Droughts, wildfires, and forest carbon cycling: A pantropical synthesis

PM Brando, L Paolucci, CC Ummenhofer… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Tropical woody plants store∼ 230 petagrams of carbon (PgC) in their aboveground living
biomass. This review suggests that these stocks are currently growing in primary forests at …

Hydroclimate of the Andes part II: Hydroclimate variability and sub-continental patterns

PA Arias, R Garreaud, G Poveda… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
This paper provides an updated review of the most relevant scientific literature related to the
hydroclimate of the Andes. The Andes, the longest cordillera in the world, faces major …

The new record of drought and warmth in the Amazon in 2023 related to regional and global climatic features

JC Espinoza, JC Jimenez, JA Marengo, J Schongart… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
In 2023 Amazonia experienced both historical drought and warm conditions. On October
26th 2023 the water levels at the port of Manaus reached its lowest record since 1902 (12.70 …

Global fatal landslide occurrence from 2004 to 2016

MJ Froude, DN Petley - Natural Hazards and Earth System …, 2018 - nhess.copernicus.org
Landslides are a ubiquitous hazard in terrestrial environments with slopes, incurring human
fatalities in urban settlements, along transport corridors and at sites of rural industry …

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 …

ENSO atmospheric teleconnections

AS Taschetto, CC Ummenhofer… - El Niño southern …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Summary The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) causes climatic fluctuations in the tropics
and extratropics via atmospheric teleconnections. The anomalous Pacific sea surface …

Impacts of teleconnection patterns on South America climate

MS Reboita, T Ambrizzi, NM Crespo… - Annals of the New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Oceanic heat sources disturb the atmosphere, which, to come back to its initial state,
disperses waves. These waves affect the climate in remote regions, characterizing the …

CAMELS-BR: hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes for 897 catchments in Brazil

VBP Chagas, PLB Chaffe, N Addor… - Earth System …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
We introduce a new catchment dataset for large-sample hydrological studies in Brazil. This
dataset encompasses daily time series of observed streamflow from 3679 gauges, as well …

Impacts of different ENSO flavors and tropical Pacific convection variability (ITCZ, SPCZ) on austral summer rainfall in South America, with a focus on Peru

J Sulca, K Takahashi, JC Espinoza, M Vuille… - 2018 - repositorio.senamhi.gob.pe
El Niño in the eastern and central Pacific has different impacts on the rainfall of South
America, and the atmospheric pathways through the South Pacific Convergence Zone …

Global precipitation hindcast quality assessment of the Subseasonal to Seasonal (S2S) prediction project models

FM De Andrade, CAS Coelho, IFA Cavalcanti - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
This study assessed subseasonal global precipitation hindcast quality from all Subseasonal
to Seasonal (S2S) prediction project models. Deterministic forecast quality of weekly …