Drought–heatwave nexus in Brazil and related impacts on health and fires: A comprehensive review

R Libonati, JL Geirinhas, PS Silva… - Annals of the new …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is drastically altering the frequency, duration, and severity of compound
drought‐heatwave (CDHW) episodes, which present a new challenge in environmental and …

The heat wave of October 2020 in central South America

JA Marengo, T Ambrizzi, N Barreto… - International Journal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract During September–November 2020, the meteorological services of Brazil,
Argentina, Peru, Paraguay, and Bolivia reported record‐high maximum temperatures in …

[HTML][HTML] Heatwaves, biodiversity and health in times of climate change

M de Paula Corrêa - Jornal de Pediatria, 2024 - Elsevier
Objectives This article discusses heatwaves (HWs), their definitions, and increasing
frequencies associated with climate change, as well as their effects on human health …

Multiscale analysis of drought, heatwaves, and compound events in the Brazilian Pantanal in 2019–2021

M Calim Costa, JA Marengo, LM Alves… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2024 - Springer
In this study, a comprehensive multiscale analysis of compounding drought-heat events in
the Pantanal region is presented. The goal is to assess the multiscale nature of drought and …

Climate and soil conditions across the South Brazilian Grasslands

H Hasenack, GS Hofmann, EJ Weber… - … grasslands: ecology and …, 2023 - Springer
The climate of the South Brazilian grassland region is influenced by wet tropical air masses
from the Atlantic and the Amazon during spring and summer, and by wet Polar air masses …

Thermal response of a sky island lizard to climate change

J Mella-Romero, S Maya-Miranda, D Véliz… - … on Neotropical Fauna …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Climate change models for lizards assume that changes in its climate envelope (the climatic
conditions that define a species' distribution at a given time) are due to species being unable …

Climatology of heatwaves in South America identified through ERA5 reanalysis data

GRG de Araújo, A Frassoni, LF Sapucci… - International Journal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The rise in the Earth's global average surface temperature and the increase of extreme
weather events have been the focus of scientific discussion in the last decades. Extreme …

Winter heat waves characteristics associated with downslope windstorm in south Brazil

CE da Rosa, M Stefanello… - International Journal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The air temperature anomaly was analysed in 16 consecutive winters from 2004 to 2019 in
southern Brazil using reanalysis data and hourly atmospheric observations. In this study, 13 …

Heat waves in São Paulo State, Brazil: Intensity, duration, spatial scope, and atmospheric characteristics

MC Valverde, MB Rosa - International Journal of Climatology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Heat waves (HWs) are atmospheric events of synoptic and global scale that negatively
impact productive sectors and the population. This study aims to investigate HWs in the São …

Extremos térmicos entre 1961 y 2020 en una ciudad norpatagónica de latitudes medias (Neuquén, Argentina)

M Lopez, ME Fernández, JO Gentili - 2022 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
El trabajo tiene por objetivo caracterizar eventos extremos térmicos (Olas de Calor–OC-,
Olas de Frío–OF-, Períodos de Temperaturas Extremas Elevadas–PTEE-y Períodos de …