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    • Impact of Warmer Eastern Tropical Pacific SST on the March 2015 Atacama Floods 
      Bozkurt, Deniz; Rondanelli Rojas, Roberto; Garreaud Salazar, René; Arriagada, Andrés (Amer Meteorological Soc, 2016)
      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 accumulated precipitation exceeding 40mm in several ...
    • Investigation of a nocturnal cold-air pool in a semiclosed basin located in the Atacama desert 
      Flores, Federico; Arriagada, Andrés; Aviles Donoso, Nicolás Patricio; Martínez, Andrés; Viscarra, Aldo; Falvey, Mark; Schmitz, Rainer (Amer Meteorological Soc, 2020)
      In desert environments, intense radiative cooling of the surface during the night leads to rapid cooling of the adjacent air, resulting in a strong temperature inversion conducive to cold-air-pool formation. In this work ...
    • Raco Wind at the Exit of the Maipo Canyon in Central Chile: Climatology, Special Observations, and Possible ... 
      Muñoz Magnino, Ricardo; Armi, Laurence; Rutllant Costa, José A.; Falvey, Mark; Witheman, David C.; Garreaud Salazar, René; Arriagada, Andrés; Flores, Federico; Donoso, Nicolás (American Meteorological Society, 2020)
      Raco is the local name given to a strong (gusts up to 17 m s(-1)), warm, and dry down-valley wind observed at the exit of the Maipo River Canyon in central Chile. Its climatology is documented based on eight years of surface ...