This study validates local forecast indicators used by indigenous Aymara in Bolivia’s Northern and Central Altiplano. In Bolivia, the use of traditional forecasting methods is declining even though climate services cannot provide useful forecasts because a low density stations lack outreach services. Validating knowledge can reduce erosion resolving debates over their utility within communities...

frost is one of the atmospheric phenomena which seriously threaten crop production. it also causes numerousaccidents in mountainous roads. in this research the spatial synoptic classification ssc method was employed toclassify the type of air masses. for the classification, such meteorological data as: temperature, dew point, mean sealevel pressure, cloudiness, direction and speed of wind were ...

Climate change is driving range contractions and local population extinctions across the globe. When this affects ecosystem engineers the vacant niches left behind are likely to alter the wider ecosystem unless a similar species can fulfil them.Here, we explore the stress physiology of two coexisting kelps undergoing opposing range shifts in the Northeast Atlantic and discuss what differences i...

Seasonal subsurface heat conduction can have a large influence on Triton’s N, frost distribution. Increasing surface thermal inertia reduces the thickness and extent of seasonal N, frosts. If the thermal inertia of the nonvolatile substrate is greater than about 30% of the value for nonporous Hz0 or CO,, or if nonporous Hz0 or CO, is overlaid by a porous regolith of low thermal inertia but less...

Pinus halepensis dominates coastal to mountain areas throughout the Mediterranean Basin. Its growth plasticity, based on polycyclic shoot formation and dynamic cambial activity, tolerance extreme drought exceptional frosts, allows it colonize a vast array of environments. We used tree-rings from codominant pines compare lifespan, rates, age size distribution in typical (i.e., prolonged drought,...