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Native forest owners’ perceptions and adaptation to climate change in the Los Lagos region, southern Chile
(University of British Columbia, 2022)
Climate change is seriously affecting agriculture and forests, and the productive systems rooted in them. Adaptation has been encouraged, however, to respond to the necessities of actors involved, local perspectives must ...
Inter-annual variability of rainfall in Central America: Connection with global and regional climate modulators
(2016)
Central America is a region regularly affected by natural disasters, with most of them having a hydrometeorological origin. Therefore, the understanding of annual changes of precipitation upon the region is relevant for ...
Urbanização, planejamento e mudanças climáticas : desafios da capital paulista e da Região Metropolitana de São Paulo
(Universidade Federal de São CarlosUFSCarPrograma de Pós-Graduação em Ciência Política - PPGPolCâmpus São Carlos, 2016-10-14)
The aim of this thesis is to investigate how the recent urban development agenda of São Paulo
contributes to overcoming the challenges related to addressing climate change at the local and
regional/metropolitan area. ...
Desenvolvimento, avaliação e aplicação de um algoritmo para espacialização global dos climas árido, tropical e temperado
(Universidade Federal de Mato GrossoBrasilFaculdade de Arquitetura, Engenharia e Tecnologia (FAET)UFMT CUC - CuiabáPrograma de Pós-Graduação em Recursos Hídricos, 2012-07-27)
Climate classification systems are used to characterize variations in the components of the
climate on a local, regional or global scale, in order to delimit homogeneous areas, to
characterize the biological and physical ...
California Climate Change Center Report Series Number 2008-0XX
(2008-06)
Four dynamic regional climate models (RCMs) and one statistical downscaling
approach were used to downscale 10 years of historical climate in California. To isolate
possible limitations of the downscaling methods, we ...
A Multivariate Regression Model Between the October Rainfall Anomalies in Central America and the Tropical Pacific and Atlantic Ocean
(1999-11)
Principal Component Analysis was used to identity common anomaly patterns amongst 72 rainfall gauge stations in Central America during October, in order to identify stations to from October Rainfall Indices. October was ...
Clima urbano, risco e vulnerabilidade em cidades costeiras do mundo tropical: estudo comparado entre Santos (Brasil), Maputo (Moçambique) e Brisbane (Austrália)
(Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), 2018-03-16)
O estudo foi baseado no Sistema do Clima Urbano articulado na abordagem da Geografia do Clima e desenvolvido por processos comparativos dos climas urbanos de Santos, no Brasil, Maputo, em Moçambique, e Brisbane, na Austrália. ...