Century scale rainfall in the absolute Atacama Desert: Landscape response and implications for past and future rainfall

M Pfeiffer, A Morgan, A Heimsath, T Jordan… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Climate change-related risks and adaptation potential in Central and South America during the 21st century

I Hagen, C Huggel, L Ramajo, N Chacón… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Climate-related risks in Central and South America have received increased attention and
concern in science and policy, but an up-to-date comprehensive review and synthesis of …

Natural disaster preparedness in a multi-hazard environment: Characterizing the sociodemographic profile of those better (worse) prepared

NC Bronfman, PC Cisternas, PB Repetto… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
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 …

Foehn event triggered by an atmospheric river underlies record‐setting temperature along continental Antarctica

D Bozkurt, R Rondanelli, JC Marín… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A record‐setting temperature of 17.5° C occurred on 24 March 2015 at the Esperanza
station located near the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula (AP). We studied the event …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of warmer eastern tropical Pacific SST on the March 2015 Atacama floods

D Bozkurt, R Rondanelli, R Garreaud… - Monthly Weather …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
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 …

An integrated analysis of the March 2015 Atacama floods

AC Wilcox, C Escauriaza, R Agredano… - Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In March 2015 unusual ocean and atmospheric conditions produced many years' worth of
rainfall in a~ 48 h period over northern Chile's Atacama Desert, one of Earth's driest regions …

Dynamics of local impacts in low-carbon transition: Agent-based modeling of lithium mining-community-aquifer interactions in Salar de Atacama, Chile

W Liu, DB Agusdinata - The Extractive Industries and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
The global transition to low-carbon technologies has accelerated the extraction of lithium. Its
associated implications on local socio-environmental systems, however, are often …

Contributions by extreme rain events to long-term hyperarid landscape evolution

L Olivares, TE Jordan - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Atacama Desert in northern Chile provides a unique setting for investigating
the short-term impact of extreme rain events on desert landscape evolution. A decadal …

Changes in heat waves in Chile

A Piticar - Global and Planetary Change, 2018 - Elsevier
This research aims to examine changes in heat waves (HWs) over Chile from 1961 to 2016
using daily maximum (TX) and minimum temperature (TN) data recorded at 13 weather …

Strongest MJO on record triggers extreme Atacama rainfall and warmth in Antarctica

R Rondanelli, B Hatchett, J Rutllant… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical perturbations have been shown theoretically and observationally to excite long‐
range atmospheric responses in the form of Rossby wave teleconnections that result from …