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Forest Cover and Altitude Are Key to the Occurrence of Black-Fronted Titi Monkeys (Callicebus nigrifrons) in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. [PDF]
Am J PrimatolConceptual diagram illustrating how altitude and forest cover jointly influence the probability of primate occurrence. Higher altitudes and greater forest cover are associated with increased occurrence probability. Icons on the axes represent gradients of altitude (left) and forest cover (bottom), while primate silhouettes depict different ...
Fernandes AS +4 more
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Drought Between 1963 and 2017 in the Federal District, Brazil [PDF]
Anuário do Instituto de Geociências, 2018 Drought is a climatic extreme caused by the precipitation deficit, which results in low water availability for different human activities. The drought characterization regarding of its duration and severity is still little explored, especially in ...
Ana Paula Martins do Amaral Cunha +3 more
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Event attribution of Parnaíba River floods in Northeastern Brazil
Climate Resilience and Sustainability, Volume 1, Issue 1, February 2022., 2022 We analyzed recent flooding events in the lower Parnaíba River using the Hadley Centre's event attribution modeling system and hydrological modeling. The results indicated that anthropogenic emissions have contributed to the increase of an impact‐related flooding event in Luzilândia in 2018, 2019 and 2020 by about 25, 27, and 37%.
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Amazon Hydrology From Space: Scientific Advances and Future Challenges
Reviews of Geophysics, Volume 59, Issue 4, December 2021., 2021 Abstract As the largest river basin on Earth, the Amazon is of major importance to the world's climate and water resources. Over the past decades, advances in satellite‐based remote sensing (RS) have brought our understanding of its terrestrial water cycle and the associated hydrological processes to a new era.
Alice César Fassoni‐Andrade +22 more
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Quantitative Kinetic Energy Estimated from Disdrometer Signal [PDF]
, 2020 The kinetic energy of the rain drops was predicted in a relation between the rain rate and rain quantity, derived directly from the rain drop size distribution (DSD), which had been measured by a disdrometer located in the eastern state of Alagoas ...
Kwon, Byung-Hyuk +4 more
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Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos sobre Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres, 2020 Um dos desafios da ciência dos desastres está em encontrar pontos de contato entre as áreas do conhecimento –enfoque interdisciplinar– e, ser transdisciplinar, isto é, envolver não-cientistas na formulação e/ou execução da pesquisa, ou seja, na co ...
Victor Marchezini +4 more
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Os desafios para o ensino de emergências de psiquiatria em desastres e conflitos armados [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Educação Médica, 2022 Resumo: Introdução: A população moçambicana tem sido recorrentemente afectada por situações traumáticas devido a catástrofes naturais (ciclones, secas, inundações) ou provocadas pelo homem (conflitos armados), que podem levar ao desenvolvimento de ...
Maria Rosel S. Pedro +2 more
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Desastres relacionados à água no Brasil: perspectivas e recomendações [PDF]
Ambiente & Sociedade, 2014 Quando se fala em desastres relacionados à água no Brasil, faz-se uma associação direta com as inundações, que são responsáveis por muitos registros de mortes e pessoas afetadas no país. Entretanto, há outras extensões da interface entre água e desastres
Luciana de Resende Londe +4 more
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Modelling in Science Education and Learning, 2015 Flood is one of the most frequent natural disaster in Brazil. The watercourses classication in the watershed's drainage system is one of the resources of the Hydrological Intelligence - essential to natural disasters monitoring and early warning ...
Aurelienne Aparecida Souza Jorge +4 more
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BANCO DE DADOS SOBRE DESASTRES NATURAIS NO BRASIL: UMA ANÁLISE COMPARATIVA ENTRE O EM-DAT E O S2ID
Cadernos de Estudos Sociais, 2021 Nos últimos anos, os desastres naturais vêm se tornando mais intensos tanto no Brasil como no mundo. Neste contexto, destacam-se os bancos de dados como ferramentas fundamentais para redução dos danos e implementação da Gestão de Riscos Naturais.
Alex Santiago Nina +2 more
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