Bibliographic citations
Gálvez, P., (2017). Caracterización de las sequías históricas y proyectadas bajo escenarios de cambio climático en la cuenca del río Mantaro [Tesis, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12996/3161
Gálvez, P., Caracterización de las sequías históricas y proyectadas bajo escenarios de cambio climático en la cuenca del río Mantaro [Tesis]. : Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina; 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12996/3161
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title = "Caracterización de las sequías históricas y proyectadas bajo escenarios de cambio climático en la cuenca del río Mantaro",
author = "Gálvez Ayala, Pedro Edwin",
publisher = "Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina",
year = "2017"
}
Drought is expected to change in the future due to climate change, so in this study spatiotemporal pattern of historic and projected droughts were characterized for the Mantaro River Basin (MRB), located in the Central Andes of Peruvian, occupying part of the departments of Pasco, Junin, Huancavelica and Ayacucho. For this objective, information of observed monthly precipitation (1970-2010 period) of 37 stations was used as well as the projected monthly precipitation data (2030-2070 period) based on 6 climate change scenarios (3 GCM x 2 RCP) for stations located inside the MRB. The methodology considered the use of widely used statistical methods such as the regional vector method for the formation of homogeneous regions, the use of the Standardized Precipitation Index (IPE) for droughts characterization in terms of duration, severity, intensity and occurrence probability, and finally the Mann Kendall test to evaluate drought trends. The results show that the interannual variability of droughts in the MRB is represented by four well delimited homogeneous regions. In the short term (IPE-3), a greater number of drought events were identified in region 2 (north of the MRB), in addition to a longer duration, intensity, severity and occurrence probability of extreme drought events in region 4 (south of the MRB). In the long term (IPE-12), the greatest number of events occurred in region 1 (north-west of the MRB), a longer duration in region 2, while, similar to short-term behavior, the other characteristics were higher in region 4. On the other hand, the emission scenarios agree on an increase in the number of short-term drought events in the 4 regions identified, with a higher incidence in region 3 (southwest of the MRB), which would also experience an increase in intensity and severity of future droughts for the emission scenario RCP4.5, unlike other regions that would otherwise experience less intensity and severity of future droughts. In the long term, most regions would show a greater number of drought events with longer duration in region 2 (RCP4.5) and region 4 (both scenarios) and greater intensity and severity, compared to historical droughts; in addition to a lower occurrence probability of extreme droughts in all regions. Finally, no significant trends were found in the occurrence of short-term drought events, whereas in the long term only region 2 shows a tendency to increase the number of dry events
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