Warm Winter Storms in Central Chile

Winter Storms in the Central Himalayas

Based on observations from a hydrometeorological network on the eastern slopes of the Annapurna Range, nearly all the annual precipitation at low elevations (< 2000 m MSL) in Nepal is in liquid form, even during the winter. However, high elevations (> 3000 m MSL) can receive up to 40% of their annual precipitation as snowfall during the winter, with the highest altitude stations (@4000 m MSL an...

A Trajectory Approach to Analyzing the Ingredients Associated with Heavy Winter Storms in Central North Carolina

Calm after the Storms : Income Distribution in Chile , 1987 - 1994

After rising in the 1960s, falling in the early 1970s, and rising again from the mid-seventies to the mid-eighties, Chilean inequality seems to have stabilized since around 1987. After the ’stormy’ period of economic and political reforms of the 1970s and 1980s, no statistically significant Lorenz dominance results could be detected since 1987. Scalar measures of inequality confirm this picture...

Warm and Dry Spells (WDS) in Austral Winter over Central South America

The horizontal and vertical structure of unusually warm and dry spells (WDS) over the central parts of South America during the winter and post-winter months (JJAS) are studied. During WDS the mean temperature and humidity anomalies over central Brazil are about +4.1C and −13.2%, respectively. The mean duration of WDS is 11 days and their mean frequency is less than one per year during the mont...

Intertidal Biodiversity in Central Chile

Along the coast of central Chile, geographic trends of diversity have been inferred from literature compilations and museum collections based on species range limits for some taxonomic groups. However, spatially-intensive fieldbased assessments of macrobenthic species richness are largely missing. Over the course of a multiyear study (1998-2005), we characterized latitudinal patterns of rocky i...