Abstract. The lowland of Piura, in northwestern Peru, is very strongly impacted by El Niño. Its climate is arid but can experience very heavy rainfall associated with the high nearby sea surface temperature (SST) during El Niño events. Rainfall, however, tends to occur in discrete, intense events and ...

The present work is part of the "Integrated Local Assessment of the Mantaro River Basin" (ILA Mantaro), whose main objective was: to systematize and to extend the knowledge about climate change in the Mantaro river basin, and to evaluate the climatic, physical and social aspects of its vulnerability, ...

El presente trabajo describe e interpreta, en términos de ondas ecuatoriales, la variabilidad de la anomalía del nivel del mar (ANM) y la anomalía de la velocidad zonal (AVZ) en el Pacífico Ecuatorial en el periodo 2000-2007. Para esto, se implementó un modelo numérico oceánico simple de un modo ...

Se ha desarrollado una propuesta de gestión de riesgo de helada (GRH), para un valle interandino y eminentemente agrícola: el valle del Río Mantaro (VM), ubicado en los Andes centrales del Perú. La elaboración de la propuesta conllevó a un proceso participativo, con intervención y aporte significativo ...

Monthly precipitation data from the period of 1970 to 2004 from 38 meteorological stations in the Mantaro river basin were used to classify the rainy seasons (September–April) of each year into anomalously dry or wet, and to determine the basin-wide extent of the anomalies based on the Standardized ...