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 …

Challenges for climate change adaptation in Latin America and the Caribbean region

T Cavazos, ML Bettolli, D Campbell… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The limited success of international efforts to reduce global warming at levels established in
the Paris Agreement, and the increasing frequency and strength of climate impacts, highlight …

Influence of large-scale circulation and local feedbacks on extreme summer heat in Argentina in 2022/23

S Collazo, S Suli, PG Zaninelli… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
The summer of 2022/23 in Argentina set a record with ten heatwaves. Here, we compare the
synoptic and thermodynamic conditions of the four heatwaves with the largest spatial extent …

[HTML][HTML] The 2022-23 drought in the South American Altiplano: ENSO effects on moisture flux in the western Amazon during the pre-wet season

RA Gutierrez, JC Espinoza, W Lavado… - Weather and Climate …, 2024 - Elsevier
The 2022-23 hydrological year in the Lake Titicaca, Desaguadero River, and Lake Poopó
hydrological system (TDPS) over the South American Altiplano constituted a historically dry …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of the recent (2019–2022) La Plata Basin hydrological drought from a centennial-scale perspective

JA Rivera - HydroResearch, 2024 - Elsevier
Several major rivers within the La Plata Basin (LPB), the third largest basin in the world,
have experienced record-low water levels between 2019 and 2022, with significant impacts …

Rainfall Extreme Indicators Trend and Meteorological Drought Changes Under Climate Change Scenarios

M Tavosi, M Vafakhah, H Shekohideh… - Water Resources …, 2024 - Springer
In the current study, three optimistic (SSP1-2.6), medium (SSP2-4.5), and pessimistic (SSP5-
8.5) scenarios were used to examine changes in precipitation based on the sixth phase of …

2023: Weather and Climate Extremes Hitting the Globe with Emerging Features

W Zhang, R Clark, T Zhou, L Li, C Li, J Rivera, L Zhang… - 2024 - Springer
Globally, 2023 was the warmest observed year on record since at least 1850 and, according
to proxy evidence, possibly of the past 100 000 years. As in recent years, the record warmth …

Heat extremes linearly shift with global warming, with frequency doubling per decade since 1979

R Vautard, C Barnes, S Philip, SF Kew… - Environmental …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Heat extremes have been increasing both in frequency and in intensity in most land regions
of the world, and this increase has been attributed to human activities. In the last decade …

Telling tales of water journeys with isotopic tracers

G Koren - Water Resources Research, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Determining the sources of water inside plants using its isotopic composition is a long‐
standing research challenge in ecohydrology. A better understanding of water sources can …

Anthropogenic Activity in the Topo-Climatic Interaction of the Tapajós River Basin, in the Brazilian Amazon

VS Franco, AMM Lima, RRS Oliveira, EB Souza… - Hydrology, 2024 - mdpi.com
This research aimed to analyze the relationship between deforestation (DFT) and climatic
variables during the rainy (CHU+) and less-rainy (CHU−) seasons in the Tapajós River …