Extreme seasonal droughts and floods in Amazonia: causes, trends and impacts
Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais · Instituto Geofísico del Perú
Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper reviews recent progress in the study and understanding of extreme seasonal events in the Amazon region, focusing on drought and floods. The review includes a history of droughts and floods in the past, in the present and some discussions on future extremes in the context of climate change and its impacts on the Amazon region. Several extreme hydrological events, some of them characterized as ‘once in a century’, have been reported in the Amazon region during the last decade. While abundant rainfall in various sectors of the basin has determined extreme floods along the river's main stem in 1953, 1989, 1999, 2009, 2012–2015, deficient rainfall in 1912, 1926, 1963, 1980, 1983, 1995, 1997,…
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2Topics & keywords
- Amazon rainforest
- Hydrometeorology
- Climatology
- Context (archaeology)
- Climate change
- Extreme weather
- Water cycle
- Geography