Impacts of climate change and climate variability on the spatio-temporal hydrological dynamics of Amazonia

The hydrological dynamics of the Amazon River basin are explored by studying the coupled water and energy balances within the Budyko Framework, using data of precipitation, runoff, actual and potential evapotranspiration in up to 146 sub-catchments. These are examined from the perspective of comparative hydrology, that its, regional patterns of hydrological quantities are used to design classification systems that consider the similarities between the catchments, revealing information about their co-evolution in terms of the underlying climatic, geological, ecological and landscape characteristics. An effort has been made towards diagnosing, understanding and modeling the hydrological variables at the sub-catchment scale, as well as predicting their fluctuations at the annual, interannual, the long-term time scale and the symmetry between them. For this reason, this dissertation contributes to update and strengthen evidences of natural climate variability, as well as possible signs of climate change in Amazonia.

• Autores: Carmona Duque, Alejandra María
• Tipo de recurso: Doctoral thesis
• Fecha de publicación: 2015
• Institución: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Repositorio: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/56298
• Acceso en línea: https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/56298; http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/51986/
• Palabra clave: 62 Ingeniería y operaciones afines / Engineering; Amazon river basin; Budyko framework; Climate change; Climate variability; Regional patterns; Space-time symmetry; Cuenca del Río Amazonas; Marco de budyko; Cambio climático; Variabilidad climática; Patrones regionales; Simetría espacio-temporal
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional