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Scientific Reports, 2021 Reputed to be the driest desert in the world, the Atacama Desert in the Central Andes of Northern Chile is an extreme environment with high UV radiation, wide temperature variation, and minimum precipitation.
R. P. Reid +8 more
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Characterizing Atacama B-mode Search Detectors with a Half-Wave Plate [PDF]
, 2015 The Atacama B-Mode Search (ABS) instrument is a cryogenic ($\sim$10 K) crossed-Dragone telescope located at an elevation of 5190 m in the Atacama Desert in Chile that observed for three seasons between February 2012 and October 2014.
Appel, J. W. +13 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 The Atacama Desert is the driest and oldest desert on Earth. Despite the abundance evidence for long-term landscape stability, there are subtle signs of localised fluvial erosion and deposition since the onset of hyperaridity in the rock record.
Benedikt Ritter +6 more
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A forest‐specialist carnivore in the middle of the desert?Comments on Anabalon et al. 2019
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 We present comments on an article recently published in Ecology and Evolution (“High‐resolution melting of the cytochrome B gene in fecal DNA: A powerful approach for fox species identification of the Lycalopex genus in Chile”) by Anabalon et al.
Darío Moreira‐Arce +7 more
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Inspection Data Collection Tool for Field Testing of Photovoltaic Modules in the Atacama Desert
Energies, 2021 The Atacama Desert receives the highest levels of solar irradiance in the world with an annual average of 2500 kWh/m2 for the global horizontal irradiance and 3500 kWh/m2 for the direct normal irradiance.
Pía Vásquez +5 more
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Liolaemus stolzmanni (Steindachner, 1891) (Squamata: Liolaemidae ): Distribution update [PDF]
Check List, 2013 Liolaemus stolzmanni (Steindachner, 1891), formerly recognized as Phrynosaura reichei, is endemic of the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. The distribution of this species has been historically documented from the Tacna Department in Peru to the Atacama ...
Margarita Astroza, Marcos González
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Atacama Database: a platform of the microbiome of the Atacama Desert
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 2019 The Atacama Desert is one of the oldest and driest places on Earth. In the last decade, microbial richness and diversity has been acknowledged as an important biological resource of this region. Owing to the value of the microbial diversity apparent in potential biotechnology applications and conservation purposes, it is necessary to catalogue these ...
Carolina A. Contador +10 more
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Millimetric Astronomy from the High Antarctic Plateau: site testing at Dome C [PDF]
, 1999 Preliminary site testing at Dome C (Antarctica) is presented, using both Automatic Weather Station (AWS) meteorological data (1986-1993) and Precipitable Water Vapor (PWV) measurements made by the authors.
Argentini +7 more
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Evaporation in the Atacama Desert
, 2022 Understanding evaporation in arid regions is essential for climate change assessment and optimizing water resources management under a changing climate. This thesis analyses the physical processes that govern local evaporation in a representative salt flat setting at the Altiplano region of the Atacama Desert.
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APECS - The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment Control System [PDF]
, 2006 APECS is the distributed control system of the new Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment (APEX) telescope located on the Llano de Chajnantor at an altitude of 5107 m in the Atacama desert in northern Chile. APECS is based on Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)
A. Belloche +14 more
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