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Data on climate and Extreme weather for the Central Andes

Funding:
This project was funded through the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) thorugh the R4D programme.

Bolivia and Peru, stretching over many climate zones, will likely be affected adversely by changes in climate and in extreme events. Adaptation strategies require specific regional climate information that is either not readily available or is not of sufficient quality. The main aim of the project is to promote the provision of climate information in the Central Andes in support of decision making and climate change adaptation strategies. This aim is addressed through enhancing and maintaining research capabilities in the region in the area of climate data homogenization and analysis and through supporting the provision of climate information in easy understandable and accessible form. The main focus lies on the homogenization of climate station observations from Bolivia and southeastern Peru.

 

Project team:

Stefan Hunziker, Prof. Dr. Stefan Brönnimann (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Marcos Andrade, Isabel Moreno, Juan Calle (University Mayor de Sand Andres, Bolivia (UMSA))
Waldo Lavado Casimiro, Gabriela Rosas (SENAMHI Peru, Lima, Peru (PeSE))
Gualberto Carrasco, Yaruska Castellon (SENAMHI Bolivia, La Paz, Bolivia (BoSE))
Andrea Rossa (MeteoSwiss, Zurich, Switzerland)

Project duration:

01.02.2014 - 31.01.2018

Publications:

Andrade, M. F., I. Moreno, J. M. Calle, L. Ticona, L. Blacutt, W. Lavado-Casimiro, E. Sabino, A. Huerta, C. Aybar, S. Hunziker, and S. Brönnimann (2018) Atlas - Clima y eventos extremos del Altiplano Central perú-boliviano / Climate and extreme events from the Central Altiplano of Peru and Bolivia / 1981-2010. Geographica Bernensia, 188 pp., doi: 10.4480/GB2018.N01.

Zamuriano, M. (2018) Precipitaciones extremas en La Paz / Extreme precipitation in La Paz, in: Andrade, M. F., et al. (Eds). Atlas - Clima y eventos extremos del Altiplano Central perú-boliviano / Climate and extreme events from the Central Altiplano of Peru and Bolivia / 1981-2010. Geographica Bernensia, p. 80-81., doi: 10.4480/GB2018.N01.

Imfeld, N., A. Huerta, and W. Lavado (2018) La sequía de 1982-83 en el Altiplano / The 1982-83 drought in the Altiplano, in: Andrade, M. F., et al. (Eds). Atlas - Clima y eventos extremos del Altiplano Central perú-boliviano / Climate and extreme events from the Central Altiplano of Peru and Bolivia / 1981-2010. Geographica Bernensia, p. 74-75., doi: 10.4480/GB2018.N01.

Hunziker S. (2018) Tendencias climáticas recientes en el Altiplano / Recent climatic trends in the Altiplano, in: Andrade, M. F., et al. (Eds). Atlas - Clima y eventos extremos del Altiplano Central perú-boliviano / Climate and extreme events from the Central Altiplano of Peru and Bolivia / 1981-2010. Geographica Bernensia, p. 104-105., doi: 10.4480/GB2018.N01.

Hunziker, S., S. Brönnimann, J. Calle, I. Moreno, M. Andrade, L. Ticona, W. Lavado, A. Huerta (2018) Effects of undetected data quality issues on climatological analyses. Clim. Past, 14, 1-20.   

Hunziker, S., S. Gubler, J. M. Calle Fernandez, I. Moreno, M. F. Andrade, F. velarde, G. Carrasco, Y. Castellón, M. Croci-Maspoli, T. Konzelmann, M. Rohrer, and S. Brönnimann (2017) Identifying, attributing, and overcoming common data quality issues of manned station observations. Int. J. Climatol., 37, 4131-4143, doi:10.1002/joc.5037.

Gubler, S., S. Hunziker, M. Begert, M. Croci-Maspoli, T. Konzelmann, S. Brönnimann, C. Schwierz, C. Oria, and G. Rosas, G. (2017) The influence of station density on climate data homogenization. Int. J. Climatol., 37, 4670–4683. doi:10.1002/joc.5114.

Zamuriano, M., N. Imfeld, S. Hunziker, R. Peier, and G. Santi (2017) Reanalysis of a Cold Surge in Brazil in 1953. In: Brönnimann, S. (Ed.) Historical Weather Extremes in Reanalyses. Geographica Bernensia G92, p. 81-89, doi: 10.4480/GB2017.G92.07.

Schmocker, J., H. P. Liniger, J N. Ngeru, Y. Brugnara, R. Auchmann, and S. Brönnimann (2016) Trends in mean and extreme precipitation in the Mount Kenya region from observations and reanalyses. Int. J. Climatol. 36, 1500-1514.

Brönnimann, S., M. Andrade and H. F. Diaz (2014) Climate Change and Mountains, in: Kohler, T., A. Wehrli and M. Jurek, M. (Eds.). Mountains and climate change: A global concern. Sustainable Mountain Development Series. Bern, Switzerland, Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and Geographica Bernensia. pp 8-19.