Browsing by Subject "Atacama Desert"

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    • Assessment of Natural Hazards and Vulnerability in the Rio Copiapó Catchment: A case study in the ungauged ... 
      Soto Baüerle, María Victoria; Märker, Michael; Dangel, Friedrich; Rodolfi, Giuliano (Universidad de Chile, 2012)
      Intensive precipitations in desert areas are a very scarce phenomenon. Nevertheless, from time to time these events take place, as in 1997 in Southern Atacama Desert in Chile. The study area within the Copiapó catchment ...
    • Climatic regionalisation of continental Chile 
      Sarricolea Espinoza, Pablo; Herrera Ossandón, Mariajosé; Meseguer Ruiz, Óliver (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
      The updated Koppen-Geiger climate classification for continental Chile is a cartographic product of great interest for climate research in the South American context. This study included 200 weather stations and climate ...
    • Effects of alternative sets of climatic predictors on species distributionmodels and associated estimates ... 
      Pliscoff, Patricio; Luebert Bruron, Federico José; Hilger, Hartmut; Guisan, Antoine (Elsevier, 2014)
      tThe effects of using alternative sets of climatic predictor variables on the performance, spatial predictionsand future projections of species distribution models (SDMs) and its consequences on extinction riskestimates ...
    • Weather regimes linked to daily precipitation anomalies in northern Chile 
      Meseguer Ruiz, Oliver; Cortesi, Nicola; Guijarro, José; Sarricolea Espinoza, Pablo (Elsevier, 2020)
      Northern Chile is one of the most arid regions in the world, with precipitation mainly occurring during austral summer, between December and April. The aim of this study is to classify the main weather regimes derived from ...