2008
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2007.11.011
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The climate of the coast and fog zone in the Tarapacá Region, Atacama Desert, Chile

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“…1(a)), which is a major feature of the local climate that provides water to a hyperarid environment and isolated ecosystems (Cereceda et al, 1999;Muñoz-Schick et al, 2001;Larraín et al, 2002;Pinto et al, 2006;Cereceda et al, 2008a;Westbeld et al, 2009;Latorre et al, 2011;Stanton, 2015), Organisms living in these extreme conditions have developed highly specialized adaptation strategies to deal with the seasonal availability of fog water (Masuzawa 1985;Rundel and Dillon, 1998;Muñoz-Schick, 2001;Pinto et al, 2006;Borthagaray et al, 2010). The annual Sc cloud cycle in the coastal Atacama is well-documented, with increased presence and spatial extent during the austral winter and early spring and decreased presence during the austral summer Cereceda et al, 2008b). Climate variability in the SEP is primarily controlled by ENSO, which modulates changes in SST and the intensity of anticyclone air-subsidence, which in turn exert a direct influence on fog water yields (Park and Leovy, 2004;Garreaud et al, 2008a).…”
Section: The Fog Bank In the Coastal Atacama Desertmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…1(a)), which is a major feature of the local climate that provides water to a hyperarid environment and isolated ecosystems (Cereceda et al, 1999;Muñoz-Schick et al, 2001;Larraín et al, 2002;Pinto et al, 2006;Cereceda et al, 2008a;Westbeld et al, 2009;Latorre et al, 2011;Stanton, 2015), Organisms living in these extreme conditions have developed highly specialized adaptation strategies to deal with the seasonal availability of fog water (Masuzawa 1985;Rundel and Dillon, 1998;Muñoz-Schick, 2001;Pinto et al, 2006;Borthagaray et al, 2010). The annual Sc cloud cycle in the coastal Atacama is well-documented, with increased presence and spatial extent during the austral winter and early spring and decreased presence during the austral summer Cereceda et al, 2008b). Climate variability in the SEP is primarily controlled by ENSO, which modulates changes in SST and the intensity of anticyclone air-subsidence, which in turn exert a direct influence on fog water yields (Park and Leovy, 2004;Garreaud et al, 2008a).…”
Section: The Fog Bank In the Coastal Atacama Desertmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…and is limited by the air subsidence thermal inversion. Above this layer, extreme dry conditions persist in a free atmosphere (Garreaud et al, 2001;Rutllant et al, 2003;Cereceda et al, 2008b).…”
Section: The Fog Bank In the Coastal Atacama Desertmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Así por ejemplo, algunos valores máximos de agua de niebla capturados por "neblinómetros" (Schemenauer et al, 1987) y reportados para desiertos de Namibia (1 mm día -1 ; Henschel & Seely, 2008), de la costa oeste de Sudáfrica (5,7 mm día -1 ; Olivier, 2002) y del Atacama (7 mm día -1 ; Cereceda et al, 2008) dan testimonio de la cantidad potencial de agua que estas zonas áridas pueden recibir por medio de estructuras que aumentan la superficie de interceptación de nieblas. Las rocas grandes distribuidas en las laderas cumplen un rol fundamental no solo en la captación de estas nieblas, sino que además pueden propiciar la presencia de rocío matutino ya que su enfriamiento durante la noche permitiría que la capa de aire circundante a su superficie alcance la temperatura de rocío (requisito fundamental para que se lleve a cabo la condensación de agua; Agam & Berliner, 2006) en temporadas con ausencia de nieblas.…”
Section: Introductionunclassified
“…Así, por ejemplo, mientras las cactáceas del desierto de Sonora en Méjico pueden recibir más de 174 mm/año de lluvias principalmente proveída por sistemas de convección tropicales asociadas a huracanes (Hastings et al, 2005), en el desierto de Atacama, considerado el más árido del mundo (Rundel et al, 1991), las cactáceas tienen que soportar promedios anuales extremos de sequía de hasta 0,8 mm/año (obtenido a partir de 30 años de registro meteorológico; Cereceda et al, 2008). Bajo este último escenario, es posible predecir que las rocas como "objetos nodriza" tengan un mayor peso que las "plantas nodriza" en la facilitación del reclutamiento de cactáceas.…”
Section: Introductionunclassified
“…Hyper-arid conditions fully shows up in the Central Depression, where there is no influence of low fog and almost total absence of rainfall. The dryness and high thermal variability prevent the development of any kind of vegetation (Quade et al, 2007;Cereceda et al, 2008). The study area extends between the mouth of the Loa River at the north and the town of Paposo in the south.…”
Section: Location and Climatementioning
confidence: 99%