening
vulnerable develo** countries, the prompt operation of the Loss and Damage fund is of …

Compound Hot and Dry Events in Argentina and Their Connection to El Niño‐Southern Oscillation

A Lopez‐Ramirez, M Barrucand… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This work studies the simultaneous and sequential occurrence of hot and dry months in the
summer season in Argentina, north of 40° S, based on three different databases …

2023: Weather and Climate Extremes Hitting the Globe with Emerging Features

W Zhang, R Clark, T Zhou, L Li, C Li, J Rivera, L Zhang… - 2024 - Springer
Globally, 2023 was the warmest observed year on record since at least 1850 and, according
to proxy evidence, possibly of the past 100 000 years. As in recent years, the record warmth …

Telling tales of water journeys with isotopic tracers

G Koren - Water Resources Research, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Determining the sources of water inside plants using its isotopic composition is a long‐
standing research challenge in ecohydrology. A better understanding of water sources can …

Projections of Climate Change in South America

PA Arias, JA Rivera, C Vera - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of …, 2024 - oxfordre.com
Weather and climate in South America are influenced by a large variety of processes,
including land–atmosphere and ocean–atmosphere interactions, orographic effects, and …