INECOA   26036
INSTITUTO DE ECORREGIONES ANDINAS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Hydro-climatological variability in Lagunas de Vilama System, Argentinean Altiplano-Puna Plateau, Southern Tropical Andes (22° S), and its response to large-scale climate forcings
Autor/es:
FRANCO, MARÍA G.; SANTAMANS, CARLA D.; VIGNONI, PAULA; CORDOBA, FRANCISCO E.; LUPO, LILIANA C.
Revista:
THE SCIENCE OF TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Editorial:
Elsevier
Referencias:
Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2021 vol. 767
ISSN:
0048-9697
Resumen:
The Altiplano-Puna Plateau holds several shallowlakes, which are very sensitive to climate changes. Thiswork is focused on a high-altitude lake system called Lagunas de Vilama (LVS), located in a complex climatic transition area with scarcity of continuous and homogeneous instrumental records. The objective of this study is to determinethe regional spatial?temporal variability of precipitation and evaluate the seasonal and interannual lake responses. We use a lake-surfaces record derived from Landsat images to investigate links with regional precipitations and different climatic forcings. The results reveal that austral summer and autumn precipitations control the variability of the annual lake-surfaces. Also, we found intra-annual and interannual lags in the lake.