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 …

[HTML][HTML] Some characteristics and impacts of the drought and water crisis in Southeastern Brazil during 2014 and 2015

CA Nobre, JA Marengo, ME Seluchi, LA Cuartas… - Journal of Water …, 2016 - scirp.org
Since the austral summer of 2014 southeastern Brazil has been experiencing one of the
most severe droughts in decades. This rainfall deficiency has generated water shortages …

Common cause for severe droughts in South America and marine heatwaves in the South Atlantic

RR Rodrigues, AS Taschetto, A Sen Gupta… - Nature Geoscience, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract In 2013/14 eastern South America experienced one of its worst droughts. At the
same time an unprecedented marine heatwave developed in the western South Atlantic …

A deforestation-induced tipping point for the South American monsoon system

N Boers, N Marwan, HMJ Barbosa, J Kurths - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
The Amazon rainforest has been proposed as a tipping element of the earth system, with the
possibility of a dieback of the entire ecosystem due to deforestation only of parts of the …

Recent precipitation trends, flash floods and landslides in southern Brazil

A Ávila, F Justino, A Wilson, D Bromwich… - Environmental …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
In order to understand the rising number of flash floods and landslides in the densely
populated region of southeastern Brazil, this study analyzes the spatial and temporal …

Assessment of precipitation and hydrological droughts in South America through statistically downscaled CMIP6 projections

GWS Ferreira, MS Reboita, JGM Ribeiro, CA De Souza - Climate, 2023 - mdpi.com
Drought events are critical environmental threats that yield several socioeconomic impacts.
Such effects are even more relevant for South America (SA) since different activities …

The influence of soil dry-out on the record-breaking hot 2013/2014 summer in Southeast Brazil

JL Geirinhas, AC Russo, R Libonati, DG Miralles… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The 2013/2014 summer in Southeast Brazil was marked by historical
unprecedented compound dry and hot (CDH) conditions with profound socio-economic …

Small is beautiful: climate-change science as if people mattered

RR Rodrigues, TG Shepherd - PNAS nexus, 2022 - academic.oup.com
There is a widely accepted gap between the production and use of climate information. It is
also widely accepted that at least part of the reason for this situation lies in the challenge of …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of atmospheric blocking on South America in austral summer

RR Rodrigues, T Woollings - Journal of Climate, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Impact of Atmospheric Blocking on South America in Austral Summer in: Journal of Climate
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Long-term complementary scheduling model of hydro-wind-solar under extreme drought weather conditions using an improved time-varying hedging rule

H Wang, S Liao, B Liu, H Zhao, X Ma, B Zhou - Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
The frequent occurrence of extreme drought weather poses serious challenges to the
complementary scheduling of renewable energy, including uncertain production processes …